The whole conceit of "we're going to head into the meetup but not actually bring the baby" is just bullshit - half the strawberry floating series to date has been based around the fact that every man and his dog has a strawberry floating tracker on the baby, they aren't going to suddenly forget that and be duped by the "LOL teh baby is sleeping!" routine.
Then you have the nonsense with Kuiil's death, why the strawberry float does IG-11 not come out and help protect the baby (given that this is supposed to be his whole thing) when Kuill is under attack from the two troopers? He clearly felt compelled to come out and retrieve the baby after Kuill was dead so it wasn't that he didn't know what was happening or that he was confined to the ship or something. It's just another piece of bullshit logic to contrive a scenario that is meant to make us feel sad and the tension feel greater, except it doesn't work because it wouldn't have played out like that. The moment is not earned.
Then, after labouring the fact that the IG unit is entirely focussed on "protecting the baby" what does he do when he's reclaimed him, does he take the baby to safety? No - he strawberry floating speeds off into the middle of a squadron of troopers so we can have a whizz bang shooting fight.
You've got the insane logic of the "we'll give you until night fall" decision from Moff Gideon - what?! Why the strawberry float are you giving them any time at all? This makes zero sense - either strawberry floating kill them now or don't. The whole series has been full of these kinds of attempts at "tension raising" that just fall entirely flat because they are not backed up by internal logic/facts of the show.
Mando and crew were concerned about the numbers of troopers - "There were only supposed to be 4 of them" ... for about 5 minutes before they decide to charge out and take on scores of them following IG's charge of the nonsense brigade. Then you have Mando and crew just stood in the middle of a big open space taking pot shots at troopers all whilst nobody seems able to hit them back.
It's amazingly even more stupid and unbelievable than the shoot out last time Mando was here.
Then they head back into the cantina, because hey why not! And the Moff's plan is to send a single flame trooper to get them? What? Why is that a threat - just strawberry floating kill him like you just killed loads of other troopers.
At this point were also supposed to be feeling some extra tension because Mando is hurt, possibly dying... except no that doesn't work either because the Baby is there and you have just in this very episode established that he can strawberry floating force heal people! "Go on without me..." uh, no why don't we just get the kid to heal you?
Still despite the fact that any one of them could have just shot the flame trooper really easily for some reason we have to be saved by baby Yoda doing some force gooseberry fool to the trooper.
Oh and luckily IG-11 has been stocking up on his first aid sprays from playing Resident Evil so Mando is fine anyway within 5 seconds. strawberry floating hell.
Also where the strawberry float do all the other troopers go at this point, for a cup of tea and a sit down? There are like whole minutes where they are sat in the cantina faffing around and literally anyone could have just walked in and killed them... but no for some reason all the other troopers have strawberry floated off at this point.
Then we go underground and find that loads of the Mando's have been slaughtered... but they said they were going to relocate - they even remind us of this in the "previously on" intro for the episode, so again a moment that is supposed to evoke "feels" is completely undercut because it makes no sense! And why is blacksmith Mando still around? "I need to finish melting all this armour" so, take it with you FFS!
I could go on - IG-11's pointless sacrifice (why didn't Mando just use his bombs?), Mando switching from "all droids are evil" to crying over the fact that IG is going to die pointlessly is just stupid, the jet pack battle where apparently "until you know it, it will not listen to your commands" translates to - it will work perfectly for you instantly.
Just layer upon layer of stuff that either doesn't work, doesn't make sense or is just plain bullshit!
