“[T]he fact that he wasn’t even a blip on Cassian’s radar is crushing to him because Syril lives in this fantasy world where he has delusions of grandeur. He’s so desperate to be remembered and to make a difference. [emphasis mine] He had his first moment of real danger and excitement on Ferrix in trying to capture Cassian, and it all went wrong. He’s now coming face to face with him again, and he stops to think, “You don’t even remember me?” So he’s shocked, and it’s a cut too deep by that point. He’s been betrayed by Dedra and the Empire, and now his one true obsession doesn’t even think he’s worth remembering. He’s heartbroken.”
“[H]e has no one, really. He has no one who believes in him, he has no one who remembers him and he has no one he can trust.”
“If he had survived at the end [of episode eight], I still don’t think he would’ve joined the Rebel side. I don’t think he would’ve joined a side at all. I think he would’ve been so traumatized by those last ten minutes that he would just wander off somewhere to live alone.”
One of these days Imma’ have to find the name of some book the Behind the Bastards guy talk about years ago. The author was just talking to the Germans who were a part of Nazi Germany and now were just living in post war Germany. There’s some quote in there that goes something like, “giving little men something to make them think they are bigger men”.
My favorite tidbit about Andor is that Kyle Soller totally improvised that scene where he’s laying on the bed after this mom tries to humiliate him in front of his girlfriend.
Real feels for me there.
yeah Cyril got done so dirty by the story. betrayed by his lover who fundamentally misunderstood his value system, shamed for his naive loyalty to the empire and rebuked by the Ghormans he thought he was helping, realizing his “side” was the most criminal of all, denied the most basic recognition by andor as an adversary, and then blasted in the dome at his most confused moment, his existential implosion.
and he totally deserved it, lmao. adios, bozo. get rekt. fucking private security supervisor with a custom uniform and a hard on for protocol.
Absolutely agreed lmao he earned his death fair and square. I think I barked out a short laugh when I saw it.
Gotta say tho, I would’ve loved to see more of his confusion, the part Soller talks about. It would’ve been funny imo if we got to see him come to terms with the fact that nobody gives a shit about him. If anything, he got out too smoothly and too early.
I’m glad he got a meaningless death instead of an overly Hollywood death. Scores of nobody-Ghormans die without anybody blinking, so it would be too jarring if the world pauses when a main character dies. He froze and he paid a realistic price for that.
An unremarkable death parallels his role in the situation which he was in the middle of realizing right when he died
Oh hell yeah, a meaningless death is absolutely fitting for him, don’t get me wrong. I just wish we could’ve seen him realizing how he fucked up everything. Idk, just a few more moments of utter confusion, and then have a stray blaster bolt hit him instead of it being an execution.
