Andor’s season 2 included an Easter egg that refers to the 1971 film by George Lucas Thx-1138

If you beat the eyelids during the Andor Final of season 2, you may have lost one of the most beautiful notes Star Wars He pulled in years, a visual Easter egg that refers to the film that started George Lucas«Career much earlier A new hope.

In episode 12, the agent ISB Dedra Meero finds himself from the wrong part of imperial justice. After surprising the assignment of Intel for black death, Intel who eventually helps rebellion, dedra is launched in a prison cell and his face captured at a cold -style monitor. It’s a short time, but that monitor is the reference.

As a fan with the eagle eyes pointed out on X, the shot directly reflects a scene from the 1971 Lucas debut film, Thx 1138. In that movie, Robert DuvallThe character is imprisoned in a sterile and dystopian structure, and there is a frame surprisingly similar to him seen through a monitor with identification data displayed on the screen. Check:

Now, Thx 1138 It is a dark and minimalist science fiction film set in a society in which human beings are emotional doctors and controlled by robotic executors.

Duvall plays Thx, a worker who begins to question his reality after leaving his mandatory drugs that suppress emotions. It is a disturbing film and has marked the first time that Lucas began to explore the themes of rebellion, identity and authoritarian control.

This is not the first time Thx 1138 slipped into Star Wars Not even galaxy. Back into A new hopeLuke mentions that he is transferred from the “cell block 1138”. The commander of Marshal Clone Bacara, who presents himself Revenge of Sith AND The clone warsBring the designation CC-1138.

It has become a quiet tradition for Lucasfilm to slide these references for those who know where to search.

But the latter callback in Andor It feels particularly suitable. The series has always been Star Wars in its most ground and politically accused, which is exactly the type of science fiction Thx 1138 He was fighting with decades earlier.

With AndorShowrunner Tony Gilroy It continues to build a bridge between Lucas’ first dystopian vision and the rebellion that changed the cinema.