Andor season 2’s ending makes Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’s inevitable, tragic finale even more heartbreaking, but in an unexpected way. Creating a prequel for a prequel can’t have been easy, especially for a franchise where continuity is expected to be observed as much as possible. Ensuring Andor’s story could smoothly transition into Rogue One’s, which in turn smoothly transitioned into the original Star Wars movie, means that some plot points and character arcs will have been written in service of the wider franchise, rather than Andor’s relatively self-contained narrative.