I know — I’m late to this party but if you have the traditional Star Wars background and you suddenly gain full access to Andor… just do it! It’s likely in the top ten of all televisions series by itself, but when you top it off with Rogue One… it’s sublime. True art in its finest manifestation! The pairing is simply breathtaking.

I saw Rogue One in the theaters and clocked it as the finest of all the Star Wars movies — and to rewatch it after Andor and ten years… just one of the finest media viewing experiences of my life.

And Rogue One experts: is the director of Rogue One directly referencing Blue Velvet’s Frank when Sol Guerrero hits his gas?? How did I not notice this the first time. It’s amazing — and like Frank, the gas makes him crazy. It’s too close not to be intentional. Anyway… forgive me — I’m having a media high. Just want to share that! Go… do this… and may the force be with you.

  • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    20 days ago

    I don’t think so, I think OP just enjoys using --, some platforms/text entry methods automatically convert that into em-dashes

    OP gets the name of a character wrong - Sol Guerrero is Saw Gerrera, which an AI probably wouldn’t do, and the usage of two question marks, incomplete sentence fragments, ellipses everywhere… I think OP is all human

    • wowwoweowza@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      20 days ago

      I use Voyager and maybe it’s creating the em dashes. Not sure but I’m a little creeped out to think my writing sounds like AI. How bizarre — especially when I’m having a media high.

      Jesus… I just did the em dash… it’s my thumbs. I also use ellipses… just weird stuff about me.

      • bearboiblake [he/him]@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        You’re all good, OP! People are just hypervigilant. I’m autistic and people occasionally assume or ask if I’m AI, just because my writing style can be a bit overly formal sometimes I think. Don’t give it a second thought!

      • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        99 percent invisible has an episode on em dash. They did it because someone who had been using it way before AI existed suddenly had people claiming that he used AI to do his writing for him.

        • Rhaedas@fedia.io
          3·
          20 days ago

          Plenty of classic authors have been tagged as AI generation because they use things that are now deemed artificial. Yet, it’s writing styles that have been around a long time. It’s almost as if the models were trained on some things that a lot of good writers use.

          Screw sabotaging writing to look non-AI, it’s our writing!

          One good thing that’s come of all this for me is learning about em dash, en dash, and hyphens far more than I ever learned in school. They do have their place, and while AI may overdo it a lot or wrongly, that doesn’t make the punctuation itself evil, or not have a purpose.

          Also, as an American, I like the British style of using en dash better, but can’t use it here because publishers would turn their noses up at it. But it looks better.