Andor, Season 1 of Mando, the animated stuff, and Rogue One were class. Almost everything else- Solo, Mando 2 and 3, BOBF, Kenobi- had some real moments of good, and unfortunately, hilariously awful. The concepts, the stories, and the settings intrigued me. There was bad acting and moments in each (the electrical wheelchair chase in BOBF may have been the worse moment of all).
However, Acolyte was complete shit. I’m fairly woke, I know the legends lore and don’t really care about it being rewritten (though, when it’s class- use it!). However, this had almost no redeeming qualities. Character motivations were inconsistent, acting (Qimir and first half Sol’s season aside) and script was very poor, the heavy handedness of let us show you how woke Disney is were all f***ing rough. Pacing was awful, it was incredibly predictable, and they treated the audience like everything needed to be spelled out explicitly. A few nice Sabre battles, but visually, it was nowhere near the quality of some things we’ve seen (Freighter escape in Andor, Holdo maneuver) elsewhere in Star Wars. We did get giant bugs carrying away a with, and a Wookiee using a metal detector though… They repeated the death of the cult three times in eight episodes!
Aside from finding Qimir’s story intriguing, the only payoff in the entire season was Plagueis, and it felt like such a cheap attempt to earn a second season. Had he been introduced in episode 4 and had some interesting string pulling, it could have potentially created enough intrigue to warrant a second season. Instead it was a cameo.
There were some interesting ideas, but the execution was terrible. It didn’t deserve a second season. I don’t blame the actors- including Stenberg- but trying to put this on the neckbeards as the reason it was cancelled is a severe lack of ownership. It sucked!
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