I may be wrong, and if I am it doesn’t matter, because I believe that whatever this show has in store will be incredible. But I just can’t help feeling that Luthen’s incredible speech sounded very much like the sentiments of a former Jedi.

Calmness, kindness, kinship, and love: all hallmarks of what it means to be a Jedi. Inner peace: what the Jedi should maintain. Anger, ego, eagerness to fight: all things a Jedi should not have or desire. Using the tools of the enemy, heading down a path of no escape: the thin line between the Light and the Dark. Fifteen years ago: pretty close to the time of the Jedi Purge.

This speech could very well be a red-herring, meant to lead us into such conjecture. And there are many reasons a non-Jedi could feel these very things if placed in Luthen’s position. But I think it would be fascinating for this show - with the maturity and intelligence of its writing - to explore the life of a former Jedi who has, more or less, made the conscious choice to abandon all the principles of the Jedi Order in order to fight the Empire. It would be something we’ve never seen before and completely in keeping with the darker realism of Andor.

“The fight is over, they won.” That’s what Obi-Wan told the other Jedi hiding on Tatooine. What a contrast it would be to see a Jedi who said, right from the beginning of the Empire’s rise, oh hell no, the fighting has just started, and if I have to become everything a Jedi is opposed to in order to win it, I will.

#whatever they do will be great i’m sure but i would be cool with jedi luthen because#1. andor has been SO wonderfully sparing with the fan service & the more fantastic elements of star wars#that i think it can have a LITTLE space wizard action as a treat#2. it would rule if stellan got to have a lightsaber AND be baron vladimir harkonnen. he deserves (via paramaline)

And I created this backstory for Kino Loy, which was that he was like a kind of shop steward in a former life, and he has a family. And he would’ve fought for workers’ rights on the outside before he was incarcerated, but he would’ve been seen as a troublemaker for that. So when he was incarcerated, he then almost sheds any desire to look out for other people apart from himself, just do his time and get out, to try and get out and just survive the sentence, the torture, the desensitization. And I think it was that desensitization that made me perhaps have that slightly lost but kind of hardened and toughened shell. Maybe that’s where that intensity comes from.

- Andy Serkis, on Kino Loy’s backstory

ANDOR // One Way Out [1.10]

“We will never have a better chance than this and I would rather die trying to take them down than giving them what they want.”