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”Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!”

That’s what Disney posted on Threads the other day, and people immediately replied with lines from Star Wars, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and even Mary Poppins. The throughline between all the quotes: they were pretty pointedly anti-fascist and clearly aimed at the current administration

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm not into that kind of thing. Rogue One was weird enough trying to be Saving Private Ryan while having the toys I played with as a kid on the screen. And I find it kinda find it boring when shows spell out what they're about instead of having a deep subtext so I tend just get annoyed by plot holes since there's nothing else to think about.

[–] Ashtear@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Andor isn't nearly that straightforward about it. It's complicated and messy, with self-interested people juxtaposed against the idealists. Most of it is character-centered, soul-sucking spycraft tension like The Lives of Others or Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, but then also exasperating bureaucracy as in Chernobyl--and Stellan Skarsgard is equally phenomenal in Andor. Your toys aren't here either; no lightsabers, few scenes with the old droids, very little time in space. Most of the time you need the architecture and the stormtroopers and Imperial dress whites to recognize it as a Star Wars setting.

It's completely different than any Star Wars screen production before it.