They just gave Kleya damn pistol to Kleya

There is a scene in the ninth episode of Andorsecond season where vel sartaInspecting a table full of requisitioned weapons at Javin’s rebellion, lifts Blaster and asks whose she is. Except that she does not ask, raising the gun in the air in front of a crowd of new recruits. What she actually says is “Who belongs this? “

I thought a lot about this line Episode laterwhen as she penetrates a hospital in a desperate attempt to end the life of a person who saved hers as a child, a glue marks, one of AndorStand outSlides a tiny blaster with a hell of an exfoliants of his sister and calmly performs an ISB tactical officer. And then he does it again. And againS This is the climatic, tense moment of episode that accumulates to this only moment of emotional and dramatic release when it tearfully excludes Luthen’s life. In many ways, the whole life of glue, one torn apart by the empire and rebuilt from its hatred of it, leads to this moment, and this moment of infiltration and performance is only the ultimate flourishing.

The scene is incredible beyond the smoothness of the glue mission, but during the week since Andor I came to the end I found myself back to this blaster. Or really, it’s just a gun. Not the way these terms are a particularly differential, in Interstellar The first is much more common, but they are interchangeable. Interstellar He is known for having many of their most iconic blasters who have the origin of weapons in the real world-not just inspired by it, but they are literally real tools that have just encountered or dumped and shifted around. Kleya pistol feels less like this approach of Interstellar Design. Of course, what we see from him, there is a little consent to the science, beyond the fact that he shoots energy clean through Stormtrooper’s skull, like a little light on the side. But it’s Interstellar Blaster, who just looked the most like an ordinary gun I have seen for a while, almost looks like a deringer with his arranged barrels and the small grip. Almost no feel Like Blaster.

This is not the first time we have seen this kind of philosophy of design inverted Andor– Aldhani Heist’s crew in the first season before babysitting more Interstellar-Y weapon from the base, essentially running around with AK-74S. But to be deprived of so many of Interstellar In this way, art feels parallel to how glue handles it and itself. It is said that this scene is actually the first time we see her own a weapon Andor; Until now, Kleya has been a coordinator, between Luthen, and her resistance tools are her Comms system and icy glances equally. Still, this little blaster is still diligent. There are no surpluses, there is nothing more than what you have to do: indicate, pull the trigger, place a bolt through someone.

If Cassian’s Bryar Pistol reflects his own sense of character in this characteristic The little whirlwind sound Every time he primed it, that simplicity causes the glue to reflect it. It’s not elegant in its simplicityIt is even almost brutal because the blaster is not intended to be great or to say something about its character in this regard. It is not even intended to be emblematic, even if the scenes of its use quickly become the broadcast of the episode. It is a tool that puts people on the road and that’s all they should be.

Everything comes back to this scene with Vel. The history of Andor Somehow is the story of that blaster she raises: this is Siril’s pistol when he came to arrest Cassian of Ferix, who then stole Cassian, took with him to Niamos, after which he gifted him to Melshi after their collapse of Narka 5 and now he paves to the heart. Make AndorThe characters belong to their weapons after choosing to take them? Are they determined by this choice, the symbolic gesture of their resistance to the imperial regime?

They are sometimes. Or sometimes a gun is just a gun, no more, no less. In the case of Kleya, it may be small. After all, this is where she has always worked best.

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