Having seen it a second time now, it’s fine. The beginning and end of the episode work really well, but it’s the middle part that feels rushed and too crammed with ideas. Now I don’t really mind any of those ideas (though Fennec’s machine mid-riff is a bit silly, though hardly the weirdest we’ve seen in SW), but a few more minutes or a bit of tweaking to the script would have helped.

It’s the action scene that feels off to me. Fett’s fighting choreography is quite good, but everything else just feels so much more fake than what we’ve seen before. CG looks like it belongs in a series with less of a budget to me, and it’s really weirding me out. Perhaps Rodriguez is more of a “we’ll fix it in post” type of director and therefore some of the effects feel more rushed? Or maybe it’s simply harder to “hide” CG in such a bright setting? Previous episodes have been fairly dark and moody after all. Does anyone else feel the same way?

Either way though, it has me excited for the next two episodes, so it clearly did its job well enough.