Andor, season 2: the end of the explained series
The creator, Tony Gilroy, decrypts this “final revelation” which does “three important things” … Explanations.
Since the start, Tony Gilroycreator ofAndornever stopped repeating it: his series prequel of Snape One was going to stop right where the film begins. And that’s exactly what we saw in the final of season 2.
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The series Star Wars ended – today on Disney more in France – via a final assembly which loops all trajectories. By revealing a last plan that did not fail to shock the fans …
After a last look at major characters – including Cassian Andor (played by Diego Luna)-The camera brings us back to Mina-Rau. There, B2emo always drags around … and Bix (interpreted by Adria Arjona) is back, too. A year earlier, she had left Cassian, leaving him a word: “I can’t be the reason you are leaving. If you abandon all this for me, I will never forgive myself. We have to win. We have to beat them.”
But Bix is not alone. In this last plan, she carries a baby. His baby. THE Cassian baby. That Tony Gilroy confirms Entertainment Weeklystating that Bix already knew that she was pregnant when she left Cassian a year ago.
“I think that this final revelation does three important things: first, it makes the sacrifice of Cassian even more painful, since he will never see her child. Then, she really lights up the motivations of Bix. For all those who doubted himself by saying to herself ‘but why is she gone?’, It is now limpid: ‘Oh my god, that’s for!’ Finally, I really wanted it to be clear for everyone. “
But beyond the emotional shock, there was something other than Gilroy wanted to transmit with this end: A message of hope.
“More than anything, I wanted to end up on a note of hope,” he explains. “It’s a harsh, demanding series. We have shown hard things, including an attempted rape this season. But ending without hope, it would be unnatural. It was necessary that it was sincere, not kitsch, not forced. And for me, it’s really deserved.”
So no, this baby is not a pretext to launch a suite and a new series Star Wars called Andor JR :: “It is not to invent a new character that Lucasfilm can reuse. It is a way of finishing with a glow. We all wanted to express that: in the end, we need hope.”
Because in the last moments ofAndorCassian goes to his meeting with Tivic-the same one who will seal his destiny in Snape One. On the way, he meets the gaze of HEALER force that he had dismissed in a previous episode.
“We tried to integrate strength into the series, but very subtly,” explains Gilroy. “I loved someone’s idea on the sidelines of all this. Like Whoopi Goldberg in Ghost. She scams everyone, then one day she realizes that she has real power, that she had forgotten. It was my starting point. I love this scene where she gets that Patrick Swayze is there, and she panics. She remembers that she has a real gift. And that’s what Bix feels: the man she loves is intended for something else. She feels it (…) This idea of destiny that we refuse is biblical. It’s messianic. And I wanted us to remember when Cassian touches everything he has to touch before getting into this ship. He had to touch this magic dust one last time. ”
