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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.
I liked the ending but overall the show was terrible. Not much is lost with the cancellation.
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.
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.
The fight choreography drew me in and then that all went out the window in Ep. 3.
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.
It deserves to be cancelled for not telling a story
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.
The one good thing about streaming services like Disney+ is that they have the platform metrics, and they can push shows against audiences and get watch metrics, retention metrics, etc from a large group of viewers. i.e. any online media storms can be weathered by good data of how the show is really performing.
The focus on anti-woke messaging from the show creatives seems like a rhetorical tool, if its the strongest message they have about the property that is what they are going to do to bring attention to it. If you have positive reviews, you talk about the reviews. If you have strong view numbers you talk about the viewer numbers. Since silence is the worst thing for a media property, if you have nothing else you talk about controversy real or imagined. Is there real anti-woke messaging for this show, sure, but like the standard background level you get on anything; is it the most interesting and important aspect of this show? Apparently - otherwise why would the creatives be talking about it?
The rhetoric escalation tree reveals uncomfortable truths.
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.
Only if you commit to ignoring the source material.
I can live without this one. I want Andor season 2. The beauty of Andor is we know how it ends.
Pretty sure andor season 2 is under production.
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?
They can still do something with them. They did nothing in the show.
I dunno. Leave it be hopefully. The show just looked really cheap. Their clothes looked like costumes instead of actual clothes. Not to mention how poor the makeup was for everyone.
Maybe I just prefer quality over quantity.
And yet it carried a $180m budget, more than something like dune part 1 (and slightly less than part 2).
There is probably a lot of creative accounting happening with a lot of those types of numbers. Any Disney + ad that has something to do with the Acolyte probably gets counted in that total. Countless examples of movies and shows with way smaller budgets that end up looking a lot better than most of the recent Disney slop.
I guess marketing getting rolled into that number, as opposed to movie budgets where it is usually separate could make up for it. Or it includes lots of long-term investments similar to the huge stage surrounded by screens ("the volume") that they used for the mandalorian. Although I am not aware that acolyte did something like that.
Countless examples of movies and shows with way smaller budgets that end up looking a lot better than most of the recent Disney slop.
Yeah, but that just goes to prove that money doesn't solve every problem. It didn't fix the writing either. The spending part is easy enough.
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?
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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.
The producers once alluded that they were being review bombed by conservatives for the acolyte being too woke. Now, that might be true, but, the show also sucked in more than one way, which means there was no one to push back the reviews.
Reminds me of the George Carlin bit on soft-language.
going after Headland, who happens to be a member of the LGBTQ+ community
That's basically how I read it initially.
Apparently that is how she refers to herself and its perfectly normal for folks to not refer to themselves as "gay" but as being part of the community.