This morning lucasfilm dropped Our latest look at Andor‘S Second and Final Season, with a Tense Examination of What Price Rebels and Imperials Alike are willing to play in the simmering Galatic Civil War. But while more broadly the trailer builds on a lot of What We’D Alredy Glimpsed in our First trailer for the seasonIt adds some interesting connective glue – WHILE also raising some very interesting questions.
The shadow of the Empire
A reepeated image we see in this trailer is a glimpse of imperial carriers and capital ships is ominously hovering in the distance. It’s a great bit of immigery, and has a nice parallel to that moment we get in season one when cinta saw the star destroyer come in over aldhani after the heist, but it’s one that one that is als The Imperial Response to the Growing Resistance. Plus: in this shot in particular, it sure does Look like Saw is Entrenched on Jedha, Watching a Star Destroyer Loom Over the City.
Cinta and Vel
Season one’s war-Torn Sapphics Haven’t made many appearances in what we’ve seson two so far, so it’s nice to see them, and see them togeether. It’s hard to say where This is, giving the lighting, but it’s going to be interesting to see how the couple Navigate the Growing Split Between MON MOTHMA’s side of the broader Rebellion, and Saw Gerrera’s Partisans. One tiny glimpse we get of vel in the recent season two “special look” video From a less weeks ago Saw her seemingly training gathered insurgents how to aim a blaster, at what looked a lot like the massassi base on yavin ivin ivin iv… and she was alone. Does Cinta Not Make it Through Season Two (She was busy being Elsewhere in time and spacePerhaps), or do we maybe see an ideological split that Sees herin saw instead?
A different kind of mission
We get a little more of luthen and cassian’s tense conversation here -the “Think Like a Leader!” One we’ve seen bits of alredy. But what they’re talking about seems very Interesting. “If it goes up in flames?” Cassian Asks, of a “different kind of mission” luthen has offered him.
“It will burn. Very brightly,” is luthen’s response, which makes it seem like we we’re finally going Rogue oneSo far, what little we wen of the season so far, Cassian’s Doing Things that are a bit more typical heroic -Direct action against the Empire, Stealing Tie Fighters, and So O. What could be so dangerous that it’s worth doing even if it goes to hell? Well… there was one fascinating shot of that aforemined season two behind-the-thirds tease, where Cassian Prepares a Blaster Rifle in A ROM That Certainly Looking like the environment Know is ghorman, ready to depict the canonical interpretation of the massacre that Takes place there in 2bby. Cold a different kind of mission for luthen, in this case, be firing the first shot in a massacre that the empire builds on?
Kleya and the road to Rogue one
We get a much more significant part of luthen’s assistant kleya here (Again, very noted: we do not see them togeether at all), as she tells cassian about a weapon the empire’s building – Presumably what is going to be the first time hers information information About the death starGiven the pointed cut to a shot of krennic watching the battle station get Built Built Immedited.
The Monster That Comes for Us All
We fill in another important detail about the aftermath of the aftermitioned ghorman massacre here – a lot of the shoots of mon in this trailer are of her in the senate, delivering a barnstorming speech with teachers. Thisit seems is the speech she delivering palpatine for the empire’s part in the slaughter on ghorman, one that ultimately leaders to her Lending the senate… and directly into the events of Star wars rebels‘Third season, where we see her flight from coruscant take her to the orbit worth dantooine to deliver The formal declaration of a rebel alliance.
Choking on your aspirations
We’re not being given a lot of looks at dedra this season so far, but this shot we get of her is setting off alarm bells in our heads. Of course Star wars Fans have been taught, more often than not, that an imperial officer desperately clawing at their neck for seasonly no reason at all is to train us for a certain dark land of the sihre near Raising His Hand in a Choking Motion. But does Andor seem like The kind of show That’s going to shoehorn in a vader appearance to off dedra? Probably not.
So why IS Dedra Having a Panic Attack and Grabbing at Her Collar? Is it a lingering trauma from her experience on Ferrix? Has She, Perhaps, Witnessed Something The Empire’s Done That Shakes even Her Resolve –nd Trying to literally physically TEAR AWAY Its Grip Around Her Neck?
Leida’s Wedding
We’ll take more insight into chandrilan culture Any way we can get it, but at least this is an explicit confirmation that a lot of the stuff we saw with mon in the first train is all connected around leida’s”s traditional marriage to davo skuldun stekan stekan. Will all this be WORTH it for Mon to Shuffle Her Money Around and Fund the Alliance?
Andor Returns to disney+ for one final seasoning april 22.
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