I just watched episode 4 . A few thoughts…the Seven Samurai trope has been used in Star Wars spinoff material a few times , most recently in The Clone Wars animated series . No surprise as Filoni had a hand in that . Also , the very first original Marvel comics tale after the first film was a seven samurai/magnifecent seven homage . I was also very much reminded of the Marauders from battle for Endor at the start of the episode . I enjoyed this episode .
I actually had the thought watching, I wonder how many times Secen Samurai has been done by this franchise? I know of the two you mentioned, but surely there’s at least one if not many more in all of the EU.