This article contains spoilers For Andor Season 2, Episode 6.

Being a fan of "Starwells War" is kind of driving Millennium falcon The "Empire is back". Each time we stab the hyperdivity actually Take Somewhere, it suffocates and dies. The messy work with the characters of the latest sequels to the "Starwells War" is not due to any smart part of the "without homo" philosophy, which seemed determined to keep them away from each other. Despite the dragging of Queen Amidala's fashion, the fashion of Nabu, the explicit alertness usually had to hide in the implication or less public angles of "Starwell War".

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Things have become a little better in the last few years, with Quir's presentation drew more attention in the comic books of Doctor Afra and the novels of the High Republic. And the "Androt" Season 1 brought that energy for live action with a layered relationship between colleagues rebel fighters Vel Sarta (Jay Marsay)Cousin to Mont Motma (Evenev O'Rili) and Synta Casin (Varada Setu). Alhani's bow last season has clarified their romantic involvement, and later episodes have some excellent exchanges where they deal with the ways in which the reason is pushing them. But we didn't get a kiss, or any other specific moments that denote direct links on the screen.

That explicit pleasure finally arrives in the second bow of the Andor Season 2, in which Vel and Quarti work together on a mission stealing imperial weapons with a group of rebels of Gomor. The mission comes after a long time aside, and the quiet apologizes for her past alertness, making herself really vulnerable for the first time in their relationship. The two re -transform their Loveub, only to be killed by a random shot in a moment of short, unforeseen chaos during the robbery. It is a heart, and follows a long, miserable trend in how tender relationships are often written in Hollywood. But at the same time, it's also kind of wonderful? It is complicated.

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We all know what the fried is at this point. The number of times I had to give the definition in articles over the years is a testimony to how much progress has not yet been achieved. For decades, queer romances have often ended in death and tragedy - a moral terversic of "deviant" relationships that have become a cheap tool for easy drama. The chain of events in "Andor" season 2 It is a beating-for-bit that we saw again and time: Queer couple breaks down, returns together for a moment of short joy, only to destroy them forever. We all remember Tara from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Finger is unfortunately just a new character in the same, tired mold.

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Turning the knife is only more painful because of what the synta has exceeded only. In season 1, she told Vel, "the rebellion comes first, we take what remains." In the first bow of Season 2, she kills Tay Colma (Ben Miles) to prevent him from spilling the rebels' secrets. She is a deeply wounded person who has done violent, brutal things in the name of revolution, and when united with veil in mid -season 2, she finally broke under pressure and built with a real conviction of living.

Then, while the Gomann group is stealing the blasters of the dismantled imperial transport, one of the young, activated rebels is heated by another bar, stumbling on the robbery. They enter the fight, and in fishermen, the Quarti was shot by mistake. She is dead until Vel reaches her, and our latest hope for some sustainable joy of queer in the "Starwalks War" evaporates on Gurman's night.

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Here's something: I love "Andor". I'm not silencing for Andor. It has the skill of style, attention to the details, which I obsess. It is a genre fiction brought to its theater, artistic extreme. So, while I call it a refrigerator fridge, I also have to give this representation of the suspicion that it has been earned.

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I wish the quote is still alive. As a fanbayer of "Starwalks War", I would argue that the context of the past misery is looking for a gentler hand, at least for now. At least until you see Disney's gay kiss+ it feels like he is moving away from something. At the same time, I love the death of the Quest So Something, and not just something about how people of queer are doomed to be sad. I want its bow to be for the identity of a different kind, the price of radicalization and the inevitable changes that time brings. It's a moment with real weight, stabs you in your chest with a inherent coincidence of violence. I want the character of the queer in "Starwell War" has all those layers. I just wish you could be alive.

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"I don't know who I am sometimes," he tells him early in episode 6. In the midst of confusing times, her inner compass turns wildly from different magnetic poles, the quote returns to Vel. She returns to herself as a woman of queer - a distinctive resistance in her blood. After dying, Vel made sure that the man would never forget responsibly. "This is you now," she tells him in another buffalo Willon Banger at a monologue. "This is like skin." And at that moment, it is clear that the quote is still doing something from above the grave. It pushes the story into powerful, significant directions.

In a better world, I don't see this bow and think about another weakness. And maybe one day the war on the Starwells will live in that world, but it is not yet there.