[CaptainCrunch]

Bit of a thought bomb

Spoiler!

One thing that I have liked as you look at all of the Disney and Lucasfilm offerings is that the storyline of the OT has some issues.

When we watched the OT, we were given the story that all the members of the Rebellion were good people, looking to free the galaxy from a tyrannical government. But as we've watched the PT, the Clone Wars, The PT and the post endor series that the Empire and New Republic are more similar then different.

We've seen that bad people work on both sides, we've also seem what could be good people on both sides that are trapped in the system and eventually corrupted.

The Rebellion has its share of brutal mission oriented people. Andor is a brutal killer, Saw was a brutal killer, The Old Republic was completely corrupt and uncaring. The Empire was very facist, and the New Republic allowed the return of slavery, the rise of crime families and poverty on the outer rim.

In Andor the Rebels that we saw on Yavin, are not good people, or heroic in any sense. There was probably a reason why the First Order rose so quickly post Endor, and that's because the people looked at what the New Republic offered and craved a return to the peace and order that the Empire offered. Its similar to Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, where a lot of people craved a return to a Stalin type leader.

With Mon, we saw her as a brief symbol of strong and compassionate leadership in the OT, and in some episodes of the Clone Wars and Rebels. But she's sold her child into a arranged marriage for money, her closest associates are either outright murderers or criminals.

In the case of the Empire and the Rebellion, on both side they wanted to reform the Republic. Mon wanted to bring back the Old Republic and she did corruption and uncaring nature and all. For Palpatine besides the revenge of the Sith and wiping out the Jedi (who needed to be wiped out). Had a vision of a galaxy of order and peace and yes his own twisted view of Justice under one enlightened leader, instead of a bunch of leaders who were unworthy to lead.

For Andor Gorman is going to be the lynch pin of this whole series, that's going to give fire to the Rebellion. Which bears the question, there are really only three leaders in the Empire, Palpatine, Vader and Tarkin. But Vader is really irrelevant to what's going to happen. He's just the muscle. Palpatine is not going to take on an individual task like Gorman, so is Tarkin going to make an appearance. In the Legends, he was a key figure in quelling the Rebellion on Gorman by landing his ship and crushing thousands of protesters, could this series bring that action into Canon?


This is a shades of Grey story. The Rebellion/New Republic is not all good and virtuous, there are some really terrible elements to it and people within it. The Empire by that standard is not pure evil, in the words of people that defend Nazi's they probably had the trains running on time, it looks like they were trying to make sure that people got fed, the criminal underworld and slavery were to an extend contained, in the case of slavery it was state sponsored. But there were probably soldiers that were good people, or even officers that were good officers.