What TV SHOWS are you watching?

I think it tries way to hard to emulate the old westerns that it is inspired by. I am not a fan of children being a central plot element and this ends up being more Transporter than True Grit. Not terrible impressed by the writing, but maybe it is because the whole 'keep the helmet on' schtick works well for mythology, but not on screen. I do like how the legend of the Mandalorians is passed along like a penny novel a la Billy the Kid.

How does an ingot of metal the size of an iPhone become a pauldron with some metal left over for the foundlings? Is it just an additive?

The scene with the 'not IG-88' droid was cool, but then when the fighting started, you could tell that the robot was being moved to show action, but not in a way that would have been most combat efficient during a firefight. It didn't seem like threat assessment was working. Just a lot of limb flailing and torso twisting for the sake of scene movement.

The change of heart that the Mando had with the kid felt too close to mimicking Finn's from Ep 7.

Also, why did the old desert dude tell Mando that you couldn't get to the fort without a lizard, yet he walks back no problem?

I didn't like how the low tech village with the indigenous actor playing the village leader felt too close to the noble savage stereotype that is seen. It felt off to me.

While the AT-ST chase started out interesting with the vehicle being played out as a sleeping dragon type thing, trying to get the pilot to fall into a pond? Why would the AT-ST even fire at the house rather than the barricades? The pilot could see the uneven ground, it wasn't hidden like a pit trap. Due to the egregious blindspots on an AT-ST, it would have been super easy for the runners to split off and the one that isn't chased to slap a mine on a leg. Done. Mission over.

The innkeep in the backwater town was like a bad renfaire extra. And what was with calling out the food as bone broth? That felt totally unnatural and I expect that the writes had just recently found out about bone broth and decided to include it in the script back then. That was jarring.