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This is made with all the carelessness of a fan-film. Characters contradict themselves in the *same* *scene*. They use a single actress to play both twins as adults, but use two different actresses for the younger versions (they are twins, but not identical twins)? They have a giant lightsaber fight, but do it so that it looks like stagehands waving neon tubes around? The writing is impenetrable; I suspect that there are script changes that the makers believe can be just inserted the edit without worrying about continuity. The larger continuity (famously of Ki-Adi-Mundi appearing when he shouldn't even be alive - mostly to (I guess) to drag in a "'member berry" and then changing 'wookipedia' to try and cover it up) is not just ignored, it's trampled on, in the smug we'll-do-what-we-like of... you guessed it, fan-films. There is some sort of DEI angle to the show, but I don't care. Put whatever label on it you want, but if you can't tell a good story, it will disappear without a trace. Put "Star Wars" on it, but if you can't tell a good story, it will disappear without a trace. Have a character cut her own hair with a frickin' light saber, and it will disappear without a trace. Do yourself a favor, and don't watch. Watch something out of Korea, like "Tomorrow" instead. You'll thank me.

I was hoping this would be a version of the excellent "undone" series of BBC radio shows, and boy was I disappointed. Rotoscoping is always a terrible idea, I don't care how clever a director thinks she/he is.

In interviews, producers, writers and actors have gleefully declared they consider st:pee a mere vehicle. Thus, they could use any show at all to carry their trendy message. So they watched clips of Star Trek on YouTube as 'research', and wrote a lazy, preachy drama about an apology-tour by an old man. To try and hoodwink the rubes (that's us), they sprinkle in old faces - despite swearing before the show premiered they would not do that. (Lying? No, foolish peon, this is 'reprioritizing the narrative,'). Remember when it was going to be a character-driven show? No space battles, no gratuitous murders? That lasted what, 15 minutes into the first episode? The Hand of Kutzman has woven straw into... excremental. Again. Forget it. In five years, this will have sunk without a trace. As it deserves.