Andor’s unimaginable first season has come to an in depth with a fittingly nice episode, however it had another 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 is going to be key to the present’s second season, which suggests it’s best to positively stick round to observe it.
However in case you’ve already seen it, or are simply on the lookout for the quick 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 unit the place he and his fellow inmates are tasked with monotonously constructing the identical items over and over — no less than 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 verify what they had been engaged on till season 1’s credit rolled. However we now know that the items Cassian has been establishing are for nothing lower than the Demise Star itself.
Because the credit fade out, a close-up of a machine in the midst of house 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 lots of of droids doing the identical factor all alongside the floor of the thriller spaceship. Lastly, we get a shot of all the mission and the Demise Star is revealed, with its large laser cannon nonetheless underneath building — and simply so occurring to look rather a lot like Andor’s opening titles and emblem.
Whereas the scene is evident 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 advised Polygon in an interview. “It was like, Oh, they need to be constructing the Demise Star. After which, you realize, you comply with it ahead, and it’s like, Oh, you realize what? We oughta present that. So the visible results division simply cherished that concept. And so they ran with it.”
Andor’s second season is being filmed now and, as anybody conversant in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is aware of, it’s in all probability going to incorporate much more of the Demise Star than season 1’s temporary tease. There’s no phrase but on when Andor season 2 will likely be launched.