![]() Even Obi-Wan Kenobi maintained a tight focus on its central narrative drive. When The Book of Boba Fett expanded its focus beyond the title character (Temuera Morrison), it did so for episode-long stretches at a time. The Mandalorian is an episodic adventure serial tightly focused on Din Djarin (Pedro Pascal). None of the live-action Star Wars television shows have this sort of structure. It introduced Meero at the Imperial Security Bureau, along with her professional rival Lieutenant Supervisor Blevin (Ben Bailey Smith).īoth “Aldhani” and “The Axe Forgets” cut frequently across these various plot threads. It returned home with Syril to visit his mother Eedy (Kathryn Newton). It also traveled back to Coruscant with Luthen, where the plot extended to include Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly). It followed Andor to Aldhani, where he teamed up with Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay). In contrast, “ Aldhani” vastly expanded the show’s scope and scale. Even intercut with flashbacks to Andor’s youth, it was a linear narrative. They were tightly focused on Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) and the aftermath of the murders of Verlo (Stephen Wight) and Kravas (Lee Boardman) on Preox-Morlana, as Syril Karn (Kyle Soller) led a corporate security force to Ferrix to apprehend him. The opening three episodes were relatively tightly contained in terms of narrative and geography. This is reflected in the narrative structure of this second arc of Andor. “It’s too random to be random,” Heert muses. The lack of a pattern becomes a pattern of itself. They are mapping the outline of something much larger than they can imagine. They are processing large amounts of information, trying to fashion these fragments of data into a cohesive narrative. “The Axe Forgets” returns briefly to Supervisor Dedra Meero (Denise Gough), who is still poring over reports with her subordinate Attendant Heert (Jacob James Beswick). The introduction of the Imperial Security Bureau has introduced an entire new section of the cast fixated on identifying patterns and meaning in the chaos – to “identify symptoms,” “locate germs,” and “identify a disorder.” This is a recurring motif in Andor, particularly in the context of this second arc. Luthen is trying to discern signal from noise, to find something echoing in the void. The image also speaks to the larger themes of the episode. It’s a quiet and charming little scene, one that fits with the general mood of “The Axe Forgets” as an episode about “the day before.” It’s an episode about anticipation and build-up, rising tension and mounting inevitability. ![]() However, there is nothing coming through. He is waiting urgently for word of the attack on Aldhani. The closing moments of “The Axe Forgets” find Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) listening to an old radio transmitter in the back of his antiques shop. This discussion and review contains spoilers for Andor episode 5, “The Axe Forgets.”
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