![]() Right now, the show still feels fresh because it’s such a contrast to the rest of Star Wars. However, because this episode is still mostly focused on setting-up various character threads, it remains to be seen if Andor’s novelty can actually transform into something else. Andor has made its point with episode 5, the adventures of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo are nothing like what life was like for the rest of the people in the Rebellion. In real life, being a freedom fighter for the Rebellion would be like this: tedious, difficult, and uncomfortable. The big Rebellion heist on Aldhani seems scheduled for next week, but then again, even in this episode, it’s a little difficult to know exactly how many times everyone in the camp has to go to sleep before they can wake up and do something again. ![]() If literary realism isn’t really your thing, and you watch Star Wars for the pew-pew blasters and the space adventure, “The Axe Forgets” isn’t suddenly shifting the show into hyperdrive. Detail in Andor isn’t always about the plot, sometimes it’s just there because those details would exist in real life, too. Cassian (Diego Luna) and Skeen (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) discussing tattoos hint at some backstory yet to be revealed, but then again, maybe not. This is a show where Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) taking off her earrings in a landspeeder will be perhaps just as important as the mention of an off-screen, but very familiar, planet. If focusing on blue milk and tiny pills feels like splitting the tiniest of hairs on the head of a Wampa, let’s be honest, this is what Andor is. It’s a slightly jarring moment, only because it feels so commonplace. At one point, while burning the midnight oil with one of her Imperial colleagues, Dedra Meero (Denis Gough) pops some Star Wars version of aspirin. What fans and critics who like the series are saying is true: Star Wars has never felt this grown-up and secure in telling a story in which people talk like real people and do normal things. ![]() But, at this point, the overarching promise of the series seems torn between the two perspectives floated at the end of this episode: This is either just getting started, or it’s not.Īs a Star Wars series intent on presenting naturalism as opposed to melodrama, Andor continues to deliver more of the same excellence in acting and solid dialogue as the first four episodes. Luthen retorts with, “Or it will just be starting.” If Andor episode 4 was all about dropping us into new environments, then episode 5 is clearly the calm before the storm. “It’ll all be over this time tomorrow,” Kleya says. Luthen is clearly worried that Cassian’s job on the planet Aldhani is going to go south, while Kleya makes it clear that she believes everything is going to work out, one way or another. Just at the very end of Andor episode 5, “The Axe Forgets,” Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and his assistant on Coruscant, Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau), have a brief discussion about the future of the Rebellion. This Star Wars: Andor article contains spoilers.
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