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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Not the usual topic around here, but a scream into the void no lessā¦
Andor season 1 was art.
Andor season 2 is justā¦ Bad.
All the important people appear to have been replaced. Itās everything - music, direction, lighting, sets (why are we back to The Volume after S1 was so praised for its on-location sets?!), and the goddamn shit humor.
Here and there, a conversation shines through from (presumably) Gilroyās original script, everything else is a farce, and that is me being nice.
The actors are still phenomenal.
But almost no scene seems to have PURPOSE. This show is now just bastardizing its own AESTHETICS.
What is curious though is that two days before release, the internet was FLOODED with glowing reviews of āone of the best seasons of television of all timeā, āthe darkest and most mature star wars has ever beenā, āif you liked S1, you will love S2ā. And now actual, post-release reviews are impossible to find.
Over on reddit, every even mildly critical comment is buried. Seems to me like concerted bot actions tbh, a lot of the glowing comments read like LLM as well.
Idk, maybe Iām the idiot for expecting more. But it hurts to go from a labor-of-love S1 which felt like an instruction manual for revolution, so real was what it had to say and critique, to S2 āpew pew, haha, look, weāre doing STAR WARS TMā shit that feels like Kenobi instead of Andor S1.
Watched it this weekend, and tbh I thought it was fine. Like didnāt blow me away, parts of it I liked parts of it I didnāt (My big (not mentioned here) annoyance was personally the high tech tie fighter, which 4 years before a new hope just breaks the tech continuity a bit (ep7-9 are worse in this regard, not only that but suddenly the massive industrial capacity makes no sense at least KOTOR had a star forge)). Think they seem to be going with ārevolutions are hard, will come at big costs, and very messy, but necessary (second annoyance, them mostly packing weapons and not food/meds which for a supposed to be leftwing coded revolution is a bit odd, esp looking at more modern protests)ā which is fine (even if it isnāt the best message). Visually they did some obvious but enjoyable things showing the character of places by just how they are decorated. Compare the farm hideout messy lived in ness vs the empires sterile panopticon empty-ness. Not a huge fan of the SA plotline however, even if the guy played it well, Iād just rather not see it every time they want to make something āedgyā. But it was fine to me. Not as great as a lot of people make it out to be, but my exp wasnāt as bad as yours. I didnāt do a rewatch however, perhaps Iām just not that invested in it all considering I also am feeling like im a bit less blown away by Andor s1 than most (I did still enjoy it a lot btw).
Agree with you on the hype bit btw. But then again, I have often been disappointed by the hype in a lot of recent things. For example, (I know he is now revealed as an ass) but I wasnāt the biggest fan of all the series made out of the Gaiman works. Never finished good omens, a lot of the additions to american gods had me go āeuh wtfā (the lynching and the weird forced feeling god of firearms stuff), and despite being a big fan of the comics I wasnāt blown away by the sandman (that prob was my expectations, as a lot of things were very good still, the casting felt on point for example). So in a way the problem is also me. (I did really enjoy the Foundation series otoh, which I know a lot of people hated)
My notification pops-up today and I watched ep 1. I do not watch any recap nor any review.
I stopped halfway through and thought āWhy did I hype for this again ?ā Gotta need a rewatch of season 1 since I genuinely didnāt find anything appealing from that first episode.
We did a rewatch just in time. S1 is as phenomenal as ever. S2 as such a jarring contrast.
That being said, E3 was SLIGHTLY less shit. Iāll wait for the second arc for my final judgement, but as of now itās at least thinkable that the wheat field / jungle plotlines are re-shot shoe-ins forā¦ something. The Mon / Dedra plotlines have a very different feel to it. Certainly not S1, but far above the other plotlines.
Iām not filled with confidence though. Had a look on IMDb, and basically the entire crew was swapped out between seasons.
Didnāt know it had come out but I was wondering if theyād manage to continue s2 like s1
Also worried for the next season of the boysā¦
Yeah. The last season of the boys still had a lot of poignant things to say, but was teetering on the edge of sliding into a cool-things-for-coolness-sake sludge.