Anyone Else Put Off by Mandalorian Episode 2?

And I agree with that. But that's the thing, though - I don't think we're getting enough story in the episodes for them to be satisfying. In fact, we're hardly getting any story at all in the episodes. Episode one was "the Mandalorian takes a job to collect a bounty. He gets there and finds it's a baby." And episode two was "He leaves with the baby."

It's pretty thin stuff and both times the credits have rolled I've been left thinking "Huh, is that all we're getting?"

It's like they're making a fan film, or a special effects demo film. It leaves me unsatisfied.

Episode 3 is 38 minutes.  So as long as we don't get a 15-20 minute episode, I'm cool with it.

If you're okay with short episodes, why draw the line between 20 and 38 minutes? Galactica : Blood and Chrome had 12 minute episodes. They were long enough for the amount of story in the episodes, because the episodes didn't have a whole lot of story - so why is that any different?

Actually that's a good comparison now I think of it. In a normal TV series each episode is a complete story with a beginning, middle and ending. Those episodes may then each be part of a larger story, but they are complete in themselves.

Web series like Blood and Chrome have episodes that aren't complete stories, they are just parts of a whole. You get a complete story when you add them all together, but any individual episode feels like it's a scene rather than a story. And that's how the Mandalorian feels to me. When I watch an episode I don't feel like I've watched a story, I feel like I've watched a handful of scenes. Like they'd taken a film and chopped it into 20 minute segments and called each one an episode.

Don't really need to see his face to know who he is.  You know he's human and his body language conveys all we really need.  

It may do so to you, it doesn't for me. I need to see his face. Honestly to me it just comes across like they're ripping off Judge Dredd. The helmet thing works for Dredd, perhaps because you can still see his mouth. But it doesn't for this, IMO.

Plus, I have a vague suspicion that one day they're going to show us that the person under that helmet is a woman. I don't mind that, particularly, just a feeling I have.

But in story terms, the only thing that happened is that he left the planet. Sure he had to go fight the Jawas and fight the Space-Rhino, but those aren't really story beats, they're just action scenes. There's nothing wrong with action scenes, but they don't change anything significant about what's going on. If he got in his ship and flew away, as far as the remainder of the story is concerned that's the same thing as finding his ship damaged, fighting the Jawas, fighting the Space-Rhino, then getting in his ship and flying away.

Have they? How? If they have, I've missed it. I can think of nothing they've done to establish the gender of the character.

Now the third episode was an improvement. Got us what's probably the first real character moment for the protagonist in the series so far.

Honestly the first three eps should have been cut together as the premiere episode of the series. But I guess you get more subscribers if you spin it out.