'Andor' soared — it was about the force, not The Force, of the Star Wars universe

Andor showed the growing discontent and anger that gives rise to heroes. In many different ways, for their own individual reasons, the characters of Andor decide to rise up and fight, because totalitarianism is an unnatural state; it breeds resistance.

galaxy, you've got the eeeeevil Sith Lord, Emperor Sheev Palpatine, crackling with Force-lighting as he fries Jedi Master Mace Windu to a crisp, screaming"POWAH! UNLIMITED POWAAAAAH!"

And over in another corner — the much grubbier and lower-profile one depicted on season one of Disney+'s— you've got the bootlicking, low-level, fascist toady Syril Karn, standing at attention while he nervously answers his supervisor's question about whether he's modified his uniform.Several years separate those two events, and they exist on different order of magnitude.

Karn and his colleagues are dedicated to the cause of fascist oppression with a zeal that isn't remotely macro. It isn't mythic, religious or even passionate. Instead, they're driven by institutional imperatives that scour their souls free of empathy, compassion and understanding, and reward them for ruthlessness, cruelty and — above all — efficiency.play out in a series of mini-arcs across its 12 episodes, we saw the inner workings of the Empire.

This turned out to be a lie. For several reasons — most especially the unhealthy infatuation with nostalgia/fan service that continues to dog the franchise — thepowers-that-be keep booking us passage back to that same, damn featureless sand-planet. Even the otherwise excellentdoes, couldn't resist the siren song of Tatooine's Krayt dragons and Tusken Raiders. . Cassian has to meet K-2SO.

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