Andor Season 2 - Ep 4 - Ever Been To Ghorman

You want to know why I am still hanging in to your Patreon as a VIP? It’s because of reactions like this. I am a straight up blerd. A major in political science. I need partner at one of those big law firms our president hates so much where I practice, corporate litigation and then just corporate. I can get down with some historical documentaries. So when @Syntell was talking about how Rich and multilayered this show was, which I wholeheartedly agree with, and then you name dropped one of my favorite TV documentary series ever, John Adams. I nearly lost my mind. I didn’t know another black person in this world had ever seen John Adams. As a matter of fact, you mentioned that it had been on HBO and I had forgotten that because I fell so much in love with that series and the intricacies of how disparate colonies unite in rebellion and just 200 years later is most powerful nation on earth. I think I’m probably slightly older than both of you because I was an 80s kid. Who doesn’t love the original trilogy? But it focused way too much on the glamour and the romanticism of revolution. Yes, it is fun escapist cinema. I’m a big fan of Mission impossible and Jason Bourne, and all that, but just as important is how most of the real work gets done, which is behind the scenes, without light sabers and Top Gun stunts. OK just a geek out on John Adams for a minute, the reason I forgot it was on HBO was because I have the steel book of that series to this day. Of course it’s regular DVD because that series was from what 15 or 20 years ago? However, it is still brilliant. And it’s still streaming on Max. My favorite episode of that series is episode two when they negotiate and finalize the Declaration of Independence. Those scenes still give me goosebumps. And if you recall after the vote, it was brilliant because there was no applause or cheering, it was complete and utter silence and disbelief. In a lesser movie adaptation, it would literally be the end of Top Gun Maverick. But the founding fathers knew that the biggest battles were ahead of them. The whole rest of the Star Wars universe is about action and spectacle, I don’t understand why this can’t be slightly more grounded.

Tracy Ann Campbell