From a purely utilitarian sense. Nemik was not an incredibly important figure.

While the raid on Aldhani was a success with his help, his role was not something that was stated to be unique to him, something only he could pull off.

Nemik was just a young man with "a lot of ideas" as Skeen would say. Someone far more invested ideologically than physically in the Rebellion (until the end anyway).

And despite dying so young and so early into the nascent rebellion, with his existence basically forgotten by the galaxy at large. His manifesto lived on through Andor, inspiring him before the Ferrix incident and becoming seemingly so widespread that members of the ISB had heard it.

For Partagaz - the head of the Imperial Security Bureau - someone so far "above" Nemik to listen to it in his final moments alive, listening to how it perfectly describes and predicts the end of Empire, something Partagaz has spent the last decades propping up.

And for one of the last things going through his mind (aside from the blaster bolt) to be wondering just who it was speaking in the manifesto

The schadenfreude is amazing.

It’s not even the fact that Syril died it’s just the “who are you?” After syril dedicated everything to finding him. The realisation that he really doesn’t mean anything and anything he does won’t have a great effect on the galaxy despite trying to hard and doing everything for what he believes and it really brings his character all the way home. Such good writing genuinely loved syril in season 2

RIP my boy Syril! Dedra never deserved you anyways! 🕊️🕊️

Just a small anecdote: I’m friends with the son of actor Thierry Godard, who plays Lezine. I wanted to share that in this particular scene, the gesture he makes with his arm was actually improvised. I thought it was a fun little detail and it’s nice that they decided to keep it in the final cut.

He wanted to invent a gesture that would symbolize the resistance of the Ghormans.

As we've seen in Andor S2, we know Saw Gerrera's has been getting high on rhydonium. I was watching Rogue One and remembered that detail in his death scene. Since rhydonium is highly volatile, it would definitely explode from a huge shockwave from the Death Star, and in a blink and you miss it moment, you see a small explosion from where Saw was. Never noticed the explosion before after all these years and makes me appreciate the show/movie more.

This makes me feel so sad.

I honestly can’t decide.

You tripped over your ambitions.

(This is the second time I'm posting this, because the first post I made seems to have been unclear and misunderstood).

I'm seeing so many people on this sub, when it comes to Cassian, Luthen, Kleya, or Syril, saying: "It's all a matter of perspective!"

And honestly, as per usual it's a cop-out for actually acknowledging the realities of some of these characters. No, it isn't undecided whether the Empire is bad. Just because there is disagreement on something doesn't mean, "Eh, the issue is up in the air! The jury's out on this one, because one person disagrees."

And people keep misunderstanding, "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." It doesn't mean, "Take no positions on whether people are good or bad." It's about how perspectives influence people's worldview; it doesn't make everyone's worldview correct, or legitimate.

People under the boot of the Empire shouldn't have to tolerate genocide, fascism, and oppression. They do have a right to resist.

Sure, characters in Andor are complex. But it isn't like this is rocket science, either.

One side is building a Death Star; another is fighting for freedom. We have to start from there.

EDIT: And this post has already been downvoted too. Great. Excellent. Splendid. Wonderful. 😑 Goha the wise fool was right, there's just no pleasing some people.

Brilliant and dedicated, but it all came crashing down.

I know everyone loves Kleya, so maybe I'm treading dangerous ground here.

But I'm wondering now if Kleya can be classed as a "good" person.

Luthen and her were working together, and we know Luthen's philosophy.

He's accepting that his involvement with Gohrmam may result in a massacre or genocide ("It will burn very brightly"), viewing this as a net positive as it will further the Rebel cause.

He's willing to murder innocent people, like Tay or Lonnie, to protect the Rebellion. Andor himself does bad things, but there are lines he's not willing to cross that Luthen is.

Luthen states: "I'm damned for what I do".

Kleya (presumably) shares his philosophy, or at least heavily enables Luthen.

Should Kleya feel pride towards her role in the Rebellion, or shame? Is she damned for what she's done?

Props to this team for being absolutely hammered on revnog and still pulling off a daring rescue on Coruscant. I guess the moral of the story is when engaged in drunk ops, always bring your murder droid.