Relatable One

I’m a few weeks into my social media hiatus, and I have to say it’s been very nice. A month without Instagram is surprisingly calming, and I’ve only checked into Bluesky and Mastodon to confirm my auto-posting is working and then immediately signed off. I can totally see myself making this shift permanent.

The only downside to not having a Dumb Thoughts Collector always an app away is that I can’t share stupid observations like this one:

I still haven’t seen the first season of Andor, and I feel like I’m essentially at the point where I’m throwing a tantrum and refusing to watch it. Just because I keep reading people online say that this is what Star Wars should be, and that rubs me the wrong way. I don’t look to Star Wars for moral ambiguity or parables of real-world political issues or nuanced takes on complex topics; I like it pulpy and referential. To act as if there’s clearly a superior take on the source material, and the others are somehow inferior or more juvenile, seems to be unnecessarily arrogant. Especially considering that the source material is space wizards. Rogue One left me cold, and there’s nothing about the character of Cassian Andor that has me excited to watch.

Until this morning, when I opened YouTube and saw a thumbnail for the upcoming season. And it makes Andor infinitely more relatable to me to find out that he’s the kind of guy who thinks a lot about pizza.