I’m not gonna lie, it really put a damper on my enjoyment of the show when they went all-in on the shamanistic great man theory shit with the force healing prophecy scene.
Like, I get it, prophecies and shamanistic powers literally canonically irrefutably exist in the world setting, but to me this show was supposed to be about how revolutions are made possible by people, their material conditions, their labor, their sacrifices, and their decisions. Not destiny or wizards.
Otherwise an incredible show though, what a refreshing piece of “prestige” mainstream media in a world full of slop.
Cassian Andor makes his own history, but he does not make it just as he pleases; he does not make it under circumstances chosen by himself, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a force ghost on the brain of the living.
Yeah I read that scene not so much as prophecy but just as some vague residue of precognition, she knows somehow it’s going to be on Andor to do this thing, not because it could only ever have been him, but because the material conditions just are going to shake out that way and she knows it in a similar manner to how we us materialist analysis to make reasonable assumptions about the course of broad future events, but maybe that is just me being generous. It didn’t take much out of the show for me though.
I had the same reaction to that scene as you and was pretty bummed out at first. I have since come around to having similar feelings as XiaCobolt does in this thread
For me it was a bit of an indication of gilroy’s lacklustre writing when it comes to female characters. BUT I liked that they made the jedi into the local evangelical chaplain type.
Like Bix whole arc and cassian not “throwing rocks at tanks since age of 6” but being motivated to stay in the rebellion because his “gf left him”.
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That last 3 episode arc was soooo fucking good
It’s been such a solid season so far. The 3 episode format works quite nicely. Just hoping the last 3 don’t go too hard on the fan service stuff.
I’m not gonna lie, it really put a damper on my enjoyment of the show when they went all-in on the shamanistic great man theory shit with the force healing prophecy scene.
Like, I get it, prophecies and shamanistic powers literally canonically irrefutably exist in the world setting, but to me this show was supposed to be about how revolutions are made possible by people, their material conditions, their labor, their sacrifices, and their decisions. Not destiny or wizards.
Otherwise an incredible show though, what a refreshing piece of “prestige” mainstream media in a world full of slop.
Cassian Andor makes his own history, but he does not make it just as he pleases; he does not make it under circumstances chosen by himself, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.
The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a force ghost on the brain of the living.
Yeah I read that scene not so much as prophecy but just as some vague residue of precognition, she knows somehow it’s going to be on Andor to do this thing, not because it could only ever have been him, but because the material conditions just are going to shake out that way and she knows it in a similar manner to how we us materialist analysis to make reasonable assumptions about the course of broad future events, but maybe that is just me being generous. It didn’t take much out of the show for me though.
I had the same reaction to that scene as you and was pretty bummed out at first. I have since come around to having similar feelings as XiaCobolt does in this thread
For me it was a bit of an indication of gilroy’s lacklustre writing when it comes to female characters. BUT I liked that they made the jedi into the local evangelical chaplain type.
Like Bix whole arc and cassian not “throwing rocks at tanks since age of 6” but being motivated to stay in the rebellion because his “gf left him”.