The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest.
"Game of Thrones" made a meal of it. "Battlestar Galactica" tried to consider the effect on survivors of losing a planet of people. But it hasn't fit in the swashbuckling world of "Star Wars." How could the mission to destroy the Death Star have quickly concluded if Princess Leia needed to mourn the loss of nearly all her loved ones on Alderaan?
"Andor" changed all that. Coping with inner pain has been a theme throughout its two-season run, which comes to a close Tuesday when Disney releases a series-finale trilogy of episodes. It starts with its title character, who is left rootless by the deaths and destruction around him.
"Everything has been taken away from him since day one," Diego Luna, who plays Cassian Andor, said in an interview with The Associated Press. "And he has to understand that home is inside. That he can be home. That home can be there. And therefore there's a reason to fight."
Trauma runs through everything on "Andor," even dancing