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I donโt think Iโve ever been part of a community with such consistently high media literacy. Basically every post and comment on this sub has a profound depth to it. People here can spend hours dissecting a single line or shot, constantly discovering new connections or themes or hidden meanings. Props to Tony and the team for their incredible attention to detail, and props to this community for rising to the occasion and putting in the time and effort to continue thoroughly analyzing this show more than 2 years after it aired.
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I always thought things like this made for excellent trickster stories, but also ones that could be considered conservative. A character disobeys the social order or lesser law in order to uphold the social order or a greater law/virtue. (EG Mulan, where she violates the law about women fighting in order to uphold the virtue of filial piety.) In the case of the mythological trickster, one acts in a profane manner but through their journey and actions makes that thing sacred. (EG Greek Mythology where Prometheus gives fire to humanity and teaches them to give sacrifices to the gods by giving Zeus a choice between animal fat (secretly wrapped around bones) or animal hide (secretly wrapped around the meat.) Zeus chooses the fat (thinking there was meat inside) but gets tricked, and thus humans get to use the hide and meat of animals and the gods are given the bones. Zeus was pissed off about this, but later, when Hermes gave this same offering of fat and bones, Zeus accepted the sacrifice gladly, and let humanity keep giving that gift as it was being done out of piety and not mockery.)
Anyone who can break the rules in pursuit of the rules or a higher standard is often a hero, after a fashion (when we agree with their methods and outcome) or a tragic figure when it fails. An excellent lesson for humanity in either case, and very much in keeping with the study of story and myth that so fascinated Campbell and Lucas. Who says Andor is bad Star Wars?