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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?

Again, the first several seconds of video are always fantastic, each episode has featured really great opening shots. But then... forests that look like they're from the old Ewok movies. The makeup and costumes are horrific. The aliens are comical.

Dialogue is atrocious. Acting is overwhelmingly flat, to the point where you wonder if the actors knew the show would be this bad and are just phoning it in.

The writing is what really sets this series apart in terms of it being bad. The characters will say something to the effect of "I like X" and then 5 seconds later say "I must destroy X". It just makes no sense. And it happens in this show ALL. THE. TIME. Also things happen that defy logic, like where a character would have to be in two places at once for what's on screen to take place. The final draft must have been written in crayon.

They got a lot of the screen wipes and musical interludes right. The music is better than in Ep3.

Ugh, what a waste of time.

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.

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?!

Half way into the series and there is still very little to truly grip you. While some of the performances are captivating, locales and effects sometimes inspiring and the show has its moments of brilliance, mainly in the action department, it is all drowned in slow pacing, amateurish script, baffling camera choices and unfocused dialogue. Overall I feel disappointment, mainly because it is a breath of fresh air into an old saga and some of the actors seem like they could do so much more given the chance. The show feels rushed, dull and without any tension. It is a shame, because I just feel the potential. I would love a new take on this era, with the same actors and stronger production, but unless something dramatically changes in the second half of this show, I am afraid that this is what we are going to get.