Andor Season 2’s Final Arc Makes A Good Rogue One Line Even Better

The final arc of Andor season 2 told a story that made a good line from Rogue One even better than it once was. The link between the TV show and Rogue One became more evident than ever in Andor season 2’s ending. Although the тιтular Cᴀssian Andor was first introduced in Rogue One, meaning the show served as a prequel to the 2016 movie, the first season told a story that was fairly distant from the timeline of the latter. Andor season 2’s timeline, though, moved events much closer to Rogue One.

The final arc of the show took place mere days before Rogue One began, meaning several tie-ins and connections between the two projects could be found. Some were more overt, be it the characters of Andor season 2’s cast who played a role in Rogue One or the set-up of Cᴀssian’s first scene in the movie, while some were more subtle. Ironically, one of the best connections to the film was actually found in a storyline mostly devoid of links to it, with one of Andor season 2’s best performances making a single line from Rogue One even better than it already was.

Andor Season 2’s Final Arc Highlights Kleya’s Effectiveness

Kleya Made Fools Of The Imperials

Season 2 positioned Kleya as the true leader of Luthen’s Rebellion, with several moments showing how reliable she is…

This entire sequence, coupled with the flashbacks about Kleya and Luthen’s backstory, highlights just how effective Kleya can be. Despite always being depicted as an intriguing character in Andor, season 2 positioned Kleya as the true leader of Luthen’s Rebellion, with several moments showing how reliable she is. Be it the scene from Andor season 2, episode 6 where she removes a listening device from a piece of art that could see them get caught or her infiltration of the hospital, Kleya singlehandedly knows how to make the Imperials suffer.

A Good Rogue One Line Links To Kleya’s Andor Story & Is Now Much Better

Spoken By Cᴀssian, Of All People

What drew a connection between Kleya’s scene in Andor season 2, episode 10 and Rogue One for me was a line spoken by Heert in episode 11. The ISB agent was ᴀssigned to survey the scene, stating that he was told there was a team of three that attacked the hospital, which his colleague confirms is the current theory. This only underlines just how effective Kleya was, as she managed to cause enough damage to the Empire that its agents thought multiple people were on the offensive against them.

When hearing this line, I immediately think of a similar line from Rogue One. In the final ᴀssault on Scarif in that movie, Cᴀssian tells Melshi to take men and blow up several docking stations in order to “make ten men feel like a hundred.” This line was exemplified by Kleya in Andor, only on a smaller scale. Now, the two lines are intertwined to me, making that moment from Rogue One much more impactful, as we know the soldiers of Star Wars’ Rebel Alliance can truly be that effective.

Rogue One Is Much Better Now – And It Was Already Great

Diego Luna as Cᴀssian Andor in Andor season 1 (2022) next to a poster for Rogue One (2016)

Custom Image by Lewis Glazebrook

This link between Kleya in Andor and Cᴀssian in Rogue One just goes to show how the former is improving the latter. Rogue One was always a good movie, with many of its bigger, epic moments landing exceptionally well. From the space battles and shootouts to the Death Star scenes and its major cameos, Rogue One‘s grander scenes were always enjoyable.

After Andor, though, the smaller moments of the film have been improved too. Every scene featuring Cᴀssian, for instance, now has heaps of dramatic context. Then there are small lines like “Rebellions are built on hope” or the aforementioned line Cᴀssian says to Melshi that now have explanations or companion scenes in Andor. The list goes on, proving just how strong Andor is thanks to how it makes smaller moments from an almost 10-year-old movie mean so much more than they once did.

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