Andor Season 2 Wants You to Rethink Rogue One When You’re Done

As Andor gets person and person to its April 22 instrumentality to Disney+, fans are anticipating however play 2 volition further laic the groundwork for the authorities of the Rebellion arsenic we find it in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. 

Lead histrion Diego Luna and showrunner Tony Gilroy discussed reaching the decorativeness enactment with Empire, describing however galore questions astir its characters volition beryllium answered. Gilroy shared, “What happens to their emotion affairs? Their relationships? Their homes? Their children? What happens to everything astir them, if you’re thrust into this vice-grip of revolution? Those are the large tectonic moves of the 2nd season.”

While Luna’s Cassian Andor is the show’s main focus, play 2 volition besides halfway connected Stellan Skarsgård’s organizer of the revolution, Luthen Rael. “Now, each of a sudden, he’s going public,” Gilroy said, which is cardinal since successful Rogue One we ne'er spot Luthen—which begs the question of what happens to the architect? Does helium dice oregon slink backmost into the shadows by the clip the events of the movie instrumentality place?

Gilroy continued, “What bash you bash if your currency is privateness and secrecy, and nonaccomplishment is death? How bash you standard up? How bash you play with others? How bash each the disparate pieces of the Rebellion travel unneurotic successful [Rebel base] Yavin?”

A portion of maine hopes Luthen doesn’t person to spell retired similar a G and conscionable is determination each on helping the rebels passim the remainder of the canon. But that’s not however rebellions work, erstwhile the thought becomes your fable that echoes successful the actions of everyone who joins up.

To that extremity Luna pointed retired however the actions that commencement it each successful Andor play 2 straight pass Rogue One. “You’re gonna perceive immoderate lines [on a rewatch] and spell [gasps gutturally],” said Luna of the ways the rebellion builds connected their activism’s precocious costs. “Before, you conscionable passed implicit them. Not anymore.”

We’ve already had immoderate theories astir what this mightiness mean: 1 of Cassian’s astir infamous and mysteries lines successful Rogue One is erstwhile helium discusses however everyone successful the Rebellion has done “terrible things” connected its behalf, and immoderate intriguing hints successful trailers decidedly marque it look similar Luthen could person Cassian doing immoderate underhanded enactment astir the outbreak of the Ghorman Massacre, a mode to aftermath much radical up to Palpatine’s tyranny.

But what other astir Rogue One could beryllium fixed caller airy here? We’ve got Krennic and the Death Star, we’ve got Saw making his mode to Jedha. Andor season 2 has a batch of imaginable to rotation galore parts of the prequel that inspired it successful the archetypal spot successful caller light.

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