• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      19·
      21 hours ago

      I’ve thought about this a lot since season 1 was so mind blowingly good. And it definitely came back up when season 2 launched into the BDS boycotts and outlets like A More Civilized Age were struggling with whether they should cover it at all.

      I think Andor is as safe as basically anything else on streaming. Yes, anyone who actually watches it will see a show that is not afraid to vilify the kinds of people who would join a rebellion while pointing out the far greater evil that makes those bastards acceptable in the here and now. It is a show that is very conscious of both indigenous people and class politics that is not at all afraid of showing the far greater strength the many have AND the cost of using that strength. And season 2 straight up is about genocide and manufactured conflict.

      But… nobody is going to actually watch that without being into it. It is a “prestige” show in SFF. To all the chuds (and the vast majority of the rest) it is just something that you say you’re going to watch some day but never actually do because Ow My Balls repeats are on.

      It is very similar to the obsession over gender and body type sliders in character creators and the existence of the Samurai Yasuke. It was a HUGE “culture war” point with games being vilified for daring to not call the model with the titty sliders “female” and DARING to acknowledge that a black guy existed in Sengoku Japan and how dare Assassin’s Creed! And… us sickos were just confused because we’ve been making some truly gorgeous waifus and sexy twinks in Nioh for years at that point… and throwing most of them at that freaking annoying fight where Nobunaga and Yasuke eiffel tower us while Nohime watches. But the reality is that the people who so clearly loved “the genre” and blah blah blah had never actually thought to even look at the shockingly awesome souls games that were weirdly faithful to Japanese history (it always blows peoples minds when I tell them that they can literally play Shogun… with demons and waifus and twinks).

      • squaresinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Additionally, Andor, same as the rest of Star Wars are generic and non-explicit enough that someone on the right can watch it and equate the empire with “the woke dictatorship” or somesuch garbage.

        I mean, it’s clear what was meant, but the Magats seriously believe they are the underdog revolution that’s fighting the woke oppression.

      • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        They did reduce the series from five seasons to two. Now that I think about it, the Gorman story (which would have spanned multiple seasons) might have been part of the reason why.