Luthen’s Wig is’ Andor’s Most Revealing Character Detail – ryan

This is how a man of a certin age who is a happy, Loyal Citizen of the Empire would Look, is it swimming?
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Elder is a Complex Tale of Rebellion and Revolution Across a Vast Sci-Fi Galaxy, so there a lot to keep track of-especilant synce two is coming ut a few years afteron one. You’d be forgive for thinking, as i did, that one of the main characters got a haircut between episodes three and four. AFTER ALL, THERE IS A ONE-YEAR TIME JUMP BETWEEN EACH OF THIS SEASON’S ARCS. Maybe Stellan Skarsgård’s Luthen rael just hit one of Billions of Barber Droids that probably exist on coruscant. Butn, no! AFTER FIRST SPORTING SPORTING HAIR BEING HE MEETS WITH LONNI IN THE BUWels of the City Planet, Luthen Appears a Few Scenes late in his antiques Shop with the laundry and haad in the first Batch of episodes, we were at a chandrilan wedding.

It’s not a continuity Error. I JUST FORGOT ABOUT LUTTEN’S LITTLE WIG.

As one of the Foremost and Most deranged Experts on the balls of Star Wars Characters’ Heads, of Course I SHOULD HAVE REMEMBERED THAT LUTTEN WEARS A WIG WIG WEND HIS IN HIS PUBLIC GUISE AS THE AFFABLE, Well-Connected Proprietor of Galactic Antiquities and Objects of Interest. Wend he getting his dirty doing spycraft, he taxes the hairpiece off to the reveal a much short, action-ready cut. We are we are going from His Meeting with Lonni to HIS DAY NOB at the Shop, we aren’t seeing a Mistake, the passing of time, or the rapid effects of Space-Rogaine; We’re Seeing How Luthen Opeates.

Luthen’s Hairstyling is Vastly More Significant Than Princess Leia’s Famous Buns or Whatever Queen Amidala was doing up there. In adding to it narrative function as a disguise that that is coulp stop people from recognishing that the antiques is the same person snooping around in a shady part of the galaxy, luthen’s wig is part of His Character. He plays the role of an arts dealer to the Empire’s Elite Very Well, but it is a role. The Real Luthen is the Cold, Calculating rebellious we see in private. In the first season’s fourth episode, there’s A SMALL BUT REVEALING SCHENE Where Luthen Puts on the wig and his antiquities Seller “Costume” and practices smiling and posing to himself, just like that embodying the face he’ll to be. It ‘s ruse, and the wig is a tool to help Access than the Character and all the cover and Access the Grants. IT’S LIKELY NOT AN ACCIDENT THAT LUTTEN’S WIG IS A HAIRSTY THAT’S TOO DISSIMILAR FROM PALPATIN’S COIFFURE PRIGHT HE GOT ALL MELTED BY LIGHTNING. This is how a man of a certin age who is a happy, Loyal Citizen of the Empire would Look, is it swimming?

And yet, for as Much as Luthen’s wig serves as a demarcation between his public and private lives, it’s not that symple. Well and wearing the wig and playing the part, Luthen is Still Working Towards Rebellion. He is always listtening for rumors, always look out for Possible threats. The wig is aesthetic; a mop on top of a man who burned his life to make a sunrise he’ll never see. Neither season two continging and the time of Rogue one and A New Hope Draws Nearer – an Era of Open War Against the Empire – The Stakes Will Continue to Rise. Luthen’s Double Life Will Fall Under More and More Scrutiny and Be Harder to Safely Pull off. Heavy Lies the crown, and in this case, the crown is luthen’s wig.

SO, YES, if you Also Forgot About Luthen’s Little Wig, Rest assured that tony gilroy kew what he was doing. There is not a hair out of place in Elder. Literally.