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Tried Andor after taking a break from Star Wars and realized that the galaxy where politics is determined by magic laser sword people now wants to be serious. (lemmy.world)
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[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 44 points 9 months ago

I remember when discussing Rogue One with my mother (who is not a big Star Wars fan), I mentioned that many felt it was out of place in the series, because it was unusually dark. To which my mother opined that the series was always dark.

In discussing it, it... honestly is. We fans sometimes overlook it, because the Original Trilogy is so triumphant in tone and grand in scale, and the Prequel Trilogy is... plagued with other problems... but Star Wars is dark in a way that original fairy tales are dark.

[-] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 35 points 9 months ago

An entire civilization is exterminated in the first half hour.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

And Han is explicitly tortured, with Leia both tortured and enslaved. It's pretty grim.

[-] nitefox@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

2 millions troopers died on Death Star!

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

That halo explosion in the remastered version? Entirely made out of people.

[-] nitefox@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Stormtroopers are robots!

Jokes aside, you don’t have to have everything explained to understand something. Yes, they didn’t show the bodies but you with a little use from logic you can see that Leia complaining about her pacific, weaponless planet being blown means it’s not desert. Same goes for the Death Star on which you see there are people until a few seconds later where it blows up. Same goes for everything.

Sure, maybe a kid won’t pick it up but that doesn’t mean Star Wars was light hearted in the OT

[-] Redditiscancer789@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's only eye revealing if you literally aren't paying attention. Vader straight up chokes and breaks the neck of an officer, killing him, that he's interrogating on the rebel blockade runner in the first 10 minutes. Stormtroopers destroy and burn uncle owens farm and leaves his and his wife's corpses out in the open after burning them down to the skeletons. Han shooting first, Alderran is genocided by the death star, princess Leia is tortured, albeit it off screen, we get the scene of the interrogation droid with all his "toys" floating towards her before the door closes. All the pilots die including lukes best friend biggs fighting the death star except wedge luke and a few y wings, It's never been a "kids" story till arguably the prequels when Lucas secured rights to toys and went on to push story elements that could be made into toys to sell.

[-] EndlessApollo@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

It's always been a kid's story, they just used to be able to get away with darker stuff a lot of the time, and I miss that in a lot of modern kid/family media. There's still stuff for adults, but it feels like a lot of darker themes are toned down, though there's some exceptions Steven Universe having themed of rape and abuse with Lapis and Jasper, or the few kids action shows/movies that still have characters die, even if they're just goons. It's not like all kids media sucks now or anything, it's just harder to get away with rougher themes and more action without getting a PG-13/TV-14 rating

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[-] ComradeSpood@lemmyunchained.net 41 points 9 months ago

What don't get is why people think something like star wars can't have different tones. It's a big universe with a big story. Just because the originals were these scifi epics doesn't mean a different story set in the universe can't be grounded and dark. Like how 40k can be really goofy and stupid but also really serious and gritty. It depends on the specific story being told within the setting. Not the setting as a whole

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[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 33 points 9 months ago

Andor is probably the best star wars they've done. It has flaws, but it's so much better than Obi-Wan and Ashoka.

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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

The best part of Andor is that we know nothing any of them do will ever have any impact at all.

[-] Sunforged@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago

Stealing the plans to the Death Star so the rebellions new wizard wonder boy can one shot the thing has no impact?

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Shame about Manny Bothans though, really starting to like that character

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[-] Lauchs@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Just like the rest of us!

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 12 points 9 months ago

It is just more a function of having to explain more because there is more to explain. The original trilogy feels lived in, but they only explain a small part of it because they don't have to. Eventually, you get enough world building that you have to start explaining the smaller bits.

And since the Star Wars universe has more stories including those with non-Jedi, it means having to create smaller enemies that the heroes can fight against.

[-] guacupado@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Star Wars is one of those situations where it gets worse the more you learn about it. The original trilogy set off a trend but we see where it's now at. Kind of like watching Lost.

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[-] freamon@endlesstalk.org 7 points 9 months ago

Hopefully Luthen gets his magic laser sword working for season 2

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[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

You weren’t reminded of a disturbed magic space clown every time they said “the emperor” or “papaltine”?

[-] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

There's nothing wrong with wanting a fantasy setting to adopt a more adult tone and intention. Having more complex plots and dialogue. I think a of of the people liking Andor are in that category. They want to see Star Wars grow up and put behind the camp and cheery kid show shit.

[-] Amazed@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I’m all for variety. But honestly Marvel got the kids. Let Star Wars shift to the generations that grew up on it so they can get good writing again, and maybe R rated Vader.

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