Mandalorian s2 is utterly horrific.
It's like a video game. Mando asks for help, someone says,"sure thing....if you help us first" almost every damn episode. It's like an open world video game with sidequests and it's the most tedious shit ever how they're trying to serialize something that was so episodic and benefited from that story format.
It makes me worry they'll fuck up Andor s2.
The videogameness complete quest and move on of Mando isn't the reason S2 feels like a big dip in quality, its the fact that every quest feels like a promo for DLC (or to abandon the videogames metaphor, it feels a suspiciously awfully lot like a string of stealth pilot episodes for a new streaming service that needs a lot of Content quickly and isn't sure what to greenlight).
Ep 1: Why hello TIMOTHY OLYPHANT, you seem like a Character with an Engaging Backstory that would make a fine TV show about Frontier Justice as a sheriff, other commitments permitting!
Ep 3: Why hello KATEE SACKHOFF, you seem like a Character with an Engaging Backstory that would make a fine TV show about a renegade group of Mandalorians fighting different kinds of battles, and those BSG star bookings are drying up!
Ep 4: Hello again GINA CARRANO, you seem like a Character with an Engaging Backstory that would make a fine TV show about ongoing efforts to clean up the Empire, just don't say anything about The Jews or The Gays on Twitter!
Ep 5: Why hello ROSARIO DAWSON, you seem like a Character with an Engaging Backstory that would make a fine TV show about contemporary Jedi, and, oh, your series is already greenlit. Cool!
Ep6: Why hello BOBA FETT, anyone already watching this knows who you are, but none of the questions we have are answered. Also, you seem weirdly fatter and older than we remember, and curiously adverse to wearing your fucking helmet as per your Actors Guild Contract Negotitations for the series you also have already greenlit. Mysterious! In a way that your character no longer is.
Like... I'm an averageish Star Wars fan, in that I've seen the films but haven't imbibed any of the extended universe shit outside of a couple of games, and most of these castings are for characters that are already fan favorites in the extended universe AFAIK, but it really seems like they hijacked the fucking main characters show to pitch a load of possible new shows.