Yeah I've been quite torn on the series as a whole and it's been very wonky. It definitely needed shoring up in certain areas. I'm always a bit wary of squeezing in loads of existing characters having yet another adventure of a lifetime between their other adventure of a lifetime, but the core of Obi Wan's PTSD, Vader's vengeance and then both coming to terms with things was ultimately worth it.
But it has some really shoddy parts. The opening was fine, and the ending was good. But the middle was mediocre. It felt very much like a TV show, like 24 or something, where you have a set up situation, some conflict and an escape for a good guy/bad guy and a cliffhanger to set up a conflict for next week. Episodes 2+4 just felt like Obi Wan being chased to another planet, having an encounter with the enemy and then getting away to another planet, where it happened all over again.
It would have definitely worked better as a film. You'd have had the Leia rescue tied up in the second third, probably bump Reva off as the opening to the final bit and then the Obi Wan/Vader fight and their character development as the end. I'd probably keep Episode 1 and 6, and then chop the end of 2 with the end of 5 and Reva getting bumped.
The writing has been poor and while I know that on the internet we pick holes in some banal gooseberry fool, but stuff should have been a lot tighter. It's felt weird at times too, though maybe this is because it's my first SW TV series and I'm watching actors in roles I'm used to seeing in movies. But the direction has been awkward and scenes have felt off - like Obi Wan being chased round a quarry, which had a weird feel to it. Again, the whole structure of most of the episodes as a chase sequence lessened it I think.
I've enjoyed seeing the main actors in their roles though some of the supporting cast have been corny. Ultimately I've felt it's got a core story, with Obi wan and Vader, with merit in telling their character development. But it's got side stuff that has been pants, it's had fan service that's worked and stuff that hasn't. It's narrowed the universe by having the kid adventures of Leia and Luke involved.
It's messed with canon a little bit but, true to the original canon-fuck in ESB, it's sort of done it in a way that you can make it fit and take a somewhat logical suspension of disbelief. It's had some really naff moments. It's got stuff that should have been cut. It should have had at least another pass. It's something that I think I could have been easily edited and changed to be a bit tighter. Some parts have made little sense and have been poor writing to hit plot development marks.
Ironically then, that the whole series feels a bit like the prequels to me. Which I did like, but are heavily flawed.