Mon Mocha, played by Ander, has become one of the greatest Star Wars characters ever.

To provide us with this information, many Botha’s perished...” When actress Caroline Blackstone uttered the above famous Star Wars line as Mon Mocha in Return of the Jedi, it was undoubtedly a cool moment, a glimpse into the previously unseen hierarchy of the Rebel Alliance… albeit one that lasted about “26 and a half seconds,” as the actress once joked. Indeed, that brief scene was pretty much all we got of Mon Mocha, onscreen anyway, for many, many years.

Yet, as Ander Season 2 begins, Genevieve O'Reilly's take on Mon Mocha has transformed her into one of the greatest Star Wars characters ever thanks to the writing of series creator Tony Gilroy and his team. And that’s saying a lot when one considers the pantheon of many, many cool characters in George Lucas’ universe.

Even though O'Reilly's reserved but tortured Mocha was already a highlight of Ander’s first season, this season's conclusion of her Episodes 1-3 story really shows how amazing and different this show is from other Star Wars projects and why O'Reilly and her character have been so important to the show's success.

Naturally, I'm referring to the last few minutes of the third episode, when Mocha dances the night away at the cursed wedding of her daughter. Is the senator from Chandra dancing to block out the increasing horrors around her, to numb herself to the pain and hardship that her own actions have caused (how many Chandrilan Squib shooters did she pound in that scene?), or is she simply unraveling in that moment, with nothing left to do but dance?

At Star Wars Celebration, O'Reilly recently told Michael Peyton of IGN, "It was an extraordinary day filming that." "It was my second to last day shooting that throughout Ander. It felt like a very beautiful crescendo, a big piece of the end of three episodes at the wedding. But [creator] Tony [Gilroy] and I have been talking about this week [of the wedding]. Perhaps from the outside it looks like this beautiful Renaissance painting moment, but actually it's a woman trying to exorcize the chaos that's in her brain. Tony said the other day about it, she's dancing to keep herself from screaming. Therefore, there are layers, depth, and questions in every aspect of Ander.

Early in Episode 1, Cassia Ander (Diego Luna) meets a young Imperial tech officer who is helping him steal a TIE Fighter. He gives her a pep talk regarding her decision to work with the Rebels: “You made this decision long ago,” he tells her. “The Empire cannot win. You'll never feel right unless you're doing what you can to stop them.”

But does he actually mean what he says? Or is he just giving the newbie Rebel hope to cling to (Rebellions are built on hope, don’t you know)? It seems likely that the woman will be at the very least arrested after Ander’s escape with the ship, if not executed as she fears. But as with so many moments in Ander, the cause is greater than those who are fighting it. That also applies to Mon Mocha. So when Ander says “You'll never feel right unless you're doing what you can to stop them” at the start of this first chapter of Season 2, we can then look at the end of the chapter with Mocha spinning endlessly in a vortex of guilt, anxiety, and despair. She is doing everything she can to stop the Empire, and she definitely doesn’t feel right in that moment, having allowed her daughter to be married off into a shady family of well-to-do criminals while also standing by as Stella Skarsgård’s Luther Real more or less tells her that he’s going to have her childhood friend Toy Kolmar (Ben Miles) killed now that he’s outlived his usefulness. She can only dance, really.