He REALLY couldn't help himself

[@SCZDN]

That poor bloke was acting his heart out. Shame the script couldn't match his heroic effort.

[@TheWarmachine375]

Qimir was trying to get away from Darth Plagueius who was hiding behind the cave for not paying back the loans he borrowed from him.

[@kiyanhakim384]

Magistrate Damask intensifies*

[@CommanderWrake]

​​​@@kiyanhakim384🤣🤣🤣? Truly, I do want more Qimir but that is the only thing from Acolyte I'm interested in learning about... That an who the hell was the lil pointy eared green guy at the end? 😂😂

[@thp154]

If they made a palpatine show, maybe they could include some closure for Quimir's story while continuing the Plagueis stuff.

[@CommanderWrake]

Palpatine show similar in tone to Breaking Bad.

[@Afdog]

The main thing is getting normal scriptwriters, who can properly tell a story. It doesn't really matter about which it will be as writers can make something unexpectedly amazing, like Andor, or make trash out of interesting concepts, like Acolyte

[@paulderosa3065]

I would prefer that

[@BoneGoddess]

Because somehow Palpatine returns

[@finzard887]

Ok, genuinely loved Qimir and his actors acting. One of my favourite dark side wielders of all time and so I really hope that he gets his own solo show or movie. Maybe a series could explore his past and connections to the sith through his training of osha and evading the Jedi and the sith.

[@finzard887]

It could even go as far as to set up another sith like cult that stays hidden in the shadows giving us a new dark side force for the protagonists to fight against in the new trilogy.

[@random135246]

I dont think the cancellation is surprising nor do I think it had anything to do with the culture war as annoying as it all was. Expensive show + lower ratings than other shows. I still don't understand why it was so expensive. Sad we won't get to see more Qimir though.

[@simonlawrenson6972]

Yeah the cost seems really strange. It didn't seem like it was anymore fantastic in terms of set design and effects compared to other Star Wars shows.

[@shatter_point]

Money laundering lesbians

[@warshield924]

Yes and low ratings had nothing to do with the constant and organized attack on the show and the people involved?

[@thedude0000]

_I still don't understand why it was so expensive_ Inexperienced showrunner IMO *Acolyte* # episodes: 8 cost per episode: $28.7 million Avg run time: 25-43 min episode. *Andor* # episodes: 12 cost per episode: $20 milliom Avg run time: 38 - 57 min episode.

[@Toerinator]

​@@thedude0000yeah, and it's not like you can really tell the Acolyte is more expensive either imo? It feels like Andor covers more physical locations, but I could be wrong of course.

[@RayOfTruth]

The Acolyte was underrated.

[@ShawnHCorey]

Star Wars is built on hope.

[@Intranetusa]

Built on the hope that Disney gives Tony Gilroy the reins to make all major Star Wars TV/movies from now on.

[@alexandertkachenko1432]

Nice rogue one reference

[@josemengelez6947]

@@Intranetusa he'd turn it down.

[@popburnsy3207]

Ideally, I would like some novels. Graphic novels/comics would be ok, but a prose novel series would be preferred. Honestly, even animated would be preferred over the comics route

[@GREATRJ1]

It is a shame as some of the things they left untied was some of the more interesting stuff in my opinion, and the thing is, a lot of shows do struggle with first seasons. It is where they are trieing to figure out the characters, see how the dynamics work, a prime example of this in Star Wars is Star Wars: Rebels. The first two seasons aren't considered the greatest by fans (even though I personally like them) but Season 3 and 4 is considered some of the best Star Wars to release since Disney took over. As for the lore mistakes, I think it is less so the lore being ruined and more so people not understanding it. One of the gripes people had was the creation of Mae and Osha who were created by the Force and how that ruins Darth Plagueis' storyline. The thing is that is two different things. For one we have no idea how Mae and Osha were forged through the Force, were they created through Midichlorian Manipulation or some other technique? And the thing is, Darth Plagueis never intentionally created Anakin. Anakin was made through a chain reaction in the Force in response to one of Plagueis' experiments. Essentially, Anakin is a consequence of an experiment that had nothing to do with creating life. And also, the Jedi have existed since what, 25,000 BBY? And the Sith have existed for a very long time too. Surely there would be other's before Plagueis who experimented with Midichlorian Manipulation. Hell, I'm pretty sure at some point it a character in universe theorised Vitiate was experimenting with it, it may have been Plagueis himself but I don't personally remember. And if you want to talk lore conflictions look at Dave Filoni's Clone Wars and count how many times it retconned or cut connections to something from the Clone Wars Multi-Media Project and Legends as a whole, as that was made during Legends and is still for some reason considered Legends, with the exception of Season 7. Overall the point I'm trying to give if that the lore conflictions weren't really conflicting in the first place, and the fact the Acolyte was "bad" in some peoples eyes doesn't mean it couldn't get better in future, again a prime example is Rebels.

[@jaxsonlambert9750]

Would love to get more of the story! It might just be in books or comics and I would honestly be fine with that, if it turns out they are going to do a second season that would be a incredible surprise

[@tonyflorez1146]

Best case scenario would be an animated continuation. I can’t imagine they have any desire to return to the high republic in live action so soon. Which does suck, though it makes sense that they would save those higher budget production for stuff they know will be hits through nostalgia pandering.

[@joshfactor1]

i mean it was far from perfect but i did think at least some parts of it had potential

[@RorikH]

I've heard the wise-sounding suggestion that it would've worked better if they had committed to the girl-fleeing-the-Jedi-while-trying-to-clear-her-name premise instead of having the main character join forces with the Jedi at almost the beginning of the show.

[@brandoncoradi9557]

@@RorikHyeah it would’ve been better if Mae didn’t change her mind from being good to evil to good to evil to good again every 30 seconds

[@vitaminemoney]

I really would love to see them pickup for a 2nd and even final season if need be. It’s not often Star Wars leaves a story like this completely unfinished

[@senorelroboto2]

I hope we get more of Manny in the future, even though I didn't like the Acolyte

[@xtrafunk]

if they return to the sith of that era then sure. he was easily one of the strongest elements of the show, and while I personally don't care to see either of the twins back on screen it would be cool to see what happens with Qimir.

[@darththor3982]

This show was phenomenal! but haters gonna hate, you know, because Disney bad.

[@mmo5366]

Imagine they made a series about Plagueis and they mucked it up so badly no one knew it and everyone lost interest and they cancelled having only shown his hand. 😂😂😂

[@miamijim5964]

I'm not gonna lie.. I didn't hate the show.. I kind of liked it.... I didn't read into it what all the haters did.

[@Satellaview1889]

The Acolyte may have been messy, but it was at least trying to do something new. But “newness” hardly matters when viewership plummets to record lows, and that money is doing the talking. Regardless, it is a shame it both turned out poorly, and won’t be given the chance to shape up.

[@wojtekreliga3881]

Is making Jedi at the push the bad guys and making Siths the good guys what you described as "something new"?

[@Intranetusa]

Acolyte tried to do something new but was really bad. Andor tried to do something new and was really good.

[@brandoncoradi9557]

@@Intranetusaexactly this, the writing disparity between the 2 is insane

[@Adam-xs4eo]

didnt hate the show. wouldnt hate it coming back. but definitely needs someone else at the helm and writing it.

[@brandoncoradi9557]

After watching the first 2 episodes I thought it had potential but god the writing was so bad that the rest of the season was pretty irredeemable

[@dl_supertroll]

I'll die on the hill that Darth Bortles carried the show

[@RorikH]

"Every time I had a problem, I threw a thermal detonator, and boom, right away, I had a different problem."

[@oldmandevdave]

Took me a minute. Qimir the "pre-successful" Sith.

[@AmongRevenants]

Give us two more seasons of the Acolyte. We'll all watch it for one reason or another.

[@danielkong6767]

Even though i loved the acolyte, im glad they didnt get the chance to butcher plageous in s2-3. They should however do a solo movie on plageous but only AFTER kennedy has retired. Pandering wouldnt do any movie justice.

[@Owen_Rubix]

People are so stupid and pointlessly hateful. I wanted a season 2.

[@smithynoir9980]

Yeah, everyone else is hateful, that's the only reason it failed. /s

[@Owen_Rubix]

@ The second season is where it would’ve picked up. What did you not like about it? It started out slow, but it was a lot better than Ahsoka.

[@Zinovad]

How dare people dislike poorly made movies, what a bunch of haters

[@saviletotorres143]

@@Owen_Rubix The ending felt very forced.

[@MPedich]

I liked it more than not and at least it was sth new. I'd watch a second season.

[@gramthefan1.051]

Promising!

[@MandoGamer157]

STAY CANCELED, IT SUCKS

[@dorrito]

Even just looking at it now, i forgot how fan fic it comes off as.

[@legomaster9190]

Without fully seeing the whole show, I think one main issue is that they spent too much time in this "first season" with, I dunno, build up? It didn't advance enough and now hearing about things such as this one, that if a second season were ever made, we'd learn more about backstories etc., in my opinion some of these things should have been now in the "first season". The other part that bugs me is how the Jedi in the show were so... awful? We are talking about space wizards who have been training their whole lives, albeit perhaps not to encounter a Dark Side user for they were supposed to be extint (though I'm having hard time believing that there weren't Jedi who didn't become Dark Jedi, not full Sith but still fell to the temptations of the Dark Side). But that whole Jedi group was killed off just like that! This one, I think, falls under the category of continuity issues and lack of knolwedge about the universe as a whole. Do I want a second season? Honestly, I don't know. The start wasn't strong enough to warrant enough expetations for more. (I will leave out some of the other issues with the show as they've been discussed and talked about in many forms already.)

[@MerkFreeks]

At this point, unless Disney actually gets people who know and care about the star wars IP behind the controls of a show in that time period, I don't want anything new from the high republic era. Its a damn shame too because Qimir was the best part of that show, such wasted potential, I can see alot of the loose ends maybe being tied up in comics and such but not many people care about those by comparison. I just don't want legacy characters like Plagueis to be ruined by shit like what we got in the Acolyte. If they made a separate side show detailing some of the more interesting parts of what we got from the slop of the acolyte under different directors/writers then maybe.

[@Dgr__003]

I think the show is overhated it wasn’t amazing but it also wasn’t as bad as people make it to be I liked the lightsaber sequences in the show and qimir and sol carried the show

[@neondemon5137]

If only it didn't cost more than an asteroid full of rare earth metals and had an audience bigger than your average minecraft youtuber.

[@hafeezasif7932]

I think in 5-6 years they will continue it in comics or books since some people did like the show.

[@brx8r]

I haven't ever been moved by SW as much as I was with Osha and Mae's story. Whatever reasons they have to cancel are not artistic and not honourable.

[@LuisPerez-5]

What about their story "moved" you?

[@Intranetusa]

They canceled it because the show overall wasn't very good and didn't draw enough viewers. The good parts of the show couldn't make up for the much more numerous bad parts.

[@Lord_Imperion55]

personally i disagree with the show being canceled BUT i think they should have replaced daisy and found a new director because the show though i agree it SUCKS it still has potential especially because of Pleagius so it is kinda sad we wont see him again

[@warshield924]

This show wasn't perfect but it was far better than most of the others (Boba Fett, Obi Wan and definitely better than Mando season 3) and had the benefit of actually being just a little different than all the stuff set between Episode I and VII. So we can look forward to just a bunch of legacy characters and blatant fan service.

[@Mrz-bq2yb]

There's no way the show is coming back just from the budget alone.

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

Honestly they could have faithfully recreated the Plagueis novel and it would have been outstanding. Just because it’s “new and different” doesn’t mean it will be good or an automatic success. Give the fans what they want without over saturating the market and you will profit.

[@bavingeter423]

I’ve had the same thoufht. Literally just make the plagueis novel into a miniseries and jt would be superb

[@grantcriddle1326]

It was absolute garbage. What an embarrassment.

[@parallelfinn]

It actually had potential. Osha's actor was just god-awful.

[@Jabullz]

In no way was he good in this abomination of a show. He seems good because he was the only acceptable acting in the whole thing. It's like seeing a firefly as a beacon of light in the pits of black hell.

[@ZacAttack98]

nawww it aint comin back folks...the worst performing SW show isn't going to get greenlit for a season 2

[@BullseyeBob77]

If they can salvage his character and ditch everything else there’s a chance it could work.

[@Cymrotew]

AcolSHITE

[@peanutsthebard]

Hell no!

[@SoupSmith47]

Qimir wasnt half bad as an actor, unfortunately the script did not do him justice It's true the show might have tried to do something new, unfortunately, they really didnt try hard enough on the writing part. And in my opinion a second season after this seems hardly justified or deserved

[@LuisPerez-5]

The way they introduced Plagueis in the show was just horrible

[@slimcognito77]

Okay then they should have made a plagueis show, why lock that plot behind this mid reductive slop? Same thing with Kenobi, why is reva the vehicle for the plot. I don’t want those disconnected writers on another Star Wars project honestly.

[@jaieregilmore971]

Oh HELL NO I don’t trust writers anymore.

[@weago666]

Algorithm food!

[@tdkreturns-batcavepictures1224]

I suggest a reboot, not a second season.

[@nicholasmeola9326]

boo hoo smilo ren 🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻

[@TedSchoenling]

did people really lament? I don't believe it

[@Marvolo14]

I have no interest in Darth Smiley or his POS girlfriend. Season 1 turned Vernestra into a scumbag and ruined her in the High Republic books. I do not want the show to ruin Plagueis too. Its bad enough he was introduced as a peeping tom hiding in a cave like a hobo.

[@jibril2473]

“The acolyte cancellation has really rocked the Star Wars fandom” - said absolutely no one.

[@CAPME00]

At this point i quit Star Wars

[@DhavalBrahmbhatt2627]

It was stupid story line played by really bad actors. Jedi getting defeated so easily. Seriously?

[@spookydooky80]

This show was garbage.

[@unodos149]

I wish actors would stop giving so many opinions. As for the fans, the fans clearly didn't like it or tune in, thus the ratings were crap, thus it was canceled. Let's bury this corpse and stop talking about it like it was something more than it was lol