Spoilers Star Wars: Andor season 2

[Paul Farquhar]

She says she was raised in an “imperial kinderblock”, which means the character must be a lot younger than the actress playing her!

It would make her 19 or less!

To give the writers the benefit of the doubt, let’s say she was rewriting her own history, in the way fascists tend to.

 

[pukunui]

It would make her 19 or less!

To give the writers the benefit of the doubt, let’s say she was rewriting her own history, in the way fascists tend to.

Yes. It’s possible it started off as a Republic kinderblock then became an Imperial one. No doubt Palpatine was running some clandestine scheme to raise a bunch of Imperial-leaning fascists well before the fall of the Republic anyway.

 

[briggart]

I think Empire is used both for the political system and the territorial entity, which is largely the same as the Republic given the Separatists lost and their planets were reintegrated in the Republic Empire.

There was something similar in Season 1: somebody mentioned that Kenari had been abandoned after an Empire mining incident, but in Cassian's flashback we see that the mines were already damaged and non-functional when he was a kid.

 

[Morrus]

She says she was raised in an “imperial kinderblock”, which means the character must be a lot younger than the actress playing her!

Also “kinderblock”…. that’s a workshopped word if ever I heard one. Stuck out like a sore thumb.

Not as much as “visa” though. I don’t know why that one bothered me. I wish they’d just said “papers” or something. It feels anachronistic… but I don’t know why as it’s a perfectly cromulent word.

 

[Rabulias]

Another theme is that rebellions are inherently hard to organise, made up of young idealistic hotheads as they are. In addition to the Planet of the Idiots, random rebel activities have caused Tay's problems, and will be manipulated into a terrorist atrocity on Ghorman (Saw Gerrera probably having something to do with this). Which will probably lead to Mon transitioning from banker to leader.

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IIRC, according to Rebels, the Ghorman Massacre is what spurs Mon to speak out against Palpatine so strongly that she has to leave the Senate and go into hiding.

 

[Zardnaar]

Ghorman massacred an old legends event 18 BBY or so. Tarkin landed a shuttle on a crowd and opened up. Wonder if they'll copy that part.

 

[pukunui]

Not as much as “visa” though. I don’t know why that one bothered me. I wish they’d just said “papers” or something. It feels anachronistic… but I don’t know why as it’s a perfectly cromulent word.

Agreed. However, I think that word choice was deliberate here. Those scenes come across as a commentary on certain real-world circumstances.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Ghorman massacred an old legends event 18 BBY or so. Tarkin landed a shuttle on a crowd and opened up. Wonder if they'll copy that part.

Given that Tarkin isn’t in this, I don’t think so.

And it’s going to be a lot more than a crowd getting massacred in this version.

And according to interviews events in Rebels form part of this series.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I wish they’d just said “papers” or something.

“No paper” is one of the rules of the setting (again, according to interviews with the show runners). Ergo it would be odd for someone to talk about papers.

 

[Morrus]

“No paper” is one of the rules of the setting (again, according to interviews with the show runners). Ergo it would be odd for someone to talk about papers.

Well ok, something else then.