This message contains spoilers For “Andor” season 2, episode 8.

One of the most terrifying moments of the Ghorman massacre in the last “Andor” arc comes when the imperials trigger the complete compliment of the Imperial security droids of the KX series on the crowd. They crush the rioters like the incredible Hulk, tearing them as if they were nothing and threw them like cloth dolls. They were held until the end of the riot as a secret weapon and swept away like a final punishment. Treaty as monsters in a horror film, they seem to be unstoppable and get out from behind the corners, ready to attack.

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Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) did not have the best experiences with droids And seems to die in the hands of one, but is saved at the last minute by one of the Ghorman rebels, who manages a heavy speeder there, cutting the thing in two by cutting it into a wall.

We have the idea that could be K-2SO, the possible Cassian friend who is expressed by Alan TudykBut there was a story of different origin for the two in the cannon that does not correspond to this introduction, when it happened?

In 2017, Marvel Comics published a unique comic strip entitled “Star Wars: Cassian & K -2SO – Special # 1.”. He detailed the first meeting of Cassian and Kay-Too, which takes place before the events of “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”. In the comic strip, Cassian Andor is associated with a pair of twins named Kertas and Rismor, and they are responsible for discovering imperial security protocols to help in their work as rebellious sponsions. In the process of this infiltration, Cassian tripped an alarm and drew the attention of an imperial security droid in the KX series, and it took Kertas and Rismor to find his killing switch to save him.

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The three of them worked feverishly to reprogram the droid, thinking that he would be able to help them finish their mission on the search for imperial protocols, but that does not take place as planned. K-2SO, as he reveals his name, would always like to hold them as they wipe out his imperial programming, but become less hostile because they are destroying this intention of his banks of memory. When the team is forced to separate, Cassian ends up with K-2SO and their pair takes a break for this, finding a ship and escaping. They return to the rebellious base after having forged a new relationship, if not somewhat antagonistic, which we see in the film.

The comic strip was good, but few people read it and that did not have linked to a lot of others.

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Tony Gilroy and his writing team saw a better way to operate this work and did it in this arc of the series. With a much wider audience who looks at “Andor” than those who read comics, it was logical to offer a first meeting of them on the screen. And the story of the comic strip really did not correspond to the dramatic tension of the show. With the droids of imperial security tearing the rebels of Ghorman and Cassian at hand to testify, it was not an extent of imagination for him to see the possibilities of having one of these droids. When there was an elongated at his feet, cut in half and stopped, it was logical to win with him. The intelligence potential of the closed droid would be high, even if it could not make it work again. And this has become the new beginning of a good relationship between Cassian Andor and K-2SO.

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Yes, it completely rewrites the story of a ribbon of “Star Wars” fans that fans were canon. Is this the end of the world, however, if the best story wins? I wonder how these two stories can be unleashed, and it is easy to think that comics was a cover story. In a world of spying, myths, lies and blankets, it would be easy to think that if someone asked for Cassian what had happened, he could invent a fairly easy story. Why not let comics be one of these stories that he could tell someone?

Giving “Star Wars” a unified cannon is important. It is crucial to know what to be taken into account for creatives, but when you have a showrunner like Tony Gilroy who shoots all cylinders and tell him that he cannot tell the best possible story because of a comic strip that very few people have read, it is better to make excuses or reasons why the comic can become secondary. I’m glad that people of Lucasfilm are judicious about this and do not do it very often. Usually, what we get are slightly different versions that vary according to their medium which are quite easy to face the interpretation.

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Whatever we need to tell ourselves about it, we should, because what we got on the screen was quite incredible and I would exchange comics for that any day of the week. If I have to tell myself that the comic strip was a cover story that Cassian told a contact once to justify all of this being a unified cannon to do it, I will do it.

“Andor” season 2 ends with a final of three episodes next week on Disney +.