‘Andor’ Put So Many Easter Eggs in Luthen Rael’s Store

One of many many, many issues that makes Andor so nice is that it’s bored with fan service. There aren’t any gratuitous cameos. No wild, broad connections. At first, creator Tony Gilroy wanted to tell an emotional, impactful, and well timed story of heroism and hope, which simply so occurred to be on the earth of Star Wars. However that doesn’t imply different members of his crew didn’t wish to have somewhat enjoyable, and the set and prop designers did simply that.

Within the first season of Andor, followers immediately observed that Luthen Rael’s store on Coruscant was crammed with recognizable and intelligent winks and nods to Star Wars and Lucasfilm initiatives of the previous. Essentially the most well-known, in fact, have been the Sankara stones from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, however Luthen additionally had Sith artifacts, Mandalorian armor, and extra. All of which made sense. Luthen, in spite of everything, does deal in uncommon artifacts and antiquities, so he could be concerned with buying and promoting issues of this nature.

This season, that was taken up a notch, and the official Star Wars website has a put up breaking it down. Like, for instance, Luthen has a Sith Chalice on show, very like the one Palpatine had in his workplace in Revenge of the Sith. There’s a Kalikori, a prized Twi’lek household heirloom, very like the one we’ve seen from the Syndullas in Star Wars Rebels. There’s a Royal Naboo headdress that appears similar to one Queen Amidala wore in The Phantom Menace (shouldn’t Bail Organa have picked this one as much as maintain for his daughter?). Lastly, there’s even a Gungan cranium. Which Gungan? We don’t know, however I’m positive many people have a couple of high selections.

You may see photos of these and extra throughout at StarWars.com. The identical article additionally reminds us of every thing from Andor season one, together with a Jedi Temple Guard masks, like those from Star Wars: The Clone Wars; a Gungan protect as seen in The Phantom Menace; and one other Naboo headpiece, this one resembling one Padme wore in Assault of the Clones. Once more, Bail, why didn’t you purchase these?

The very best half about all of that is it has nothing to do with the story. There’s no affect on Luthen and Kleya’s work within the store. No smoking gun to resolve an issue. It’s simply there to remind you this story is going on in a world the place all of this different stuff occurred too.

Each seasons of Andor are streaming on Disney+. You may see the above artifacts most particularly in episodes 5 and 10 of season two, in addition to 4, 5, and 7 of season one.

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