'The Acolyte' Canceled: Disney's Star Wars Spinoff Done After One Season

There was a good show in there somewhere, but what we got wasn't it.

I'm not sure walking away from the season what I was supposed to have learned. It's ok to kill people sometimes as long as you're pretty sure they messed up your life?

Mando is about found families and learning to trust.

Andor is about how war/strife changes people.

Obi-wan is about relearning to believe (in yourself/the force) and what's worth fighting for.

Ahsoka is about students and teachers, how they each can learn from one another.

Even if you disagree with my interpretation, you can at least agree it's a possible interpretation.

But Acolyte... I just don't know what I'm supposed to get out of it. The dark side ain't so bad? Jedi don't like others using the force?

Huh… I thought it was pretty interesting. Kinda bummed.

Also, kung fu + force powers is fantastic for fight scenes, so I hope they use that stuff more in other shows/movies.

Edit: the anti-woke review bombing crap that people apparently got up to seems to have played a role in the decision (reading between the lines), which is pretty shitty.

E2: instead of just downvoting, I’m interested to hear what people so strongly disliked about it.

Kinda weird to blame the bad reviews on “anti-woke bigots”, then cancel the show to appease the bigots.

I did like the show, which looks like an unpopular opinion. Guess the tragedy of Darth Plagueis really isn’t a story the Jedi would tell you.

with certain corners of the internet going after Headland, who is a member of the LGBTQ+ community

That's some odd phrasing. Are they not allowed to say that someone is gay?

It feels like they are trying to dog whistle something, but I'm not sure what. Or was all the criticism completely unrelated and they are trying to stretch a point?

[Update]

I have been educated that this is not an uncommon phrasing to use by someone who is gay.

Presumably following the motto of a rising tide raises all the ships and they have expressed a preference for their success to be viewed as a success for everyone?

TIL.

I can live without this one. I want Andor season 2. The beauty of Andor is we know how it ends.

Well, no surprise there.

It was nowhere near as bad as the reviews suggest. Manny Jacinto was honestly great. The Stranger's helmet design with the metal cables looking like a deranged smile was cool, as was his ability to temporarily disable lightsabers. The new king fu element to the fight scenes was interesting.

I don't even feel like it was that 'woke'. But it was that bad. Bad wiring, bad acting, worse storyline. The only good thing was the choreography of a couple of the fight scenes except that they mostly made no sense. Not even Darth Vader cut through so many Jedi like butter but this random guy that 'i believe you would refer to me as sith' does with ease. I really think she was determined to ruin the originals. Basically she took everything that was cool and good and did it worse.

It's like the scene in Talladega nights where Cal is telling Gerrard the things that America created.

All woman witches with a connection to the dark side - Dathomir.

Children created by a vergence in the force - Anakin.

Force choke - Vader (this one made me sad).

Purple light saber - Windu.

Multi piece red light saber - Maul.

PIP - fallout.

Then there's just totally random things that are dumb: Regular Jedi having yellow lightsabers. The stones used in yellow lightsabers were used for the guardians of the temple. Kyber crystals make blue or green and that's why they are that color in the originals.

It was loosely implied that there was another Sith, maybe plagiues, implying that Qimir was his apprenrice making him be actively searching for his own apprentice ignoring the rule of 2.

Mace Windu says there hadn't been Sith in a millennium and the generally accepted context is that they've always existed they just hide from the Jedi. Now you a clear story of sith killing Jedi only 100 years prior.

Anissya tells the Jedi to make a perimeter but then they just all ignore that order and all go to the same place?

The only way you could execute a show this poorly is on purpose. Which I think is true, I think she wanted people to reference her show for the fun cool stuff because it's more fresh on their minds.

Good, I don't know how something like this could've been created in the first place. It makes it seem like anyone can be in charge of big budget shows regardless of if they have talent.

I liked it. Struggled at the beginning with lots of walking and talking to fill out time, but it tried to do something interesting with the rashomon story structure at the end.

I thought the seductive elements of the Darkside that they played up worked extremely well.

The squid games actor was great.

The fight scene in episode five was tons of fun. When Jason from the Good Place killed X2 by stabbing her 3 or 4 times with the short lightsaber I rewound to watch it a few times.

Probably would've been a better movie.

This is the first I've even heard of this show. It must have dropped during one of my "pissed off that Disney can't be arsed to keep their Android app working." phases.

Oh well.

All the "woke," incel bullshit aside, it wasn't very good.

My larger worry about this cancellation is the potential graveyard they may have kicked off. Netflix has a lot of cancelled shows that no one will ever watch, it just dilutes their overall library. If even Star Wars isn’t immune to this, then I really do hope Disney wasn’t lying and we start seeing fewer streaming shows coming out. I think we’d all prefer quality over quantity.

I liked the ending but overall the show was terrible. Not much is lost with the cancellation.

I didn't even bother. I checked out after Ahsoka. I really don't give af about "woke", the writing has been terrible. These series have so much embedded lore you have to watch YouTube vids to figure out context. I don't have time for all that.

I didn't like it but I think a season 2 was best than canceled, what did I gain watching s1? There's no story, only setups and now everything was thrown in the garbage, what a waste of time.

Too bad. I didn’t care very much for most of S1, but it seemed to be getting going in the last couple episodes and gave me hope that S2 would be decent.

For the best.

I enjoyed it overall. But any attempt to tie up the loose threads would water down the few good things the series did… which are largely rooted in the mystery of not fully explaining them.

If there’s more story involving these characters or event worth hearing, use a different High Republic series to tell them.

MOTHERFUCKER. Now what are they going to do?!?!! They give us a taste of Darth Plaguis and Yoda 100 years younger and they CANCEL it?

Waiting for Andor :)

I hope they can continue the story in supplementary material.

For the better

disney caving to the toxic part of the fandom and cancelling another show with a poc lead? this is why we pirate.

Killed by incels, racists, and people who expect waaaay too much from the Star Wars franchise.