As one reviewer put it, it was a hat on a hat. Like, it was fine, I suppose, but I already have a hat. This provided almost nothing I didn't already have.
We got to see Ewan and Hayden get another crack at these characters, and they did great, and yes, I think we got some good lines and good symbolism . . . except that Filoni already tapped this well in Star Wars Rebels. I suppose it's nice to get a 'mask cut open to reveal Anakin's scarred face' scene for all the folks who'll never watch that cartoon.
And we got a nice light saber fight, except that it had zero stakes because we know basically how it has to turn out. And the 'suddenly deciding that he will stop losing because he remembers oh yeah other people matter' trope was not that well-delivered.
There was a lot of slipshod storytelling and film-making here. From crappy rooftop parkour, to an injured Obi-Wan being dragged away by a droid while a bunch of storm troopers apparently can't be bothered to shoot at it because there's a fire in the way, to Vader sending down a small squad of dudes to lay siege to a base, to the people in said base using barely any cover and yet not being hit in the ensuing gun fight, to a Star Destroyer not being able to run down a freighter (or sending fighters to blow it up), to Reva apparently discovering 'Force teleportation' so she could get to Tatooine . . . there were weird moments that could have been avoided if someone cared to avoid them.
The Mandalorian didn't have these weird gaps in logic (aside from that pointless 'you must scan your face' moment in the imperial base), so I don't know why this show did.
Disney needs to stop eating its own tail. Do this same story with a different set of people hiding from the inquisitors, and don't rely on the cast of the previous movies to drive the plot, and it would immediately become a better series. That's why Star Wars Rebels worked.
