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Tommy Elrod
I think the main criticism of individual episodes is that many of them are stand alone episodes that don't obviously move a larger plot or narrative along.
You can still show the “journey” of Mando, who it’s hard to give a shit about considering that he speaks behind a helmet in monotone.
The show is at risk of devolving into a Star Trek spinoff, with a series of unrelated, often throwaway episodes. I’m a sucker for the revisited Mos Eisley cantina and the sidebars with the Jawas, but don’t feel the need to visit more deeply some of the species that we’ve seen in other movies just for the sake of forcing them in an episode.
The reason we are in the golden age of television is because tv shows have opted to do longer, more fleshed out character and story arcs. You can provide more detail and characterization in 10 episodes than you can in a movie or even a trilogy, and certainly more than you would in the old standalone episode format. Maybe you could pull it off if you had the quality of writing that you do in The Crown, but you don’t.