Everything is moving into place asAndoredges nigher to the stickup onAldhani . This week ’s instalment , “ The Axe Forgets , ” lead by Susanna White , deliver another stress - fill slow tan of aStar Warsstory . The Dan Gilroy - written preamble to the armed robbery really compass into the interior workings of strangers being brought together for something they have their reasons to be a part of but need to swear each other to commit off … at least moderately .
Back on Aldhani , Andor ( Diego Luna ) backwash to Skeen ( Ebon Moss - Bachrach ) having looked through his poppycock , much to the chagrin of “ Clem . ” Feeling sized up , Cassian returns the favor by identifying Skeen ’s tattoos , revealing he recognize one from an encampment he was also sent to as a youth , extending an olive branch between the untrusting men . Skeen remarks there ’s coop everywhere . “ The ax forgets but the tree diagram remembers , ” he say sacrifice us an all - timer argumentation delivery , before append “ our turn to do the chopping . ” Andor asks if Skeen is out for revenge and he cops to it , while laying out that other crew phallus have their need for banding together — like Nemik being a dead on target beliver writing a manifesto , and Cinta being tough than she look ( and also already apportion a blanket with Vel , apply Star Wars , in its most lilliputian of manners , its second textually queer duet on - screen ) . you may say the close they get to the mission , the more 2nd thoughts are trim up ; everyone is beginning to get nervous about the multitude they ’re fighting besides — except for Nemik , he ’s too pure .
Keeping up with the Coruscantians , we find fault up on Mon Mothma ( Genevieve O’Reilly ) getting quick for an employment she wants to work her girl Leida along to . Her kid moderately much scoffing at the prospect , while her husband Perrin ( Alastair Mackenzie ) acts indifferent and reticent . Mon commands her daughter to get ready and Leida prognosticate her out for just need to keep up appearances that she ’s involved in Coruscant ’s political world . It ’s tough to be a protector of the rebellion over your kid and have them not understand , and it ’s a gripping , cutting moment , one that shows how truly isolated Mon sense .
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On the matter of kids , we juxtapose Leida with Nemik back with the rebels , who ’s eagerly severalise Cassian his idealistic musing about the world they ’ve been living in . Relevant is his observation that the “ pace of subjugation outstrips our ability to understand it , ” as the actual antic is to veil behind many things over one . It ’s a dexterous instant , one that underpins both not just how condensed the timeline of Star Wars is — the Empire has been around for just 15 years by this spot — but in how it offers a mirror to our own world , one democractic crisis after the next bechance all on us . To survive , Nemik believes earnestly , we have to trust on each other , if there ’s to be any chance against fascism . And Cassian needs to teach he does n’t have to work alone through his enlightening convos with a rebel tiddler .
after , Vel and Taramyn go over how to he be after to get the roller freighter filled with crate of payroll department datum and he quickly figures out they have no idea . gratefully Andor had premature mechanically skillful awareness of custom problem on cargo track launch , so he describes the customs duty problem on it that ’s not in the manual Vel and Taramyn studied . They call him out in that kind of textbook - develop superscript way that only perish so far without experience ; if you ’re from an unconventional acquisition background , you ’ll recognize the micro - aggression . Here Cassian has the upper hand thanks to on the ground know - how , and insists he should aviate it because he cognize the machinery , they do n’t . With newfound respect , Taramyn catches on to his science in pluck up things quick , perhaps recognizing Andor has a photographic memory board , and walk him through the layout of the architectural plan and train him in the ways of elapse for a solider .
What follow is the most tense second of the episode when a TIE Fighter flies over the Aldhani plain where the group is plotting their streamlet . The sound aim agitate you to your burden as its swoosh gets too close and the freedom fighter scramble to hide their artillery — the fright of the Empire , not on a grand musical scale , but in the single shriek of a sole starfighter , underline just what our heroes are really up against . Meanwhile , at the post , Lietuenant Gorn looks over the horizon and reminisces about how many Aldhani people used to assemble for the celestial shower , and he remarks that since their comportment the numbers have dwindled to less than a hundred in the past twelvemonth . It ’s truly tense humans building here , as the Empire moves to erase whole places and people in their galactic manifest destiny .
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And destiny is a big thing for Dedra ( Denise Gough ) , who back on Coruscant is still spy around while lieutenant executive program Blevin rakes in credit for setting up on Ferrix , which he desire weekly paper on . Dedra feels something else is at work here and begins to confederacy hypothesis map together suspicious hit on Kessel , Fondor , and Jakku , where piece of technical school and weapons have gone lack . To her superordinate it ’s too spread out to be organized , but she thinks it ’s too random to in reality be random . We just cognize she ’s gon na swoop up in on Syril before long and he needs it to be lay aside from his domineering mother , who most definitely is exaggerating the sacrifice she ’s made so Uncle Harlo can add up through . And just like everyone else this episode , even Karn is give a reason for his passion , as we see him glaring at a holo of Cassian : retribution for his fragile ego .
That mind come to the for back on Aldhan , as the Rebels make their means , not knowing entirely if what they ’re doing is going to work , or why they ’re truly there — but that it ’s deserving doing no topic the outcome . Their lives are on the seam so there may be more of them rid to press . “ Everyone is fighting their own insurrection , ” Vel sum up to Cassian , revealing that Gorn is helping the team because he ’d fallen for a local woman and she was take away . It ’s heighten even further when , while drive a breaking , Skeen threatens Cassian and reveals the kyber necklace he ’d been given by Luthen , and Cassian reveals his own grounds to fight : money and nothing more , but he take the chance to show a glimpse of the man we know he ’ll become in Rogue One . Turning the post on its headway , Cassian glowers at his fellow would - be Johnny , tell them them he knows they ’re afraid and ready to tear each other aside , because he ’s afraid , too . But , he argue , there ’s a divergence between steel your nerve to act or getting cold feet at the wrong second — they can either stay the course or will , but he ’ll be anathemise if they blame that pick on him .
Later that night , we learn that Skeen has been very pressed by Clem , as he take on his own reason to fight : his brother died over losing his realm after it was taken by the Empire . It ’s a very real monitor that injury can disunite but it can also adhere . Again , the wooded environment — trees yet to be write out down — can say so much without a word . This is Star Wars at its burden , on the dry land with the disenfranchised as they are united , no matter the ground , in rising up . And just in meter , too , as somewhere on Coruscant Luthen waits for a com out of nerves . But as Kleya ( Elizabeth Dulau ) gently remind him , it will soon be over or just get start tomorrow . In the Rebellion , burgeoning or otherwise , that ’s all the hope you demand .
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Eedy is a slice of work , does the most , but is also kind of everything ?
Trix are for Karn !
“ The ax forgets but the tree commemorate ” is going down as an all time great Star Wars line .
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Vel and Cinta being an point ( hooray ! ) and also not know what their role in the holdup is greatly worries me . allow ’s not bury our homo here , please .
Why is Mon Mothma married to Perrin ? Why does she have such an ungrateful tiddler ? Hopefully Leida ’s disaffected streak can go to an arc to be on her mother ’s side .
I would wish to record Nemik ’s manifesto , dammit . I am too invested in these rebels and the vibes are that not everyone is going to survive .
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The TIE Fighter noise will now eternally give me PTSD thanks to the setting in this sequence .
When Dedra can no longer quetch to a managing director , she will become the handler . There ’s something unbelievable in just how Andor turns the Imperials into both an oppressive , forbidding effect , and yet also a bitchy , incompetent bureaucratism in equal measurement .
Andor episode stream every Wednesday on Disney+ .
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