One ANDOR Season 2 Detail You May Have Missed That Rewrites the Ending of ROGUE ONE
If you’ve been closley rewatching Andor Season 2 trying to catch little details like some fans have, you might have caught a subtle but meaningful detail that quietly echoes into the climax of Rogue One. Once you see it, it changes how you might experience that final act of the film.In one particularly haunting scene, we see Bix, who is still mentally wrecked from the Empire’s brutal torture in Season 1. She’s sitting dazed, visibly under the influence of some kind of drug. She’s holding a blaster and staring blankly at a screen. It’s a quiet, tragic moment. But it turns out the weapon she’s holding might not be just any blaster.One sharp-eyed Star Wars fan found that ties this back to Rogue One in a surprisingly emotional way: “The blaster Bix is cradling while drugged out is the same one Cassian uses to shoot Krennic in the back to save Jyn at the end of Rogue One. That’s one hell of a Chekhov gun to set up.”Yeah, the same blaster that Cassian uses to make sure Jyn finishes her mission, right before the Death Star lights up Scarif. If that’s true, then Bix, who doesn’t appear in Rogue One at all, suddenly becomes part of its emotional payload. She’s not physically there, but her presence plays a part in taking down Krennic and helping get the Death Star plans into Rebel hands.It’s the kind of detail that doesn’t scream for your attention but completely recontextualizes Cassian’s final stand. We still don’t know how that exact blaster ends up in his hands, but Bix, in some way, carries forward into Rogue One.I love how the threads of Andor continue to weave directly into the fabric of Rogue One, even in the smallest of ways. That’s the kind of storytelling that makes this universe so endlessly rewarding to revisit.
If you’ve been closley rewatching Andor Season 2 trying to catch little details like some fans have, you might have caught a subtle but meaningful detail that quietly echoes into the climax of Rogue One. Once you see it, it changes how you might experience that final act of the film.
In one particularly haunting scene, we see Bix, who is still mentally wrecked from the Empire’s brutal torture in Season 1. She’s sitting dazed, visibly under the influence of some kind of drug. She’s holding a blaster and staring blankly at a screen. It’s a quiet, tragic moment. But it turns out the weapon she’s holding might not be just any blaster.
One sharp-eyed Star Wars fan found that ties this back to Rogue One in a surprisingly emotional way:
“The blaster Bix is cradling while drugged out is the same one Cassian uses to shoot Krennic in the back to save Jyn at the end of Rogue One. That’s one hell of a Chekhov gun to set up.”
Yeah, the same blaster that Cassian uses to make sure Jyn finishes her mission, right before the Death Star lights up Scarif. If that’s true, then Bix, who doesn’t appear in Rogue One at all, suddenly becomes part of its emotional payload.
She’s not physically there, but her presence plays a part in taking down Krennic and helping get the Death Star plans into Rebel hands.
It’s the kind of detail that doesn’t scream for your attention but completely recontextualizes Cassian’s final stand. We still don’t know how that exact blaster ends up in his hands, but Bix, in some way, carries forward into Rogue One.
I love how the threads of Andor continue to weave directly into the fabric of Rogue One, even in the smallest of ways. That’s the kind of storytelling that makes this universe so endlessly rewarding to revisit.
