I’ve thought about this a lot since season 1 was so mind blowingly good. And it definitely came back up when season 2 launched into the BDS boycotts and outlets like A More Civilized Age were struggling with whether they should cover it at all.
I think Andor is as safe as basically anything else on streaming. Yes, anyone who actually watches it will see a show that is not afraid to vilify the kinds of people who would join a rebellion while pointing out the far greater evil that makes those bastards acceptable in the here and now. It is a show that is very conscious of both indigenous people and class politics that is not at all afraid of showing the far greater strength the many have AND the cost of using that strength. And season 2 straight up is about genocide and manufactured conflict.
But… nobody is going to actually watch that without being into it. It is a “prestige” show in SFF. To all the chuds (and the vast majority of the rest) it is just something that you say you’re going to watch some day but never actually do because Ow My Balls repeats are on.
It is very similar to the obsession over gender and body type sliders in character creators and the existence of the Samurai Yasuke. It was a HUGE “culture war” point with games being vilified for daring to not call the model with the titty sliders “female” and DARING to acknowledge that a black guy existed in Sengoku Japan and how dare Assassin’s Creed! And… us sickos were just confused because we’ve been making some truly gorgeous waifus and sexy twinks in Nioh for years at that point… and throwing most of them at that freaking annoying fight where Nobunaga and Yasuke eiffel tower us while Nohime watches. But the reality is that the people who so clearly loved “the genre” and blah blah blah had never actually thought to even look at the shockingly awesome souls games that were weirdly faithful to Japanese history (it always blows peoples minds when I tell them that they can literally play Shogun… with demons and waifus and twinks).
They are already scrubbing things, like the intro text on Robin Hood that reads “In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history”. Now it just says nothing.
But, to summarize: They likely just sourced the video from an international version. This is not at all uncommon with the idea being that the English (or Chinese or Korean or whatever) text is not rendered so it can be more easily replaced either with a subtitles track or a localization team burning in their own text. But if you do neither it just ends up being blank and everyone gets confused.
One of the really cool side effects of these kinds of errors is you learn just how much text is digitally added to a lot of scenes/movies. I forget what exactly it was (I want to say a Takashi Miike crime action/drama?) but I remember watching a movie with a friend and both of us getting really confused when all the computer screens were blank. Looked it up online and those looked perfectly normal in the youtube clips and it was just a LOT of effort put in to put text on a fake LCD.
Sounds a lot like their BS reasoning for removing parts of the constitution, but okay.
I mean it’s clearly not FUD as your own link points out that this did happen at least once, and considering all the recent videos across various platforms showing that section of the movie being blank, it’s possible it has happened again and Snopes needs to catch up, unless you think a bunch of random people across social media are doctoring their video footage of them filming a screen.
And even if they are and it is FUD, that’s acceptable too. We are in the position we’re in today, globally, because of a vast international network of FUD. Fake news is shaping the future, and if leftist refuse to play that game then we all lose. The high road hasn’t gotten us anywhere so far. We are going to have to fight in the mud if we hope to gain any victories anymore.
I know someone who had to watch it twice to realize how woke it was, so I totally believe people could just watch it and be like, hmm I liked the shooting but it was too much spy movie, no enough war wars or however they put it.
They just got rid of Kimmel, presumably at Dear Leader’s demand, and presumably the only people watching that already agreed with him. What’s the difference?
I think Andor is as safe as basically anything else on streaming. Yes, anyone who actually watches it will see a show that is not afraid to vilify the kinds of people who would join a rebellion while pointing out the far greater evil that makes those bastards acceptable in the here and now. It is a show that is very conscious of both indigenous people and class politics that is not at all afraid of showing the far greater strength the many have AND the cost of using that strength. And season 2 straight up is about genocide and manufactured conflict.
But… nobody is going to actually watch that without being into it. It is a “prestige” show in SFF. To all the chuds (and the vast majority of the rest) it is just something that you say you’re going to watch some day but never actually do because Ow My Balls repeats are on.
You didn’t answer the question. Kimmel was the same. No one was going to watch it if they didn’t already agree. The same as Andor. What’s the difference?
Additionally, Andor, same as the rest of Star Wars are generic and non-explicit enough that someone on the right can watch it and equate the empire with “the woke dictatorship” or somesuch garbage.
I mean, it’s clear what was meant, but the Magats seriously believe they are the underdog revolution that’s fighting the woke oppression.
I think they see the neoliberal agenda and believe we leftists are actually in favour of that, just because we get some Nike pinkwashing or whatever when the wind is blowing just right.
Count the days until you can’t stream it from Disney anymore.
I’ve thought about this a lot since season 1 was so mind blowingly good. And it definitely came back up when season 2 launched into the BDS boycotts and outlets like A More Civilized Age were struggling with whether they should cover it at all.
I think Andor is as safe as basically anything else on streaming. Yes, anyone who actually watches it will see a show that is not afraid to vilify the kinds of people who would join a rebellion while pointing out the far greater evil that makes those bastards acceptable in the here and now. It is a show that is very conscious of both indigenous people and class politics that is not at all afraid of showing the far greater strength the many have AND the cost of using that strength. And season 2 straight up is about genocide and manufactured conflict.
But… nobody is going to actually watch that without being into it. It is a “prestige” show in SFF. To all the chuds (and the vast majority of the rest) it is just something that you say you’re going to watch some day but never actually do because Ow My Balls repeats are on.
It is very similar to the obsession over gender and body type sliders in character creators and the existence of the Samurai Yasuke. It was a HUGE “culture war” point with games being vilified for daring to not call the model with the titty sliders “female” and DARING to acknowledge that a black guy existed in Sengoku Japan and how dare Assassin’s Creed! And… us sickos were just confused because we’ve been making some truly gorgeous waifus and sexy twinks in Nioh for years at that point… and throwing most of them at that freaking annoying fight where Nobunaga and Yasuke eiffel tower us while Nohime watches. But the reality is that the people who so clearly loved “the genre” and blah blah blah had never actually thought to even look at the shockingly awesome souls games that were weirdly faithful to Japanese history (it always blows peoples minds when I tell them that they can literally play Shogun… with demons and waifus and twinks).
They are already scrubbing things, like the intro text on Robin Hood that reads “In times of tyranny and injustice when law oppresses the people, the outlaw takes his place in history”. Now it just says nothing.
Congrats. You just propagated some FUD
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/05/08/robin-hood-russell-crowe-2010-amazon/
But, to summarize: They likely just sourced the video from an international version. This is not at all uncommon with the idea being that the English (or Chinese or Korean or whatever) text is not rendered so it can be more easily replaced either with a subtitles track or a localization team burning in their own text. But if you do neither it just ends up being blank and everyone gets confused.
One of the really cool side effects of these kinds of errors is you learn just how much text is digitally added to a lot of scenes/movies. I forget what exactly it was (I want to say a Takashi Miike crime action/drama?) but I remember watching a movie with a friend and both of us getting really confused when all the computer screens were blank. Looked it up online and those looked perfectly normal in the youtube clips and it was just a LOT of effort put in to put text on a fake LCD.
Sounds a lot like their BS reasoning for removing parts of the constitution, but okay.
I mean it’s clearly not FUD as your own link points out that this did happen at least once, and considering all the recent videos across various platforms showing that section of the movie being blank, it’s possible it has happened again and Snopes needs to catch up, unless you think a bunch of random people across social media are doctoring their video footage of them filming a screen.
And even if they are and it is FUD, that’s acceptable too. We are in the position we’re in today, globally, because of a vast international network of FUD. Fake news is shaping the future, and if leftist refuse to play that game then we all lose. The high road hasn’t gotten us anywhere so far. We are going to have to fight in the mud if we hope to gain any victories anymore.
I know someone who had to watch it twice to realize how woke it was, so I totally believe people could just watch it and be like, hmm I liked the shooting but it was too much spy movie, no enough war wars or however they put it.
They just got rid of Kimmel, presumably at Dear Leader’s demand, and presumably the only people watching that already agreed with him. What’s the difference?
You didn’t answer the question. Kimmel was the same. No one was going to watch it if they didn’t already agree. The same as Andor. What’s the difference?
Additionally, Andor, same as the rest of Star Wars are generic and non-explicit enough that someone on the right can watch it and equate the empire with “the woke dictatorship” or somesuch garbage.
I mean, it’s clear what was meant, but the Magats seriously believe they are the underdog revolution that’s fighting the woke oppression.
I think they see the neoliberal agenda and believe we leftists are actually in favour of that, just because we get some Nike pinkwashing or whatever when the wind is blowing just right.
If those kids could process abstract thought, they’d be mad.
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