Star Wars fans have spotted a delightful deep-cut George Lucas Easter egg in the end of Andor.

As noted on the Star Wars: Rogue One and Andor Fan Page, fans have spotted one particularly deep-cut Easter egg. Dedra Meero winds up held in detention by the ISB after she has uncovered the Death Star's existence, and it's a deliberate riff on a scene from George Lucas' THX 1138.

Andor Recreates The Oldest Star Wars Easter Egg

THX 1138 was George Lucas' first feature film, and it's been referenced countless times in Star Wars. Lucas himself slipped it into the first Star Wars movie (later retitled A New Hope), with Luke claiming he's on a prisoner transfer from Cell Block 1138; the number is also inscribed on the inside of Boushh's helmet. It turns up in the first two prequel movies, and Clone Marshal Commander Bacara - one of the clones who kills Ki-Adi-Mundi - was intended to have the designation CC-1138.

"1138" turns up time and again in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and subsequent animated shows, and one of the most amusing nods was in Star Wars: Skeleton Crew. There were "one thousand, one hundred and thirty nine" vaults on At Attin, leading many to suspect the one visited by Jod Na Nawood would be destroyed - leaving the THX number. The show seemed to use this as a misdirect, because that wasn't the case. Andor season 1 included a 1138 reference for a shuttle - and now Gilroy has returned to it in a much more direct way.

What Would George Lucas Think Of Andor?

We know George Lucas loved Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - he gave Tony Gilroy a call and spoke to him for half an hour - but we don't know his thoughts on Andor. Gilroy's TV show is very different to traditional Star Wars fare, aimed at a more mature audience and even featuring explicit profanity, but it's worth ing that Lucas himself intended to age up the franchise; he planned a live-action show called Underworld that skewed towards older audiences. It's certainly true that Andor channels his vision incredibly well.

I don't think anybody expected such an explicit reference to THX 1138, though; a scene deliberately styled to call back that classic Lucas detention block. It shows just how much attention to detail Gilroy and his team put into Andor. This has justifiably earned a reputation as the best Star Wars TV show.