10 minutes in and holy fucking shit this show goes hard.
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I absolutely love the way the blaster is treated as if it were an actual firearm (AS IT FUCKING SHOULD BE) and the scene with the two cops carries all the weight that it would were it taking place in an alley in New York with a regular handgun. Just from that scene alone it already feels "real" in a way that most Star Wars media does not.
What feels refreshing about this series is that it shows the revolutionaries as complicated individuals who are compelled to act in morally questionable ways while still making it clear that they're unambiguously the good guys. I guess it's hard to both sides when one is the Evil Empire. Just nice to see modern media that isn't explicitly counter revolutionary.
I wish George Lucas had pushed the Empire only allowed humans angle, because a lot of people watching the original movies missed that.
What I really like about the human supremacy undercurrent in the galactic empire is how inconsistent it often is...which oddly makes it feel more real and fascistic in a way.
Different writers have had different interpretations over the years of course.....but given that he had a zabrak apprentice and made a Chiss one of the highest ranking admirals in the empire I personally really like the idea that palpatine himself was 1000% comfortable using human supremacy cynically as a way to gain political power even if he himself didn't actually believe in any of it.
YO
They're FINALLY doing what was promised on the box when they made Rogue One. I asked someone I knew if the show was doing that, and they said "well kinda" but I think that person is a lib. I just watched the first episode and it really feels like it.
You could tell Rogue One was gonna be this because of the trailer - and then they cut out the damn line from the trailer! And they turned it into just... the Star Wars formula. Gotta do the thing in time!! Boom!