“Faster More Intense” was always kind of patronizing, no? I think to go there for the audience they were obviously going for here, the creative team would have to be intentionally condescending.
You’re asking for this show’s strength as slower paced, broader scope work be stripped, in favor of offering something any other Star Wars thing already has. It’s the kind of cynical, bad faith storytelling I think many of us are burnt out on, as though a SW audience would only latch onto the familiar or the flash. Maybe that just means I don’t like Star Wars™. 🤷♂️. If it’s good, it’s good.
I get you might really admire the guy, but George Lucas The Businessman deserves some scrutiny too and maybe someone else’s creative vision can have merit outside the marketing identity
I think that this series is really slow. Too slow. There are a couple of flashy episodes, but other than that it plods. It is not just drawn out. It is actually boring at times. Yes, “faster and more intense” does not always work. There are plenty of scenes in the original movie that move slow, but with purpose. This just moves slow without purpose. I think this series could be improved by cutting out the excess and making it about 8 episodes long. It spends too many episodes setting things up and not enough on telling the story. It really can’t compare to The Mandalorian at all. Or even Kenobi. It does not have the inconsistencies of The Book of Boba Fett. It feels more like Resistance. That series also lacked the pacing. Clone Wars and Rebels had the occasional episode that wasn’t as well done, but overall they were very consistent as is The Mandalorian. They spent far too much time on the heist, Coruscant, and the prison than they needed to. It bogged the story down. So did too many character POVs. A good edit might fix it. Trim the fat. This is a basic story telling tool that has nothing to do with Lucas. His “faster and more intense” direction was just his way of executing this very basic and fundamental tool for engaging stories. Some other comments claimed Kenobi was too slow, but I found this to be glacial in comparison.