From the world of Star Wars, Andor is a rebel who has more conflicting morals than the classic hero type, but battles through oppression and fascism. The 2 series story shows the hardship of starting a battle against an oppressive system and takes notes from George Lucas’ original trilogy by using real world events to inform the actions of these systems.
“You get out your Fascism for Dummies book for the 15 things you do, and we tried to include as many of them as we could in the most artful way possible,” Gilroy told The Hollywood Reporter. “How were we supposed to know that this clown car in Washington was going to basically use the same book that we used? So I don’t think it’s prescience so much as the sad familiarity of fascism.”
Ironically, Disney also told Gilroy he wasn’t allowed to use the word ‘fascism’ during the promotional period of the series.
This series is proving to be increasingly relevant to today’s world and is a necessary warning for us all about the nature of oppression.