I’m enjoying it for what it is, but if I want to talk about gripes, I have a lot of similar thoughts as Vladius.
One issue that is bothering me a lot is how these shows are deciding to explore the New Republic. I feel like they are bending over backwards to make the New Republic seem incompetent with very little nuance. It feels like the writers don’t really know how to write politics, or putting such little effort to it that the New Republic plot feels very two-dimensional.
On the surface, it makes zero sense why the New Republic wouldn’t grant Hera’s request to allow her to follow a lead. They act like Hera has nothing to back up her claims, but a New Republic ship has just recently been attacked, a prisoner escaped and several officers killed. That would warrant a follow-up. I guess it just feels forced to me.
I’m not really wanting to argue about if this was the right direction narrative wise for the New Republic, I’m just trying to think from a writer’s perspective. If I had to write this story, make it so the New Republic can’t intervene, how would I write it?
For one, they could’ve made a point about how the dark Jedi released several prisoners when they also released Morgan Elsbeth, causing extra chaos the Republic is having to clean up, and adding deniability to whether or not Elsbeth herself was the primary target for this rescue mission.
I do think it was a nice touch to bring up Hera’s personal interest in the search, but I felt the Senators could’ve made a better excuse than, “We just don’t want to investigate.” It could been something like, “Our forces are spread so thin and we currently have several pressing situations we have to resolve first before we can green light an investigation into this.” Then Ahsoka could go ahead with the mission because she knows this is a pressing matter.
Also, I find it funny how we’ve already had three stories about New Republic ships being attacked, officers killed, and only one of them was followed up on by the Republic (and neither of them were the high ranking Imperial escapees).
EDIT: Someone else online mentioned that the now-cancelled Rangers of the New Republic may have helped show the positive side of the Republic more than what we’re getting now.
Random thought, but this time period would be really funny setting for a tabletop rpg. Could make the story go whichever way you want.