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Andor Recap: The West X-Wing
The Imperial Senate plays host to a terrific episode focused on the symbolic power of rhetoric.
The Galactic Senate has a fair amount of screen time in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, which recently completed a successful week-long theatrical rerelease celebrating its upcoming 20th anniversary. It’s where, as Padme Amidala laments, “liberty dies … with thunderous applause.” It later gets half-trashed in a fight between Yoda and the newly self-appointed Emperor Palpatine (the vast dome structure with its endless field of hovering pods is too big for even two formidable Force users to really destroy it), and following its rebirth as the Imperial Senate, it hasn’t been seen too much in the past 20 years of post- Sith Star Wars stuff. We’ve seen a different Mon consorting with Luthen, despite how she might chafe at his leadership, which gives Andor a sense of intimacy and makes the lack of that quality in her “future” (past) appearances seem all the more productive and intentional, even as the show has clearly backsolved for them.
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