Hold on to your rhydo: here are some of our Andor season 2 theories
- Pixigonal Staff
- 2 days ago
- 6 min read
We have hit the half-way mark of Andor's second and final season, so you know what that means: all the theories.
From lineage maps to guessing their next moves, we Andor fans are all busy thinking of how the next and final six episodes will go for Cassian and company. With Disney dropping sets of three episodes every Tuesday night, this gives us just shy of two weeks to get all loose ends tied and see who makes it and why those who don't make it... don't make it. If you haven't been paying attention (or if you're new - we don't gatekeep here), the sequel to Andor has been out for just shy of a decade already - that'd be the movie Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which sits pretty high on a lot of fans' top Star Wars movies list.
With all that in mind, join Camila and Ashley as they unleash theories at you like they're Rebellion pilots dashing out Imperial access codes.
Please be warned - there are heavy spoilers for Andor below. If you're not caught up to season 2, episode 6, proceed at your own risk.
Andor season 2 theories
Yes, please keep in mind these are only theories and we that we are all human beings and can be (very) wrong at times.
Camila: Kleya is Cassian Andor's (Kass) sister
We haven't heard about Cassian's sister or his search for her for... quite some time now. Has he accepted that she's long dead? Maybe he's forgotten about his search for her? Maybe the Rebellion is what truly matters at the moment. Or, maybe the showrunners want you to forget about her so you don't realize she's been staring at you (in a very Carrie Fisher's Leia style, might I add) this whole time. How much do we actually know about Kleya? She's Luthen's right hand (or he is hers?) and she also teaches us all a masterclass in espionage. For fans who love a good legacy story, this would be pretty epic.
But this is a huge, huge universe - not everyone has to be related.
Ashley: K-2SO will be reprogrammed by Bix
Cassian's droid bestie hasn't shown up in the show yet, but he's been confirmed to show up in episode 7, and I am READY for his dry humor and sass. However, there's still the question of who is going to find this droid and reprogram him - and that clearly is going to be Bix. She's a technical genius, constantly tinkering, and one of the go-to people who always help when something needs fixing. My guess is she reprograms him for a mission where Cassian needs to be undercover as an Imperial, and everyone is too attached to get rid of him afterwards.
Plus, Cassian having a droid from the love of his life is peak Star Wars romance.
Camila: Luthen's lack of caring about relationships within his team is going to be his downfall
We've started to see the cracks. "We're not the same the same people we were when we started." Luthen's focus is crystal clear - the cause comes first. The Rebellion is his priority, even over innocents, and he's begun to show us just that. In a matter of six episodes, he has managed to assassinate Mon Mothma's bestie Tay Kolma, get a rebellion started in Ghorman complete with a heist at the cost of one of his own (RIP Cinta), picked a fight with Cassian over innocents potentially being crushed in Ghorman due to them knowing nothing about proper and organized rebellions, and he seems to completely fail to understand how human beings bond and form relationships.
I understand he's leading a network of spies and secrets and weaving a Rebellion web so complicated that it's truly a miracle he hasn't been caught in it himself yet - and that does come with a price. He has sacrificed everything for this cause, and expects others who join him to understand and do the same. Yet, they don't. They often find hope and comfort in each other as relationships form (or continue if they came to him as a pair), and Luthen needs to start understanding how this is affecting his operation. Bix is extremely depressed and unstable, Vel just lost Cinta in an accident, and Cassian does not appreciate the fact Luthen has both hinted that Cassian needs to choose between the cause or Bix, and that he's perfectly fine with mass innocent casualties in order to get the job done.
I am absolutely confident that this will be Luthen's ultimate downfall. Cassian reminds him in episode 5 that they're not droids - they're human, and they have needs and feelings. He'll either learn that soon, or it'll cost him more than he's willing to lose.
Ashley: Dedra is an Order 66 survivor
This one's a little bit crazy, but trust me. One of the things people latched onto with Dedra is that her backstory doesn't make sense: being raised in an Imperial kinderblock from age 3, when she is too old for that to be true. But kids are routinely taken from their parents as toddlers by the Jedi Order, and if she was raised in the Jedi temple, it honestly puts together a lot of the puzzle that is Dedra. If she survived Anakin's Order 66 temple attack, right around the age she was supposed to become a Padawan, and truly believed it was because the Jedi had committed treason, it sets up the perfect pressure cooker for her to become ISB's most shady lady.
Many characters within the universe sever their connections to the Force: Cere Junda and Luke Skywalker immediately come to mind. And a lot of times, this happens as a result of trauma. In addition, we know not all of the Order 66 Survivors who work for the Empire are a part of the Inquisitorius, as Bode Akuna actually worked for the ISB. If the Jedi had caught her skills early, they could have trained her specifically to work with the Republic Intelligence, only for her to end up in a kinderblock after Order 66. From there, the Empire only needed to pay attention to the girl with the exact talents they were looking for in the ISB. If she bought into the reason for the fall of the Jedi and then was raised in a propaganda-filled kinderblock, she has no reason not to support the Empire. After all, that's what she would have been raised to do, no matter what.
But obviously that's not a story you're going to tell to your boyfriend's nosy and annoying mother.
Camila: Syril will default to the Rebellion
Yes, I am very well aware he is currently playing the Ghorman rebels like a fucking fiddle with Dedra and Partagaz. Congratulations, you watched the episode too.
But let me ask you this - how do you think he'll feel when he finds out Dedra and Major Partagaz have also been bamboozling him and keeping him in the dark? And not for sexy times. They're basically using him as a puppet and as a distraction to get to the ultimate goal - the occupation of Ghorman and stripping it of all its kalkite, a mineral needed by the Empire to coat the upcoming Death Star's cannon. And that's super classified information, the kind of information Syril's own partner is willingly keeping from him as she bosses him around. I think once Syril finds out what's really going on behind the secrecy surrounding all the Imperial activity in Ghorman, once he finds out about the exploitation and complete disregard for innocent life on the planet, he'll put his foot down and flip. He's not like them.
Ashley: Bix will die in episode 9
Of all the theories in this article, this is the one I am most convinced will happen. And I am not happy about it.
Bix hasn't just stolen the heart of Cassian, but she's also stolen the hearts of the viewers. But she's also been dealt an extraordinarily bad hand: torture, attempted sexual assault, and PTSD - all at the hands of the Empire. She's struggling, self-medicating, and is seen as a liability. I cannot see Cassian walking away from her, which means that to get to the man we see in Rogue One, Bix won't survive the next three episodes. If her death was recent, I can't see Cassian being the lone wolf we see in the movie. He needs to mourn, and as a result, become the Cause-first spy Luthen wants him to be.
Now I want it known, I have no idea how Bix will die. I hope she's not fridged, despite the implications her death will have to have on Cassian's development. I personally want her to go out in a blaze of glory, but I fear that's not going to be the case. I just hope that when she dies, it's a fitting end to her arc, not just to push Cassian on his path.
Do you have any theories on Andor? Let us know in the comments.