Star Wars Acolyte DOUBLES DOWN on Evil & Fan Hate

Disney Star Wars The Acolyte is Leslye Headland's Star Wars show for Disney+. Showcasing Amandla Stenberg as The Acolyte this Star Wars throws out good and evil for Jedi and Sith for the assumption of moral grey. What do the new trailers, marketing news and interviews tell us about The Acolyte? Is the Acolyte worth watching?
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Star Wars The Acolyte is nearing release with critic reviews on the way, but first we have the pleasure of articles and interviews. This really highlights and roundouts the themes of the show and who the characters are, not for the best. Did you want the sith to be sympathetic and the Jedi to be evil? Welcome to The Acolyte, where equality rules instead of justice. The cast are so proud they have done this while targeting the show at people who don't watch Star Wars instead of the male dominated fan base. And this targeting has the obvious side effect of being repulsive to the original viewer base. This show, should make for some good reviews. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

[@Karnasto]

This show is going to be god awful. They want the audience to hate the good guys instead now we hate everyone

[@----Jay----]

I'd like to coin a new Jedi term for this: Gray Pride.

[@JangoGod]

Wait....so at about 9:16 did you say that even if the pushback is based in racism and sexism, it DOESN'T MATTER because money....?! WOOOOOW....like I always say, let an ideologue rant long enough and they'll say the wrong part aloud. It's like I keep saying, you Culture Warrior fucks DO NOT rep the fandom. You can see the sociopolitical BS in this "content" and call it out for the hollow, empty shit on film that it is WITHOUT being a disgusting person...but you and yours don't make money that way; now that I think about it your comment kinda gives insight into you lot and the audience you've cultivated.😮

[@peterlang777]

poison

[@lawjef]

Here is the depth of their talent: gender isn't binary (in their very aggressive opinion) sp nothing can be binary: good evil, smart stoopid, talented representative. That is the depth of every story. No binary here.

[@jackroberts6938]

"Her moral compass doesn't align with the rest of the world around her." So she doesn't know North from South, and she's utterly lost.

[@Zanatos42]

That's also how you would usually describe a villain's moral compass.

[@KIA130123]

"From my point of view, the Jedi are evil!" "Well, then you are lost!"

[@mbob4337]

@@KIA130123 If the Jedi in question killed someone for no reason. Not involving defense, or protection. Than they would stop being Jedi and would be classified evil. Maybe not Sith automatically. But evil, yes.

[@Daishi18]

​@@mbob4337 That kind of action is a direct step towards the dark side of the force, and if discovered by the order, would warrant being casted out from it inmidiately.

[@odojang]

Yep, that is the definition of a psychopath in general and a sociopath in particular. Only narcissists will try to convince you such a character can be a truly moral person.

[@oraclejams]

It's amazingly absurd how these people who have no clue nor cared about Star Wars acts like they know more about the franchise than the very fans that lived in it.

[@MikeTheD]

Right. They're absurd people for sure, and all about assembling like minds, which I guess Hollywood has done post-metoo. Lots of changes happened then, and have happened since. They're just unworkable people with "normal" adults who even just talk normally. Almost everything I heard in this was just absurd charlatans.

[@FlorisDVijfde]

This is what the left does. They pillage and change things according to their own dogma. In their version of 1984 the Ministry of Truth is benevolent.

[@MrCovi2955]

"She doesn't identify as sith" You know, most murderers don't identify as murderers, but that's what they are.

[@reginaphalange9417]

"reality is offensive"

[@dontworrybout2664]

And men don’t identify as women unless they have issues of the head variety.

[@AverageJoe483]

I guess it’s like “ gender fluidity “. “ force fluidity “🙄

[@richedwards159]

Unpopular fact: Anikin was morally justified in killing the younglings

[@mikebalentine]

Did you ever hear the theory that the galaxy was run better under the empire than the republic? The republic had widespread slavery and crime compared to the empire that abolished slavery and was well policed.

[@thomasjefferson9310]

Leslie "I ate lunch in the bathroom", while hearing women scream in the room were weinstein was coaching them on the couch --> sick

[@hrdley911]

So, Lesbian Headlamp did nothing to stop SA? Grey area morals indeed. Note: Another youtuber came up with her new name. 😅

[@rageagaintstheNWO]

@@hrdley911 She probably had a pretty good idea what was going on, like a lot of people around Weinpig.

[@customsongmaker]

​@@rageagaintstheNWO and now she's bragging about hiring an actress for this show after she slept with her

[@jeidafei1165]

"There is no good or evil. There is only power," is lifted verbatim from Lord Voldemort XD.

[@rawhead3752]

No one is surprised the personal assistant of Harvey, who most likely fed him victims, identified as Sith.

[@ThespianPrince13]

Someone never read Darth Plagueis or Darth Bane series, books clearly written from the point of view of the Sith. None of that cheesy morality lessons.

[@frankkastanza1904]

The rule of two

[@customsongmaker]

Well she's sleeping with one of the actresses who she hired for this show

[@jeniferclemente1252]

All I hear from them is “it’s not about good and evil. It’s about being evil”

[@ambidexter2017]

This would be not bad, actually. A well-told story from the point of view of an objectively evil person has value of its own. That's why a lot of people enjoy Stephen King or Bret Ellis, or Nabokov's "Lolita" for this matter. But I fear it's not what we are getting here.

[@jeniferclemente1252]

@@ambidexter2017 of course not. Any search for “Power” is always evil cuz they want control over the empire. It’s like “they won’t accept me? Fine, I’ll just take over the world and make them accept me while building my own army” Disney isn’t subtle in that. The proof is in the other series that they’ve done only featuring around female characters” who apparently can be made up out of nowhere for their own virtue signaling (aka Activism…)🤦‍♀️

[@Ryan91487]

​@@ambidexter2017More or less, problem is that most of these dinguses writing media these days have their heads so far up their asses ideologically, they cannot make anything entertaining.

[@aahzmandiaz2767]

That is what a villain will say.

[@alexandergreene461]

My friend put it quite well: Good acts are those that are self sacrificing, Evil acts are selfish ones. What about, wanting power and wanting to use power, isn’t selfish lmao

[@DeltaXK144]

“Hmm maybe the people that killed a bunch of children were just misunderstood you guys” -Disney

[@mattmurphy7030]

Good and bad is in the eye of the beholder obviously

[@totomen666]

Don't call them terrorist's - DO BETTER

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

“Guys, think about this: maybe blowing up Alderan and betraying the terms of our deal ISN’T an evil thing.” -Disney

[@DesertRat2001]

See also: Cruella and Maleficent

[@4lackofbetter]

But they put the lines "May the force be with you." And "I have a bad feeling about this." That makes up for a lousy story and characters right. *Crickets*

[@midlifelab]

“ ‘Anakin’ just killed the whole Death Star! How many died on that?” Considerably fewer than died when Alderaan was destroyed by the Empire using the death star! The gaslighting by activist adult pretenders is spectacular!

[@4lackofbetter]

Please tell me he just misspoke? I mean I once said to beat a boss in a game I needed to move his learn set. If he thought Anakin blew up the death star, one of the most iconic moments in the series, he should not be in charge of anything Star Wars.

[@sbielec30]

Luke blew up the Death Star… did I miss something?

[@4lackofbetter]

​@@sbielec30 Yeah it was Luke. The fact the guy doesn't even know that much means he knows practically nothing and shouldn't be in charge of anything.

[@midlifelab]

@@4lackofbetter If he did misspeak, he did so twice!

[@johnb2422]

@@4lackofbetter is he in charge or is he one of the actors?

[@TheWaterdog6]

It's quite a phenomenon. When Chernobyl happened most people left, moved far away, maybe talked about it in hushed whispers or just died. But Starwars is different. The Geiger counter is clicking like it is writing a 'last will' in Morse code at 300 WPM and fans still poke around saying "There is still some good somewhere, maybe this new area will be good." as they cough up a little blood.

[@Zigzorark]

*Did you know that* Making the villains the hero’s, make the bad good, make the evil heroic. You know who else tries to do that? Every single movie villain ever. *Now you know*

[@mikeydflyingtoaster]

But War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. Life will be so much easier when you accept this

[@ultrademigod]

Not just movie villains, real life villains do that as well.

[@culteducube4108]

@@mikeydflyingtoaster And Harvey Weinstein assistant heard nothing wrong, saw nothing wrong and did nothing wrong

[@zuzoscorner]

Double plus ungood

[@mikeydflyingtoaster]

@@zuzoscorner You're an unperson... Err, I mean you're not! I mean you never even existed! Crap! Vaporisation for me it is then

[@GloriousRAT]

Kathleen Kennedy, "What she (Leslye Headland) lacked in talent (and experience) she made up for with her narrow minded activism and our shared desire to destroy everything that George Lucas loves."

[@Steel-101]

You know these writers from Star Wars are making me think of that one Bible verse. It goes like this. [Isaiah 5:20] “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Yup this verse pretty much describes Disney/Lucasfilm. That company is just ignoring the basics when it comes to good vs evil

[@antoniomargallo5317]

Nah, it's not by fault but by design. It's not an accident, it's a celebration of evil and it's deities. Take a look at Maleficent, the girl does evil and it's taken as good, the man does good deeds but it's displayed to us as evil. I hate that movie with every fiber of my being, it's the most disgusting piece of ... whatever I ever saw. The pebble from her river and his iron finger ring, I mean ... and why she first goes on and gives a curse to a baby, couldn't she just go for her wings, like she did the second time she went there. And cutting her wings was a gesture of love, altruistic love if any. It's insanity, I've had girls screaming at me because of Maleficent and my deconstruction of it.

[@IstariAzul777]

I took a screenshot of that. Beautiful

[@Blodhelm]

Reminds me of a part of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. When describing Yuan Shao, a regional governor/warlord without a clue, he was said to always do whatever was suggested to him last and there is a part about how despite his army being huge, the worthy and diligent were punished while the craven, flamboyant and greedy were rewarded. Yuan Shao also displayed a trait the famous strategist Zhuge Liang considered a telltale sign of a bad leader, caring far too much about his grand uniform and appearances, so someone in a fancy outfit with a fancy title would immediately gain his trust over officers with dirt on their clothes and armor from actually being in the field. It didn't take long for him to lose to Cao Cao's army about 1/15th the size of his. Even after he died, his rotten sons fought each other over their inheritance rather than their common enemy. Yuan Shao's family had held the highest office in the Han Dynasty for 6 generations and it all went to hell because he was vain and didn't understand the basics.

[@IstariAzul777]

I also remember in black panther 2 when shuriri and michonne go on a literal cop murder spree with none showing even the faintest concern and film clearly expecting viewers to cheer in a blm f the po po kinda outburst It’s inverted morality and I definitely know it’s on purpose

[@Steel-101]

@@antoniomargallo5317 you mean the one with Angela Jolee? Truth be told, I’ve never seen that and I never cared to lol 😂. I do remember seeing Jeremy Jahns review it and he mentioned that it was a bit mediocre if I recall correctly. However, your text really confirms my suspicions about that movie. Yup it sounds terrible.

[@justin1730]

I am not surprised that Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant believes that good and evil are the same thing. I can't help but wonder how many young women she served up to her boss.

[@Pegaseus]

“I’ve always been dark-sided.”

[@MrPonytron]

RIP Star Wars 1977- 2012 Also, Headland admitting to wanting to be a Sith is very telling since she's one of those people who don't care about anyone but themselves

[@johncaldwell4709]

I wont ever watch the acolyte but disparu tearing the show to pieces... yeah count me in for that! 😂

[@Tony_409]

Out of curiosity, what is your favorite series he ripped to pieces? I like watching him react to Robyn Hood

[@IstariAzul777]

Same!

[@Slothful_Healing]

I've had so much fun watching Velma get ripped to shreds that I actually want a season 3.

[@DarkSun123456789]

@@Tony_409 With you on that, mainly because the show was so utterly stereotypical with its cast and they didn't even realize they made a joke of themselves. And ofc that weird Director X dude.

[@HammerHeart3229]

I always look forward more to people like Disparu tearing apart shows like this. You can guarantee it's gonna be far more entertaining then the actual show itself! 😂

[@go_rilla262]

"Look at me, I'm the Harvey now." - Leslie Headland

[@YouscaremeJeremy]

Disney never ceases to amaze me. Taking my favorite childhood franchise and turning it into something I can’t stand and roll my eyes at every time I hear it mentioned.

[@noobie1890]

*”But, it’s Star Wars derrrr”* Is about the most common response (exaggerated) I get when I tell co-workers that I don’t bother with any “Star Wars” or Marvel entertainment. It’s all hot trash and they’re too gullible and trendy to understand

[@sn0_]

shows exactly the type of person harvey was looking for his assistant. a soulless evil vessel

[@Keeki95]

Not only does he not know Luke from Anakin, but doesn't comprehend that it is morally acceptable to kill an enemy army that destroyed an entire planet of civillians.

[@ptonpc]

Yep.

[@Chilling_Chilling]

KUNTleen Kennedy: Good. Good. Let the *affirmative action* flow through you! Shadow Man: So, Anakin blew up the Death Star that one time 🤓

[@Darkington]

Alternatively, he's confusing the Death Star with the Droid satellite station Anakin destroyed in Phantom Menace, which is equally lacking in moral complication as all the combatants were robots.

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

@@Darkington Aside from all of the Neimoidians that were on those ships. Yes. (But I can't blame you for forgetting that they existed.)

[@strategicperson95]

​@@Unethical.Dodgson even with them remembered, they were the ones ordering the droids to attack, imprison and starve the people of Naboo after invading. What the show runners are doing is on par to saying, "you shouldn't be angry at Mr. Gestapo and his small force of SS units brutalizing anyone that opposed the State."

[@UncensoredScion]

really freaks me the hell out how absolutely broken their minds are by using quotes from Wizard Satan as protagonists and we're meant to side with them.

[@associatealpha1166]

evil is glorified, celebrated and praised - goodness is mocked and shamed

[@abdieljove2011]

@AnoneemusNoename Pretty sure Voldemort said there was no good and evil, only power.

[@UncensoredScion]

@AnoneemusNoename In the movies it was "there is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it" and a very similar one in the books but it was said by Quirrell,

[@MikeTheD]

This looks totally insane for real. Wild video

[@ThespianPrince13]

Someone never read Darth Plagueis or Darth Bane series, books clearly written from the point of view of the Sith. None of that cheesy morality lessons.

[@Thagrynor]

I absolutely cannot wait for The Acolyte to drop. Disparu eviscerating it on an episode by episode basis will be some of the best entertainment of the summer. It cannot come out soon enough, imo.

[@MikeTheD]

It's certainly gonna be the "best" one yet, on that score. I think it'll be so extra, because between the lines, you can tell they're taking themselves so seriously about this. But this was the most detail I've heard yet about it, and sounds truly insane lol. People who talk this way, it just has to be awful and that's near-science at this point. All the gobblygook in full overdrive here, confirmed.

[@sba8710]

Yes Velma is over. He’s reviews are hilarious.

[@-taz-]

I don't think there can be anything better than Disparu making fun of Disney Willow. That was pure comedy gold.

[@sonicinsights]

Exactly, cant wait for The Acolyte series so I can watch it via Disparu. Pure alchemy turning $*it into mithril silver.

[@THX1138JJT]

Either you are a bit slow and mainly masochistic, a high school drop-out trapped in your mom's basement OR a shill trying to manufacture an audience interested in a cage match between bat-shit stupid & bat-shit crazy. I can't make up my mind. Please clarify.

[@trentoncarr]

One of my recent realizations has been how much more I can enjoy watching this show vicariously, through you.

[@MINKIN2]

"I had no friends, I had to eat lunch in the bathroom" That was when she was working for her last boss.

[@rageagaintstheNWO]

Out of the toilet?

[@HoundMonkey]

2:35 so the new slogan for Star Wars is "The Force is Non-Binary" 11:53 every villain sees themselves as the hero of their own story.

[@IstariAzul777]

Non-binary is just stupid. All these clapping seals and parrots just mimicking gibberish they’ve heard yet have no real understanding of or insight into Leslye IS the acolyte n the power she craved and took was Harvey’s Can’t wait till the inevitable lizzo banana 🍌 accusations start flying around I’m pretty sure Kathy has power due to blackmail and imagine leslye does too. But somewhere out there are more evil people plotting to take out leslye and kk .. coveting their power

[@-taz-]

Haha -- it even goes against what Lucas was saying in the 70's, that he thought people were tired of movies about good and evil all falling into a gray area. He wanted to make it clear who the good and bad guys were, again, like in the old serials.

[@IstariAzul777]

@@-taz- similar to tolkein. Good vs evil with traditional archetypes that are as universal as possible. I think the eta of subverting expectations is over. I think of Game of Thrones as an example of a successful subversive fantasy that focuses on the gray area.. I think for that to work things must’ve more mature and deal with realities we as humans deal with. I could see how such an exploration Could work… but with Disney everything must be dumbed down to a sorta 3rd grade level of intelligence yet pack d chock full of hollow buzzwords and ideologies that never had anything to do with Star Wars I’ve come to think IPs should not be sellable and should die with the creator This entire practice erodes creativity and just doesn’t work. Well it does when r respect and admiration are the top priority but somehow, despite losing god only knows how many billions, they keep doing it Clearly on purpose and the big WHY is likely far more disturbing than the quarrels n divisiveness they cause

[@ThespianPrince13]

@@-taz-The same George Lucas who said the SAME exact thing when he said even Sidious himself believed he was the good guy bringing peace to the galaxy?

[@-taz-]

@@ThespianPrince13 George Lucas himself is not so logical or consistent. He's on the emotional side. But I think he's still consistent in this aspect. No typical viewer has any question of whether Sideous is evil. In fact, I bet any random view can accurately guess whether some character is good or evil just by looking at any random frame from the movie.

[@bradsmith9526]

Evil isnt evil if you dont feel evil... Good message Disney

[@davidwilliams4837]

Great comment. It's intentional.

[@4lackofbetter]

Also known as being a sociopath.

[@evenindeathistillserve760]

Nothing new, “how you feel” crap is literally the logic at the core of Woke BS like a pretend woman is a woman if he feels like it, a person is genderless if they feel like it, man can go into female private places because he feels like it, etc.

[@KosmoRedRev]

In good old days such a person would call a psychopath

[@LEA-4America]

It's all about their feelings, isn't it? That's all that matters in the entire world. Now they can admire themselves for years to come by watching their own film.

[@TheDapperDragon]

'Theres room for those who don't fit the light side/dark side binary.' Yeah, they're called the grey jedi, famed members including Qai-gon and Jolee Bindu

[@lingricen8077]

“A long time ago in a Galaxy far far away…. …Jedi high school!” Im out.

[@----Jay----]

The not good or bad power quote is lifted from VOLDEMORT. F*cking Voldemort!

[@Steezynuggets69]

😞🔫

[@edwxx20001]

Voldemort wasn't that bad! he wanted change, harry won and nothing changed, biggity racism and the peerage remained intact. Voldemort wanted a better world, run by him, and ruled by wizards. is that so bad?

[@markbenand]

@@edwxx20001 Considering he saw muggles the same way the nazis saw the jews in world war II and had similar sentiments and leanings when it came to how to handle the muggles.....FUCKING YES HE WAS THAT BAD!!

[@SquallLionhart409]

@@markbenand You've really fallen hard for that Dumbledore propaganda, haven't you.

[@jeremytitus9519]

@@SquallLionhart409 “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for wizard children” _Dumbledore, probably_

[@iratequaker]

It amazes me that someone involved in a Star Wars project would have the audacity to say "Anakin blew up the Death Star". When? Where was I when this happened? Luke blew up the first one while Wedge and Lando blew up the second. I have a bad feeling about this...

[@ArmyWolves]

I remember young Anakin flew an aircraft and blew up something in *The Phantom Menace* and helped save the day ... But it wasn't a deathstar. It's been so many years so my memory may be fizzy so I stand to be corrected.

[@janeyrevanescence12]

@@ArmyWolvesyeah, he blew up the mothership used by the Trade Federation to control the droids, ending the Battle of Naboo in the favor of the good guys.

[@MediumRareOpinions]

@@ArmyWolves and even that was largely thanks to R2 D2. Anakin wasn't exactly ace Pilot during that sequence.

[@mattnar3865]

@@MediumRareOpinions He was a bit clunky until he got the hang of it which didn't take long, literally just pressing buttons until he knows what does what then he's good to go.

[@deathxknightx666]

Literally, that interview had me dying. Anakin destroyed a Death Star and killed millions of totally innocent fascist oppressors who definitely weren’t in the process of ending whole planets? Well for one, wrong name, might’ve been why the girl next to him kept begging him to “shut up, please shut up.” For two; that was not an example for why evil acts can be seen as good, since that’s essentially what he was trying to defend. The Death Star and it occupants were committing atrocities and literally ending billions and billions of lives. It’s safe to say that that was a battle against true evil, and the true good guys won against stacked odds mostly because every great villain (these idiots making these movies included) are so grandiose they can’t see a flaw if it fell and shattered their foot.

[@oskar6661]

'It's not about good and evil...it's about justifying evil.'

[@alkebabish]

That's the agenda behind all this

[@mpaice]

I can't wait for your reviews Disparu!

[@GoblinKnightLeo]

It's always fascinating to listen to interviewers talk about an IP they aren't familiar with and don't understand to an actor/producer/etc who is involved in an IP they _also_ aren't familiar with and don't understand. What you end up with is a bunch of vague questions and answers that don't explain anything - and the occasional gem (Anakin blew up the Death Star).

[@werdahd9166]

I’m a woman and I love Starwars. If they seriously think we want whatever this is they are terribly mistaken.

[@dendrien]

i mean. can we even call it Star Wars at this point? id like to call it Rainbow-dash in space. the new trilogy alone was, well... can we call it Star Wars? i sure cannot

[@4lackofbetter]

That's because this isn't Star Wars sprinkled with diversity, this is Activism sprinkled with Star Wars.

[@WordBearer48]

You are unfortunately a minority

[@steveouk90126]

Men spend 40 years building up a property with worldwide appeal based on universal concepts like courage, choosing the difficult path, devotion to principles, and personal sacrifice for the greater good. Women take it over and everything in the galaxy becomes about her personal angst regarding whether she's being respected as the glorious queen she believes herself to be.

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

That describes all on entertainment really.

[@shen5533]

Makes you realise why mankind took that long to give them any kind of right beyond taking care of chlldren and cooking.

[@steveouk90126]

@@shen5533 Rome didn't fall because of homosexuality or Christianity. It fell because it gave women authority without accountability.

[@jeffersonadams8711]

@@shen5533 My thoughts exactly. Maybe societies were matriarchies in pre-recorded history and, after a while, things got so screwed up that the men forcefully took over and abolished women's rights for the good of everyone? Then, "coincidentally", flourishing civilizations came into being.

[@samblack5313]

Weaponised narcissism.

[@CanadianPale]

I'm watching _My Hero Academia_ right now and one of the things that I'm really growing to appreciate about it is how it shows people who rail against society's rules "keeping them down" to be malignant narcissists, psychopaths and would-be tyrants.

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

Yea. Because societal norms and laws ARE suppressing tyrrants, narcissists, and the morally corrupt. Just like here in the States, your first clue about those that have a tyrranical bent is their hatred of the 2A.

[@dbsommers1]

It suffers from mustache twirling bad guys. I honestly liked the older villain with the kid sidekick who used his low power abilities so well. Great backstory and character.

[@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845]

The Qurik Liberation Front confused me because people with Quriks are 80% of the population

[@CanadianPale]

@@dbsommers1 moustache-rwirling bad guys are appropriate for the setting.

[@CanadianPale]

@@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845 by law, a lot of people aren't allowed to use their powers freely, though. They have to undergo tests and exams, obtain licenses, etc, etc.

[@Jessica_Roth]

"Anakin [actually Luke] killed a whole Death Star [the "Death Star" was not an actual star, part of a living ecosystem; it was a mechanical construct]. How many people died on that?" Far fewer than died on the *actual planets* (such as Alderaan) whose extermination was the Death Star's *specific purpose* . A few thousand beings died after *they had already killed millions* and planned on killing millions and millions more. "Grey area" is the stupidest thing ever to try in a drama, because the point of drama is that things happen. Significant things, which are specifically defined. A neurotic murders his mother and then a lot of other women who remind him of his mother, until he is caught. A crew of heroic Star Fleet officers travels through time to prevent the extinction of whales. A man who thinks Brad Pitt is talking to him discovers he's having a psychotic episode. An old man dies, and reporters discover his life history. A cop discovers the secret behind a miraculous new food source. An astronaut lands on a planet dominated by evolved apes. These are called "plots". They make logical sense. The Sith being harmless lesbians of color does not make sense, as it goes against every bit of characterization we have seen in this entire franchise. FFS.

[@frankhaunter4291]

Now I can't get out of my head image of Dart Vader hammering a Death Star reactor: "Those incompetent Rebels, if you want something destroyed properly, destroy it yourself!'

[@0giwan]

"My belief is that storytelling should be representative of all people." OK, so then, the alphabet people will be like, 1% or 2% of characters? Y e a h h h didn't think so.

[@imjustvi6279]

Depends on which type of alphabet soup they're trying to include, gay people are about 5% I think, and I think bi people are about 10%. I'd actually commend them if they did it accurately, but they ain't gonna. I guess we're in the same boat here.

[@charlesblackman7491]

As a 75 year old man who has a young man saw the original 3 star wars movies as science fantasy adventure with good that was unapologetically good and evil that was loving crafted as evil , I could never imagine this politically inspired madness being inflicted on this enormously profitable franchise. To borrow some baseball terms Disparu , your depressing through analysis of this incomprehensible insanity touches all the bases and hits a grand slam. Keep up the good work.

[@lecarra7505]

"I'm a witch coven, hear me roar! ...as I cry..." LMAO :D

[@DatGuyGlitch]

Do you remember when force users had to basically be samurai? These beings which could wield certain abilities if trained had the capacity to truly become evil if they didn't keep their emotions in check. Now it's just a grey area

[@paulappleton9666]

Sweet merciful hell, just listening to the "actors" giving an interview makes me want to drink heavily.

[@user-zq6sz2cr6g]

And the interviewer is as professional as they are.

[@antoniomargallo5317]

Perhaps some ... Budweiser Light? Hehehehe. More like poison, those people are insufferable.

[@StarStuff.]

​@@user-zq6sz2cr6g have to match the energy... anything more would be too much for the "just turn your brain off" folks. Oh wait, now that I think about is there even anything to turn off...?

[@emberparadox458]

As stupid as this sounds, if the actors and directors of this crap would just stop doing interviews at all, the show might actually have a chance. As it stands, because of these interviews the entire series/movies are completely front-loaded with SJA DEI crap pre-blaming their very customers for why it's going to fail.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

Nah, it'll be fine 🍻

[@vpbr86]

They keep saying "Women Centered Show" when they REALLY mean "Lesbian man hating centered show". If they wanted to actually make a show that appeals to women they would have 90 minutes of Chris Hemsworth and Jason Mamoa running around shirtless doing manly, heroic things. I'd pay to watch that! 😂

[@LeXofLeviafan]

Smh my mind keeps stumbling over the "lesbian man" part 😂

[@monkeybusiness673]

As a guy, I'd watch that, too...Those guys are hot as hell, and I'm all for manly, heroic things done by badasses!. Throw Eric Skarsgard in and I'm taking a week off!

[@adamaccountname]

"Good, good, let the hate flow through you" Disney have fallen to the dark side

[@DocMicrowave]

Men will join us, or leave.

[@JKurayami]

To be fair, George did the samething with Lightsaber colors in the OT. Green looked better and stood out from the blue sky. However... because of prequels and extended lore, there are now reasons for colors.. Disney even retconed the reason for the colors themselves, and are now not giving any thought about it.

[@AstroTom]

"When ANAKIN blew up the Death Star..." Ah real Star Wars fans here

[@martinrosendahl9134]

Kathleen killed SW... gave up a long time ago but it's still sad to see things only getting worse.

[@Chilling_Chilling]

*KUNTleen Kennedy Aka: Darth Diversious Hirerr 😂

[@KirbyIsCute]

This is reminding me of Frollo from Disney's Hunchback where he believed himself to be the good guy. Even in his villain song, he starts of saying how much more righteous and how much above he is than the rest. Even though we the audience can tell he's clearly full of sh*t. Yet he still believes this of himself. It's going to be the same with The Acolyte, the villains will think they are the good guys and the audience won't be buying it. The big difference will be that the writers for Hunchback KNEW that Frollo was evil!

[@theunknowncommenter725]

You get my like for mentioning Frollo👍

[@animelytical8354]

"Anakin just killed-" Kids, of course, but he went bad. Though they did gove him some sort of redemptive moment, I guess. I can see it...kinda. "-a whole Death Star" Oh *LAWD.*

[@kanchokomancho1]

Trying to sell to someone you don't really know or care for, without asking what they need or like, while secretly aiming to change their mind, is like planting seeds in barren soil-it won't bear fruit.

[@Aikurisu]

To be fair, given the life Weinstein's former assistant has lived, it's not at all surprising her lightsaber would be red. Doubtful even Sidious would associate with her.

[@Isaac_5.56x45]

Star Wars 1977-2012

[@shadow7574WR]

Ooh, so everything that comes after is fan fiction... That explains a lot

[@shen5533]

The day it died was the day Lucas sold it to the Mouse.

[@weswolever7477]

Star Wars 1977-1983

[@Isaac_5.56x45]

@@weswolever7477 I ♥ the prequels,

[@Isaac_5.56x45]

@@shadow7574WR And they aren't even fans, just a bad rip off.

[@mercaius]

Unironically "I only read Batman for the villains!" Unironically, "From my point of view, it's the Jedi that are evil!"

[@albertbresca8904]

we need to see jar jar binks as a sith!!!!

[@ThespianPrince13]

Someone never read Darth Plagueis or Darth Bane series, books clearly written from the point of view of the Sith. None of that cheesy morality lessons.

[@acedelta12]

I mean...hear me out... Harley Quinn.

[@MediumRareOpinions]

@@acedelta12 stop that or you're going to horny jail. You can't fix her.

[@imjustvi6279]

@@acedelta12 YOU'RE GONNA HAVTA KILL JOKER FIRST LMAO WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO HELP YOU

[@ChristopherCopeland]

We have officially seen George Lucas’s vision of the prequels become manifest in reality: the objectively evil Empire has taken control and are now rewriting the narrative to try and convince us that they have “brought peace and justice to the galaxy” 😶🤯 I dare you to fight me on this

[@MissPerriwinkle]

the more the actors go out and publicize the thing, they more the public goes CRINGE...

[@runeritari3]

Tell me you havent watched star wars without telling me you havent watched star wars.

[@donnym3415]

I threw up in a movie theater

[@Fei_PL]

"I rili kare about lgquitibu+ and I was born 2005"

[@atasteofreality609]

You don’t have to watch or know anything about Star Wars to be an actor in it that said this guy is a complete dip shit for what he said

[@deviousdelibird]

This comment is as explosive as when Anakin blew up the Death Star!

[@fujinmage8201]

i saw this movie about a guy who gets a sword made of light

[@kenc9236]

Star Wars died many years ago.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

2012

[@trixmania]

My teen would say this as well... its pointless now, they destroyed it

[@eternalhalloween1]

I didn't even acknowledge the abominable sequel trilogy.

[@darrenmays2036]

They’re still desecrating its corpse.

[@migzydrift]

As soon as George signed that Disney contract

[@SIlverbullet108]

I think those folks are asking us to go touch grass. I'll follow their suggestion.

[@stubbyseventhree2963]

Its all right they ain't making these shows for You ..... or Me, or anyone else that used to care about any of these IP's. We can all go touch grass as far as they are concerned, but can we leave our wallets with them on the way out

"I sense something dark..." "That's rayciss!! Asian jedi doing a rayciss!!"

[@noyfb5580]

Disparu has always the best snark while hitting the point. Bravo, Sir!

[@Henry-kz4gn]

"i mean how many people died on the big military death ray machine where they aimed to massacre entire planets and rule the galaxy with terror? lmfao, its all areas of grey"

[@edwxx20001]

war, war never changes.

[@thePsiMatrix]

Death Star compliment ~2 million Aldaraan population ~2.8billion Geonosis population ~100billion "From my point of view the Jedi are evil!"

[@edwxx20001]

@@thePsiMatrix bugs arent people! For Democracy!

[@cleverman383]

It hadn't been finished being built yet! Most of those people were contractors!

[@jacquelineking5783]

That would have been the second Death Star. As the guy was mistaking Anakin for Luke I assume that he was talking about the first Death Star.

[@georgedavidson957]

the girl in the green top was on the ball ... she knew how cringe that interview was

[@emberparadox458]

Dafne Keen, you might remember her as Laura (Wolverine's "daughter" from Logan).

[@shen5533]

Poor girl

[@rogerallen6644]

They think attacking fans will shame them into watching because in the shallow world of Hollywood, you’re told what to believe. Integrity isn’t part of the equation. They’re finding out how wrong they are.

[@dendrien]

it is more like these people has never had a job in their entire life and likely never experienced reality nor did or worked any form of buisness. consider that the first thing you learn in sale and marketing. is that you never shame the costumer. even if the case you dislike them you stay quiet about it. you dont sell by annoy or anger a potential costumer.

[@BlackEcology]

Why you still watching corny kids shows then? Quit acting like you're some intellectual critiquing shitty Dominos Pizza fantasy shows.

[@LongLiveLiberty]

(5:15) “Oh how would like to look in this photograph? Evil!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@RoddHarding]

Leslie, sitting, pleased and happy that everyone is saying the right things that are expected of them.

[@DJWHITE_]

Disney Star Wars 2024: ‘Anakin just killed a whole Death Star…’

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

To be fair, sometimes I mix up a room full of kids and a battle station full of enemy combatants too.

[@DJWHITE_]

@@chazzitz-wh4ly Happens all the time.

[@Carcerian]

If she wanted to write about personal experience, she would be writing about hunting down dancer girls for Jabba the Hutt...

[@victormera-b2v]

That's where we say " don't argue with fools they bring you down to their level "😢

[@srksii]

Dude, you could spin talk to godfather and cement shoes and those actors would still think its star wars chat...

[@colinbastow1057]

Listening to stories about Modern Star Wars is so painful 😮😮😮

[@Steezynuggets69]

and cringe

[@theunknowncommenter725]

It's a fantastic comedy to listen to. For years it was said that Star Wars would be better off without George Lucas. And well, you see the results of that.

[@eddobh]

4:48 So the new "Star Wars" story is openly from the perspective of a sith... makes you wonder how well ir will ressonate with the fans.

[@matthewlinscott7055]

“That interviewer” is Perri Nemiroff, put some respect on her name!!! 😂

[@azathoth2679]

One of the reasons Star Wars was so popular in the 70s was the stark difference between the good guys and the bad guys. Movies with morally ambiguous characters had been the norm for years before.

[@theunknowncommenter725]

I remember a time when the only morally ambiguous characters in Star Wars were the bounty hunters. They were only the villains because they were hired by the villains to do their bidding.

[@ThespianPrince13]

Someone never read Darth Plagueis or Darth Bane series, books clearly written from the point of view of the Sith. None of that cheesy morality lessons.

[@azathoth2679]

@@ThespianPrince13 No. I didn't read those, however, I was a teenager when the first movie came out. It felt like lightning in a bottle; the exact right thing at the exact right time...very different from what the rest of the movie industry was putting out at the time. Simple good vs evil was unusual and powerful.

[@ThespianPrince13]

@@azathoth2679 Well that explains it. These stories have been done before. Nothing new. It’s the LGBT stuff that gets to people, not the fact that the story is through the narrative of the Sith

[@azathoth2679]

@@ThespianPrince13 perhaps I didn't fully understand your point since I've never read the books you referenced. Agreed! I would happily watch something from the standpoint of the Sith if it was well done and not drenched in Woke.

[@Frag-ile]

Been looking forward to this coming out for months now, can barely wait to watch the Disparu review series of the Acolyte.

[@315giants]

Leslie, a person who was a personal assistant to Epstein and more than likely did horrible things to other women, is now making a show where she turns evil people into morally gray characters. She does this because, in her head, she is trying to excuse the things she has done in her life by stating that people can do evil things due to the positions they are put in but can still be good at heart. The issue is that she could have just quit her job with Epstein and now wouldn’t have to twist and turn things into a pretzel to persuade herself that she’s a good person.

[@nimblehuman]

That is a great analysis. Real question is, how the F did she not only keep her job but get where she is now after serving the most reviled man in Hollywood? Something is not right here.

[@danielrozkuszka4992]

It was Weinstein, not epstein

[@gagatube]

And the question is why/how was she given hundreds of millions of dollars to salve her conscience?

[@TheanHooYew]

Perhaps Headlund gave good, err, service?

[@Oblithian]

I feel bad for the interviewers they seem to actually care about Star Wars and are faced with the antithesis of the fandom.

[@_kmCarter]

9:45 nothing gets past Disparu. Because THIS is the reason it is the way it is. 😫

[@ChristianIce]

I love how people are already divided in how bad or good is it, and how PC is it, and it's not even out yet :D

[@andrewmontague9682]

I think we need a Gilmore Girls remake where Lorelai is married and has a good relationship with her parents. She’s a homemaker who has a baby, which she absolutely refuses to give a male name, and the show reflects on her happiness in a traditional marriage where she looks to back her husband’s move into politics so they can get restrictions on guns lifted and abortion enforced more strictly. Or how about Sex and the City which is remade as a search for the perfect man to look after them? When Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte are four smart and dynamic New York-based women, come together they decide that the slurs they were in their youth was a bad choice and they settle down, abandoning their careers for motherhood with good strong men who look after them. Same energy as this BS.

[@googleifyouseekayu]

did i miss something, when did anakin blow up a death star?

[@moresnacksplease526]

Like the 7th or 8th pod racing scene, the one where he’s like “Now that’s what I call pod racing!” and then Morbs all over the place.

[@ultrademigod]

He didn't which is what makes that morons statement in a press interview so cringe

[@CaptiveEins]

Right before he blew up Star Killer Base

[@the1magageneral323]

It was Luke

[@johndunn1625]

The most charitable explanations I can think of are either when he blew up the Trade Federation control ship in TPM and the...person confused it for a death star on account of the fact that they're both big, ball shaped space objects that were blown up at the climax of their respective movie's final fight (because Lucas loves rhyming), or that it thinks that Vader tossing Palpatine down the shaft at the end of RotJ is what blew up the DS2. Either explanation though requires leaps in logic and am understanding of the setting that I refuse to believe that person possess

[@josephjackson4312]

"Power currupts, absolute power currupts absolutly" I believe that is the main drive of the rules of the jedi, to keep them from turning evil. When you can alter people's minds with the wave of a hand, or crush them by forming a fist, it would be too easy to turn evil and assert your will, your power over others. 16:16 It is basically unbelievable that a person with such powers could be anything but evil if they don't follow restrictive rules, so yeah, the power is something to be feared.

[@justinritchie282]

At this point the only thing that will save Star Wars is if the writers and directors and everyone involved in making a Star Wars production pretends like they either don't know or hates Star Wars but secretly makes tweaks to the script and stuff to fix it.

[@RexFuturi]

I already hate all the Utilitarianist ethics out there. This explosion of Relativist and Subjectivist ethics is sickening. We need to bring Deontology back to the mainstream.

[@Blodhelm]

This isn't even Utilitarianism, this is narcissism.

[@RexFuturi]

@@Blodhelm i didn't say it was. Not to be too rude, but if your reading comprehension were above 3rd grade level, you wouldn't have gotten that impression.

[@shen5533]

Everything is grey, there is no evil nor good, eat the bugs, own nothing and be happy, do not criticise, just consume and wait for the next product and understand how that is a good thing.

[@Bignuke87]

Its satanic

[@ThespianPrince13]

Someone never read Darth Plagueis or Darth Bane series, books clearly written from the point of view of the Sith. None of that cheesy morality lessons.

[@SugarFree91]

We're living in what should be a golden age for entertainment for nerds around the world, but instead its a dark age of entertainment...

[@dyllonbroyles5447]

“Bad and good in the eyes of the beholder” Anakin slaughtering children: Am I a fucking joke to you?

[@Br_pow]

After she said red, he should have said: "is it because you helped Harvy?"

[@davidaustin5622]

The Sith rejects modernity. The Sith embraces strength. They are canonically the very opposite of the DEI/ESG 'message' that Disney wants to push.

[@anzyroadside2374]

"... my daughter which is old enough" A Freudian slip there, shows how she views her own daughter as an object instead of as an individual person.

[@05dturner]

When she's old enough. I think you may have misheard.

[@NewsofPE]

would have been funny but she said "when she's old enough"

[@zKaltern]

"Always Two, there are." "What about those over there with the pink and purple lightsabers Master?" "Talk about them, we don't. Dark, light, there is. And grey." "Purple, there is not."

[@Hummelsbusch]

The problem with good people is usually that their manners get in the way to deal with sneaky, evil entities like Leslie Headland. That’s why it always has to be evil destroying itself before rules are established to counter it. It will get worse, before it gets better…

[@derikbradford3836]

"This is about power and who is allowed to use it." I think this is a projection of what the ones in charge are really trying to say.

[@Ashkihyena]

Personal assistant to a r apist by the way.

[@nuclearmedicineman6270]

She probably got his leftovers. Lots of crying young actresses in need of comforting.

[@DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro]

We know her predecessor was expected to act as his procurer of the night’s entertainment, so it’s for sure that she had something to do with his activities…

[@ΣπυρίδωνΚαραχρήστος]

And what do u think she is?Gay Boss to a movie surrounded by women

[@gokaury]

An acolyte, if you will...

[@ImminDragon]

The idea of force users who aren't Sith or Jedi is a real thing. Called "Gray Jedi," they walk the line between the light side and the dark side. Tends to be used to refer to any force user who isn't evil but isn't part of the Jedi order, but also for actual Jedi who defy the normal way of things (Qui-Gon was considered one by some members of the order.) Or maybe the "doesn't identify as Sith" character would be a "Dark Jedi." A Jedi who fell to the dark side without becoming an actual Sith. It's weird, though, that the people trying to manipulate the perception of this stuff aren't even aware of these ideas. If you wanted to redefine characters outside of the Jedi-Sith binary (that isn't a real thing) it would be useful to have *in universe* ideas to work with. An actual story about a character who could be gray or could be dark and where will they end up could genuinely be good, but not if it's made now!

[@rogerwagner6940]

Don't forget Count Dooku.

[@wolfmauler]

They didn't know that, because transmission trials never took place, before the product hit the market.

[@pittviscous]

Crushing sums it up cancelling my Disney subscription smh I saw Star Wars 13 times in the theaters and waited the 2 years with an extreme expectation and excitement between episodes‼️ These idiots have no idea what they’re doing. I truly hate Disney!

[@dudepool7530]

"What do you know about Star Wars." "Someone told me there were commercials for Space Balls once. I think." "Perfection!"

[@monkeybusiness673]

"You're character encourages individualism!" Like the Sith do? You know.."There is only passion!" Or like Lord Voldemort said: “There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.” That is a very Sith quote, I think.

[@Gorebash-lh4hq]

When you have the story line solely based around of ' it wasn't me it was my evil twin' ....... these executives actually green lit it, thinking it was a good idea .What planet are they on ?