the Acolyte was a good, if flawed, first season.
Interesting time period, interesting look into the Sith.
Completely squandered because fans are insufferable.
The acolyte was terrible from the first episode. The plot was bad, the characters were bad, it was barely grounded in Star Wars as an actual IP - meaning the IP could have come after the story was written it felt so irrelevant. Like it's not just "we just fumbled the details and somewhere along the way a good thing got broken" it was big picture stuff in so many scenes. Like palpatine returning and creating death star ships and dying to lightning again doesn't happen because a good script and good teams attempted to make a good film and something got mistranslated eventually, it was flawed from the start. Which is as upsetting as it is, for me personally at least, because the IP is a slam dunk gold mine of easy to tell and rewarding stories. I can't even imagine being handed a 2 billion dollar easy payday to make a trilogy and having no artistic opinions about what is going to happen and what it's going to mean.
I'm ranting again. Whoops. I could believe YouTubers have outweighted influence on a film's production. I do not believe anyone involved in the Acolyte, especially higher ups who should be able to steer their own boat, could convince me that was what went wrong with that show.
A mature series about how the Sith convert people, even do some good via evil means, and make a case for why characters like Maul and Dooku and Ventress were converted would be fantastic. In fact Dooku has had some good development in the animated world showing a bit as to why and how he turned. There's a gameplay trailer for a character I do not know, showing them being influenced by a powerful sith, and it's compelling enough for what it is. Like, it's clearly the rights holders are not artists or fans and the structures at play do not allow a good thing to be produced with any meaningful regularity. The only star wars rule nowadays seems to be the thing is bad from the start or, if it was surprisingly good, it will get run into the ground ASAP.
I think the writers and directors had some ideas that were bad from the start, which is a bit of a shame, because they did have some good ideas. Addressing the ethics of other force users and taking kids could have been interesting, but they really fumbled it.
If they listened to the fans, everything would be Andor-level writing, Mandalorian-level characters with Clone Wars-level story and world-building.
Just do that.
If they listened to the fan, we would have had 15 movies of just Han Solo, Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker running around the galaxy, killing Stormtroopers. We sure as shit wouldn't have gotten ANDOR, the overtly political show, from the fans, those who keeps whining about politics in their media.
Listening to the fan is what gave us The Rise of Skywalker.
I'm a fan and I wouldnt want to watch a show written by me. I think its more Disney trying to make Star Wars using the logic that worked for the MCU. Throw shit at the wall and see if it makes money
that's not what the MCU did. MCU plots were drawn from decades of comic book content, adapted relatively faithfully, and orchestrated buy a guy who was passionate about comics. If star wars did that (with extended universe books) it would be in a much different place right now.
But no, they said fuck all that, we're gonna do our own thing haphazardly planned between 2 directors with wildly different visions for the plot, whilst peppered with regurgitated scenes from the original trilogy.
We were all hoping for a Thrawn trilogy and we got… this
It was bad. The pacing was wrong. The plot muddled.
Some of the best shows ever you could say the same thing about their first seasons.
Further they killed off some characters they shouldn't have. Which is most of them. They cleared the field
i'm STILL pissed at disney for caving to bigots and cancelling acolyte >_<
Fans just want the same thing over and over, you need to try new things, i enjoyed the acolyte but I get it's not for everybody, but if new ideas weren't tried we wouldn't have the mandalorian.
The vast majority of star wars YouTubers are spineless fanboys that do whatever Disney wants them to. If you can't make the people that lose their mind at the sight of Anakin happy, you failed miserably.
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