Star Wars: The Acolyte - Disney+ - (***Spoilers***)

Watched the first two episodes. This is a spectacularly awful TV show. Nothing to do with wokeism or whatever…it's just B movie, insipid trash. There's no heartbeat to it, everything is dull and lifeless. There is zero tension. The fight scenes are laughable. The whole thing is a collection of shots, just rolled into one another.

The actors all look as if they're on xanax. I suppose this is in keeping with Ahsoka, BOBF and the third season of Mandalorian so it's not a shock, but this is another few levels below. If you've had enough of po-faced, boring Jedi who love to wag their fingers and spout mystic nonsense then I can't stress enough that you need to stay away from this show.

I might need to watch Andor again just as a palate cleanser. I wish I hadn't watched this now, I need a memory wipe. It really baffles me how anyone can say this is great storytelling. I knew standards were slipping but I never expected things to become this bad.

"Seemed more like Jedi were just being Jedi to feel guilty enough to deserve to take their own lives. Like why did they guy who was a padawan simply take Mae's poison?"

I don't anyone knows the answer to that. I also asked it. Maybe she used the mind force on him.

"And why do they make that Jedi knight such an idiot, that his Padawan comes up with better plans.

And Jedi coming to forcibly take kids?

And as someone already mentioned, space witches all die that easily?

and not to forget the other episode where the droids flying the ship were shut down so easily."

It is truly terrible show. So bad I will not even mention to anyone in the real world that I watch it.

It's got to be one of the worst not just Star Wars but TV shows ever made. Honestly they should cancel it now before anymore jokes are made.

Watch the Critical Drinker's videos instead, that's a triple win: you get the gist of the … story, you get some better quality entertainment and you don't have to actually watch The Acolyte.

That guy seems terrified of women in positions of power…. Everything he watches seems to be through the filter of anything with strong women, gays, or blacks is bad…. and in this case the unholy dark triad of having all three in one character…. there is an entire culture/economy of people on YouTube freaking out about anything progressive.. they all want movies to go back to the glory days of American movies with the highly homoerotically charged action movies of the 80's/90's

The actors all look as if they're on xanax. I suppose this is in keeping with Ahsoka, BOBF and the third season of Mandalorian so it's not a shock, but this is another few levels below. If you've had enough of po-faced, boring Jedi who love to wag their fingers and spout mystic nonsense then I can't stress enough that you need to stay away from this show.

The Asian Jedi master is particularly terrible IMO, over-enunciating even the most mundane throwaway line as if he was trying to channel Dalai Lama…

He doesn't actually speak, he's unable because of a past lightsaber accident, so he's using the force to resonate the words into people heads. That's what I want to believe anyway, not that they cast someone who can't do the voice part of the acting.

Its a strange community, I watched some videos because I didn't like a lot of the new Disney stuff and you end up getting sucked into strange hate filled corner of the internet.

Apparently learned English for the role and it shows. Its quite obvious he's speaking most of those lines phonetically. Which doesn't so any favors to his performance

Oh sweet baby Jesus this is bad. Like Star Trek Discovery bad.

"writing, production and direction by people who don't care about, or even worse, hate the Star Wars universe"

How the fuk does he or you know that these people"hate" Star Wars.

If the show would be just as bad with a less diverse cast then how is it a valid criticism. That's just bollox.

And let's be honest you don't have a clue what the demographic of the Star Wars fanbase is and neither do I. You are just assuming it's the Americans you have seen at conventions and some 50 year out of date photos.

That was his assumption and I tend to agree with him: this, and other shows like Discovery and Foundation, were written by people who don't care about or maybe hate the established franchise, lore and canon.

Michelle Paradise is absolutely sht as a showrunner but she is a big Star Trek fan. Well known amongst the online fandom. Sadly much was the post Berman STO and extended universe fandom but she is a huge fan.

I know nothing about the Foundation books but the show is absolutely class. If it doesn't match the books I'm sure "woke" isn't the reason.

You know who really really didn't give a fuk about lore and canon. Meyer who made Wrath of Khan, Roddenberry and George Lucas himself.

13th Warrior is amazing though.

Saying the story is secondary is probably generous.

They have the moral of their story and ticked off any representation boxes and as for the story itself it's just thrown together.

The dialogue at times seems like it's out of a education film, going from stilted to overly emotional. Say no to spice younglings.

As least Lesley Headland fails here rather than on something important like if she indeed did get the old republic.