So here we are at the end of the season, and I'm not really sure why I bothered to be honest. On the whole it's been reasonably enjoyable, but there have been so many moments of ridiculousness, and things that almost turned it into a silly kids TV show. It's also been full of rather shallow and uninspiring characters.
The season started promisingly enough, but after the first few episodes it generally went downhill from there, with frankly ridiculous things like star whales, horse sized wolves, 'cute' little shelled characters and zombie stormtroopers. We ended up with a much feared 'villain' that actually seemed more like a boring (but blue skinned) accountant than a galaxy conquering warlord, and had 'heroes' that seemed impossible to kill or injure despite being bombarded with countless lasers and explosives. But then it seems the bad guys (even the zombie ones!) were even more inept than we're already used to!
After all of the fan complaints about the lack of Jedi stuff (i.e. Lightsaber battles) in Kenobi, which was another train wreck of a show, we seem to have had way too much this time round. Lots of boring and pointless fights that looked so stilted and lame, with no real sense of jeopardy over whether our 'hero' would make it through unscathed. All of the clichéd sequences with the pauses and stares and stances, all of the lame mid fight dialogue and posturing. All ending up with the result we expected all along.
And to cap it all off we're presented with the 'cliffhanger' ending that leaves more questions than answers, whilst also knowing that a second season is far from being confirmed at this point. Having said that, even if a second season isn't commissioned, I can't say I'll be too disappointed, as I have no real desire to find out what happens next anyway!
In fact, now I've put my thoughts into words for this review, I now feel I was too generous, so I'm off to knock another point off my rating for this episode! 4/10.
I'm just glad we have more Andor on the way at some point to satisfy my Star Wars Galaxy interest, with a mature, well developed plot and characters with depth!
