re: Andor Season 2 Discussion (All Episodes Available)

One of the best scenes in the whole show to me was Krennic with Dedra after her screw up.






Also, the look on Partagaz's face when he's listening to the operation falling apart. His whole life is flashing before his eyes in that moment.

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The scene where the tech was "impressed" by the setup was funny

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It really was. She was geeking out over their comms set up.

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the look on Partagaz's face when he's listening to the operation falling apart. His whole life is flashing before his eyes in that moment.

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I for sure didn't see him ending up how he ended up.

She's a habitual line stepper, and admitted she's often digging into things she shouldn't be. She was sent files by accident, and instead of fixing the mistake, she held on to them. Regardless of how much she read them, she had no clearance and them being in her possession is a security risk. But her big offense is allowing her security info to be compromised by Lonnie, hence allowing this big secret to get out. You can call the Empire irrational, but it's easy to see how they wanted to put her out to pasture.

It's an interesting and sad parallel between her and Syril. Both finally came face to face with their obsessions, but in the end no one really cared or noticed. Krennic and Partagaz didn't care if she had actually captured Axis or not. The only thing that mattered was "who else knows about the Death Star".

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Honestly my biggest personal disappointment with the show is we didn't get more Krennic. He played that role as imposing as any villain in cinema.

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That he did. Just his presence in any room made everyone nervous, which makes his interaction with Vader in Rogue One so great. You have this guy going around like he's the big bad arse in the galaxy treating everyone in his path like crap, but when he actually comes across the biggest bad arse in the galaxy he acts like a scared little dog. It also shows you the respect that Tarkin had from Vader as he was probably the only person in the galaxy who wasn't afraid of him and just acted normal around him.

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I would do anything for a season or two of a new show, call it Krennic. Have it follow him as the lead over the course of Project Stardust just being an imposing badass and shite.

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I'd love to see more of him too, but i think we saw just about everything we could with him.
I think a good show could be told from the Empires point of view on the the thought process of building the death star, the leadup to building it, and then it's destruction. But that would really be a show about Palpatine, which i would love to see a multi season show just on him (mainly the bad side, not the senator from naboo side), and it can basically lead up to the OT. They'd have to recast Palpatine since McDiarmid is 80, but that is an area of Star Wars I'd love to see made. And there's no way to do that without Vader, and i'm sure they don't want to use him unless its in a movie, and even then i think they simply want to limit his screen time in general as to not frick anything up like they know they would do with his character.

Is there anything in the lore that explains how Galen Erso knows Saw?

Yeah, that's how I know they know each other. But how did an imperial engineer and a radical separatist meet?

Just from Rogue One, he's simply Uncle Saw. The more we see of him, I have questions.

And contact someone.

I remember doing that training multiple times. Forever made me paranoid of random loose USB sticks.

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Luthen's codename was Axis

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whoops, yep. Don't know why I typed Ajax.

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think her biggest screw up besides trying to take Luthen alone was not reporting the intel that she mistakenly received

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OK, I got downvoted, but I will repeat- simple clerical error

Knowledge of the Death Star= death sentence. Dedra knew that, that's why she didn't report it.
Partagaz, the ISB chief knew that. He had no idea why they were strip-mining Ghorman, he and his people simply devised the reason they could do so without opposition. He wasn't in the loop, knew nothing about the Death Star. But in the finale, he knows, and he fricking tells Crennic "you should have already been finished with this". So how does he know? Because he read Dedra's files.
And that's why when they come for him, he shoots himself. He knows there's no way out, no answer, it's a disappearance.

All this happened because the ISB was competent enough to catch Lonnie's hack, and investigated it. Dedra, Lonnie (who Luthen already killed), anyone in the investigation, with knowledge of what was in that file- gone.
And what's funny, as Partagaz pointed out by saying that- it didn't have to happen that way. The Death Star development was super-secret, but the actual Death Star would be very public knowledge. As Tarkin stated in Star Wars, they could dissolve the Senate, and fear of this station would keep the systems in line. In other words, once the Death Star became operational and the Senate dissolved, this is no longer crucial info. And nobody would know to dig, except Crennic and Tarkin; and they wouldn't put themselves at risk doing so.

So, Lonnie, by hacking and drawing attention to a file that was sent BY MISTAKE, effectively decapitated the ISB, which was the biggest threat to the Rebel Alliance. The ISB probably would have tracked them down, they had tabs on most of the players.

Simple clerical error