Spoilers Andor season one
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My first thought was that the Empire would kill his sister... but maybe even worse that Andor has to kill HER, because she has become devoted to the Empire... and Syril might be the one to find the connection and try to exploit it but fails.
For Andor, it really would mean he has lost everything. His last bit of hope taken by the Empire, he now feels anyvmeans necessary to take it down
Maybe he returns to his home planet and finds it a slave labor camp. There was a resistance led by his sister but it was squashed. So Andor has to face the harsh reality and go deeper in to the fight.
I mean...he still isn't a character I find that compelling so I wouldn't mind another motivation. Yes, he has it, but it doesn't entirely sit well with me quite yet. I'm about to finish my second rewatch so maybe I'll change my mind. But, the framing device in the early episodes seems an interesting way flesh out Andor for me. It's not necessary by any stretch of the imagination.
What do you suppose one more reason for him to hate and fight the Empire would actually do to improve his standing as a compelling character in your eyes? He's already lost everything; his home, his family...twice, his freedom that he had to fight tooth and nail to win back. All he has left now is a loaded blaster and the manifesto of a dead revolutionary.
Indeed he just spent an entire season having his character deconstructed and reconstructed. At the start, he was only out for himself, obsessed with his own selfish goals, content to ignore what was going on around him, to use and step on others to achieve his meagre goals. By the end, he risked his own neck to rescue the people he cared about, but instead of fleeing with them, he's ready to give himself over to the cause.
The characters he meets along the way have all been reflections of his own inner struggle. Representations of the angels and demons on his shoulder. Nemik & Skeen; the selfless idealist and the selfish pragmatist. Melshi and Kino Loy; the hopeful realist and the defeated fatalist. The first demon he resists and kills. The second, he persuades to his side. As metaphors go, it's not all that subtle.
All the people that complained about how passive and merely reactive Cassin was for most of the season have missed the point. Each encounter has had a profound effect on his outlook and his character. His growth as a character isn't measured by how actively he affects the plot, it's measured in the way he chooses to react to it. Did he claw his way out of that hellhole of a prison by stepping on those around him, by climbing over them to survive as Skeen would have done? No. He did it by uplifting those around him so they could all free each other, as Nemik would have.
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Though I could totally see Syril as the puppy killing type. Which I guess is neither here nor there.
This is very true.
I guess that's my problem. I don't care nor find the "nothing left to loose" very compelling.
This doesn't mean Andor isn't well done. He has better than I expected character development across the series. But he's not a protagonist to me. His fight against the Empire works for the show. My preference is just different.
I wouldn't go that far. I mean only if he's sure the puppy is an agent of anarchy actively working to subvert public safety and throw society into chaos . . . and that's more of a kitten agenda than a puppy agenda.
Seriously though; he's an obsessive compulsive with a superiority complex, not a psycopath.
Dedra on the other hand is the sort that would kick a puppy when no one is looking and get a little warm shiver. She enjoys power, whereas Syril just admires it.
Season 2 is allegedly filming in Spain
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/10sq2j7/andor_season_2_is_supposed_to_be_filmed_in/
https://www.reddit.com/r/StarWarsLeaks/comments/10sq2j7/andor_season_2_is_supposed_to_be_filmed_in/
And now we sit back and wait for all the "Dantooine confirmed!" youtube videos to roll in . . .
As I said when he got imprisoned...he got six years for nothing. That'll radicalize anyone. He doesn't need it to be something typical. That HURTS, that is relatable, that is an injustice. That should get anyone on the path to rebellion. It's not even, 'oh I was part of this protest, or I was doing a crime', he got abused by the system personally. It's seeping its tendrils everywhere. I dunno if Niamos had the reputation of being a libertine respite of the galaxy, but judging Andor's character, I doubt he would had went there if he knew there was some reputation of it being a trap for regular people, so it comes as a shock. Hell, he might had been fine with six months, even, but six years???
It was called a six year sentence in court, but it was actually a life sentence.
Hell knowing their luck even if Andor somehow lasted those years, that'll be right on the cusp/after Alderaan/DS finishing, and they probably would all just be sunk to drown.
No one ever expects a second Death Star.
