10 minutes in and holy fucking shit this show goes hard.
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I absolutely love the way the blaster is treated as if it were an actual firearm (AS IT FUCKING SHOULD BE) and the scene with the two cops carries all the weight that it would were it taking place in an alley in New York with a regular handgun. Just from that scene alone it already feels "real" in a way that most Star Wars media does not.
It has low numbers? Every one I've talked to and everyone on :reddit-logo: seems to love it.
It's... complicated.
Suffice it to say figuring out actual concrete numbers is probably difficult even for Disney themselves in the world of streaming and it's so opaque because companies like them have a financial interest in keeping it that way.
The general accepted takeaway from most sites I have looked up is: "the numbers are solid for a streaming tv show....but not for a star wars tv show." It's underperforming against the rest of the brand...which means that while the show itself may not be a failure it probably isn't sending the message to lucasfilm: "This!!! More of this! This is the star wars people have been desperate for!!!!!"
Which is a real shame...
Well damn cause other than The Mandalorian it's the only good disney star wars. Bad Batch was solid I guess but definitely a kids show.