As much as I love a little nostalgia in my media, at what point do we cross the line from parallels and callbacks and fan service to just straight up rehashing what we've already seen?
Ahsoka promised a certain amount of Rebels Season 5, but most of its Rebels-related content ended up being closer to a Rebels Rehash with certain character swaps. (And that’s not an exhaustive list.)
When you also consider the amount of images and story bits that were borrowed from elsewhere in Star Wars and other properties, it becomes difficult to find anything original in Season One at all.
I guess it's not terribly surprising then that Season Two is rumored to be a close copy of The Empire Strikes Back with some Legends!Thrawn storyline thrown in. I wonder how many TCW references there will be, too.
It just kind of boggles the mind that, when they only have to create eight episodes per season, they rely so heavily on copying previous works.