ANDOR Showrunner Tony Gilroy Elaborates On Mon Mothma's Fateful Season Finale Decision - SPOILERS

In the season finale of Andor, Mon Mothma made two big fateful decisions about her future, and showrunner Tony Gilroy has now shed some light on what led the future leader of the Rebellion down that path.

By JoshWilding - Nov 25, 2022 03:11 AM EST

Filed Under: Cassian Andor

Mon Mothma has a relatively minor role in Andor's season finale, and with so much else going on, it's not surprising people aren't talking more about how her story ended.

Clearly aware that her driver is reporting back to the Empire, Mon makes a point of very loudly accusing her husband of gambling again, likely to better explain why that money is missing from her account. The driver later heads straight to the ISB to tell them what he's heard, and it appears the future leader of the Rebellion may now be in the clear.

Why then does Mon still go through with her and Sculdun's arrangement to marry her daughter to his son?

Talking to The Hollywood Reporter (via SFFGazette.com), Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy confirmed Mon was deliberately feeding false information to her driver and shed some light on why the marriage is going ahead.

"She’s just trying to cover all the tracks. Sculdun originally came in and said, 'Oh, I know your husband.' So, in the end, Sculdun probably thinks that this is really about her husband’s gambling debts," he explains. "He doesn’t know what the real purposes are. But what I’m saying there is that she’s just covering all the bases."

"If anybody comes looking, if anybody’s wondering why she might be borrowing money or if Sculdun is wondering why she might be borrowing money, she can lay it off on poor Peerin."

Mon Mothma has no choice but to find a way to continue funding the Rebellion, so we're sure life will only continue getting harder for her in the coming years. Eventually, she will fully back her fellow Rebels in open defiance of the Empire, though we're sure there's still a lot more story to tell before we get there.

We'll have to wait and see, but you can read more about the Andor finale by clicking here.

All twelve episodes of Andor are now streaming on Disney+.

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8 Comments

ObserverIO - 11/25/2022, 4:04 AM

She was my favorite character in the show. Can we just rename the series Mothma? And then do a crossover with Godzilla?

ScaryTerry - 11/25/2022, 7:52 AM

@ObserverIO - …and the Ghostbusters, and Transformers….

GhostDog - 11/25/2022, 4:49 AM

Could watch a whole show about her

TheVandalore - 11/25/2022, 5:40 AM

I loved this show. Not really sure what even really was accomplished with anything established or what the point was... but it was a pleasure to experience lol

Mugens - 11/25/2022, 6:09 AM

In Mothma's household I think the person she really needs to worry about is her daughter. She would give her up to the Empire in second. The character was well played as I really disliked her.

sickboy76 - 11/25/2022, 6:58 AM

Arranging her daughters marriage was her first real and personal sacrifice to the rebellion. It's especially fitting as her marriage to that douchebag was arranged at a young ages as well for political clout.

Fares - 11/25/2022, 8:22 AM

The moment she asked the driver to give them some privacy, I was like "oh she can't be this, dumb. She's been written to be so careful all this time, and they can't just write this scene so lazily to get her into trouble like that"

And then, it was proven once again that this show is made by competent filmmakers.

DerekLake - 11/25/2022, 11:10 PM

The dialogue and character writing are great, but I was really hoping for more of a political thriller arc with Mon Mothma. She seems a bit too naive at times for someone who is supposed to be involved from the start. And given that she’s a Senator and the eventual leader of the whole Alliance to Restore the Republic, I was hoping that we’d get to see her trying to build political support for the Rebellion while navigating Coruscant’s repressive, tightly-controlled environment and a more KGB/Stasi-like ISB.

Another big question: where is Mon Mothma’s friend Bail Organa and his Rebel network in all of this? It’s his larger movement that becomes the main force of the Rebel Alliance, and he’s supposedly been building that for several years. It’s odd that Mon Mothma is attached to Luthen and not to Bail Organa. I’m hoping they reveal that Luthen is working for Bail, because otherwise it’s kinda odd that Mon Mothma would get involved in this way.

I hope we can get some of that in season 2, because it’s one aspect of what seems to me to be lacking.

ANDOR Showrunner Tony Gilroy Elaborates On Mon Mothma's Fateful Season Finale Decision - SPOILERS

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