The cartoony feel of the show suggests the growing influence of Filoni in the Mandoverse. I’d rather they’d kept the animated tales entirely separate from this. Not least because I find elements to be absurd - space whales - or corny.
Yeah, I’ve been getting that feeling too. Except for Andor, pretty much all post-TROS Star Wars gives me “live-action anime adaptation” vibes, and not just because of all the live-action versions of cartoon characters walking around. Filoni is truly a successor to Lucas: a great ideas man, but hopelessly corny when he actually tries to write something.