There are plenty of Star Wars fans with a soft spot for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but it wasn’t until Andor that fans and critics alike seemed keen to reappraise it. The prestige drama has retroactively made the film better by using the best parts of Rogue One to make something that had never been attempted within the Star Wars saga; its first season was an in-depth character study and a radical take on dystopia all in one, and its use of relatively minor legacy characters allowed fans to consider the franchise with fresh eyes.
All that is set to continue in Andor’s second season. The series will expand its scope beyond the journey of its title anti-hero, Cassian Andor (Diego Luna), to explore the early years of the Galactic Rebellion. It’s also taking a big risk with its timeline, jumping forward from one year to the next until it catches up to Rogue One. That means that certain characters from the film — like Ben Mendelsohn’s Orson Krennic — are guaranteed to show up. Andor has the chance to flesh out a handful of characters, but it will also take us back to an iconic location in Star Wars lore: Yavin IV.
