Star Wars Andor S1E3: "Reckoning" (continued)
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Star Wars Andor S1E3: "Reckoning" (continued)

I find myself caring about Wars in a way I never did previously. All these names and bits of trivia that I absorbed by osmosis and have been more or less dead weight in my brain for decades are suddenly lighting up and forming patterns.

It's honestly a kind of surreal experience.

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Star Wars Andor S1E1: "Cassa"
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Star Wars Andor S1E1: "Cassa"

He made a mistake just now. He went into a bar. In Star Wars. Bars aren't for drinking at, in Star Wars, they're for finding people to fight to the death. The instant any character ever sets foot in a bar, one or more blaster-wielding thugs will become determined to murder them and them specifically for no apparent reason.

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Midnight Mass (part five)
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Midnight Mass (part five)

In their boat in the channel, the last two human residents of Crockett Island - both teenagers, its final generation - watch as the sunlight falls on the shore. The fires burning across the island are joined by more flames, scintillating and golden, that light up across the beach.

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Midnight Mass (part three)
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Midnight Mass (part three)

The dead consuming the living, an inverse of the natural process of decomposition. The old consuming the young, an inverse of the natural process of childbirth and parenting. They come out at night, when the sun is asleep, God isn't looking, and the natural order can be challenged. When children are found missing the next dawn, it's a victory of the night over the day, the past over the future, that which should be dead over that which should have gotten to live.

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Babakiueria
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Babakiueria

I'm not Australian, I've never been to Australia, and I only know the very, very broad strokes of the country's colonial history. So, I'm sure there's a lot in this 1986 short film that's going over my head.

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