It's a fairly clear metaphor: They're close to what the Alliance will become (figuratively and literally) but they're not quite there yet. They're still lost in the forest, fighting amongst themselves.
Spoilers Andor - Season 2
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I think people think the Rebel Alliance was far more united than presented in Rogue One, and struggles to keep the factions together.
Yeah, the Rebellion was formally declared after the Ghorman Massacre, but even in R1 years later, Jyn is dismissive about the concept of a Rebel "Alliance" of the various cells and movements. Things don't get rolling until the one-two punch of Scarif and Yavin, and even then, they're still largely decentralized, with the de facto "main cell" transitioning from being the Massaii group on Yavin to the Skywalker group on Hoth (for all of ten minutes).
That's something that seems to have changed from the old EU, with the Rebellion having been a lot more "regular" for most of its existence, where the new canon puts a lot more emphasis in Rebels, R1, and Andor about how the Rebellion is a movement, not a state, and that there are, what was the phrase, whole battalions who don't even realize they're part of an army against the Empire yet.
Something I'd like to see more of, actually, are the large variety of starfighter liveries seen in the Squadrons video games make it into canon. We've got the Partisans, but most of the other ships we see seem to use the standard OT markings, even deep into the New Republic era (and including, weirdly, the pre-Rebellion Y-Wing on Ferrix in season 1, which had the standard Gold Squadron markings like it had just flown in from Yavin).
That's something that seems to have changed from the old EU, with the Rebellion having been a lot more "regular" for most of its existence, where the new canon puts a lot more emphasis in Rebels, R1, and Andor about how the Rebellion is a movement, not a state, and that there are, what was the phrase, whole battalions who don't even realize they're part of an army against the Empire yet.
Something I'd like to see more of, actually, are the large variety of starfighter liveries seen in the Squadrons video games make it into canon. We've got the Partisans, but most of the other ships we see seem to use the standard OT markings, even deep into the New Republic era (and including, weirdly, the pre-Rebellion Y-Wing on Ferrix in season 1, which had the standard Gold Squadron markings like it had just flown in from Yavin).
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"We're a cell?"-- Ezra Bridger
Even that is worlds away from the state it was in only a year or two prior. For a start, they are actually talking and organising instead of doing their own thing and only occasionally cooperating when it suits a cells' needs and wants.
I definitely wish SW would stop with the painfully prosaic convention of naming most of their content after the main character.
Solo, Ahsoka, Obi Wan Kenobi, Andor. It's so damn boring. Particularly when Andor has such a rich ensemble cast.
They aren't, really, though. They're just the port of entry.
Also, The Mandalorian. Technically, not The Book of Boba Fett, since that's named after the book.
This is 100% the right call. Vader has no point in this series.
And the Emperor is much better left as a vague, looming threat. A "phantom menace," if you will. Every time he's mentioned, it's chilling, but it's much better having him off camera.
That's the one time they tried, at least a little, to mix things up.Technically, not The Book of Boba Fett, since that's named after the book.
Clearly the spent all their effort on the title and had no juice left for the actual show.
My real disappointment was that the book's appearance was so very brief.
This why The Emperor's use in Clone Wars was sometimes odd.
Well, by the third season, The Mandalorian was actually about everyone but the Mandalorian, while halfway through The Book of Boba Fett became about the Mandalorian.Also, The Mandalorian. Technically, not The Book of Boba Fett, since that's named after the book.
Like I said back in the first season's thread, this show is more about the "everyday" people of the Star Wars universe, and what authority figures we do see are more on the lower end of the authority spectrum, like mid-level ISB officers or lower. Though Mon Mothma will eventually achieve a significant leadership position in the Rebel Alliance and New Republic, at the time of this series she's still someone with no real authority. On the Imperial side, the highest authority figure we had in the first season was Yularen, though he was only featured briefly and only as a means of showing "shit's getting real." Like when someone from a corporation's head office pay a visit. This season has Krennic in it, but in the background material for Rogue One he was described as someone from a working class background who had achieved significant rank in the Empire, still tying in with this show's "everyman" perspective.
Balance.Well, by the third season, The Mandalorian was actually about everyone but the Mandalorian, while halfway through The Book of Boba Fett became about the Mandalorian.
It's been a long road for Mon Mothma.
On the basis of the fact we've probably seen the last of Tay Kolma I was reminded of this. @The Nth Doctor at least will be amused.
Well remembered! 
But why the need to even show that?
It's a call back to the season 1 scene with Saw Guerrera and underscores what he said about certain cells being "lost". In fact, the Maya Pei Brigade was one of the cells that Saw specifically called out.
