Mild spoilers, obviously:

So I start watching the first episode, and the first thing I start thinking is how surreal it feels to be watching Trinity start fighting Matrix-style in a Star Wars show. Clearly there’s also some inspiration from classic Asian martial arts films here. But at least Trinity isn’t wearing black leather with sunglasses and riding a motorcycle while using the Force to freeze bullets in mid-air. The opening fight scene certainly plays with audience expectations, making us wonder when somebody will finally pull out a lightsaber. But I like how the Jedi abstain from igniting their lightsabers until shit gets real. Unlike the Prequels, where they ignite their lightsabers every time someone sneezes.

Other random observations:

Name dropping Nar Shadaa
Is this the first time live-action Star Wars featured magnetic zero-gravity boots?
I’m glad the Nemoidians no longer have their dumb accent, but I hate that they speak English. I know the Prequels are to blame for this, but I hate how Star Wars has significantly reduced the use of alien languages and subtitles in favor of using accented speech to denote “other-ness” ever since Phantom Menace.
The Nemoidians look better than they did in Phantom Menace.
We see a fire burning in the vacuum of space but it behaves like it’s burning in an oxygen-rich atmosphere. (I tell myself to just shut up when I have such nerdy thoughts)
I like how the Jedi don’t all wear stupid Tatooine robes.
Coruscant looks kind of… I don’t know, low res? I’ve always wanted to see a modern depiction of Coruscant with state-of-the-art CGI, but none of these Disney+ shows manage to surpass early 2000s CGI. Coruscant never looks as good as Blade Runner (the original and the new one).
Jedi Younglings still suck. The child acting sucks and it reminds me of how tragic it is that Star Wars is forever saddled with stupid Prequel Jedi lore.
For a Force user suspected of murdering a Jedi master, they sure don’t put much effort into restraining Osha when locking her up in the prison ship. Vader wanted to freeze Luke in carbonite just to transport him safely, and Luke was barely even a Padawan. Here we potentially have a powerful, highly dangerous assassin that can kill with her mind, and they just slap some handcuffs on her and throw her in a cell with ordinary criminals.
I like the music - it’s clearly inspired by classic Williams riffs
I like how Osha concentrates hard but fails to use the Force initially, showing that mastery of the Force degrades over time when unused, like a physical muscle or skill. When Osha’s Force powers fail, she resorts to MacGyvering her way out of the cell. (How old am I that I still think of that reference?)
Osha saving that unconscious prisoner with the face-hugger attached to his mouth is a nice example of “show don’t tell” implemented correctly, letting us know Osha is actually a good person unlike her psychotic twin sister.
A lot of people are complaining about the pacing, but I didn’t notice any pacing problems, at least in these first two episodes.
At the end of the first episode, the secret Sith Lord delivers a monologue saying that a Jedi can’t be killed with a weapon, so an Acolyte must kill without a weapon. This sounds like the beginnings of some really interesting philosophy, but we’ve already seen that Mae actually can kill a Jedi with an ordinary throwing knife. This seems thematically dissonant. (We course correct later when Mae fails to kill Torbin with a conventional weapon, but succeeds in guilting him into suicide.)
They make a big deal out of the possibility that Osha might be guilty of killing a Jedi Master because some local identified her. But this should be really trivial to clear up, since Osha has a very solid alibi. She was working as a mechanic on a distant starship, which would have logs, surveillance, etc. Fortunately, the mix up is quickly resolved in episode 2 anyway.
They drop the line “Peace is a lie”.
The Jedi really take to their role as the “RPD” (Republic Police Force) with their megaphones and high-powered floodlights in the sky. I mean, I know the Jedi have always been basically supernatural cops since the Prequels, but “Guardians of Peace and Justice” from a more civilized age never really conjured up imagery of a helicopter hovering overhead casting down blinding floodlights while screaming orders over a megaphone, saying stuff like “This is the LAPD! I mean Jedi! You are under arrest!”.
I like the Japanese-style forest with the Wookie Jedi, but other than that the locations are mostly just bland, generic, “Galaxy’s Edge” type stock Star Wars “frontier towns” that we’ve seen a million times before across various Star Wars media. For example, I can’t tell the difference between the first location where Mae kills Indara and the second location where Mae and her chemist friend kill Torbin. These two locations seem indistinguishable to me, yet I think they’re supposed to be different planets.
The identity of the Sith Lord that trained Mae is fresh fodder for some old-school Internet nerd speculation. Is it Darth Plagueis? An apprentice of Darth Bane?? A reincarnation of Exar Kun??? A Knight of Ren?? Ren himself? Stimpy? Supershadow?? The amount of completely stupid possibilities is endless. (Most likely it’s a new character, which is for the best.)

I enjoyed the first 2 episodes for the most part. The surreal vision that Osha has of her evil twin in the first episode is a bit… much, but it’s serviceable.

Overall, not bad. Seems like this show has promise. It doesn’t have that same “Andor effect” where you quickly realize within like 10 minutes that the quality is next-level, but it also isn’t anywhere nearly as bad as the Filoni stuff. It’s like a 6.5 or 7 out of 10 so far, but it grabbed my interest and I look forward to more episodes.