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Originally Posted by blankall
I never felt lost with the plot. It felt like nothing really happened. They go to another galaxy to stop a bad guy from coming back. The bad guy comes back.
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I should clarify that by "lost" what I meant was I felt "out of the loop". Less "I don't understand the goings-on"—it was really very simple, and you very succinctly summarized the entire show above—and more "I can tell this is a callback to something, but I don't know what". The show did a mediocre job of bringing the uninitiated up to speed about these little winks to the audience. I think it fell a lot harder back onto an audience's assumed knowledge of characters like Thrawn, Ahsoka herself, Sabine, Hera, Ezra, etc. than the writers should have.
Whereas, by contrast, I never felt similarly 'lost' in a show like
Better Call Saul, which was replete with callbacks and little nods to the
Breaking Bad audience but the show did a great job never letting those of us who didn't watch
Breaking Bad feel like we were missing something. (And, in fact, I enjoyed watching
Breaking Bad afterward because the "reverse callbacks"—stuff I saw in
BCS first, rather than
BB—still worked!)