Andor’s unbelievable first season has come to an in depth with a fittingly nice episode, nevertheless it had yet one more shock to disclose after the credit. Whereas most of this present has remained (comparatively) freed from Easter eggs, the finale engages in some tried-and-true Disney teasing with a post-credits scene that looks like it will likely be key to the present’s second season, which implies it is best to positively stick round to observe it.
However in case you’ve already seen it, or are simply on the lookout for the brief model, right here’s what occurs after the credit in Andor’s season 1 finale.
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Andor season 1.]
The second to final arc of Andor’s first season sees Cassian trapped in an Imperial jail manufacturing facility the place he and his fellow inmates are tasked with monotonously constructing the identical items again and again — at the very least till they escape. We get the sense that it’s all in service of some large unknown mission, and whereas we definitely had a couple of guesses on the time, the present didn’t affirm what they had been engaged on till season 1’s credit rolled. However we now know that the items Cassian has been developing are for nothing lower than the Dying Star itself.
Because the credit fade out, a close-up of a machine in the midst of area fades in. In fittingly Andor trend, the shot begins by specializing in a small droid welding a bit into place on a bigger steel sheet (a pleasant parallel to the episode’s opening bomb-making) earlier than pulling again to disclose a whole lot of droids doing the identical factor all alongside the floor of the thriller spaceship. Lastly, we get a shot of your complete mission and the Dying Star is revealed, with its large laser cannon nonetheless beneath development — and simply so occurring to look lots like Andor’s opening titles and brand.
Whereas the scene is obvious in its intention, Andor creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy gave Polygon a couple of different particulars about how the reveal got here to be.
“We got here up with the jail, and the constructing of the half, fairly early on,” Gilroy instructed Polygon in an interview. “It was like, Oh, they need to be constructing the Dying Star. After which, , you observe it ahead, and it’s like, Oh, what? We oughta present that. So the visible results division simply liked that concept. They usually ran with it.”
Andor’s second season is being filmed now and, as anybody aware of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is aware of, it’s most likely going to incorporate much more of the Dying Star than season 1’s transient tease. There’s no phrase but on when Andor season 2 shall be launched.
