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In today’s video we go over easter eggs in the new Andor series, episodes 1 to 3.
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“I've been in this fight since I was six years old.”
Cassian Andor’s famous line in Rogue One implies he has a past with the Empire, and
not a good one.
In the first episode of Andor, we start to see flashbacks into Cassian’s childhood
that take place on his home planet Kenari.
The clips show him investigating a crashed ship with his village, a mission that changes
his life entirely.
Although Cassian is not 6 years old in these clips, we do know he is referencing before
this when he actually lost his father at the Carida Academy during a protest against the
expansion of Republic militarism.
“Isn’t that where they hung your father?”
He also lost his mother at a young age as well, and we can see by this point in time,
it is just him and his sister.
It is very interesting to see an even younger version of Cassian, or Kassa as his sister
calls him, and how much the line in Rogue One has already been elaborated upon in these
first 3 episodes.
In Andor’s first episode, we see Cassian rummaging around an old junker.
During the pulled-out shots, viewers may recognize a few of the other ships in the yard, with
one being a Y-Wing starfighter.
Y-Wings were commonly used by the Rebel Alliance, and were first seen in A New Hope, and were
used iconically during their assault on the Death Star.
Y-Wings were first used by the Republic during the Clone Wars, so it makes sense to see a
stray one on a planet like Ferrix.
The scene also shows what looks to be a variant of the T-47 airspeeder, which were used in
The Empire Strikes Back by the Rebels, and commonly became known as snowspeeders, which
would be used to help repel the assault from the Empire on Hoth.
During the original Star Wars trilogy, the universe had a very distinct retro sci-fi
tech aesthetic, such as vector graphics or binoculars with static.
Andor employs this aesthetic in multiple scenes, such as Luthen Rael’s binoculars, or the
computer screens in the Pre-Mor Security Inspection Forces office.
These are just some of the ways that Andor draws inspiration from Ralph McQuarrie’s
original concept art, and we are sure there will be more to come throughout the series.
As mentioned previously, the crashed ship on Kenari is riddled with a bunch of dead
yellow soldiers, oh wait.
Okay, nevermind, yes, a bunch of dead soldiers.
On the sleeve of these soldiers we can clearly make out the hexagonal symbol that is from
the Separatist Alliance during the Clone Wars.
There are no battle droids on the ship, which was the signature soldier of the Confederacy,
which tells us that Cassian won’t develop an aversion to droids like a certain someone.
Moving on, it is still cool nonetheless to see the symbol pop up in the show.
The Separatist symbol isn’t the only familiar looking sigil we see, as in Episode 2 of Andor,
Tim Karlo goes to a public transmission station to presumably report Cassian as a Kenari male
suspect the Pre-Mor Security Inspection is looking for.
Over the establishment, we see a red crescent logo that looks strikingly similar to the
symbol of the Rebel Alliance.
In all honesty, there is almost certainly no actual connection, however, it could be
used as foreshadowing for what is to come of Andor’s fate.
As this phone call could be the thing that indirectly causes Cassian to eventually join
up with Luthen and the rebellion.
“Why would I go anywhere with you?”
“Don’t you want to fight these bastards for real?”
When the Pre-Mor Security Inspection Forces come down to Ferrix, they come prepared.
The drop ships are strikingly similar to the Republic gunships used during the Clone Wars.
Since we know that the Empire phases out a lot of gear, it wouldn’t be surprising to
think that a private military corporation purchased some surplus tech for their company.
That, or the manufacturer built newer models that show the transition from the Republic
Clone Wars ships, to the ones we see the Empire using by the time of the Battle of Yavin.
When Andor meets Luthen, he describes how he managed to steal the Imperial tech that
is worth a whopping 40,000 credits.
“You just walk in like you belong.”
“It takes more than that doesn’t it?”
“What?
To steal from the Empire?
What do you need?
A uniform, some dirty hands, and an Imperial toolkit."
This line is actually a reference to many times Rebels have successfully infiltrated
the Empire throughout the franchise.
Whether it has been Han Solo and Luke Skywalker dressing up as Stormtroopers on the Death
Star, “Aren’t you a little short for a stormtrooper?”
“Huh?
Oh the uniform.
I’m Luke Skywalker, I’m here to rescue you.”
or Obi-wan Kenobi being snuck into Fortress Inquisitorius by double-agent Tala.
Cassian himself uses this same tactic in Rogue One when he and Jyn Erso break into the Imperial
base on Scarif to steal the Death Star plans.
Therefore, there is actually more weight to this line than we first realize.
The end of Andor Episode 3 we see a sequence that parallels Cassian’s departure from
Kenari as a young boy with his escape from Ferrix with Luthen.
It is a powerful moment, showing that the character must repeatedly leave things behind,
and that he makes it out by the skin of his teeth, but also because it actually foreshadows
the one time that he won’t make it out and leave things behind in Rogue One.
And there you have it.
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