Well, yeah sure. I guess in the end the space wizards did the final lifting, but Luke would never have gotten near the Death Star without the work of the vanguard party.
I see what you’re saying, but if the entire lynchpin of the vanguard’s success is that the space wizards win in the end — what message is really being sent there, ultimately?
Yeah, unfortunately the rest of the series does undermine Andor’s message. I do concede that point. And honestly, even if in an alternate reality the rest of the series was being made now by Andor’s creators, there’s no way that they would finish it without undermining that message, because it is made by capitalists with capitalist ideology.
Well, yeah sure. I guess in the end the space wizards did the final lifting, but Luke would never have gotten near the Death Star without the work of the vanguard party.
I always felt that the resistance was more restorationist than revolutionary. Many at the top are disenfranchised elites.
Yeah that is true. I guess it’s too much to hope for real revolutionary ideas in capitalist media…
I see what you’re saying, but if the entire lynchpin of the vanguard’s success is that the space wizards win in the end — what message is really being sent there, ultimately?
Yeah, unfortunately the rest of the series does undermine Andor’s message. I do concede that point. And honestly, even if in an alternate reality the rest of the series was being made now by Andor’s creators, there’s no way that they would finish it without undermining that message, because it is made by capitalists with capitalist ideology.