Andor Season 2 Continues Time-Honored Tradition of Hijacking the Empire’s Ships

As anticipation builds for Andor season 2‘s debut connected Disney+, the official Star Wars YouTube relationship has unveiled a caller first-look clip to support fans satiated. And wouldn’t you cognize it, Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor is continuing a time-honored rebel tradition: commandeering 1 of the Empire’s ships from close nether their noses.

In the hardly minute-long clip, a swarm of stormtroopers unreserved toward a hangar bay—only to beryllium greeted by the chaotic show of a TIE combatant clumsily colliding into walls. Their corporate befuddlement rapidly turns to alarm arsenic they bid their blasters connected the ship’s cockpit, wherever a precise flustered Cassian Andor shouts “no” successful panic arsenic helium desperately tries to regain power of his less-than-smooth getaway.

After taking a bushed arsenic stormtroopers’ tracer occurrence ricochets disconnected the TIE fighter, Andor makes the caller determination to grip the limb controls and unleash a relentless barrage of missiles onto the unsuspecting stormtroopers, who honestly ne'er stood a chance. But his troubles are acold from over, due to the fact that a heavy armored scope trooper looms up of him, blocking his flight route. A crippled of chickenhearted follows arsenic the 2 bid their sights connected each other. Just arsenic Andor narrowly evades a rocket, prompting the scope trooper to reload his launcher with each the deliberate urgency of a Civil War worker preparing his musket, helium suffers show issues of his own: the TIE combatant isn’t shooting its monolithic greenish rocket astatine the precise exposed scope trooper. I perceive it happens to everyone. The clip concludes earlier we tin spot who prevails, reminding viewers to tune into the amusement adjacent week to spot however their turn-based conflict volition unfold.

Considering the show’s hectic season finale, which saw Andor determine to property connected with his relentless, Moby Dick-like pursuit of dismantling the Empire alongside Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael, it’s wide their once-unwitting concern has evolved into thing acold much ambitious. However, arsenic the Star Wars video statement aptly notes, Andor’s daring TIE combatant heist “could’ve gone smoother.” If the supra clip is immoderate indication, Andor is poised to present a thrilling instrumentality to signifier for the beloved Star Wars show, raising the stakes to adjacent grander heights than its inaugural play arsenic it dovetails into Rogue One.

In io9’s reappraisal for Andor play 1 way backmost successful 2022, we called the Star Wars spin-off a coagulated spy thriller: “Every quality has substance to their motivations, and [series creator Tony] Gilroy gives america the astir applicable and revolutionary Star Wars communicative to day by exploring a communicative of mean radical opening to instrumentality their powerfulness back—and centering that tone of rebellion astir Cassian Andor himself.”

The three-episode premiere of Andor play 2 releases connected Disney+ connected April 22 astatine 9 p.m. ET.

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