Still following it: I get what this series is trying to do, I see the efforts, just too bad it’s soooooooooo slow with no emotion (and a bit of a very lackluster casting, especially Diego Luna, totally uninteresting). I thought it was going full “Bourne” but it’s now closer to “Michael Clayton”… which is kinda off topic. It seems the series will only be 24 episodes spanned over 2 seasons: they better hurry to start telling a story (and not just close ups of sad people’s faces), there isn’t much time left already.
What?
The story so far:
- Kassa was one of a band of children on a world with seemingly no living adults, abandoned after mining failure or something. A spacecraft crashed on the planet, and when scavengers came to raid the crash site, Kassa was adopted and taken of world by a nice lady in the scavenging crew. He was then given the identity of Cassian Andor, but his sister was left behind.
- Many years later, Cassian (and his mom) were living in a Corporate Sector. He borrows his friend’s boss’s ship to fly to nearby planet in the sector looking for his sister who he heard was working there as a prostitute… but she’s not there anymore. He’s not supposed to be there either, and in the course of escaping he kills two Corporate Security Officers.
- The boss of the Corporate Security office tasked with investigating the murder is going to be away for a few days while making his annual report to the Empire, and he tells his deputy to just let the case go, they’ll never solve it, it doesn’t matter, better to keep things quiet. The Deputy is idealistic and foolish, and decides to investigate, eventually hunting Cassian down.
- Meanwhile, Cassian has a stolen Imperial surveillance part worth a lot of money, and he’d like to sell it through a friend who has connections to the Black Market, specifically to the Rebellion. His friend makes the call, and Luthen comes to Cassian’s planet to make the purchase.
- Everything goes horribly wrong when the Corporate Security team sent to find and arrest Cassian arrives at the same time that Luthen is meeting Cassian to purchase the Imperial surveillance part. There is a lot of shooting and, thanks to some help from the disgruntled and rebellious populace of the city, Luthen & Cassian make their escape in Luthen’s ship. But they leave the Imperial surveillance part behind.
- A young woman rising through the ranks of the ISB takes interest in the case, because she is suspicious that all the various missing parts and other incidents across the galaxy are actually part of a coordinated Rebellion. She is passionate about her career and protecting the Empire.
- The Empire takes control of the Corporate Sector in response to how badly things went with Cassian’s attempted arrest and its apparent connection to something more sinister. They fire the Deputy, who returns home to Coruscant where his overbearing mother tries to find him a new job. The Deputy wants revenge on Cassian for ruining his life.
- Luthen recruits Cassian to join a Rebellion covert job in which a few people, posing as shepherds, will steal a large amount of money from the payroll of an Imperial base. Cassian is hired as a mercenary and joins only a few days before the heist, while the rest of the team have been putting months or even years into this job, and are all there due to passionate commitment to the cause of the Rebellion. Cassian is an outsider, and this causes problems within the group as they make their final preparations for the heist.
- Luthen returns to Coruscant, where he is an art & antiques dealer. He uses this cover to meet with Senator Mon Mothma, whose home life is not great, at least partly because her husband has very different values than hers. Both Luthen and Mon Mothma are worried about the heist.