Let’s give it up for a person named Tivik. With out him, there’s each likelihood that Alderaan would not have been the one planet destroyed by the Dying Star in “Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope.” Certain, lots of people could make that declare: Galen Erso, Jyn Erso, Luthen Rael, Cassian Andor, Bodhi Rook. However all of them get their place within the highlight and we speak about them. A lot digital ink will get spilled throughout these characters, but Tivik simply waits for his day within the solar, so we will give it to him.
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For many who do not bear in mind him, Tivik appeared in the beginning of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” (the place he was portrayed by actor Daniel Mays). The “Star Wars” universe is stuffed with fascinating aspect characters, but Tivik discovered himself tucked away within the again alleys of the Ring of Kafrene, an asteroid-based surroundings. There, he waited for Cassian (Diego Luna) with a purpose to give him details about a super-weapon he heard about whereas roaming Noticed Gerrera’s (Forest Whitaker) hidden base on Jedha. This weapon was alleged to have the ability to destroy planets, so the affirmation of its existence from a number of people and disparate sources of knowledge was sufficient for the Riot to take the likelihood critically and permit Cassian to proceed his investigation. This finally led him to the planet Scarif, the place he, Jyn (Felicity Jones), Bodhi (Riz Ahmed), and lots of others have been in a position to steal the plans to mentioned super-weapon, aka the Dying Star.
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If it weren’t for Tivik, nevertheless, it is possible the Insurgent Alliance would have dismissed the rumors utterly.
Why did Andor shoot Tivik in Rogue One?
Sadly, Cassian needed to shoot Tivik within the again after assembly him on the Ring of Kafrene. It is a transfer that left lots of people scratching their heads and questioning if Cassian actually was the hero they assumed he was. However why did he do it?
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With stormtroopers bearing down on each of them, he and Tivik could not be taken alive. Cassian shot the 2 stormtroopers harassing them as a result of he had to get out of there with that info. If that they had run his scandocs or id, he would virtually definitely by no means escape once more. Once more, they had to get out of there. Being caught on the dead-end of an alley, there was actually just one route that wasn’t going to get Cassian and Tivik shot or caught, and that meant climbing up the pipes. In equity to Cassian, he did not appear to note Tivik’s damaged arm till the latter revealed it from behind his jacket. That left Cassian with a break up second choice to make.
For Cassian, the calculus was morally troublesome (as evidenced by the look on his face after taking pictures Tivik) however operationally easy. Tivik was clearly a trusted contact, and Cassian did not enter the assembly meaning to kill him. Tivik additionally could not escape due to his damaged arm and, beneath no circumstance, might Cassian let him get caught by the Imperials. Cassian knew what had occurred to somebody the final time that they had details about him — the Imperials had tortured Bix Calleen (Adria Arjona) for weeks for the knowledge they wished, as revealed by “Andor” season 1.
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If Tivik instructed the Empire he had handed off details about a planet-killing weapon to a Insurgent like Cassian, the Empire would cease at nothing to hunt him down, making any try to discover a weak spot within the station unimaginable. So, operationally, Cassian had no alternative. He needed to go away the Imperials a chilly path if the mission to deliver down the Dying Star was going to have any likelihood to succeed.
The result’s a haunting, chilling second, and maybe probably the greatest ones in your entire “Star Wars” saga. However that is an argument for a unique time.
Tivik’s return for Andor season 2
Tivik’s identify will get bandied about fairly a bit throughout the closing episode of “Andor” season 2 (and the present as an entire). Normal Draven (Alistair Petrie) is nervous as a result of Tivik has despatched a message to the Rebels insisting that he has extraordinarily vital and pressing intel … however Cassian is the solely individual he’ll give it to.
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That is troubling to the overall for a few causes. First, Cassian was simply confined to his quarters for not following orders — once more. Therefore, the overall is not fairly positive he can belief Cassian. He tries to see if Tivik will probably be prepared to ship his info to the Rebels or if he’d be prepared to speak to anybody else, however Tivik is insistent.
This reality really makes his closing vacation spot all of the extra heartbreaking. If he insisted on Cassian, it is as a result of he did not belief anybody else. When somebody is concerned in spycraft, they wish to speak to the folks they belief, i.e. these they’ve a relationship with. They try this simply to allow them to shield themselves from getting shot within the again. It was simply his poor luck that his info was so explosive, and the scenario so dire, that Cassian did not have one other alternative.
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The clues Tivik did go away, and the threads that Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and his assistant Kleya Marki (Elizabeth Dulau) left for the Rebels to discover with a purpose to discover out in regards to the planet-killing Dying Star, have been tantalizing and intertwined. If Tivik was going to talk solely with Cassian, Normal Draven was going to have just one alternative. That is why he satisfied Senator Bail Organa (Benjamin Bratt) to let Cassian chase down the lead and head to the Ring of Kafrene.
Ultimately, Tivik gave his life to a person he trusted to move on that info. He finally paid the identical value as so many others who strove to destroy the Dying Star, Cassian included. “Rogue One” has an advanced ending, very similar to the one to “Andor” season 2 and so they each hit laborious.
Andor explains Cassian’s decisions
Tivik wasn’t the primary time Cassian Andor was compelled to shoot a contact within the again. If one have been to look at each seasons of “Andor” first and then watch “Rogue One,” one would concentrate on the hazard inherent to Cassian assembly Tivik in a manner that you just would not have been should you watched “Rogue One” solely.
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Certainly, we see Cassian shoot somebody within the again in his very first arc in “Andor” season 1. Later, when Cassian and Bix are staying in Luthen’s Coruscant secure home in season 2, they argue about whether or not or not it was proper for Cassian to have shot a contact. Cassian argues that the contact noticed their faces and he had no different alternative. He additional rationalizes that it was the one option to maintain the each of them secure and guarantee their path remained chilly.
Every little thing in Cassian’s rationalizations to Bix apply to what will need to have been working by way of his thoughts as he shot Tivik in “Rogue One.” As you hearken to Cassian clarify issues to Bix, although, it is virtually as if he is rationalizing it to himself as a lot to her.
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What actor Daniel Mays has mentioned about Tivik
Mays, for his half, thought it was very possible his look as Tivik would find yourself on the chopping room ground. “It was a tremendous day,” he instructed Yahoo Films UK whereas he was selling his film “Fisherman’s Mates” in 2019. “I used to be on the reshoots. I used to be simply grateful that I did not hit the chopping room ground since you might have dropped that character. However in precise reality, once I watch that movie again, it is a actually good scene.”
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He defined that he had an amazing expertise on the “Rogue One” set and was delighted by the truth that he acquired to behave reverse stormtroopers. That and, like many followers, he discovered the movie to be one of many most interesting “Star Wars” films ever made.
“I used to be completely like a fanboy,” he instructed Yahoo. “I like ‘Star Wars’ and so does my son, so it was the good factor I might’ve been in, by way of telling my son the information. However I beloved it.”
The whole thing of “Andor” and “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” are at present streaming on Disney+.
