The Mandalorian (2019) (i.e. The Boba Fett show)

The concept of this series gives me impression they wanted to make a Boba Fett series, but were unable to do so, due to the character dying in Return of the Jedi, and perhaps they didn't want to be limited to his backstory as told in the prequels.  One other thing of note, is the tone of his voice in reminiscent of the original voice of Boba Fett.

Still, this character does seem to be dominated by concepts that have occurred over the years and in other series about the mandalorians.  And the way he seems to be solely motivated by getting metal for his armor, seems rather odd.  What would motive him, once his armor is complete (as it now seems to be)

Also, it is rather odd to have him be unable to show his face to anyone.  Hiding your face all of the time servers no purpse, as your mask would effectively be the face you are recognized by. 
I have had the idea that Boba Fett would get out of his armor to take part in an undercover mission, or for intelligence gathering, or at least leave his costume at home when he went on vacation.

I do have a bit of a complaint about the choice of the name for this series, as it uses a world only know to diehard Star Wars fans, but the attachment of this series to Star Wars was more than enough to spread the word of the show to the masses.
While Star Wars' incredible success allowed Lucas to release a film with a made up word in the title "Jedi" as he know everyone was familiar with the concept, I am less impressed with the title of "Revenge of the Sith" as the concept of sith still in not well defined, nor known by the general public.

One thing I want to see in Star Wars is the high tech ships, dog fights and space stations.  Those have been largely absent since Disney took over the franchise.

There are a number of ridiculous concepts that keep coming up, which are perhaps used because they are easy for the audience to understand, but they go against common sense.

One is that there is a lot of fighting involving people with masks (and armor) versus people without masks, but some how the when the person with the mask gets punched in the face, they are injured but the person who just punched metal doesn't appear to injure their hand.

In fact, it's quite odd that there are so many people getting into fistfights, and then after they fight for a while, only then do they draw their blasters.  It makes no sense that anyone with a gun would resort to fist fighting. They was no fist fighting in the original trilogy.

Also, the concept that shooting a droid in the head will "kill" it.  There is no reason to assume that a droid would have some vital circuitry in its head.  One of the few times I have seen this concept applied (as it may also apply to aliens, was in Men in Black 2, went Agent K fought a Ballchinian (Ball Chin -i an)

The planets that the mandalorian visits are general low tech, with the exception of a few people with blasters and some droids.  The worlds, while meant to be reminiscent of Tatooine, are more like those shown in science fiction B movies (and the Big Isle 2321 scene from Cloud Atlas) or Firefly.

The show does have a number of "easter eggs" which are nice to see.  One is that the weapon the madalorian uses is the same on that Boba Fett used in his original appearance in the cartoon during the Star Wars Holiday Special.

They also used the "eye ball" arm - door bell that Threepio encountered when first approaching Jabba's Place.  While was nice to see that, it also used the exact same alien phrase (which I assumed to be Huttese, which I assume would only be used when working for the Hutts), which to me always had the intonation of "I expecting some one else" because when I hear it, it sounds like he is saying "I thought you were blinky"  One other instance of this is when Threepio is explaining to the Ewoks why they should let Luke and Han go, the Ewokese phrase he uses has an intonation that is exactly the same as "You will be sorry."

Chapter 1:

It was very interesting to see an IG-88 unit , but it seems quite odd that he was able to talk, and rather silly that he kept trying to self destruct, which as a rather lame attempt at comedy.

I actually would have much preferred it if the IG-88 droids were the ones used by the trade federation in the Phantom Menace, as they are quite intimidating and completely underutilized in the original trilogy, rather that the "battle" droids, which looked like puppy dogs, and acted more like the Three Stooges.

Chapter 2: Baby Yoda do do do ti do (sung to the tune of Baby Shark)

While the there is no reason to assume that some one of Yoda's race would have any greater ability with the Force than other races (or maybe his being of Yoda's race is just coincidental) but even further, its ridiculous to have a baby who has had no training in the ways of the Force to be able to use the Force (same problem with Rey in the sequels).  I have been wondering for a while if this baby Yoda is suddenly going to begin speaking in full sentences, and has just remained silent up til now for some unknown reason.  I have wondered if Yoda reached his old age because of his race, or because of his strong connection with the force.  I have though that perhaps the Emperor looks they way he did because he was very old, though my theory was that the Dark side of the Force caused his body to wither.

Also, its ridiculous to believe that anyone could repair a ship that was completely torn apart in 4 days.  I would take months, if possible at all.

Chapter 4: The Two Samurai / The Magnificent Two

This was a fairly direct rip off the the Akira Kurosawa movie "The Seven Samurai" which was later remade as a the Western "The Magnificent Seven".  While a fairly good adaption, it didn't move the plot forward at all.

Once again, we have fights with people punching others in the masks, and the person with the mask looses the fight and gun are only drawn after a protracted fist fight.

Carmen Sandiego (2019)

While it seemed like a good thing to revive the series Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, this series has just taken the character's name, and nothing else.  The question "Where is the World is" is absent, and with good reason.  That question is not asked, nor is the viewer asked to think about the answer or do any sleuthing themselves.

The original concept was a game that helped teach geography and about other countries.  While this concept carried over to the game show "Where in the World  is Carmen Sandiego"  the following cartoon show "Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?" dispensed with the focus on teaching geography and limited it's lessons to short blurbs about the country they were going to to track Carmen Sandeigo down in.

In this show, Carmen has been revived as a red ninja, using a sleeve mounted firing grappling hook, a copy of the same device used in the Batman movie and animated series, and a collapsible hang glider.  Every episode contains fisticuffs, a concept that has had no connection with Carmen Sandiego since her inception in nearly 35 years ago.

Also, rather than have Carmen Sandiego be the villain and leader of V.I.L.E., this show has her has a leaving the organization while she is quite young, and considered a traitor by the other members of V.I.L.E..  Also, none of the members of her gang, that were featured in the games and the game show, make appearances in this program.

One interesting addition is her assistants Zack and Ivy, who are from Boston, while their Boston accents are reasonably faithful, Zack over does it with the word "wicked" in every episode.

While there was a game released on facebook back in 2011, but was taken down in 2012.  A rival of the original game or even the game show is badly needed, as American's abysmal lack of knowledge of geography is the ridicule of the world.