This post contains spoilers for "Andor".

There are many differences between the tumultuous uprising seen during the previous parts of Andor and the unified rebel alliance looked at the end of the "Starvala War: Episode IV of" Starwell War "in 1977. Much of it comes down to size, organization and military power - topics that Andor spends a lot of time researching. But there is another big difference and has to do with strength.

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In "New Hope", the whole rebellion has a religious obligation. When he sends Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamil) and other rebel pilots to face the mortal star, General Dododa (Alex McCrindle) gives them the classic EDDI goodbye: "Let the strength are with you." Leia (Kerry Fisher) does the same at times as she served as one of the basic leaders of the Alliance. And yet, in "Andor", that spiritual essence of the uprising was largely absent ... until now.

It is a natural fact since Andor deliberately manages more supernatural aspects of the franchise. There is no edge, no bright, no magical rituals of SIT - only encrypted radio broadcasts, salaries for salaries and assassinations. But the seventh episode of "Andor" season 2 It changes that. For the first time in the show, we see the rebel base of the formation of Javin IV, as well as the culture that appears there among the Alliance troops. In one of the most valuable powerful scenes on the show, it takes over Bix (Adria Aryona) Cassian (Diego Luna) On the "Healer of Force" to try to repair Bluster's Gnastian wound, he received a pre -mission. The content on that scene is an incredible storyteller - not just about Bix and Cassian's relationship, but also about how the force becomes so highly anchor of the rebel alliance.

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When he realizes that Bix takes him to see a healer of force, Cassian immediately opposes. He writes the whole company as a fraud, saying his adopted mother Maarva (Fiona Show) has always hated the healers of the forces. Anyway, Bix pushes him to try: "If I was in pain, I would try to do everything I could to fix it. You just run to pretend that nothing is wrong and everyone knows it's not true."

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The argument proves to be a motive, as in their disagreement, the healer - an older woman played by Jososi Walker - feels the presence of Cassian. On her face you can see that his energy is obvious in a way that is different from everyone else. At her consent, she walks towards him and asks his name, though he Tells says he is "nobody". Stunning, he then ets allows to apply her method of healing the shoulder.

"Thanks," says the healer afterwards, confusing Cassian. "For what?" He asks. "Clarity. That feeling ... It's been a long time. I thought it went well," she replied. Casian leaves are clearly smooth, but Bix lies. "You saw something," she says the healer. "Tell me what he saw."

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"I feel the weight of things," the woman responds. "Things I can't see. Pain. Fear. Need. Most creatures carry the things they shape, they carry the past. But some, very little - your pilot - they gather as they go, has a purpose. He's a messenger. There is a place that should be."

There are a few things that are worth getting out of this scene for a healer of force. First, she's right. Although Cassian denies him as superstition, we as fans of "Starwells War" know that power is real in this universe. There is a cosmic balance that has its own interest in galactic things, and pushes and pulls pieces around the board next to its ends. Cassian is part of that, as is the greater effort of the rebels. It is fascinating to see that this spirituality begins to influence the uprising - not because it has an Edge at the head, but because Grassruts movement requires conviction of the brutal work that is ahead. It feels pretty natural that a group that opposes oppression, fascism and destruction of the natural world would diminish to the ideology that makes life again sacred and sees a divine kind of justice in the act of revolution.

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BIX is a perfect example of this. Having spent a lot of years in the last few years (the loss of her home, the terrible torture in the hands of the empire, an attempt to rape in the first bow of season 2 and fight with drug addiction as a result of those traumas), she finally seems to have found a new kind of peace of Javin. Its spirituality, which Cassian rejects, is a tool that has again found faith and hope. While some called him "Andor" cynical according to his view of The larger franchise "Starwalks War"This scene proves differently. It is just as deep and affects the spiritual moment as this universe once had, and ends with a real tragic rhythm.

"Did you know him for a long time?" The healer asks Bix after sharing his vision of Cassian. Usually emitting one of the biggest lines of "Starwells War" so far, Bix responds simply: "I don't remember I don't know it." With a shine of hope, the healer offers: "You may be where it should be." But we know from "Rogue One" that is not the case, and from the look in her eyes, it knows that. At the end of this bow, she leaves Cassian, telling him, "I can't be the reason you leave it here." It is a heart, but with the silver sheath that we all know how important its last mission will be.

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The last three episodes of the premiere of "Andor" on May 13, 2025, at 9 pm, is Disney+.