Take your inspiration where you can get it but I find it very funny that people are posting Andor clips right now as if the Disney corporation gives a fuck
One time on the other site someone told me that Andor was “basically anarchist agitprop” it’s an above average science fiction show produced by Disney be for fucking real
There was nothing anarchist about the antifascist themes in Andor. It was very pro "government should be made of the people with the consent of the people."
Lots of folks just project what they want onto a work of art, which is part of the process of enjoying it! But recognize your own input ffs.
A show based on the life of young Joseph Stalin is “anarchist agitprop?”
Like, it’s a great show, and I do think it’s a good entry point into people understanding how revolutions kick off (and the cost of it). But it’s not anarchist or even agitprop, it’s just a story, goddamn.
eh, i'm pretty excited about the impossible to suppress surge of revolutionary art rn; but it's not even the best thing that's come out along those lines in the last year
I think its a sign of how utterly cultural production feels captured that a show can stake out positions like "maybe prisons are bad and not in a cool way" and "fascist twerps suck shit" and people latch onto it with this desperation to turn it into something its not
And like...I love Andor. I do think the way it handles that prison arc is different from how prison is depicted on American television in some actually really important ways. But it is a TV show. You the viewer need to do additional work to synthesize and transform what you get from it.
Love the show! Pretty bleak that a show that is like “fascism is bad AND we will show actual ways it functions” is now as politically left as people can handle
i've seen some conversation of "how did the creators smuggle this Leftist Revolutionary Messaging past disney :0" and like... buddy i dunno what to tell you, it's still star wars, just a little louder about WHY a resistance would form
the bar's so low. it's even funny to watch the monologue being posted because it can feel real-world inspiring and then it goes "the floors are no longer murderous if you step on them!" like oh right this is still about a scifi space prison
The people in charge of corporations do not understand or enjoy art and part of that is not believing it has any power at all. It might be "anarchist agitprop" (lol it's not) but they made it because they don't think it will actually change how anyone thinks or acts.
Dare we imagine a world where Andor is looked back upon as twee and conservative as we now do for HP? "Oh, wow, stand together against cops and dismantle prison labor, did 21st century people really find that revolutionary?"
Especially since I finally watched it and I don't think you get to call yourself acab anything if you only trot Saw Gerrera out to talk about how he's wrong and an ideological purist and he should be more strategic and nuanced like Mon Mothma
its funny i would probably like andor but i refuse to watch it for spiteful reasons of people recommending it too much and also generic dislike of giving disney my eyes
Haven't watched it but I imagine it's about as anti-fascist as Wolfenstein. I,e, saying fascists are bad but saying nothing about how we build a world where fascists can't ever take power again.
