Andor‘s space prison shit is dangerous. It’s entirely by design. The prison itself is terrible, using electric shocks on the floor to force prisoners into forced labor. Cassian’s (Diego Luna) biggest obstacle to escaping is his fellow prisoner, Kino Loy (Andy Serkis). At least until we discover an even more terrifying truth. Cassian and Kino figured they could at least take turns making sentences for a few days, but Narkina 5’s terrible secret is that the prisoners were simply shuffled around and kept making machine parts for something endlessly. It means that
As the various teams of Unit 5-2D build, build, and build more, the machines they’re building begin to feel like they’re evoking something big in the Star Wars universe. Undoubtedly, it’s a tool in the Empire’s Great Evil mission, but could it be AT-AT gear? Part of the Death Star?
Luke Hull, production designer Andorsays the point (even as of Episode 10’s prison break) is not knowing what they’re assembling — at least yetAs Hull told Polygon, they’re making these parts and they’re getting closer to revealing. .
“There are seven prisons in Narkina, and each prison has seven floors,” Hal says. “You don’t necessarily get that when you look at the brief moments on the other floors, but they’re making different parts on each floor. So they’re essentially mass-producing something.”
There aren’t many glimpses of other floors during the triumphant chaos of prison break. .
but the magic Andor And that terrifying space prison, for now (or perhaps forever, if the show wants to), doesn’t matter what they’re building. The constant aimlessness and inhumanity of . , the organic human being is a disposable part of the machine’. It’s the cruelty, not the end product that counts.
With Cassian and Melshi on edge, Cassian’s relationship with the Empire fundamentally changed, setting him on a path to confront the system’s inevitable tyranny.in the meantime rogue one This will tell us where this will ultimately take him Andor Everything about Star Wars feels like it complements the grounded storytelling it does, thus building a journey worth following at every stage of its production. In some worlds, sometimes that’s all you can ask for.