Spoilers For “Andor” follow.
The premise of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” offered a chance to see the POV of “little people” of the universe “Star Wars”. Rebel soldiers like Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) are people who help make the realization of history but who find themselves, in the long term, forgotten by that. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) wins the lucky shot to destroy the Death Star, but “Rogue One” recontextualizes the way it has happened only because of the difficulties and sacrifices of many others.
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“Snape One” also has zoomed in nasty power centers. Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn) is perhaps the head of the Death Construction Project, but he is the middle director next to Dark Vader (James Earl Jones and David Powse / Spencer Wilding) and Grand Moff Tarkin (Peter Cushing / Guy Henry).
The “Rogue One” Rogue “and the series” and “Rogue” and “Rogue” extends this POV by going even further in the Totem pole. “Andor” offers the best look to date on the functioning of the imperial bureaucracy, even if the Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) is nowhere in sight. It is like the scene of the conference room of death in the original “Star Wars”, where Dark Vador says that he finds the lack of faith of Admiral Motti (Richard Leparmentier) in the disturbing force. Only This Time, there is no Lord of Darkness of the Sith to break political discourse.
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Our eye on this story is Dedra Meero (Denise Gough), an intelligence officer at the Imperial Security Office (ISB). Ambitious and merciless, she is there to make the rising star of her superior major Lio Shariaz (Anton less).
If you take a look at the situation of Dedra and you do not explain the context, it seems to be the type of character for which you could tell. She is an outsider in the office and a woman in a man’s galaxy. “Andor” intelligently indicates the impulse of the public for the root for her, then eliminates it. Dedra is not bad or naive of the reality of the Empire. She is a true believing fascist and a key room in the planning of the horrible evil, like the genocide of Ghorman.
This is why it is so satisfactory that, in the final of the series “Andor” “Jedha, Kyber, Erso”, the fate of Dedra is imprisoned by the Empire even to which she devoted herself. “Andor” Creator Tony Gilroy told Vanity Fair that Dedra going to prison is “worse than death” – especially since, back “Andor”, season 1, viewers have had a taste of what imperial prisons look like.
Andor saved a piece from Narkina 5 prison for special occasions
In season 1 of “Andor”, Dedra hunts the rebel axis, alias Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård). She finally finds it in episode 10 of season 2, “Make It Stop”, having done so by “trapping” and reading imperial files which exceeded his level of authorization (including reports on the Death Star). From there, she completely Bug the operation. Luthen’s ISB agent, LONNI JUNG (Robert Emms), hacates Dedra’s computer and finds the death files of death, transmitting information on the weapon on Luthen who transmits them to his assistant Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau). Dedra, not violating the security of the security she authorized, confronts Luthen alone and gives her the opportunity to stab while she is concerned about the milestone.
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Dedra is arrested and Krennic presents herself personally to castigate it. “If you are not a rebellious spy, you have missed your call,” he spits with venom. As we know of “Rogue One”, Krennic is finally a paper tiger next to the big players. Whether he is able to impose himself so fiercely in Dedra, as Vader or Tarkin do in Krennic himself, shows how it is out of its depth.
In the series closing assembly, Dedra is seated in a cell, haunted but empty air. When the lights go out, she collapses her face in her hands. Dedra’s cell would seem familiar, because it is literally a piece of the whole of Narkina 5 prison in season 1 of Andor. As he said Vanity Fair:
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“We do not save many sets. They are very carnivorous there. They destroy everything. So I remember having said to Luke Hull, the designer of the production of the show,” Oh Mec, except a piece of Narkina. Save me a photo of this cell, because I think we will probably use it. “”
Gilroy and the “Andor” team have indeed found a way to use it, a choice that Gilroy called an “appropriate result of [Dedra’s] Business of the monkeys. “Speaking to decide, Gilroy reiterated that being in a prison like Narkina is” worse than death “and thought about:” I think that once we have gotten our hands on the Narkina penitentiary system, [Dedra’s] Fate has been sealed. “”
Denise Gough thought that Dedra’s fate was just
In “Andor” season 1, episode 7, “announcement”, Cassian was sentenced to Narkina’s prison for six years. Not for any of his criminal activities or participate in a rebellious robbery – he just looked at a stormtrooper in the wrong direction. In Narkina 5, prisoners are used as slave work for the 12 -hour break -ups. Divided into seven groups, they compete against the productivity of others. To avoid escape, the prison floors are electrified, which makes prisoners fry by pressing a button.
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Cassian and his detained colleagues finally discover a dark reality: when their sentences are in place, they are only moved to another prison. They therefore plot and execute an escape, overcoming the Empire’s attempts to divide them by meeting to find “One Way Out”. This is the most anti-carcarcarca story that I have ever seen in popular fiction, not to mention one of the highest of the many summits of “Andor”.
“Having crossed Narkina, and after writing through having and lived and somehow inhabited with imagination – yes, it’s worse [than death]”Said Gilroy to Vanity Fair, because it is a slow Death that only comes after years and years of dehumanization. Now, even if the show has reused the Narkina whole, it is not clear if Dedra is in the exact Same prison as Cassian was. She is in a prison for women, of course, but uniforms and architecture suggest that it works at least as Narkina has done.
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Denise Gough said in season 1 of “Andor” that she did not want a takeover for Dedra. Recently, addressing Yahoo UK, Gough said that she had found the end of Dedra “just” and “a gift to the public” – a gift that was based on “deep” episodes showing Narkina 5 in season 1.
“I think I have that, such a small image of Dedra at the end where we saw what – as if everything was put in place in season 1 what she will have to go now in there.”
Dedra Meero will lead her oath to serve the Empire until the end, but the whole award she will receive is to work to death.
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