Nice, Acbagel! I’m very happy that you liked the suggestion of the anthology side stories in the project! Other than the Dr Pershing/Coruscant bit, sooner or later there’s definitely going to be more nice content that just doesn’t fit well in the edited Books format.
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.
Well considering these scenes are completely irrelevant to the show and it’s only point I’d to tell the audience that the NR is a bumbling organisation that doesn’t know what it’s doing and is about characters that at most are bit players before this, it should absolutely be cut.
I’d disagree you with, friend. Yup, they did exaggerate on the New Republic’s officers stupidness and naiveness (like that mon calamari technician casually and proudly lobotomizing him at the end, that was… something), but that was like 5% of the content. Besides, some slight trims and cuts could easily solve or at least greatly improve upon this matter.