I'm a big Star Wars fan. There's tons of anti imperialism and I love the visual aesthetic, but I always felt we should see the empire doing some actual imperialism, with actual atrocities and the effects of financial imperialism like america does today. I wanted to try my hand at world building so I began writing a story that I felt scratched that itch with a 21st century understanding of technology. So andor comes out and I'm three episodes in and it's exactly what I wanted from the franchise so far.

I hardly felt like my story was going anywhere in terms of publishing or anything. I'm not a great writer, my allegories aren't elegant, and I'm sure it's unintentionally full of liberalism. Plus, like I said, it's almost Star Wars fanfiction. But I'm enjoying writing it and I would like to try to publish it since it's kind of written for bazinga brained libs to try to get them to look this stuff in the face, but I fear it's just going to be called derivative or compared to Andor.

I don't know, I'm going to keep at it. Worst case scenario I'll post it online. This was mostly a vent about losing my inspiration in a way.

Edit: I should be clear, it is not set in the star wars cannon, I'm just worried about it being compared to star wars and losing my own ambition.

  • culpritus [any]
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    2 years ago

    When I started watching Andor (within the first 2 episodes), I thought of it like The Wire in Star Wars. I think that's a pretty good way to look at it from a storytelling perspective, and it has been doing a pretty solid job of living up to that so far. If you are writing something at all similar, then I'd love to see you keep at it! There's not enough materialist sci fi!

    It's usually either some type of allegory ( a la Star Trek) or it is just a fantasy-hybrid with technomagic. Having sci fi with a real historical materialist perspective on societies and political economy is really rare. The Expanse is fairly popular in the sci fi fandom because of how different it is from the normal slop. You are making something unique even if it gets compared to Andor, which should be viewed as a significant complement!