The second season of “Andor” arrives at Disney+: a look at the seeds of the rebellion

This April 22 reaches Disney+ The second season of Andor. The series that was born as a prequel to the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars story (2016), for many the best of the franchise in its Disney stage, was praised by critics and the public.

Its creator, Tony Gilroyhe had the double work that the series remains at the height of its first season and that it satisfactorily connects with the 2016 film. Throughout 12 chapters Gilroy achieves its mission, but does so by testing the spectator, Slowly cooking their story, the development of their characters and especially the behind the scene of the rebellion.

Andor season 2, a choral history told by parts

For this second season the series is divided into 4 batches of 3 chapters. With each temporary jump of one year, the plot is closer to the events of Rogue One. And with each reference to Rogue One, we become increasingly aware of how close we are the inevitable destiny of our hero Cassian Andor (Diego Luna).

It is not enough to be a hero, you need to get your hands dirty, and Cassian is the faithful reflection of that. Of course this is not free, it has psychological consequences for the character and for those around him. Your relationship with Bix (Adria Arjona), A character broken by his past and perhaps a bit relegated with respect to last season, shapes the different nuances we see of him.

While the series takes Cassian’s last name for his title, this second part realizes that it always treatment of a story that does not have a single protagonist. Mon mothma (Genevief O’Reilly), Saw Gerrera (Forest Whitaker) and Luthen (Stellan Skarsgard) are the faces of the different positions and actions within the process that entails organizing and carrying out the rebellion.

Mon is seen as a consummated statesman who collapses under the pressure of his increasingly risky double life, but will never leave his convictions. In this way he faces more extremist guerrillas like Saw Gerrera. In turn, the alliance army disapproves the manipulative tactics used by Luthen, although they often resort to it to obtain information.

Ghorman, the key point of Andor’s second season

The main political conflict of the season has its center in the exploitation of resources of the planet Ghorman. It is a planet fundamentally dedicated to the textile, for being the habitat of a kind of unique spider in the galaxy, but in turn is a unique and fundamental mineral for the plans of the empire.

At this point in history we see an organized empire, with carefully their actions before the machine is walking without any view. Domain over other planets is exercised from military force, but extends among the population through fear. All this is a space for characters such as the Imperial Dera Meero officer (Denise Gough) and her bureaucrat boyfriend, Syril (Kyle Soller), in addition to the return of director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn).

Since his first season, and with this second part, Andor impacts his parallels with real world events. In the case of Ghorman’s conflict we see the media repeating the discourse of the Empire on “the continuous and inexplicable resistance Ghork to imperial norms” without any view, or the galactic Senate avoiding calling a genocide to a genocide in addition to the case of illegal mass deportations that we can easily associate with the reality of several countries. All these situations, and many more, are the ones that Andor shows us how the seeds that inevitably lead to the rebellion of the oppressed.

Andor trailer

The expected second season of Andor de Lucasfilm premieres on April 22 exclusively in Disney+. The new season is starring Diego Luna, Stellan Skarsgård, Genevieve O’Reilly, Denise Gough, Kyle Soller, Adria Arjona, Faye Marsay, Varada Sethu, Elizabeth Dulau, Alan Tudykwith Ben Mendelsohn and Forest Whitaker.