More Andor thoughts (+vid bunny)
Dec. 15th, 2022 03:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justanorthernlightI need to learn how to copy streaming footage for vidding asap, I guess.
I have never vidded for an "open" or unfinished canon, but with knowing how Cassian's arc ends in Rogue One makes it feel less daunting or premature to make a Cassian-centric vid, and the song "Wayfaring Stranger" wormed its way back into my brain while watching episode 7. The Johnny Cash version was the first I heard and is my personal 'canonical' version, but I'm listening to other versions just to see what's out there.
Other random thoughts:
- I like how morally gray Luthen's manipulations are, and how it ties in with the darker themes of Rogue One compared to other SW installments.
- I also like how it lays the groundwork for Saw's excessive (but pretty justified) paranoia in Rogue One
- I like the show but there aren't enough aliens in it. I know the makeup is expensive and time-consuming, but I felt like I forgot I was watching Star Wars for a bit, particularly in the Coruscant parts of the storyline.
- I forgot to mention how much I love B2EMO's character design (also A+ name there).
- The stuff about Chandrilan customs/culture/pseudo-religion is fascinating to me.
- I wish the Vel/Cinta plotline was a little more explicit. The difference in the level of explicitness between het and queer relationships in Star Wars (and all media, but we're talking about Star Wars specifically here) still really bothers me.
There's always been in-universe justifications for it (ex: in the Aftermath trilogy, Sinjir doesn't like PDA due to trauma, but Jas and whatever her boyfriend's name was basically start foreplay in front of a ship full of their teammates, Ahsoka and Queen's Shadow were written by the same author, and while Sabé and Tonra can literally fuck on their kitchen table on-page, Ahsoka and Kaeden get a single hug (no kiss, nothing else) and the understanding that they're probably never going to see each other again), but fictional characters are purely the author's creation and authors are allowed to create queer characters who aren't too emotionally repressed to explicitly acknowledge their relationship on-screen (or on-page).
(Side note: I have a personal litmus test for queer representation being explicit vs implicit, and it's whether my mom would notice it happening if she was reading/watching over my shoulder. She wouldn't have noticed either Ahsoka/Kaeden or Vel/Cinta.)
I have never vidded for an "open" or unfinished canon, but with knowing how Cassian's arc ends in Rogue One makes it feel less daunting or premature to make a Cassian-centric vid, and the song "Wayfaring Stranger" wormed its way back into my brain while watching episode 7. The Johnny Cash version was the first I heard and is my personal 'canonical' version, but I'm listening to other versions just to see what's out there.
Other random thoughts:
- I like how morally gray Luthen's manipulations are, and how it ties in with the darker themes of Rogue One compared to other SW installments.
- I also like how it lays the groundwork for Saw's excessive (but pretty justified) paranoia in Rogue One
- I like the show but there aren't enough aliens in it. I know the makeup is expensive and time-consuming, but I felt like I forgot I was watching Star Wars for a bit, particularly in the Coruscant parts of the storyline.
- I forgot to mention how much I love B2EMO's character design (also A+ name there).
- The stuff about Chandrilan customs/culture/pseudo-religion is fascinating to me.
- I wish the Vel/Cinta plotline was a little more explicit. The difference in the level of explicitness between het and queer relationships in Star Wars (and all media, but we're talking about Star Wars specifically here) still really bothers me.
There's always been in-universe justifications for it (ex: in the Aftermath trilogy, Sinjir doesn't like PDA due to trauma, but Jas and whatever her boyfriend's name was basically start foreplay in front of a ship full of their teammates, Ahsoka and Queen's Shadow were written by the same author, and while Sabé and Tonra can literally fuck on their kitchen table on-page, Ahsoka and Kaeden get a single hug (no kiss, nothing else) and the understanding that they're probably never going to see each other again), but fictional characters are purely the author's creation and authors are allowed to create queer characters who aren't too emotionally repressed to explicitly acknowledge their relationship on-screen (or on-page).
(Side note: I have a personal litmus test for queer representation being explicit vs implicit, and it's whether my mom would notice it happening if she was reading/watching over my shoulder. She wouldn't have noticed either Ahsoka/Kaeden or Vel/Cinta.)
