Sarcasm aside, what I was implying is that you're coming off as one of "those guys". Armchair quarterbacks who sit there and complain about how Neil Peart was a crappy songwriter and how you could do better.
I never said the writers were bad writers. What I am saying is that the writing is noticeably weak, and I am wondering why that is, given how important this show clearly is to Disney+. If you ignore for just a second the heaps of praise that this show is getting, and look for the few people critical of the show (on IMDB for example), you will notice a common trend; They all criticize the writing.
Just because a lot of people praise the show, does not mean they are right. When the Star Wars prequels were released, they were highly praised as well. It is only later that people's enthusiasm settled down, and they came to acknowledge the many flaws that some had pointed out since the start.
Like it or not, Favreau (and Feloni) is getting a lot of credit for the good work he's doing, and rightfully so. Sure, you can criticize him, but be prepared to have people react to your criticism much the same as any armchair quarterback with no resume themselves talking about how they can do it better than the people who are actually really good at it.
He deserves credit for making a Star Wars show that looks and feels like Star Wars. He does not however deserve praise for the writing. Like I said, I am not a script writer. I have never written a book, nor written a script for a movie or tv show. However, I do write plots (as I presume most DM's do for their D&D campaigns). I can tell when a plot is well written, and when it is not. There are certain basics that are important for writing a tv episode, such as using your time efficiently, and having all things come to a full circle at the end.
If we use the previous episode as an example, it feels like the writers had two ideas:
-They wanted an action scene on a transport
-They wanted Mando to break his creed and take off his helmet
However, they did not know to make all of these elements work together, and make it work as part of the season arc. They came up with a contrived way for Mando to take off his helmet, and never really brought it all together. This script needed someone else to 'punch it up'. It feels like a first draft, as many episodes of this show do.
No matter how much you like this show, surely you can acknowledge some of what I'm saying here? Surely we both watched the same episode? Surely you had the same feeling that Mando took off his helmet for contrived reasons, and that details that were introduced early in the episode, such as the rebels attacking the convoy, had no impact on the rest of the episode? A good writer would have brought this all full circle.
