Andor Season 2 Never Forgot About Its Most Important Star Wars Character

Major spoilers Before for the final of season 2 of season 2.

“Andor” is a miracle of television – an impeccably written, played, designed and turned series that looks like nothing we have ever seen before in the “Star Wars” universe, but works with precision because It takes place in the franchise of almost 50 years. The showrunner Tony Gilroy and his team did something special by removing the curtain in the fight against the Empire and showing the human cost of freedom, the individuals who made their minds a space without sun and burned their lives to make a sunrise that they knew that they would never see.

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Throughout season 2 of “Andor”, we have seen the birth of the rebellious alliance as we know it of “Rogue One”: a fragile union made of Groups with very different approaches and ideologies are constantly colliding with each other with. Each episode of “Andor” added nuance not only to “Rogue One”, but to the whole “Star Wars” franchise as a whole, by recontextualizing the original space opera trilogy with moral complexity which makes the fight against the Empire more real than ever.

Indeed, despite the fact that it is a show in a galaxy far, far, a large part of what makes “and or” so special is how human – and how intimate it is despite its epic scope. The show highlights small manners, sometimes almost invisible, daily people can have an impact on How even a hotel clerk saying a disposable line One day can inspire a group of people to abandon their lives to steal the plans of death. We all know Luke, Han and Leia, but “Andor” reminds us that there were dozens of people who preceded them and had such an important contribution to the cause, even if their names were forgotten by history.

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The final of season 2 of “Andor” recalls one of these forgotten heroes of the rebellion to show that their impact continued long after their death.

In episode 12, having put Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau) in security on Yavin IV, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) has trouble going through the rebellious command and convincing them to take into account the last words of Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) about the super secret weapon of the Empire. Desperate and desperate, it is visited by Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay) and the two remember to be the last surviving members of the Rebebelly Aldhani Original group. Then they pay tribute to their fallen comrades, who have become too numerous. The two toasts in Gorn, Nemik, Taramyn, Cinta, the Ghormans, Ferrix, Maarva and even the Dhanis – implying that they were also destroyed after the Aldhani robbery, which would be binding to The memories of the planet of SM-33 are inhospitable.

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This is already a touching moment, but what makes it a real emotional punch is that we immediately cut to Kleya wake up on Yavin while we listen to a familiar speech. “There will be moments when the struggle seems impossible …” that, of course, is part of “The Trail of Political Consciousness”, written by One Karis Nemik (Alex Lawther). It’s true, Nemik’s manifesto is back!

In the event that you need a reminder, Nemik was part of the Aldhani robbery crew and was responsible for calculating the group’s escape trajectory after robbery. The Aldhani arc was spectacular, and a large part of the reason why this arc worked is that Nemik was one of the first people we met who were ideologically devoted to the rebellion. His manifesto in the final of season 1 was a moment marked for CassianInspiring his move from the skeptic to the rebel full time.

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Not only are Nemik’s ideas of freedom alive and years after his death, but his message is stronger than ever. Immediately after Kleya, we cut Lio Évriaz (Anton less), who really listens to the manifesto of his ISB office. It turns out that the manifesto has spread since Nemik’s death, to the point where he is widely known among ISB officials. “Continue just to spread, right?” Pardagaz tells one of his subordinates, who confirms that it was difficult to contain Nemik’s message.

“Andor” was all about people whose names are forgotten by history. People who do not get glory and explode death stars, but rather make the dirty work, who find critical information whose importance only becomes clear after the fact. People whose largest contribution is to simply advance the line a little forward.

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People like Maarva (Fiona Shaw), whose speech radicalized the inhabitants of Ferrix to get up. People like Lonni (Robert Emms), who lived in the shadows but were responsible for the rebellion on the way to find out more about the death star and finally destroy it. People like Nemik, whose contribution was not in life, but in death, inspiring countless lives to join the cause, even if they never learn the name of Nemik.

When Partagaz listens to “the trace of political consciousness”, he is very clearly distraught. Whether it is because it is about to be executed by the Empire so as not to have contained the flight of information on the star of death or because the words “tyranny requires a constant effort. It breaks, it flees. Authority is fragile. The oppression is the mask of fear” verified to the former ISB official, we do not know. However, it is quite important that the last thing that Partagaz has before shooting itself in the head is to listen to the words of a rebel dead for a long time. Even the most faithful imperial has doubts when their time has passed.

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Here is in Nemik, the Liberator of one of the greatest speeches of “Star Wars” ,,,, And a man who gave everything for the rebellion.