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The direction and acting and soundtrack are all incredible - this is a gorgeous show with the sort of production values I would want for a Red Rising show. But more importantly, the writing is top notch, and politically there are a lot of similarities between Andor and the world of Red Rising. One thing this show has convinced me of, however, is that a Red Rising show would have to start at book 2, with book 1 being interspersed through the first season as flashbacks. The reason for this is that the most interesting part of the show is the anti-imperialist resistance to the Empire/Society, you can't spend an entire season in the Academy building up to that.

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About halfway through my viewing of Nope, I came to a realization. It was when the characters were scrambling, trying to stay under cover and out of the open sky, when I remembered something said by a Pakistani 13-year old to Congress in 2013: "I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey."

To me, Nope was an inversion of that idea. Instead of being scared of clear skies, the characters in the movie were scared of cloudy skies, but the fear was the same - that at any time, for no discernible reason, death could come fo

Last year, the Pelicans defense had the 22nd expected eFG% based on shot location according to Cleaning The Glass, and were 13th in terms of how many shots at the rim they allowed. This year, they're up to 3rd in expected eFG% and 3rd in percentage of shots allowed at the rim. Even though they're letting opponents shoot too well overall, they've done a great job making sure they have to shoot from the toughest areas on the court.

Don't really have a point here, just wanted to note what was an insane tidbit I ran across

If you've read Dark Age, you probably remember the part where Dancer comes out as gay. It's mentioned that Reds as a society were homophobic, which was instilled in them through Gold propaganda as a way to keep their society weak and divided. I think this is a metaphor for methods of social control used by colonial powers. European countries would spread conservative religious values to their colonies in Africa, Asia, and South America, and this would divide the colonies along sectarian lines. We still see it today, for example the mainstream media portrayal of the newly elected president of Peru presents him as a socially backwards peasant, because he represents the poor peasantry of his co