Warning! This article contains spoilers for Andor season 2, episodes 1-3. Thanks to the returning Rogue One characters in Andor season 2, a meaningful, albeit dark, parallel comes to light. Andor season 2's story has long been expected to tie to Rogue One heavily,

Season 2 of “Andor” will has 12 episodes that will be split into three-episode mini-arcs airing over four weeks. Each block of episodes will cover roughly a year of the timeline leading up to the fateful events of “Rogue One.”

Showrunner Tony Gilroy packs four years' worth of nuanced and complicated ideas into an ambitious final 12 episodes