We know, too, that Star Wars fans in North America – and the Netherlands where Disney+ launched on a trial basis before Christmas – have hailed The Mandalorian as evidence that Star Wars still has a pulse.
Live action, serialised Star Wars was coming to the small screen for the first time in the form of Jon Favreau’s The Mandalorian.
What we do know is that The Mandalorian strips away much of the latter-day clutter from Star Wars.
First came 2017’s atrocious The Last Jedi, where director Rian Johnson aimed a laser cannon at the canon of Star Wars itself.