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Andor Honors Those Who Tried
A series that was always about death makes space for life-affirming poignancy in its final moments.
Luthen Rael’s name is never spoken during Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, despite all the webs he wove, levers he pulled, and people he blackmailed to get the Rebellion off the ground before stabbing himself to prevent Imperial Security Bureau officer Dedra Meero from torturing him for information on his Axis spy network. Also unmentioned are Clem or Maarva Andor, who shaped Cassian into the revolutionary he would become, and Brasso, who swung a brick and helped Ferrix rise up, and Salman Paak, whose hanging inspired his son Wilmon to join Luthen’s ranks. Bix being an Andor- exclusive construct invited the assumption that she, like so many of the rebels we met in this series, would not make it out of this story alive, so in some ways it’s a triumph to see her healthy and beatific in the wheat fields of Mina-Rau alongside Cassian’s little-brother-like droid B2EMO.
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