I watched the first episode of the acoshiet so you don't have to and I will confirm that you don't have to watch it. Its not worth it because if the first episode tells me anything, its that the showrunner, lesbi headland, has no experience in writing a show. 

I want to be as unbiased as possible so I'll be fair and praise as much as I can before I get into the problems I had with the first episode. Trust me, this wont take long.

First of all, the scene transitions actually isn't too bad. It kinda gives me star wars animation vibes. I know its rly stretching it, but I did appreciate it. They tried to give it the classic PT and sw feel and the attempt to me is more important than the execution just because I don't have high hopes for it in the first place. The music wasn't too bland, it was fine. There was a variety of alien species, a bit unimaginative tho but still, aliens is always better than seeing more humans. The fight choreography at the start with the martial arts wasn't too bad. It would be fine if it was a standard martial arts film however its a star wars film and the two fighters were force users so......... it felt slightly out of place but regardless, I still appreciated that. Okay yeah thats all I got for the good stuff. 

Now for the bad. Where do I begin. I'll start small then get to the plot progression stuff. First of all, the jedi robes look off and feel off. Something about it was..... weird to me. Next, we got shirtless hot man scene, completely unnecessary and adds no value to anything. It wasn't even funny. It was just awkward cause a female minor was present. A lil sus there leslie. Next, the scene where the jedi master was in a room with younglings. The lesson was closing their eyes and then connect with the force then telling him what they saw. They said stuff like "balance" and "life". I'm sorry, what? You don't just throw star wars buzz words like that. These are younglings. Idk, smth about that was weird to me. Next, all characters lack chemistry. I get that they are all supposed to not have attachment but if George was able to do it, its not an excuse. Also, Leslie's wife has hyper RBF. 

Okay thats the small stuff. Lets get to the big issues. Firstly, WORLD BUILDING and political climate. Its non existent. I don't know anything about anything or anyone. Its pretty similar to the ST in that regard. The world just feels so damn small and I don't know how any of the governments or people in power work or what theyre like, how they communicate and discuss on going issues. They haven't said anything about the senate, we havent seen any senators and there was no mention of a larger galaxy. 

I'll skip the mild issues cause I don't wanna talk about this anymore so I'll make it quick. The biggest issue with this other than the stupid plot is that there is no set up. Usually in any movie and tv show, you are shown some back story, some sort of beginning so we can view things from the main character's perspective. Even if the story is set in media res like ANH is, you still get a sense of where things are at, whats happening. This show however, I'm just confused. We didn't get a scene of the main character escaping from the fire. In fact, theres nothing interesting about anyone. The very first scene of the series is the main character's twin awkwardly challenge a jedi master to a duel in a cantina. why was any of this happening. Out of nowhere she went to the jedi master's table and suddenly got into a fighting stance. Do you have any idea just how awkward that is. Also, why the jedi master didn't just chop off her arms like what Obi-Wan would have done is beyond me. Later in the episode, when the protagonist twin gets framed, and her old master finds out, what happens? The master word vomits at the audience. He tells us everything. This here is the biggest issue. Leslie doesn't understand how to write a story. If a character tells you everything, why would you care. If a character tells you half truths, then the acting, camera work and music tell a different story, you are more invested in it because you question, why did she tell a lie? or what else isnt she telling us? You are suddenly more invested in it. Its even worse that we don't even get a BOBF flash back when the jedi master guy is talking about the protagonist's traumatic event. flash backs are the absolute laziest way of showing us events, but at least it does something. Leslie decided to skip everything and just tell us everything then expect us to stay invested. 

Okay I wrote way more than I wanted to. I'll just leave it at that and not edit it. That is my raw unedited opinion. Its off to a horrific start. While its still possible that all my points are redundant and are answered in later episodes, knowing lucasfilm and how sw live action shows generally are, I doubt it will get better. Thanks for reading and MTFBWY!