https://slate.com/culture/2024/06/star-wars-the-acolyte-sith-jedi-disney-series-visuals.html
The Acolyte is yet another example of how flat the franchise has become.
Passion, quality, respect for the source material. Star Wars has lost a lot of critical things and it's been down a steep downward spiral.
Now we have The Acolyte... Basically a badly written fanfic that prioritises the personal opinions of the writer more than consistency with the rest of Star Wars.
In what way is it not consistent with the rest of Star Wars?
Nobody ever has answers to back up why they don't like Acolyte. I watched the first couple episodes and it was fine. Not crazy good but I haven't been excited for recent non And or stuff for a long while. The games and books are much better nowdays
Apparently there's pretty good evidence that it messes with the cannon of the force not being able to create life at that point in the timeline, which was confirmed by some jedi alive that met the main character? I don't remember the specifics, but that was what I got from my partner when I asked them about it.
I didn't like the prequels when they came out. I considered them as ok sci-fi movies, but poor Star Wars movies. Over the years, I've gained more appreciation for them, and now would even prefer to watch them over the originals.
I understood that things would be changing when Lucasfilm was sold, and they wouldn't be fully changing in ways I'd enjoy. But George is usually not interested in making more Star Wars, and I've been able to enjoy much more Star Wars because he sold the company. The alternative was likely a complete forgetting of Star Wars. To some, that's probably preferable, but for me, I'd rather have more Star Wars like it is now than leaving it dead, closed, and canonized on a shelf in my old DVD collection.
I'm not saying that haters of The Acolyte will come around in 20 years and enjoy it, but they might. I'm having a good time watching it.
I thought the first two episodes were fine, but I wasn't going to hang around week after week to be strung along, better to wait and watch the whole thing at once.
That was what drove a lot of the complaints on the other shows, people watching it week by week couldn't see the overall arc they were going for.
My only real complaint was that it seemed to be a giant waste of Carrie-Anne Moss... but maybe she pops up again in flashbacks or something. I dunno, like I say, I've only seen the first two episodes so far.
Out of the Star Wars TV shows, I can really only point to a couple of unforgivably bad things that should have been caught and fixed in production:
The stupid scooter bike trash in Book of Boba Fett.
The really bad Baby Leia footchases in Obi Wan. The first one was bad enough, then they decided to do it AGAIN??!?!
No, it's just... Uh... Whatshisname... The guy from Spy Kids.
Once Upon A Time in Mexico was his last decent movie. Now pretty much everything I've seen from him has a lot in common with the Spykids sequels or Sharkboy and Lavagirl. The weirdly out of place tech scooter gang is exactly his kind of zany.
Please don't forget Kenobi and his magically unsupicious trenchcoat.
... or how lightsaber stabbings now are a minor inconvenience ...