Andor reminds me of Ben-Hur, a story that shows the living conditions of the time from multiple viewpoints which can help people better understand the bigger story. A wealthy aristocrat of an oppressed people turned into a wrongly accused criminal, a slave and a soldier who through circumstance and bravery becomes a beloved hero and loved son of his oppressor, and on it goes. You see how people of all positions are affected and how they deal with it, right and wrong. Saw in Andor is a realistic take on extremism, just as Mon Mothma was depicted well as after she "fought the good fight" with her words she wasn't prepared for what real fighting is. Mothma was too rich, detached and idealistic while Saw was too ruthless and blinded by rage; Luthen was the most despised yet the actual hero of the story.

That sounds an awful lot like Mr. Schicklgruber's arguments when moderate means of resistance failed to help those harmed by the Treaty of Versailles. The danger in accepting the ends justify the means logic is important to teach or people wind up posting comments that terrorism, infanticide and more.

My buddies worked at Regal and brought my Wife and I to watch while they spliced the first one. They were blown away and kept going on about the effects and the deeper meaning. My Wife just "it's the Bible 2.0" and has made fun of it ever since, won't watch another. I went with the guys to see 2 & 3, tried to argue with her after 2 but when she asked after 3 and the image of him being carried away effectively abused and crucified I just ducked my head and walked away.

In E5 I wasn't sure if it was that he couldn't because he was essentially a ghost and physically couldn't or something else, like it being a test. After E3 I thought it was clear that the technique, discovered by Qui-Gon, had to be kept secret from the Emporer. Of course reading about how in Lucas' earliest drafts of ROTJ Obi-Wan returned to life I think it's clear he was still making it up as he went along and every justification is after the fact, sort of a retcon.

My kids and I lost interest during Capaldi but tried Whittaker and I liked her in Broadchurch... but wow was it bad. Tennant was obviously a stunt but I bit, I started watching the old show as a kid and picked up the new from the first episode so we wanted it to work. It didn't. The"message" was so ham fisted it made me miss the stretched out to 10 episodes, rubber monster days. This last series isn't even sad, and Piper? Go listen to the new audio stuff, it's been much better.