What’s up with the good stuff = Favreau and Filoni are the saviours of Star Wars, bad stuff = must be evil Disney and their corporate meddling narrative? There’s no evidence that what we’re getting isn’t just exactly what Jon Favreau, Dave Filoni, Robert Rodriguez etc. chose to make. If anything, after the success of Mando S01, the impression given by the investor’s day presentation the other year was that Kathy Kennedy just green-stamped all their ideas lol. It’s not like Dave Filoni doesn’t have a history of forgetting what he was doing with a show and just reintroducing all the characters from the last one and continuing their stories instead. Sometimes good writers make some not so great content. Luckily, there’s enough Star Wars content in the pipeline that the occasional show being a bit flat doesn’t really trouble me.

This was a fun episode of The Book of Whichever Established Characters Are About During This Era, and having Luke and Ahsoka chat (albeit very briefly and not at all covering any of the huge amount of history she knows about Anakin and the Jedi) at long last stimulated my neurons, but I can’t help but feel like I’d probably rather this stuff had been saved for Mando S03, since this is now a fairly incoherent season of television. I can’t see them paying off the actual story about Boba Fett in enough depth with just one episode to go, but maybe it’ll be great.