The true Star Wars villain

By Joshua Tyler | Published 8 seconds ago

Star Wars has been in a tail tail, and there is only one bright point.

That brilliant point is two seasons of the series AndorAnd it is the best Star Wars has been in a long time, for a very simple reason.

It is the first Star Wars product since the departure of George Lucas who knows who is the true villain of Galaxy, far away.

Star Wars’s true villain, the only consistent face of evil throughout the franchise, has not been, and should never be, palpatino or the dark side of force. It is definitely not Anakin or Snake, or Adam Driver in a Vader tribute mask.

It is probably not Luke Skywalker, although he drinks too much blue milk and gets sufficiently in a bad mood, then you never know.

The true Star Wars villain is and has always been the government bureaucracy.

The death star is the DMV

The death star, in the first film, was the best representation of bureaucracy as the real evil.

That super weapon is the final form of what happens when a large number of Sycophantic bureaucrats strip the richness of those under their control and use it to build massive, little practical and totally defective weapons.

And is directed by a group of intermediate managers that understand attention at a table in the conference room.

When the death star did not work, the same inflexible and massively incompetent bureaucratic structure, directed by imperial DMV workers who only care to maintain their work so that they cannot admit that they were wrong, they turned around and did the same again.

The Death Star is California’s high speed railway that was supposed to go to San Francisco, but now it costs ten times more and only goes to Bakersfield.

Luke Skywalker wasn’t fighting against force

That clear similarity of the real world is what made Luke Skywalker’s trip so exciting and easy to identify.

I was not fighting a person or a mystical and evil force; I was fighting a system of corrupt bureaucratic oppression.

The same exact oppressive system where we are all tortured when we have to lower and obtain new plates for our truck.

We torment ourselves when completing forms for IRS.

Luke was fighting a legion of lazy public school teachers and inspectors to violate the code on behalf of all normal people who want to stay in peace.

That trend continued in the prequels, when the Naboo -free monarchy was attacked and retained by a group of intermediate managers of the Trade Federation.

It intensified when, as the prequels continued, the huge fans of the former republic empowered and hid Palpatine, which helped him in his rise to leadership.

In a sense, Palpatine was the supreme product of that bureaucracy; It was its greatest creation, the natural result of years of swelling and bureaucracy that strangle well -intentioned people until no one remained to oppose it.

Andor puts bureaucracy in his sight

That leads us to Andor.

As mentioned at the beginning, the best of the recent Star Wars series is Andorand Andor It is the best Star Wars series specifically because it makes that swollen bureaucracy the only villain in the program.

Andor These are types in cubicles and meetings that plan the destruction of innocent.

They do not because they love evil, but because they are paid.

Andor Season 1 followed multiple facets of the overwhelming bureaucracy.

In a multi-episodium arc, explores the imperial justice system, a system so drowned in bureaucracy and bureaucratic disinterest that focuses more on obtaining profits for intermediate managers who become judges and guards of the prison that direct it that in doing something like real justice.

If you have had any encounter with the justice system in the real world, it probably spent those episodes shouting yes and pointing to television, since it accurately portrayed the way it exists only for self -service.

Sympathy for demons

Even the bad types of the program, trapped in the imperial bureaucratic nightmare, felt supporters against bureaucratic challenges.

They also lost in a series of endless cubicles and meetings, places where everyone only look for themselves and have no interest in doing the government’s real work.

If you are an adult who has ever tried to obtain health insurance or helped an elderly father to deal with Social Security, then everything he saw on the screen was a precise representation of science fiction of his reality.

Andor Season 2 accelerates just where season 1 was left, with a group of intermediate managers in a conference room that plan to eliminate a planet to complete a fans of Public Works so that they can gain promotions.

It continues to immerse itself in the controversial issue of immigration, introducing corrupt imperial bureaucrats that appear on a planet to make a head of heads and take what can under the table.

And for that Andor It is the only new Star Wars that works.

Why Disney Star Wars has not worked until Andor

JJ Abrams films failed because they became obsessed with Palpatine and the Skywalkers.

Shows like The acolyte Ask yourself in the religion of the stabbing of the Jedi.

The Mandalorian He crumbled because he became obsessed with the real destiny of Katie Sackoff and supported the corrupt Beaurocracy of the New Republic instead of fighting her.

Ahsoka I tried to make a Thrawn villain, a bureaucracy demolition with iron fist.

Skeleton crew I thought I could fix all that to focus on adventure. But Star Wars has never been just a superficial adventure.

Palpatine represented the true Star Wars villain

Star Wars should only have an approach and a true villain.

He is not Palpatino and he never was. Star Wars’s true villain is the massive bureaucracy that Palpatine represents.

Each character of the Star Wars universe fights under its weight.

That is why the galaxy is full of black markets and smuggers, and that is why you love it.

Because Star Wars’s heroes do not face the empire, they face the IRS and the lawyers, the maids of meters, to the medical system and every very annoying thing that is sucking the moments of your life.

Star Wars is at its best when it is the 1990s Dilbert with a light saber.

When Star Wars deviates from this formula, stop feeling like Star Wars and begins to feel like something else.

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