In case anyone can't see the tweet or wants to read the original article:
‘The Acolyte’ Canceled: No Season 2 For Disney+’s ‘Star Wars’ Series
The story of The Acolyte will not continue, with LucasFilm opting not to proceed with Season 2 of the Star Wars offshoot starring Amandla Stenberg.deadline.com
I'm blaming it on wokeness based on the comments of the creators themselves as to their motivations and objectives for creating the show. Hence, entertainment was 1A or 1B - "message" was first or a co-equal prime consideration. A good writer doesn't have to proclaim THIS BOOK IS ABOUT X,Y,Z - he or she tells a story and if it has a theme or a moral that is secondary to the story not the prime consideration. Crime and Punishment is so interesting because the story and characters are interesting, the morality is secondary to the entertainment, and yet, at the end, you can also see and think about the message or, just enjoy the entertainment.
The story was crap partly because of the "wokeness". It's becoming lazy writing and tuning off an entire portion of viewers.
You know, people would take you more seriously if you stopped using "woke" as a copout for explaining why the writing sucks.
Is it lazy when it’s the truth? When media becomes more about spreading agenda than about creating original, compelling content, inevitably the entertainment value of the product will suffer. It’s not art; it’s propaganda.
Everybody trying to get that CEI ratings money. Basically extortion by a different name.
I agree, but feel that it's also a copout when others attack the use of the word instead of guessing what was meant and arguing with that. People also often use "lazy" to refer to writing, despite that being just as vague, but rarely does anyone mind that. Use the word "woke," though, and it tends to trigger a reaction, suggesting that it's not the lack of explanation that annoys people, but the use of that particular word. I try to avoid using it for that reason, since it tends to lead to lame arguments over the word, itself.
One of the good things of hiring diversity, was the casting of Lee Jung-jae in the role of Sol. He was one of the few brights spots of the show and did what he could with the material he was given.
You can pretend that term doesn't exist all you want, but that doesn’t mean it’s actually true.
But can you explain what you mean by "woke" in this sense? Honest question. I look at the story that was told and there's nothing I see there that jumps out as "woke" (at least in what is my understanding about how and why that term is used).
You realize the original Star Wars was "woke as f***" for its time, right?
I don’t agree. There are plenty of other stories from that time and before that handled the same topics, and in the same ways- making it the backdrop rather than the pre focus of the story.
Orrrrrr....works of art always put forward progressive ideas?
Liked your post but still don't think it was crap. Certainly not compared to the other SW series that came out. Just wait, it will be redeemed in the end, just like Prometheus seemingly was. The Last Jedi is next! The Acolyte in 15 years!
There was great elements in The Acolyte. I just thought mostly all characters were boring.
That would be great. Fingers crossed.
You're gonna be waiting a long time on that one professor.
That's not true. It was arguably pretty conservative because Lucas' goal was to give young people an "honest, wholesome fantasy life" of the kind that his generation had in the 1950s, hoping that it would offer "the romance, the adventure, and the fun that used to be in practically every movie." He was reacting to all of the serious and depressing content that was prevalent in the 1970s and choosing to go against the trend. When he made his previous film, American Graffiti, he even said that current movies make us "more depressed than we were before. So I made a film where, essentially, we can get rid of some of those frustrations, the feeling that everything seems futile." He deliberately left real world problems and frustrations out of that film and seems to have carried that philosophy into Star Wars, a film that was a hopeful escape from reality. Yes, the villains were based on the Nazis and the Ewoks on the Viet-Cong, but fiction has always been inspired by real life. You shouldn't conflate that with being "woke." That's not what the term means. It means awareness of social injustice. Lucas did not use Star Wars as a platform for social injustice. Headland arguably did.
