I think it's very possible. But . . . I still believe it was unnecessary for Gilroy to go into so much detail in Mothma's personal life in this first season, when she doesn't have a real connection to Andor's character. He could have saved all of this for Season Two, if the two characters are on a collision course.
I disagree.
Gilroy is showing the formation of the rebellion from both extremes of its participants - those oppressed by and those enriched by the Empire. It's all well bankrolling matters, sitting back in her robes at her plush embassy, but money alone cannot inspire internal rebellion. There has to be a cost. The fact that Gilroy decided to focus on her family, rather than the senate politics, cements her to the cause.
By the time that Andor is "all in" stood on Luthen's ship, so is Mon, selling her daughter and her husband. They need not have a direct connection to one another to tell their stories which are still just sides of the same coin.
One could say that Mon is sacrificing more than anyone else on the board. She's put up not only herself and her family, but her House, the stability of her planet's place in the Galactic Senate (and the Emperors wrath upon her betrayals coming to light), all as collateral to tear down the empire. Her story, her fractured relationships with her family, is as important as watching Andor see the struggles of the "common rebel", those within the criminal industrial complex, those just trying to live under the yoke of the Empire. It shows what the elites, in their day to day lives, are happy to accept, and ignore, for their comforts.
The elites may not objectively know that prisoners are never being released, but they know the laws in place putting them there favour the elite and over-criminalise everyone else. And still they carry on.
Mon, per
Rogue One and
RotJ, is a clear outlier of senators who broke away from the Empire. Gilroy could have used Bail as his reference point, but he was basically already "all in" at the end of
ROTS. Given her link (and Andor's) to
R1, she is the prime "in" for the storytellers to discuss the complacency of Empire life, and the price of trying to undermine it.
What I hope to see in S2 is her laying foundations to attempt to insulate her family/planet from further repercussions, as she pushes further into the rebellion. Currently, she's still a senator, but she (per
SW: Rebels) renounces her seat and becomes a full figurehead of the Rebellion. Whilst, on the surface, she appears to be acceding to her daughters Traditional Values, she does so for personal (and rebellion) favour. She has also undercut the status of her husband to tidy her own mess. I hope to see her attempt to ringfence her family unit, fail, and have to pay the full price - the loss of them all. Not via death, but by ostracism. Both Leida and Perrin are well entrenched in the comfort of the lifestyle Mon brings them. Whilst she will be willing to live in a cave on a back water jungle planet, neither of them seem the type.
By focussing on Mon's stilted relationship with her family now, when she has to permanently turn her back on them, the weight of that cost will be fuller felt.
Hugo - or something
I could have accepted Mothma as a major character in this series if she had some kind of connection to Cassian's character arc in this season. But she didn't. And using the excuse that this series is supposed to be about the early period of the Rebel Alliance doesn't work for me, since the title is "Andor". I still have a problem with the series' pacing and believe it could have been whittled down to at least eight or nine episodes. Aside from revealing his origin, how did the flashbacks showing Cassian's childhood relate to the season or the series' main narrative?
