In season 2, the cringe comedy is really just how Nathan convinced HBO to give him a blank check. It’s a really minor part of the show, and in s2e1 he even talks about how he’s trying to do something really serious and impactful, but he has a contract with HBO to make a comedy show, so he’s going to have to throw some comedy in to fulfill his contract. But that’s really not the point of the show at all.

I did read your comments. I lost any and all respect I could have ever possibly had for you when you used AI to formulate a comment.

You were the one using AI, goober. Stop.

No, that would absolutely ruin Lemmy. If I learned that any sizeable portion of the accounts were bots, I’d quit.

Only losers and goobers use AI to make their argument for them. Try thinking like a real human.

If the writers want to tell a story focused on inter-personal relationships, that’s perfectly fine. There are PLENTY of people who enjoy that kind of thing. They just don’t tend to be the same type of people who enjoy post-apocalyptic sci-fi puzzle-box shows. I don’t know why you go through all the trouble of creating this expansive world and lore only to focus your show on character dynamics that aren’t centered around the conceit of the show.

If you’re going to build this complex world, let us explore that world!

Not a movie, but a TV show. Revolution.

A sci-fi post-apocalypse show where the premise is that all of a sudden all technology (specifically anything that uses electricity) just stops working and nobody knows why. The show takes place 15 years into the apocalypse. The US has Balkanized into various regional states (although you don’t learn this until later). Some regions have devolved into chaos while others have basically reverted to a steam-punk type of society. Since all modern ships use electricity, they’ve begun to revive large ships from the age of sail. The remnants of the US military at Guantanamo Bay eventually return to the mainland and try to reestablish a much more explicitly authoritarian control over the US. You eventually learn that what caused the global blackout was the creation of a self-replication nanotech which rapidly spread across the planet and shut off all electricity.

Great premise, but it got too much into the soap-opera CW-style of writing and didn’t last more than 2 seasons.

That is an apt criticism of TFA and TRoS, but not TLJ at all.

Try printing the email to a pdf?

I’d definitely take that document to a local lawyer (preferably one that specializes in labor cases) and ask if there’s anything there.

By chance, you aren’t in a union, are you? If so, take this to your union rep, too. You’re union will have lawyers who will deal with this sort of thing.

First thing to ask is what state you live/work in? Is it a right-to-work state? If so, then they can fire you or choose to not promote you for no (reported) reason at all, which very likely means you have no legal recourse. If they were to come out and directly say in documented way that they will fire or not promote you if you don’t use this app, that might be different. You’d need to talk to a lawyer who is familiar with laws in your state. But you’d also need documented evidence of this, which means emails sent stating this, or a recording (keep in mind if your state has 2-party consent laws) of a higher-up saying it.

If you’re in one of the 27 Right to Work States, though, there’s likely very little you can do about it short of finding a different job.

I don’t think it’s a distraction. I think it’s people who are too bought in on conspiracy theories and desperately want there to be some kind of spy thriller conspiracy to uncover. They just really want the world to be less mundane and banal than it is, so they latch onto a single thread while ignoring the overwhelming weight of evidence.

I think calling it a distraction is itself a conspiracy theory. Who is orchestrating this distraction? What are they supposedly distracting from?

Syril’s death was the most satisfying fascist death since Inglorious Bastards. He had EVERYTHING ripped away from him. He realized that he WAS the outside agitator he thought he was trying to hunt the whole time. He learned his girlfriend knew they were setting up a genocide the entire time and was just using him. He learned the Empire is exactly as evil as he had always denied it was. He was a True Believer in the Empire in every sense of the words and had that true belief ripped away from him. HE personally played one of the largest roles in making the genocide happen. Then he finally found Andor, who he had been obsessing about for YEARS. Then the “who are you?” gut punch right before that fascist fuck got got. Chef’s Kiss Couldn’t have happened to a worse fellow.

I kinda hope in the final batch of episodes Cassian has to return to Mina-Rau for some reason. He sees B2EMO and offers to take him with, but B2EMO has made a happy new life and is content to stay.

This isn’t that kind of story, but at least one character deserves a happy ending, right?

The thing is, the show was written and mostly filmed before the current phase of the Gaza war started. The Hamas attack which sparked the current phase of the war was October 7, 2023. The show began filming (meaning the scripts were all written before) in November 2022, nearly a full year before the October 7 attack. Filming paused due to the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes, so it didn’t finish until February 2024, but everything we see with Ghorman was written years before the current phase of the Palestinian Genocide began.

And Tony Gilroy has been very clear to say this wasn’t prescience on his part. He didn’t even model Ghorman after the genocide of the Palestinians (which has been ongoing since 1948). It’s just that this isn’t a new story. The same major story points has happened over and over and over again throughout history. In an interview, Gilroy referenced multiple events which were inspiration for the Ghorman Massacre: the Reichstag Fire, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the sinking of the Lusitania, the sinking of the USS Maine, and more.

The sad reality is, this is just a common thing that’s happened in human history.

I love this show but it kind of bothers me that it’s technically made by a capitalist corporation. It feels as if stories of real struggles are being used as just entertainment.

Yeah, but this has literally always been the case. Radical media that challenges the status quo has always been produced using the system that it’s challenging. You think the Communist Manifesto was never published by capitalists? You think Bakunin or Proudhon never used presses owned by monarchists or capitalists? Of course they did. You use the tools available to you.

The fact Andor was made by people working for Disney doesn’t make it any less radical or challenging to the status quo.

No, and based on reading your incredibly rude response to people trying to answer your question in an Ask community, you clearly don’t understand what “proto-” means.

I enjoy it when the subjects/actors have the ability to be in on the bit. The kid in s1 was pretty fucked up. That kid genuinely believed Nathan had become his new dad. I felt so bad for him.

I agree. I think if Sullenberger had agreed to be on it would have been at the end of episode 3. I’m just wondering if they tried to get him and he declined, if they asked his permission at all, or if Sullenberger was totally in the dark about the whole thing until it aired.

That episode was so wild. I was trying to explain it to my wife and she was like, “so he lied to these people to get them to audition?” At first I was about to agree, but like, he didn’t lie? His only promise was that the winner would get to perform a public domain song on national television on an exact recreation of the Houston airport. And, like, he can deliver that quite easily at this point. He just created an entire reality TV show for a bit on a single episode.

I was really skeptical after s1. I LOVED it, but that final episode when the kid genuinely thought Nathan was his dad and couldn’t separate the fiction from the reality, it really fucked me up. I’m just glad kids aren’t involved this season so far.