god this show rules. and tony gilroy clearly knows his shit, talking about the process of the show is kind of amazing. his actual young stalin bit was great, no one in hollywood thinks about this shit! and if done well it’s great!
Is this show good? Should I check it out
do you like genre stories? (heists, prison breaks, spy stuff, cops as villains hunting down heroes) do you like digging into the logistics of financing a revolution, and the ideological conflicts that arise in a “big tent” rebellion against an empire, where you have anarchists and social democrats and libertarians all fighting a common enemy? do you like amazing sci-fi production design, costuming, physical sets and on location filming? do you like fantastic actors working with tight scripts and just generally well made filmmaking?
one of the best shows i’ve ever seen, and it’s genuinely amazing the stuff they’ve done. feels like it was made by a small passionate team of leftists who happened to fall into disney money.
😳 you had my curiosity, but now you have my attention, comrade
i’ve seen people say the first few episodes are a little slow, but i still like them. there have been 3 main arcs so far, and all 3 have had very different climaxes, but all of them are amazing. super worth watching.
the show features
- the worlds most pathetic incel rent a cop
- several debates about revolutionary politics that make it clear that the showrunners have done the reading
- actual, no bullshit queer characters with names and personalities and major roles in the plot
- some of the tensest action scenes i’ve ever seen
- no force stuff or jedi 10 episodes in, and even the big imperial symbols (stormtroopers, tie fighters, star destroyers) take a long time to show up and are treated as more than disposable enemies, and as genuinely frightening and evil tools of fascism
- “what if aoc was secretly funding maoist guerillas in latin america”
- the showrunners asking “what do the imperial bigwigs think of all this? exactly what the american equivalents do!”
“what if aoc was secretly funding maoist guerillas in latin america”
based timeline
she’s a senator who worked within the system for years before realizing she couldn’t actually fix what was going on electorally. she’s still clearly a lib, but a lib who’s been forced to face that reality and hates that she doesn’t have another option
Yea, it’s pretty good folks.
I’m sure there will be many a paper written about the specific kind of prison featured - it’s a bit of an antithesis to the panopticon in some interesting ways.
Aight this show is at the top of my fucking watch list, I need to fucking watch it
of course disney is going to make season 2 really shit, but this season looks fucking amazing
honestly after how disappointing a lot of the disney marvel/star wars shows have been i was hesitant to watch this but when eeeeeeveryone is saying good things i gotta at least check it out
i genuinely can’t believe disney allowed something this good to be made with their money
i didn’t watch any of those shows and just showed up for this one. can’t stop winning
Worst case just stop watching it. It is the best piece of star wars content there is imo
