I really like the episodic nature of the show, but as I’ve said multiple times in this thread before, I’m fairly old school and not a fan of modern 100 hour movies chopped up in 45 min parts type of narratives that have been so common since GOT. I’d be completely on board with a live action version of the formula used by TCW where each episode tells its own partially connected or completely stand-alone narrative following multiple characters across the SW galaxy. As there is some plot development regarding Grogu in The Mandalorian I don’t mind if most episodes focus on their own little mini narrative on some new planet with new characters (to most viewers anyway). The great thing about the SW galaxy to me is that there’s so many potential small-scale stories to be told and that’s why I’ve loved this season. I like the idea of Din and Grogu being the throughline in all of these mini stories; such as Cobb Vanth teaming up with the Tuskens to kill the Krayt Dragon or Ahsoka freeing the town on Corvus. Ditto on season 1 episodes like Sanctuary and The Prisoner. And so far in season 2 we’ve had two episodes that mostly deal with the main story arc, and we have three episodes left, so I don’t think this season will be too different from season 1. Obviously season 1 introduced the main conflict with Grogu in multiple episodes, so they didn’t have too much time for self-contained stories, but overall I think it’s been quite consistent. And we don’t know what their plans are for the next couple of seasons, so when the show is over we might even have more “plot episodes” than “filler episodes”.

I still suspect that this show is going to be very similar to Rebels in that the first season was fairly self-contained, season two went all over the galaxy and introduced a lot of familiar characters, and then season three became more focused and gradually built up to the last season which was pretty much one long story arc divided into episodes. That might not be to everyone’s taste, but I’m on board with that.