Warning: This article contains spoilers for season one and two of the series “Andor.”
“Andor” season one came out in 2022 and season two in 2025. This show has a 8.4/10 on IMDB and a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes. This is one of my personal favorite shows of all time. Many people say “Revenge of the Sith” is the best Star Wars project or the “The Empire Strikes Back,” but I believe that “Andor” is the best Star Wars project now. “Andor” is a show focused on a rebel named Cassian Andor and he is sent on different missions fighting for the cause.
One of my favorite characters in this show is Syril. He is an employee of the Empire and his character is one of the reasons why this show is my favorite. Syril starts off doing what he is told, but in season two he believes he is doing the right thing even though he is being fed lies by his wife. In episode eight Syril learns about what is actually going on and decides to do the right thing and goes to the people. Syril finds Cassian who plans to assasinate Syril’s wife. Syril decides to tackle Cassian and then they fight. Syril eventually wins and he grabs the blaster and he points it at Cassian. Cassian asks Syril one question. “Who are you?” Onced asked this we can see Syril starting to lower the blaster and then Syril gets shot in the head. This scene shows how Syril was just a pawn in the plan and that he never mattered even though he put his life on the line and right before we could see him make right he dies. Syril’s sad story makes him one of my favorite characters in the show.
Another one of my favorite episodes from season one is “One Way Out.” This episode is so good and also so sad at the same time. This episode consists of Cassian being stuck in prison in which he is being forced to build parts; these parts are will later on be used to kill him if he doesn’t escape. There is a prison riot where the prisoners escape. Right before they reach their freedom from the base in the ocean, Kino Loy, who helped the other prisoners escape, says something to Cassian, which is gut wrenching to the viewers. He says “I cant swim.” This quote shows that he put in all this effort for freedom and at the last second he realizes he can’t swim and we don’t know what happened to his character but we can assume that he died either in the prison or he drowned trying to escape.
Overall, this show has character arcs just to have the character dying, showing that they don’t matter in the grand scheme of things. They may have helped, but did they have an impact?
These lingering, thought-provoking questions are why I believe “Andor” is one of the best written Star Wars projects.
