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.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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    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.