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bix caleen & cassian andor || idea 10

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Diego behind the scenes of Andor S2

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I love it! Might just need to have the cute animals version of this scenario too as per the tags… if there were any possibility of some fan art … 🙄… (though Cassian will always be a cat to me)

Having a Very Serious^tm discussion with @velkleyaenjoyer about Vel and Kleya's cooking skills and how Vel can't cook to save her life (it's one of the things about her Chandrilan Heiress status she can't escape because she would've had a private chef from the age of 2) whereas Kleya is a great cook because she grew up with Luthen who ALSO couldn't cook to save his life and fuck if she was gonna eat only ration bars or that self-inflating bread, she needs good food in her body to be Locked In 24/7.

And this Very Serious talk devolved into imagining a Velkleya/Bixcassian double date where Vel and Bix are casually chatting at the table waiting for dinner while Kleya and Cassian are cooking in the kitchen and this close to killing each other because they keep telling each other how to do things and trying to change each other's recipes like the foster siblings that they are.

(any tagging of @thekeythief is totally coincidental)

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Diego Luna as Cassian Andor ANDOR | 2.07

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Diego Luna as Cassian Andor

Andor (2022-2025)

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ANDOR (2022–2025) 2.05: I HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE

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Keero + text posts that have been living in my images folder for approximately forever

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New Andor bts shot of Diego Luna courtesy of Michael Wilkinson’s instagram.

Plenty more here…

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Fabulous use of music . I agree with the previous addition – and I think it’s only “most people on Tumblr don’t like the ending” to be strictly accurate. Going by the admittedly unscientific method of looking at comments on YouTube clips and articles etc I think it’s fair to say that 90 - 95% loved the ending. 

I know most people don't like the ending of Andor, but there is something to be said about how the score that plays while Cassian makes his way through the Yavin base to his ship, essentially an unstoppable force marching toward death, plays off the theme of the funeral march from Ferrix. It's such a beautiful callback

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And they didn’t ✨

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Maybe we should leave target practice behind.

ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

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I see your point here for sure. Even when the film was a standalone project it felt like a slightly odd thing to say considering the relationship dynamics you mention. But I think it’s just Cassian’s way of giving Jyn comfort here, and even if it’s a slightly bland platitude she still accepts it in the spirit in which it’s given - that smile of gratitude. So I think it’s as much about affirming their bond at the end too. In the new context of Andor, I can’t help but think back to s1 ep 11 and Cassian trying to get a message through to his adoptive mother - “ …tell her she’ll be proud of me” - only for Xanwan to break the devastating news that she has died. And the visual echo (the beach, the low light on the horizon ) is also too strong to ignore. So I now see this moment as about Cassian comforting himself as well as comforting Jyn; giving her the sort of reassurance he eventually received via Brasso’s message. In other words, for me it’s another moment where the series enhances the film. 

This is really just a nitpick, but compared to how charismatic Cassian Andor is throughout the TV series, compared to the bold and meaningful things he has to say to his comrades, even to people he barely knows (see Niya in the opening scene of Season Two), his last words to Jyn are so weak and sauceless. Jyn just did something incredibly brave, she gave the rebellion hope, she gave Cassian hope, she made a great sacrifice and she asked, she demanded that others make the same sacrifice and then she made it worth it. That's a lot! And in the end, instead of saying something about the rebellion, or the two of them, (I'm glad that you are here with me, here at the end of all things), he brings up a third person, and reassures Jyn her dead estranged heroic father would have been proud of her.

Which is also a miss because as far as I can tell, the stakes in that relationship aren't whether Jyn can earn Galen's approval, it's whether Galen can earn Jyn's. The question is whether Jyn can be proud of her father the imperial collaborator, and when the answer is yes, she can be proud because in his own way he has been working on the empire's downfall, she acts on that love and pride by going on the final mission.

If I could rewrite that scene, Cassian would say something along the lines of "we did it, the rebellion will go on without us", but of course it would sound better and more charismatic.

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I've been thinking about the fan theories that floated around after the first season of Andor, especially the ones that were taken up and played with in the AMCA podcast. And I'm glad that not only were all of them proven false, they were discarded in an interesting and satisfying way.

Luthen Rael is a Jedi? No, we don't get a solitary survivor, a heir of the old wise order, instead we get a sergeant in the Imperial Army who hid in his ship while his people slaughtered civilians. He was a cog in the machine, a passive participant in a war crime, and when he saves one person and runs, when he turns on the empire, he does so having been part of it.

Kleya is Cassian's sister? No, she's just another traumatized orphan from a completely different planet invaded by the Empire. It turns out the galaxy is full of those: destroyed planets, destroyed families, children who lost everything and were lucky to escape with their lives.

(Maybe Dedra is Cassian's sister? No, she's just another kid who had her parents taken by the Empire, maybe they were criminals, maybe they were "criminals", we'll never know.)

If Luthen was a Jedi, if Kleya was Cassian's sister, the galaxy would be very small. Since Luthen was an imperial sergeant gone AWOL, and Kleya grew up on another planet, the galaxy is immense, and yet full of people who suffered the same pain, and who can and will fight for the same goal. Our heroes are nobodies, anybodies, everybodies, and that is why they matter. Cassian will never find her sister, or he finds her only in death: but he stands with dozens, hell, thousands of people who might as well be his sisters and brothers.

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BIX CALEEN & CASSIAN ANDOR ANDOR (2022-2025) | Season 2

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Bix and Cassian and some well deserved peace ᕕ༼✿•̀︿•́༽ᕗ

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If we’re going to start a very small but very passionate Bixcassian fan club I am totally here for it. Writers’ block on my current fic but it’s beautiful art like this that makes me love them all over again ❤️‍🩹 And we still love them on Reddit!

Bix and Cassian and some well deserved peace ᕕ༼✿•̀︿•́༽ᕗ

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If I die fighting the Empire, I want to go down swinging.