I feel like I got a very different read from Andor S1 than most people, in the same way I think I got a very different read of Westworld from everyone I talk to. as if we were watching completely different things
the thing about the russian revolution is that the bolsheviks and the rest of "the left" at the time failed to get the infrastructure in place before people revolted, which led to them rushing to catch up and everything almost falling apart a few times.
and so much of this reads of a story of what happens when people are pushed without the support structures to keep it going. I figure other seasons will have them catching up and realizing this, but like.
for as much as the series reads like a tactics manual for various stages of insurgency or mass protest, it also reads like a "and here's what happens if you're overeager because you aren't looking at the whole".
and some of that's tv drama but those parts in particular feel italicized
anyway i'm mostly surprised at how well they made a pop culture polyglot/magic-eye-puzzle that rivals that of Westworld: the story of what happens when boomers and late-gen-x who were raised on the fantasy of a frontier you can be whatever, do whatever, and make your own, with none of the genocide in the history they were taught, may have influenced a lot of current US culture, but especially silicon valley.