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Andor Recap: Outside Agitators
It’s BBY2, the Yavin Rebel Base is up and running, and the relationship between Luthen and Cassian has frayed even further.
Yet there’s a bittersweet tinge to this more communal but somewhat regimented form of domestication to accompany Cassian’s genuine physical pain over a blaster injury, sustained on some off-screen mission in the past year. But mainly, the show keeps contrasting Cassian and Bix with Syril and Dedra, a double date with couples where it seems like both halves are equally dedicated to the cause at hand, to reveal subtle differences. There’s some value in having the world of Andor so closely mirror our own, but the idea of neatly coiffed reporters who sound just like our own most toothless forms of journalism hits it a little too square on the nose for me, I’m afraid.
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