Marco T

After 8: horrible. After 7: ummm not so good. I can sum this episode up as being very "Jake Skywalker", in that it breaks the definition of who the Jedi are in ways similar to how The Last Jedi broke the Luke Skywalker character. After 6: At this point, the "murder mystery" is completely not part of the plot. It never was. I'm thinking they tried to put too many ideas into this series and ended up not being able to do anything well as a result as there isn't enough time for the audience to buy into anything emotionally or for deep discussions and perspectives to be well-explored. After 5: some good action scenes saved the writing. I've been trying to summarize what rubs me the wrong way with this series. Obviously the writing and story telling has a lot to do with that, but I think the other aspect is many characters, for whatever reason just seem really flat, lack facial expression and are pretty monotone when they speak, to the point it becomes a distraction as it's just never believable. After 4: This was mostly a transition episode, and they are sort of putting themselves in a corner to make a Sith, or Sith-like acolyte, adversary given they are supposed to no longer exist and exposing them now is too early in the story line by like 100 years. So, either everybody dies and the Counsel doesn't find out for some inexplicable reason, or they decide to make up a fake story to tell the counsel for some inexplicable reason, or they kill the "Sith" and say it was just some random splinter cell (another lie they want to believe?) for some mostly inexplicable reason...I really hope they avoid something dumb like brain-wiping/etc as that would be sooooooo horrible on sooooo many levels. I hope they are cognizant of how powerful they make the bad guy here - too powerful is not going to be realistic and ruin things further. Still sticking with a 1/5 rating...and hopeful, but not practically so, on the last 4 episodes... Update after 3 episodes: only Squid Game guy has been solid (without him this is not even close to watchable), everything else about this episode is a waste of time and money Changing rating to a 1/5 now. It's only two episodes in but just based on the age distribution of main characters it's clear the show is NOT meant for adults aged 25+, especially those who are already pretty familiar with Star Wars lore. This is enforced by the low depth of story telling/writing quality/graphic detail of the fight scenes and low expectations of prerequisite knowledge of the audience. As an approach to gain more star wars fans from the younger, women, and multi-cultural demographics it would probably accomplish some of it's goal and I'd say a 3/5 or 3.5/5. However, as an existing, rather well informed Star Wars fan, I would have to say, so far it's a 1/5, at best...