It will come as no surprise to anyone that I’m a Star Wars fan. Which means I tune into every new Disney Star Wars show hoping the next one will be as good as Andor. Sadly, none of them are, and I feel like one of the reasons is a lack of writer diversity as in — have a writers room so you can have other writers push back and question choices and decisions.

The most recent glaring and annoying choice was in the finale of The Bad Batch where our heroes return to a planet where they had been hiding out from the Empire, and we’re meant to believe that they could live in peace despite the fact in a previous episode the Empire had arrived on that planet to to take custody of our young clone. So, why the hell did the Bad Batch clones think they could just go back to a world that was already on the Empire’s radar, and a place known for harboring them without the Empire coming to look for them there? Or did the Empire just assume that no one would be that stupid, so they didn’t bother to look. I keep wondering if someone had raised that question in a writers room if there might have been at least a “hang a lantern on it” explanation in the script or have them decide to make a different choice.

I started watching Tales of the Empire, and I don’t understand why it’s featuring Morgan Elsbeth, one of the Night Witches who showed up in Ashoka… briefly when there are so many other characters that might be of interest to Star Wars fan. Also, why in the hell are they making these huge jumps in time? It felt so disjointed that I completely lost interest and stopped watching.

And then there is Ashoka. I was so looking forward to the show, and while there are some wonderful actors it just never came together for me. We were also treated to a “Once out of the well, our hero…” moment that bumped me right out of the story because it just seemed so unlikely as to be fantastical. Once again I couldn’t help thinking that having more than one writer involved might have helped avoid that moment by someone in the writers room asking, “So how exactly is Ezra going to get off Thrawn’s ship?”