Season 2 of the acclaimed Star Wars show will premiere in August 2024.

Even beforeAndorpremiered, we’ve known how it’s going to end.

Knowing how the story ends, they insist, is not a spoiler.

Diego Luna as Cassian Andor on ‘Andor’

Diego Luna as Cassian Andor on ‘Andor’.©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM

After all, what’s that old adage about the journey being more important than the destination?

“You are witnessing this from the inside, from the personal perspective.

You get to live it with the characters, or through the characters.

Therefore, it hits you differently.

It’s because you know them that you care like you didn’t care before.”

IfAndorseason 1 was about the birth of the Rebel Alliance, then season 2 will explore its growing pains.

“How do you go public?

How do you go wide?

But what happens to all the original gangsters and the hardcore people who built that road?

What happens to them, and how do they integrate with that?”

“We think we figured out how to do it.

Our responsibility is to bring it home efficiently.

But mostly, it’s to pay off emotionally and stick the landing.”

For more from Luna and Gilroy, listen to the latest episode of EW’sStar Warspodcast,Dagobah Dispatch.