Andor Saw Gerrera (spoilers)

That’s probably the main reason!

 

Interesting point...is Syril kind of sort of the reverse? Syril kind of seems like a good guy working for the enemy.

 

Syril doesn’t seem like a good guy at all to me. He’s a creepy stalker fascist.

 

Yeah can definitely see that and is why I said kind of. I just meant because he clearly has a strong code of justice, a sense of right and wrong but its faith and centre is placed in the wrong direction.

Basically, Saw is a bad guy who just happens to work for the good side because it allows him to fight. I get the sense that Syril is a good guy who just happens to work for the bad side because it gives him a sense of belonging and in some ways at least, rewards his weirdness.

I might not be explaining it well and I’m certainly not saying they are exact opposites by any means.

 

So when did Saw blow himself up, and it probably happened when he was huffing on bomb gas

 

He is creepy for sure and a stalker, but fascist, well, I would say he was orderly and likes idea of order that fascism seems to provide, but Dedra is fascist more than Syril, Syril is kind of guy who fascists use, he supports fascism but he is not really being actively fascist himself IMO, he is more of a useful idiot.

Fascism works through ruthless people and through useful idiots not seeing through the system. Dedra was former, she was ruthless, Syril was her stalker, simp, lackey. So if we call him fascist it's good to make difference between active and passive fascists, he was more of a passive one, supporting the system but not being ruthless enough to rise in the system or use it himself. Both are surely forms of fascism but I don't think world is so black and white. In different system he could've been a good guy, given better values and system. He was naive but I think he is not really the bad guy at heart. More of a pathetic sort.

Saw, I think he is not bad guy either at first but he becomes one through constant deceptions and failures in his desperate fight against the Empire. He is willing to do evil things since he believes in his cause is just and it is more than anything to him. His weird fixation of Rhydonium is callback to his earlier life and lost sister he used to have and was partially responsible of her demise himself. (He calls Rhydo his sister since Steela, his real sister is dead) So he had made himself bad guy for a good cause, not too different from Luthen or Andor himself. Syril is being good guy for a bad cause since he is so lost.

 

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He did a great job. I believe Saw's tragedy was sufficiently explored. His cameos were like those of Krennic. Just enough for what we need. But I feel more sorry for him after watching this. In R1, he was at the end of that tragedy. But now I feel more for Jyn when Saw tells her, "I will run no longer!" Don't agree with the man's methods, but he was a revolutionary in two wars. Kudos for liberating Onderon with your sister, the Jedi, and other rebels. His valor against the Empire turned to extremism due to his own isolation. Despite being an anarchist, he became as mentally isolated as the totalitarians he fought. And his captains took advantage of that. Or at least that's my interpretation of what's going on by R1.