Ahsoka avoids the excessive cameos and contrived dot-connecting of other, lesser Star Wars shows, focusing instead on what makes this franchise so much fun — its characters.

For those who have never been intrigued by “Star Wars,” the master versus apprentice theme at the core of “Ahsoka” likely won’t be enough to push them to explore such an intensive world. However, for lifelong fans who understood the significance of “Rebels” and fell in love with one of the most iconic female characters of the franchise, learning more about her story and what happened to Thrawn and Ezra will likely be a transcendent experience.

With a strong connection to Rebels, rich characters, and the ingredients for a solid story, Ahsoka is loaded with potential. However, the series stumbles a bit out the gate. The relationship between Ahsoka and Sabine is strained, but we’re not given enough backstory for it to feel genuine.

Disney+’s new live action series Ahsoka has the potential to explore the more cosmic and mystical aspects of the Star Wars universe, but the first two episodes feel flat at times as characters have to spend too much time catching up viewers who didn’t watch Star Wars Rebels.

It’s in many ways the anti-“Andor”: They both have slow builds, yet while the Emmy-nominated “Rogue One” spinoff focused on building up new characters, themes and corners of the galaxy, “Ahsoka” falls back on cherry-picking from its past. (Though for folks who just watch the movies, at least the "Rebels" folks will feel somewhat fresh.)

There’s a chance that when some of the people everybody keeps talking about finally make appearances in Ahsoka, the entire show will gain the immediacy that’s currently lacking. Even Andor, which not every Star Wars show needs to be, started slow, but it was never bland.

Ahsoka lacks the beauty or grandeur of the best of George Lucas’s vision. It has nothing of the tactility of Tatooine’s deserts or Hoth’s icescape. The production design is as flat and flimsy as the characterisation. Ahsoka herself is, on paper, a badass – but on the screen she feels joyless.

Loved Rebels, and know that makes my view somewhat biased. I think the only thing the first eps suffer from, was having to set up some characters for people who've not seen any of the animated shows. Really enjoyed the music, and getting the "Samurai" feeling back into force wielders. That's been missing in SW for awhile now, to me anyway. Really curious where the show will go over the next six eps!

" Ashoka " is nothing special. Dawson does her best , but the writing fails her. Sabine is a stereotype thru and thru. CGI is serviceable. So , if you're a fan of modern Star Wars it's worth watching but don't expect too much. Dawson's performance alone is worth tuning in for.

As an avid Star Wars fan I found that the luster and art of storytelling has been lost for the sake of “I have no idea what we are doing”. Does every story need the weight of emotional drama to be a relevant story? Rosario Dawson is brilliant in the title role, but is held hostage by sluggish storytelling. 8 Episodes and the first (2) aren’t anything glaringly unique. The light-saber playing was semi-exciting, other then that I was bored. Disney needs to change their Series Release philosophy, don’t hold us hostage for stale intrigue. Let us get to the underwhelming climax and be done with it.

Another Starwars flop? Maybe not but not great. The writing is mediocre, the physical performance is poor. Rosario is pretty good but the rest of the cast is lacking. It is about what I was expecting from Disney.

My list of shortcomings I found within Ahsoka contain things like poor performances, stale camerawork, uncomfortably slow pacing, bad dialogue, ugly as f*** alien cat abominations, unmissable cgi backgrounds and many more. These things are just obvious and noticable on the surface but they find themselves under a bad direction and overall insufficient budget. The responsible people thought that the state in which this series is good enough as it is and gave it a greenlight, so what else is there to say other than, that Ahsoka is not treated as a piece of art and entertainment but rather as a product, to fulfill checkmarks.