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Did Din lose one of his pauldrons? When they take him to the "debriefing room" you can see one on the floor, think the left one. Scenes before that has him with both.

Could just be an oversight or...

Episode 1 is basicly the first half of act 1 if you look at it from a movie standpoint, would watch episode 2 and decide on that.
Does it get better? Depends what you are looking for, the story...

Those movie deals are most likely for No Way Home and appearances in other MCU movies like we had in Avengers and Civil War. Netflix forked over the cash because they have to, Both Marvel and DC have...

They only knew each other by first name during their time in the Red Room. Wouldn't make sense if she started calling him by his nickname, especially with the romantic history they have.