Buncha creeps.
Posted on 08/26/2024 10:40:33 PM PDT by Enterprise
The Force was not with “The Acolyte.”
The “Star Wars” series — deemed “woke” by many online fans — was recently canceled after only one season, which came as a surprise to some of the cast members.
Lee Jung-Jae, who played Master Sol in the Disney+ show, reacted to the cancellation in an interview with Entertainment Weekly on Friday.
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The 8-episode series has faced intense online backlash for its progressive themes, with many fans calling out the alleged overt LGBTQ propaganda that was part of the show.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an 18% rating from the audience.
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Buncha creeps.
There is a rumor right now that Disney may yank Acolyte from Disney+ completely and turn it into a tax write-off. They’ve already pulled all the Acolyte toys/merchandise from their online store.
Did they do this show just to get a good ESG score from from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC)?
Most of the criticism was not aimed at the wokeness, but the very poor character development and storytelling. Yet another case where the MSM is trying to blame SWM’s for being intolerant. The only intolerance is that for inept writing, acting and directing.
18% of the public like it BUT 78% of 246 critics gave the series a positive review.
Lots of shows have been canceled after one season. Why does the Left think they can get all butthurt over something that other people don’t like?
It wasn’t just the wokeness that made it suck. Although that didn’t help.
The Jedi were the bad guys.
Jedi included fat and stupid people (men, of course). So much for elite warriors.
The plot was stupid.
Acting was bad.
Add to that man hating and white hating. Yes, it was painful.
Too bad it bombed ....
I wonder if Disney is still going to run Harris’ Acolyte campaign ads......with Walz dressed as a Jedi?
18% of the public like it BUT 78% of 246 critics gave the series a positive review.
Because they live in a self-reinforced bubble of alternate reality. Their breakaway culture and real life are irreconciliable, and the ultimate clash with hard truth will not go as they expect - although their boundless capacity for delusion, projection, and willful ignorance may maintain their obliviousness.
The Acolyte was announced and teased as an origin story for the Sith. That might have had potential for people still interested in the brand. (Not me; I was long gone.) But then Kathleen Kennedy put Leslye Headland in charge and it went straight off a cliff.
From the very first get-go, ALL the Disney PR for the show was centered on "The Message." The Force was female. The Acoyte was going to be all about women ... and it was also going to be the gayest Star Wars ever and queer down to its bones. With Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant in charge, which is now an obligatory reference in most of the critics' reactions.
It got worse from there, with Leslye Headland casting her (female) spouse in a main role -- and sitting for interviews with Amandla Stenberg in which the two chattered mainly about queering the show and making everything women centric.
Meanwhile, the production itself was a shambles, far over budget with seemingly endless rewrites and reshoots. But the Queer Star Wars drumbeat never let up. It is hard to think of anything more Disney could have done to alienate most of the existing Star Wars fanbase, as well as about 90 percent of the country. Why? Because Bob Iger, and apparently the Disney board, were committed to turning all things Disney into propaganda vehicles for the Queer New World.
The Acolyte was dead before it was released. If there weren't so many egos involved, and if Disney's leadership weren't such ideological zealots, they might have simply cancelled the project and taken the tax writeoff. That would probably have been a better business move.
Go woke, go broke.
The dukes who re-killed Star Wars.
If John Williams isn’t doing the music, then it ain’t Star Wars.
At least the Fandom Menace’s YouTube coverage of it all was HILARIOUS! Disparu, Doomcock (Overlord DVD), Nerdrotic, The Critical Drinker, Call Me Chato, That Star Wars Girl, and more, were all on fire. They’re the best part.
This show of woke was doomed before it ever filmed.
Go Woke, watch it choke….
XD XD ... they look friendly, don’t they?
Well, the two kids in the front do at least. Their indoc is incomplete.
I’ll take some of this as a SWM.
I don’t want to see two Yoda’s in the night. Exchanging glances.
And doing God-knows-what with their schwartz’
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