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Post #1318826

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Valheru_84
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ANDOR - Disney+ Series - A General Discussion Thread
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Date created
10-Jan-2020, 10:13 AM

I enjoyed RO on the first viewing, fell in love with it on the second and just outright adore it now whenever I get to watch it. Of course it has flaws but so do your family and friends who you love all the same.

I initially heard criticisms about thin characters in RO but after my second viewing I honestly can’t understand this view point. As was touched on above, we’re not shown much about each character’s past but we are told a bit and also shown enough for Jyn that together with their actions throughout the movie and clear motivations, we learn who these people are, why they fight and come to care enough for them that we do root for them to survive and watching them get killed does illicit an emotional response.

I think the movie does enough to provide frameworks, themes and suggestive qualities for most characters that we get a sense of who they are and we are allowed to use our imagination to fill in the gaps as we will based on our own subjective absorption of these things which I think can make for a far more enjoyable experience rather than having a complete character bio spelled out for you. I think it’s what made Han Solo so intriguing for many and what made the Solo movie so unnecessary after 40 years of feeling like you knew the character as you had imagined before Disney came along and told you what “actually happended”, losing the unspecific magic of his character background story.