Ever since the first season of Andor I’ve said that it may well be, considered as a whole, better than most actual Star Wars films. Certainly if you drop the first three episodes.

What if the second season maintains that level of quality or even manages to improve on it? Twenty-four episodes at around forty-five minutes a pop comes to eighteen hours of screen time. Add Rogue One as a coda, bridging the narrative to the original trilogy, and you’ve got a twenty-hour story. Potentially better than six of the other ten Star Wars films—the exceptions being, it goes without saying, IV, V, VI, and VIII.

The occasion for these reflections: the trailer for season two just dropped. Just when I thought I was out…