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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.

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?!

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.

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.