After being pretty “meh” after seeing the trailers, i was surprised at how much i liked the first 2 episodes. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but to me it actually feels like Star Wars, unlike BOBF, Ahsoka and the latter part of Mando. The acting & dialogue is fine, which the trailers somehow made it seem prequel level bad, but it isn’t. And thank GOD we finally have colour back in Star Wars and not that horrendous desaturated & over dark grading that’s plagued the majority of the TV shows so far. The only thing that feels a bit off to me is the ending of both episodes. They don’t seem like an episode ending. It’s seeming to be aimed at editing into one long movie that has been chopped up into episodes more than an episodic formula.
Sadly, the dark side of the fandom is ripping it apart. The usual " Woke" bullshit comments are everywhere. Slating the show because of its female lead, the fact they mentioned " two mothers" and other crap. If it’s not white male lead they don’t class it as Star Wars. Wankers. I’m so fed up hearing how Star Wars is dead, just because it doesn’t follow their narrow minded bullshit. No one is allowed to just enjoy it any more without all their vitriol. I’ve seen so many commenting on how they refuse to watch it but will review bomb it wherever possible. Then attacking fans who dare to say they like anything “Disney” Star Wars.
This show has started out pretty well. It has my interest. I LOVE the score and i think that’s one of the reasons why it feels more like Star Wars to me. It feels very Willams to me. Although i don’t mind the different style scores in things like the Mandalorian, it seems to take away something for me. The Acolyte is probably the first TV show that i rewatched the first eps in the same day.
It doesn’t help that the creators and actors go out of their way to publicly say that they’re trying to make people mad on purpose
Please point me to where they have said that they are trying to make people mad on purpose, because i haven’t seen anything like that.
But from the day the cast & Director were announced its been vitriol on the internet because they’re not all white straight males. It’s been constant. And that was even before a single image came out of the production. Now the big thing they are complaining about it fire in space and the fact that there is a campfire cracking sound for the fire. Well, for one, fire in space is nothing new with Star Wars. This isn’t sci-fi and its never really followed real world physics. It’s fantasy. And the complaint about the sound effects of a “campfire” shows that they’re just too dumb to even follow what’s going on in that scene or haven’t actually even seen the scene but just the screenshots people have posted. The sound is because she is remembering the fire that killed her family. It’s in her head. It couldn’t be more obvious. But its just something they have latched onto to claim how bad this show is. But, even when you explain this to them its just a tirade of vicious attacks back with claims of being a “Disney shill” and other pathetic crap. Fuck that side of the fandom.