François Edmond

The show is essentially an hour and a half of plot buildup and context setting, which is fine IF you are resolved to see the show through to the end as a SW fan, but my brother tapped out an hour in, indicative of the plodding pace of the exposition without sufficiently captivating elements. Reva is a caricature of a villian, her fellow villians are written as entirely static and tolerant of her flagrant disloyalty just to elevate her status to the audience. Leia spends too much time being an introspective tool to other characters, and not enough actually being a person to be relatable in any capacity. Obi-Wan is fine, like I said, he does and says nothing significant, which is fine if you're willing to wait for him to undergo some kind of transformation into a dynamic character and not a cardboard cut out of the jaded hero stereotype, but it's not interesting to see in the meantime. Good news, the scene with Owens are gold, when he is on screen he actually conveys tension, which the villians of the show are too cartoonish lacking to subtlety to do. I mean, they really need to show Reva doing meaningless backflips while leaping forward would have sufficiced to convince us that her character was "cool", because her writing certainly wasn't doing it.