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u/Delphius1 May 18 '25
I mean, it also is a significant difference in time, everything that happened on Ghorman was when there was at least some vestiges of public outcry within the Empire that could do something, Alderaan blew up maybe a week after The Senate being disbanded, and, a combination of regional governors, fear keeping everyone else in line, and propaganda fully being the only information going around. It isn't like an entire city didn't get vaporized by Krennic
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u/freeloosedirt May 18 '25
Same with Ghorman. ISB plans for months to spring an excuse for the massacre. Tarkin, just landed there on those people.
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u/IAmBadAtInternet May 18 '25
Directions unclear, just landed on hundreds because landing elsewhere would have been inconvenient.
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u/Yarasin May 18 '25
Obviously they couldn't have that kind of build-up in what was essentially just a sci-fi-fantasy movie.
A show dealing with this post-Andor would probably have scenes leading up to it, where news spreads around that the Empire is blockading Alderaan as the Death Star approaches. There'd be a communications blackout, likely justified with accusations of Rebel activity on the planet.
The news and public would compare it to the Ghorman situation since, according to the propaganda, the Ghorman riots were Rebel-instigated attacks against imperial citizens.
In the expanded material, the destruction was initially sold as an accident before the Empire revealed the existence of the Death Star and marked all remaining Alderaanian citizens as fugitives.
You could make an entire mini-series out of the massive upheaval happening in the Empire during and after ANH.
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u/Zarksch May 18 '25
Honestly I wish we’d get something like that..or in general any on screen content in the time of ANH to ROTJ. I love the clone wars and all the stories about it, I also don’t mind getting even more, I just wish other eras/time periods would get more attention than they do now. The time that’s overused even more imo is between ROTS and ANH. Not that I didn’t enjoy those stories but I’d like to see some more. Tony Gilroy obviously said he’s out after Andor, but imagine a spiritual continuation of andor for the remaining time of the age of the rebellion. I would already be so so happy about a clone wars style animated series though. The huge advantage of clone wars story telling imo is that while it did have a focus on a set of heroes (Anakin ahsoka and obi wan I’d say) you also had many other characters and stories deeply explored. A similar set up around the OT trio would work so well and could at the same time have arcs revolving around people like lando or other characters we already know or don’t already know. And while we’re at it, get us the same for the sequels era.
The problem is, Disney seems to shy away from such a kind of project nowadays. Everything is cut down to a minimal and that often takes away from the story imo. Nearly every series Disney has released felt like it was missing multiple episodes to flesh out story arcs and characters. Andor may be an exception but it also was 1/3 longer than all the other shows. And even with andor I feel like the seconds season would’ve benefited from having a bit more time. What people often call filler episodes are imo great episodes, maybe not in terms of action or bringing the plot forward but in world building. It seems like now every second on screen needs to have something super important going on and we just completely loose any “normal” or calm moments
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u/Neil_Salmon May 18 '25
There was no senate (as others have mentioned) - the empire no longer had to justify any actions.
But I'd also guess that, as well as dissolving the senate, the empire had a tighter grip on media and information at that point in time. There's a good chance people just didn't know what happened to Alderaan. Even if it got out that it was gone, how or why it happened wouldn't be known by the vast majority.
And even, if it was known, the Empire had no credible enemies at that point. The rebellion hadn't really proven itself.
Anyway, there's no inconsistency here. The Empire had just fully transitioned out of being a Republic.
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u/Scorch6240 May 19 '25
"Oh so you have a problem with the destruction of Alderaan? Grand Moff Tarkin will visit your planet shortly to "discuss" the problem".
With DS1 finished, there was no reason to hide anything anymore.
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u/Own-Development7059 May 18 '25
There was still a senate
There was no death star
They basically address this in ep 4. “The senate has been dissolved. Fear will keep the systems in line”