hoping to have people spout exposition to him like he’s a video game protagonist picking up sidequests. But even beyond this familiar critique of the show’s narrative structure, something kept cropping up in each encounter... characters addressing each other by their full names, regardless of who they are.
The addressing wouldn’t be so jarring if not for its repetition, or if it was the only jarring thing about’s dialogue. Rarely does it feel as if people in a scene are talking to each other, but more likeeach other, relaying expository information as brusquely and barely as possible. These are good actors—look at what Pedro Pascal has been doing in the run up to this season on—but it’s inherent to the nature of the dialogue itself.
Star Wars has always had its roots in older storytelling, & more formal dialog. Old westerns, 40's era pulp, the samurai, etc. Or as i heard an author put it: Star wars is Scifi/Fantasy - the world is scifi and the people are from fantasy stories. Also this is the way.
This is the way.