I’m a bit confused about the stuff with Saw Gerrera, the plan wasn’t to blowing up that tanker, but stealing the chemicals? What did the location of the attack have to do with the combinations of the attack, other than giving a reason for the traitor to get advanced knowledge of where the attack would be?
Presumably he was exposed to the toxic fumes as a kid and therefore is used to them and I guess that’s what causes his bad breathing in Rogue One? Or maybe something is going to go wrong in the next part that will cause his breathing issues?
Also totally expecting the next batch to have ISB get Syril into a situation where he’s killed, and used as an excuse for the empire coming with full force into Ghorman.
The chemicals is starship fuel. They were always planning to steal the fuel. Since the fuel is so dangerous and valuable, there are complicated lock systems on the valves with multiple different configurations to access them. The device Wil brought to Saw was a training device that allows you to learn all the various configurations the valve lock could have. But there are a LOT of different configurations. Saw’s group had a list of different targets they could hit to steal fuel, but each location had a different lock configuration. The group knew which configuration was in use at each location. So knowing the location tells them which specific configuration they’ll need to know to unlock the valve.
It’s a bit of a plot contrivance to allow Saw to out the traitor, which, in turn, helps endear Saw to Wil.
Wil is one of those guys who doesn’t really have a well-defined ideology beyond “Empire bad”. He doesn’t know or really care for the minutiae of tactics and strategy. He wants to fight, and it’s clear by the stuff he was saying and doing on Mina-Rau that he just wants to take action. Then he sees Saw actually doing stuff and giving him an opportunity to fight. It’s intoxicating to Wil. He’s taken in by the whole, “you have to be crazy to fight a rebellion, so let’s all be crazy AF,” bit that Saw leans into.
Saw’s character first showed up in Star Wars in The Clone Wars animated show. His planet, Onderon, was not part of the Republic, but had been occupied by the Separatists (droid army from the prequels). Saw and his sister were leaders in a resistance movement against the Droid Army on Onderon. The Republic sent Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Anakin’s apprentice Ahsoka to Onderon as military advisors and trainers for Saw’s group. We saw several episodes of Saw as a young man/late teenager learning to fight as a rebel and guerrilla fighter.
It was during this time on Onderon that he got captured and forced to work as essentially slave labor. This was the story he told in episode 6 of Andor S2. The labor he had to do involved moving crates of starship fuel (the same fuel they were stealing). It’s toxic, but in low enough doses it’s basically a drug. Saw got addicted to it as a kid, and we’re seeing him indulge in it when they’re stealing the fuel.
The writers are using his addiction to this drug as a literary metaphor for his addiction to being a political radical. He was politically radicalized at the same time he developed his addiction to the drug. And just like his pharmaceutical addiction, he’s also addicted to being a guerrilla fighter. I think we’ll see him diving deeper into both addictions over the rest of this show until we get to the point he was at in Rogue One, where he was literally carrying his addiction around in a canister to breathe it constantly. I believe this will parallel him taking actions which he might find beneficial or satisfying in the moment, but that ultimately harm the long-term goal of the overall Rebel movement. He’s indulging too deeply in both addictions by the time of Rogue One.
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I’m a bit confused about the stuff with Saw Gerrera, the plan wasn’t to blowing up that tanker, but stealing the chemicals? What did the location of the attack have to do with the combinations of the attack, other than giving a reason for the traitor to get advanced knowledge of where the attack would be?
Presumably he was exposed to the toxic fumes as a kid and therefore is used to them and I guess that’s what causes his bad breathing in Rogue One? Or maybe something is going to go wrong in the next part that will cause his breathing issues?
Also totally expecting the next batch to have ISB get Syril into a situation where he’s killed, and used as an excuse for the empire coming with full force into Ghorman.
The chemicals is starship fuel. They were always planning to steal the fuel. Since the fuel is so dangerous and valuable, there are complicated lock systems on the valves with multiple different configurations to access them. The device Wil brought to Saw was a training device that allows you to learn all the various configurations the valve lock could have. But there are a LOT of different configurations. Saw’s group had a list of different targets they could hit to steal fuel, but each location had a different lock configuration. The group knew which configuration was in use at each location. So knowing the location tells them which specific configuration they’ll need to know to unlock the valve.
It’s a bit of a plot contrivance to allow Saw to out the traitor, which, in turn, helps endear Saw to Wil.
Wil is one of those guys who doesn’t really have a well-defined ideology beyond “Empire bad”. He doesn’t know or really care for the minutiae of tactics and strategy. He wants to fight, and it’s clear by the stuff he was saying and doing on Mina-Rau that he just wants to take action. Then he sees Saw actually doing stuff and giving him an opportunity to fight. It’s intoxicating to Wil. He’s taken in by the whole, “you have to be crazy to fight a rebellion, so let’s all be crazy AF,” bit that Saw leans into.
Saw’s character first showed up in Star Wars in The Clone Wars animated show. His planet, Onderon, was not part of the Republic, but had been occupied by the Separatists (droid army from the prequels). Saw and his sister were leaders in a resistance movement against the Droid Army on Onderon. The Republic sent Obi-Wan, Anakin, and Anakin’s apprentice Ahsoka to Onderon as military advisors and trainers for Saw’s group. We saw several episodes of Saw as a young man/late teenager learning to fight as a rebel and guerrilla fighter.
It was during this time on Onderon that he got captured and forced to work as essentially slave labor. This was the story he told in episode 6 of Andor S2. The labor he had to do involved moving crates of starship fuel (the same fuel they were stealing). It’s toxic, but in low enough doses it’s basically a drug. Saw got addicted to it as a kid, and we’re seeing him indulge in it when they’re stealing the fuel.
The writers are using his addiction to this drug as a literary metaphor for his addiction to being a political radical. He was politically radicalized at the same time he developed his addiction to the drug. And just like his pharmaceutical addiction, he’s also addicted to being a guerrilla fighter. I think we’ll see him diving deeper into both addictions over the rest of this show until we get to the point he was at in Rogue One, where he was literally carrying his addiction around in a canister to breathe it constantly. I believe this will parallel him taking actions which he might find beneficial or satisfying in the moment, but that ultimately harm the long-term goal of the overall Rebel movement. He’s indulging too deeply in both addictions by the time of Rogue One.