Some things just cross the line.
Nah man I don’t think I can agree. My enemies are ontologically evil and I’m not gonna say there are no actions against them that are wrong, but moderate assault on the person who is having hundreds killed right outside the building at that very moment is not over the line for me.
All I was thinking during that scene was “I hope he has a blaster with him”
Yes that was intentional. Not only to showcase that the toxic fash ideology that colors the air within the empire causes to syril to assault his gf, once his whole world shatters, but also as a cruel irony to dedra who was always in control, saw fascism as her comfort and family and now her first human connection causes her to be not in control, to be not safe.
my enemies are not ontologically evil and there are acts against them which are wrong??
Watching some of the behind the scenes interviews with the actor who plays Dedra and I was disappointed that the way that Gough characterized Dedra’s mindset was, “I did a lot of research on female psychopathy,"
It just feels like too much of a pass to give to even Dedra Meero to go “Oh well, she’s a psychopath. Women do be crazy after all.” instead of exploring, maybe, the motivations for why a human woman in a human-supremacist Empire would be attracted and motivated to perpetuating that order without some simmering psychiatric condition influencing her decisions.
Andor doesnt do the whole “imperial core”/“white woman tears”, its not really a story about intersectional fight against imperialism, more like anti-fash. Thats why most characters that die arent white. Andor in general has not great writing for its female characters. Dedra was raised by the empire and there is nothing else to her.
the motivations for why a human woman in a human-supremacist Empire would be attracted and motivated to perpetuating that order without some simmering psychiatric condition influencing her decisions.
Why isn’t “she’s a psychopath” a good answer here tho? I doubt that the nazi party for example didn’t have a very increased rate of psychopaths in their ranks.
It could be a good answer if the series actually showed her going out of her way to be a psychopath. Otherwise, my read is that she comes off as a “i’m just following orders” sociopath. Dedra might actually be getting off on being a mass abuser behind the scenes but the show hasn’t communicated that well enough.
