For the most part, Andor has been careful not to change canon or ignore past Star Wars events. But a big shift happened in the show’s eighth episode, as we now have a brand new origin story for how Andor found K-2SO. Previously, before the events of Rogue One, a comic book established that the droid arrested Andor during a mission and was turned off and partially
reprogrammed into the sort-of-helpful-but-still-sassy robot companion we see in the movie. Now, he tried to kill Andor and was destroyed by a Ghorman rebel before being taken back by Cassian to Yavin, where he was rebuilt by a team of slicers who, instead of reprogramming K-2SO, just suppressed some of his “impulses” and “orders” to make him a useful ally. Personally, I don’t mind retconning this because the original origin wasn’t that interesting. I don’t think this new version is much better, but at least it connects the droid to a big moment in Star Wars history.
