Other shows give you a ticking clock. Andor,?? ?? ??? which just returned to Disney+ for its second and final season, gives you a ticking calendar.
That's the meaning of "BBY 4," which appears on screen at the beginning of Andor Season 2, episode 1. Casual viewers may not remember all the way back to Andor Season 1, episode 1, when we were given another time setting: BBY 5.
SEE ALSO: 'Andor' Season 2 review: The best Star Wars show goes out with a brilliant bangGet used to it, because time jumps are coming: The second batch of Andor season 2 (dropping next week) is set in BBY 3; the third in BBY 2; and the final three episodes, hitting Disney+ on May 13, cover the events of BBY 1, and dovetail with the beginning of Rogue One.
However, Andor never explains this mysterious acronym. You'd be forgiven for thinking the "Y" refers to year. But no, BBY means Before the Battle of Yavin — another name for the Death Star-destroying conclusion to the original Star Warsmovie in 1977, which George Lucas renamed Episode IV: A New Hopein 1981.
BBY and ABY (After the Battle of Yavin) became a useful dating system for Star Wars books, comics, and other media. The Empire Strikes Back, for example, takes place in ABY 3; Attack of the Clones was BBY 22. Not that either movie ever said so on screen, of course.
And the more that Lucasfilm's chief nerds thought about it, the less BBY and ABY made sense in the Star Wars universe. After all, the Empire didn't fall until the events of Return of the Jedi (ABY 4). Wouldn't the new Galactic Republic choose thatas its key date?
One company veteran mocked the whole concept of the BBY dating system in a now-deleted tweet: "'I know! Let's make a calendar based around our second-greatest victory!' — The Rebels."
Lucasfilm's 2014 canon reset, which declared all previously published novels and comics to be part of a separate, never-happened timeline called Legends, effectively did away with the dating system. But it persisted in fan discussions, and in the online resource known as Wookieepedia.
And when director Tony Gilroy came along to create Andor as a prequel to Rogue One, he needed to indicate his time jumps to viewers. BBY made sense given that Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) dies in Rogue One, mere days before the Battle of Yavin — and far from being wiped out, BBY became enshrined on screen for the first time.
The first three episodes of Andor Season 2 premiere April 22 on Disney+, with new episodes every Tuesday.
Topics Star Wars
KCETLink Partners with NHK World TV to Launch 24
IT PAYS TO KNOW: Hands Off My Social Security
Wildcard bench phzy and stanislaw
Author to Discuss ‘Godzilla’ Director Honda
New Visions of Japanese Studies at UCLA
The Gifts of an Avid Fisherman
Symposium Hosts Conversations Across Generations
Haunted Little Tokyo Starts This Week
Masumoto Family Writes About ‘The Perfect Peach’
‘Allegiance’ to Close Asian World Film Festival
Main takeaways from official Paris Major RMR rosters
Miike’s ‘Blade of the Immortal’ at Nuart
Heroes Return
A Blooming Partnership for the Rose Parade
Discussion of Hirabayashi Book at JANM
Groundbreaking for WWII Camp Wall Set for June
To Tell the ‘Truths’
Playwright Gives ‘Little Women’ a Multicultural Makeover
Congressman Pays Tribute to JA Veterans at Memorial Day Ceremony
L.A. Cast for ‘Allegiance’ Musical Announced
Katy Perry says she'll collaborate with Taylor Swift on one conditionWoman accidentally dresses exactly like a Rocket PopCalvin Harris says 'all hell broke loose' after Taylor Swift breakup. Well, duh.Wikileaks retracts Twitter poll speculating about Clinton's healthMan buys woman a drink, texts her awkward request weeks laterAriana Grande and Mac Miller declare their love with a leg hugAmazon adds food delivery in LondonArtist and mom of twins harmoniously pairs working and breastfeedingThis tougherHere's why drinkers should hit the gym Faraday Future's new CEO says FF91 production starts September 2020 Jake Gyllenhaal shares adorable 'Spider Furries ban Milo Yiannopoulos from FurFest convention 'Session' is the 'Dark Souls' of skateboarding games An umbrella blocked people out of a WeWork office for 2 days All the cinematic details to check out at Halloween Horror Nights 2019 Stunning Wolverine Glacier pics from the front lines of climate change The world's first vagina museum is officially opening The best signs from the global climate strike Tesla Model S reportedly laps Nürburgring faster than Porsche Taycan
0.1636s , 9847.21875 kb
Copyright © 2025 Powered by 【?? ?? ???】'Andor' and its time jumps: BBY, explained,Feature Flash
