Don’t Expect Andor to Show the Empire’s Two Evil Head Honchos

The final season of Andor will lead directly to Rogue One, and that’s had people talking about possible cameos to tie them together. If you’ve been hoping to see either Darth Vader or Palpatine in this show, you should look elsewhere. In a recent Rolling Stone interview, creator Tony Gilroy was asked about why neither of the two villains pop up in the show. Stories set during the Original Trilogy typically get them involved: Vader famously appeared in Rogue One—which Gilroy co-wrote—and Sheev’s had TV appearances in Obi-Wan, Bad Batch, and Star Wars Rebels. Gilroy’s reason for not including either is that they ultimately don’t belong in the story: he described Vader as “really limiting, he doesn’t have a lot to say.” (That, and he got Vader out of his system back in Rogue One with the slasher-esque hallway scene.) It’s more or less the same answer with Sheev, who he called “too big a piece of meat to introduce. I thought about it at one point, but it was too heavy a lift.” Despite ne ... Read full article.