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This is a spoiler-free review.

I read all the user reviews before writing this, and I'm confounded by how many people will write a review where the most complementary thing they say is, "well, at least it wasn't entirely terrible for the entire episode"... and then they'll give it an 8/10.

Some of you are being far too generous with your scores, simply because you want to believe that the show will get better and/or because this episode wasn't as terrible as the previous episode (which would be pretty hard to accomplish, honestly).

The only reason I didn't give this episode a 1/10 is because the final scene was kind of cool. Will I continue watching this show? Probably. It's like watching a car crash- you can't look away, even if you want to.

Explain to me how a TV episode that has a budget of 22.5M, has a runtime of 26 minutes actual content (32 length, 1.5Min repetition into and a 4 Minute credits ).

So far we learn that director her wife is the strong leader (its so cringe). Why are we not surprised by a bit of nepotism.

We enjoy leisurely walks and i do not mean Alucard walks, i mean the boring kind ... from that 26 Minutes, about half is walking, and walking and walking...

A surprise plot twist that again, makes no sense (its in the trailers so its not a spoiler!). How did the baddy get there, why did the baddy perform Mai her tasks, why does it all make no sense.

When your seeing a movie like Invasion USA that is just a bad movie but made on a 6Million budget (22.5 Million today with inflation) actually has more action, actors, tons of explosions, and has a more interesting story despite it being a rubbish story/movie. And yet, that movie last almost 2 hours with shorter intro / credits! O and more famous (at the time) actors so bigger pay. Where does the money go in this series???

There is really something wrong with the whole dialog. Even 4 episodes in, the dialog is wooden.

The characters act out of sequence, like actions are taken that make no sense for any timeline. Like they needed filler material (see blaster scene), to pad the episode even more.

The plot convinces are just bad and again make no sense.

The whole episode can be characterized as: Somebody gets a asschewing from strong nepotism director wife, they traveled, walk, walk, walk, add minor BAD CGI action, "bad" person made a turn around that is again out of character from episode 3 (and 2, 1)), and they "fight" (see series trailer). Technically, see the trailer of the series and what you saw in 2 scenes is this entire episode!!!

22.5 Million??? On what, catering?

This episode can be summarised with "Jedi go to a planet to look for another Jedi".

That's it!

Throw in one cameo, a few ignitions of lightsabres, (not even fights, IGNITIONS of lightsabres), and still not finding out who the big bad is...

Then add in some very poor dialogue, the fact that a lot is filmed in darkness, some more very boring sets ($180 million and all we've seen is inside a few buildings, fields and forests???), and a misgendered fur ball, and we've summarised the episode.

... I mean, Disney very tactically throw in a line about how this thing identified... "he or they", and then go on to misgender it by calling it "she" anyway!

I'm actually buying into this money-laundering theory out there... where did all the money go?!

Another shrinkflation episode of barley thirty minutes. They walk around and mumble. The supposed 'clever assassin' (according to the episode description in the app) is unable to walk in the woods without looking where she is going and trips up.

Disney are taking our money and popping down the local garden centre to buy some potted ferns and passing this off as a new planet shot on a school stage. Sorry, 'new world'.

The storyline of this episode? It's a filler, laced with script and acting matching Joey smelling a fart.

I'll be there for the next episode as I smash my head at the TV. Hoping, yet again, that something will happen. But alas after doom scrolling somewhere I'll be unable to remember what happened.

I will sit and wait for Andor.

In the sense of including a lot of unnecessary words to meet the word count. The whole episode should have been the first ten minutes of the next episode.

There is no subtlety, no depth, no finesse and no style on display. Just passively following the script from A to B.

It's just so low effort. How much money went into this? It seems as though they took the first idea they thought of, wrote a script, never revised it, filmed everything in one take, edited it to the most basic level, and then released it.

If they insist on making more Star Wars content then it can be a lot better than this, and we should expect it to be.