Harmy said:

Yes, I checked and with TCW the 16:9 TV broadcasts were definitely cropped from 2.35:1. The 2.35:1 gives it a more epic film-like feel somehow.

The animation is already really suffering from a clearly reduced budget. Somehow I doubt they are animating things off screen we can't even see. The whole show looks like an early 2000's video game in a lot of ways. It might grow on me, but it was really grim in a lot of ways.

The other qualm I had was it never successfully set up the Imperials as evil enough. I found myself sympathizing with the Imperials, as the Rebels often came across as causing unnecessary loss of life in terms of grunts. They did nothing to discourage that sympathy. Perhaps it's residual love of Clones, but either way, I wasn't able to detach myself from that violence in the same way as I could in the OT.