Breathtaking. Visceral. Tense. Emotional. Visual. Fantastical.

Those are just a few of the adjectives that describe the feeling of watching the original "Star Wars" films, and what a dozen or so directors and writers have tried to capture –  like George Lucas did the first time in 1977 – with prequels, sequels, spinoffs and animated and live-action TV. Disney+'s "Andor" has achieved all that and more where so many shows and movies that came before it could not.

Compared to, say, the sequel trilogy of feature films ("Force Awakens," "The Last Jedi" and "The Rise of Skywalker") and even more marquee series like "The Mandalorian" and "Obi-Wan Kenobi," "Andor" is a relatively small entry in the "Star Wars" universe, but it is an all-time great. Starring Diego Luna as his character from the 2016 spinoff film "Rogue One," "Andor" is an origin story for one rebel fighting the Empire, but it became so much more in its 12-episode first season, which wrapped Wednesday.

The finale, in which the various entities chasing Cassian Andor (Luna) through the galaxy all coalesce around a funeral for his mother Maarva (Fiona Shaw) on the planet Ferrix, is one of the best episodes of television of the year, and, more significantly, an important chapter in one of the best "Star Wars" stories of all.