Before people start jumping up and down, I’m going to begin by saying straight up that I had NO issue with any of the casting – I couldn’t care less about representation quotas and DEI policies.

**MILD SPOILER WARNING AHEAD**

The opening two episodes of this show were complete garbage; nonsensical at times, riddled with poor timing and lazy scene jumps, and with more plot holes and inconsistencies than anything I have seen in television or film for a very long time.

And if the rumours are true, the show starts to get EVEN WORSE from episode three.

I’ll give one small example of how it kept missing the mark – the outline you see in the photo above is presumably the main villain who is referred to as ‘The Master’. This was the final scene of the first episode and was intended to end things on a thrilling and menacing note. Instead, I couldn’t stop laughing when listening to his voice, as he sounded like the hapless ‘Shockmaster’ from WWE wrestling.

Look, I was prepared to give the show a chance, and it ended up far worse than I imagined.

I do admit to having some concerns when the showrunner Leslye Headland continually made comments regarding gender and queerness, rather than selling the series on its story and action – speaking of a project that was a cross between ‘Frozen’ and ‘Kill Bill’.

I was concerned that Headland was in over her head with ‘Star Wars’, and I think this will prove to be the case. It felt wrong, it looked wrong, it tried to be ‘cool’ at times but fell short, the fight scenes were not good, even the special effects looked a little off.

I do hope that people reading this may disagree with me, and actually enjoyed the show. I really do.

All screenshots are courtesy of Lucasfilm – Disney Plus.