I was guessing based on Diego Luna’s age, which is 44.
Based on Wookiepedia he was 28. And was 9 when stolen. The main point stands though.
While I would normally adopt a similar logic, it can’t apply here, because by that same logic, he was dead at 36. A bit of a paradox.
That is not the case, as comes out later.
That, to me, was good writing.
The way I see it, not everyone thrives in a familiar environment. Cassian starts out stuck in a rut. His friends and family may love him, but they also think he’s a loser and a screw up, so like many people do, he conforms to their expectations. It was only when he was taken outside of his comfort zone, to a place where nobody knew him, that he could allow himself be a new, more competent person.
I found that very relatable - and especially how he reverted back when he visited home, because personal growth is never easy and straightforward.
Yeah, but it IS Han. How far can any other pilot make the Kessel Run in?
It wasn’t just “he was out of his element in the junkyard town”. He didn’t seem to be the same character at all. Character development does not consist of losing one character and replacing them with a different character.
In what sense?
What you’re describing doesn’t sound like Andor to me. Sounds like a totally different character and totally different show. Maybe you ducked out for a bathroom break at the wrong time or something.
Well, there is that plot point in the second arc where he’s “under cover” and pretending to be Clem, one of Lucien’s long-time, dedicated agents, and not a guy he hired two days earlier after meeting him for the first time. If someone bailed on the show early in that plot arc, they might mistaken Andor playing cagey about his past and his motives as him being written differently.
Except that the motives that he’s lying about are different, too. The guy in the first three episodes, his primary motive was finding his lost sister, and money was just a means to that end. The guy in the second arc is pretending to be ideological to cover up his real motive of just wanting a bunch of money and not caring about anything else. Was that just a double-bluff? Why not just negotiate for help in finding his sister in the first place? Bonus, he wouldn’t even have had to lie to the heist team about that one.
Finding his sister stops being his primary motivation when he kills those two cops. After that, he’s primarily motivated by getting himself and his mom off-planet before the Imperials catch him, which requires a bit of money, which is what drives the action for the first two arcs. Getting the money was never about finding his sister. He was sitting on the piece of stolen Imperial tech for months before he tried to sell it, because he’d been saving it for just this sort of emergency. If he was looking for money to fund the search for his sister, he’d have sold that months before the start of the series.
He doesn’t tell the other members of the heist about his real motivations, because he doesn’t trust them, or Lucien. Which is smart - we learn in a later episode that Lucien was planning on killing him after the heist was over, as a way of cleaning up loose ends. Andor knows how black ops work, and how little room there is for sentimentality. If he says, “I’ll help you if you help me find my sister,” he’s telling them right from the start that there’s something the Imperials can give him that’s more important to him than the success of the mission. That’s a security risk right there that they’d be fools to accept into their Rebel cell on those terms. Doubly so, since the people responsible for his missing sister isn’t even the Empire, but the Republic the rest of the cell are ideologically committed to restoring.
So instead he says he wants money, because there’s no way the Imperials could possibly give him that.
I think y’all are over analyzing. The team clearly didn’t trust “Clem”, but they had no choice. So they worked with him, because the alternative was failure.
No, he said he was there because he believed in The Cause. Later, one of the other guys figures out that he’s not a true believer, and he admits he’s just there for the cash. But by that time, he’s made it clear that his skills really are crucial to the success of the operation, and he’s able to over come their doubts.
He tells Lucian that he just cares about money. And he only works for Lucian after he has the payment from the box gizmo; why didn’t he get his mom offworld then? Or ask for Lucian to get her offworld as part of his down payment for the heist?
Watch the rest of the show and you’ll find the answers to those questions.
“Oh, you’ve got a mother you care for? Okay, new deal. You do my job for free, and I don’t have your mother killed.”
If you haven’t, do watch all of Andor, and the Mandalorian, and Rogue One.
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Damn, someone said what I was feeling.
I still remember standing in a line that stretched around the block on opening day 1977, for a movie that we knew nothing about (except that Tom Brokaw mentioned it was like “a cowboy movie in space”, and that sounded great).
And ever since, I’ve loved that universe. And the more movies and series the better. Even those that are problematic/full of plot holes have wonderful moments (like the beginning of VIII, with Poe “unable to hear” as he ends up sliding around on the surface of a star destroyer).
Maybe it’s that whole “suspension of disbelief” stuff. I could list every detail that’s wrong in every film/show, but so far, they’ve all been fun.
sorry, I won’t watch rogue one becuase it pretty much negates my favorite Star Wars game series …