Yeah, this is where I come out. I enjoyed the show quite a bit. I get why people were disappointed, and I do think the Mando bits were a little shoehorned in.
But to me, the real issue is pacing and payoffs. The end payoffs were, you know, fine, but it didn't quite have the emotional weight it should've because we spent a bunch of time on unrelated stuff with an unrelated guy and his unrelated ward. As noted, that should've just been in Mando S3, and then give BOBF time to breathe a little more.
The vespa gang just felt off. They can't get around that. I didn't loathe them the way it seems many do, but while they seemed like kind of a cool concept, the execution just didn't translate. I mean, theoretically, a gang that's into cyber-modification (at least as I recall) and custom speeders? THAT should be cool. In practice...well...considerably less cool than in theory.
I do dig the "Unforgiven in space" thing. I think a lot of people just wanted badass Boba Fett kickin' ass across the galaxy, though. Seems that's what people tend to want in a lot of Star Wars properties, rather than character evolution.
