Andor is the kind of Star Wars Disney needs to continue making and focus on

Kino: "Prisoners together strong." Guards: "We are in danger."

I believe Andy Serkis mentioned Kino's backstory included being a union leader who was thrown in jail for fighting for workers right. This would explain his natural leadership abilities. This is also something he designed for the character to help him act and not canon, but still very cool.

I also noticed that when Kino tells the other prisoners over the comm that the floors are disabled, it's his counterpart from the night shift who steps out of his cell first to test it. Like Kino, if he was in the military he would be the kind of officer who _leads_ his men, rather than _commands_ them.

"I can't swim" - That was just the most unexpected and bitter twist i've seen recently. Still got my fingers crossed that he survived somehow for S2 but at the same time it would seem more fitting if he didn't make it.

It’s dramatic irony … in the end of the episode, Kino SMILES as he in on the ledge, as he is on the brink of freedom. He smiles. In the end Kino knows he WON. He is free.

He wasn't selfish before breakout. He thought doing the time and being well behaved was the best option for everyone.

Actually, I think Kino went into the escape knowing for a fact that he wasn't getting out - they knew they were at sea so he knew he wasn't going to make it. That's why he was so against even discussing an escape in the first place. When he said he would rather die trying to escape than die giving them what they needed, it wasn't just rhetoric.

Kino’s sacrifice ties very nicely into what Luthen said in the same episode: "I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see”. As soon as he heard from the doctor that nobody gets out, he knew he was dead. He physically could not escape the prison. That’s why he says that he considers himself a dead man already.

Kino’s development of switching from one mindset into another could have been done to Boba Fett’s character as well. Excellent use of “show not tell.” In BobF, everyone just needed to assume that Boba’s outlook in life changed shortly after escaping the Sarlacc because NDE and NDE does things to your psyche. But we went straight to changed man in BoBF. Yes BoBF was faster paced but for me, largely unsatisfying and less convincing.

I think kino felt the whole mission, to him was suicidal. Once we know he couldn’t swim, it changes everything that lead up to that heart breaking moment. Like when he made the speech on the intercom. He is a true leader but couldn’t put a speech together because he knew the finish line was right there but he wasn’t going to be able to cross it. His line of being already dead was true because it was pretty much he’s damned if he does or damned if he doesn’t. Luckily for everyone and the viewers he’s such a great dude and decided to help his mates instead of trying to shut the whole plan down entirely

Love that Andor doesn't get to process the grief of Loy not being able to swim and escape. He's pushed into the water so quickly. Wonderful realism!

I wonder if any of the prisoners will survive at the prison. I can't imagine that Kino was the only prisoner who couldn't swim, so I wonder if some of them stayed and fought the empire's reinforcements. Maybe some of them steal transports and escape, or better yet, some of them are captured and reveal that Andor was at that prison.

I read that moment, where Kino is yelling "get on the tables" but doesn't himself, as two things. First, he still doesn't believe the escape is going to work. He really *isn't* leading things, not yet, he's just lending his moral authority to Cassian's plan. At this point, Kino is still very much in a "let's die fighting" state of near-suicide. But also, he isn't actually anywhere near a table, and doesn't really have *time* to get to a table. So those two elements taken together mean he doesn't even bother trying. Obviously anything along the lines of "what is Kino thinking" is going to vary from viewer to viewer, but that was my take. Either way, the look on his face when he realises the floor shorted out and he *isn't* about to die might be the best acting Andy Serkis has ever done. It's just perfect.

"There is only one way out!" Kino is a fantastic character and performance.

i think Disney captured the dynamics of working in Amazon's warehouses perfectly, although i hear the electric floors are a couple of years off implementation.

My personal favorite detail of this episode was actually when they were planning the night before their last shift and Kino starts yelling but then he quiets down and others start passing down the message to everyone out of earshot.

I was genuinely moved to tears when he said he couldn’t swim. This show is so good.

My favorite detail of him is the end of ep 9 when after being asked like 20 times by Andor how many guards per floor, after hearing there is no way out he finally answers him, he just says a number, but the delivery of the amazing acting, what just happened, and what it means has made it one of my favorite lines in all of Star Wars. I think this is honestly one of if not the best Star Wars anything in the past several years, as good if not better than Mando, which is saying a lot because Mando is amazing.

One major thing during this sequence is that it was strategically edited so that no one BLINKS throughout! Absolutely incredible editing and made the scenes SO MUCH MORE INTENSE and you as the viewer don't even realize it. That is pure magic!

I noticed this too, and I thought "wtf they gonna kill themselves, and then realised what was happening." I also wondered why they didnt just jump on the tables in the first place instead of getting shocked.

Kino is a total Martyr

Yeah, I noticed this too and I took it as a strong clue that he had already forsaken his life.

Brilliant that water is at first what saves him, but also what ultimately dooms him. Considering the symbolic weight given to water through out the show it says so much about who Kino is and how the show views people like him. It really is Kino when it comes to Kino

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Andor was finally the Star Wars we deserve

I haven’t seen THX1138 in longer than I can remember, but the whole prison sequence totally reminded me of that.

Andor is an amazing show & everyone loves it so I really hope they don't look at the lower viewership so much. They're already making Season 2 but we better get more content like this (adult Star Wars)

I wonder if the guards know that they'll probably end up in a labor camp themselves after this...

Heavy Cesar vibes (the Ape, not the Emperor) from Andy in that scene. Best episode of anything i've seen in a very long time.

There's also the parallel between the flooded floor and having to swim to safety. He knew that he'd have to swim at the end, which might explain his hesitation here. Seriously, the attention to detail is amazing in this series.

Andor is the first Star Wars thing I’ve seen that feels nothing like Star Wars and I love every bit of it

i never really perceived lino as one only for himself. i always thought he had an understanding that everyones in the same shit, so keep everyone in line and everyone gets out on time. and once that truth got shattered, it shifted to getting everyone out. and this detail cemented that for me. captain always goes down with the ship. great character development for him. too bad he cant swim lol

"Some people get shocked a little" *clip shows someone being brutally shocked, sparks flying and everything.*😂

I think it was only the ones who were standing in the water actually got shocked, which makes sense because that's were the short was going through.

This is my favorite star wars product since the prequels. It's innovative, fun, and dark all at the same time. It shows us a different side of the SW universe than anything we have seen before and it almost feels, well...real.

I’m on my second watch through of andor and some how enjoying it even more the first time. It’s filled with excellent writing and beautiful one liners. Also filled with foreshadowing that completely went over my head on the first watch due to the amount I was fully invested in everything that went on.

That moment also sets up the “Caesar from Planet of the Apes” parallel that so many viewers have noticed. Had Kino been on a table, he would have looked a lot less like Caesar as he gets off the table.

Its almost exactly what luthen was talking about, he sacrificed everything and wasn’t even able to escape (or so we think)

"I can't swim..." 💔

this is the show, future star wars shows and maybe just shows in general will look up to and try to make it as good as Andor

After that episode, Andy Serkis could lead me anywhere on Earth and I would follow fanatically.

When he revealed he couldn’t swim, it was one of many little touches this show provided us that gave this series a heart that’s been missing from many of the recent SW shows (imo). It was delivered in such a a casual way, there was no pep talk or action sequence where Cassian would have been like “I’m not going to leave you here, we’ll figure out a way!” And there’s this jubilant and tense scene where he is saved in a triumphant, melodramatic manner. The understated delivery of it and how the story continues was just a perfect little touch.

Kino Loy looking up with that rage in his eyes, reminded me of Caeser.

If we all had a leader like kino..and the other guy from night shift ..imagine where wed be.

One minor detail everyone misses, the only person to get shocked is in the water. If he yelled "Get out of the water," the guards would know something is up. He yelled "Get on the tables" instead.

if you look closely in the blackout scene in the prison, you can see that the hallway in level 2 is empty

Kino Loy does a huge service to help others see a sunrise he will never get to see. And in the same episode Luthen says the same thing. It Rhymes :D

Great video! It's also possible that A) He expected to die there and almost hoped for it because he knew he couldn't swim or B) A foreshadow of his fear of water. As it flowed into the Level 5 work floor, he was incapacitated by fear. In any case, I hope he's somehow still alive and shows up somewhere in Season 2.

Kino knew he wasn't going to swim off. So he decided to "help" overload the electrical system by sacrificing himself. If need be.

I think it would be amazing if we just never find out what happens to kino, I love the idea that Cas just never gets a chance to find out

He looked legitimately scared when he sees that the floors are turned on and then he looks even more scared and confused when he survives the floor

Between this and some of those Jedi shorts it seems the writing for Star Wars in general has improved

I wonder how many others in the prison can't swim. I find it highly unlikely it would be just one out of 5,000. At least some of them would come from planets with little to no surface water, or they would be from planets that have water but they just don't live near it. Even people who live near water don't always learn to swim. I live in an island nation and my apartment is on the beach but I still can't swim. I have to wonder if maybe 100 or so men faced the same predicament as Kino.

when they electrocuted the floor, kino was in the dead center of the room. This is where the box is located that the table with the lowest performance gets punished at the end of every shift. It’s possible that this is on a different circuit than the rest of the room so it wasn’t electrified with the same switch.

I am not sure Keno actually "planned" to stay on the floor longer than the others. It just happened. The situation was fast and some did not manage to ge tup soon enough, including him. I think the plan was quite risky because it depended on Andor being able to destroy that pipe in exactly that moment after working on it for probably weeks. So I must assume that if Andor would not have showed up drenching wet at that moment, Keno would not have done anything and they would have accepted that the plan cannot be done at that time?

When you think about it, Kino is the only one that had one way out: death. And he knew it from the start of the escape

Best character growth in any SW series (IMHO). This writing is insane.

I didn’t enjoy Andor at the beginning but this one scene completely changed whole show for me. Cinematography masterpiece.

I feel so bad for Kino, I hope he managed to survive

"Shocked a little bit." That dude died, bro!

I honestly thought this was an odd editing choice or something, I assumed he jumped on one of the tables too given the fact the floor would probably turn on all at once, not layer by layer moving through the entire room for a few seconds? And if he got shocked a bit but survived, I also think they would've shown that

That was heartbreaking when he said he couldn’t swim and didn’t risk trying.

I had missed Kino not getting up on a table. Good catch. They really took a character I did NOT like in his first episode and made him fantastic by his last episode. Now, where’s my Black Series Kino figure, Hasbro?

I missed that. That is so good. Such a good show. God damn.

Very sad that he gor written out at the end of the arc. Great actor, great character. Would have loved to see more of him like joining the rebellion, becomming a leader or something.

If Kino isn’t your favorite starwars character right now you aren’t doing a good job at keeping up

Serkis has said that Kino once held a union / shop steward type role before getting sent to prison, so he definitely has a background in leadership, and supporting working people. He became more self centered after going inside He's just come back round to his initial 'power to the people' position via Cassian, and recent events / 'the mistake'.

Everyone else fought their way out knowing there was a chance they wouldn't make it. Kino fought knowing he wouldn't make it.

First time I saw that scene when Kino Loy looks at his feet, then looks up and yells "ATTACK!" he reminded me of Cesar in Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes. Serkis is just perfect for that role.

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I loved Andy Serkis as Caesar in the Planet of the Apes movies.

Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they'll never sit in. This series is achingly beautiful at showing characters who are willing to give up everything to build a better future by fighting the empire.

Andor: STEP 8 KINO FREEDOM!!! Kino: for you Andor...not for me Andor: KINOOOO!!!

I think We are gonna see Kino in Next Season! Even for a Cameo

It will never NOT be weird to see Andy Serkis' face and not just hear his voice.

Another great detail, the design of the pisoners uniform, the orange white pattern, can be found on the design of the X-wings. The rebels are taking the symbols of their imprisonment and fighting the empire with it

I was wondering if he wanted to get zapped since he couldn't swim

When Kino said *"PRISONERS DO NOT WANT WAR. BUT WILL FIGHT, IF WE MUST."* I really felt that.

He's like a microcosm of Andor himself. His arc. A reflection. Seemingly self-interested to a fault turns to leader in the face of great adversity, ultimately fated to succeed in the larger struggle but doomed to die before seeing the fruits of this successful mission (I assume he drowned or was killed by the guards - he didn't jump, yes? He couldn't swim. Maybe his fate is simply unknown...Serkis could return).

i really do hope that he comes back in season 2 and has a more honourable demise. and also that other person with whom andor escaped and later departed from. ik it is supposed to symbolize that these people were temporary in andor's life who helped forge the rebel in him. but still just giving em a honorable ending would be soo satisfying.

Anyone else think of the “I can’t swim” moment from Butch and Sundance?

I think it was probably more a case of there not being a lot of room on the tables, and he knew he wasn't getting out, so he saw no sense in taking up space on a table that could go to a guy who could get out.

I want the entire Narkina 5 story pulled out of Andor so I can see it from end to end...

People need to understand the importance of this show

Wow best movie scene I have ever seen in my life

One of the prisoners actually _did_ get killed by the floor during the riot, as he was standing in just the wrong spot. It seems that the electricity is like a massive wave, starting closest to the lift and advancing to the far side of the room, all within the span of a second or less. So that poor guy got electrocuted before the water could halt the "wave."

I really hope that someone helped him get to shore and Andor runs into him again.

Awesome ❤I can’t wait for episode 10 I am sat 😢 that this is the last episode for now I guess right?

Andor is awesome because it’s not a usual star wars story, Disney needs to keep making these kind of story lines

Let’s hope he can improvise a floatation device…

His posture in this moment brings me back to his role as Cesear, a leader of an oppressed group of apes

Off screen, he summons Gollum and swims like a fish to lead the rebellion!

I really hope he doesn't get killed off, Kino is awesome

I think this is partly because he always knew he should never escape. He never wanted to rebel because he knew he couldn't survive. It wasn't until he realized the truth that he decided he'd rather lead others to freedom and die doing it. He never planned on escaping.

I haven't seen anyone point out the moment when the power dynamic between Andor and Kino changed. The first episodes Kino is in charge. By the end of it he's leading but also taking directions from Andor.

I assumed he stood on the central square part (where the least productive table would be shocked each shift) and therefore would be a separately controlled by the guards

Definitely shows that he's a good leader. One could even argue, he's a supreme leader...

Listen to his speech again, but this time in relation to all the people outside the prison who are shackled by the Empire.

I was gutted when he said... "I can't swim"