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Andor is a huge middle finger for everything that came after the original trilogy. It manages to be menacing and showing a convincing rebellion against realistic fascism - relying heavily on the tones of the old films - without any of the dumb Jedi magic, light sabers andd mystic blabble.

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> without any of the dumb Jedi magic, light sabers andd mystic blabble

They have some of it too. But it's a very well crafted scene showing how normal people would react to the force weirdos.

What's wrong with light sabers? It's just a weapon with some useful properties (like bouncing back blaster shots). Finn used it fine for a sec, so it's proven that the user doesn't need to be trained at all in anything really.

The Force though... yeah, as much as I'm a big fan of SW, the whole concept leans way too hard into soft magic territory, at least to my taste.

For one the technology for such a saber far surpasses and stands out from anything else in the Empire. But more importantly it requires the same superhuman Jedi magic to be useful (swinging to bounce blaster shots). It works as a ritual weapon / in climatic battles, but modern SW overuses it (as the Jedis in general).

> But more importantly it requires the same superhuman Jedi magic to be useful

No, Finn used it fine in defense when fighting a trooper in TFA. It is useful even without the Force. We can only blame sequels for that :P

Although yeah, when compared to other weapons at the time, they seem overpowered, I agree, never thought of that.

> Finn used it fine for a sec, so it's proven that the user doesn't need to be trained at all in anything really.

Even in ESB, Han Solo uses it to cut open the ton ton

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