The revolution is not for the healthy, but it is for those who watched the final of season 2 of “Andor” because there is Heavy spoilers in front.
Like “Rogue One” before him, part of the magic of “Andor” is to see how much he gives to the space opera of the original trilogy. This transforms what is a fairly simple story of good guys who get up to fight an evil empire into a complex history of morality, detailing the difficulties of resistance to oppression and fascism, and the personal cost of the defense of others. Thanks to this show, the Empire is now a much more recognizable thing than before – more a collection of bad guys at Twirling Mustache, but a everyday evil. (The genre that meets in Fancy Snow uses a genocide, then hides it through propaganda.) The Arc du Massacre de Ghorman in the second season of “Andor” has not only the most heartbreaking imagery in the history of “Star Wars”, but it is undoubtedly the best arc history of the history of the franchise of almost 50 years.
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The show also adds nuances to rebellion, transforming them of a heroic group of liberty fighters in a disorderly collection of people with different ideals, approaches and objectives. There are constant intestine struggles, contrasting moral positions and nuances among the rebels that we had never seen before in the live part of the franchise. We see this in radically different approaches between Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård), Bail Organa (Benjamin Bratt), and saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker), and how the Yavin IV group moved to legitimize as the face of the rebellion by Luthen alienating Luthen to the point where his contributions were all but distant from history, despite the fact that of the rebel.
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Speaking of Saw, he is one of the most complex and complex characters of all the “Star Wars”. His arch of “The Clone Wars” to “Rogue One” is fascinating, showing his life as a revolutionary and finally his fall. In the final of “Andor”, there is a scene that echoes a fantastic moment of “Star Wars Rebels” which makes the story of Saw and the rebellion even more tragic.
Saw is just on the rebels of Yavin IV
In episode 12 of season 2 of “Andor”, we catch up on my Mothma (Geneviève O’Reilly), which is now fully in its era of rebellion with the haircut that we know of “Rogue One”. We see my talking to an added by Rhydonium saw Gerrera via the hologram, and both discuss their methods. My thinking that Saw goes too far, it is too open and attracts too much the attention of the Empire, which has already sent a star destructive to Jedha. (Of course, we know that it is not because of Saw, but because of the Kyber had to feed the death star.)
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“If only you were fighting as well as you lie,” replied Lun and the Yavin IV rebels of espionage, which she denies at a time. Again, we know better, and a few minutes later, lease confirms that they have eyes on the Saw group.
The scene is a fantastic echo of a similar scene in “Star Wars Rebels” in which the calls MON has seen for the inability of his group to fight with the Empire, to sit on their laurels and not do enough. My hope always has that his allies in the Senate can find a solution through diplomacy rather than fighting, while Saw recognizes that the Empire has already qualified them as criminals, so they better begin to act like this and to fight in their own terms rather than in the Empire. This is one of the best scenes in this whole series, exploring the fundamental differences in the approach of each leader in the fight against freedom. Although we know that Say is an extremist that goes too far, he has a point – both in animation and live action. When my Mothma accuses him of breaking all the rules of engagement, Saw’s response is:
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“I hope, the senator, after losing, and the Empire reigns over the galaxy without opposition, you will find some comfort in the knowledge you have fought according to the rules.”
The rebellion alienated the saw
The fact that we know my and lease has actually sent people to spy on means that the state of paranoia in which it is when we see it in “Rogue One” is entirely justified. Tony Gilroy has long been teasing this season 2 of “Andor” would shed new light on “Rogue One”, but we did not know to what extent it would be true. The saw that we meet in this film, depending on a respiratory, distrust and paranoid device, felt at the time as the film just showing us a different side of the rebellion and how some people could become too radicalized.
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But now we know that Saw was a man who spent a life fighting oppression – first of all the separatists on his original planet, and later the Empire – and became addicted to drugs in the process. He did not trust his compatriots and spied on his own allies. Can you blame him for being suspicious of Jyn and Bodhi when they present themselves claiming that information has seen years looking for?
Season 2 of “Andor” has shown the complexity of the formation of a rebellion, the sacrifices required and the difficulty of keeping everything together. This also makes the rebel alliance more human and nuanced by making them deeply imperfect. During the last three episodes of the season, the alliance turns its back on Luthen and effectively erases it from history, but it is also painted as a lonely extremist with zero links in order to legitimize and clean the image of the rebel cell Yavin IV. But we know better. Saw was not perfect, far from it, but he was just as much a rebel as Luke, Han or Leia.
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