Seeing the Dr Pershing’s storyline getting cut is the most heartbreaking to me. I thought that episode was so damn good, very mature star wars in the likes of Andor, showing the everyday people adapting to the current new regime.

And, most importantly, it showed us how Coruscant was working post RotJ, and what exactly was this New Republic deal, something that not even the sequel trilogy had. So IMHO it’s very very important not only to this series but to Star Wars as a whole.

But I do understand that it gets in the way of a more straight to the point narrative. So why not make a “special”, like a half an hour episode out of this? Having a “The Way of Mandalore Side Tales” folder or something? Kinda like EddieDean made with his Clone Wars awesome project. This way it wouldn’t get in the way of the main storyline and those who liked it wouldn’t miss this bit of the story. And it would even help with future decent content that doesn’t fit well in the movie format. I know that we could just go and watch the episode, but… well, with some trims and edits, I’m 100% positive you’d make this side-story flow even better!

I agree that the rest can definitely go though, specially that dumb defective droids side-quest. Sadly even the baby raptors went absolutely nowhere at the end huh, either they left the poor animals to die in the cave or just ate them, who knows. Talk about a disconnected season…