This is what I thought too when it showed 1 BBY at the start of this 3 episode segment but clearly that isn’t the case because the end of the episode is Andor going to the Ring of Kafrene which is the start of Rogue One. So the only way it makes sense is it is essentially the equivalent of December 31st of that year so technically it is 1BBY but the next day is the Battle of Yavin.
Yeah, that. There’s no 0 BBY.
So Luthen told Lonnie they were going to Yavin as a test to see if the ISB knew about it right?
I got the impression Ghorman’s calcite deposits are related to coatings necessary for the primary weapon to function - or, like, not melt or burn out - not fuel.
The “French resistance in WWII” inspiration for the Ghormanis is a cool touch.
BTW the planet where Luthen and his adopted daughter have tea and blow up a bridge was Naboo right? It looked an awful lot like Naboo.
It was too similar not to be.
Jedha, Jakku, and Tatooine?
I may have been taken in by the imperial lie that it was part of the emperors “energy plan” or just not paying attention , I just took it to be the power source for the Death Star as a whole .
Minor continuity erro between the end of season one shot of the Death Star and the big laser dish being put in place , and season 2 with Krennic looking at the Death Star with no dish in place.
And they don’t have long to finish it given it’s not long before it’s all done and Alderann gets a global warming problem .
Wasn’t the dish install scene in Rogue One?
Yes it was all in a long line ready to be installed in Andor .
I am just seeing how often I can be wrong in one thread
Makes sense considering it’s Palpatine’s home.
So, first of all, I loved this series. The sets, the music, the costumes, the props, the story, the acting, and just how smart and mature it all felt. But the more I reflect, I love how it elevated everything it touched. The parts of the prequels that if incorporated make the prequels better, the back story makes Rogue One better, and the deep dive into the workings of the empire make the OT better. It’s just… so great.
One thing I’m worried about, though, as I gear up to re-watch Rogue One, is how much Bodhi actually reveals about the death star. For all of the sacrifices made to get knowledge of the death star off Coruscant, it seems like Bodhi just tells them the same stuff – big weapon, Galen Erso, Scarif. Jedha and Ghorman they’d have pieced together.
Obviously Luthen et al wouldn’t have known this, but it does feel like it lessens the impact of their sacrifices. Hopefully my memory is wrong and Bodhi didn’t actually know much.
The biggest piece revealed by Luthen/Kleya is Galen Erso. At the beginning of Rogue One when Andor meets his contact, his contact tells him the pilot was sent by someone named “Erso” which lets Andor know it’s tied into the whole thing. Bodhi’s job is giving the message from Erso, revealing that the Death Star has a weakness.
My favorite thing this season was K2. More Tudyk in all things.
But does Andor tying it together matter if Bodhi’s message had all the info? It gets him sent on the mission to confirm which snowballs into the rest of it, but I don’t think the information itself mattered.
It makes them trust the message instead of dismissing it outright. Without knowing who Galen is whatever the pilot says means nothing.
But it makes me sad that the prequels couldn’t have been written by someone this competent. If Andor had been written by Lucas the Naboo scene would have had a bumbling Stepin Fetchit Gungan waiter.
I’m watching Rogue One now and I paused to update my gripe. The transition from Episode 12 to the movie is even clunkier than I thought. (This is a minor gripe so far, given what they had to work with I think they did an incredible job.)
Cassian meets Tivik who tells him that the empire is building a super weapon, a “planet killer,” and Cassian reacts like it’s the first he’s heard of it. Tivik goes on to say that they’re using the kyber from Jheda and that the defecting pilot was sent by someone named Erso.
That right there is pretty much everything of substance Lonni told Luthen, not Ghorman or Scarif but close enough.
Per the movie, they use this Intel to track down Jyn and rescue her (they must have been doing serious investigative work in the meanwhile). Cassian is then tasked with taking Jyn to see Saw, where they’ll use her friendship to get a meeting with him. But Luthen had an in with Saw, as does Wilmon. And it was Saw who had Tivik reach out to the alliance in the first place (per Andor). So why the need for Jyn here?
Like I said, these little discrepancies are all understandable but still noticeable.
He also implies he was in the Rebellion since he was six which we now know was not the case. You can make the line work with a lot of hand waving but it clear what you are supposed to think when he originally said it.
Not the rebellion, the “fight”. And he was fighting what at the time seemed to be the Republic as a kid.