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Beginning with her on Yavin, looking up and seeing the Death Star blow up.

Watching through again and saw this absolutely miniscule litte detail. I think its kinda neat that none of the military types would drink on the job, while the two glorified marketing specialists don't see the issue in doing shots while talking to Krennic.

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Does anyone know if they eventually release HD version of these cards?

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What makes Andor an absolute masterclass in production design is its brilliant integration of real-world locations that feel genuinely otherworldly. Most striking of all is the show's reliance on Brutalist architecture to ground the Galactic Empire. By using raw, monolithic concrete and oppressive geometric scales, the Empire’s bases don’t just look like sci-fi fortresses—they feel like physical manifestations of totalitarian weight. Here are a few real-world architectural finds that possess that exact same haunting, utilitarian energy and would make the perfect backdrop for a future arc.

Quite honestly, he might have done more for the Rebellion than anyone else over the years inside the ISB as Luthen’s mole. In addition to his successes on screen there will be many other occasions when he fed crucial information to Luthen… and in turn Luthen feeds him information that helps his career. Of all his operatives Lonni is the one who stays loyal throughout, despite Luthen’s treatment of him.

Obviously, he is crucial for supplying information about the Death Star. But I think my favourite of his episodes is season 2 ep 6 where he not only supplies Luthen with information about Doctor Gorst (enabling Bix and Cassian an easy hit mission) but also helps Kleya remove the microphone from the Tinian Codex in Sculdun’s collection. I think that’s my personal favourite moment. He’s absolutely terrified at first, and Kleya has to really force him to focus. But when it’s her turn to be flustered - when Krennic asks her why this piece is her favourite - Lonni answers for her, and it’s clear that despite his apparent panic he had actually been listening really hard all along.

So, what are your favourite Lonni moments?

Note: In this article Robert Emms says he auditioned for an ISB agent, but in another, more recent interview he said he actually auditioned for the role of Syril Karn at first.

Not to mention both Cassian and Ezra took a similar journey but different.

For it’s both, I feel bad for him once he realizes the Empire is evil and his world is falling apart. But I don’t feel bad for him because his hubris and actions caused a lot of trouble during on Ghorman despite doing what he thought was right. Once he focus on Andor, his fate was sealed, he cannot let go of his false rivalry on a guy who didn’t even know him despite what he did on Fennix.

It’s startling to go back to the start of season 1 and see how different Cassian is. Everyone on Ferrix, including his remaining loved ones, is disillusioned and disappointed in him and has effectively written him off as a hot mess, scarred by past trauma and seemingly unwilling to even try to improve himself. He’s kind of accepted that role for himself too, “starting to believe his own sob-story” as Gilroy puts it. He’s as far as he could possibly be from the heroic figure of the final arc of Andor and Rogue One.

He won’t win praise for biological accuracy but Gilroy’s assessment that Cassian is ‘a roach who becomes a butterfly’ is accurate as a metaphor. This journey begins soon enough and I would argue that Cassian undergoes the most profound and complex character development of the whole series. Even before his first scene Luthen has already in some sense gauged Cassian’s potential from afar. It’s made plain that Bix must have mentioned Cassian in association with her black market operation. “You said he wanted to meet me,” Cassian says twice during the scene where he successfully tries to get her to contact her buyer ahead of schedule. Cassian has been on Luthen’s radar for a while already.

Desperation from both men will lead to that fateful meeting in ep 3: Luthen is desperate for Aldhani to work and Cassian is desperate to get off-world until the heat from the murders dies down. The Starpath unit is such an incredible piece of kit to have stolen that Luthen knows that this is the ideal man for the Aldhani job. As he will say four years later: “You appeared when I needed you.” Force believer or not, by this stage if not before Luthen clearly sees that first meeting as the start of a journey.

Cassian wanted to sell the piece because he knew it was valuable but he was putting narrow monetary value on it. Luthen, on the other hand, saw another kind of value - “I didn’t come for the box. I came for you.” The name of the Starpath unit is interesting too because of the theme of destiny: “They’ll hang us both, won’t they… We set that course together the first time we met” says Luthen in 2.09 in a direct echo of the 1.04 conversation in the Fondor : “It doesn’t matter what you tell me or tell yourself you’ll ultimately die fighting these bastards…” But what was a fairly manipulative recruitment statement before becomes much more meaningful later. Luthen looks as Cassian by that point with a certain awe: maybe there is something more to this.

The story is, by its nature as a prequel, one with a set destination. An ending that cannot be changed: all paths lead there and in a way there is nothing that the characters can do to stop that. So I love these moments when Gilroy and the other writers slightly lean on the fourth wall, as it were, by having the characters themselves make reference to this, knowingly or unknowingly.

The series begins and ends with Cassian walking. The opening: along a causeway, a path that will lead to the killings that kickstart the events of the series. It’s night and Cassian is slouched, hooded and furtive. The ending: it’s daylight and he walks straight, with self-assurance and conviction. He has accepted that path and nods at the Force healer on his way to his heroic final mission when he will make it all worth it.

What a journey it is.