This submit comprises main spoilers for “Andor” season 2.
“Andor” season 2 had been a little bit of a gradual burn via its first six episodes, however the again half of the season picked up in an enormous, dangerous method, significantly with the discharge of episode 8, titled “Who Are You?” It is one of many present’s most intense episodes up to now, proper up there with the season 1 favourite “One Method Out.” This particular episode noticed loss of life and destruction reign down upon the individuals of Ghorman by the hands of the Empire — with some of the loyal cogs within the Imperial machine assembly his demise.
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Kyle Soller’s Syril Karn, who loves house cereal and sustaining order and has been searching Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) because the earliest days of the collection, dies in a showdown with the Insurrection hero in direction of the top of the episode. Cassian’s closing phrases to Syril as he is on the mistaken finish of a blaster? “Who’re you?” It is a fairly devastating second for Syril, who immediately realized the obsession of his wasn’t even conscious he existed.
In an interview with Selection, Soller mentioned Syril’s loss of life intimately. Extra particularly, he revealed there have been different iterations of the character’s loss of life scene in consideration earlier than the ultimate model was settled on:
“There have been three or 4 various things Cassian was going to say, they usually lastly ended up on ‘Who’re you?’ which I feel was excellent as a result of that breaks Syril in that second. ‘Oh, my God. My obsession would not even know who I’m.’ How gutting is that?”
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Gutting certainly. As for what different variations of the road have been thought of? There have been a few different choices however, as Soller defined, none of them carried the identical weight as what the present finally landed on:
“It was a brief listing: ‘You’ and ‘It is you’ and ‘Who’re you?’ It simply fully cuts him in that second. If Cassian had mentioned, ‘It is you,’ would Syril have had extra resolve to do one thing, or would he nonetheless have lowered his gun? I do not know, however when it comes to Syril’s arc, it simply completely completes the journey being utilized by powers which might be larger than you on this large machine and mayhem of life. You suppose you’ve got made a distinction, however you have not.”
Andor season 2 gave Syril Karn a becoming finish
Brutal although it might have been, it was a really becoming loss of life for Syril Karn. “Andor” has been all about giving us a gritty, on-the-ground take a look at how the Insurrection shaped within the face of the tyrannical rule of the Empire. It isn’t all black and white. Syril believed within the Empire with out query; solely in his closing moments did he understand he in all probability ought to have requested some questions. To that finish, there was quite a lot of debate relating to how the scene ought to play out.
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“There was an enormous query of whether or not, when the explosion occurs, is Syril nonetheless on his toes or he is perhaps useless or one thing that loops into the top beat between the 2 of them,” Soller defined. “This combat is unexpectedly equal; on every other day, Cassian would beat the s*** out of Syril, no query. However Syril has this superpower launched by all the things that is occurred to him.”
The Ghorman Bloodbath will go down in “Star Wars” historical past, little question, with Syril’s expertise on the heart of all of it. His horrible realization that his accomplice Dedra Meero (Denise Gough) has betrayed him is just infected by his long-awaited confrontation with Cassian, who was there to kill Dedra. The entire thing makes for a formidable association of items on the chess board. Talking additional, Soller dove into his ideas about Syril’s loss of life, believing it to be an ideal finish for his character:
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“I assumed it was an ideal ending for him. It felt like simply earlier than one thing else might occur to Syril, it is taken away. A lot had been taken away from him throughout the final 10 minutes of his life, all these revelations and betrayals coming to mild, the veil being lifted from all of the truths he held to be proper in regards to the Empire and the alternatives in his life fully crumbling. As a substitute of getting a redemption story, I feel it was a lot stronger and far more actual to life.”
“For all of Syril’s vainness, romanticism, and delusions of grandeur about himself, he is simply one other cog within the wheel. He is simply one other casualty of conflict,” Soller concluded.
“Andor” is streaming now on Disney+.
