Hey everyone, how's it going? I'm doing pretty well on this hot and humid Thursday afternoon. I finished season 2 of Andor last night, so I'm here to talk about the season. Let's get into it.
I'm not even sure where to start. Andor is such an incredible show that I don't know where to start talking about the second season. It was unique because there was a time jump of a year after each block of three episodes. That came from the fact that the original concept for the show that creator Tony Gilroy had in mind was for a five season show, with each season taking place over the span of one year, with the fifth and final season being the final year leading into Rogue One. However, when Gilroy saw how long it would take them to get five seasons out, and Diego Luna aging over the course of that time, Gilroy and Luna decided that only season 2 would get made and the story they wanted to tell over the course of seasons two through five would get condensed into the second season.
As a fan of television that frustrates me, but as a Star Wars fan it makes me happy, because it means there's room for novels and comics to further the stories of these characters and to fill in the blanks between season 1 and season 2, and between the four story arcs of season 2. Especially when it comes to Bix, who doesn't have as big of a role this season as she did in season 1. She's there and she has some great moments, but she's gone after episode 9, "Welcome to the Rebellion", with a quick little scene in the finale. Because Cassian is the main character and the ultimate goal of this season is to get him to where we're introduced to him in Rogue One, the characters who were created specifically for this show have to be written out somehow before Cassian and K2-SO leave Yavin IV for Jedha. Luckily Gilroy chose to leave Bix alive and just have her return to Mina-Rau, the planet that Cassian, Brasso, Bix, and Wilmon fled to with B2EMO when they left Ferrix at the end of the first season.
Dedra's story this season was interesting. She started out being in a romantic relationship with Syril Karn, the former Deputy Inspector of Preox-Morlana, and even managed to put his mother, Eedy, in her place, which is kind of frightening if she can make Eedy get into line. The Ghorman Massacre, where Syril was killed, also tarnished Dedra's reputation at the ISB and she was eventually arrested for treason by Supervisor Heert as the ISB discovered the files she had on the Death Star were leaked to Luthen, by Lonni Jung, the Rebellion spy inside the ISB.
My favourite part of this season was Mon Mothma's storyline, which included the speech that she said in the Senate, which led her to flee Coruscant, leading to the episode of Rebels where the crew of the Ghost took her to the Rebel fleet, which led to the formation of the Rebel Alliance. The Ghorman Massacre and Mon Mothma's opposition of the Empire as a result of the devastation of the Ghorman people have been pieces of Star Wars lore that I knew about ever since I read about them in the 2000 reference book, The Essential Chronology when I was in high school. Though it had first been referenced in the Rebel Alliance Sourcebook, one of the supplementary materials for the Star Wars Roleplaying Game back in 1990, a year before Heir to the Empire was published. What's cool about that is that the version of the Ghorman Massacre in those reference books was mentioned in season 2 of Andor as something that had happened several years prior to the Massacre shown in episode 8, "Who Are You?". So I like that Gilroy and his writers were able to preserve the Legends version of the event, while creating their own version for the show.
I think that's going to be it for me for today. I don't want to turn this blog into a indepth review blog. Otherwise I could be here for hours writing about every little detail about this show, because it was so good. If you haven't given this show a chance and you loved Rogue One I highly recommend this show. May the Force be with you.
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