The writing is beyond excellent and the show is perfection. Reminds me of a perfectly built and tuned watch movement. Goes through a lot of hands but each person handling it knows their place in the overall scheme and is world-class at what they do. Consider, for example, how much you learn about the Ghorman people and their pride and persuasions in just a few episodes. Consider how much is embedded in this important exchange:
MOTHMA
You realize what you’ve set in motion?LUTHEN
It’s time for that as well.MOTHMA
Palpatine won’t hesitate now.LUTHEN
Exactly! We need it, we need the fear, we need them to overreact.MOTHMA
You can’t be serious.LUTHEN
The Empire has been choking us so slowly we’re starting not to notice. The time has come to force
their hand.MOTHMA
People will suffer.LUTHEN
That’s the plan. You’re not angry with me. I’m just saying out loud what you already know. There will
be no rules going forward. If you’re not willing to risk your conscience then surrender and be done with it.
The show’s fierce with its experimentation and appears to have no regard for political neutrality and corporate oversight (even in spite of a staggering budget of $650M); it’s an examination of of how authoritarian regimes evolve and behave, and how they need to destroy our humanity to survive, including that of the people who uphold them because of blind ambition, greed, or rent money. Anyone who kvetches about getting politics out of Star Wars (or Sci-Fi in general) is a prize idiot.
I wonder how many years we’ll have to wait for something like this.