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diff --git a/wiki/media/andor.md b/wiki/media/andor.md index 58484dd7..ef2067c6 100644 @@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ this idea of freedom being this really disorganized."[^manifesto] > instruction." The ASR mangles the manifesto's "Tyranny requires constant effort" into > "Tiridine requires constant effort,"[^open] and Nemik's name into "the mimics."[^manifesto] -[^watched]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-1386|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 23:06]] — "so i've watched this this tv show quite a few times." +[^watched]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 23:06]] — "so i've watched this this tv show quite a few times." [^open]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-0|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 0:00]]; the manifesto's "Tyranny requires constant effort" arrives at [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-46|0:46]] as the ASR's "Tiridine requires constant effort." [^try]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-77|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 1:17]] — "Try."; Greaser's greeting ("hello and welcome back folks") follows immediately at [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-78|1:18]]. -[^ramble]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-1386|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 23:06]] — "okay 30 minutes of rambling to get to what i actually wanted to talk about." -[^manifesto]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-1445|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 24:05]]; the character's name (Karis Nemik) is rendered "the mimics" a cue earlier at [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-1435|23:55]]. +[^ramble]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 23:06]] — "okay 30 minutes of rambling to get to what i actually wanted to talk about." +[^manifesto]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 24:05]]; the character's name (Karis Nemik) is rendered "the mimics" a cue earlier at [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode|23:55]].
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diff --git a/wiki/media/andor.md b/wiki/media/andor.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..58484dd7 @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +title: Andor +type: show +status: confirmed +sources: + - raw/episodes/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode/bundle.json +--- + +> *Henry's note: built from the beat index — 3 beats in a single bonus episode, coverage COMPLETE. The wiki cited this entity but never minted its page.* + +**Andor** is the television show [[characters/richard-greaser|Richard Greaser]] mines +for political philosophy. It enters the canon exactly once, as the source text of his +subscriber bonus episode *Freedom Is Disorganized* — supplying both the episode's cold +open and its title. Greaser has, by his own account, "watched this this tv show quite a +few times."[^watched] + +## The uncredited cold open + +The episode opens cold, with no host and no framing, on a straight verbatim reading of a +speech: "There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this +already."[^open] It runs a full minute — through "Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs +spontaneously, and without instruction" — and ends on a single word, "Try.",[^try] +after which Greaser's own greeting begins. The passage is presented unattributed; a +listener is left to recognize it or not. + +## The reveal + +Greaser withholds the source for half an hour, then breaks the fourth wall on his own +runtime: "30 minutes of rambling to get to what i actually wanted to talk about," before +naming the TV show at last.[^ramble] A minute later he identifies the specific text — the +manifesto of a minor character who, he notes, "died early on" — and points to the phrase +the episode is named after: "one of the things that i really liked in the manifesto was +this idea of freedom being this really disorganized."[^manifesto] + +> irl: *Andor* is Tony Gilroy's 2022–2025 Disney+ *Star Wars* series. The cold open is +> Karis Nemik's manifesto, read aloud in the season-one finale; the line Greaser lifts his +> title from is Nemik's "Freedom is a pure idea; it occurs spontaneously and without +> instruction." The ASR mangles the manifesto's "Tyranny requires constant effort" into +> "Tiridine requires constant effort,"[^open] and Nemik's name into "the mimics."[^manifesto] + +[^watched]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-1386|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 23:06]] — "so i've watched this this tv show quite a few times." +[^open]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-0|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 0:00]]; the manifesto's "Tyranny requires constant effort" arrives at [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-46|0:46]] as the ASR's "Tiridine requires constant effort." +[^try]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-77|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 1:17]] — "Try."; Greaser's greeting ("hello and welcome back folks") follows immediately at [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-78|1:18]]. +[^ramble]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-1386|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 23:06]] — "okay 30 minutes of rambling to get to what i actually wanted to talk about." +[^manifesto]: [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-1445|Freedom Is Disorganized @ 24:05]]; the character's name (Karis Nemik) is rendered "the mimics" a cue earlier at [[transcripts/freedom-is-disorganized-by-richard-greaser-bonus-episode#t-1435|23:55]].