Going back to rewatch The Mandalore Plot is almost funny because of how much Satine contradicts herself within a 20 minute span of time.
She straight up tells Obi-Wan that there is absolutely nobody on Mandalore who is any less trustworthy than she is, which is a BOLD claim to make for someone facing a man who's holding up literal visual evidence of a dude in Mandalorian armor attacking a Republic vessel.
And it gets worse! Because not two minutes later she's telling Obi-Wan all about how there's actually this new group on Mandalore calling themselves Death Watch who aren't committed to peace and idolize violence and they're probably the people who attacked the Republic ship, but... they're also NOT A PROBLEM, they're "just hooligans." Somehow they are simultaneously not a serious threat while also likely being the people who attacked a Republic vessel and ALSO being included in the statement that they're just as trustworthy as she is. If she believes they attacked a Republic vessel, that should IMMEDIATELY take them out of the "just some hooligans" category and straight into "yeah no these guys are a serious problem" because not only are they clearly a threat to the Republic itself, making themselves a problem for the Republic makes the Republic a problem for HER since now SHE has to answer for their actions. THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING SHE TAKES SERIOUSLY and she... doesn't.
And of course then there's also the whole thing with her opinions on the Jedi. She seems to relax a bit when Obi-Wan tells her that he's investigating Mandalore on behalf of the Jedi Council and not the Senate, but she then later accuses the Jedi of entering into the war and letting go of their morals simply because it was "politically convenient" for them to do so. The first scene seems to indicate that Satine inherently trusts that the Jedi are honest, stalwart people, but the second scene seems to indicate that Satine thinks the Jedi might have become corrupt. If she believes that the Jedi became corrupt by siding with the Republic in the war, it seems odd that she'd relax at an investigation by the Jedi in the first place when she immediately assumes any investigation by the Senate is being done for nefarious dishonest purposes.
Then there's Satine's pacifism and how she chooses to apply that at different moments. She claims in Voyage of Temptation that that "just because she's a pacifist doesn't mean she won't defend herself" as she is shooting at droids with some sort of stunner, but her willingness to defend herself only goes so far and disappears if her opponent is not a droid, so that claims seems... a little silly. Additionally, that limitation doesn't last if she's pushed hard enough because she later threatens to torture a criminal and imprison an innocent man on trumped up charges for questioning her orders. She doesn't end up going through with either one, but only because both threats force the people being threatened to capitulate. But even if she's bluffing, the fact that she's willing to force an innocent man to follow her orders no matter what by threatening him with trumped up charges is... an extremely questionable thing to do. And this happens literally one episode before she brings in a Jedi to teach Mandalorian children to question authority.
She also doesn't seem willing to apply the idea of "defending myself/others" as an excuse for some level of violence when it's Obi-Wan or the Jedi, but has no issues when it's Padme. The Jedi are never allowed to defend themselves or anyone else without her judging them quite harshly (unless of course it's Ahsoka helping rescue her from Almec). But when it comes to Padme, she seemingly has no issues with Padme picking up a blaster and killing a bunch of Pykes in order to defend herself, Satine, and Satine's guards. There's no condemnation of Padme's actions at all after this, just admiration for her fighting ability. But when Obi-Wan fights off some Death Watch members who were trying to kill him and Satine and leaves them unconscious, Satine condemns him for "taking pleasure in causing injury to others" despite LITERALLY no indication that Obi-Wan took any pleasure in that fight at all. This is obviously extremely hypocritical on so many levels.
I don't really think this makes her an interestingly complex character because I don't think the narrative really engages with these contradictions on that level, I don't think the narrative really acknowledges them AS contradictions at all, it's just bad writing. So instead of making Satine compelling and nuanced, it just makes her ridiculous and frustrating. Somewhat amusingly so for someone who already doesn't like her much and never has, but still.
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