Here lots of reviewers argue that you can't judge a tv-series without having watched all the episodes... Well: first and foremost: IMDB allows me to, so why shouldn't I? Second it sounds like: "you can't judge that dish you don't like, if you haven't eaten it all" and I doubt these reviewers would agree on this version of the issue.
It's well known that commercial productions attempt to capture viewers' appreciation by balancing carefully what they include in each episode, so that every episode contains exactly what the viewer needs to best enjoy the production. You don't put all the lenghty, uneventful, prosaic, descriptive parts in one place, because the viewers would not like it. And especially the very first episodes should include the best you have to offer. So it's an educated guess that if the first 2 episodes are bad, you'll find the whole series as bad or even worse.
Now, I stopped watching "The mandalorian" quite early through the first season since I thought it was written by a kid and (on average) directed by his slightly older brother. Here we get something that feels quite similiar. Yet I'm so fond of the main SW story arc that I won't likely be able to avoid watching it all (though I succeeded in totally skipping the - surely abominable - "The last jedi" and "The rise of skywalker").
Still as a first impression the things are depressing. I won't annoy you with an analisys like "I wouldn't have done so and so" or "how is it that X did that or that Y happened?". IMHO the script and direction are almost trash and you're welcome to test this opinion. Anyways I wouldn't say it's a disaster: indeed the plot still needs to unfold and the immersion in the SW universe is good: the production, from settings, to CGI, to music is well made.
We'll see how it goes forward: I'd be more than happy to discover that the rest of the season is a masterpiece and to edit this review.
EDIT 1: 3rd episode in. As expected it doesn't improve. On the contrary it gets close to a 3 now.
EDIT 2: the 4th episode is a slight improvement (while still being a 4). 5th episode gets into parody territory, now we're close to a 2. I'll watch the (supposedly) last episode just because they baited with a cliffhanger.
It's well known that commercial productions attempt to capture viewers' appreciation by balancing carefully what they include in each episode, so that every episode contains exactly what the viewer needs to best enjoy the production. You don't put all the lenghty, uneventful, prosaic, descriptive parts in one place, because the viewers would not like it. And especially the very first episodes should include the best you have to offer. So it's an educated guess that if the first 2 episodes are bad, you'll find the whole series as bad or even worse.
Now, I stopped watching "The mandalorian" quite early through the first season since I thought it was written by a kid and (on average) directed by his slightly older brother. Here we get something that feels quite similiar. Yet I'm so fond of the main SW story arc that I won't likely be able to avoid watching it all (though I succeeded in totally skipping the - surely abominable - "The last jedi" and "The rise of skywalker").
Still as a first impression the things are depressing. I won't annoy you with an analisys like "I wouldn't have done so and so" or "how is it that X did that or that Y happened?". IMHO the script and direction are almost trash and you're welcome to test this opinion. Anyways I wouldn't say it's a disaster: indeed the plot still needs to unfold and the immersion in the SW universe is good: the production, from settings, to CGI, to music is well made.
We'll see how it goes forward: I'd be more than happy to discover that the rest of the season is a masterpiece and to edit this review.
EDIT 1: 3rd episode in. As expected it doesn't improve. On the contrary it gets close to a 3 now.
EDIT 2: the 4th episode is a slight improvement (while still being a 4). 5th episode gets into parody territory, now we're close to a 2. I'll watch the (supposedly) last episode just because they baited with a cliffhanger.