I am really liking this, and I am not normally forgiving for dodgy SW spin-off material. It just "felt" pretty authentic in the prequel world. The Leia chase was naff but I accepted that as part of this being a TV show without the budget and time to do actual proper cinematic chases. (Boba Fett had it much worse with it's terrible final battle)
I really like cheeky young Leia, and her knowing "Ben" suddenly makes sense of her reaction in ANH. I can accept that (just about). I loved seeing Bail et al again and Alderaan was really cool and just what I would have imagined. (Based off the McQuarry work from the mid nineties I assume) Having Bail and wife be real characters and even bringing extended family was brilliant and what I have wanted to see in SW.
My big downer is Reva is terrible. And not terrible in a good way. Badly cast, written, acted and filmed. Her attitude/approach is kind of the level of "Bully of Leia on Alderaan". She does not feel in any way threatening and her "swagger" comes across as out of style of the rest of the Inquisitors. They are pretty much the Gestapo. And she is playing primary school bully. If she was supposed to play it so angry - then she should have played it with a near insane edge. She just seems pointlessly angry and thus Instead she just seemed a bit fake. And the parkour nonsense of her running across the roofs and turning up late... was embrassingly bad. They spent a lot of time trying to build her as the major antagonist, when in fact the other three Inquisitors just seemed more dangerous and interesting because of her.
If that was intentional in the world building ("she's not really bad, her parkour was a sign of her complete childishness") then I think it went over my head.
Anyway she sucks, in an "go away" heat they call it in wrestling. I do not want to see that character. Rather then "real heat" in wrestling, where you want to see the villain get there just desserts. They could just get away with it, if they had cast well like a Naomie Harris style actor, who could add that brittle, near psychopathic rage.
Anyway, lets see if this is all clever writing - Or whether we will all cheer when she gets her head cut off by Hayden in the last episode*
(My fear is they will try and make her some form of "break out character", and push her hard. "You are my favourite Inquisitor, Reva, and I, Darth Vader and my master Darth Sidious bow to your amazing amazingness.") **
*If this is true, the Next lottery numbers are 1,11,38,4,2, and 3.
**If this is true, at least we have Andor...