This show felt so boring, because Mando has little to no personality, barely any backstory, no friends, no enemies, no drive and no purpose.
He's a blank slate from beginning to end, despite a vague attachment to Baby Yoda, entirely because "he's cute".
He's got an extremely cookie cutter past shared with billions of people across the galaxy given The Empire's track record.
He's got no particular skill, beyond his meme armor, he mostly walks and shoots (with dubious accuracy) and makes stupid decisions over and over.
He's got no particular growth (he starts as the noble faceless dude, and that's exactly how he ends the season, but with an added Jetpack).
And despite the show's implications, he certainly doesn't come off as a bad ass.
Beyond Mando, the show doesn't really have any other character who's personality is anything more than a superficial quirk and a cool design, and the plot itself is just carrying around a macguffin for 8 episodes, while some faceless (because you don't see the real bad guy until the last 20 minutes) evil wants it for no clear reason.
When you look at it, it's really nothing more than a collection of beautiful props and effects, with some boringly shot action thrown on top (the ATST chase in the forest, and the Tie fighter fight, were probably the only cool set pieces).
Which for Star Wars, is unfortunately incredibly standard affair.
They probably watched 2012's DREDD and thought "
hey, this is what Mandalorian should be!", but then stretched it into 8 hours, removed any grit, neutered his character, and shot it with that really bland action that was present in the old Sta Wars movies (whenever a lightsaber or a space ship wasn't on screen).
There are many specific moments i'd like to go over in detail, to point out how they constantly undermine the dramatic potential of a situation, with stupid choices, but tbh
so i'll leave it at that.
