“Andor” season 2 Supplied with an optional 14-minute season 1 summary For those who need to catch up before entering the first three sections, which will be available tonight on Disney+. But it is simply a summary of the important events that culminated with Ferrix rebellion And Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) decides to join the uprising. When the opening title in section 201 announces the viewer, it is a year later, BBY4, and a lot has happened between the summary and the first scene in season 2.
“When we leave (Cassian) in (season) 1 he is on Luthens (Stellan Skarsgård vessel. Everyone has tried to kill him, and he says,” Man, just kill me or take me in. “And that’s where we leave him,” said “Andor” creator Tony Gilroy When he was a guest in an upcoming episode of filmmaker Toolkit Podcast. “So I lose a year and I have to do so many things (in the opening scene), the most important thing is to say (Cassians) job title has changed. He is no longer a recruitment.”
Season 2 opens on a character we have never met, Niya (Rachelle Diedericks), an imperialist employee who makes routine checks on a flight of experimental band fighters, one of which she will arrange Cassian to steal. It will be her first assignment for the uprising – she is about to take a step that will change her life forever, and she is understandably nervous when she meets Cassian and asks: “If I die tonight, was it worth it?”
Cassian, with a newly founded Steely Poise, comfort Niya, “This makes it worth it. This. Right now. Being with you, being here right now you go into a circle. Look at me. You made this decision a long time ago. The empire cannot win. You will never feel right if you don’t do what you can to stop them. You come home to yourself. You have become more than your fear. Let it protect you. “
Said Gilroy from the stage, “It’s a leader’s speech, it’s a speech he could never have given during the first season. I want you to feel that that speech may not be the first time he has given it, that there is a story about what has happened in the past year. I want you to know his experience in the past year without ever giving details.”
Gilroy indicated that this scene is filling in the year -long gap in Cassian’s development was “a proof of concept” for what would be Season 2’s largest writing challenge. Halfway through the huge commitment to make season 1 Gilroy and Luna realized that their original plan to do five seasons – a season of TV for each year leading up to the events in “Rogue One” – would be impossible. Over the past four years, it would need to be condensed for the four three-section cycles in season 2. Each three-section bike would start as a section 201 and jump one year into the future.
“I don’t know if anyone ever did it before, I don’t want to be cocky with it, maybe someone did, but we don’t have a comp where you only release one year and come back for three days, four times. What does it mean in a story that carries 30 characters and a story that has canonical implications?” Gilroy said about what he was confronted with when he started sketching out season 2.
“My own dignity, or my own rulebook, where this would lead to very bad exposure and a bad version of,” Chris, it’s been so long since I’ve seen you and since last we met, “and all the kind of shit that happens. We didn’t want to do any of it. And the idea of negative space – it’s almost like painting, it is. “Can I get back for three days? And when you start playing with it, if you know where you are going – and most characters are already established, so they are already on a track – you have the organizing principle for these four years, and it was a gas to put it together.”
Cassian’s speech “This Making it Worth It” also achieved another major goal for Gilroy, who, from the beginning, wanted to capture the almost “quasi-religious” experience of someone who took the step to join the uprising. Said Gilroy, “I want something to remind the audience of how the show can make them feel, what the rebellion means to the people.”
Gilroy said that when Niya tells Cassian, “I’ve been happy here, who may sound strange to you,” was when the scene finally started to pull together on the page, because it was unlocked, with a simple dialogue, what makes the stage so moving.
“She’s really human, she really sacrifices, she will never be back in this place again,” Gilroy said from Niya’s line. “The show starts with a very, very big decision. This woman will give him the keys to that car. She will go out of her job, she has 12 minutes to get away, and she will be on the run for the rest of her life.”
The series -creator admits that there have been many times when “Andor” felt like a burden, a huge battleship that he did not always want to be responsible for controlling for almost a decade of his life, but it was the dramatic opportunity to scenes like this one that excited him and made his own victim worth it. Explained Gilroy, “the opportunity for people who make decisions that meant the camera, legitimately but, as well as forcing it, the organic decisions that are constantly coming up are just gold.”
The ground of the beginning of the season with such a big decision was through design. If Season 1 was about Cassian and his citizen of Ferrix who opened their eyes for what could no longer be ignored, Season 2 would be about the victims and impossible choices that come to join the uprising. Niya’s moment in the first scene is one of a dense tapestry that Gilroy creates in the 12 episode.
“If you look at rebellion and rebellion and oppression and revolution and totalitarianism all the way, the different experiences are incredible,” Gilroy said. “You will only do this once in your life, and this is such a definitive examination of revolution that I think you will come on TV for a while, it would be a shame not to get as many colors there as possible.”
There is definitely more action in season 2, as the grasp of the imperial fascists, the rebellion is growing and the story moves against the conflict in “Rogue One” and “Star Wars: A new hope. “And after the Niya scene, Gilroy and Team throw the audience to Cassian’s heart in his throat as he struggles to learn how to fly the new tie fighter while he was attacked.
“So I wanted something really elegant, but also everyone said we started so slowly before (in season 1), so part of me is a bit like” fuck you “, Gilroy And they don’t spin after that. ”
Sections 1-3 of “Andor” Season 2 will be released today at Disney+.
To listen to Tony Gilroy’s May 14 -interview about “Andor” season 2, subscribe to Toolkit podcast on AppleThe SpotifyThe Or your favorite podcast platform.
