DON’T LOOK AT THESE PHOTOS!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Xea0nu5GA_s

Cast Your Fate To The Wind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQpD0vpEw34

John Adams - Writing the Declaration of Independence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7o5kWrbJJE

This is from the series, "John Adams", which is quite good.

KATEE SACKHOFF Reveals the Tricky Situation Streaming Contacts Put Actors Into

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ca7-ukydZ8

Robert Picardo on playing The Doctor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgzNIOT1Jbc

Star Trek - The Bluegrass Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbkruyjOx9Y

Why Star Trek TNG Season 1 is So Bad

@john2001plus
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Season 1 was as good as it needed to be for fans enjoying the return of Star Trek.

brentalfloss explains why Walter Koenig owes his career to George Takei

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/duGGYuwjQ30

John O'Hurley "Seinfeld" -After 1st table read of script "This is the #1 show on TV? It's not funny"

Star Trek - The Soviet Generation (AI Trailer)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4AxM4nUz3Q

STAR WARS Un-Disneyfied - Andor

The whole video is a great summary of why Andor is great, but here is the short version...

Tony Gilroy defends the purpose/intent of Andor

@john2001plus

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I've seen a few YouTubers claim that the authoritarian oppressors in Andor somehow represent capitalists, and that the Ghormans were fighting against capitalism. However, this doesn't make much sense. Supporters of a free market typically oppose government oppression—it's as if they have it backward.

Everyone has their boogeyman: the Right tends to fear the government, while the Left has traditionally been wary of corporations.  

Mark Hamill Addresses Rumor That He Quit ‘Star Wars’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SJAINcVG_4

Andor Finally Got Me

FX's Alien: Earth | Only on Hulu

https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/alien-earth

Brent Spiner

The craziest TV series finale ever

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fccEI6c31fU

I was just thinking about how crazy this ending was.

Why the Role of DATA Gave BRENT SPINER Anxiety Early in His STAR TREK Tenure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PautCLWj1Hg

The REAL reason Katee Sackhoff has never watched Battlestar Galactica

Star Wars actress in Buffy reboot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waOgEpVtq8E&t=402s

George Wendt, Who Played Norm on ‘Cheers,’ Dies at 76 - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/arts/television/george-wendt-dead.html

STAR WARS PREQUELS began because of DRAGON

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jrmAkksGqV8

Oh Boy! Doctor Who: It’s Come To This…

A cautionary tale... are you Syril Karn?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v3uJdGZTzY

What are you rebelling against, Andor?

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The myth that Fascists and Nazis were capitalists is promoted by the left to obscure the Fascist connection to socialism. The Fascist motto was: "Everything for the state, nothing outside the state." The Nazis made similar statements, asserting that industries not serving the state would be taken over. In practice, the Nazi regime operated as a kleptocracy, seizing anything they could get their hands on.

Mussolini was a communist before founding Fascism. Early on, he had the support of the far left in America—a fact the left tried to obscure after the war by labeling the Fascists and Nazis as "far-right."

The first speech of the German Workers' Party that Hitler attended focused on why free market capitalism should be abandoned. Hitler became member number 50. He did not oppose socialism itself, only international socialism, which was viewed as a threat in Germany at the time. Instead, he advocated for national socialism. There's a reason the party renamed itself the National Socialist German Workers' Party—it presented itself as a nationalist alternative to international socialism.

Andor isn't about rebelling against an economic system; it's about rebelling against oppression.

Jon Bernthal Had TROUBLE When He Became THE PUNISHER

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/buMFvxIPXv0

Star Wars Andor: Does it keep getting better?

Minor spoilers:




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Hey Thor,

After rewatching the first chapter (of season 2), I take back my earlier comments. It's still a bit slow, but the episodes really made me care about the characters, and the story is very engaging.

The second chapter, 3 BBY, is good, but it doesn't draw me in emotionally the same way. It feels more like an entertaining history lesson. The exception is Syral Karn, who appears to be on a particularly intriguing story arc.

Best wishes,
John Coffey

Andor Season 2 - A Rough Start

Spoilers:

1.  Season 1 got better as it went along.  I rewatched it right before season 2, and I was blown away by the finale.  Season 1 is an outstanding show.

2.  I was critical of the first group of three episodes in season 2 for their slow pace, but I'm watching them a second time, and I am pleasantly surprised.  The episodes are entertaining despite the pace.  Unfortunately, this first chapter is not much more than a soap opera.

Controversy in the First Arc? Andor Season 2:

Please give this video 3.5 minutes.  If you don't mind major spoilers, please give it 8 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0IweKiUCko


@john2001plus
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Hey Thor,

The three episodes of BBY 4 suffer from serious pacing issues. It feels like two solid episodes were stretched into three, nor did I find the story particularly compelling. While certain moments were interesting, I often felt bored and was tempted to skip through the slower parts.

The controversial scene was less graphic than it could have been.

The show also attempts to make a political statement by portraying the rebels/refugees as "illegals" on a farming planet. While the story is somewhat interesting, leaning too heavily into real-world parallels can sometimes break immersion.

The Ghorman Conference seems to draw a clear parallel to the Wannsee Conference. (There's an excellent film called Conspiracy that explores this event.)

We don't see what happened with the farmer who turned them in and the Imperials, but it reminded me of the opening scene of "Inglorious Basterds."

Best wishes,
John Coffey

Doctor Who Confirms Andor Star Second Companion in Season 2

I am watching this same actress on Andor and Doctor Who.

https://www.cbr.com/doctor-who-companion-varada-sethu/

Netflix Doesn’t Tell You This

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T959v9bdLfQ