You know I said a few months ago that Andor was so good it made me re-evaluate my opinion on the Mandalorian. I guess the showrunners felt the same way because that last episode reeks hard of them trying and FAILING to do political intrigue.
Just putting aside the fact that every single person in the "Amnesty Program" should have faced a firing squad: whose bright fucking idea was it to house them all together???? "Oh golly gee wiz, let's just stuck a whole bunch of space fascists and collaborators in a tiny little neighborhood. Surely nothing will go wrong!!!" I suppose its technically canonical that the new republic is incompetent as shit given how things play out with the first order but sheesh guys.
Just stick to what you know guys. More pew pew and vroom vroom. Leave the political drama to the adult writers in the room. You will never ever be as good as Andor....and that is OK.
America rehabilitated Nazis in the 40's and by george we'll do it again!
If they had went with this route it would have been rad but they explicitly have them "deleting imperial technology" in the show and explicitly not using the nazi scientists to make funny rockets or whatever
like if they were going for a post-WW2 metaphor they failed hard
Omg, I didn't even feel like getting into that for so many reasons but dear Christ that is just asinine and insulting to our intelligence. Like what world is this writer in where they think the terms and conditions of amnesty are to not to explicitly keep doing the very thing they are actually good at!!! Why else would amnesty actually be offered? Goodness of their heart? Not enough clerks?
What's even weirder is there's a bit of lip service earlier in the episode about how the rich and well to do barely noticed the change of empire to new republic which...is a whole other can of worms and fucking dumb for a plethora of reasons...but on top of that just further reveals the incoherence of the writing.
yeah because the new republic isn't leftist, the rebellion's entire goal was to restore the bourgeois liberal democracy that became the empire. the only unrealistic thing about the amnesty program is that irl liberals would actually treat the "reformed" fascists better than they do in the show
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america/west germany would never dehumanize nazis or fail to promote and profit from them which is why it fails as a metaphor
the rich being completely unaffected by the change from one collapsing capitalist state to another is one of the only good takes politically the episode had, even if it pretty much stole it verbatim from the mon mothma scenes from andor
Sure, but thay gets to my point. Like it or not I can accept that in this shit continuity the rebels basically just propped up an identical system of government to what ultimately led to the fucking problem...but for what that character is saying to be coherent here it would basically mean that there wasn't a massive purge of the imperial officer class. The way the amnesty program is represented in the episode makes no sense without that...and thats not something even a rich and well to do character like this could just shrug off like that if only because that's how you get thrown in the hauge! You cant have it both ways.
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