The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland is opening up on the show’s cancelation and why the Star Wars series was so poorly received.
Damn, I didn’t even read it got cancelled. But yeah, it was bad. Not going to be sad about this.
Edit: lmao, what
I also was like, ‘I know who these guys are.’ You don’t have to tell me who’s talking about it or how bad it is online, I know exactly who they are. I supported them on Patreon. There are some of them that I respect, and there are some of them that I think are absolutely snake oil salesmen, just opportunists. Then, of course, there are the fascists and racists.
Greatest description of the Star Wars fanbase ever?
I can’t even keep track of the star wars, star trek, marvel, dc, various other ip shows they are spammed out so fast. There is no time for quality or just for geeks to have enough discourse to evaluate the shows before more are put out.
tl;dr - the showrunner believes it’s the fan’s fault.
Which, I guess, in a sense is true.
Because the show was hot garbage, even by the standards of Disney Star Wars, which means it was the worst of an already bad bunch of Disney slop.
So between the show being shit and Disney assuming we’re all little piggies who will gladly eat up any slop labeled Star Wars, the show was received at face value for what it was, and without any goodwill to prop it up.
I liked Darth Jason. He was the best part of the show.
Absolutely. Without “uncanceling,” the Acolyte, they need to find a way to get him back for a project. What an utter waste if they don’t. The physicality for the role and choregraphy was perfect, and he “sold” the Dark Side without an appeal to raw coercive power at a political scale, and it worked better than maybe any other approach I can recall. Even the comedic timing and “dude from Jacksonville” vibes (Go Jags!) slotted in perfectly for the (super telegraphed) reveal and the interactions with Osha and Sol. I also liked that Sol brought a lot of humanity and Qui-Gon energy despite Lee Jung-jae’s awkward line readings (the reasons for which I completely understand), and Jecki was good.
I went into that show fully ready to embrace everything about it and almost preemptively give it the grace I knew certain toxic fans wouldn’t, and I still couldn’t love it, though it has its moments and it’s not awful TV. The structure is awkward, the mystery unappealing and self-important, many of the performances unengaging, and frankly despite all the money they blew it often looks cheap. They also killed two out of the three characters I liked the best. Easy targets like the singing and the fire in space and the chubby lightsaber hilts were just people fixating on unimportant shit because they didn’t like the show but lack the ability to say why, or some of them are ashamed to say why. The whole thing needed another couple of passes through the editing process and maybe some hard discussions about why making the entire show look like Disney’s Galaxy’s Edge is not a good use of the budget.
