#like vernestra in ep4 being like oh just capture mae she won’t respond violently … literally why do you think that what gave you

[communistkenobi]

this also happened a lot in mando s3 but the acolyte has this problem where it portrays bureaucracy as this thing that is obstinate and arbitrary for no reason. like the arbitrariness doesn’t take on an institutional form so you just get random characters being stubborn for no reason because they’re managers/leaders/etc., because that’s how bureaucrats behave, they just want you to sign forms and get official approvals and wait for new orders for no reason, it’s not really tied to any larger operation.

and like in contrast, in Andor there was a plot point where Dedra figured out that the Empire’s decentralised data structure was making it extremely difficult to track Cassian because they’d subdivided regions of Imperial territory on their maps and separately monitored each region, so if he stole things in two separate administrative regions of space it didn’t register as suspicious to them because none of those regions were cross-communicating with one another. like the particular form that the imperial bureaucracy took was producing a specific security problem that required centralising their data structure and looking at their own territory in a new way, because their data was producing a specific type of gaze and way of relating to information collected by the state. like normally I wouldn’t be so frustrated but this type of conflict has already been demonstrated to be completely possible in a Star Wars setting