In the event you’ve been closley rewatching Andor Season 2 making an attempt to catch little particulars like some followers have, you may need caught a refined however significant element that quietly echoes into the climax of Rogue One. When you see it, it adjustments the way you may expertise that last act of the movie.
In a single notably haunting scene, we see Bix, who remains to be mentally wrecked from the Empire’s brutal torture in Season 1. She’s sitting dazed, visibly below the affect of some type of drug. She’s holding a blaster and staring blankly at a display. It’s a quiet, tragic second. But it surely seems the weapon she’s holding won’t be simply any blaster.
One sharp-eyed Star Wars fan discovered that ties this again to Rogue One in a surprisingly emotional method:
“The blaster Bix is cradling whereas drugged out is identical one Cassian makes use of to shoot Krennic within the again to save lots of Jyn on the finish of Rogue One. That’s one hell of a Chekhov gun to arrange.”
Yeah, the identical blaster that Cassian makes use of to ensure Jyn finishes her mission, proper earlier than the Demise Star lights up Scarif. If that’s true, then Bix, who doesn’t seem in Rogue One in any respect, out of the blue turns into a part of its emotional payload.
She’s not bodily there, however her presence performs an element in taking down Krennic and serving to get the Demise Star plans into Insurgent fingers.
It’s the type of element that doesn’t scream on your consideration however utterly recontextualizes Cassian’s last stand. We nonetheless don’t know the way that actual blaster results in his fingers, however Bix, indirectly, carries ahead into Rogue One.
I really like how the threads of Andor proceed to weave straight into the material of Rogue One, even within the smallest of how. That’s the type of storytelling that makes this universe so endlessly rewarding to revisit.
