>>89768570It's a good show that's kind of underrated, or maybe more accurately underwatched since I think most people who do watch it have an honest view of its weaknesses its strengths. It's not perfect, with multiple episodes paced weirdly and some that maybe didn't need to exist at all, but it has some nice continuity, character development, and strong portrayals of its central characters.
I think one problem, with both the show and its reception, is that maybe half of the first season was focused more on one-off adventures to allow for a sense of the main characters and the setting, but unfortunately people who expected deep lore, character development, and drama right out of the gate were disappointed. The show did go on to do all those things later, touching on it within the first season even, and while that doesn't mean someone who disliked the early episodes would necessarily like it later (though some have), it does mean a lot of people may have dropped it a bit early or compared it unfavorably to other shows before really finding out for themselves what it was trying to do. I'm not even trying to say they're wrong for it-- if they didn't like it, they didn't like it-- but in some spots the show has gotten the incorrect reputation of having no plot because people are assuming the entire series is like its first episodes, which aren't much like the show now.
I think its approach to "deepest lore" is kind of interesting. While I think some aspects were obviously planned out in advance, I think most of the lore is constructed bit by bit as the show progresses. It's interesting in the sense that the crew is doing a good job so far in making these new developments not contradict anything or sometimes even tie in with other things, even though there wasn't this much of a plan from the start. It's hard to tell exactly where the show will end up, outside of it obviously having a happy ending because Disney, and while it could end up a clusterfuck I'm optimistic.