#you can argue that cassian's arc is a tad weak in this because he's not really developing here all that much

[antianakin]

Controversially, final shot aside, I actually felt like this arc was the strongest ARC out of this entire season. Mostly I think that's because it's so simple in comparison to the other arcs. Mon's story is done now and so is Bix's so we never have to focus on either of them. They let Luthen and Kleya dominate the first episode so that the final two can focus entirely on Cassian's relationship with the rebellion and the Empire eating its own. I have some nitpicky issues with some of the dialogue and some issues with the season overall, but in general I think that this arc actually works quite well and there weren't any storylines that felt exceptionally weak.

It's not super bombastic, but it IS focusing in more on the emotions of it all, on wrapping up the thing that brought everyone to this place and what that means to them. They're all exactly where they need to be and there's one person who connects them all and, in the grand tradition of both Andor and Rogue One, we spend the entire storyline passing information along, passing the baton to the next person and the next to just make sure it gets to the right person in the right place at the right time.

Andor has never been about the big bombastic action sequences, it's about those little individual choices everyone has to make each day that define who you are choosing to be and how that will impact who you become. It's about the ripple effect of those choices, the way they impact not just you but the world around you in ways you might never expect. So having this final arc acknowledge that all of those ripples have led them here, into the story that we know, works really well for me.