Mostly just messing. Just thinking about handing them over reminds the fisheraliens of all the mess the empire has made of their livelyhood, and they decide to help them instead.
I’m a bit unclear about the rebels thoughts about Andor. Vel and Cinta want to trap him on Ferrix. To kill him I gather, tie up loose ends. But Vel is not open about that when she talks about Andor with Luthens partner at the antiques store, though Luthen has also worried out loud that Andor is a loose end. So it’s just Vel and Cinta that has decided to act on their own?
Maybe it will be Cinta vs Vel, each with their conviction about what must be done. I couldn’t catch a lot of what the aliens were saying, actually. I was pretty happy to see that Andor has gotten back the manifesto! And I kind of want to know where the other prisoner goes after leaving him. I guess we’ll have a big showdown on Ferrix next.
Luthen’s ship having the weird lightsaber attachment felt a little silly IMHO, but I liked his escape and conversation with Saw. Man, those two were really putting on a show. And Saw had finally decided to work with a Separatist
I thought he grabbed the gun off of Two-Tubes when the alien stepped forward. Also not sure what the little handle object was either-I’m hoping not a lightsaber. I’ve seen enough “Maybe Luthen is Sith” stuff floating around. This show doesn’t need Jedi IMHO.
Not the strongest episode, but some damned fine acting.
Loved the little space battle cameo with Luthen. The double laser “sword spin” was completely unnecessary, probably impractical and yet undeniably cool.
Good to see the fat scottish sergeant again, there are minimal scenes in Andor that are played for laughs but they are nicely done when they do pop up.
I also come back to the manifesto. I thought that it had more to play in this. Why make a thing of Nemik handing it over to Andor? And sure enough we see it again when Andor retrieves his case from the hotel room.
I fully expect to hear Nemik’s words and thoughts in the mouths of the rebellion leaders before Andor finishes its two season run.
Kleya (Luthen’s partner) essentially ordered Vel to kill Cassian in episode 7, when they met on Coruscant after the Aldhani raid:
“We have a loose end. Cassian Andor, who you know as Clem. You need to find him.”
“Find him?”
“We can’t have him walking around with Luthen in his head.”
“You mean kill him.”
“This is what revolution looks like Vel.”
But as far as I can tell, Kleya put out that order without discussing it with Luthen first.
Absolutely agree with this, but I also thought that was a lightsaber, or at least an old handle of one.
Yup. And they made a point of having us hear the manifesto to remind the viewer what it was.
Oh, I remember that now.
This fits with the conversation Kleya and Luthen have over hyperradio right before he is almost picked up by the empire patrol. They talk about a “piece” that other “collectors” want. It is obviously code, perhaps they discuss Andor and what could happen if the empire gets him before he was taken care of.
Yeah, now that I think about it, it would be strange if Luthen turned out to be the most compassionate of the cast in a given situation. Next episode I guess we will see how many of Kriegers(sp?) men are sacrificed to keep Jung, Luthens SIB mole, safe.
Oh jeez, why didn’t I catch that?
Interestingly, I looked up B2EMO and he is listed as a groundmech droid. R2D2 is, of course, an astromech droid. Nice little piece of world building.
Yeah, on rewatch, you’re right. Also on the fact that the show doesn’t need any Jedi—or Sith. There could be an opening, however, given its overall theme of complicating the naive light-vs.-dark morality of Star Wars, for exploring something not falling into that dichotomy, be it a ‘grey’ force user or something else along those lines. If any show could pull it off, it’s this one.
It turns out that it is a retractable cane that has been shown before, though I don’t remember it.
That doesn’t change the possibility that it can be a modified lightsaber, though, or that the kyber crystal goes with it. Especially since he has a shop chock full of jedi and sith artifacts anyway (along with the Aztec artifacts and Moroccan nautilids)
The was Bendu…
Luthen was showing using it as a walking stick in episode 3, when he was hiking from his ship into Ferrix. When he reached town he retracted it and put it away.
I’d forgotten about the cane! Well, that’s one mystery solved.
It could just be convenient lightsaber camouflage.
With one episode left and then a supposed 5 year gap to begin season 2 I could see the season ending with the demise of Luthen. Since we never got to see what Bix had to say at the end of her interrogation I’m wondering if she broke. Could see the ISB springing an unexpected trap on Luthen, him dying rather than being captured, Andor escaping, and everyone including Mon forced underground for 5 years.
One year between 1x12 and 2x01. A five year gap would put 2x01 a year after the Battle of Yavin.
Season finale is out. I’m watching it now.
Maarva’s funeral scene is taking longer than the Clone Wars.
I really enjoyed the finale.
Note that there’s a post-credits stinger.