#just thinking about all the small character scenes andor gave us. yeah yeah

[rotzaprachim]

watching andor has convinced me that the best finn and rey story really would have been a long form finn-centric episodic television show depicting Finn as a renegade stormtrooper turned rebel in the original 1970′s era. this could have given finn’s story a lot more time to slowly develop and breathe on its own with him as the lead, and to allow john boyega more space for his masterful acting skills and personal growth as a performer. i think rey being a parallel original trilogy era scrapper trying to survive at the edges of empire before being forced to go on the run with him would also have provided a really interesting counterpart and character. in general i think they were the shining lights of the new trilogy and the most interesting parts who got wildly hemmed in by disney’s need to put as many Iconic/well-known star wars characters and their children from the original trilogy in. watching andor has also really ground in how both over simplistic and heart wrenchingly depressing The Empire Is Back Again In A Generation IS, obviously there are things to say about fighting fascism as a kind of perpetual issue but i don’t think that was disney’s real intention so much as trying to reset all the pieces to create a situation as nostalgically similar to the original trilogy as possible and that does grave injustice to the themes in those films. i think there are finn and rey centric stories to tell without the first order or bn s0l0 plot points at all, with them more firmly centered as the heroes of their own stories! 

#just. thoughts. on the starry wars #i'm not saying andor exactly but i think moving their story back to the original trilogy and just... skipping all this sequel trilogy stuff #as well as allowing time for a much slower more naturalistic development #would have worked WONDERS for them #original trilogy era finnrey you are living in my head #what if they gave john boyega 12 episodes to chew the screen as the lead huh what if. what if it was FINN #just thinking about all the small character scenes andor gave us. yeah yeah

[azixcel]

i lost the post i was trying to make so i might as well just ramble as long and bad written as i want to at the moment

all of my right-after/while-watching andor thoughts look ridiculous without context because i used nicknames for each character – my friends i was freaking out to /might/ watch a show later, and i definitely know that our little brains work really different, so the chance of them having the same associations are really low, – and when i revisit them while doing more-detailed-and-just-better notes it is always funny to see "no no NO NOT THE HOBBIT" or "the wolf is actually a fucking werewolf" or "wet fox. he's a wet fox. he's a wet fox that was dumped in the cold water and i don't even know if that is a thing but it makes sense really". Also, yes, syril carn is an "archaic siren system".

and then i have like two telegram limits that i wrote while i paused the scene and just decided to write this shit down and oh my god. oh my god. oh my god there are a lot of them. oh my god i need to rewrite this shit and then maybe rerewrite this shit.

but, okay, the main thing: this is the only fiction that made me write anything this year or made me actually happy in a way when you have something new to genuinely freak to your friends about for more than one dialog/mention or made me think and feel things long after i watched it. it is the only thing ever that had me frozen in fear, delight, horror and utter happiness at the same moment. it is the only thing that lives in my head now and im not complaining, like i do about those things often, im happy. it is the only thing that gave me a reminder of my own thoughts from 2021, when i texted my friend "please, if you can, remind me than i will decide that all this actually not that bad and that i can live with it if i will just close my eyes", because this is exactly what andor will be to me if i will ever need one. and it also gave me a tool that i use to talk about those things to my parents when they are watching with me – from 'from these scenes you can tell vel actually only really cares about cinta, and cares deeply, no, they are not just friends, look, it is told right here" to "can we talk about repression tactics of the empire" because when you give everything some cosmos and fantastical, but fabulously made explicit descriptions of what comes after some words are spoken it is suddenly okay to talk about things and make connections between them and reality and sometimes on those small watching sessions even some "yeah actually... this is what they talk like, isn't it/huh, this is awful/this makes sense" will appear and every time it happens i want to positively cry. it gave me hope and im so, so grateful to it.

#okay im really sorry but sometimes 5:49 ramble cannot be stopped from happening and appearing #andor