It’s the day after the first three episodes of Andor Season 2 dropped on Disney+, and wouldn’t you know, all the trades are running with the exact same story.
I just finished watching the episodes this morning, and as I tweeted, I felt they were really slow. It was the same for the first three episodes of Season 1, but things improved. Hopefully, that is the case with Season 2 as well.
However, with Season 2 being the last, creator Tony Gilroy might be making it less about Star Wars and more about “The Message” (what does Gilroy care? no one watched Season 1).
There’s an attempted rape scene in one of the episodes where Adria Arjona’s character is attacked by an Imperial Officer. She fights him off and manages to kill him.
On top of that, she’s also “undocumented,” as are other characters.
Well, ALL the trades are running with the same rape story, as well as how the characters being “undocumented” reflect the modern times and even Donald Trump. The characters also happen to work on a farm and are Mexican actors (they can’t be Mexican in the Star Wars universe, right?).
Make no mistake, it’s all a coordinated effort. The trades all did interviews with creator Tony Gilroy and Adria Arjona to make sure they send the audience “The Message.”
Yeah, it’s not about putting out a quality show that entertains set in a galaxy far, far away, it’s about Trump being the bad guy, his followers — it’s the same BS we’ve been getting from Disney and Hollywood for years.
We’re All the Product of Rape
As for the trade coverage, THR leads with the headline quote from Gilroy: “We’re all the product of rape.” Gilroy says:
“I get one shot to tell everything I know — or can discover, or that I’ve learned — about revolution, about battles, with as many incidents and as many colors as I can get in there, without having [the story] tip over,” says Gilroy. “I mean, let’s be honest, man: The history of civilization, there’s a huge arterial component of it that’s rape. All of us who are here — we are all the product of rape. I mean armies and power throughout history [have committed rape]. So to not touch on it, in some way … It just was organic and it felt right, coming about as a power trip for this guy. I was really trying to make a path for Bix that would ultimately lead to clarity — but a difficult path to get back to clarity.”
Trump administration’s relentless war on so-called illegals
Variety, owned by the same company as THR, has the SEO title of their article as “Andor: Adria Arjona on Bix’s Attempted Rape Scene,” where Arjona goes off about immigrants and Trump:
When the Season 2 premiere picks up a year later, she’s living on the agrarian planet Mina-Rau as an engineer who is often referred to, quite pointedly, as “undocumented.”
While Arjona notes that she shot the Mina-Rau episodes a year and a half ago, the (unintended) relevance to the Trump administration’s relentless war on so-called illegals is not lost on her. “It’s just mirroring that we keep stumbling on the same rock,” she says. “It’s one of my favorite parts about the show. It’s relevant now, and it’s going to be relevant in five years and 10 and 20 and 50 years, because we keep doing the same thing.”
Again: We’re all the products of rape
We’re not done yet, as a third shill site adds more of the same with EW.com in the article titled, “Andor creator Tony Gilroy explains why he put attempted rape scene into Star Wars show”:
“I mean, it’s a real thing,” Gilroy tells Entertainment Weekly. “It’s been a real thing all through history. ‘Do you have your papers?’ And if you don’t have papers, I mean, God, man.”
In the creator’s eyes, not telling this story would be ignoring the atrocities that have been perpetrated for generations. “The history of civilization is rape,” Gilroy says. “We’re all the products of rape.”
We still have nine more episodes left of Andor Season 2, so this just might be the start of the lecturing. New episodes are on Tuesdays on Disney+. Is The Message loud and clear?
