Warning: SPOILERS for this week’s Andor episodes are forward!
With one other week brings one other batch of three Andor Season 2 episodes to the 2025 TV schedule. We’re now three-fourths of the best way by means of this ultimate outing for Diego Luna’s title character, and this week noticed one other main character being killed off following the demise Varada Sethu’s Cinta Kaz final week. Not solely was demise scene was dealt with properly, it led to my favourite emotional second that the Disney+ subscription-exclusive Star Wars present has delivered to date this season.
Syril Karn Was Killed On Ghorman
When Denise Gough’s Dedra Meero was put in command of the Empire’s operation on Ghorman, Kyle Soller’s Syril Karn, her boyfriend, got here alongside for the trip. Nonetheless a devoted servant of the Empire, we watched in final week’s Andor episodes how Syril pretended to have an interest within the Ghorman Entrance, all so he could possibly be lured into the resistance motion and cross alongside intel about its actions to Dedra. And but, as a result of he wasn’t as excessive rating throughout the Imperial energy construction, he wasn’t looped in on the actual motive for why the Empire was on Ghorman.
One yr later, Syril lastly discovered the reality: that the Empire wanted to mine the planet’s deep substrate foliated Kalkite, which might coat the Demise Star’s reactor lenses. Mining the mineral might render the planet unstable and kill tons of of 1000’s of individuals, however the Imperial management didn’t care. As a substitute, they’d propaganda distributed towards the Ghorman folks, permitting for the oblique creation of a radical insurgency. From there, the Empire would put down mentioned insurgency take full management of the planet and mine as a lot Kalkite because it wished, Ghorman residents be damned.
That lastly occurred in “Who Are You?,” with the Ghorman Bloodbath, an already established Star Wars historic occasion, unfolding. Nonetheless, earlier than stormtroopers andImperial enforcer droids (one among which is able to grow to be Alan Tudyk’s Ok-2SO) began killing Ghorman Entrance members and harmless bystanders alike, Syril was livid to study he’d been occasion to an atrocity he very a lot didn’t assist. He even went as far as to bodily assault Dedra to get her to substantiate his suspicions and was livid that she’d hidden this from him.
Ultimately Syril ended up on the bottom as so many had been being killed, and it was then he noticed Cassian Andor, the person he’d been obsessive about apprehending in Season 1. Syril wasted no time attacking Cassian, and their brawl ended with him holding his long-sought-after goal at gunpoint. Nonetheless, when Cassian didn’t acknowledge Syril, that was sufficient to get Kyle Stoller’s character to pause and decrease his blaster, solely to be shot by Carro Rylanz, a Palmo Metropolis official and chief of the Ghorman Entrance.
Dedra’s Response To Syril’s Demise Was Heartbreaking
I believe Andor did an amazing job with Syril Karn’s demise. In his ultimate moments, he realized that his obsession with Cassian Andor in the end amounted to nothing since Cassian didn’t even know who he was, and he was additionally grappling with Dedra Meero betraying his belief. It was additionally becoming for Carro Rylanz to be the one to kill him since he’d chewed Syril out earlier how he’d betrayed the belief of the Ghorman Entrance and the function he’d performed, nevertheless small, within the Empire mercilessly killing his personal folks.
Nonetheless, what actually sticks with me after watching “Who Are You?” is Dedra breaking down over Syril’s demise, having discovered about it offscreen. Whereas Dedra is definitely a compelling character, I wouldn’t say I’ve felt sympathy for her up so far. Sure, I perceive her need to show herself and transfer up the Imperial chain of command, however that doesn’t change how heartless and ruthless she’s been on quite a few events, together with when she ordered Physician Gorst to torture Bix Caleen.
And but, when she was lastly alone and away from judgmental eyes following the Ghorman Bloodbath, that powerful and icy demeanor melted away, and in a uncommon second of vulnerability, she cried over Syril’s demise. Although she was largely dismissive of him in Andor Season 1, she ultimately noticed a kindred spirit in him after he saved her on Ferrix. Was their romantic relationship bizarre and typically uncomfortable to observe? Completely, however that didn’t change the truth that Dedra legitimately had emotions for Syril.
Frankly, earlier than this episode, I wasn’t fully satisfied that Dedra actually cared about Syril, and was solely stringing him alongside to additional the agenda of her superiors. However now he’s gone and it’s clear this devastated her. All Dedra has left are her duties for the Empire, and with solely three episodes left to go in Andor Season 2, I’m uncertain that this collection goes to offer her a contented ending.