The “Star Wars” galaxy is filled with fascinating droid characters that make all kinds of tasks. Faithful companions, assassins and terrifying executors, there is no shortage of nice droids in the franchise. Of course, many droids are pretty merchandising opportunities first, the characters convincing in second position, but they nevertheless make some of the most memorable characters of all the franchise.
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That being said, the position of the “Star Wars” franchise on the rights and personality of the droids is at best sloppy. Are they slaves? Should we even consider them as people? The answer unfortunately depends on the title. Some seem to treat droids with as much reverence as human heroes (or extraterrestrials), others like cute pets, “the Mandalorian” as objects that you can launch and destroy without discrimination.
It brings me to “Andor”. Tony Gilroy’s prequel to “Rogue One” is not only the best “Star Wars” story, but one of the best television series in the last decade. It is an exciting and fascinating drama on the birth of rebellions and the human cost of resistance to tyranny. He also looks absolutely magnificent and has a talented distribution of Bonkers. But none of this is important, because the best thing about the show (I am half joking) than B2emo.
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B2emo is Maarva’s droid companion (Fiona Shaw), a nugget of sweet, faithful and sincere kindness in what is also a television program that has a soul on the evils of the Empire. His humans are missing a lot and has a monotonous voice and a melancholy personality that recalls Marvin the very depressed droid of the series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams. Most importantly, he is the best absolute boy.
This makes Cassian and abandoning B2emo by Diego Luna on a strange planet in the third episode of “Andor” season 2 completely unforgivable and heartbreaking. And if you’ve missed it, you are also a monster.
B2emo deserved better
Gilroy said one day that the personality of B2emo is based on “an older dog”, and that shows. From the moment we meet him, Bee misses Cassian. Not as a owner or chef, but in the same way that a dog is missing its owner. The bee even tilted the head curiously like a dog. When Maarva de Fiona Shaw dies, the most heartbreaking reactions come from B2emo himself, who continued to ask him questions like a child who does not understand death. He curled up, not wanting to leave Maarva’s apartment, desperately asking for Cassian until Brasso (Joplin Sibtain) takes care of him, offering to stay with Bee for the night, then the lean. He is not a work droid or a protocol droid; He is an emotional companion.
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Since Cassian is absent from Ferrix for most of the first season of “Andor”, it is the relationship between Bee and Brasso which becomes a culmination of the last two episodes. Not only does Brasso take care of the droid after Maarva’s death, but he also accompanies him during his funeral. Brasso even fronts an imperial style of Sparta when he dares to hit the bees.
In season 2 of “Andor”, we were found with Bee, Brasso, Bix (Adria Arjona) and Wilmon (Muhannad Bhaier), now living together in a quiet arable agricultural planet. Almost every scene in which he is, Bee asks questions about Cassian and when he returns. At each turn, the worst owner of the world of the world does not present itself, rather engaging in silly missions for the rebellion.
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When Andor finally appears in the third episode, he is in emergency escape mode, striking Bix and Wilmon before leaving hell from the planet before being captured. Admittedly, he has a stolen liaison fighter, he has just killed a bunch of imperials, and there is a blockade around the planet. However, although the episode does not draw attention to him, and also leaves Bee behind – and the Brasso corpse.
Cassian Andor is worse than Jon Snow
Is it understandable for Andor to be in a hurry, but he couldn’t take the time to go and grab B2emo? He couldn’t take more than a few minutes to pass, catch his charger and leave it on the ship. Cassian leave Bee behind is not only a parody, it is a crime against droids, a crime against friendship and a betrayal of all that is good.
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It was already painful to see Brasso die while trying to help his friends, but that’s too much. The poor bee ended up with Brasso’s girlfriend, it was said that it would only be a few days and that his friends would come back for him. Now Cassian has left for good, taking Wil and Bix with him, and Brasso is dead? I’m not sure that small B2emo circuits will be able to take so much sorrow.
It is the biggest betrayal of a kick / company / companion in a television program since the worst owner of the world puppy, Jon Snow, left Ghost the Direwolf behind in the last season of “Game of Thrones”. There is no reason for the snow to be so led so as not to bring his wolf with him, and there is no excuse good enough to forgive Cassian leaving B2emo on a strange planet without his friends.
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The “Star Wars” franchise has always had a complicated relationship with droids, but it’s worse than Din Djarin who kicked a droid. Andor may be a hero of the rebellion, but I will always see him like a guy ready to leave his droid.
