I really want to like this show. I do. I watched the entirety of both The Clone Wars and Rebels, so I’m invested in the characters. Based on those shows (as well as The Mandalorian), I’ve given Dave Filoni a great deal of personal latitude in the stuff he creates.

And everyone can survive being impaled by a lightsaber now (sorry Qui-Gon).

I’ve seen Rebels and Ahsoka makes me feel like I have very little investment in two major characters I’ve seen a lot of and liked before.

To answer the titular question: pacing.

so sabine holds the map thing in the palm of her hand and threatens to shoot it. while holding it. in the palm of her hand. apparently she didnt see the episode of killing it when craigory shoots a nail from a nail gun through a snakes head and into the palm of his hand.

Man, a simple airstrike would have taken care of those pesky Jedi.

I’m supposed to believe a Jedi can die by being pushed off a cliff? It’s not like Ahsoka was unconscious or gravely injured.

Does Shin have any character traits to speak of other than poor posture and a propensity for the Kubrick Stare?

Those turbolasers hitting nothing in space and exploding in puffs of smoke/dirt looked wrong.

Man, after seven and a half episodes of a show that was decidedly not Justified, I felt kinda insulted by that ending. City Primeval was (for better or worse) completely disinterested in revisiting the past, and while I think it failed at its mission, that mission was more to look at Raylan now and interrogate whether…

I didn’t think this little reboot/sequel was very good at all. C+ maybe, because all the actors were very good, but the whole thing felt rushed in 8 episodes, and the big bad meeting his end that way had almost zero dramatic tension.

I can’t wait to see Chopper murder some fools in live action! 

Complete missed opportunity not having Pelia come and pick up the watch in La’an’s quarters at the end. “I’ll take that back now if you please”

They’re quite possibly setting up that La’an is the very reason Khan ends up...well...Khan. He has been left with a gun. He just witnessed a visit from someone who refused to help him escape from his childhood prison. He also just witnessed advanced technology. Much like Scotty shared the tech that results in…

I know, I saw her carefully put down this loaded and chambered gun (without apparently putting the safety back on!), in the room of a scared child, and I was like “What the fuck, La’an, you’re a Security Officer, you know better!”. For all we know he hides it and then uses it to shoot his way out or something later.

I really like Chong and La’an, but I don’t think she and Paul Wesley had much chemistry on screen (Wesley’s Kirk doesn’t have much charisma on screen - he seems so stiff compared to Shatner or Pine as Kirk). But the rest of the episode was kind of fun, and Chong really does try to sell the heartbreak at the end.

But even though it’s played fast and loose (so fast and loose that, uh, La’an leaves a loaded gun in kid Khan’s room at this facility he’s being experimented on in???

Nope, absolutely my thought as well — she needed to let La’an know, basically as soon as she met her, that she had a place in Vermont, in order to make sure that the temporal loop was closed properly.

When La’an walked onto the bridge at the end wearing the motorcycle jacket and Pelia was there, I thought for sure it was going to be a Days of Future Past moment when Pelia was like - hey! you just go back!

This episode was so much better than it had any right to be. When I saw that it was a time travel episode and an episode that featured Kirk it felt like they were reaching for stunt plots that are normally reserved for the end of a show’s run when they need to goose ratings and don’t have anything left in the bag.