It's best if you breathe. Take a deep breath.
He suggests that you watch Andor episode 12 before reading the sacred texts.
The first season is done. The final episode of the Star Wars show brought the Imperial and Rebel characters together for a funeral on the junk-filled home planet, Ferrix. There is a giant "what's next?" sign above the heads of every one of the remaining characters.
Four years ahead in Andor's time, we know that he is in the center of the fight in Rogue One. We don't know how they get there, or about the other names we've come to care about. Bix is Andor's crush. The lovers of rebellion are Vel and Cinta. The Imperials Dedra and Syril were starscrossed.
As a post-credits sequence reminded us, is the dark shadow looming over everything?
Season 2 will take us right up to the opening of the film, thanks to the Andor masterplan talked about by Tony Gilroy. Over the course of four years, Star Wars time will pass, and at the end of the 12 concluding episodes, Cassian won't know about the weapon he helped build.
We're probably not going to get Season 2 until 2024. For as much as Andor leans on practical effects, there's still a lot of computer-generated imagery.
In the meantime, here are the burning questions Season 2 will answer whenever it arrives. The biggest bombshell of an answer is the question.
Jedi or not Jedi, that is the question. Credit: Lucasfilm
Luthen Rael is an antiques dealer with a secret "axis" of the rebellion. He has many masks in his store and who is underneath them? How did he get trapped in this moral maze where he has to sacrifice 50 men to not burn an Imperial source, his life now a series of trolley problems, and almost killing himself for the greater good?
Luthen is a former Jedi, hiding in plain sight with Force- connected relics in the Empire's capital, so we can't wait to tear the enigma-wrapping paper off him.
In the future, the clues may be different. The power source for lightsabers, a kyber crystal, was given to Cassian by Luthen. The Jedi and Sith can be seen in the background of his back room many times, and we don't think that's just set decoration.
Luthen says he sacrificed everything, including a sense of calm, in order to share his plan with ghosts. He said he's been fighting the Empire since the beginning, which is in line with Order 66, when the Emperor ordered clone troopers to slaughter Jedi officers.
There is a chance that the Jedi Sentinel mask in Luthen's shop is a coincidence or that he is a member of the old order. It sounds like a rebel who is restless and very at home in the shadows of the city-planet Coruscant.
Luthen is most likely going to be cut in Season 2. He isn't in the rebel base on Yavin 4 in the movies. Even if you could come up with a reason why this rebel spook is held elsewhere during a very all-hands-on-deck situation, it wouldn't make a huge difference.
Luthen would be willing to die in order to keep the Imperial Security Bureau from learning more about the rebellion. The Empire doesn't know anything about the network growing under its nose, because everything we know from the Rebels animated show is that he succeeded.
"Axis," the only name Imperial spies know, reminds us of "Fulcrum," the key contact for the rebellion. Luthen might know Ahsoka from a time when she was a Jedi padawan. She is the subject of a Disney+ series that began filming in 2020. The torch could be passed between the two characters by the end of the show.
Stay out of my face, reply guy. Or ... maybe don't? Credit: Lucasfilm
Andor, the first Star Wars show to feature sexy sleepovers and brothels, has now given us three possibilities where you could cut the sexual tension with a knife.
The two people who used to get it on were clearly in love with one another. Bix was tortured by the Imperials in order to find him, and while you can sense that they have unfinished business, you also know that they are going to trip them up if they try.
Bix can either run away or die. It's almost like he sees Bix in Jyn Erso when he watches the movie again.
The first out gay couple in a Star Wars movie struck a blow for equality by proving that they can match any other couple in awkwardness. Even when they're in the same room, she uses her total sense of duty to the Rebellion to keep Vel far away. The workload isn't going to be lightened.
There's Dedra Meero and her husband, Kyle Soller. He is like what would happen if a poorly-coded reply bot became sentient.
He had to save Dedra's life on Ferrix. She was breathing hard and looking at him. The dictatorship-loving couple are the only couple hooking up in the second season.
They mess you up, your mom and dad / they don't mean to, but they do Credit: Lucasfilm
There are joyless couples like Senator Mothma and her gambling husband. As part of her bid to keep the lid on her funding of the rebellion, Mothma seems on the verge of dooming their daughter Leida to the same kind of arranged marriage deal that bound her parents in unhappy matrimony years earlier The child is too young to make a decision even in a distant universe. There's a lot of tension going on between the two of them.
Don't even think about sex for a second. There is going to be something that will take Mothma from dying of boredom at her dinner parties to standing at the head of the rebellion inside the ancient monuments on Yavin 4. It is an emotional and physical catalyst that may be hidden in plain sight in the first season.
The Empire catches Mothma cooking her books and so she has to hide far from the Imperials who want to throw her down the hole in one of those endless prison worlds. It seems straightforward for a show to operate at this level. It might be a confluence of factors that lead to a betrayal. Even though he professes to be bored by politics, he seems to be just the type to turn his wife in.
You faked us out with the appearance of the Imperials working with the shoretroopers on the planet where Cassian is arrested. At some point in the next four years, K-2SO will come face to face with Cassian and he will get many of the best lines in the movie. How, when, and why are questions. The Lucasfilm chests hold these cards very close.
Trapped in the machine Credit: Lucasfilm
Andy Serkis' prisoner leader was one of the best characters in the first season. He couldn't swim at the prison entrance because it was surrounded by water. Is that all there was to Kino's character?
The fan theory that Kino ends up being the model for Snoke, the Supreme Leader of the First Order, is not true. Serkis voiced Snoke as well.
Aiming for fan service is not Andor's style. We can still see Kino again. Expect him to crop up somewhere in the Imperial war machine if the story is as Dickensian and tightly constructed as the author suggests. It's not unusual for a man to be left in a prison after a prison break, but it's also not uncommon for him to talk his way out of it.
You probably have less than two years to find out if it's true or not.
Don't let it get to you. Take a deep breath.
Andor is now available to watch on Disney+.
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