Friday, April 7, 2023

You just walk in like you belong.

Andor, S1 – 4/5

Who knew the most interesting part of a galactic rebellion would be the seeds planted at the start of it? All the hope sprinkled around, different weights placed on different people; all important, all disposable. Andor's the name of the main character but it more feels like the name of a world, a promised land that all of these people are working towards that they may not end up seeing, and not all of them necessarily believing it will come to pass. Like 'Last of Us' which teaches us that love and hate are two sides, yes, but of the same coin, so too does this one teach us that serving good has the power to make you a bad person. Can you save the world and retain your core? How many sacrifices can you rationalize? What's the higher moral value? There's a reason the Hebrew people wandered for 40 years and not even Moses himself got to arrive in the promised land. A whole generation of hate and resentment and hard choices had to die out so that a new land could start out clean. 'Star Wars' makes rebellion look easy. 'Andor' makes it look hard.

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