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The Rogue Ones: A Star Wars Andor Podcast<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0returns for one final episode with hosts Mike DeAngelo and The Playlist\u2019s Editor-In-Chief, Rodrigo Perez. As with the earlier episodes, every week, our hosts will recap and overview the most recent \u201cAndor<\/strong>\u201d episode and welcome solid members and creatives from the present to debate all issues \u201cAndor\u201d and all of the intrigue and machination of the \u201cStar Wars<\/strong>\u201d galaxy.<\/p>\n READ MORE: \u2018Andor\u2019 Review: Tony Gilroy Doubles Down On \u2018Rogue One & \u2018Star Wars\u2019 For Adults In Engaging Thriller About Tyranny<\/a><\/p>\n In the most recent episode of The Rogue Ones, our hosts break down their ideas on the season one finale of \u201cAndor,\u201d entitled \u201cRix Road,\u201d which dropped on\u00a0Disney+<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0at the moment. After the dialogue, Andor showrunner himself,\u00a0Tony Gilroy<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cRogue One: A Star Wars Story,\u201d \u201cMichael Clayton<\/strong>\u201d), <\/strong>joins the podcast to additional break down the themes and targets of season one, together with the finale and teasing what\u2019s to return.<\/p>\n LISTEN: \u2018Andor\u2019: Andy Serkis Discusses His New\u2019 Star Wars\u2019 Character, \u2018Venom 3,\u2019 \u2018The Batman,\u2019 & More [The Rogue Ones Podcast]<\/a><\/p>\n For the uninitiated, \u201cAndor,\u201d created by Academy Award-nominated author\/director\u00a0Tony Gilroy<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cMichael Clayton<\/strong>\u201d), serves as a prequel to \u201cRogue One: A Star Wars Story\u201d (which Gilroy rewrote and labored on extensively within the reshoots), which itself is a prequel; set simply earlier than the occasions of \u201cStar Wars: Episode IV \u2013 A New Hope.<\/strong>\u201d The\u00a0Lucasfilm\u00a0<\/strong>collection follows Cassian Andor (Diego Luna<\/strong>) 5 years earlier than assembly Jyn Erso and the gang in \u2018Rogue One,\u2019 as he finds himself thrust into the center of a budding insurgent cell with plans to place a stick within the Empire\u2019s eye. It\u2019s a primary for the \u201cStar Wars\u201d universe, because it acts as a political spy thriller that actually considers the age of oppression, life throughout wartime, and what it\u2019s prefer to be on the bottom as a member of the insurgent alliance and as a member of the Imperial Army. Going even deeper, \u201cAndor\u201d actually examines what it\u2019s like for on a regular basis individuals struggling beneath an oppressive regime. The present additionally stars\u00a0Stellan Skarsgard<\/strong>,\u00a0Genevieve O\u2019Reilly<\/strong>,\u00a0Adria Arjona<\/strong>,\u00a0Kyle Soller<\/strong>,\u00a0Fiona Shaw<\/strong>, and extra.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Tony Gilroy Says The Final 3 Episodes Of \u2018Andor\u2019 Season 2 Take Place 5 Days Before \u2018Rogue One\u2019 Starts<\/a><\/p>\n The present has been largely embraced by the \u201cStar Wars\u201d fandom because the collection continued, with many calling it the very best \u201cStar Wars\u201d of the Disney period. Much has additionally been mentioned within the fan group concerning how \u201cAndor\u201d does or doesn’t change the sport for \u201cStar Wars\u201d exhibits shifting ahead. During the interview, Tony Gilroy shared lots about what\u2019s to return in big-picture phrases.<\/p>\n So what’s in retailer for season two precisely? Well past connecting to \u2018Rogue One,\u2019 introducing characters like Okay-2SO and probably different acquainted characters, Gilroy intimated we\u2019re going to see extra of the price, emotional, ethical, non secular, or in any other case, of placing on this rebel.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a scene in [\u2018Rogue One\u2019] with Diego, in the [Yavin IV] hanger at the end, and [Jynn Erso] comes out and says, \u2018they\u2019re not going to go through with it,\u2019 and Cassian is there with this whole band of guys behind him [including Melshi],\u201d Gilroy defined. \u201cLook, we have been killing, betraying, sabotaging, destroying our moral fabric over the last few years, and we\u2019ve done everything, and if we don\u2019t do this, then everything\u2019s going to be for naught. So [we\u2019ll] see some of that come together.\u201d<\/p>\n Another aspect that Gilroy mentioned they\u2019ll dive even deeper into in season two is numerous the nascent challenges and difficulties that Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd<\/strong>) confronted in season one\u2014 scaling up an enterprise, the rebel that\u2019s constructed on paranoia, lies, secrets and techniques and extra clandestine qualities.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat do you do? If your product is paranoia, how do you collaborate?\u201d Gilroy requested rhetorically. \u201cHow do you scale up the secrecy? How do you take that out of the garage, and how do you play with other people? So over the next four years in the second [season], you know we\u2019re going to be dealing with\u2014you know we\u2019re going to end up in Yavin, and the rebel alliance that alliance is really messy. There are heroes in there, there are losers in there, and there are wannabes in there; it\u2019s really messed up. But it\u2019s like any political coalition.\u201d<\/p>\n Gilroy additionally teased the political fates of many alliance members and the way some diverging ideologies depart them on the skin wanting in.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat happens to Saw Guerra? What happens to the original gangsters? What happens to all the real hardcore maniacs who built it, are they welcomed in? How do you do that? That\u2019s going to be one of the things we\u2019re really going to be exploring and what Luthen says in episode 10 is true; that\u2019s no game there,\u201d Gilroy says concerning the epic monologue the place Skarsg\u00e5rd\u2019s Luthen Rael says he\u2019s put every part on the road of this trigger and he\u2019ll seemingly by no means reside to see the daybreak of a brand new day. \u201cHe\u2019s opening a real vein there, and I\u2019m never going to undercut what he says there, but how do you go forward? How do you do that?\u201d<\/p>\n Gilroy steered that infighting, backbiting, and inner struggles appear to be they would be the order of the day.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s been true all through history,\u201d Gilroy mentioned concerning the difficulties of placing on a revolution and getting individuals with the identical endgame purpose to agree on the way to do it and the way to combat that battle. \u201cI\u2019m cherry-picking from 3,000 years of revolution and all kinds of history, but if you want a comp, go look at Russia in 1916 and look at how all the factions chew each other up as much as they go after the Czar. They\u2019re fighting each other as hard as they\u2019re fighting the power.\u201d<\/p>\n It was additionally revealed in a blink-and-you\u2019ll-miss-it second throughout the finale that Cassian was certainly [SPOILER ALERT] <\/strong>constructing items for the Death Star weapon whereas in jail on Narkina 5, as many followers suspected. <\/p>\n \u201cThe easter egg at the end [of Andor having built pieces for the Death Star], it\u2019s fun, it\u2019s cool, and a lot of people picked up on what it was already. It didn\u2019t turn out to be so much of a secret. It\u2019s confirmation.\u201d<\/p>\n But Gilroy careworn {that a} extra vital aspect of all of it was the theme of future, an concept he thinks they\u2019ll flippantly tread over in season two.<\/p>\n \u201cBut there\u2019s another element of it that\u2019s there for me \u2013 Cassian Andor he\u2019s kind of Zelig, not in the way that he\u2019s a shapeshifter, but he is in an incredible number of places, legitimately, that have some synchronicity,\u201d he continued. \u201cHe does Aldhani, which causes him to go to prison, where he ends up making this part, that he doesn\u2019t even know what it is, to a thing he\u2019ll never know until it\u2019s the thing that actually kills him. That\u2019s just one of the things that I don\u2019t want to get all \u2018pixy dust\u2019 about it, and whatever we explore like that will be very lightly handled, but there\u2019s an element of destiny here.\u201d<\/p>\n As for the upcoming season two of \u201cAndor,\u201d which is already being shot, and what they realized, Gilroy mentioned, in some methods, they\u2019re extra assured as a result of they\u2019ve already pulled it off. On the opposite hand, now you\u2019ve obtained to do it another time and prime your self, which might really feel overwhelming.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, you know what they always say, \u2018You jump out of a plane the first time, you don\u2019t know what you\u2019re in for.\u2019 It\u2019s the second jump that\u2019s the really scary one.\u201d Gilroy mentioned of shifting forward to Season two. \u201cWe have the benefit of knowing that we only have to do it one more time, and we have the tremendous wind at our back of having built a community.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s our spoiler-filled podcast breakdown of \u201cAndor,\u201d Episode 12, and our dialog with returning visitor Tony Gilroy. <\/p>\n All episodes of \u201cAndor\u201d can be found now on Disney+.<\/a><\/p>\n