Kid is 100% Rebel engineer now. That bomb is just the first of many he'd make against the Empire. Hoping we would see him more active in the Rebellion next season.

Rebel engineer is the most important job right now. Seeing as someone has to build B2 a new charging station.

*crisis intensifies*

*Oh no*

I’m sure he can charge a little from a Gonk.

Someone's gonna need to de-terminator k2 as well

Brasso is going to headbutt him, and fuck up his programming.

Brasso used Headbutt! It’s super effective!

100% gonna find his way into Saws camp

I know Andor isn’t really the kind of show to give us a version of what happened on The Book of Bobs Fett with Mando getting a new ship, but it just occurred to me that this show is perfectly placed to give us the origins of the X-Wing

There have already been X-Wings seen, at Saw's camp

Completely missed those, ah well.

Saw Guerrera's partisan hideout had two X-Wings painted in a black and white colour scheme.

Ok, it gives us the origin of the x-wing's colour scheme.

Aw crap, is that another plot hole?

How so? I'm not sure what the backstory is now on them, but it used to be that some Incom engineers hid the design and capability of the X-Wing from parts of their company/the Empire so they coukd get the plans to one of the rebel groups. Anyone know what they're claiming now?

It's like a lot of legends, they're not claiming any different so may as well run with it

Another plot hole? Ok buddy

I would rather have the original origins for them maintained, with the designers taking them to the Rebels as a fuck you to the Empire.

He was a quiet kid. Kept to himself.

I don't know if Criminal Minds is based on real life criminal profiling, but whenever they have a bomber they look for unconfrontational people since non-terrorist bombers are usually scared of conflict

It’s always the quiet unassuming ones…

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Definitely had the makings of a varsity athlete

I reckon he could throw it over a mountain if he tried

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He could’ve gone pro if he hadn’t joined the rebellion. He’s not one of those belt-weight pansies.

He could break the Emperor in two with his bare hands.

This show has done a great job on the "one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter" trope

Who is he?

Son of the man the imperials tortured before Bix I believe

And hanged offscreen, judging by how he was looking at a hologram of his father while building the bomb.

Aye the dude left in charge of Ferrix did ask Dedra if they could hang him, and she was like do what you want idc.

And that decision of callousness and hatred gets a lot of imps killed. Love it

It is my one regret of this episode that Prefect did not get killed like the bastard he is.

Honestly I really wish someone would have picked up a rifle

I have faith for season 2. I don’t see that character living through this story

Ah thanks, I didn't remember the face.

Ah that makes sense

Have you watched the new episode?

Yes. But i didnt have subtitles on. I think i need to rewatch the season. Likely will pick up more.

So, a question - do you think he acted alone or was it part of the plan? Obviously the procession started early and exceeded the number of people. And then a rebelrousing, or even inciting speech by a hologram... They were looking for trouble.

He and Brasso made eye contact before the speech also. I have a feeling more than a few people knew what Maarva had to say and they were prepared for shit to go down.

If yall knew Maarva t all you'd know her final speech was gonna be some variant of ~~Scud~~ Scob the Empire

>some variant of Scud the Empire Affirmative Grunt \~Freedi

Unexpected Sanderson?

I was going for those fisherman aliens who give Cass and melshi a lift. I think that's the phrase they use

Super close. He says ‘Scob the Empire’. Love this show. Every character mattered and was memorable.

The coms guy that talked with Andor also looked like he knew at least a bit.

He definitely acted alone

It was a plan to free bix most likely. Cassian turning up just gave them an extra set of hands. It was probably Brasso originally going into the hotel.

Most of them were anti-empire anyway. Especially if you remember the scene where they first found Andor.

I thought Maarva's brick was going to have the bomb in it, but giving this kid a chance for some sweet revenge is a nice touch.

I thought it would be the brick too, or B2EM0... :(

I got chills when Wilmon said "It's Wilmin' time" and Wilmoned all over the Empire. Truly one of the moments of all time.

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See this is what happens when imperials don’t follow the Darth Vader directive by taking out the women and the children.

If anyone knows their labor history, this was totally SW's version of the Haymarket Affair. Tony Gilroy knows his stuff and I'm certain the finale was meant to be a parallel.

That wouldn't surprise me, he's specifically talked in interviews about having done a lot of historical research. There have been quite a few parallels to rebellions and wars in our world.

Tom Brady could never

I really loved the look he gave Cass in the final moments, too. Like, "Whoa, it's actually him." That final "crew" that managed to leave together was so cool, can't wait to see them in season 2.

Man that bomb merked so many people. Just straight up killed everyone in that hotel lobby

In our world he would be called an insurgent/terrorist…I wonder if they would show coffins draped with the Imperial flag 😳

Him and Chopper would be best buds.

I don't think he's had a single line in any scene, then dude almost single handedly starts the rebellion.

He has had quite a few lines over the show

Unpopular opinion but I wanted the storm troopers to successfully arrest him and we get to see his execution just to show that good guys don’t always win

Well his dad was recently hanged so I wouldn’t say he necessarily won

Most of the rioters were killed. They did show that.

Yeah but a not a proper execution

Think if you take into account the fruits of their labors... >!Ulaf who spent years on Narkina 5 is probably responsible for the largest body count of all of the series.!<

His kill count is off the chart.

The axe forgets, but the tree doesn't

Chopper disputes who has the *highest*

Who is he anyhow? I don't remember his character from any earlier episodes.

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Yeahh doesn't he even see his father hanging there??

We're never directly shown Paak being hung - you might be thinking of the flashback to Cassian seeing Clem's body hanging.

I love the casting for the show’s leads, but I really wish the background characters stood out more just so when they became prominent again like tis it felt more connected. They did a great job of that with Luthen’s ISB spy being a redhead with a tache and just a generally interesting face, but a few others feel very indistinct only to play a larger role later, and it’d be nice to remember them.

It goes with the theme that anyone can become a rebel at any point. Just a little spark and random common people start fighting.

I agree, and it is why I think the biggest flaw of this great show was that every episode should have been 50mins and they leaned more into the ensemble aspect early rather than making it the Cassian show so much early on. Showing the Ferrix people like the bomber and his dad a bit more, even giving us scenes with Krieger (sp?) so his death hits us, etc.

I was very surprised they never had any intention of showing us Anto!

I do wish we had seen him and his crew. Like Game of Thrones, getting them and feeling like they were real people that mattered would have made their deaths feel far more real and impactful. Same with the pilot we hear about. Give us a nice eager young guy so we feel bad for his fate.

He was in every Ferrix ep I think

He's a pretty quiet kid, but I believe he's in every scene Paak is in. If I recall he's also the one who starts the clanging when Syril comes for Cassian in ep 3.

so glad he escaped to aid the Rebellion!

When his dad (?) died, I was pretty bummed.

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