How do you end a series like Andor? After 24 episodes, in which we got to know the darkest and most abysmal side of the Star Wars universe, many fans calculated with another blow into the stomach pit. Last but not least, that would be in harmony with Rogue One: A Star Wars Storythe Star Wars film from which Andor emerged as a spin-off. But then something else happens.
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How does Andor end for the figures of the Star Wars series?
In the last minutes of the 2nd season of Andor, which also mark the end of the series, we learn what has become of the remaining figures:
And then, in the very last breath of the final, we return to the planet Mina-Rau, which we saw for the first time at the beginning of season 2. As it turns out, it has B2emo Founded with another droid. And Bix ((Adria Arjona) runs through one of the grain fields and looks hopefully into the horizon. But she is not alone: Bix carries a baby in the arm.
Who is the baby who holds the Bix on Mina-Rau in your arms?
Opposite Variety Leave series creators and showrunner Tony Gilroy Three that it is the child of the Bix and Cassian child. But why did Gilroy choose this final picture? In the interview, he explains:
I know how dark rogue (one) is. I mean, I was there and (the film) is pretty dark. We demand from the people that they accept a lot of suffering when looking at the series. I just couldn’t imagine having this story ended so depressing). I know it sounds like a kitschy T-shirt idea, but there has to be something hopeful. There must be a candle. I always planned that.
For Gilroy, this last moment in the Andor final fulfills three things:
- Explanation: Bix ‘decision to leave Cassian becomes more understandable. She does not want to keep him from his destiny in the circle of the rebellion and thus also keep silent in her farewell message that she is pregnant. If Cassian had known that, he would probably not have entered any other mission.
- Tragedy: It makes the end of Rogue One even more heartbreaking: Cassian not only dies in the face of the weapon, in the creation of which he was forced to participate in Narcina 5. He dies without ever seeing his child, let alone find out that this exists at all. He dies without the knowledge of the life he could have had with Bix on Min-Rau.
- Hope: For Tony Gilroy, the end is above all a hopeful one because we see that Bix and your child have a future. No star destroyers and no death star can be seen in the sky, only the infinite expanse of a radiant horizon. You have experienced the sunrise for which Cassian, Luthen and Co. risked everything. Was that worth that? Apparently.
Before the start of the 2nd season of Andor, Gilroy repeatedly emphasized how much the series will change our view of Rogue One. He redeemed this promise at the latest with the final. With the knowledge of the events of Andor, every victim in Rogue One feels a bit more painful.
