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Just because you know the ending doesn't mean you shouldn't watch anyway.

That's what probably any fan of the Star Wars series Andor will tell you. Even though we all saw that the series lead Cassian Andor, played by Diego Luna, take a Death Star straight to the face in Rogue One, there's still so much to explore from his past. And no one knows that better than Andor showrunner (and Rogue One co-writer) Tony Gilroy.

Tony was recently at the PaleyLive: An Evening With Andor panel at The Paley Center for Media in Los Angeles, where comedian Patton Oswalt hosted a special discussion featuring Gilroy on stage with some of the show's key figures, such as Luna (Cassian Andor), executive producer Sanne Wohlenberg, Genevieve O'Reilly (Mon Mothma), Adria Arjona (Bix Caleen), and Ben Mendelsohn (Orson Krennic). At the very beginning of the panel, Oswalt brought up the fact that Gilroy and crew were creating a story around a doomed hero, and Gilroy's answer proved that he's taked abut the subject before.

"I have a really glib answer," the showrunner said, "That came out over being asked some questions like this. 'How can you make [Andor] when you know he's going to die?' The answer is: we all know we're going to die."

Grim, Tony, but true.

"We all know we're going to die," Gilroy continued, "And we [still] get up and do our laundry. There's some innate, evolutionary suspension of disbelief that we have."

But there's more to Gilroy's take than just the inevitability of Death. There's also the idea of art being more than just a series of spoilers that, once ruined, negate the piece.

"I mean," he says,  "Why would you watch a movie the second time? [...] It never gets in the way [of creating the show] as long as you just keep moving and keep it interesting."

A pretty good motto not just for franchise television, but for life in general. 

Andor: A Star Wars Story is streaming now on Disney+. 

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