Andor Season 2 Episode 8 spoilers

The thing is, the show was written and mostly filmed before the current phase of the Gaza war started. The Hamas attack which sparked the current phase of the war was October 7, 2023. The show began filming (meaning the scripts were all written before) in November 2022, nearly a full year before the October 7 attack. Filming paused due to the WGA and SAG/AFTRA strikes, so it didn't finish until February 2024, but everything we see with Ghorman was written years before the current phase of the Palestinian Genocide began.

And Tony Gilroy has been very clear to say this wasn't prescience on his part. He didn't even model Ghorman after the genocide of the Palestinians (which has been ongoing since 1948). It's just that this isn't a new story. The same major story points has happened over and over and over again throughout history. In an interview, Gilroy referenced multiple events which were inspiration for the Ghorman Massacre: the Reichstag Fire, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, the sinking of the Lusitania, the sinking of the USS Maine, and more.

The sad reality is, this is just a common thing that's happened in human history.

I don't normally use the word "brutal" in the not-referencing-Metalocalypse sense, but yeah. That certainly was.

Admittedly, I was half-hoping Cyril might have turned rebel after his "are we the baddies" moment, but nope, Captain ACAB just had to chase his white whale. I'm just surprised that White MLK got him and not a stray blaster shot from a stormtrooper, given the unintentional IDF Operation Hannibal parallels.