Did you notice it? It’s there within the picture above. Can you see it?
This week’s Andor ends with a scene within the showroom of Stellan Skarsgard’s Luthen Rael. Rael is an antiques vendor, or not less than that’s his cowl. In reality, Rael is secretly one of many early members of the Rebel Alliance. And he has recruited Cassian Andor to help in an all-important heist on the planet of Aldhani.
Episode 5, “The Axe Forgets,” chronicles the ultimate preparations for the mission. Just earlier than the closing credit, we see Rael again in his store, fretting over the result. He retains checking his radio to see if there’s any phrase from the Rebels, however the mission hasn’t even taken place but. When the scene cuts to close-up, look over Skarsgard’s left shoulder, within the high proper of the body. There, you’ll see the Sankara Stones from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
If you haven’t seen the film, the Stones are Temple of Doom’s MacGuffin. Indy winds up at a village in India that has fallen into chaos after their sacred stone (and their kids) had been stolen by a cult of Kali worshipers. Indy and his allies enterprise to the close by Pankot Palace to retrieve the stone, together with assorted fortune and glory.
In close-ups, the important thing Temple of Doom Stone prop had three horizontal strains throughout it identical to those on the 2 stones on Rael’s shelf. If these aren’t meant to be the Sankara Stones (or not less than an homage to them) it’s a wild coincidence.
Of course Lucasfilm owns each Star Wars and the Indiana Jones films, and the 2 franchises have referenced each other previously — in reality in Temple of Doom itself, Indy visits a Shanghai nightclub named Club Obi Wan. So this wouldn’t be the primary time one thing like this has occurred.
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