Oya Mando'ade! Buy'ce bal beskargam!And my man Favreau comes through again.
I concur with glitterboy's analysis. Character development takes time and so far IMO they're doing it right. Yes, it's more decompressed, as one might expect from a TV series, but I feel it generally makes good use of its time. Another great artifact of the episodic nature for students of the art is that it illustrates the "Act" and "Scene" (however you call the sub-act) structure of general plotting very well. Episode 1, introduce the man and the macguffin, Ep 2 the call, Ep 3 acceptance and burning the bridges... here endeth Act 1, neatly enough. I'm confident if sewn together at the end it should make a decent 3-and-a-bit hours extended cut film (8 eps x ~25 mins minus editing).
Music for me is decent, set the Man With No Name tone great. It's a good sign, I think, that people are generally "complaining" so to speak about wanting to know more, and not about production quality. (Though I would hazard it's probably coming in as a bigtime loss leader.)
Eagerly looking forward to more.
Something people in the Star Wars universe seem to be forgetting all the time:
if a bunch of Mandalorians descents on your position and you have no equal number of Jedi around ... you don't fight, you run!
I never thought I'd ever see
a full Mando jetpack assault on live action TV. Stuff of early 00s fan dreams, man.