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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 8836001" data-attributes="member: 4937">I'm convinced a lot of the shows problems come down to the script was originally written for a 5 season story arc and Diego Luna pulled out of the 8 year commitment that implied and they've had to pare down the script to just two seasons.  In a 5 season story arc you'd want all these Checkov Guns hanging on the wall waiting to be fired, but some of them now there just isn't really time.  Like the sister story arc could be 6 episodes on its own to get full close - three to find the sister and three to explain how the destruction of everyone on that planet was relevant to the larger galaxy.  But without that, we're reduced to the search for the sister being only the impetus that led to Cassian running afoul of the Empire.  Still, as it's clear there is now no time for payoff, I think the flashback sequence could have gone.  There is likewise no reason for Vel to have been a part of the story since the end of episode 6, and we really didn't need a shot of Cinta between episode 7 and episode 11.Aside from the stunted story line, I really think the other problem the TV series has is the "main cast" problem making these sorts of TV series.  In order to get an actor/actress to sign a TV series like this, they have to have assurance that they are part of the "main cast".  Main cast billing requires that they appear in a certain percentage of the episodes.  So to it's pretty clear Vel and Cinta, and to a lesser extent Syril, are getting screen time largely for the purposes of keeping their actors in the "main cast".Still, this is so much better than anything else Disney is done that I don't want to seem like I'm dissing the show.   There are just a few little problems that to me keep it from being 10/10 and which I think if corrected would have also made the show more accessible to the 20% or so of Star Wars fans that don't appreciate it, and to the much wider audience of non-Star Wars nerds that are like going "I tried to watch it but I fell asleep".</blockquote>

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