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The 5 minute show understood its role and kept the story emphasis low and the action high. TCW has a tendency of trying to put a movie sized plot or event into a 22 minute show. It's good that they're ambitious, but sometimes it's just impossible to do.
In the case of the Mortis trilogy though it wasn't a 22 minute episode, it was a 66 minute episode. That's not trying to pack anything into too small a story line. Hour long dramas only get 44 minutes to tell a story.
But overall I can see your point. The 2D series didn't not try and tell too much of a story, however, Ventress had some bit of a story, as did Anakin with his vision of his future self. These stories were kept simple though. Still, I guess I just don't know what people are expecting. If the concept of a 22 minute series trying to tell a story is where you see a flaw, then I respect your opinion, and I respectfully disagree. But given the fact that the show has only 22 minutes to tell a story, in my opinion the show does a fantastic job overall. Where it falls flat is usually in the story itself and not how that story fits into 22 minutes. For example, in my opinion, The Academy was a poor concept, thus one of the worst episodes of the series. But it wasn't because they only had 22 minutes, it's cause they didn't have something to work with from the beginning. Whereas Rookies was a fantastic story that fit well within 22 minutes. They developed new characters, had action scenes, had drama, and kept it all clean.
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