Andor Season 2 Continues Time-Honored Custom of Hi...

As anticipation builds for Andor season 2‘s debut on Disney+, the official Star Wars YouTube account has unveiled a brand new first-look clip to maintain followers satiated. And wouldn’t you understand it, Diego Luna’s Cassian Andor is constant a time-honored insurgent custom: commandeering one of many Empire’s ships from proper below their noses.

Within the barely minute-long clip, a swarm of stormtroopers rush towards a hangar bay—solely to be greeted by the chaotic sight of a TIE fighter clumsily colliding into partitions. Their collective befuddlement shortly turns to alarm as they practice their blasters on the ship’s cockpit, the place a really flustered Cassian Andor shouts “no” in panic as he desperately tries to regain management of his less-than-smooth getaway.

After taking a beat as stormtroopers’ tracer hearth ricochets off the TIE fighter, Andor makes the novel choice to grip the weapon controls and unleash a relentless barrage of missiles onto the unsuspecting stormtroopers, who truthfully by no means stood an opportunity. However his troubles are removed from over, as a result of a closely armored vary trooper looms forward of him, blocking his escape route. A sport of rooster follows as the 2 practice their sights on one another. Simply as Andor narrowly evades a rocket, prompting the vary trooper to reload his launcher with all of the deliberate urgency of a Civil Warfare soldier making ready his musket, he suffers efficiency problems with his personal: the TIE fighter isn’t taking pictures its large inexperienced rocket on the very uncovered vary trooper. I hear it occurs to everybody. The clip concludes earlier than we will see who prevails, reminding viewers to tune into the present subsequent week to see how their turn-based battle will unfold.

Contemplating the present’s hectic season finale, which noticed Andor determine to press on along with his relentless, Moby Dick-like pursuit of dismantling the Empire alongside Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen Rael, it’s clear their once-unwitting partnership has advanced into one thing much more formidable. Nevertheless, because the Star Wars video description aptly notes, Andor’s daring TIE fighter heist “may’ve gone smoother.” If the above clip is any indication, Andor is poised to ship an exhilarating return to type for the beloved Star Wars present, elevating the stakes to even grander heights than its inaugural season because it dovetails into Rogue One.

In io9’s review for Andor season 1 means again in 2022, we known as the Star Wars spin-off a strong spy thriller: “Each character has substance to their motivations, and [series creator Tony] Gilroy offers us probably the most related and revolutionary Star Wars story up to now by exploring a story of extraordinary individuals starting to take their energy again—and centering that spirit of rise up round Cassian Andor himself.”

The three-episode premiere of Andor season 2 releases on Disney+ on April 22 at 9 p.m. ET.

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