Disney is so arrogant that they could never imagine that someone like the Andor writers could be among them. Be in their production studio, take their funding, and use their marketing machine. All to produce something with a message so fervently against their own interests with their own tools. Andor is art on so many levels, especially in the irony of the corporate environment it was created.
remember andor main writer, was called to fix movie rogue one, that for the company was in a state not to be released; they did a good job then, and continued in andor; and rumor says they will continue to work within the star wars franchise.
To break the bad news. Disney went empor mode. Show Runner Tony Gilroy is out because he refused to work through the strike. Andor is being produced during the strike still now.
@@shaunsmith9013 I haven’t seen anything about him being replaced, just that he’s stopped working until the strike is resolved. Where did you see that?
@Fractured Unity you know what, it might have been clickbait/miss nfo when the news first came out. It specifically said ousted. Hopefully that means we are still g2g
Really appreciate your review! It saddens me how placid our entertainment has become and because Andor makes a statement with an actual meaning that people can’t seem to understand because it is “boring” is sad.
Here's the thing. Star War s is fundamentally geared toward children. laser swords, magic, space ships, very clear and start portrayals of good and evil. Andor is far more ambivalent. Far more adult. Far less brash or naive. Most people just want comics these days. I don't blame them. One of my all time favorite movies was Bladerunner 2049. Yet it bombed in theaters. Of course it did.
While I loved Mando S2, Andor is the best Star Wars show, because at its core, Star Wars is an anti-fascist story and a warning against tolerating and working within a deeply corrupt system.
Somewhere, deep inside, the execs at Disney aren’t comfortable with the themes from realizing that they are the empire; that giant, perfectly clean, world-consuming monster. That’s why the best show with the best themes, writing, and acting went largely unnoticed.
I agree that this is one of the best analysis videos on Andor I’ve watched and have literally been waiting for such a one that so directly makes the obvious connections to our own world. There are many other great analysis videos out there though that simply focus on a different perspective or element of Andor, one such brilliant video is “Andor Star Wars from Below”, I recommend checking it out.
Speaking a lot of truth here, brother... Having worked in video games and on a Star Wars game, it is a hell of a lot of fun playing in that sandbox and creating parts of the universe we haven't seen. But then like any cog in the machine, when the profits are down, you get tossed aside to make way for a shiny new part. Oh well. I had fun while it lasted. Andor IMO is the best Star Wars we've had from Disney. Excellent video. Thanks for making it. It's cool how the show early on shows us that each of our main characters are the hero in their own story and until we see how they all start to interact, we have to decide for ourselves, who and what's right or wrong. But, it's Star Wars and the Empire will always be wrong and that's fine.
A fantastic videos, I think I could listen to you talk about this show for hours. It feels as though this show in some ways inhabits a similar space to what Andor talks about early in the show where the Empire (Disney) is so huge, gluttonous and complacent that it doesn't even notice or care about Andor and the rebels stealing expensive parts (or Andor the show critiquing the very company which bankrolled its existence)
One of the best video essays I’ve ever seen, the quality of the entire thing was truly mind blowing from the script to the editing it seemed truthfully flawless
Really good analysis and presentation. Great work! Andor was just the sort of surprise to me as it was to you, and I was overjoyed to not only see truly intelligent and skilled TV, but one with a message of hope and a call to action we so desperately need right now. We've indeed been asleep too long. My dearest wish is that Nemik's manifesto gets published as merchandise, but with all the revolutionary potential of our dear Space Lenin. After all, capitalism contains the seeds of its downfall, and it would be delicious irony for Disney to spark a revolution because it couldn't help but spread a text as a Happy Meal toy or whatever in the name of brand reinforcement. XD
Somewhere there is a database of the all the interactions I've given to watching, upvoting, and interacting with amateur videos on Andor and its praise. There's data on how many times Andor has been viewed since its release, that I'm at least 36 of those. You can't convince me it's not somebody's job to keep tabs on that kind of stuff. And I hope, really hope that says something about the direction Disney Star Wars will go. That Kenobi and the like are like AOL disks of the early 2000's. Sure there's a lot, but they've gone to a landfill. And where is AOL now?
An observation after listening to the part of your video about taking employment with such large corporations who’s baseline interest is in selling a product - right now there is a VFX artist by the name of ‘PixelJoker95’ who actually worked on the VFX of Andor, a product of Disney that thanks to Tony Gilroy and the likes of Pixel, they actually produced a sincere piece of art that speaks to the issues of the very corporation that enabled its creation. Pixel in his own time is now re-editing the Kenobi series into his own fan edit Movie in his own artistic expression of the story that should have been told or at least, he feels needs to be told in his understanding of Star Wars which by default is going to be better than that of the corporate product Kenobi was. So even when the system pumps out product for pure consumption to satiate and tire out the masses there are forms of rebellion literally using the tools of their enemy to create new art and spread a message of hope and to not give in by staying asleep! If you want to find the edit (not yet released but there are trailers for it), search for “Kenobi: Trials of the Master”
Everything you said I was feeling it through the whole show. Best direct, best script. And even when you that, he could have put up a light saber( me was thinking more for a jedi), he pulled out the best script ever writing. I'm still getting goosebumps.
Ikr, I felt the same watching Andor, because it's Star Wars show, fantasy about droids and spaceships, but it was so realistic, so reasonable and sensible. It definitely going to be remembered as one of the best pieces of television.
There are two television series that I believe are the best thing television has to offer. For a long time, I never thought I would see a series as good as The Man in the High Castle, but Andor manages to achieve perfection in one season. As much as I would like the second season to be as wonderful as the first, if they had stopped at the first season it would have been good enough. It's a show that has transcended Star Wars, as a whole.
The true villainy that this video lays bare is how the RUclips algorithm has not run wild with this upload. A superb video essay. Andor isn't the best Star Wars has ever been in decades. It's better than Star Wars deserves.
Andor is political art at its very best. A masterful response to Americas hard swing to the right in 2016. It is truly beautiful, and dangerous to those that seek to oppress us.
It makes me feel like shit that I cannot pitch my idea for a UPP (Union of Progressive Peoples) series based in the Alien Cinematic Universe! One, because I know that Disney sure as fuck wouldn't allow such a complex narrative to be put to screen in the way I'd generally want it because, two, they would never allow a stand in for the Soviet Union, even as a fictionalized society, be the main protagonists and often complex heroes, fighting against the imperialism of the United Americas/Weyland Yutani, and struggling with their own internal contradictions; not in some cartoonish "they're evil mustache twirling villains" sort of way.
I had the same observations. To me this show is not just anti-facist, it's anti-disney. And it's shocking it got produced right under their noses. And this has been the best piece of SW ever released from Disney's ownership of the franchise. I didn't expect to like this show, as I wasn't that keen on the Rogue One movie, but I was overjoyed to have my cynicism proven wrong.
What I think is funny about capitalism is that Disney knows leftism and controversy sells. I'm sure they knew exactly what this show was about but just don't care. In their eyes, socialism is a completely impossible outcome in their lifetime. Corporations don't act like people, the actual people [businessmen] squeeze as much out of the corporation and its workers as possible then leave. They only care about short term profit.
Andor only brings to the surface what Star Wars is all about, and it's one of the best Star Wars series because of it. George's Star Wars has always been seen through the lens of ancient history. Think about how WWII is seen today, it's a storybook view of Good vs. Evil, people almost forget it was a moment in history that people lived. On the surface you can argue it was pretty much a fight against an inhuman Evil, but there was humanity in every decision made, and that's the part Andor exposes. Star Wars has always had these ideas present, but it was always put far into the background and sub-context of the stories being told, probably out of fear of how it would be allowed (Or wouldn't) to grow because of it's message. P.S. Touching on the point of AI and art. Art is human, but AI isn't the lack of humanity. We are it's creators and it only exists because of us, in a weird way AI is a form of humanity's expressions. Not to say that using AI is better or even equal to the artistic expression of a human person, but I think it's a bit reactionary to say "AI bad" so quickly, and that's probably only a product of how new it is to this generation.
Except that the point of criticizing individual boycott isn’t that no struggle for a better world is possible- it’s that consumption based non coordinated individual boycotts are incapable of affecting things. I would argue that a key point of Andor is that individually doing things and hoping or just being angry alone will never fix things- no matter how righteous you feel. You have to join a common struggle alongside other people, be a part of collective coordinated organized struggle against the root causes of your oppression. Choosing not not buy a certain product doesn’t loosen corporate control over our culture- it just gives them another data point and defines a new consumer group. Our enemy is the corporation that seized our culture not the shitty show they sold us. The show is about letting go of an individualized pointless resistance and jointing an organized collective rebellion.
I totally agree that some art is just better than other art, but not in the sense of hierarchical organisation, but in the sense of ability, experience, and subtlty. While the 4yr olds scribbled stickman is just as wonderful in its own ways as something like Van Goghs starry night, I think it would be correct to say that starry night is better art because of the experience and intent poured into it. Or to keep with the starwars topics. I'd say that the original triology is better art than thr sequels, despite the fact that the sequels looked visually better, because of the depth and sublty of the films. I wtite my own poetry and even between my poems there is a feeling that one is better than the other, completely based on what I intended to do and how well I actually executed it. How much effort I put into it. As opposed to a poem I wrote that just was done cause I could. No real meaning or effort. It lacks soul.
Thank you for not reducing Andor to the boring left/right paradigm. The application of power for power's sake is a sin that can and does afflict anyone.
Definitely true, although andor itself is very much about working class liberation and a fascist regime. Its a borderline Marxist show, missing that is kind of missing the show.
When is a critique of big government, collectivism, and complacency, not a critique of the same? When it’s the Empire in Star Wars, apparently. A lot of thought was put into this video essay, but the end result seems incredibly shortsighted and biased.
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Disney is so arrogant that they could never imagine that someone like the Andor writers could be among them. Be in their production studio, take their funding, and use their marketing machine. All to produce something with a message so fervently against their own interests with their own tools.
Andor is art on so many levels, especially in the irony of the corporate environment it was created.
remember andor main writer, was called to fix movie rogue one, that for the company was in a state not to be released; they did a good job then, and continued in andor; and rumor says they will continue to work within the star wars franchise.
@@JordiFerran gosh i hope so
To break the bad news. Disney went empor mode. Show Runner Tony Gilroy is out because he refused to work through the strike. Andor is being produced during the strike still now.
@@shaunsmith9013 I haven’t seen anything about him being replaced, just that he’s stopped working until the strike is resolved. Where did you see that?
@Fractured Unity you know what, it might have been clickbait/miss nfo when the news first came out. It specifically said ousted. Hopefully that means we are still g2g
Really appreciate your review! It saddens me how placid our entertainment has become and because Andor makes a statement with an actual meaning that people can’t seem to understand because it is “boring” is sad.
Here's the thing. Star War s is fundamentally geared toward children. laser swords, magic, space ships, very clear and start portrayals of good and evil. Andor is far more ambivalent. Far more adult. Far less brash or naive. Most people just want comics these days. I don't blame them. One of my all time favorite movies was Bladerunner 2049. Yet it bombed in theaters. Of course it did.
i've said this before. this is one of the best views on Andor i've seen.
Thanks for coming back to say so!!!
While I loved Mando S2, Andor is the best Star Wars show, because at its core, Star Wars is an anti-fascist story and a warning against tolerating and working within a deeply corrupt system.
Really great analysis. Andor is such a revelation in the Star Wars universe.
Somewhere, deep inside, the execs at Disney aren’t comfortable with the themes from realizing that they are the empire; that giant, perfectly clean, world-consuming monster.
That’s why the best show with the best themes, writing, and acting went largely unnoticed.
I’ve watched a lot of andor breakdown videos, but this is by far the best one. You hit notes that no other videos I’ve come across has, keep it up🙌🙌
I agree that this is one of the best analysis videos on Andor I’ve watched and have literally been waiting for such a one that so directly makes the obvious connections to our own world. There are many other great analysis videos out there though that simply focus on a different perspective or element of Andor, one such brilliant video is “Andor Star Wars from Below”, I recommend checking it out.
Speaking a lot of truth here, brother... Having worked in video games and on a Star Wars game, it is a hell of a lot of fun playing in that sandbox and creating parts of the universe we haven't seen. But then like any cog in the machine, when the profits are down, you get tossed aside to make way for a shiny new part. Oh well. I had fun while it lasted. Andor IMO is the best Star Wars we've had from Disney. Excellent video. Thanks for making it.
It's cool how the show early on shows us that each of our main characters are the hero in their own story and until we see how they all start to interact, we have to decide for ourselves, who and what's right or wrong. But, it's Star Wars and the Empire will always be wrong and that's fine.
A fantastic videos, I think I could listen to you talk about this show for hours. It feels as though this show in some ways inhabits a similar space to what Andor talks about early in the show where the Empire (Disney) is so huge, gluttonous and complacent that it doesn't even notice or care about Andor and the rebels stealing expensive parts (or Andor the show critiquing the very company which bankrolled its existence)
One of the best video essays I’ve ever seen, the quality of the entire thing was truly mind blowing from the script to the editing it seemed truthfully flawless
Criminally underrated channel like how don't you have more subs?
Really good analysis and presentation. Great work! Andor was just the sort of surprise to me as it was to you, and I was overjoyed to not only see truly intelligent and skilled TV, but one with a message of hope and a call to action we so desperately need right now. We've indeed been asleep too long.
My dearest wish is that Nemik's manifesto gets published as merchandise, but with all the revolutionary potential of our dear Space Lenin. After all, capitalism contains the seeds of its downfall, and it would be delicious irony for Disney to spark a revolution because it couldn't help but spread a text as a Happy Meal toy or whatever in the name of brand reinforcement. XD
True lol. Thanks so much for watching!
Excellent analysis, Andor hit me so deep
Thx!
Somewhere there is a database of the all the interactions I've given to watching, upvoting, and interacting with amateur videos on Andor and its praise. There's data on how many times Andor has been viewed since its release, that I'm at least 36 of those. You can't convince me it's not somebody's job to keep tabs on that kind of stuff. And I hope, really hope that says something about the direction Disney Star Wars will go. That Kenobi and the like are like AOL disks of the early 2000's. Sure there's a lot, but they've gone to a landfill. And where is AOL now?
I don't even know your first channel, but had to subscribe during this video.
👍👏
An observation after listening to the part of your video about taking employment with such large corporations who’s baseline interest is in selling a product - right now there is a VFX artist by the name of ‘PixelJoker95’ who actually worked on the VFX of Andor, a product of Disney that thanks to Tony Gilroy and the likes of Pixel, they actually produced a sincere piece of art that speaks to the issues of the very corporation that enabled its creation.
Pixel in his own time is now re-editing the Kenobi series into his own fan edit Movie in his own artistic expression of the story that should have been told or at least, he feels needs to be told in his understanding of Star Wars which by default is going to be better than that of the corporate product Kenobi was.
So even when the system pumps out product for pure consumption to satiate and tire out the masses there are forms of rebellion literally using the tools of their enemy to create new art and spread a message of hope and to not give in by staying asleep!
If you want to find the edit (not yet released but there are trailers for it), search for “Kenobi: Trials of the Master”
Everything you said I was feeling it through the whole show. Best direct, best script. And even when you that, he could have put up a light saber( me was thinking more for a jedi), he pulled out the best script ever writing. I'm still getting goosebumps.
This is a really good video. You are definitely underrated
Ikr, I felt the same watching Andor, because it's Star Wars show, fantasy about droids and spaceships, but it was so realistic, so reasonable and sensible. It definitely going to be remembered as one of the best pieces of television.
How is this just getting recommended to me? I love video essays on this type of shit.
There are two television series that I believe are the best thing television has to offer. For a long time, I never thought I would see a series as good as The Man in the High Castle, but Andor manages to achieve perfection in one season. As much as I would like the second season to be as wonderful as the first, if they had stopped at the first season it would have been good enough. It's a show that has transcended Star Wars, as a whole.
Great analysis
Your take reminds me of the “banality of evil“ along the lines of Adolf Eichmann that one finds in a bureaucratic setting
WOW i thought this video was made by someone with at least 100 k and now I'm sad since this is by far one of the best reviews I've seen
Excellent video. We loved Andor. And we agree that not all TV is art.
The true villainy that this video lays bare is how the RUclips algorithm has not run wild with this upload. A superb video essay. Andor isn't the best Star Wars has ever been in decades. It's better than Star Wars deserves.
Great video
Andor is political art at its very best. A masterful response to Americas hard swing to the right in 2016. It is truly beautiful, and dangerous to those that seek to oppress us.
It makes me feel like shit that I cannot pitch my idea for a UPP (Union of Progressive Peoples) series based in the Alien Cinematic Universe! One, because I know that Disney sure as fuck wouldn't allow such a complex narrative to be put to screen in the way I'd generally want it because, two, they would never allow a stand in for the Soviet Union, even as a fictionalized society, be the main protagonists and often complex heroes, fighting against the imperialism of the United Americas/Weyland Yutani, and struggling with their own internal contradictions; not in some cartoonish "they're evil mustache twirling villains" sort of way.
you get an A+ in my course
I had the same observations. To me this show is not just anti-facist, it's anti-disney. And it's shocking it got produced right under their noses.
And this has been the best piece of SW ever released from Disney's ownership of the franchise. I didn't expect to like this show, as I wasn't that keen on the Rogue One movie, but I was overjoyed to have my cynicism proven wrong.
What I think is funny about capitalism is that Disney knows leftism and controversy sells. I'm sure they knew exactly what this show was about but just don't care. In their eyes, socialism is a completely impossible outcome in their lifetime. Corporations don't act like people, the actual people [businessmen] squeeze as much out of the corporation and its workers as possible then leave. They only care about short term profit.
AMAZING VIDEO
Andor only brings to the surface what Star Wars is all about, and it's one of the best Star Wars series because of it. George's Star Wars has always been seen through the lens of ancient history. Think about how WWII is seen today, it's a storybook view of Good vs. Evil, people almost forget it was a moment in history that people lived. On the surface you can argue it was pretty much a fight against an inhuman Evil, but there was humanity in every decision made, and that's the part Andor exposes. Star Wars has always had these ideas present, but it was always put far into the background and sub-context of the stories being told, probably out of fear of how it would be allowed (Or wouldn't) to grow because of it's message.
P.S. Touching on the point of AI and art. Art is human, but AI isn't the lack of humanity. We are it's creators and it only exists because of us, in a weird way AI is a form of humanity's expressions. Not to say that using AI is better or even equal to the artistic expression of a human person, but I think it's a bit reactionary to say "AI bad" so quickly, and that's probably only a product of how new it is to this generation.
superb video, thanks for sharing
Except that the point of criticizing individual boycott isn’t that no struggle for a better world is possible- it’s that consumption based non coordinated individual boycotts are incapable of affecting things. I would argue that a key point of Andor is that individually doing things and hoping or just being angry alone will never fix things- no matter how righteous you feel. You have to join a common struggle alongside other people, be a part of collective coordinated organized struggle against the root causes of your oppression.
Choosing not not buy a certain product doesn’t loosen corporate control over our culture- it just gives them another data point and defines a new consumer group.
Our enemy is the corporation that seized our culture not the shitty show they sold us.
The show is about letting go of an individualized pointless resistance and jointing an organized collective rebellion.
Also- for the record enjoyed your video! just got to thinking about your last point.
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I totally agree that some art is just better than other art, but not in the sense of hierarchical organisation, but in the sense of ability, experience, and subtlty. While the 4yr olds scribbled stickman is just as wonderful in its own ways as something like Van Goghs starry night, I think it would be correct to say that starry night is better art because of the experience and intent poured into it.
Or to keep with the starwars topics. I'd say that the original triology is better art than thr sequels, despite the fact that the sequels looked visually better, because of the depth and sublty of the films.
I wtite my own poetry and even between my poems there is a feeling that one is better than the other, completely based on what I intended to do and how well I actually executed it. How much effort I put into it. As opposed to a poem I wrote that just was done cause I could. No real meaning or effort. It lacks soul.
underrated
Thank you for not reducing Andor to the boring left/right paradigm. The application of power for power's sake is a sin that can and does afflict anyone.
Definitely true, although andor itself is very much about working class liberation and a fascist regime. Its a borderline Marxist show, missing that is kind of missing the show.
hot damn you got a sub out of this
When is a critique of big government, collectivism, and complacency, not a critique of the same? When it’s the Empire in Star Wars, apparently. A lot of thought was put into this video essay, but the end result seems incredibly shortsighted and biased.
Yea you lost me at not watching Mandalorian season 2… especially not watching the episode with Bill Burr you did yourself dirty
Holy shit this is so good
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Outstanding work in a field of outstanding work ❤