never not thinking of the Ghorman plot line and the way the French resistance was brought in because like. On the one hand it shows fake France as the sight of this imperial massacre that never actually happened in real France given it was you know. An empire.
But on the other it really as a show does not seem to take the fake French people seriously, or even what the actual real French people went through during occupation and the Vichy regime, particularly in the ways those long, drawn out forms of suffering do not fit into gilroy’s weird accelerationist framework of the moral simplicity of a Disney franchise. Like! They (almost alll) all die and their lives are just so much cannon fodder for the stupid plot but the show is so uninterested in the long and drawn out pain of what their lives actually were - having to go about your daily life under occupation, low on food, with the threat of being disappeared or murdered or raped at literally any moment , having your comrades picked off one by one, seeing your city slowly go hungry, having everything take these years and years and years. It’s very viva le ghor! One and done. The problem is that the slow and brutal pain of those ordinary actual parisians under the vichy really takes a lighter to many of season 2’w moral simplicities and one is the idea that cassian and bix could just escape! The story is about how no one can do that. The fact cassian saw the in universe French resistance get completely murdered and then decided to run from the rebellion shows how little gilroy understood both his character AND the ghorm
