Los Angeles – The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been of science fiction and fantasy. They tend to get in the search path.
“Game of Thrones” made a meal. “Battlestar Galactica” tried to consider the effect on survivors of losing a planet of people. But it has not been adjusted in the world of swordsman “Star Wars”. How could the mission of destroying the death star have quickly completed if Princess Leia needed to cry the loss of almost all her loved ones in Alderaan?
“Andor” changed all that. To face the inner pain has been a subject throughout his two -seasons, which comes to an end on Tuesday when Disney+ launches a trilogy of final series episodes. He begins with his main character, who runs out of roots for deaths and destruction around him.
“Everything has been removed from day one” Diego Luna, who plays Cassian Andor, He said in an interview with Associated Press. “And he has to understand that the home is inside. So he can be at home. That home can be there. And therefore, there is a reason to fight.”
The three final episodes lead Andor and the rest of the characters to the “Rogue One” events, the 2016 film that generated the transmission prequel series. Tony Gilroy, who wrote “Rogue One” and is the program corridor for “Andor” He has loved playing in the Star Wars galaxy, but has made it clear that his true mission is to tell universal stories of the effects of war, revolution and colonization in human souls (and occasionally non -human).
Almost all the characters he has created are devastated in one way or another, and even the happy moments of the series are full of emotional pain. (Spoilers ahead for episodes 1-9 of season 2.)
When Andor gets undercover as a fashion designer Moussed and Mullido named Varian Skye and makes a small talk with the hotel staff, he learns that the man’s family was killed in a noticeable massacre by Grand Moff Tarkin, the imperial leader who would then order the destruction of the world of Leia.
And at a widely memo of drunk techno Dance by senator and rebel secret mon mothma At her daughter’s wedding, she is, like Genevieve O’Reilly who interpreted it said“Dance to avoid shouting” after tacitly accepting that an old friend murdered for the cause.
No one in “Andor” suffers more trauma than Bix caleen, Played by Adria Arjona. While continuing to deal with the consequences of being tortured by an imperial doctor in the first season, it is almost raped at the beginning of the second and has been surrounded by death. Arjona said that seeing the script was discouraging.
“It has to go from Tept to be addicted to drippers, who help her sleep and overcome nightmares, to her last final decision,” Arjona told the AP. “It’s a lot. And reading it was incredibly scary.”
A completely new set of “Star Wars” scenes between Cassian and Bix explore the explicit and subtle difficulties of intimate relationships in the middle of a trauma. Cassian must comfort Bix, but he doesn’t want her pain to define her.
The two try to make a trip to the neighborhood winery, but even that is subsumed by her fear for her.
Cassian and Bix must also deal with the difficulty of the lives they take for the cause.
Han Solo never cried the Stormtroopers who exploded, but the “Andor” duo killed a young imperial soldier during a mission and pursues the homely life they are trying to build.
“I can’t stop seeing his face,” says Bix.
“It fades,” says Cassian. “I want to tell you that it disappears forever, but I would be lying.”
“We are in a war,” he says.
“I wonder if he knew,” she says.
“He knows now,” says Cassian.
Bix is among the main characters that will not go to “Rogue One” or other existing stories of “Star Wars”. “Andor” allows you to complete your emotional arc with a set of scenes of tears but well won.
“The last speech, I have not yet been able to see it,” he told the AP. “I was a disaster! Tomas took me and took me absolutely screaming for that scene until I finally reaches what they used.”
The revolutionary leaders of the program, as history has made it, try to take the trauma of their followers and their own, and use it to boost the movement.
Saw Gerrera, the radical rebel played by Forest Whittaker, who has a key role (and a less leg) in “Rogue One”, gave a call to weapons in a recent episode that is already being held among fans since the revolution is not for the discourse of the sane. “The theme: pain as power.
He tells a possible follower about his youthful slavery in a brutal imperial work field, and the toxic escape there of a fuel called Rhydo.
“They worked naked. Two, three hundred men. The children really. Round trip until the only thing you could remember was back and forth. Then, one day, they all started chopping. Everyone, all at once. Even the guards. You could feel your skin charging alive,” says Saw, his hoarse voice coming out. “It was the Rydo. They had a leak.”
He tells the young man: “We are the Rydo, child. We are the fuel. We are what explodes when there is too much friction in the air.
