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The Sound of Andor’s Success
The series’ brilliant approach to editing can be summed up in one 15-minute needle drop.
Rebels Vel and Cinta help the Ghorman resistance pull off a train robbery, while covert operative Kleya is forced to extract a surveillance device as a group of Imperial officers closes in on her. This is particularly apparent in the final 20 minutes of episode three, “Harvest,” which cuts among Mon Mothma realizing the extent of her rebel actions during her daughter’s wedding on Chandrila; stormtroopers closing in on Brasso, Bix, and Wilmon hiding out on Mina-Rau; and Cassian rushing to save his friends in his pilfered TIE fighter. Gilroy imagines “Niamos!” as a Top 40 hit in the Star Wars universe that everybody knows and dances to, and the energetic tune provides a juxtaposition with the sorrow you feel at the end of the episode, both for Mon and for Cassian and his friends grieving Brasso.
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