Richi

excuse me for stating the obvious but like. james gunn outright calling superman an immigrant and doubling down on it when he got backlash (because he IS an immigrant, that's the point of superman) + the in-movie dialogue of "aren't you going to read me my rights?" "you're an extraterrestrial, son. you haven't got any rights to read." + the violence of his arrest and how they torture and mistreat him unapologetically, all under the guise of "protecting america", in a film releasing during the onslaught of violent ICE kidnappings and abuse... yeah it's really no wonder right-wing knobheads are crying about this being woke. they're being forced to look directly at the reasons one of the most well-known and beloved heroes of all time would not be on their side. and that's only ONE of the reasons this movie covers

"the psychology of severance" "the psychology of succession" what about the psychology of the righteous gemstones? what about the depiction of grief in the righteous gemstones and how it creeps into your every day — every little action gives away how you miss someone. everything you do is a reminder to the audience of the hole that's been left there before we even see the start the show. brilliantly done for real

The confirmation that Nemik's manifesto got out there, that so many people are listening to it that even the ISB has heard it, a call to freedom against tyranny spreading across the galaxy...

one of the hundred things I love about Andor is that in the end, all the villains were destroyed not in an epic showdown with the rebels or whoever but by the machine that they worked for. syril was a faceless casualty of the genocide he helped create. dedra was done in for putting ambition over conformity to the machine, and she took down partagaz, who essentially created her, along with her. even heert was quite literally killed by his own droid and his own men. all of them were crushed by the wheel they dedicated their lives to keep turning. it's just so deeply deeply satisfying.

when i enter a haunting the narrative contest but my competition is aimee leigh gemstone

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