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Andor Dared to Say ‘Genocide’
The best episodes of the series are a direct rebuttal to anyone who still claims Star Wars isn’t political.
Never before has Star Wars felt this insightful in its depiction of the multifaceted ways that oppressors oppress, or this urgent in its explanation of how that happens: propaganda and disinformation, bootlicking media and double-dealing politicians, xenophobic fervor and militaristic bloodlust. Andor ’s Ghorman story line has been a powder keg lurking in the background as other Rebellion-related issues took the forefront: Mon Mothma’s banking woes, Bix’s myriad traumas, Saw Gerrera’s extremism. Nevertheless, it’s pretty clear that the Ghor are super French-coded (their language’s cadence, their peasant-style costuming, the Les Misérables flair of protestors bursting into song), and because of that, their uprising against the Empire could be read as an analogy to Nazi-occupied France.
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