Spoilers Andor season one
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As always with Star Wars, the timeline is a little fuzzy. Each season of Rebels has about a 6 month time-jump, so it all depends on how much time passes during the season proper. About a year, give or take is the general assumption, which honestly tracks if you do some back of the envelope maths: -
The show starts 5 years before ANH and ends right before it (and Rogue One.) Three 6 month time jumps between 4 seasons leaves three and a half years in-season story time. That roughly works out to about 1 year each for seasons 1-3, plus 6 months for the truncated final two thirds of season 4.
All of which means that assuming 'Kassa' and 'Spark of Rebellion' happened around the same time, and that 'Fire Across the Galaxy' also roughly coincided with 'Rix Road'; then Andor's second season should begin smack in the middle of Rebels season 2 (right around 'A Princess on Lothal', interestingly.)
When and where the time jumps fall from there is anyone's guess. All we know is the finale leads right into Rogue One. The only cross-over point that kinda *has* to occur is 'Secret Cargo', though they can still dance around it a little.
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Hopefully they dance around it as much as possible and only show Mothma leaving Coruscant and then later other characters witness her holographic message from afar.
The show should absolutely avoid showing any Rebels characters otherwise it enters ding dong Toon Town territory.
Ahsoka should be out before Andor Season 2, so we will already have live action versions of most of the Rebel's cast by then. Sure it will be about ten to twelve years between the two events, but adult Hera should look the same. Zeb probably looks the same. Chopper certainly looks the same. Sabine would need a different paint job on her armor, but otherwise similar if she doesn't take the helmet off during Andor. The only one that might be an issue would be Ezra going from being roughly 17 to nearly 30, though some actors can pull that off.
But honestly, the main two you'd like see are Hera and Chopper.
But honestly, the main two you'd like see are Hera and Chopper.
It's certainly all doable, but given how restrained the first season was, I can't see Gilroy jumping into this side of Star Wars with both feet. I think the most we're likely to get is a little slice of 'Secret Cargo', which would only really require Hera since she's mostly who Mon was interacting with the whole time (Ezra was out flying a Y-Wing.) The only tricky part Is the final scene in the Ghost's cockpit since both Ezra & Zeb are present . . . but Zeb is mostly mute and they can shoot around Ezra with some carefully chosen camera angles and some choice editing (also there's no Kanan or Sabine in this episode, so it's kind of perfect.)
Conversely, the minimum we're likely to get is about what we got it Rogue One: The Ghost and/or Chopper in the background of a few shots (technically they kinda already did the former; there was a VCX-100 at the ship lot on Ferrix.)
That works for me. Just recreate the Rebels hologram in live action and that'll be sufficient.
I would prefer it if we don't see or hear the message aside from her saying "I'm going to record a hologram." Those who are more familiar with the lore will know what this means, while other characters, like Andor, will go about their own business. Make it clear that multiple things can happen for the Rebellion at once.
If I were doing it as a tie-in, that's how I'd handle it. At most, if I had some cut-ins to Mothma's location, I'd have tight angles and shallow focus, so people who knew and cared could recognize she was in the cockpit of a specific ship, but we didn't see some randos just loitering around watching (which, looking back, is pretty much how it was done in Rebels).
Well, Kanan has been in a movie… sort of…
Oh, his v.o.? Life is better if you pretend that "movie" never existed.
Chopper, on the other hand, has actually been in an actual movie, so my point crumbles either way.
So has Hera, sort of. We saw The Ghost in both Rogue One and The Rise of Skywalker. Who else would be piloting?
Their son.
The station itself is already just a big battle moon/one of those orbitals around Coruscant, and if any Rebel cell saw it they would just assume it's a battle station or habitat honestly, or any imperials reporting on it would probably also just call it as such.
And we heard Hera paged over the Rebel base's PA system in Rogue One.
I don't think those are canon.
Not in Rogue One. He'd be a baby.
If Ani can do it....
