As someone who enjoys Star Wars and Star Wars things I did enjoy a lot of the Star Wars things in the episode: the giant droidekas, the jetpack flying, the Rancor being awesome and eating people and then going full King Kong, Baby Grogu napping with it and all that.
But just because it has cool stuff doesn't mean you can't also criticise parts of it. You're not more of a REAL FAN if you just love everything about Star Wars. This comment isn't aimed at anyone here, more the overly defensive twitter nerds who show up in my timeline sometimes but I'd never actually reply to because it's twitter. The season had some weird structual issues that we've talked about over the weeks: lots of flashbacks in the first four episodes then two episodes without the title character in them, resulting in a lack of time spent in the "present day" scenes. The leads to the biggest problem: Boba's character. He just never felt as good as he could have. His arc never came together that well for me. His whole big moment should have been getting revenge on the Pikes for killing his Tusken family, right? Instead his big showdown is with a character who only appeared for the first time at the end of last week's episode and didn't have anything to do with the Tuskens dying. It was weird! Why didn't they introduce Bane earlier and have him revealed as the person who led (under order from the Pikes) the attack on the Tuskens? At the very least they could have just put in a flashback here showing him slaughtering Tuskens and laughing eviily.
I'm not sure what Boba even is now? He thought he wanted to be the new crime boss, but he doesn't want drug running in his city and that's the only crime we've seen throughout the show. So he's just like the cool ruler of the city who people give fruit to? Or is he going to get back into the crime business (but not drugs)?
YES BABY YODA IS CUTE.
Cad Bane looked good. I hope they don't just kill him next week.
His chest thing was still beeping at the end so I guess he could be alive a bit. But really he can still be in
Bad Batch anyway.