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It was fine. I’ve seen all the shows so I get the backstory and references.
That being said, there are just too many Star Wars and movie cliches to be bearable:
Oh wow she cut her hair dramatically, she’s such a rebel and such a badass. (Cheap and overused character moment)
Staring pathetically at a spaceship flying away after a lightsaber duel (has happened four thousand times in Star Wars)
“Get ready!”
Lightsabers are harmless
Fixing a bomb under a ticking time clock (false peril)
Ancient artifact leads to the location of a place or character in the present (another cliche and cheap writing)
Another star map mcguffin (overused cliche)
I thought the same thing... there are so many recycled elements and tropes being used
One of the things that is at once amusing and annoying is that they're really trying to get all they can in with fan service in the gaps of Star Wars history instead of moving forward: ie having Obi Wan fight Vader in his series really changes the dynamic of their encounter in A New Hope and kind of makes it seem weird that it played out the way it did
We know Thrawn technically can't be a recurring villain or even have that much of an impact on the universe since he's not even mentioned in the newest trilogy just like we knew that Obi Wan and Vader's fight would not affect anything in the least. Nothing of note can happen since all of these stories are being shoehorned into the middle of the continuity
You know what's cool fanservice? Andor using a Bryar Pistol. You know what's not cool fanservice? Seeing the same 10 characters again and again and again. Seeing the same bar in an enormous galaxy.
Kenobi at the very least added some linking character development between ROTS and ANH, despite how awkward some of it was. So that I'm OK with.