Meanwhile, we catch some prelude material from the Imperials, who are sipping their intergalactic coffee (or “caf”) as they prepare for the arrival of the Dhanis, a native tribe described in the most condescending terms possible: “They’re a simple people.
Naturally, Karis has dealt with his nerves by scribbling further in his manifesto. But one advantage I’ll grudgingly grant to doing Star Wars on TV is that there’s room to spend upwards of 20 minutes on the good stuff: Rebels taking down scores.īefore the action kicks in, there’s a de facto recap of the previous episode’s waiting-game tension as Karis and Cassian have a pre-action chat. Of course, it’s no real spoiler to say the mission does eventually result in Imperial-versus-Rebel shoot-out mayhem. “The Eye,” by contrast, is full of comms blocking, tense orders, hauling goods, and that classic Star Wars action-figure standby, our heroes dressed as Imperials.
Rogue One had flashes of it, The Last Jedi did about five minutes of a break-in mission that the heroes couldn’t quite pull off, and Solo had an okay space-train robbery (frankly, that’s the set piece this episode most resembles in terms of logistics), but they all descended into shoot-outs pretty quickly. Andor’s second mini-movie reaches its climax with “The Eye,” and in the process it fulfills a promise Disney has been making about Star Wars for most of the time it has owned it: We get to see a sleek, tense, detailed heist-robbery sequence set in a galaxy far, far away.
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