Main cast: Diego Luna (Cassian Andor), Stellan Skarsgård (Luthen Rael), Genevieve O’Reilly (Mon Mothma), Denise Gough (Dedra Meero), Faye Marsay (Vel Sartha), Varada Sethu (Cinta Kaz), Elizabeth Dulau (Kleya Marki), Anton Lesser (Major Lio Partagaz), Stanley Townsend (Commandant Jayhold Beehaz), Alex Lawther (Karis Nemik), Sule Rimi (Lieutenant Gorn), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Arvel Skeen), and Gershwyn Eustache Jnr (Taramyn Barcona)
Director: Susanna White
Finally, something big happens in The Eye: we’re done with the interminable Aldhani mission by the end of it.
This also means the unceremonious dumping of all the characters that lack the plot armor of our Mister Andor, making the tedious previous episodes of back stories and plodding how-are-you conversations absolutely meaningless. I hope nobody had been studiously taking notes because nothing matters in the end.
Mind you, the first half the episode is made up of more exposition as characters either walk and talk or stand and talk. Andor learns of more back stories of characters that will be dead by the end of the episode, so really, who cares.
Then, pew pew stuff happens as the gang of soon-to-be-whatever’ed people infiltrates a religious ceremony to get to the Imperial base. It’s composed of scenes of people running and shooting, and because the plot dictates that some of Andor’s extra baggage has to be disposed off, a few of these sods actually get shot at or experience unfortunate accidents that cause them to unsubscribe from life.
Not Andor, though! His plot armor is thick and awesome.
Incidentally, why is Diego Luna playing Andor like this is his first ride at the pew-pew rodeo? Andor acts so shaken and overwrought that I had to check the usual place for his full back story. I suppose it sort of makes sense that he’s like this, as from what I read, this is indeed his first big pew-pew festival.
Anyway, by the end of this episode, another milestone in Andor’s life is wrapped up and done.
That’s the whole point of this show, isn’t it, a documentary of Andor’s past prior to his stint in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story? There won’t be any actual arc, a main villain, or anything, I suppose—just a bloke doing this thing until the show is done.
Hopefully, the next phase of Andor’s life is more interesting and better paced, because this character is far less interesting than the people behind this show believe him to be. So far I am only a passively watching passenger—make me feel more emotionally engaged with the character, by the love of the Force!
