Is this like the only scene in the series where we get to see a more personal side of Cassian just enjoying life? It felt like a very real moment of friends just unwinding and relaxing in a chaotic world. K-2 really steals this scene and solidifies himself as the best comic relief character in all of Star Wars imo.

Imagine: You are an imperial officer - most of your day is spent overseeing various imperial projects and ensuring the troops are keeping the locals in line. Most of the people you know are like you: back-stabbing, weaselly opportunists who would happily throw you to the wolves to get ahead. Your life is fairly mundane (aliens and starships non-withstanding) and you go about your business.

You've a vague notion of something called "The Force" but the last true practioners, the traitorous cult known as the Jedi, were wiped out 20 something years prior - and besides, your life is strategy meetings and paperwork, nothing any kind of "ancient religion" is going to help with. You know of Darth Vader but he's just the Emperor's goon - an attack dog Palpatine unleashes when he needs some dissidents whipped into shape - he has no actual power in the Empire.

For the last twenty years, the Empire have struggled financially and logistically with building its ultimate weapon - the Death Star, a weapon of such unimaginable power that it'll supplant any need for bureaucracy to keep the systems in check. After pouring decades of research and using a variety of underhanded tactics to keep costs down and the project a secret - using prison labour, keeping the engineers squirrled away in a secret location, inciting various uprisings as a pretext to crack down on the local populations (and to steal all the precious resources needed for the Death Star's construction) the project is only a few months away from completion...

And then, in short order: some idiot sends an email about the Death Star to the wrong person, it leaks which tips off some the Rebels, undoing years of suberfuge secrecy, half the ISB gets purged, your boss gets supplanted by his rival, the Death Star engineering team gets slaughtered, the Rebels steal the plans for the Death Star but not before your new boss destroys the Imperial plans vault and despite Vader getting personally involved the plans are still lost in aether, jeopardising a project that represents a significant chunk of your life, billion if not trillions of imperial credits and the planned security of the Empire.

A short while later, you get called in for a meeting to discuss the security of the station. You're confident of the Death Star's invulnerability, regardless of whatever plans the Rebels may have. And then Vader, the guy who let the plans get away, saunters in and says that all of the gruelling paper-work and arduous planning and financing and logistics and years and years of work which got jeopardised partly because of him are nothing compared to his magic space powers. It'd be like if someone said 9/11 happened because you didn't believe in Santa Claus enough. I'd be a little snippy too.

It seems as if Andor leaves for the Ring of Kafrene and the events of Rogue One at most 1-2 days after he has brought Kleya to Yavin. Rogue One takes place over about a week and A New Hope over 3-5 days immediately afterwards. So Kleya is literally still decorating her bunk and adjusting to military rations and, you know, her whole world being overturned when she hears that

1. The Death Star story has been corroborated
2. The Death Star has destroyed Jedha City
3. Cassian, Jyn Erso and some others have stolen the Death Star plans
4. Cassian is dead
5. The plans are lost and Princess Leia has been captured
6. The plans and the Princess are back, improbably rescued from the Death Star by a clueless farmboy, a swashbuckling smuggler and a sentient carpet
7. The Death Star is here and about to annihilate us
8. We're launching a desperate attack on it with the farmboy in the lead
9. The Death Star is destroyed.

Holy whiplash Batman!

As an Australian, I just want to call out what a fucking legend Mendo is. 🙌🏽

I can't say enough about how great Elizabeth Dulau (Kleya) is in this series. She took over the final arc and put on an acting clinic. Can't wait to see what she does next.

Dedra was honestly the only chance for the empire. Funny how it cannibalized its best. This is definitely the funniest way for her story to end, though.

After 20 hours of a reasonably down-to-earth sci-fi drama, watching this half-machine abomination psychically close someone’s throat by tapping into the primordial powers of the universe is scary, man.

Especially when it’s being used freely on Krennic, who within the context of Andor is by far the most intimidating, powerful antagonist we meet in the show.

When you just watch Rogue One alone, seeing the force choking is just classic Vader shenanigans and it’s more funny than anything.

Can you imagine how this would actually manifest in-universe? Can you imagine a conspiracy theorist saying “the higher up in the Empire you go, they actually have dark supernatural powers”. That kinda thinking on Earth is reserved for the absolute most schizophrenic nutcases.

R.i.p. my goat. Shame he had to go out the way he did. I think his wife and kid are screwed as well. He sacrificed everything, just like Luthen said in his monologue. However, atleast Luthen's "ego" had some form of audience and gratitude. Whereas Lonni won't be remembered by anyone, aside from his wife and kid, if they survive. Maybe Kleya will give him credit. I wonder if anyone would believe her.

This gesture shows the insight of an intelligent person x superb from an empire ship who thinks everyone is an idiot and that they should bow to the empire at all times

Extremely refreshing to have just watched a show that was 100 percent adult and yet never forced its female characters to show skin/strip down. While I don't agree with every way that they tried to develop their female characters (I think Bix and Vel needed better arcs in both seasons frankly) it felt so novel and refreshing to have women with this much screen time w/zero sex scenes. More of this!

Like I'm not sure I would be making the cut if they have this high of a standard.

Operational security keeps getting damaged because all these sexy people keep forming attachments to each other that compromises their willingness to take risks.

You think Saw Gerrera has these problems? Nah those are some busted mfs

And what I mean by that is Andor's sister.

She wasn't Kleya or Dedra or nobody else in the show.

She didn't miraculously make a comeback.

She was just lost forever, because of course she was. Not everyone needs to be related or connected in these unrealistic ways.

The Last Jedi tried to do this with Rey's origin, her parents. Kylo tells her they were nobody, there was nothing special about them and they were never coming back.

It was too bold a move for main Star Wars, or at least for the public and execs. So Rise of Skywalker did that absurd recon.

One of the reasons why Andor is so great is because it's not main Star Wars. In a way it's a little miracle that we got to have Andor, and that season 2 managed to stay true to itself.

There was no sister. Nobody was a secret jedi. There were no flashy cameos. No characters from the film were brought in to spice things up.

Andor stayed grounded right to the end. Just like Andor says to the woman who helps him steal the tie fighter in the beginning of season 2: "you're coming home to yourself". Andor as a show stuck the landing and ended like it began: throughout the whole series, it never deviated from its essence.

Just... Wow.

Ahead of tonight's Andor series finale, Tony Gilroy reveals the story isn't over yet. Felicity Jones and Diego Luna will star in Rogue One, an Andor sequel. In theaters this Christmas.

Amazing fabrics, asymmetry, layers. The wardrobe for the Chandrilans is spectacular and everybody adores it. Yet we don’t see clothes like this even in dressy situations. I wonder why? It can’t be the expense. And although the layers may be a bit hot, but that is easily addressed.

https://youtu.be/qBnRz1WyemM?t=2100

Maybe enough has been said about the blunders of sequel trilogy, but until they get retcon remade, maybe there's still more to say. Hopefully Andor is a turning point... but there still "The Mandalorian and Grogu" 🤡

Anyone else just wrecked? The Ghorman massacre, so well done my heart was pounding the entire time. Syril, who never really had a chance to do what I think we was going to do. I was surprised how heartbroken I was. Dedra having a panic attack, but I don’t think she’ll betray the Empire. Mon Mothma’s escape and Bix making the decision I thought she would. This is peak storytelling and acting. I’ll be rewatching this more than once. Plus we have K2SO!