The Acolyte Failed In Every Way A Show Can | Part 1

[@unitron2005]

We're at a point where I'm shocked that a horribble, horrible show actually go cancelled instead of getting 11 more seasons just to spite the public.

[@Blodhelm]

Obligatory reminder that Star Trek: Discovery got 5 terrible seasons.

[@whiteninji352]

The fact Rings of Power was continued and this wasn’t is rather telling on how bad this did, despite both being real bad with writing

[@SRMoore1178]

2:40 Don't know who James Friend is or what a DP of a show is but I'd say the Acolyte definitely DP'd the dead carcass that used to be Star Wars.

[@albatross4920]

You'd think they'd get a couple more seasons out of sheer clinging spite 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@gregowen2022]

Agreed. It's a massive good sign that these companies are tired of losing money on garbage. The cancelation is a win for the audience

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

The funniest thing this show did was make the two main characters fatherless black girls (raised by lesbians) where one grows up to be a vicious psychopathic murderer and the other is an unemployed dropout.

[@dragonmaster1360]

@LegendaryDorkKnight "An unemployed dropout" who turns into a vicious, psychopathic killer... Both of them are murderers at the end.

[@whiteninji352]

Yeah I’m not sure that was deliberate but yeah that’s some truly cringe subtext right there

[@CamOp3r4t3r]

It's just not very creative

[@icepicjoey]

@@LegendaryDorkKnight keeping sterotypes alive while trying to be the party of inclusiveness... the irony.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

The worst "storytelling" is when an incompetent, uneducated, narcissistic "writer" simply embeds themselves into every character and pretentiously placed plot point. It's obvious to anyone intelligent that LH and Didnay staff are projecting themselves onto the pages. Thus, into the film frames it all goes... and it's bloody pathetic and embarrassing. 🙄🤮🥱💩 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ -- Diamond Dragons (series)

[@Nitedawg1]

When Star Wars came out in 1977 I was about 13 years old. All the movies in the 70s were cynical, anti hero movies. If you believed in good values you were ridiculed in the movies. I ( and clearly many others) were sick of it. Then Star Wars came out. It was inspirational, elevating, positive, uplifting. It obviously struck a cord with many people; not just me. Now here we are again. I am 60. Everything is cynical, anti hero, and ridiculing of anyone who believes we should aspire to be good. I think it is time for a new Star Wars.

[@RoseBaggins]

It is that time.

[@kira-dk2mx]

If I had a lighter, I'd light it and raise it in your honor. That was put beautifully.

[@jspaingreene6350]

Amen to this! To put it a certain way: why did Disney invest in an "IP business opportunity" that is based on the motifs of the Hero's Journey (a la Joseph Campbell, literally) as a guide for living only to subvert and ridicule that very motif? There are plenty of cynical, subversive products out there... And I like some of them, not saying everything has to be innocent... But that's not the Star Wars "brand". Especially if you're looking for new audiences...

[@johannjohann6523]

And time for all the Woke people in America to move to Russia or North Korea where I'm sure they will be welcomed with open arms. Nobody should go Woke, because you are sure to go broke. That's why I think Russia came up with this "Woke Agenda" of Failure. And it was the Gays and Lesbians who droke (lol) the Russian Kool-Aid. That's a surprise. lol

[@michaelskipper3375]

The more things change, the more they stay the same

[@VOLUMEnightclub]

I’m not going to lie…watching people dissect the show has been my greatest joy of the summer

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

So many great KZbin creators ripping it to shreds each in their own unique way has been an absolute joy. Actually sorry there won't be a season 2 for people like Owen or Disparu to eviscerate.

[@octaviovaladaoferreirinhad2689]

Ever since Jodie Tuner Smith's infamous YAAAS YAAAS speech, I expected The Acolyte to become nothing more than material for KZbin content creators to play with, and I just like you I had a lot of fun watching them. Too bad the show has been cancelled indeed. The second season would be twice as fun...

[@shacharhaad6403]

George Lucas's statement about his movies being aimed at 12-year-olds is taken out of context, ignoring the point that he was making. The full quote is: "I wanted to make a kids' film that adults would enjoy. And if you really do it well, the kids understand more than you think they do, and the adults get the enjoyment out of it by reading into it."

[@RoseBaggins]

C. S. Lewis says something quite similar.

[@leviticusprime4904]

Man I love when quotes😊 are taken out of centect to justify shitty writing

[@somethinglikethat2176]

Shrek and golden age Simpsons comes to mind with that description.

[@cailin5301]

I feel like ATLA nails this concept

[@razgriz3711]

George also says in different interviews that 12-year-olds are much smarter than people give them credit for. He never thought he needed to talk down to kids, he knew they would understand more than anyone expected them to

[@ad-sd-vids5332]

You can split every line of dialogue into one of 4 categories - characters talking about their motivations or what they are thinking -characters saying things the audience already knows -characters saying things each other already know -lines that don’t mean anything but the writer thought it sounded cool

[@gregowen2022]

100%. This was some of the worst, most inefficient dialog I've seen

[@johni5355]

Leslie says it the greatest piece of art she's ever created, so presumably the second place goes to an outline tracing of her hand on a piece of A4 paper.

[@mikesmithz]

Lmao! Gold.

[@no.1spidey-fan182]

This is COMEDY GOLD🤣💀

[@kieragard]

the second greatest work was helping Weinstein blackmail all those actresses to sleep with him for years without him getting caught.

[@AC-hj9tv]

I've left greater pieces of art in the toilet 🚽

[@otsys77]

The funny thing is, I loved Russian Doll. That must have been mostly Natasha or any Poehler

[@GuiltlessGear]

>casually drops classic barbie lore ah, the perks of self confidence and a good relationship with your daughter

[@gmat4380]

I love when his dad side slips through 😂

[@SpectraVondergeist66]

Overall yes, however “The princess twins of legendale ” isn’t a barbie movie and I will not stand for the disrespect and spread of this misinformation. (this is a joke…mostly)

[@lcako1616]

He honestly is a clear example of a man of culture smh. The Princess and The Popstar is a Barbie classic.

[@goatlord51]

"Get in loser we're making a Star War!" This perfectly encapsulates this entire production.

[@ChaosMcCain]

Yes it does !

[@Halukos]

What is even worse about Yord being portrayed as an incompetent rule follower, is that if they had done what he wanted the outcomes would have probably been better for all the characters.

[@duncanlutz3698]

And Yord only dies because he lets OSHA, of all people, convince him to break safety regulations. You can't make this shit up. What was even the point of that? Yord is constantly giving Osha shit about regulations. This rigid adherence to protocol without being able to read the room/go with the flow is clearly presented as a character flaw. So when he finally sets this flaw aside and breaks protocol, instead of being a GOOD thing that marks this moment of character growth.... he's dead. Worse, OSHA returned just to make sure the bad guy survives, quite literally, stopping Sol from killing Smilo Ren. Which marks the second time Sol lets known jedi-murderer Smilo Ren go for stupid reasons. What is this writing!?

[@Sam-uz4iy]

"unalive" is not a young person phrase, its an anti youtube censorship phrase that got popular recently

[@JohnDoe-vm5rb]

Should call it youtube. They youtube themselves

[@ThatRandomEncounterGuy]

I first heard it when Deadpool was in an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man (which he intentionally said was because he was in a kids’ show and couldn’t use the word kill), but I don’t know if the word goes back any further than that.

[@schizzo8959]

It's also very stupid to hear or read.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

@@schizzo8959 It's simply a euphemism for "killing/death" that KZbin and TikTok content creators are forced to use lest they want the algorithms that scan the spoken audio to flag the video.

[@Squall17x]

You mean it's "Orwellian"

[@DSzaks]

You didn't even mention Osha's extreme face-heel turn from "You just murdered my friend" to "I'd tap that"

[@LembeckIsStaying]

There's whole genres of porny kindle books and fanfics that are full of that. My wife reads them. They are incredibly dumb......but she always wants to act out the sex scenes, so there's that.

[@swissarmyknight4306]

Okay, that sounds so stupid I want to watch the show now, just to bask in the shittiness.

[@TheOnlyTinMS3]

Can’t believe a two hour KZbin commentary video excites me more than the whole Disney+ show itself.

[@dragonmaster1360]

@TheOnlyTinMS3 I mean... That's been a LOT of shows and movies lately... Acolyte, Velma, Robyn Hood, The Marvels, Captain Marvel, Ant Man, etc... It's all crap, and the critiques are MUCH better, more well written, and far more entertaining.

[@danballe]

Precisely

[@danballe]

@@dragonmaster1360 I would like to hear Greg's thoughts on if this was worst or less bad than Velma. 🤔

[@Ladykyra101]

I have never seen this show, but I only watch the reaction channels. That's my new entertainment. 🤣

[@lordcaprisunthe2nd]

@@danballeVelma’s still much worse

[@Return_of_Godzillas_Revenge]

There's this story about Dave Filoni showing George Lucas a prototype of an episode of TCW. After it was over, George asked Filoni what he wanted to say with that episode, Filoni answered and George said something like "Well, then put that on-screen, because you're not gonna be there to explain it to the audience like you did to me". Whenever creators keep talking about what they wanted to say or show, I just keep wondering "then why not put that on the actual work?"

[@thisiswhatilike54]

“Show, don’t tell,” is a lost art, I swear

[@Bailonus]

Simple, they are not good writers. So they don't double check to make sure their desired message is even in their story. When that is the first thing you should check, if not while writing, when going over the first draft; after checking the grammar.

[@WeakestAvenger]

It's just crazy that the witch lady turned into a smoke monster and then tried to play it off like, "I was totally gonna let her go, idiot. Didn't the smoke monster tip you off to that?"

[@RoseBaggins]

Right??

[@MrAlcazar]

Also, how do you stab something made of smoke?!

[@hopegalaxy]

What triggered her to act this way?

[@falxblade1352]

​@@hopegalaxythe plot told her to commit suicide by space cop

[@DuneStone6816]

I love it when the inciting incident for the entire series has no motivation!

[@cgates2]

38:20 “This hole in the ground which, despite the presence of OSHA, doesn’t have any fall protection.” 😂😂😂 underrated

[@MrDj232]

She keeps comparing her show to movies that have nothing in common with her show. How does someone this media illiterate get to her position?

[@ErizotDread]

If I had to guess, probably by allowing a man she worked for to do horrible things to women. I'm assuming that's probably one way to get promoted, but I could be wrong. lol

[@ronnimm6456]

​@@ErizotDreadding, ding, ding

[@CamOp3r4t3r]

Gaslighting pitch meetings

[@AC-hj9tv]

Blowing dudes

[@Locksden]

Of course she's way out of her depth, but I think there's a partial "real world" answer: I think she genuinely believes there are meaningful parallels between the referenced shows/movies and Acolyte - partly because she doesn't understand the other shows, and partly because _she doesn't understand the show_ *she' _made._ So Dunning-Kruger, but the bad kind that the "actual score 10%, perceived score 60%" people have.

[@todderickson2435]

From day one, I was one billion percent certain that I would not watch one millisecond of this show, knowing that it would be painfully horrible beyond comprehension. After watching this glorious video, I realized that I grossly underestimated how horrible this piece of flying aardvark dung could actually be.

[@ErikDayne]

I still can’t believe a team of adults watched them shoot scenes where a stone temple burned down, a fire was burning in space, and people survived crash landing from space, and none of them said yeah this is physically impossible, we should stop.

[@christaylor7079]

We got rid of mansplaining and now we got flammable stone fortresses 🤷‍♂️

[@WelloBello]

If you’re going to Star Wars for realism you’re in the wrong business. But could they have not just made it wood to begin with?

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@WelloBelloYeah, but most of the movies at least didn't stray too far from reality and those details that did were at least consistent.

[@christaylor7079]

@@WelloBello there’s a difference between realism and believability. You can make a great story that violates reality, but ignoring believability is always detrimental to immersion in a story

[@Majima_Nowhere]

​​@@WelloBello Sure, but a story has to follow its own rules. Just because it's a story about laser swords and space magic doesn't mean that there are no rules and the writers can just make stuff up without explaining it.

[@whydidimakethis111]

Speaking of juxtaposing characters in different situations by overlaying them side-by-side in order to convey symbolism, the opening cutscenes of Halo 2 absolutely nail this concept. You have Master Chief (the player character) heading towards his awards ceremony while Marines and naval personnel applaud him in the background, and Sergeant Johnson chastises him for not "wearing something nice" because he's wearing his full suit of armor, helmet and all. Then it swaps to the Arbiter, his counterpart on the enemy faction, being escorted towards his place of public humiliation while aliens boo him in the background. While the Master Chief is going to be receiving a medal for valor due to his actions during the battle of Installation 04, the Arbiter then gets his armor stripped off and then "pinned" on the chest by a massive branding iron, due to his failures against the humans in the same battle. The human ceremony even gets interrupted before Master Chief can receive his medal by alien forces arriving at Earth. The dialogue in the scene is also incredible. Fuck, Halo 2 is so good.

[@gregowen2022]

I remember getting the steel case of that at midnight with a friend. We were beyond hyped, and when we went home and discovered that you play as The Arbiter, we absolutely lost it. Played until 8, when I had to head to class. What a time

[@b.c.102]

@@gregowen2022 Oh man, I remember that steelbook version! It was the one that even had the game manual written from the Covenant point of view.

[@Sorain1]

Hell, there's the wider parallel going on. Master Chief is being rewarded to keep up morale because humanity is losing, this was a victory, and they need some hope. The Arbiter is being humiliated because the Covenant is winning and they need someone to blame for this failure.

[@hatuletoh]

Everyone who signed the "save The Acolyte" online petition should have to watch this video, then allowed to make a public apology that will allow them to reenter society if they so choose.

[@desmondbrown2813]

Maybe put on a watch list too.

[@TibGabinius]

@@desmondbrown2813 rather a no-watch list. only supervised visual entertainment.

[@And-ur6ol]

I signed it. Why? Because i ❤ the acolyte. "How?" You ask? The acolyte is the most awful show i have ever seen. It is mindblowingly bad. And i love it for it. The acolyte is to me the greatest parody of modern shows i have ever seen. Is comedy genius (made by anything but a genius). It was so bad, i couldn't predict the next episode. And that doesn't happen to me normally. So i absolutely support Headland writing a season 2. The woman can't write for shit. Byt by god am I entertained. Also, the show breaks soo much lore, i frankly don't see it as Star Wars anymore than Spaceballs were :D

[@icepicjoey]

@@hatuletoh The only benefit of a season two would be the financial support it gives our favorite reviewers. It wont help their sanity though. Lol

[@mikerentiers]

The petition has hundreds of....er....just hundreds of signatures from dedicated fans.

[@joshuabaker67]

I love how salty all the fans of Star Wars have become. Disney really thought they could destroy our childhoods and we’d just take it.

[@LembeckIsStaying]

Exactly. They keep going on about "racist, sexist" etc but nah, that's not it. If I can't have it then you don't get to have your Twilight/Hunger Games ass version of Star Wars.

[@joshuabaker67]

@@LembeckIsStaying Exactly. Disney exists on “stollen valor.” They are all a bunch of narcissistic idiots who don’t know how to have fun and haven’t ever learned how to be creative in any meaningful measure. They’re standing on the shoulders of actual creative giants that have lefts many years prior to now. Sucks to suck.

[@DisturbedBroski]

The idea that the Jedi order didn't know about the twins is stupid because in the second flash back episode they told the council about the twins and the coven. The story never was able to keep itself straight.

[@gregowen2022]

Right? They brought up plot points and then forgot them immediately. Where was the continuity director?

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

This problem seems to affect a lot of "modern writing." Rings of power does it too. Did they not remember what they said in one episode or do they just not care that they're completely contradicting it in the next episode? Kind of off topic for this show, but the way characters make horribly selfish decisions that end in possibly thousands of deaths and widespread suffering - and the character does not take responsibility, and nobody holds them accountable. Sabine in "Ahsoka" and Guyladriel in ROP are 2 examples. 😡

[@samgoff5289]

Makes me wonder if they are just that bad at story telling or they just shrug and think people are too stupid to notice

[@jamescarroll6881]

​@samgoff5289 I think it's because they have such a large writing team. Different groups of the writers are writing episodes simultaneously and only know what other groups tell them about previous episodes. This leads to the errors.

[@odojang]

The lightsaber fights in this show are actually the worst ever made. Half the time they aim at each other's weapon instead of the opponent. The other half is mostly swinging wildly off target, kicking at the best moment to get limbs chopped off or forgeting to use any force power, except for the thickly plot-armored villain. The power levels are all over the place, with a Sith shoving half a dozen jedi knigths effortlessly, defeating them all like a black belt plowing through drunk yellow belts, then getting his ass kicked by a padawan teenage girl he only defeats with a hidden weapon as she fights even better than her master. The padawan who was trounced by that Sith's apprentice; an apprentice who was overpowered by the master of that padawan... Not to mention their use of lightsaber weapons, weightless and relying on precision strikes and energy output to do damage (and stop an opposing blade) and not muscle power like steel weapons. But here they fight as if putting all their weight behind a strike or making a large swing for momentum would make any difference. Rewatch the very first lightsaber fight in History. Vader and Obi-Wan are two old, experienced masters weilding instant-death weapons. Their movements are swift, economical, always aimed at the opponent, not one wasted or needless (except for one pivot by Obi-Wan obviously made just for show). It's the simplest, shortest one on film and yet, it makes these childish fencing flailings of the Acolyte look like schoolyard samurai make-beleive.

[@Sorain1]

See, I can't take that 'schoolyard samurai' take seriously. Because I actually did that as a kid, and we took that deadly serious. If that stick touched a limb? It's gone. If it hit your head or torso? Your dead. The biggest questions we had were about catching someone's sleeve or pant leg without making contact and if that counted or not, because we all innately accepted the idea that 'this cuts anything, like a light saber'.

[@odojang]

@@Sorain1 Those who made these fight scenes obviously never played with you as kids.

[@jamesbee3087]

She's Harvey's personal assistant she has no morals

[@sianais]

Imagine growing up with such a narcissistic sociopath.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

But TONS of coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate cronies, and opulent opportunities! 💪😎✌️ And that's all anyone needs in order to permanently "succeed".

[@AC-hj9tv]

Assisted him with HR. I mean HJs

[@japoniano]

Oh, I finally got it! The "Murder Mistery" wasn't the death of Trinity, but of death of the witches... which wasn't a murder... since it was self-defense... and it's never established how the rest died... and there's no reason why the Jedi involved treat it like a HUGE secret that they needed to cover up...

[@magnaquam]

This isn’t a critique, this is a destruction on a molecular level.

[@pedrocorrea6870]

The intelectual version of the end of Ender's Game.

[@gregowen2022]

That makes Leslye a Bugger, and it fits

[@michaelpettersson4919]

The only way to be sure.

[@JelloTypeR]

@@gregowen2022in the UK bugger is slang for an*l sects. If that’s what Leslye would be then it seems quite appropriate. Orson Scott Card allegedly had some ‘interest’ in this sort of behaviour with minors. There is a very dark side in this field and it ain’t just about force users.

[@AC-hj9tv]

Rekt

[@moseszero3281]

Osha's arc was having all of her narcissism validated. That was the ENTIRE point of the show, just another narcissistic validation fantasy by toxic velmas that hate the IP they control the customer base, and everyone else, including themselves.

[@gregowen2022]

Exactly. She was awful and in the end was rewarded for it. Incredible worldview from the creators

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

@moseszero3281 -- Do you think she's Leslie's self-insert? Because in that case, she proves that despite what some have argued, you actually really *don't* need to look like the character you're "relating" to; you just need them to get everything you want, no matter how far-fetched or morally dubious your desire is, or however outright insane the antics are that they have to get up to in order to achieve it.

[@AC-hj9tv]

​@@gregowen2022sounds like real life

[@LostInAdagio]

bro really buried this whole show in the first 10 minutes but had a whole funeral after😂😂😂 great video explaining why this show, script and acting was a terrible mess!

[@Trewq79]

If Osha's light saber turned red when she turned to the darkside, why did Anakin's stay blue while he slaughtered the children? Guess he was straight up chillin' or something.

[@scottperezfox]

The real answer is simply that this particular twist of lore hadn't been invented in 2005. It took a while longer, I believe when Ahsoka reclaimed a once-corrupted crystal on The Clone Wars series. You could argue that Anakin's lightsaber - which Obi-Wan gave to Luke in Ep. IV - remains blue because Anakin hadn't fully become Darth Vader yet. Vader found a new crystal and built a new saber in his fully corrupt state, so it was red from the start.

[@AC-hj9tv]

Bro was literally chillin and killin w a cool blue aura

[@cholkymilkmirage4984]

42:50 omfg the whole story was about that. Leslie headland said her self starwars saved my life. This entire show was just her lesbian fantasy power trip where she confronts her child hood trauma against her father.

[@daveleevicks8749]

Yup,..so when it is asked "who is this for?" it was for herself. The ones that are mad about it being cancelled are only mad because they see it as a lost against those they view as their mortal enemies.

[@mallninja9805]

The whole "lightsaber is a phallic symbol" thing really is her issue too. It's like...the rest of us just see a laser sword. She made a tv show when she should have just seen a therapist & talked it out.

[@thecornerkid402]

The greatest Sunday school joke ever told. Sunday school teacher looks at her class and says, “What is small, has a big bushy tail, climbs trees, and buries acorns.” Kids stare at her blankly for nearly a full minute before one kid slowly raises his hand. “Yes, Jimmy?” “I know the answer is Jesus but man it sounds like a squirrel.”

[@DuctTape123]

This is gold

[@gregowen2022]

This is outstanding

[@MylesKillis]

I don’t understand

[@crocadillius6418]

@@MylesKillisit’s because in Sunday school/religion classes were always told “the answer is always Jesus.” The joke here is it’s obviously a squirrel, but the kid is following the “the answer is always Jesus” line.

[@rebelcat_1261]

​@@crocadillius6418 In addition, those "the answer is Jesus" type responses are called squirrel answers.

[@ericison6032]

Amandla Stenberg looks more like a child playing Make-Believe then she does an actual actress. Watching her jump into that cockpit to pilot that ship was hilarious.

[@ErikDayne]

She put more emotion into her diss track than she did in her entire performance as not one but two different characters

[@AbsentMinded619]

And the diss track sucked

[@theanimeunderworld8338]

We all knew this was going to happen. KK also wants to retire but she wants a big win beforehand. So we're in for a long wait...

[@Goldmaaaaan]

Well at least Andor S2 is next year, so worst case she’ll be able to finally take her leave then.

[@gregowen2022]

Yeah, I don't see Space Goonies being her "big win", lol

[@EbonyPope]

​@@gregowen2022Man I'm a huge fan of your account. Also because while you are conservative you don't seem to be a Matt Walsh "I want draconian punishments like in this world country" type of guy. It's really refreshing to see more moderates speaking about cultural issues. Moderates once made up the majority of the population and now it's becoming increasingly rare.

[@matthewcarroll2533]

@@EbonyPope You're right, there isn't many moderate voices on platforms like these... Because most of the people on platforms like these, are only in it for the money and being moderate doesn't tend to make the most money. Sucks but c'est la vie. Oh and I

[@jim0jimmylee810]

Well she had a lot of big loss... So that to take into consideration. She can find herself an island to go and drink blue milk

[@GamingProspector84]

The best part about the show is that FaniMae quite literally intended on killing her sister by burning her alive and was seemingly responsible for the base going up in flames and exploding, but it’s never brought up (minus Sol mentioning it) and we the viewers are just supposed to ignore that happened 🤦‍♂️

[@WillFredward7167]

The “damage control interviews” are essentially dumping gasoline all over the fire. (A fire which might be consuming rocks and/or burning slowly and merrily in space)

[@fellownameless]

I know it's "vergence". But what i heard was "the virgins being important, yet undetectable" , "how did virgins become such an important part of the story?", "... establish stakes for any Jedi that came in contact with virgins" and so many more. It's dumb, but I'm crying.

[@AC-hj9tv]

Redditors

[@leviticusprime4904]

The idea of the force and by extension the Jedi sith conflict being more morally gray is a concept that has been done plenty of time before, in knights of the old republic, the clone wars, old legends material etc. the problem is this show fails to understand that concept and tries to do a “what if bad actually good” thing. Which is kinda ironic considering the sith empire of legend was very eugenics based

[@bumblebeeproductions1673]

Not to mention they murdered kids

[@ggt47]

And it was done well better. You can still agree and disagree with the Jedi and the sith but you can still identify the good and bad guys. The best depiction of greyness is in KOTOR 2.

[@MisterMick113]

We don't need another morally grey show either, there's Andor for that and even the Madolorian touches on the idea of ambiguous nature of good vs evil. Even so, if they had managed to write better they may not have been canceled

[@leviticusprime4904]

@@ggt47even in that game, you have darth nihlus who is basically the living embodiment of the ideals of the sith.

[@reckneya]

Ironically, the “what if bad was actually good” idea sounds like the thinking of a sith.

[@VasilCvetkovski]

"Fatherhood bad" + "Woman power good" = The Acolyte. I blame George Lucas for selling art out to the devil.

[@darnmarr]

How dare you!-- Mr Lucas has made it absolutely clear that the metaphor he prefers is that he sold his children into the slave trade...

[@AC-hj9tv]

Hey man respek wamen 😂

[@dragonhex3832]

Here's who I think the show is for. It's for the 20-30 year olds that grew up on the tween disney shows, but never matured. They want to feel older and smarter, but they lack the maturity or intellect to enjoy things of that caliber, so this show dumbstruck everything down, but keeps the vague pseudo-intellectual concepts. They are also horny as hell. I imagine all of this applies to Leslie and the writers as well.

[@johannjohann6523]

"The Acolyte" - Star Wars by a Lesbian for Lesbians. So "Lesbians" are now the #1 Star Wars fans, and subscribers to Disney+ channel? Not children? That's why this is such a concern beyond untalented people who are failures at their job. Because Woke Disney Executives have kidnapped, mugged, and raped Mickey Mouse and Luke Skywalker. And your children are next on the list.

[@FelsvonDrago]

This was by far the most clear, intelligent, honest, exposing but most importantly complete analysis of this extremely embarrassing because stupid show - Acolyte. Thank you for revealing all the problems I had with this show, plus some facts I hadn't seen! Alle the best from Germany!

[@mahguvnah7403]

There's no better place to start drilling a giant hole than right at the edge of a giant cliff.

[@gregowen2022]

Makes perfect sense, right?!

[@Chiguy79]

Well played on the Ocean's 11 lasers. Never thought about it until you brought it up and felt pretty stupid realizing the carts would trip them, lol. Exceptional example.

[@eldane-1]

I saw an article the other day complaining about streaming services cancelling 'fan favourite' shows such as The Acolyte

[@bricelory9534]

Ah, that's where they get you. It says "fan" favorite, not "fans" favorite - they only need one fan.

[@Defa_Noob]

​@@bricelory9534 But one fan can't use "the power of maaanyyyy"

[@gregowen2022]

Hahaha, I'm still searching for even the one fan, unless we count Leslye herself. She is the target audience, after all

[@alexandernash7562]

So this is the second video I've watched of yours and you bring up a lot of valid points. I want to bring up something that might be interesting. The other day, i was eating lunch with my dad and brother when my dad brought up the acolyte's cancelation. I then asked him what he would do if he made a dark side focused show. He gave it some thought and said the main character would have to be wronged in someway where the jedi weren't directly responsible for it, but played a part (Ex. A crime lord kills the MC's entire family and the jedi arrest the crime lord, but thaks to having connections and money, the crime lord gets a lesser sentence). This moment drives MC to look into the dark side and commit terrible acts. I added onto what my dad said by having a sith lord (not plaguis) act as a kind and understanding elder to the MC when in reality they're manipulating MC further and further into the dark b/c we seen how the sith manipulate people with Palps and how the dark side is described as seductive. And this was discussed by 3 dudes waiting for lunch while the rat entertainment empire known as Disney didn't even try to make the acolyte interesting, let alone entertaining. Just shows hiw badly they screwed up something that would've been interesting.

[@AC-hj9tv]

Tldr

[@littlejimmy7402]

Such a stupid pointless story. Hearing people try to talk about this pseudo-intelligently is the equivalent to pointing to furbys at each other.

[@TrueGamer22887]

I love how the Jedi are on a spectrum from idiots to straight up evil. And people excuse it because it’s showing how they’re “flawed” like in the prequels. They’re far far worse than anything in the prequels. If anything they cleaned up their act so much from this era by the time those movies happen

[@blackholeghost1875]

​@@TrueGamer22887What did the Jedi do wrong exactly? They are as competent as the script writer for sure, but they didn't exactly do anything wrong aside from not communicating with their peers.

[@thieupham493]

Aren't Furbies those weird people who pretend to be animals and shows up to every convention and ruins everyone's experience?

[@thieupham493]

@@TrueGamer22887 Remember that Hitler and the Nazi did not think of themselves as evil. It was the same thing with the Catholic church. The Pope told all explorers "any non-Christian people "discovered" by European explorers were to be vanquished and subdued. Direct quote: "Subjugated - and brought to the faith." You can think of the Jedi as the Catholic church, they always felt they were doing God's work, especially with the young children. This is why the order would only allow a Master and Padawan to be together for a short time because they didn't want Masters to get "attached". It's like the Catholic church not wanting Priests and alter boys to get too "attached".

[@vertigo2894]

Why is the story "stupid"?

[@thepunisherxxx6804]

Leslie and her show freak me out because like you said, she doesn't seem to have basic morals, or understand them. Zero accountability, zero morals, zero brainpower and creativity. Wokeness and DEI really is the death of creativity and true expression. It feels so corporate, so soulless. Everyone involved going through the motions. No actual thought or effort put into any of it. Everyone probably too afraid to challenge these strong, brave, independent women. I don't understand how this low quality is acceptable for a public company and its board. I don't understand how they keep failing people forward there. I'm overjoyed though to see this and many other woke/modern garbage shows and video games utterly fail. GET FELTED. Finally it feels like we might be pushing past this horrible boring era.

[@Atom.Storm.]

Hedlund is an insult to all real writers. She failed upwards and is pretending to know what she is doing, as she said herself.

[@lacolem1]

I’m laughing that the Jedi just forgot about a planet with a dang vergence for 16 years, and then a major plot point explaining Sol’s heel turn in the final two episodes is he needs proof of a vergence…when he literally had Osha as a padawan for a decade and the actual vergence was still there to discover the entire time

[@vidmikes]

Wait, the show’s creator admits she never really cared about the characters nor the story but yet claim it’s somehow “the most important art she ever made.” The gaslighting is strong with this one.

[@TaoScribble]

I think it IS important to her. Just not in any way that would matter to anyone else.

[@johannjohann6523]

There's never enough gas to cover up failure, incompetence, and losing millions of dollars. Which seems the words always associated with Woke Feminist Lesbians. And Suburu. lol

[@AC-hj9tv]

I left better art in the dive bar toilet at 1am

[@deathbysloth]

What is with these massive companies putting major IPs and millions of dollars in the hands of completely untested showrunners/writers/directors?

[@MirandaSinistra]

’She's writing these jokes for me.' Well now we know why she was too busy to write a good script for the show.

[@quietchap]

“Perhaps enjoyers of the many new romance novels- SMUT- that have become popular online” I died 😂

[@gregowen2022]

Hey, let's just call it what it is, right? lol

[@liliesaregoodfortheliver2954]

​@@gregowen2022 *Fourth Wing ptsd intensifies*

[@Maehedrose]

In that "All the witches die" scene, I imagined a scene where they'd reveal that those witches had pulled Trinity into that dark place where they'd kept the Padawan. They would be threatening her and talking about how she was theirs, now, but she'd explain the failure in their plan, "you forget, I am not a padawan, I am a Jedi Master" and - in that mind place - she'd ignite a lightsaber and go about slaughtering them all so they died in the real world. That would have been disturbing ... instead she just twitches her head and they all randomly die ... much better, I guess.

[@DdHenley307]

To me What's even more annoying than all these bad shows is all these stupid people trying to sound deep. As if they just finished a coloring book and want to be compared to Picaso. Short sided , simple minded buffoons trying to write complex and intriguing characters. This is the only outcome we could've had

[@sanusam420]

Wow, incredible comment..

[@cherryfireice8216]

Thank you. Junk like this used to end up in the 5 dollar DVD bin at Walmart.

[@blackholeghost1875]

Jokes on you, they fumbled a coloring book and want to be compared to Picasso. Simple motivation for simple characters, they cannot even do that.

[@g_gamer3160]

I find it so funny how the fans of the Acolyte cry out "she literally explained it to us!" Or "just listen" when it shouldnt have to be explained. It should be shown in the narrative.

[@Theobuomai]

And it's crazy that John Truby in his "The Anatomy of Story" called out this lazy writing even back in 2007: "Most writers don’t use the best process for creating a story. They use the easiest one: The writer comes up with a generic premise, or story idea, that is a vague copy of one that already exists. Or it’s a combination of two stories that they have creatively (they think) stuck together. They “flesh out” the main character mechanically, by tacking on as many traits as possible, and figures they’ll make the hero change in the last scene. They think of the opponent and minor characters as separate from and less important than the hero. So they are almost always weak, poorly defined characters. They come up with a plot and a scene sequence based on one question: What happens next? Often they send the hero on a physical journey...Finally, they write dialogue that simply pushes the plot along, with all conflict focused on what is happening..."

[@gregowen2022]

Holy crap, that is SPOT ON. per her own words, that is EXACTLY what Leslye did here

[@icepicjoey]

The people who hated nerd culture are now in charge of the IP. 1:47:18

[@ninjafoxgamesgeekery]

"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic." - Obi-Wan Kenobi. "We're in that period where the proliferation of power is so huge and far-reaching." - Headland, regarding the era Obi-Wan is talking about in A New Hope. So what is she talking about exactly? Greg's "It was a prank, you got punked bro. It was a joke and you took it too seriously" line sounds like a Rick & Morty scene. 🤣 "A wookie with a lightsaber" Okay....we had that in the EU around 30 years ago. So?

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Not to mention that the entire High Republic period is supposed to be the golden age of the Jedi where the Jedi were at their most ideal. So it deviates from the canon Disney itself created.

[@kieragard]

i remember headlead saying, "i love looking out and seeing fifty percent male/female the writers table." 😳 estrogen doesn't make the story better, you need passionate people on it.

[@raf952]

Sadly the writing is even worse than you exposed: the show begins with Mae killing Master Trinity in a crowded bar with witnesses while Sol was teaching in Corussant. How is pinning the murders of about a dozen Jedi (plus maybe the witches) on Sol, a Jedi Master, better than pinning it on a student who they kicked out??? This show... sheesh!

[@newmnsilver]

My friend who's a casual star wars fan, said and I quote: "Dude I watched the first episode and I just couldn't watch that sh*t, it made no sense and I couldn't follow with the story. I couldn't give 2 fvcks about the twin girls and those weird witch women.. also, how Tf did some Jedi master, die to some nobody?" (Osha who murdered Trinity's character in the beginning). Even casual star wars fans couldn't watch this meaningless piece of trash.

[@fjpoggemann]

“Needs wheat and can’t trade bricks…” obviously a family man!😂

[@4FunCycle]

Now I get the joke!

[@gregowen2022]

Hahaha, I'm glad to see my fellow board game lovers!

[@SergioHernandez-le8wp]

So friggin excited for part 2 of this! Woooooo more product!!! P.s. I wasn't trying to be ironic or facetious...I really am excited about the next video. This was awesome

[@DelightfullyMADD]

Plageus being just some weird creeper in a cave for no reason is so utterly moronic it boggles the mind. You can tell that the writers had no idea or understanding of the character, just knew that he looked like a weird long-headed monster man so they just threw a black robe on him and stuck him in a cave. Darth Plageus was one of the richest and most influential members of the galactic community, a high up member of the Banking Clan. He wouldn't be hanging out in some cave in the middle of nowhere... he'd be on Coruscant, and that's where we should have seen him if we absolutely had to get this dumbass cameo. Have him be one of the politicians at the end listening to Jedi Master Nepotism as she tried to cover up the Jedi's involvement by... blaming the Jedi for their involvement. At least his presence would have made more sense than just hanging out in a cave like the Boogeyman

[@grotzbully1340]

TBF his book begins in a cave. Also he was just born around the time the akolyth takes place so he would be still on his birth world or just begun training under tenebrous at a young age....

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

@grotzbully1340 -- But do we believe that Leslie and Co. even know that, as opposed to just being lazy about his random cave-dwelling-for-no-reason? Probably not.

[@stevecaldwell8740]

I wouldn’t normally sit through a more than 2-hour long video on something, but this was well constructed held my attention all the way. Looking forward to the next one.

[@ClannerJake]

It isn't lazy writing, she's reading tv tropes and throwing dice at it each time there is a next step in the write your own adventure planner.

[@gregowen2022]

Hahaha, now I'm picturing Leslye with a d20, writing the plot

[@RichGallant]

Damm that is funny but, I think you would get still get a better story than she managed to do even if you did that

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

Author here. It's 100% clear that LH knows absolutely nothing about dramatic structure, character arcs, literary & cinematic techniques, thematic underpinnings, color palettes (yup), and relevant world-building. Oh well, though. She's wealthy beyond all measure, and *that* is all that matters. 🙄 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ -- Diamond Dragons (series)

[@imnotusingmyrealname4566]

This content is great! Seeing how the standards have been lowered so much I think it's really necessary and educational to show people what good craft looks like. Do you have plans to do an analysis like this with Andor? That show is magnificient and it would be great to see an explanation on what makes it that.

[@Lobstro]

Regarding the inconsistent tone/target demographic, a common mistake made by new writers is to throw everything plus the kitchen sink into a story that they like from other stories. They put in things from their childhood like slapstick and silly jokes, but also edgy stuff from their teenaged years like death and sex. The result is a wildly inconsistent story with a microscopic target demographic Experienced writers practice the art of "kill your darlings" where they can recognize that something they love in their story needs to be removed to make the story more focused

[@rvmaika5815]

As a middle school teacher, I think I can guess who this show is for: Edgy teenagers who claim they’re too old for Star Wars and find it childish.

[@Thunderboom5]

As a casual fanfic writer, I thank you for the compliment.

[@Shadowstar1311]

She seriously couldn't call the witches something else? Give them a unique space identity? Lore and a backstory? No, they're just witches apparently. That would be like if she wrote an elite army into the story and just called them the Marine Corps. Can't be bothered to change it up a bit so it fits into this alternate universe.

[@RM_VFX]

They turned the Jedi into that one cop who started shooting blindly when an acorn fell on his car. 😂

[@Gchildwarrior]

Acorn Cop is a legend

[@ceebee]

The thing that irritates me when these people talk about magic as if some mystical thing in Star Wars is that Star Wars magic is the SAME THING as the force. It is the force just used in a different way.

[@YuseiTheSynchroHero]

1:39:29 Honestly, where is _anything_ in this show? "There's nothing. Merely a series of events happening on screen, entirely disconnected from the people that we SEE, the lines we HEAR, and most importantly... the reality we are all living in." This really sums up the entire show and why I just couldn't CARE about it.

[@michaeldavis2001]

Mae and Ochia are TWINS. At the end, she is mind-wiped. We are told that her memory is back to the age of eight, but she has NO memory of her sister?

[@Darkeus1]

Plot hole ahead! So glad this show was canceled lol.

[@CarlWheatley-wi2cl]

It's cancelled and no one with a braincell is actually surprised. More relief than celebration for me because there's zero possibility of cancelled horsesh*t ever being considered canon. So it comes and goes and leaves nothing in its wake, except the memes. Always enjoy your analysis Greg, you always find angles that I didn't see before.

[@Defa_Noob]

Personally I'm pretty disappointed it's cancelled, it's always a joy to watch Disney throw millions of dollars in the trash and not know why they're losing money.

[@PKLuver944]

I'm surprised because it's usually the good shows that are cancelled, not the bad ones

[@AC-hj9tv]

​@@PKLuver944yea what's up with that

[@affablesage9582]

This was the first video of yours I've listened to, and it helped me through the last couple hours of a really boring shift. No idea who I watched that made KZbin recommend your channel, but I'm glad it did that. I always suspected that these Hollywood "writers, actors and directors" who squeeze out this deluge of Chipotle-Taco Bell sewage might actually be evil, but nothing affirmed it to me more than interview clips with Stenberg and Headland where they unabashedly (and proudly) declare that they'd choose to be Sith if they were in the Star Wars universe.

[@littlebilly8747]

Something a lot of people are missing: the kids are too old to be trained by the Jedi per The Phantom Menace. It’s one of the whole “things” about Anakin

[@markdg33]

Except Leslye said that that rule was only made because of the events of the Acolyte. (Yes, that’s a ridiculous statement but that’s what she said)

[@littlebilly8747]

@@markdg33 Oh well in that case 🙄

[@drakonb6987]

@@markdg33wait no. I remember in episode 8 that Sol said that OSHA was too old and the Jedi wouldn’t have trained her had he confessed to what she is. That means they already had their under 7 years old policy. I’d find the time code but I really don’t wanna watch it again.

[@champ7139]

@@drakonb6987 No that's unnecessary, you're 100% correct. That was literally one of the biggest things about having to lie to the council when they didn't need to, in order to get Osha to become a Jedi. Dude was a creep.

[@Halfkin]

If I wanted to fix this... well, WHEN they put an age cap isn't stated.

[@VengeanceN7]

I want to provide some information and context about Darth Plagueis, Plagueis was the master of Darth sidious and was the one who engineered his rise to the chancellorship, with his apprentice Darth sidious they shifted the balance of the force in favor of darkness. Darth Plagueis thought he had gained the power to manipulate the force to create life itself in a woman or another living creature, I don't think he would have mined the latter honestly he was far more terrifying than we could ever understand, he wanted to create the perfect apprentice in case palpatine started slipping. For a while he actually thought that Anakin Skywalker was his creation, but it was later revealed that in fact Anakin was the Force's response to Darth Plagueis, Anakin was to guarantee the unraveling and undoing of all Darth plagueis's work. Anakin Skywalker is the chosen one, chosen to end Plagueis' empire of evil. That's my biggest gripe with the show they're trying to claim the witches did something similar with their kids, but if they had then they honestly had to go that's purely evil crossing that line in the view of life, there are no shortcuts and you should not try to, it can cause more harm than good, Plagueis was marked for death for what he and sidious did and tried to do. It also undermines his character more because by now connecting him to the witches, it destroys plagueis's skill as a force wielder he learned to manipulate the force that deeply on his own through trial and error.

[@ethanrogers8298]

The knowledge that she sees the lightsaber as a phallic symbol makes that one poster much more....questionable

[@Killjoy2071]

Excellent video, Greg. It completely dismantled the narrative that The Acolyte was cancelled because of troll’s racist/sexist hatred, but instead it was a poorly executed show at every level.

[@AC-hj9tv]

She looks like one too. Or maybe ogre

[@JustaGuy_Gaming]

The number of fails in this series is beyond belief. It's not just bad scripts, acting, special effects etc. Think of just how many hands that Script had to go through. How many hours people stared at this show in the editing room and adding the special effects. At no point no one said a single thing about it? Either they have zero taste and no idea what a profitable show looks like, or they lied about watching it.

[@ronnimm6456]

And the "acting." So, so bad.

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

You just gotta remember... these people, like LH, etc., are... sacred. They can't be criticized. Even the stuff that comes from their thermal exhaust ports smells like roses... Anyone who says differently had better start looking for a new job... in a new field... immediately.

[@peterrealar2.067]

The Writer's Group are braindead.

[@sarasunshinemt4444]

Sir, your commitment to consistently refer to the Sith character as a new Darth name every time is freaking IMPRESSIVE and more importantly, HILARIOUS.! Bravo, sir!!

[@WillFredward7167]

An abused kid ends his own life 16 years after his trauma because of supposed guilt over his actions with the coven… and Headland claims to be glad that it’s possible to interpret the Jedi actions as not a crime. I. Do. Not. Believe. Her.

[@wherethetatosat]

You know, the whole moral ambiguity thing makes a lot more sense now. Because real people have to write these, it's pretty revealing that when the good guys are supposed to do something evil, it comes across as justified because the other group is objectively worse. So what does it reveal? That the writers themselves have no understanding of morality, not in the real world and not in the world they created.

[@UsmevavyPanacek]

It seems like someone made all the levels, placed all the NPCs, even rough draft of the plot as a placeholder got made, yet someone forgot to put in the fleshed out plot and dialogue (and Amandla's face animations) before sending it out..

[@josephsonderling2384]

So, Mass Effect: Andromeda?

[@JessiD618]

30:26 I get the impression Lesley thought she’d cleverly written the Jedi as the bad guys, then interviewer is like, “So you thoroughly justified the Jedi’s actions in this episode, even though you were hinting the entire season they were the bad guys, what was the artistic meaning behind this totally intentional bait and switch?” and Lesley was like, “Oh, shi…”

[@xman2oo3]

Yeah, I agree with that ending bit, hate when people go "well it's just a kids show" or "why do you care so much, it's just a kids show" That's exactly why I care so much, content for kids is the most important content to have be good. The last Airbender gets such high marks because, while it's a kids show, it's incredibly well written and has solid moral values. If they tossed any of that I doubt anyone would care. On that same coin, there's a reason so many people hate Kora, for a lot of it they have weird morals and garbage writing, especially with Amon and the anti-benders. It's annoying because the person doesn't actually care about the topic, they just want to stop you from talking about something they do or don't like.

[@gregowen2022]

Exactly, especially that last bit. The people who say that don't care one way or another, but they think that line shuts down the conversation so they "win"

[@JKPippa]

You all mock us fanfic writers but a fanfic writer (who was also a good writer who cares about the source, there's plenty of those) would have known how to create an original story -even a crime one- that fit in the Star Wars universe flawlessly and where everyone acted the way you'd expect them to including the new characters. Writing fanfic teaches you to adapt, incorporate ideas and characters while still respecting the original thing you're a fan of.

[@SilverTwistVI]

Let's put our names on the petition for season 2 so our content creators have some material... and have to go trough some more crap

[@gregowen2022]

Hahaha. Petition to keep KZbinrs flush with comedic material!

[@CRIMS0NDRAG0N017]

There will other stuff. Even though movies are seemingly moving away from this type of stuff with the massive failures and firings the gaming industries is still rife with it. Assassin Creed shadow Star wars outlaws Concord Dustborn And many more. There will be PLENTY of content

[@lunarvision]

Or…hear me out… create a petition for season 2, where everyone is recast and new writers and showrunner are brought in.

[@BlitzDemonGamer3032]

here's a better idea let's NOT and let the show Die already Nobody likes The Acolyte and Nobody Cares Let this Show Die! it does NOT need a Season 2

[@sanosuke99]

Morbin time

[@BenFrankarts]

I fell out laughing when I saw Dollar General Chewie with a metal detector looking for a Force Vergence😂😂😂

[@neilln.5187]

I just want to take the time to acknowledge how brilliant a reference “gotta wake up snorlax before you can proceed” is. Brilliant 😆 😂

[@master_samwise]

I pray for your sanity and applaud your bravery, Greg. I refused to touch this show with a 10 foot lightsaber whip and yet you dove headlong into the muck and morally bankrupt mire. I look forward to part two.

[@KrazyK785]

37:04 The smoke detector sound was chef's kiss lmao. I actually thought it was mine 😅.

[@Maehedrose]

Thanks!

[@gregowen2022]

Thank you so much!

[@ethanreynolds4942]

Let's all not forget that "this show didn't have time to stretch it's legs and really open up"..... I can't tell you how many shows I've seen accomplish more with a tiny budget and less episodes. Also, imagine having a show tailor made for your group. Made just for you. Then not watching it at all. Then complaining that it's getting cancelled despite not putting any time or effort into just watching or supporting it. Lol Edit: oh man I thought all of the pictures of OSHA or whatever not showing any emotions.mqn, seeing it play out actually is beyond flabbergasting. That chick made so many millions just because black and gay. Edit edit: oh many the whip lightsaber is so dumb and seriously seems like an incredibly dangerous hazard to the user and any Jedi around her.... Also, I really just don't feel like a floppy saber vs a solid saber is gunna win... Edit edit edit: anyone else think it's funny that both twins ended up with the same hair despite thinking the other was dead? Like, after 16 years they somehow had the exact same hair? Just me? Like neither of them changes their look at all? Especially the evil but not evil but totally evil one? Edit whatever: man, ehy do companies think "ig we put black people and lesbians in it all of the backs and lesbians will absolutely love it and support it because they can like see themselves in it!!"??? Ugh.....

[@wingedyaga2914]

Dark Crystal:Rise of Resistance had almost half the budget and thrice the depth and world building in 10 episodes. It was cancelled for costing too much. That's a series that deserves a 2nd season.

[@The_Gentleman_X]

It’s so strange how Disney, a company known for family entertainment,appears to have changed their focus to promoting the interests of certain social groups. For a while, it seemed like money was no object. Regardless of failure, they just kept green lighting project after project. It is starting to look like the money is running out, though.

[@AC-hj9tv]

They're just pandering to, not promoting interests. Massive backfire

[@johncatania1609]

"Get in losers, we're making a star war." LOLLL

[@maxslender4668]

I think Leslie is secretly trying to tell us that she was abused as a child, she needs our help people. The main tragedy is that she conveyed her message through STAR WARS