Saw returns, Cassian and Syril go undercover

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Forest Whitaker appears for the first time of the season, while our old friend Gerrera saw in this week’s episodes. He is as normal as usual, but, as the saying says, is it paranoia if they – in this case a member of his own resistance cell – are out to get you? But in the midst of his usual whimsical, intimidating behavior There is also a bit of the romantic. While reminding of his deceased sister (who with him in animated form in the Clone wars And Rebel

Cartoons) With Wilmon he realizes that he sounds insane. But he holds full: “Revolution is not for the healthy one. Look at us. Unbelief, hunted, cannon food. We will all be dead before the Republic is back. And yet, here we are.” Last week we saw Cassian being stuck on Yavin, which will eventually be the home of the Rebel Alliance circa the original Star Wars. This time, Saw hangs around D’War, where the resistance with head office will be

The power is awakened .At least Saw is right about himself, as well as Cassian, because we know how things are for each of them

Rogue

. For Saw, for Luthen, for Cassian, and for the other true believers of the Rebellion, the sacrifice will be worth dying. Although a remarkable character, Cinta, dies this week in the service of the cause, the second arch of this season is largely about other sacrifices that people have to make on behalf of the causes in which they believe. While there is some material on CoruscantAnd on the fancy estate of Sculpdun, most of the action is aimed at Ghorman, who became the target of director Krennic during the Wannsee Conference style meeting last week of imperial Stooges. Different spies end on different points embedded on the planet, including Cassian, Vel, Cinta and … Syril Karn? In one of those scenes, Mon Mothma and Perrin Senator Bail Organa, who looks much different than he in the prequels,

Rogue

And Obi-Wan KenobiBecause Benjamin Bratt went into the role for Jimmy Smits. Given that Smits has often spoken about how much he likes to have a bail, this might have been a planning conflict? But if you remember the period in the nineties and Aughts where Smits and Bratt seemed to compete for the same roles because Hollywood did not have the imagination to use them both, it is a bit funny that they would eventually share the same role in an iconic franchise.

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Yes, in the year that has been assumed since the opening arch of the season, Syril has established itself in a job on Ghorman, to his mother’s great dismay. Initially, when he tries to reject her biased comments about the locals – many of them simply parrot the intolerable rhetoric that we see over the arch on various imperial news channels (including the trizesse racist

Good morning, Coruscant

) – It seems as if his consciousness has been raised while he lives among these people. Instead, it appears that on behalf of Dedra he works as a double agent and becomes friends with the local resistance to try to encourage them to take mother’s actions. Syril, who naively believes in the empire as a power forever, thinks he helps his girlfriend to look for external agitators within the Ghorman resistance. He has no idea that she uses him to implement Krennic’s plan to push the resistance to give the empire an excuse to do what it wants to the planet and his population. (As Mon Mothma says after he has heard more anti-Ghorman rhetoric: “Do we find criminals or do we make them?”)

Related content The boss of Dedra, Major Partagaz, would not approve the dizziness of Syril. When a mutually on the ISB deals too enthusiastically about a task, he says Valuebak: “It’s an assignment. Calibrate your enthusiasm.” He is old enough to have worked for a long time in the old Republic; For him this work is not a holy affair.

Cassian visits the planet itself to view the Ghorman leadership, including Enza and her father Rylanz

And even gets a page from the Luthen Playbook by disguising itself as a well -to -do Dandy called Varan Skye. As he will later tell: “I was very, very beautiful!” But the journey means more time away from Bix, whose psyche remains incredibly vulnerable after the back-to-back traumas of tortured by Dr. Scraps and sexually abused by Lt. Krole. They are currently hiding on Coruscant and Bix has become irregular enough that Luthen is worried that, like the friend of Mon Mothma, she must be eliminated before she exposes the entire operation. From the perspective of Luthen it is a non-unreasonable fear. Van Cassian’s is a memory of why he was so reluctant to work with the man in the first place, and a reason to question his desire to keep in question. Eventually he comes up with a better, if he is in his own way, a solution to the problem, by helping Dedra break in in Gorst’s office to torture him with his own machines and then cover their marks by blowing the building with him.

Cassian (Luna) and Bix (Arjona) en route. Lucasfilm Ltd ™ The only way in which the Ghormans seem more transparent would be French if they all wore red-and-black-striped shirts and black berets and wore old extracts.Star Wars Has not always been subtle about the parallels between the empire and the Nazis, but the clothing and accents of the Ghormans make it impossible to see them as something other than the French resistance during the occupation.Cassian and Luthen are not only at odds above Bix, but do not disagree with what they should do about Ghorman. Cassian sees Enza and the others as in wildlife above their heads, and can see that everything they do will blow up in their faces. Luthen doesn’t just care, but seems to be almost too enthusiastic for that possibility. When Cassian asks what happens when all of this falls in flames, Luthen replies: “It will burn … very clear.” He is willing to kill Bix if it will help the cause. Being willing to sacrifice a whole planet for the same reason is just a scale difference, not friendly. As he told Lonni

Last season (written in a speech by Beau Willimon, who is back on script tasks for these episodes), he had to give up all the good and noble parts of himself to do this job.

Are the former assistant of Lonni and Dedra a few? It has been left ambiguous, but there are at least hints of something between those who go beyond the work. Despite Cassian’s negative assessment, Luthen uses surgery on Ghorman, sends Vel and adds Cinta to the mission at the insistence of sheet. The two of them must be separated for most of the years because of the orders of Luthen, because they believe in the case and reluctantly believe in him as the person who can let it happen. But it turns out to be a reunion, will regret because Cinta dies when the operation goes wrong, killed by a lost blaster shot meant for someone else. It is the most frustrating part of one of these episodes, because it feels like the entire season has wasted Cinta, and because she dies in perhaps the most cliché item in the Kill Your Gays manual. (Under many other places this was used to kill queer female characters Buffy the Vampire Slayer