Andor Is Over, And Denise Gough Is Cheering Dedra's Fate: 'I'm So Happy'

The following contains spoilers from Season 2, Episode 12 aka the series finale of Andor, now streaming on Disney+.

How quickly fortunes changed for ISB supervisor Dedra Meero.

Having risen up the ranks during Season 1, Dedra spent much of Season 2 overseeing the "gift" that had been handed her by Director Orson Krennic: seeing to it that violence erupts on Ghorman, so as to justify the Empire's presence on that planet (while also distracting from Imperial engineers' destructive extraction of calcite).

But for as much as Dedra may have seen herself as part of the larger Death Star initiative, in the end she wound up making parts for the Death Star, as a Narkina 5 inmate.

Dedra in Episode 10 had confronted Luthen Rael aka the elusive "Axis" she'd hunted for two seasons, only to let him stab himself with a dagger relic, so as to avoid interrogation. Luther didn't die on the spot but was rushed to a Coruscant hospital, where Dedra kept close watch on his condition — until, that is, Officer Heert showed up to relieve her of duty, by having her arrested. (Apparently, Krennic was no fan of Dedra confronting Luthen without authorization/backup.)

So, after offering Heert an assist (in the hunt for Luthen's assistant Kleya) from detention, Dedra was last seen, in the series finale's closing montage, cooling her heels in the same island prison that Cassian (Diego Luna) did some time in in Season 1.

"I was so happy" with Dedra's fate, portrayer Denise Gough told TVLine. "I felt so happy for the audience.

"It's so gratifying" to see where Dedra ended up, the Irish actress continued, "because we know what goes on in Narkina 5. It's such a perfect little button at the end of this season, because you can't have a character like that just get away with [the things she did]."

Considering other possible fates for her character, Gough said, "I'm glad she wasn't killed." Instead, "I'm really glad that we get to see her in that uniform, in that Narkina 5 [cell]."

As scene partner Kyle Soller, who played Dedra's partner Syril, put it, seeing "someone who's been so about control being put into the ultimate controlled space is–"

"Amazing," Gough attested. "A brilliant end."

What did you think of Dedra's fate, the series finale, and Andor Season 2 as a whole?