The second season of Andor drops mostly weekly on Disney+, with a couple of episodes at a time, so the audience has a lot of time to steep in the show and the ramifications of each part of the story. And boy, have we needed to take a minute between them. This week, the ninth episode of the season brought forward Mon Mothma (Genevieve O’Reilly) to deliver a speech before the Galactic Senate, where she attacked Emperor Palpatine and his Imperial forces.In the scene, Mothma says, “I believe we are in crisis.” Mothma continues, “The distance between what is said today and what is known to be true has become an abyss. Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.”At the end of the speech, she refers to a massacre of protestors on the planet Ghorman. And Mothma punctuates her point with, “What took place yesterday… was unprovoked genocide.”“Yes, genocide!” she repeats. “And the monster screaming the loudest, that we helped create, the monster who will come for us all, soon enough, is Emperor Palpatine.”To my knowledge, this is the first time Star Wars has used that word, and it brought a much needed gravity to the season, which has already taken...
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