and dude is like "it invalidated a new hope because a new hope is about a hero defeating an all powerful evil and having someone INTENTIONALLY putting a flaw in the death star changes everything!!"
to which several of us pointed out that if anything the intention makes the empire more arrogant because they knew erso was sus and didn't do anything to stop it
i was gonna say that is LITERALLY the dumbest take, because if anything the fact that they overlooked what galen erso built into the design reinforces the themes and the empire's arrogance and them being the architects of their own downfall what the hell
he is so wrapped up in like luke's magic heroic plot armour and the unbeatable machine of the empire that somehow any of the Little People doing anything at all ruins the illusion for him i guess
LMFAO OK DUDE even literally in 1977 the story wasn't about luke accomplishing everything alone, it was all about the other people who also got him there
star wars has literally always been a story about community action and rogue one and andor only served to reinforce themes that have been there since 1977 and that's why they were good!!
also someone came in at the end like "bro you always have these weirdly 'sympathetic to the fascists' takes" since it sounded like his issue was that galen erso made the empire look less powerful