The total noob here. Started with this. Watched:

TCWRefocused - s01e01 - The New Padawan (v2.4).mp4
TCWRefocused - s01e02 - Malevolence (v2.4).mp4

This is still within the scope of TCW that I actually watched. I was forced to take my sister into the pilot, which ran in the cinemas in Europe, and watched the couple of first episodes before giving up on this childish show. Years later, this project caught my interested and I mentioned that I could watch this with the untainted fresh eyes of an old school Star Wars fan.
So, my first merciless per-episode feedback, then general feedback.

The New Padawan

Not too much to complain about “The New Padawan” overall, bar its weak first third. It is, in essence, a forgetable pilot episode meant to introduce everything and it gets the job done. Many dialog scenes are still cringeworthy but that is the material that is there. It is still much more watchable than the original stuff.

The opening text is a mess in my book, because it seems to paint the picture that various things have happened, especially the retreat to a medical station. Yet, the episode actually opens with the retreat and we see ships arriving later.
I also think the first third does not work as a story: If there is a blockade in place, how is anyone being dropped off through that? Why is the Admiral talking about dropping Ashoka off personally but is actually not?
I think the entire first third should be restructured, with the fleet getting driven off at a later stage (probably after Ventress and the invasion force landing), which would also allow a reduction of the opening text. Causality in storytelling is really important to me, but this episode only comes together in the second half when it comes to that aspect.

Furthermore, I found a few of cuts a little too hard and disjointed, the very first one is a good example. We see the ships seemingly retreat (which is okay, because we got the opening crawl for context), then we cut to the Jedi. No etablishing shot, no sense of what is going on or sence of connections. Granted, that cut is particularly bad, but others are very distracting as well: some in tone, for example the 5:52 one from “prepare to march” to “our cruiser must be back”, and some in simple execution, like 14:16 one from space the ground. The biggest base-challenge for every fan edit, making a cut feel like it belonged there.

Malevolence

I was looking forward to that, I remember this to be a three-parter about a giant evil dreadnought. But the fan-edit version was rather disappointing for me.
First things first, we never see the enemy super weapon. That is a big mistake in my opinion, establishing the thread visually is critical. But in the edit, we only see the aftermath of such a firing. This robs the finale of its dramatic tension. I mean, I have absolutely no idea of what this weapon does. Maybe it is totally harmless, just disabling the station? On the other hand, the Malevolence could blow that station to bits anyway, since it has practically no defenses as the episode states… Also, Grievous orders the retreat way after we see his giant vessel turn away and veer off, which I found weird.

Considering this is supposed to be about the Malevolence, I find it strange that only about 50% of the runtime is actually dealing with that vessel. Instead, we get lots of debris-field action. I do not remember what was in the original episodes but I find the focus of the episode strange.
Story-wise, I find it strange that Ashoka has been doing “a great job” according to Anaking (26:30) when, at least in my book, she really did not do too much. Anakin wanted to search for survivors on his own (and R2 found them) and during the battle, no of her actions was that noteworthy. Not sure if she even fired a single shot. From what I watched, she was out of line and then along for the ride, nothing more.

There is the obvious problem of Anakins strange ship, which is, if I recall correctly, some freighter they picked up during the original pilot. No idea how to deal with this, but it sure is weird in that episode. What ship is that? It looks very un-republic…

Stylistically speaking, there were some fades-to-black (seemingly always to a Hyperspace Scene), which I found to be totally out-of-place. No idea if they were there in the original but to me, they felt super strange.
Maybe this episode has an expectation problem from my end, but while I found the first one to be simple and generic, that second one just felt broken somehow. Pretty sure that first fade-out is partially to blame, as I was totally out at that point.

Also, from watching this second episode, I get the impression that the retreat to a medial station in Ep1 is something you added to introduce some continuity. However, I think that is misplaced. This information adds nothing to Ep1 and in Ep2, we learn from the station by Dooku anyway.

General Feedback

I really liked the pseudo-concept-art approach in the credits as a call to the live action shows, but I think the filter is a little bit too agressive and simple. But alas, that is really not the focus.

Overall, I found the watching experience weirdly choppy from a framerate level. The files I have seem to be encoded at 23.976 frames per second, which is pretty normal and my screens framerate of 120Hz divides evenly enough. Yet, the footage seems very uneven (I also compared to some other files encoded at that framerate), I wonder if your export is buggy. Are you re-targeting the framerate by accident?

Gonna continue watching, but I must admit that I probably had unrealistic expectations of what could be achieved with TCW. So many people say there is good Star Wars in there, so I am going to keep looking for a while longer.