Warning: spoilers for season 2 of Andor are forward.
One of the wildest sub-plots of Andor season 2 was the fallout of Syril Karn and Dedra Meero’s relationship. The 2 Imperial officers shared a sense of each ambition and awkwardness, and watching their relationship develop gave Star Wars followers one other look into life throughout the reign of the Empire. A minimum of, for individuals who willingly selected to be on the facet of the Empire.
Should you’ve watched the entirety of Andor season 2, you’d know that issues don’t finish properly for both Syril and Dedra. Syril witnesses a bloodbath of harmless civilians on Ghorman, overseen by Dedra, and he’s killed by a native insurgent whereas tussling with Cassian Andor. (Worse but, Cassian would not acknowledge him.) A yr later, Dedra overextended herself whereas making an attempt to apprehend Luthen Rael, which resulted in Luthen being on life help in an Imperial hospital, whereas Dedra was interrogated by none aside from Orson Krennic. Dedra’s actions, in Krennic’s thoughts, resembled that of a insurgent spy – the last item that Dedra was, in fact.
About this fall from grace for Dedra, actress Denise Gough stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, “That scene with Krennic is the final collapse. She’s being forged out of the gang by the new hotshot, and it is devastating to seek out out that she missed that Lonni [Jung had stolen her security cert]. All the pieces falls aside. Possibly if she hadn’t been with Syril, she would not have missed that. The moral of the story is, don’t get a boyfriend.”
Gough is fairly clear that Syril was, in some ways, Dedra’s downfall; his loss of life on Ghorman, she stated, “ruins her… He is the solely one who has ever seen Dedra Meero weak.” The yr between that time and her personal downfall, she reasoned, “would’ve been a yr of placing herself again collectively after what she feels is a catastrophe.”
For Gough, the Empire features as an unique, backstabby “gang” versus the Riot, which works extra as a “tribe” constructed on “loyalty.” I’d describe Imperial officers as crabs in a barrel if it weren’t for the indisputable fact that the Empire, throughout this era, has all the energy in the galaxy. Nonetheless, it ought to be famous that one Imperial officer’s victory is not essentially introduced as a victory for the whole Empire in Andor. This works in distinction with the Riot, the place there’s extra of a spirit of “a rising tide lifts up all ships.” In spite of everything, a life free of fascism is a life properly lived.
Andor is streaming in its entirety on Disney+.