But it does have those characters… so your argument isn’t really valid. The slower story is a welcome change. Not everything needs to be a rush to finish line.
Put it another way - imagine this show didn’t have the Star Wars name on it or even just that you haven’t seen an episode of any of the animated shows. Imagine you didn’t know who prequel Anakin was or that Hayden Christensen coming back was some major event. Would you still like it? Why?
I don’t mean that the story is taking its time, I mean every single part of the story is filmed and edited in a way where it takes too long. Shot by shot, dialogue by dialogue. It’s not like it’s lingering on big vistas or striking imagery, it’s lingering on characters saying
“We need to do this.”
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“Yeah.”
or the visual equivalent.