7 Particulars We Liked in Andor Season 2’s N...

This morning Lucasfilm dropped our latest look at Andor‘s second and remaining season, with a tense examination of what value Rebels and Imperials alike are prepared to play within the simmering Galactic Civil Battle. However whereas extra broadly the trailer builds on lots of what we’d already glimpsed in our first trailer for the season, it provides some fascinating connective glue—whereas additionally elevating some very fascinating questions.

The Shadow of the Empire

A repeated picture we see on this trailer is a glimpse of Imperial carriers and capital ships ominously hovering within the distance. It’s an incredible bit of images, and has a pleasant parallel to that second we received in season one when Cinta noticed the Star Destroyer are available in over Aldhani after the heist, nevertheless it’s one which additionally actually speaks to the added weight of the Imperial response to the rising resistance. Plus: on this shot specifically, it certain does appear to be Noticed is entrenched on Jedha, watching a Star Destroyer loom over the town.

Cinta and Vel

Season one’s war-torn sapphics haven’t made many appearances in what we’ve seen of season two to this point, so it’s good to see them, and see them collectively. It’s arduous to say the place that is, given the lighting, nevertheless it’s going to be fascinating to see how the couple navigate the rising break up between Mon Mothma’s aspect of the broader insurrection, and Noticed Gerrera’s partisans. One tiny glimpse we received of Vel within the latest season two “special look” video from just a few weeks in the past noticed her seemingly coaching gathered insurgents easy methods to goal a blaster, at what seemed quite a bit just like the Massassi base on Yavin IV… and he or she was alone. Does Cinta not make it by way of season two (she was busy being elsewhere in time and space, maybe), or will we possibly see an ideological break up that sees her be a part of Noticed as a substitute?

A Totally different Form of Mission

We get just a little extra of Luthen and Cassian’s tense dialog right here—the “assume like a frontrunner!” one we’ve seen bits of already. However what they’re speaking about appears very fascinating. “If it goes up in flames?” Cassian asks, of a “completely different sort of mission” Luthen has supplied him.

“It should burn. Very brightly,” is Luthen’s response, which makes it look like we’re lastly going to see all these “horrible issues” Cassian tells Jyn he did on behalf of the Rebel in Rogue One. To date, what little we’ve seen of the season to this point, Cassian’s doing issues which might be a bit extra usually heroic—direct motion towards the Empire, stealing TIE Fighters, and so forth. What might be so harmful that it’s price doing even when it goes to hell? Nicely… there was one fascinating shot of that aforementioned season two behind-the-scenes tease, the place Cassian prepares a blaster rifle in a room that actually seemed prefer it match with the atmosphere we now know is Ghorman, able to depict the canonical interpretation of the bloodbath that takes place there in 2BBY. May a unique sort of mission for Luthen, on this case, be firing the primary shot in a bloodbath that the Empire builds on?

Kleya and the Highway to Rogue One

We get a way more important a part of Luthen’s assistant Kleya right here (once more, very famous: we don’t see them collectively in any respect), as she tells Cassian a few weapon the Empire’s constructing—presumably what will be the primary time he hears info about the Death Star, given the pointed lower to a shot of Krennic watching the battle station get constructed instantly after.

The Monster That Comes for Us All

We fill in one other vital element in regards to the aftermath of the aforementioned Ghorman Bloodbath right here—lots of the photographs of Mon on this trailer are of her within the Senate, delivering a barnstorming speech with tears in her eyes. This, it appears is the speech she delivers decrying Palpatine for the Empire’s half within the slaughter on Ghorman, one which in the end results in her leaving the Senate… and, straight into the occasions of Star Wars Rebels‘ third season, the place we see her flight from Coruscant take her to the orbit above Dantooine to ship the formal declaration of a Insurgent Alliance.

Choking on Your Aspirations

We’re not being given lots of seems to be at Dedra this season to this point, however this shot we get of her is setting off alarm bells in our heads. In fact Star Wars followers have been taught, as a rule, that an Imperial officer desperately clawing at their neck for seemingly no cause in any respect is to coach us for a sure Darkish Lord of the Sith to be someplace close to by, elevating his hand in a choking movement. However does Andor look like the kind of show that’s going to shoehorn in a Vader look to off Dedra? Most likely not.

So why is Dedra having a panic assault and grabbing at her collar? Is it a lingering trauma from her expertise on Ferrix? Has she, maybe, witnessed one thing the Empire’s executed that shakes even her resolve—and attempting to actually bodily tear away its grip round her neck?

Leida’s Wedding ceremony

We’ll take extra perception into Chandrilan culture any approach we are able to get it, however no less than that is an express affirmation that lots of the stuff we noticed with Mon within the first trailer is all linked round Leida’s conventional marriage to Davo Sculdun’s son Stekan. Will all this be price it for Mon to shuffle her cash round and fund the Alliance?

Andor returns to Disney+ for one remaining season starting April 22.

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