Be prepared to give up all the chances in the inner peace and make your mind without sunshine if you have not seen the episode 8 of Andor's season 2, because there is Large spoilers forward.

One of the biggest magical tricks "Andor" is to forget that it is foretelling. The problem with predictions is that, knowing what is coming, the tension disappears. How can you surprise the audience when they know where things are going? Where the trilogy of "Starwells War" focused almost entirely on just to show the origin of the characters we knew and how they ended where the audience first met them, Andor (and "Rogue One" before) The masterpiece of the masterpiece -which is "a better call Saul".

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Although we know where Cassian (Diego Luna) ends, Mont Motma (Eveneviv O'Rili) and we saw Ereera (Forrest Whitaker), the surprises and tension rely on those characters whose destinies we no longer know. Characters like BIX (Adria Arjona), Cyril Carn (Kyle Soller), Luten (Stellan Scarsgard) or Well (Jay Marsay), who do not appear in any other media "Starwells War", all that the audience desperately want to see it to the end. Then, that's the way Andor adds a context to certain character choices - As the Ereera's breathing device has seen - Or represents different versions of famous characters that add to that tension and intrigue, such as how a strict senator becomes a rebellion.

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Case in point, what happens to Gurman in Season 2, Episode 8. That's Not just fans of "Starwells War" who know this comesBecause the first episode of the season wrote a pretty more sophisticated that the Empire was planning a genocide wide planet on Gurman and we saw Dedra (Dennis Goff) and Cyril was working on that goal for five episodes. The best compliment that can be given to season 2 of Andor is that no matter how telegraph is that something will happen, it is still influential and surprising to see that it has been done. When it comes to the massacre in Gurman, no amount of warning or prior knowledge prepares you for what is without a doubt the most spectacularly daunting thing in the history of the "War of Starwells" franchise.

As written by Dan Gillroy, the episode takes away his sweet time reaching the horror, slowly but surely building the tension by playing directly in the inevitability of the input tragedy. If you were somehow fooled to forget that we knew the Empire was planning this massacre for years and we knew several episodes that they should have built the Gormian front as an excuse to kill everyone on the planet, then it is easy to lose when we see people starting to Palmo Plaza. Except, when Cyril faces Caro Rilanz (Richard Sammel) for imperial mining operations that take place on Gurman, even This imperial clapping by pushing It starts to wonder what really happens on the planet, and the reality sinks.

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Every minute, each scene is precisely made to ensure the audience is aware of where it all goes. From Caro's concerns, various rebels in Gurman are arming, Cassian is preparing to kill Dedra, and then Dedra openly discussed her plans to commit mass genocide. It is a master class in carrying out the analogy of Alfred Hitchcock's bomb (to tell the audience something huge that needs to happen, it does not destroy the surprise, but it creates uncertainty), because we know what will happen and can do nothing but to sit and see these characters.

It is not like the episode not giving the audience a little hope that things will work well for the Gomens. There is a heart moment when the protesters go out of shouting for their torments, to sing what seems to be a gorman national anthem, joining together in the Loveube to their planet in front of the imperial authorities and of The web site of the previous massacre in Gurman. (There is so many poetry here, George Lucas would be proud.)

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But just like that, Desra gives the order and, with stormtroopers in the right position to stir protesters, the imperial sniper shoots storm, allowing them to start firing at an unarmed audience. With one shot, the fate of the Gomannans was sealed. And that only gets worse from there.

The rest of the episode is essentially the second half of the Les Miserables, when everything goes to hell and the bodies begin to fall like flies. Director Janus Metz treats the episode as a military documentary, keeping the camera frenetic and uncomfortable close to the action. The massacre takes place in stages, first with the focus of chaos as the storm in the plaza shooting in the crowd. It is heart, endangered and incredibly tragic to see a demonstration of unity and resistance turns into bloodshed.

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Then, as people start trying to leave the square or shoot back, the Empire released its second wave: KX series droids. "Starwell War" has a fairly rocky and complicated history with DroidsBut this is one of the few times when the droids were completely frightening in the show or the movie "War of Starvers". The cold, separated nature of the KX Droids and their seemingly invincible physical activity makes them resemble the T-800 Terminator in the way they mow the citizens of Gomor as they were made of paper. A tonal change from uncertainty in emotional drama to direct horror makes this not only the best episode of the season, but perhaps the only biggest hour in all "warwrows war".

And what makes the massacre in Gurman still tragic is how the imperial propaganda at work, with news broadcasting teams in "Plaza", lies about what is really happening before eyes. The galaxy may believe in the lie that attacked the empire. The empire may have won the ore for which they were desperate for mine. But this moment, this tragedy, is what has changed everything not only for the empire, but also for the rebel alliance, too. In terms of galactic influence, it makes the destruction of Alderan look like a game of children.

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