I’m not sure how to feel about this latest episode. … parts of Coruscant feel somehow… cheap. The apartment complex looked like a parking garage. And it bothered me that when we see someone flying through the city in a flying car with no roof, there doesn’t seem to be any wind or loud ambient noise. It makes the whole scene feel very fake.
Anyway, this was a strange episode. I liked seeing the New Republic, but really not much happened. They spend all this time on this elaborate chase through a flying subway, and the payoff is simply that Dr. Pershing gets betrayed by his friend for unknown reasons. Apparently the New Republic also has no ethical problems forcing medical procedures on people, but whatever.
Finally, while it’s generally always the case that the concept art they show in the credits looks better than the actual filmed scenes, the difference usually isn’t that great. This time, the concept art looked orders of magnitude better than the actual filmed scenes. I mean, the concept art for the Imperial lab looked very cool, but in the scene itself the lab just looked like a random room with some tables and bits of equipment strewn about.
Yes. It felt like the show had shifted from cosplaying the Original Trilogy to cosplaying Andor by way of the Prequels.
The Corruscant scenes were quite boring, especially considering this was meant to portray an intrigue. The writing & direction lacked pace and tension.
& after Andor the sets seemed cheap. The limitations of the volume were obvious. It didn’t feel lived in. The effects just seemed off at times. More reminiscent of contemporary Star Trek than Star Wars.
The dogfight with the Tie Interceptors was entertaining enough, I suppose.