Theres lots of pew pew killing and he cuts a guy in half in the first few minutes? how exactly would you "tone-up" a starwars? there was also the creepy carbonite scene. of course it could be way darker but uh then it would just be gratuitously so.
I also was disappointed when I realized I couldnt binge it ((((
I think there are kind of 4 levels:
1. Disney kid style (they could have toned it down, the cut-in-half scene was actually surprising)
2. Disney, uh, older-kid style (which is where it's at now...gunfights & stuff...kind of feels a bit like CW's "The Flash" in terms of playing it safe)
3. Disney enthusiast style (this is where I'd personally want it to be at...not over-the-top gory, but like, the dude's a bounty hunter, maybe make it a little more gritty?)
4. Disney hardcore style (like Netflix's Punisher)
Like, riding the "horse" is such an old & over-used trope that you knew as soon as the camera panned over to the "I have spoken" guy, he was going to be rolling his eyes at the "new kid falling off the horse". And I think they could have done a better job selling the reason for the horse-aliens too...I mean, the bounty hunter has a flying ship, why not just park closer? Or use Boba Fett's jetpack to hop over the cracks (dunno if that's an "earned item" like his shoulder armor, which I thought was a pretty cool scene with the melting down of the payment & all).
The bad guy who hired him for that job, that actor had a lot of presence...I hope he's in it more in the future, he added the weight I wanted to the story with his acting. I also liked the beat-up & twitchy Stormtroopers, that was a fun angle to expose the audience to, post-Empire. I feel like the doctor didn't quite fit in with that crowd, acting-wise.
Yeah, mostly I'm just whining because I couldn't binge it. I don't always get big chunks of free time in my schedule, so I really enjoy just unplugging for an afternoon or a couple of days whenever I can, eating food, binge-watching shows, etc. I'll definitely be watching this in the future! Hope they add some OG Star Wars music to it too!