Tony Gilroy Is Nonetheless Letting ‘Andor’ Theorists Down Gently

Tony Gilroy isn’t any stranger to shutting down a fan theory or two in relation to his imaginative and prescient for what Andor set out to achieve. However as we get into the season of wanting again on the best 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, “Properly, that’s good, however no.”

Reflecting on the reception of season 2 with GamesRadar, Gilroy was just lately confronted with the fan idea that Andor season 2’s final moments—which see Bix strolling by means of a subject of crops on the planet Mina-Rau, cradling her and Cassian’s little one—depict Bix one way or the other sensing, by means of the Pressure or in any other case, that Cassian had perished on the seashores of Scarif through the occasions of Rogue One.

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

“You need to watch out about this, since you don’t need to rob any individual else’s expertise. It wasn’t my intention,” Gilroy plainly instructed GamesRadar. “I don’t understand how data would journey. I’d think about, in some unspecified time in the future, she would discover out what had occurred. I don’t understand how she would intuit that he had handed away. Perhaps she’s feeling one thing. Perhaps that’s a ritual, that she goes on the market each evening and says one thing to him. I’m unsure, but it surely 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—keep in mind the whole foofaraw round Jyn/Cassian shippers and Cassian/Bix shippers?—but it surely’s an essential 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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