Genuinely curious here. You guys think he's worthy as a lead big bad? I see him as a supporting cast villain - he's like Grievous without the dueling skills. Basically he's Hux, a mean-spirited guy who sometimes gets the upper hand, but ultimately a shambling doofus of a villain who's only believable as a rival for second-string heroes.
He never wins an engagement. In the S1 finale, he's presented as the face of the Empire, big bad and Werner Herzog's boss (big WTF there). He's then defeated by Mando and his ragtag team and outgunned in aerial combat by a dude with a jetpack.
In S2, his arms shipment is hijacked by Mando & Co and despite ordering his man to kamikaze the ship in a sacrifice play, he can't even accomplish that.
He does successfully kidnap baby Yoda, but even then he never puts a dent in the good guys roster. They never show any actual results of studying Grogu's blood, and grogu himelf is shown none the worse for the wear - no PTSD, no darkside anger/fear, not even any physical damage. He never wins an engagement or harms/kills a single good guy, loses his duel with Mando, attempts to shoot Koska Reeves and then grogu without any success and then gets KTFO'ed by fucking Gina Carano.
I loved the finale and the series but Gideon sucks ass. He's a way less cool bad guy version of Indiana Jones from Raiders. He could have been completely absent from S2 and everything would have happened exactly the same.
