A few chapters from the season finale, Andor, available on Disney+, turned out to be more than just a standard Star Wars series. That’s for sure, a powerful move into entirely new locations for the franchise as a set of stories. And, if that wasn’t enough, it’s also a reflection on good and evil that should shake up the way the saga understands itself.
With its sober atmosphere, long tense scenes and suspense atmosphere that make it a true heir to larger thrillers. Andor surprise. Especially when he builds his entire story from original elements.
From the fallacies of the characters, to the contrasting scenarios, to the twisting of a sense of justice into something complex. The series finds its best moments in an elegant and sophisticated adult story about reasons to fight under significant circumstances. Also, among the perception of good and evil as thin layers of a broader moral approach.
Surrounded by mild controversy over the departure from familiar Star Wars moments, Andor this is a rarity in the universe invented by George Lucas. A condition that allows him to build a view of a vast mythology in a deep and adult way, unknown until now. The series will leave three invaluable lessons for the future of the franchise. A set of topical approaches that could change the saga forever.
Andor is a new phenomenon in the Star Wars universe and is available exclusively on Disney+
Cassian Andor, the hero who chose good
Like Han Solo, Cassian Andor doesn’t consider himself a hero. He is not a perfect man, but, like Lando Calrissian, one who had to make a decision at a critical moment. Per Andor, its main character is a hero in training. One who will have to exert all his strength to become a figure capable of risking his own life for the sake of freedom.
It’s a rare element in Star Wars where many characters have a predetermined future or moral obligation. Actually, Cassian Andor has already shown his duality between good and evil in one of the main scenes outcast one. Deciding whether or not to accompany Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) on her suicide adventure, Cassian explains his motives for doing so. “We all killed and did terrible things for the Rebellion,” says the character. “These actions must make sense.”
The same thing happens in the series. Andor. Where the character is still the victim of many uncontrollable situations. An outsider, an outcast in the midst of constant extermination. But little by little, he begins to understand that the Rebellion is more than just a path to disaster. It is also a legal decision of freedom. Of significant interest to the future of the franchise populated by 3D and adult characters.
The world of Star Wars beyond its great stories
Andor, which takes place years before Luke Skywalker becomes the definitive Star Wars hero, doesn’t have big names among its characters. It’s just Mon Mothma and Saw Guerrera jumping from their mythical places in the franchise into the history of the series. But in general, the narrative is full of unknown figures. Actually, nothing in his argument is related to the franchise’s most famous great stories.. Especially with the notions of good and evil on a mythological scale that made her famous.
In reality, everything about Tony Gilroy’s series is small and largely inconspicuous. Which could provide the franchise with a much-needed update to its characters and ways of telling its great deeds. Per AndorWhat really matters is the transition between the moral transformation of his characters and the search for a greater purpose. So, most of them are anonymous figures involved in seemingly insignificant situations. But little by little, together they create a big stage.
From this point of view, Andor gives Star Wars a chance to completely renew itself. Also to allow exploration of stories that go beyond the traditional. Whether on the planets or in the Senate complex. It is a fact Andor proves that Star Wars is much more than a single central structure.. What gives the saga a new breadth, hitherto unknown in her version live action.
Andor and their ways of understanding evil
From your bureaucrats checking numbers on screens to long meetings in tidy rooms. The villains of the new Star Wars don’t need lightsabers or any other supernatural powers to be intimidating.. In fact, both Cyril Kart and Dedra Miro are just officials. One obsessed with two unsolved crimes. Another, with a map of apparently random events pointing to a specific target.
But both of them bear on their shoulders the burden of control over the Empire. They are the epitome of perhaps a more sophisticated, compelling and unsettling kind of evil than any Star Wars series so far. Moreover, the perception of a new evil in Andor confronts the humanity of its characters. An increasingly complex, complicated and strange concept of what the characters in the franchise could be.
This seeming duality is also the connecting thread between the versions of reality and the ethical state of his characters. A milestone that provides the necessary foundation for understanding Star Wars as more than a collection of epic stories. It could also be an elaborate version of the life and pain of its protagonists.
