{"id":1189544,"date":"2026-02-17T02:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=567194"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:02:37","slug":"should-andor-have-killed-redacted-lets-discuss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/should-andor-have-killed-redacted-lets-discuss\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Andor have killed [redacted]? Let\u2019s discuss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vel and Cinta meeting at a cafe, framed by a yin yang window\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Lucasfilm\/Disney\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/should-andor-have-killed-redacted-lets-discuss.jpg\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/star-wars\/566318\/saw-gerrera-andor-season-2\">Andor<\/a> <\/em>is a series <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/star-wars\/562390\/andor-season-2-krennic-nazi-empire\">built on tragedy<\/a>. From the show\u2019s very first episode, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23311750\/andor-star-wars-diego-luna-interview-preview\">knew exactly how our hero\u2019s journey would end<\/a>: on the beach of a planet on the verge of being eradicated by the Death Star, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23377563\/star-wars-andor-pissed\">content in knowing he completed his mission<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">[<strong>Ed. note: <\/strong>This post discusses events in episode 6 of <em>Andor <\/em>season 2.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But just because <em>Andor <\/em>is full of tragedy doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re all created equal. In the closing moments of season 2\u2019s sixth episode, Cinta Kaz (Varada Sethu) is killed while helping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/star-wars\/563181\/ghorman-andor-season-2\">residents of Ghorman<\/a> pull off a heist of Empire weapons \u2014 one that Cassian explicitly warns <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/star-wars\/23475574\/andor-luthen-stellan-skarsgard-finale-star-wars-character\">Luthen<\/a> that the planet\u2019s resistance cell isn\u2019t quite ready or disciplined enough for. Cinta\u2019s death itself even comes from friendly fire, seemingly proving Cassian right, and leaving her partner in both life and revolution, Vel Sartha (Faye Marsay), to watch on in horror.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">There\u2019s no doubt that the moment is one of <em>Andor<\/em>\u2019s saddest so far, but two of our writers here at Polygon came down on different sides on the details. After all, the death doesn\u2019t just come after a cautionary note from Cassian, it comes after Vel and Cinta <em>finally<\/em> kissed on screen. For some of us, that felt like classic \u201cbury your gays\u201d nonsense; for others, it felt like the dire stakes of the series itself. We sat down to pick apart our reactions, and consider how the show approached the couple, the death, and its revolutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Zosha: <\/strong>Let\u2019s start with how these things hit us. For me, I felt like this was the show doing what it always said it would: showing the high cost of freedom. I had already been spent most of this arc nervous about how rattled Bix seemed here, so by the time we got to the intercutting between Luthen and Klaya trying to retrieve a listening device from the home of a prominent Coruscant dignitary and the weapons heist on Ghorman, I was already really primed for <em>a<\/em> loss in this run.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Susana:<\/strong> I gotta admit that it genuinely took me down a peg! Vel and Cinta\u2019s relationship was so lightly drawn in season 1, it never felt like it escaped the controversy-avoidant realm of something that could be edited out of a release in other markets \u2014 I\u2019ve literally seen meme screenshots of them on Tumblr. <em>Are they, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/memes\/comments\/cfmnov\/is_he_you_know\/\"><em>you know<\/em><\/a><em>\u2026 plausibly deniable?<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/should-andor-have-killed-redacted-lets-discuss-1.jpg\" alt=\"Vel and Cinta conferring in a still from Andor season 1\" title=\"Vel and Cinta conferring in a still from Andor season 1\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Lucasfilm\/Disney\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Finally getting an on-screen kiss from them, not to mention a declaration of love and intention for their future, felt like an exhale, like the show making up for past deficiencies. Cinta dying in a fluke accident about 15 minutes later felt retrograde in a way I wasn\u2019t expecting from a show as smartly written and well considered as <em>Andor<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Zosha:<\/strong> I feel like this is probably where the division will come down for us: It <em>definitely<\/em> felt big and weighty to me. But in this case it was set against the smartly written and well-considered scope of <em>Andor<\/em> as a spy thriller, and pretty much everyone who\u2019s not showing up elsewhere in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/star-wars\/562903\/andor-episode-1-3-review\">Star Wars universe<\/a> seems tentatively marked for death. (And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/star-wars\/23424635\/andor-saw-gerrera-rogue-one-characters-melshi\">even then sometimes<\/a>!)&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Susana:<\/strong> I think you\u2019re right that <em>Andor<\/em> doesn\u2019t toss off Cinta\u2019s death like it\u2019s nothing. Vel\u2019s speech to the Ghorman rebel who kills her, for example, is really good, both in writing and Faye Marsay\u2019s performance. But frankly\u2026 The state of queer representation in on-screen Star Wars is just so incredibly bleak. There\u2019s an <a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/klaud-live-slug-reaction\">ironic meme about it<\/a>!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But <em>Andor<\/em> is the show where the iconography of Star Wars is the closest to its text, and that gave me hope that I was safe in expecting a happy ending for Cinta and Vel. I saw the fact that they haven\u2019t been seen anywhere else in the Star Wars universe as an open canvas to make it out OK.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Zosha: <\/strong>This is totally fair. Cinta being killed <em>does<\/em> feel extra heavy to me because the show is so well written, particularly within the Star Wars universe, that even the fleeting glimpses of their relationship matter more to me than the bulk of other Star Wars romances. But I guess, to me, it doesn\u2019t feel worth hanging Star Wars\u2019 failures on <em>Andor<\/em> just because it\u2019s a political show. As much as it wears on my poor, queer heart, I don\u2019t think the show owes these characters a happy ending just because they\u2019re the only ones willing to actually put them front and center on screen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">In a strange way, this is what makes <em>Andor<\/em> killing Cinta feel so different to me than something like <em>The 100<\/em>: Both shows make a meal out of \u201cWhat is the responsibility of power? What is the responsibility of freedom?\u201d and \u201cHow do those clash with an organized society?\u201d But <em>Andor<\/em> manages to turn this into a \u201clook what we could\u2019ve had\u201d type of death, rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2016\/3\/25\/11301954\/the-100-lexa-clarke-thirteen\">Lexa on <em>The 100<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> which felt more purely like shock value. The latter felt gross because of its proximity to the same-sex love story peak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/should-andor-have-killed-redacted-lets-discuss-2.jpg\" alt=\"Andor meeting his Aldhani team, including Vel and Cinta in a still from season 1\" title=\"Andor meeting his Aldhani team, including Vel and Cinta in a still from season 1\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Lucasfilm\/Disney\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But <em>Andor<\/em> features them as just one love story among the many that are doomed, which makes me feel like they are <em>part<\/em> of the greater story, rather than existing beyond the means of it as Representation\u2122. Cinta and Vel are part of a tapestry of otherwise happy lives and loves were it not for the Empire\u2019s crushing grip on the galaxy. They \u2014 like Andor and Bix, or even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/23437550\/star-wars-andor-emperor-empire-who-needs-em\">Aldhani and its colonization<\/a> \u2014 are caught up in a fight bigger than themselves. This is, in its own tragic way, <em>Andor<\/em> taking them seriously.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Susana: <\/strong>Yeah, it\u2019s complicated! As is basically every angle on the idea of marginalized \u201crepresentation\u201d in corporate media. As an aside: I don\u2019t want to dismiss the efforts of lots of creators in the realm of Star Wars comics and novels who have been making undeniable strides in introducing unequivocally queer and trans characters to the setting. So that\u2019s just to say: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/22977917\/disney-lgbtq-queer-movies-tv-bob-chapek\"><em>Rise of Skywalker<\/em> sucked and so did its two-second queer kiss<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">If I\u2019m gonna blame anyone for how Cinta\u2019s death cut me, it would be modern, on-screen Star Wars as a whole edifice, not the one grimly hopeful spy drama that\u2019s trying to map deadly, real-world revolutionary movements onto Star Wars canon. I mean, I\u2019ve got another tab open right now in which I\u2019m drafting a piece about how the core theme of <em>Andor<\/em> is that every character in the resistance has metaphorically accepted that they\u2019re already dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As much as I disliked this beat, the reasons I disliked it are outside of <em>Andor<\/em>\u2019s control. It shouldn\u2019t rest on the shoulders of <em>Andor<\/em>, the show where the point is that everyone has lost loved ones to the struggle, to single-handedly solve the dearth of queer representation created by, what, almost a decade of modern Star Wars movies and TV series?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">On reflection, that\u2019s the real thing that gets me about Cinta\u2019s death. In a better world, I could enjoy it for what it is in isolation: as you said, <em>Andor<\/em> eloquently expressing its message.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><strong>Zosha:<\/strong> Yeah, and none of this really makes it less tragic! I guess for me it just makes it a bit easier to swallow because it feels like I actually<em> care<\/em>, which is something Star Wars TV hasn\u2019t managed in a minute. These don\u2019t just feel like plot machinations; they\u2019re real choices, with real heft and consideration to them. That they <em>work<\/em> for me is almost beside the point \u2014 it\u2019s just nice to feel like it matters!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">To that end: It can\u2019t be said enough, <em>fuck<\/em> <em>Rise of Skywalker<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/star-wars\/567194\/andor-cinta-vel-death-ghorman-bury-your-gays\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andor is a series built on tragedy. From the show\u2019s very first episode, we knew exactly how our hero\u2019s journey would end: on the beach of a planet on the verge of being eradicated by the Death Star, content in knowing he completed his mission.&nbsp; [Ed. note: This post discusses events in episode 6 of Andor season 2.] But just because Andor is full of tragedy doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re all created equal. In the closing moments of season 2\u2019s sixth episode, Cinta Kaz (Varada Sethu) is killed while helping the residents of Ghorman pull off a heist of Empire weapons \u2014 one that Cassian explicitly warns Luthen that the planet\u2019s resistance cell isn\u2019t quite ready or disciplined enough for. 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