You know, I haven't seen anyone bring this up yet about the Mandalorian, but with this last episode (#5), I feel that we've gone from "pretty well-made fan-film" to "not at all Star Wars."
Was the purpose of even showing Mos Eisley to now have it nearly abandoned? And of course we HAD TO go to the Cantina. Not just any cantina, of which there must be many...but THE one, because of course we did. And it was....full of droids. Wow. That was a really funny, ironic subversion of my expectations, there.
We did manage to find a different docking bay to use other than 94, but it was "run" by an Ugnaught woman and three CGI pit droids that were, once again, comic relief that wasn't funny. They just lifted that right outta the Prequels, and set it down right in The Mandalorian. Without even putting any effort into it.
I can't stop there, though. Suddenly, there are two Tusken Raiders standing behind you, ready to pounce like the fierce animalistic warriors they are, and.......then they just stand there, like fat cosplayers at a convention? And do sign language?! What the hell?!!
I could go on, but they pull out these Memberberry things, and they almost always fail, fall flat, or are just used so incorrectly that it feels just WRONG. The whole thing feels like Star Wars Bizarroworld. It's like they passed out costumes, and all the actors were Star Trek fans (no offense).
The whole thing was anticlimactic, and no one here's surprised because there's no way this series can hold the small amount of momentum that it had when we knew much less. The farther this goes, the stupider it's going to get.