Andor

Andor episodes 1-3 serve as an extended introduction to Cassian Andor, star of the latest Disney+ TV show, and set up his Rebel Alliance career.

It's a reminder of how little a life is worth in the Dark Times, a minor event compared to the Trailers have suggested the Imperial Security Bureau will be drawn into the story somehow, and the loss of the Imperial Starpath unit in Andor episode 3 sets that up nicely. He unwisely leads an attempt to capture Cassian after the deaths of two of his officers, and he underestimates the hostility of Ferrix as an environment. Their exploration went wrong when they killed a Republic officer who had survived the crash, and scavengers who arrived to loot the ship took Cassian before he became one of the victims of an act of reprisal when a Republic frigate arrived to clean up the mess. This would be a tremendously valuable asset to the Rebel Alliance, allowing them to watch for any evidence one of their cells had been discovered and potentially giving them a chance to extract operatives before they were caught. Like Han, he doesn't wind up with the Rebel Alliance by choice; rather, by the end of Andor episode 3 it's clear the Rebel Alliance is the only way for Andor to escape Ferrix. There's a sense in which Cassian Andor is a darker version of Han Solo. [Andor](https://screenrant.com/tag/andor/) episode 3 ending sees Cassian Andor recruited on a mission for the Rebel Alliance. Though he does not know it, he is being pulled along by the current of history, and has begun a journey that will lead him to the Death Star. There's a strong sense of inevitability to the first three episodes of the Disney+ TV series, because it's clear the planet Ferrix is going to get too hot for Andor - even if he doesn't realize it. A prequel to [Rogue One: A Star Wars Story](https://screenrant.com/tag/rogue-one/), the Andor Disney+ TV series is set five years before the events of the first [Star Wars](https://screenrant.com/tag/star-wars/) film. They're set in the Preox-Morlani Corporate Zone, a sector of space allowed a degree of independence by the Empire that is essentially run by a galactic company rather than by a government.

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Fans will need to stay tuned for the entirety of season 1 to see how Cassian Andor grows as the Rebel Alliance starts to form with him. Meanwhile, just as the task force has caught up with Andor and Luthen, the former gains an advantage over Syril and destroys his radio. At this point, Cassian communicates with the droid, giving his location to Syril and his men while compromising Maarva. She comes up with the decision to take the young Andor and hide with him before those affiliated with the ship’s men soon arrive. After the events of episode 1 and 2, Andor’s third installment starts with Kassa exploring the remains of a crashed ship in Kenari as the other members of his tribe have returned to camp. With that promise in mind, there are a lot of things to unpack from this Diego Luna-starrer and what this series holds for the overall franchise.

It's all laser guns and hoverbikes in this gritty, kinetic spy thriller which gives us the backstory to one of Rogue One's heroes.

Such theorising can’t sustain a Star Wars show on its own, which is why it’s such a relief when Andor whips out the laser guns and hoverbikes in episode three. But the underling is Syril Karn (Kyle Soller), who sees the case as his chance to ascend to the rank he believes he deserves. Andor’s earthy wisdom extends to more general observations, too, such as the explicit identification of rampant commercialism as a key component of the malign force that is about to reach tipping point. [Obi-Wan Kenobi](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/series/obi-wan-kenobi--episode-by-episode), has been replaced with something gnarlier. As Andor begins, it’s five years earlier and Cassian – still played by Luna – is merely a thief who likes to liberate Galactic Empire spaceship parts. When word of mouth spreads about a new streaming show, viewers tend to tell each other not how many episodes are in the season, but how many you have to watch before the thing gets good.

The Empire arrives on Ferrix in search of Cassian, forcing him to make a last-minute decision to leave everything behind to follow Luthen.

It is a clear testament to what the franchise can do if it gives the keys to the kingdom to storytellers committed to telling good stories and not just the stories they think audiences want to see. But they don’t have a lot of time to get into why Luthen knows who he is, and with the Corpers surrounding the warehouse, Cassian has to make the quick decision to go with Luthen and join what we know to be the early days of the Rebellion. The way these two moments in his life are paralleled seems to pinpoint two moments that harkened periods of loss of place and self for Cassian. In the haste to get to Cassian, Bix finds herself captured by a handful of power-hungry corpers who knocked her out, chained her up, and killed Timm while he was trying to save her. At neither of these junctures in Cassian’s life did he have a choice—staying would have resulted in his death and, even though he agreed to leave with Luthen, he wasn’t left with much of a choice. Is it the gravity of the situation? But before they are able to escape the warehouse, Cassian and Luthen get caught up in a jaw-dropping battle with the Corpers that sees the entire pulley system in the rafters of the warehouse come crashing down like a horror movie. Strong auditory storytelling like this is an art form that has largely been lost in modern filmmaking, but the way Gilroy employs it in juxtaposition to the near-silence of the first five minutes is spectacular storytelling. When the couple tries to explain to him that the Empire will be arriving on Kenari soon, they realize he doesn’t speak Basic, and—instead of finding some way to get him off the ship—Maarva decides the best course of action is to sedate Kassa and take him with them. Back on Ferrix, the Corpers arrive at Maarva’s door with an arrest warrant for Cassian, who is on the other side of town waiting to meet Luthen in an abandoned warehouse. With their arrival, Bix quickly realizes that someone had to have ratted Cassian out—especially since so few people knew about his childhood—and when Timm says the wrong thing, she realizes it was her own romantic paramour who ratted out the man she clearly cares deeply for. As Kassa discovers his reflection (for perhaps the first time) the story shifts briefly to Ferrix as Luthen (Stellan Skarsgård), before jumping back to the past to usher Maarva (Fiona Shaw) and Clem Andor (Gary Beadle) into Kassa’s life.

Andor is live on Disney Plus today with the first three episodes available to watch, and this being the fourth live action Disney Plus series as more and ...

Given that Rogue One was my favorite of the new Star Wars blockbusters, I’m certainly looking forward to checking this out later today. We already know a whole bunch of series that are coming, but Andor’s success, or I suppose theoretical failure, could alter their plans. I know many will look for audience scores, but it’s so early (only 36 total people have scored it on Rotten Tomatoes) that I’m going to wait and see what that number settles at over time. So, as you can see I’m including the animated series in there, and those have been generally well-received. Here’s how it stacks up compared to the other Disney Plus series we’ve seen out of the Star Wars universe so far: - The Mandalorian Season 1 – 93%

The first three episodes of Andor were dropped all at the same time on Disney+ and you can see why. These first three stories are only “episodes” from a ...

This is also true, to varying degrees, of [The Book of Boba Fett](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-wars-the-book-of-boba-fett-ending-cad-bane-spoilers/) and [Obi-Wan Kenobi](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/star-wars-obi-wan-kenobi-makes-a-new-hope-better/), both which are chock-full of fan service in a way that Andor isn’t. And in a world where people are named “Skywalker” and “Darth Maul,” having a story this grounded is a huge risk. The slow-burn of Andor’s first three episodes rewards the audience with a thrilling escape sequence, which is under-cut with the final flashback. The vast majority of characters in Star Wars are archetypes, which in a sense, makes them the opposite of what literary characters are in novels. He’s a frightening character obsessed with what he perceives to be his higher calling, when really, in the grand scheme of Star Wars, he’s basically the Empire’s version of a gas station shift leader. In the first three episodes of Andor, Luna plays the titular character with a variety of shades. But by the time Cassian and Luthen are riding a speeder bike and blasting their way to safety, you hardly care. [Rogue One: A Star Wars Story](https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-diversity-makes-rogue-one-a-better-star-wars-movie/) back in 2016, the feeling of seeing him on screen again in 2022 in [Star Wars: Andor](https://www.denofgeek.com/andor/) can’t be described as nostalgia. Even though its setting is spun-out from complex Star Wars lore, Andor feels like the most anti-nostalgia Star Wars project ever made, and as a result, the most refreshing story from this galaxy in years. Cassian isn’t thrust into a bigger story because the story forces him to, instead, his character is the story. One of them is accidentally killed in the fight, and in order to cover his tracks, Cassian executes the other guy. The present-tense day is primarily confined to two planets: Ferrix and Morlana One, both part of a “corporate sector” of the galaxy guarded by a private security force called Preox-Morlana.

In the film, he's portrayed as an accomplished Alliance Intelligence officer with combat field experience who helps the Rebel troops in their mission. In the ...

It’ll be intriguing to watch Andor outwit and outlast the enemies. In a way, it brings back the thrillingly glamorous yet dangerous vibe of seeing ordinary people and possible double agents in action. The heart of the story is the story of a revolution and about the everyday people having to make hard decisions in extreme moments in Star Wars history.

Andor review: Diego Luna returns as Cassion Andor in the latest leaf from the Star Wars saga. This one is immensely watchable for the expert storytelling ...

It’s also the rare Disney+ blockbuster series mounted on a phenomenal actor (in this case Diego Luna) that lets them shine without drowning them in packaging. Now a fugitive on the run, Cassian is soon forced to take refuge with the Rebellion. (Timeline wise this series takes place after the events of Revenge Of The Sith and before A New Hope, so The Empire is at the height of its power.) Rogue One introduced us to rebel spy Cassion Andor (Diego Luna) - a key figure in the resistance against the Empire. (There isn't a single moment of forced exposition through the four episodes I’ve watched which is in itself an achievement.) Rogue One presented a refreshing exploration of a galaxy far far away, one that went beyond the fate of the entire galaxy resting with a single family (across three trilogies).

The new series leans less on lightsaber showdowns and more on the messier interactions between good and evil.

But after so many films and television shows set in the same galaxy far, far away, Andor manages to carve out a new path to understanding that galaxy’s complicated moral stakes. Luna continues to have fantastic screen presence as Cassian, imbuing him with a naivete that is gone by the time Rogue One begins. And the antagonists feel like real-world villains, driven more by ego, workplace politics, and a misguided sense of duty than by a cartoonish pursuit of evil. Still, Andor is not so different from the rest of the franchise that it risks alienating longtime fans. This Star Wars project examines how a person’s needs, fears, and wants can be molded into a taste for revolution—or submission—depending on the (lowercase-f) forces at play. The prequel charts the evolution of Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna) from an unmoored cynic to the rebel captain viewers met in the 2016 film The violence is grittier, less lightsaber-dependent: The first 10 minutes of the pilot include a character’s accidental death and the cold-blooded murder of another at gunpoint. Unlike the main characters of Disney+’s other Star Wars shows, Cassian is not a stoic loner or an ambitious leader. A show that’s more concerned with portraying life under an oppressive system than with inspiring awe, Andor is an unusually mature entry in the Star Wars franchise. He seemingly [wanted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THKzwzieF40&ab_channel=PuddingAsgard) to build a sci-fi fairy tale, the kind with dichotomies—good versus evil, right versus wrong, light versus dark—that children could easily grasp. It’s a confident and sophisticated drama that asks for—and rewards—a grown-up kind of patience. The series observes a familiar setting from an unfamiliar ground level: Most characters are trying to save their own skin, not the entire galaxy.

The first episode of 'Andor,' the new Disney+ series that brings back Diego Luna's character from 'Rogue One,' is a different sort of prequel.

The first episode takes place in “BBY 5,” meaning five years before the Battle of Yavin — the Rebel/Empire dust-up that results in the destruction of the Death Star at the end of A New Hope. • Will Andor be the first Star Wars show that winds up feeling too cool to show us weird aliens and stuff? The episode also begins what will presumably be a series of flashbacks to Cassian’s childhood on the planet Kenari, focusing on his relationship with the sister he seems to be searching for early on. There’s plenty of intrigue in this first episode, but the most unexpected, and maybe kind of hilarious, aspect of Gilroy’s grounded/serious take on Star Wars is that it also winds up pretty closely resembling Solo, Rogue One’s sibling Star Wars Story that wasn’t nearly as successful, and basically caused the whole spinoff cottage industry to pivot to TV. Andor also feels like a pivot from the Stagecraft sets, Clone Wars expansion, and pandemic-era minimalism of recent Star Wars TV — a bid to show that the franchise can accommodate more subtlety than Boba Fett riding a rancor. It’s equal parts creative experiment and savvy self-marketing of that experiment: Here are some new corners of the galaxy to explore, on our way to a well-documented destination.

Cassian Andor's troubles continue as he attempts to make a deal with Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and escape Morlana One, and we meet his adoptive mother ...

(Props for really doing damage with those arrows.) However, what we learn in the show’s present, about the mining disaster that left the planet “toxic,” is a lot more interesting than the flashback scenes. The moments that make this episode feel most like a chunk of a longer pilot aren’t Bix’s shoe-leather negotiations but the scenelets that introduce Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård). Rael does some purposeful walking, as he travels from ship to Ferrix shuttle in relative silence, with Skarsgård on the receiving end of a (sadly not literal) “hello there” movie-star face-reveal shot. Armed with this new information, Syril Karn gets pumped to apprehend Andor and assembles a hilariously dour 12-man force at the urging of his right-hand man, who enthuses that “corporate tactical forces” like theirs are the Empire’s best defense against “fomenting pockets” of rebellion. At times, this recalls some of the most striking shots from Rogue One (including at least one that’s in For example, we meet Cassian’s previously unseen mother, Maarva (given what we see of his childhood, seemingly an adoptive parent), who waits for him with his sensitive droid B2EMO (Dave Chapman provides the sometimes needy, sometimes reproachful robo-voice).

Before Disney Plus' new show can figure out who or what is Andor, it has to show us the Dark Side through Syril Karn, the best villain in the Star Wars ...

He’s willing to accept that the people of Cassian’s hometown are all “bluff and bluster,” as his corporate goon tells him, because he misses how it’s solidarity in action. [The Mandalorian](https://www.polygon.com/22193147/when-the-mandalorian-season-3-comes-out) had a good enough twist on Star Wars’ good/evil dichotomy, but [the villain wasn’t what came to define the show](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/2020/12/18/22188476/the-mandalorian-season-2-e8-finale-skywalker-saga) (even when played by [one Giancarlo Esposito](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/2019/12/27/21038233/the-mandalorian-darksaber-black-lightsaber-bo-katan-moff-gideon)). Though he’s not dumb, one gets the sense that he’s so insulated in his position that even explaining the flaws of the system wouldn’t get through to him. And [The Rise of Skywalker’s take](https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/12/18/21024586/star-wars-the-rise-of-skywalker-review-spoiler-free) is... That light tailoring to his uniform is all he can do to make the powers that be conform to him, rather than the other way around. [The Book of Boba Fett](https://www.polygon.com/22903093/book-of-boba-fett-halo-ringworld-space-station) was a bit of a mess, offering up [neither a complicated antihero](https://www.polygon.com/22902664/book-of-boba-fett-episode-5-mandalorian-star-wars) nor a [particularly compelling antagonist](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/22929592/book-of-boba-fett-hero-vs-villain) for our beleaguered hero to square off against. But in the first episodes of Andor, it’s clear Syril believes in the work. Instead, the show is the [nitty gritty](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/23143231/star-wars-andor-trailer-release-date-celebration-disney-plus) of a galaxy far, far away. He takes the utmost pride in his presentation, modifying his uniform to make himself stand out as the shiniest apple in the bunch. It doesn’t take a leap of imagination to guess what feels so prescient about that storyline now, in a time when there’s a lot of change that needs to happen for the world to feel remotely just. [more granular way](https://www.polygon.com/star-wars/23056104/star-wars-moral-ambiguity-gray-characters) into the battles between light and dark. Syril is the sort of bootlicker who asked for extra credit to his extra credit.

Episode 1 of “Andor” opens with Cassian (Diego Luna) arriving on Morlana One to look for her sister at a bar. He irks a couple of sentry guards, who then follow ...

But it becomes evident that the real reason Rael is pushing Cassian to give some insight about himself (and not the Starpath) is because he is interested in him and his skills. As Cassian leaves with Rael on his ship in the present, Kassa ships out of Kenari with Maarva and Clem in the past. Bix apparently heads towards Cassian and Rael to warn them, and Salman goes to the town to alert everyone. Bix meets Rael, and they proceed to the place where the exchange is scheduled to happen. In the present, Cassian learns from B2EMO that two of his friends, Jezzi and Femmi, paid him a visit to deliver supper and Maarva’s (Fiona Shaw) medicine, while he was off on his mission. Although Bix told Cassian that she hadn’t revealed the fact that he was a Kenari to Timm, the look on Timm’s face essentially proves that he knows that the Pre-Mor is hunting for Cassian. If not, he’s going to inform Bee via the comms, and it will deliver the credits to Maarva on his behalf. After telling B2EMO (lovingly known as Bee) to lie about having information on Cassian, he goes to the town to meet Brasso and update him on the alibi. While Cassian takes a look at the NS-9 Starpath, Kassa and his friends approach the fallen ship. As a young kid, Cassian goes by the name Kassa (Antonio Viña) and is shown to be looking at a ship falling from the sky, along with all his villagers. Although Bix doesn’t want to take the risk, Cassian pesters her until she agrees to call her buyer. Under the pretext of bribing them, Cassian draws the guards in and then beats the hell out of them.

The new show follows Rebel Captain, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), five years before the events of Rogue One. Andor explores his pipeline from a child, who was ...

[writes](https://mashable.com/article/andor-review-disney-plus) that while the show’s first few episodes may be sluggish, “Andor is unmistakably a Star Wars story. Cassian Andor is a head intelligence officer at the Rebel Alliance, and part of a small team that succeeds in retrieving the plans to build the Death Star and delivering them to Princess Leia. [ Star Wars’ films](https://mashable.com/article/star-wars-solo-ranked) and spinoff series, Andor is exclusively streaming on Disney+. Quick Rogue One recap: The Empire is building a Death Star that promises to be the greatest weapon of all time (a galactic G.O.A.T if you will). The new show follows Rebel Captain, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), five years before the events of Rogue One. Disney’s latest Star Wars endeavor is Andor, a two-season prequel series to 2016’s spinoff film

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It's a series that acts as a prequel to a prequel. It features no epic battles between Jedi and Sith, nor many familiar faces from the movies beyond the titular ...

Andor is one of the few Star Wars projects out there blazing its own trail and telling a story with no Skywalker family connections. This series only has a tenuous link to the main trilogies, yet it’s quickly shaping up to be the best live-action Star Wars series to date. But thanks to the divisive reaction to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the jury is still out as to whether Johnson’s trilogy will ever happen. Star Wars: Andor works because it makes such a point of distancing itself from the Skywalker Saga movies and all the tropes and expectations that go along with them. Meanwhile, a young Princess Leia turned out to be a crucial character in Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi, a series steeped in the Skywalker/Kenobi dynamic and Succession’s Nicholas Britell may not be the first name to come to mind for a Star Wars series, but Britell’s music truly captures the unsettling yet stylish tone the series is going for. The Mandalorian and its fellow Disney+ shows have managed to recreate that Star Wars aesthetic on the small screen largely through the help of the Volume, a digital set which projects detailed backgrounds and lighting against a video wall. But even as Andor captures the grimy side of Star Wars, it also succeeds in blazing its own stylistic trail. The scope of the series is actually pretty small by Star Wars standards. The Mandalorian broke major ground in 2019 as the first live-action Star Wars series. They have grand destinies and the power to reshape the course of the galaxy. It's a very different show from the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and The Book of Boba Fett.

Disney+ has now dropped the first three episodes of its critically acclaimed new Star Wars show, Andor. Here's what the rest of the release schedule looks ...

[Diego Luna has certainly been impressed](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-andor-revives-missing-saga/) with Gilroy’s approach to the prequel’s structure, which is a lot more thoughtful and detailed than previous Star Wars projects, and embraces a more literary vibe with its narrative. [Doctor Who](https://www.denofgeek.com/doctor-who) and [Sherlock](https://www.denofgeek.com/sherlock) director Toby Haynes, the initial three-episode Andor arc reintroduces us to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s rebel spy Cassian Andor, who died heroically at the end of that movie. A second season of the show is also in development! As [Andor](https://www.denofgeek.com/andor/) is a prequel to that prequel, we meet the character here at an earlier stage in his life when he is still just a shifty thief who will kill mercilessly to cover his tracks, and who doesn’t exactly have his eyes on the revolutionary prize quite yet. [LucasFilm](https://www.denofgeek.com/lucasfilm/)‘s new Star Wars series, Andor, are now officially available! Disney+ has now dropped the first three episodes of its critically acclaimed new Star Wars show, Andor.

Cassian Andor meets with Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and must battle Syril Karn's forces to escape Ferrix. Plus, his backstory on Kenari is further ...

You could even argue that this three-episode arc forms its own prequel to the prequel to the prequel, spending a feature-length amount of time on five or ten minutes’ worth of backstory. They wind up leaving the precious box behind, though Cassian does briefly agitate for bringing it along, which will surely be read by Rael as a testament to his grit and determination — also, one assumes, proof that Cassian is the real prize Rael was hoping to score here. But he’s more interested in the how than the what of this device, specifically how Cassian was able to steal it from the Empire. Ferrix may be a comparatively minor planet, but it quietly serves as a test case for the Rebel Alliance following the “how democracy dies” despair of Revenge of the Sith: People can band together and fight off fascist encroachment. But give some credit (maybe even some Republic credits?) to Andor for making Ferrix’s secondhand nature, with its industrial workers and big scraps of metal everywhere, feel evocative in a way that has eluded some other recent additions to the ever-expanding list of Star Wars planets. It’s too much individual rattling for 14 soldiers to silence, an expanded version of the ceremonial bell-tower figure seen in the previous episode.

The Cassian Andor we meet in the earliest parts of Rogue One was already hardly the most prim-and-proper sort of person, even for Star Wars' ragtag Rebel ...

It’s why we gravitate to characters like the heroes of Rogue One, why [Din Djarin](https://gizmodo.com/the-mandalorian-isnt-perfect-and-thats-why-hes-so-comp-1840156015) and Boba Fett’s recent turn as the [nicest, worst Crime Lord](https://gizmodo.com/boba-fett-star-wars-chump-1848498513) this side of Mos Espa are so interesting, or why Luke’s inability to grapple with the myth of his heroic legacy in The Last Jedi is so heartbreaking. It’s to watch very normal people do their best in the face of overwhelming structures of evil, because they’re mad at the world they’re in and want to do right by it. But these three episodes go even further and introduce us to a layered world of networks and relationships Cassian has made for himself on the planet Ferrix, pretty much all of which he abuses for favors and are made with people repeatedly calling him out for it. It would be enough to show us that this is a man who barely has a grasp of what he’s doing or what he wants if this act, the catalyst for everything that goes to hell across Andor’s first three episodes, was all we got. But the one we meet [at the beginning](https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-andor-diego-luna-disney-plus-lucasfilm-1849555939) of his self-titled Disney+ TV show is somehow even less put-together to a shocking degree—and that’s pretty damn great. [Andor](https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-andor-series-non-spoiler-review-disney-plus-1849559119), the first three episodes of which began streaming today, opens by taking a practically universally beloved character from Rogue One and spending the best part of those two opening hours textually having what feels like the entire universe hate [its titular hero](https://gizmodo.com/star-wars-andor-diego-luna-rogue-one-disney-plus-vader-1849442225), and kind of for good reason.