I haven’t seen Skeleton Crew, yet. It took me a while before I watched Acolyte. Not because I paid attention to social media (who were hating the story and everything about it before it was even released); but because I had other shows higher on the list. I paid for a one-year Brit Box subscription. I wanted to get ALL of the Doctor Who that they have available within that year’s payment.
When I watched Acolyte, I really enjoyed it. The story was strong. The acting/choreography was done well. And the scenery (audio & video special effects) were all done realistically!
Sure, quite a few of the scenes could have been trimmed. In fact, if they cut the unnecessary parts, it would have made a good two-movie start to the Acolyte franchise.
After learning how much it cost them to make, I thought they could have done a lot more with that money. The advertising they gave it was also mis-leading.
Disney advertised it as “woke” (showing only the scenes they could manipulate into looking a certain way). And you wonder why many disliked the series…especially with them never having even watched it.
And then there are some of us who have had our D+ subs since the service was first announced. Have supported watching all the sequel trilogy, and the shows on D+.
And it beggars the mind that anyone can think that this show (Acolyte) was coherent.
The writing was poor. The pacing (not just scenes here or there that could’ve been trimmed) was disjointed, and the “suspension of disbelief” level required was off the scale.
While I don’t support the language visited upon the actors, they also did themselves NO service by their comments as well. Saying otherwise, is living in cognitive dissonance.
To hear the actor who learned English just to portray their role, speak of racism in this conversation is just ONE example of being out of touch. It smacks of no one actually listening to and reflecting on the feedback (saying that the negative feedback was ENTIRELY dismissable is prima facie evidence the creators were/are out of touch with reality) as assessing where THEY were incorrect.
For an industry that lives by the mantra that “the customer is always right”, it never ceases to not disappoint at how out of touch Lucasfilm and its leadership remain.
This isn’t “art for art sake”, folks.
Take the ‘L’.
Consider you may not be correct.
Consider you were actually trying to be helped.
Not taking the feedback and lashing back speak of being in denial.
this article was obviously paid for by someone trying to rewrite history. Likely the showrunner, WHO WAS HARVEY WEINSTEIN’S ASSISTANT AND LED MANY OF HIS VICTIMS TO HIS OFFICE MOMENTS BEFORE THEIR ASSAULT. Everything about the “The Acolyte” was awful and unbearable to watch, the acting was terrible, and was not so subtly hidden by moments of “inclusion”. Trying to shame the audience into accepting it is pathetic and stupid and the so called “journalist” that wrote this should be ashamed of themselves, I hope you got your money’s worth. I also find it somehow suspiciously funny that this article failed to mention the acclaimed success for the only star wars show worth watching, “Andor” which WAS creative, WAS inclusive and INCLUDED a diverse cast without pandering and preaching to the choir and maintained its integrity and most importantly RESPECTED THE SOURCE MATERIAL.
Comments for Casting Update Reported for Leading Star of Disney’s Canceled ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’
Danny O.
I haven’t seen Skeleton Crew, yet. It took me a while before I watched Acolyte. Not because I paid attention to social media (who were hating the story and everything about it before it was even released); but because I had other shows higher on the list. I paid for a one-year Brit Box subscription. I wanted to get ALL of the Doctor Who that they have available within that year’s payment.
When I watched Acolyte, I really enjoyed it. The story was strong. The acting/choreography was done well. And the scenery (audio & video special effects) were all done realistically!
Sure, quite a few of the scenes could have been trimmed. In fact, if they cut the unnecessary parts, it would have made a good two-movie start to the Acolyte franchise.
After learning how much it cost them to make, I thought they could have done a lot more with that money. The advertising they gave it was also mis-leading.
Disney advertised it as “woke” (showing only the scenes they could manipulate into looking a certain way). And you wonder why many disliked the series…especially with them never having even watched it.
ML
And then there are some of us who have had our D+ subs since the service was first announced. Have supported watching all the sequel trilogy, and the shows on D+.
And it beggars the mind that anyone can think that this show (Acolyte) was coherent.
The writing was poor. The pacing (not just scenes here or there that could’ve been trimmed) was disjointed, and the “suspension of disbelief” level required was off the scale.
While I don’t support the language visited upon the actors, they also did themselves NO service by their comments as well. Saying otherwise, is living in cognitive dissonance.
To hear the actor who learned English just to portray their role, speak of racism in this conversation is just ONE example of being out of touch. It smacks of no one actually listening to and reflecting on the feedback (saying that the negative feedback was ENTIRELY dismissable is prima facie evidence the creators were/are out of touch with reality) as assessing where THEY were incorrect.
For an industry that lives by the mantra that “the customer is always right”, it never ceases to not disappoint at how out of touch Lucasfilm and its leadership remain.
This isn’t “art for art sake”, folks.
Take the ‘L’.
Consider you may not be correct.
Consider you were actually trying to be helped.
Not taking the feedback and lashing back speak of being in denial.
Miku Haile
this article was obviously paid for by someone trying to rewrite history. Likely the showrunner, WHO WAS HARVEY WEINSTEIN’S ASSISTANT AND LED MANY OF HIS VICTIMS TO HIS OFFICE MOMENTS BEFORE THEIR ASSAULT. Everything about the “The Acolyte” was awful and unbearable to watch, the acting was terrible, and was not so subtly hidden by moments of “inclusion”. Trying to shame the audience into accepting it is pathetic and stupid and the so called “journalist” that wrote this should be ashamed of themselves, I hope you got your money’s worth. I also find it somehow suspiciously funny that this article failed to mention the acclaimed success for the only star wars show worth watching, “Andor” which WAS creative, WAS inclusive and INCLUDED a diverse cast without pandering and preaching to the choir and maintained its integrity and most importantly RESPECTED THE SOURCE MATERIAL.