“Oh wow, more Coruscant. Oh, even better, more cubicles!”
I don’t like this season. The story ideas just seem immature and pieced together. The motivations either aren’t fleshed out well or they seem counterintuitive. And above all, you can now sense there is no longer the most basic fundamental of a good story: a beginning, middle, and end.
When we watch these episodes, my wife no longer even pays attention. She will look up and be interested intermittently (like in the Armorer’s speech this episode), but she isn’t invested at all. Once Andor started, she didn’t like it at all, and now she doesn’t really care for this show either. We both agree Bad Batch is probably the superior show currently.
I think one issue is the dramatic change from a personal story to this larger over arching story with huge implications. Unfortunately, we already know a pseudo-Empire returns. These whispers and rumors of a growing threat…Yep, we actually know that’s a thing already. Can the different sects of Mandos overcome their strict rules to reunite and visit a very habitable Mandalore? Well, when you change your rules all nimbly nimbly, why have the rules at all? Is Moff Gideon alive? Yeah, probably so. That dude is a menace. There’s Beskar on that imperial shuttle? Well, every other person seems to have some. There’s even a huge drum thing on Ferrix made of it.
I think the most interesting thing is that the armorer is most definitely going to play Bokatan and Din against each other. I don’t even know why I think that’s going to interesting. I guess it’s better than watching every other giant animal attack a camp of weekend warriors.
