I’m usually down on Filoni, but after a rewatch of TCW and TotJ I want to give him some benefit of the doubt. Don’t get me wrong, his stuff is still so variable in quality, but the underlying motivation behind all of it can be thoughtful and ambitious. When it’s brought [somewhat] to the foreground like in the Dooku Tales, it really works IMO

He has his annoying hobby horses for sure, but Ahsoka was a good character once. It’s the team-up of him and Favreau that I think enables a lot of the schlock. I may not agree with or buy into Filoni’s Star Wars all the time, but at least he’s interested in more than the theme park. Favreau feels like the guy that says it’s okay to indulge like that, and has the perspective of someone removed from the franchise’s prior history. He knows all audiences haven’t watched the cartoons and understands how wide the net should be for a big one. It worked well in Mando season 1 as the first live action tv series, but it solidified an emphasis on form that’s restrained a story itching to evolve.