Editor’s Note: The following are spoilers for Episodes 1-3 of Andor.Cassian Andor (ur.Diego Luna) is one of the most elite spies in the Star Wars galaxy, so it makes sense that he has some secrets. But, as it turned out, until now, the audience did not even know his real name.
The first three episodes of the Disney+ series. Andor showed memories of his childhood, where he plays Antonio Vignawith his experience on his home planet shaping his future as a dedicated member of the Rebel Alliance.
Who is Kassa?
As flashback scenes revealed, Cassian Andor grew up as “Kassa” and was born on the obscure planet of Cenaree, where he lived in a village of children and teenagers with his sister Kerry (Belle Swark). When the Separatist spaceship crashes into the jungle, Cassa joins the other kids watching the crash site, possibly hoping to gather resources from the crash site.
After a panicked survivor shoots and kills the village leader, an enraged Cassa investigates the ship, eventually venting his anger by smashing his staff’s controls. It is heard by adult scavengers, one of which, Maarva (Fiona Shaw), euthanizes him to take him aboard his ship so that he won’t be harmed by any rescue party that might arrive to investigate the crash.
From Cassa to Cassian
In the series’ current storyline, Kassa has already adopted the name Cassian Andor and is acting as a thief to fund his efforts to find Kerry. It is possible that the brief goodbye he and his sister shared in the last flashback of the first episodes was the last time he saw her before Maarwa took him off the planet. Kerry may also have been kidnapped and sold, based on evidence Cassian finds, suggesting that she may have worked in a brothel for a while.
Engaging in combat with two members of the intergalactic Pre-Mor Corporation, Cassian kills them both, drawing the attention of more Pre-Mor forces who are replacing law enforcement in that particular area of space, including Inspector Cyril Karn (Kyle Soller). Karn and his team arrive on Cassian’s current home planet, Ferrix, to investigate. As the brutal authorities close in, Cassian attempts to sell a valuable piece of stolen Imperial technology to Luten Rael (Stellan Skarsgard), a member of the Rebel Alliance who is more interested in bringing Cassian into the Rebel cause for his skill in infiltrating and evading the Empire.
The final scene of the third episode shows Cassian entering Rael’s ship as the pair flee from Pre-Mor’s forces and Maarva takes his young Kassa aboard, with the same bright sunlight shining on the ships, showing that both moments represent Cassian, moving to new stages. his life. However, the search for Kerry will apparently be completed before Cassian fully devotes himself to the life of a rebel.
It is not yet clear how and if Andor intends to reconcile Cass’s storyline with Cassian’s backstory snippets provided by other Star Wars media. When a character first appears in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Storieswhile discussing the Rebellion, Cassian says to Jin Erso (Felicity Jones), “I’ve been in this fight since I was six years old!” Even if one believes that there are six versions of Vigny’s character, which exaggerates the plausibility, Andor still changes the context of that scene. It is implied in the movie that Cassian has been part of the Rebellion since that time, but Andor takes place just five years before the events Rogue Onewhich made his stay in the Alliance much shorter.
Presumably the series recontextualizes the line by stating that his theft from the Empire means that Cassian was already involved in the fight against them, but this is an obvious reinterpretation of the line. One possible explanation is that Maarva, who expresses rebellious sentiment while in Karn’s custody, is a de facto member of the Alliance, or at least sympathetic to it, and subtly grooms Cassian to join them. Cassian’s history in the Expanded Universe, including his service in the Separatist army, has yet to be directly retconned, but given what has been established in the first three episodes, it seems likely that a lot of it will. The Star Wars movies and TV shows are favored when it comes to canon, and often retcon or completely ignore details from other media. But it’s amazing to see Andor play so fast and loose in terms of keeping what Rogue One established given that showrunner Tony Gilroy co-wrote the film and the show serves as a direct prequel to it.
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Source: Collider
