Andor Orson Krennic

Orson Krennic and Luthen Rael are the same character. Even Saw Gerrera

 

"Your overconfidence is your weakness" really applies to the Empire, Krennic, Palpatine and Tatkin.

 

Tarkin

 

Oh yeah. Him too, lol.

 

I think this is the week that that we get confirmation that Orson was getting calls from Mork.

 

Spoiler: The scariest moment in Andor

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The first scene with Krennic and Tarkin in Rogue One hits SO much harder now. There's so much more context to the "security breaches"... and if you watch that scene shortly after the last 3 arc of Andor it's really neat to see Krennic on two different sides of a power imbalance.

He also clearly irritated and even seems a little jumpy/nervous - which now makes complete sense. It's really brilliant how well they fit the show together with the movie.

 

It's surprising that Krennic was featured quite prominently in the marketing for season 2, yet only appeared in four episodes with probably less than 15 minutes of screen time total.

In any case, his reputation has improved thanks to his role in this series. For me he has now gone from overrated to merely rated.

 

The Krennic cameos are few. But he's exactly where he needs to be in terms of time and performance. Also, we did get a sense that Krennic was another of the Empire's useful psychopaths who got a job done before being discarded, if you will. TA1994 compared his sparing appearances to those of Tarkin and Vader in R1. And I concur. Mendelssohn is disturbing and broodingly casual in a way. R1 was PG13, and accordingly, we only got to see that side of him when he was pointing weapons at the Ersos. But in this, he's doing that with his words and his body language, and frankly, he's pretty terrifying. He respected Leo, but Dedra? I don't like Dedra, but I felt bad for her in that one scene due to how he was so domineering. Mon opted to handle him a different way. Mon herself is not a physical fighter, but you can see how she's meant to be an overall rebel leader. She's got that soul type like Leia, Padme, and Ahsoka, if you will. Krennic as the same type of soul type as Tarkin. The difference is that Krennic chose to be wholly devoted to the Empire, whereas in the old EU, Tarkin's son's death was orchestrated by Sidious and Vader. So, he became apart of the barbarity. Krennic, to me, comes off like one of the few working class guys who liked the Empire and joined. He sees himself as raising through the ranks.

Ironically, he winds up like Dedra fairly soon in R1, but that's not something we need discuss here much. Our own Ben is actually fairly silly in real life interviews, much like Diego Luna.

 

IMO, Mendelsohn not toning down his accent in Andor, unlike RO, suits Krennic more, he sounds less pompous, but more sinister.

 

Krennic is pretty much the same in Andor as he is in Rogue One. It’s just that in the latter, he’s often in the position of subordinate, and only rarely in a position to truly abuse his power. Except for at the beginning and on Eadu.

Kinda like Darth Vader in the ANH.

I don’t want him to push his index finger down onto my head, so I’m going to say he's the best Star Wars villain yet.