It's actually kind of funny that the Imperials set things up in Ghorman to give the Rebels a decisive win, and yet the Rebels bungle it and get an operative killed in the field in the process.
Last week, we saw a major figure funding the Rebellion get the metaphorical cement shoes because he started crashing out in a party, and a rebel cell being so disorganized they started blowing each other's brains out despite being stuck in a hostile jungle full of wild animals that yearn for the taste of human blood.
Outside of Andor himself, who is a mid-level Rebel operative at best, it's kind of hard to root for these clowns. The Empire is portrayed as evil, yes, but at least they get things done, to the point where they even use a clumsy-ass corpo-cop for their Ghorman plot, and he succeeds in getting the ball rolling. They discuss genocide plans while stuffing their faces with cake because they have things under control, to the point where they have little to worry about. Krennic is a primadonna as usual, but he's at least good at keeping up a screen presence and tension.
As for the rapist Imperial officer, he was corrupt. He was willing to look the other way at the fact that Bix and the others are fugitives from Imperial justice in exchange for sex. If his superiors found out about that, getting castrated would be a mercy compared to what the Empire would do to him for bending the law in exchange for pussy.
Meanwhile, Mon Mothma's best scene so far was when she started dancing on her daughter's wedding because of how mentally crashed she is over everything.
The most effective rebel cell at this point is Saw Gerrera's. And he's an unhinged lunatic who sniffs Rhydonium fumes. When your best man is an unhinged lunatic who gets high off jet fuel, you know you're FUBAR.
I guess it's all to depict the long march as to how the Rebellion went from a total crashout mess, to an organized army that can give the Empire a black eye or two.
Also, with rebels like Luthen Rael, the Empire won't need a Death Star to wipe out the Rebellion. He was willing to push an entire Rebel cell on a wealthy and influential world like Ghorman to commit to a suicidal cause just to fan the flames of rebellion. At this point, he's like a 40K Commissar trying to push the Rebels to charge into suicidal odds; that would just end with more Rebels dead, and the Empire would just spin the narrative to their favor, especially since it's shown that they have people whose main expertise is to go full spin-doctor on the media to turn the narrative to their favor.
