Well I watched the first episode, and even that was a struggle.
This cartoon does an exceedingly bad job of straddling the tone and sensibilities of the original movies (about a dozen "bad guys" are shot and killed in the first 3 minutes and no one cares) with the broad characterization and dumb dialogue of a children's cartoon. I especially liked the one scene where the orange alien woman is explaining to the blue-haired hero kid who the ship's crew are and it sounded like it was taken directly from the summary on the spec-script. The art direction is disappointing as well- all the ships and suits and robots and things are taken directly from the movies and are more or less unaltered, but every character's face is weirdly stylized with huge eyes and cat-like noses. Maybe this is an artifact of the previous Star Wars cartoons, but it's weird and off-putting. Worse than that, the actual animation of the computer models is extremely limited; there's not much care going into the gestures, facial expressions, or walk cycles of the characters to give them any personality. The lighting on the models is also disappointing- every scene seems to have the most boring, medium-intensity light on it possible, and there's a soft focus haze on most of the backgrounds, probably to hide their simplicity. In short, everything looks rushed or lazy. There isn't any creativity to the sound or music design either, as it's all drawn directly from the film library with little or no variation. I suppose the plot and character development may go somewhere eventually, but already feel like the 20-or-so minutes I've invested in the series was a waste.
