Tony Gilroy Is Nonetheless Letting ‘Andor’ Theorists Down Gently

Tony Gilroy is not any stranger to shutting down a fan theory or two relating to his imaginative and prescient for what Andor set out to achieve. However as we get into the season of trying again on the biggest hits of 2025 (and with Andor season 2 certainly among them), the showrunner is being introduced again into the trenches of Star Wars theorycraft simply so he can go, “Nicely, that’s good, however no.”

Reflecting on the reception of season 2 with GamesRadar, Gilroy was not too long ago confronted with the fan principle that Andor season 2’s final moments—which see Bix strolling by way of a area of crops on the planet Mina-Rau, cradling her and Cassian’s youngster—depict Bix someway sensing, by way of the Power or in any other case, that Cassian had perished on the seashores of Scarif through the occasions of Rogue One.

It’s actually an thought, and leans into season 2’s transient dalliances with the Power, after Bix took Cassian to a Power healer based mostly out of the Insurgent enclave on Yavin and he or she intuited his significance to approaching occasions. However, in response to Gilroy, whereas it’s good, that’s simply merely not what he was making an attempt to convey out of the scene.

“It’s important to watch out about this, since you don’t need to rob someone else’s expertise. It wasn’t my intention,” Gilroy plainly informed GamesRadar. “I don’t understand how info would journey. I’d think about, sooner or later, she would discover out what had occurred. I don’t understand how she would intuit that he had handed away. Possibly she’s feeling one thing. Possibly that’s a ritual, that she goes on the market each night time and says one thing to him. I’m unsure, however it wasn’t my intention that she knew.”

It’s not the primary time Gilroy has needed to diplomatically acknowledge fandom whereas additionally reiterating his personal intent—bear in mind the whole foofaraw round Jyn/Cassian shippers and Cassian/Bix shippers?—however it’s an vital reminder that, whereas the reward of a present like Andor is that it has the depth to be open to multiple angles of critique and interpretation, there may be nonetheless additionally an authorial voice that its creator is not going to deny exists alongside these interpretations. None is extra legitimate than the opposite, however all of them simply occur to coexist from sure factors of view.

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