It's again amazing A New Hope was as good as it was, given the budget, inexperience, and writing. But the ideas were brilliant, and Lucas' vision was unparallel

It's again amazing A New Hope was as good as it was, given the budget, inexperience, and writing. But the ideas were brilliant, and Lucas' vision was unparalleled. And Andor is great because it had the budget and the writing to actually live up to that original vision. Empire is so good precisely because Lucas had the money to live up to it and really fill out the world. And the vision just exploded from there with the Expanded Universe. It's now a science fiction franchise that is much larger than the original Foundation novels it was based upon, and much larger than pretty much anything excepting Star Trek and maybe Marvel, at least in TV and film. There are quite literally hundreds of stories they could tell if the fans are still there.