Acolyte was never strong in ratings. Disney tried to misdirect people by saying it was “popular,” but that was based on online engagement, which also counts negative engagement.
@@stefanostcyr6851 yes. Her evil clone quit her sith mission on the spot for no reason, said she was done hunting Jedi and was going to surrender to the Jedi. 15 minutes later, she resisted Jedi arrest and then 5 minutes after that was back to hunting Jedi.
@@heesoo18Not really because ahsoka was only a little bit above andor which is the lowest and acolyte is considerably lower than ahsoka so yeah do the maths and acolyte is the lowest
5:17 YES!!!! This is how a lot of us feel DURING the episode!! That's why everyone says it's trash because when you think about it for a literal second none of it really makes any sense.
Achara, people are putting out fake articles for some reason on its ratings being high..its actually the lowest ratings of any Star Wars show..Neilsen who put out the official ratings say its not in the 10 top list for any week its been out..its a total flop and so it should be for awful writing and trying to undo everything George Lucas did with Star Wars..
It makes me happy that literally ALL OF US recognize that this is one of the worst things ever created, like I maybe have seen 2 or 3 RU-vidrs grasping SO HARD at straws trying to praise it but no one cares hahah 😂
It's a shame that it took Ryan George liking one of your posts to get you to make another video reacting to his content, but I'm very happy we got it. Can't wait to watch and enjoy your reactions!
Ryan George is awesome! Yes, the did NOT have a lot to tell because there was no theme. There's no key message or Point the show is trying to make. ANDOR has a very clear Theme: "What does it take to become a Rebel?" The Star Wars trilogies 1to6 have the Theme and variations on it of "What is the proper way of living, in harmony with the galaxy or through power and tyranny?" What's The Açolyte's Theme? "Men are stupid and Bad is Good?"
Your face in thumbnails is fine, Achara, don't worry about it. The thumbnails do their job of telling us what the video is about and which of you guys is in said video.
About the "thirst trap" controversy. I am OK with media sexualising men as long as they don't attack other media for sexualising women. I just hate hypocrisy. Either it's OK to sexualise actors for views, or it isn't. We did it plenty in the 80s with actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, I thought it was fine then, and we also sexualised female actors. But at some point, people started pushing back on sexualising females but not males.
Exactly!! There's no reason a nice buff dude can't be shown off onscreen, but these same companies will villify anyone who remarks on a woman who looks good while showing some skin. Same thing with the gaming industry constantly trying to censor or get rid of revealing outfits for girl characters, but they say nothing when guy characters are shirtless. It's like whyyyyy? We're human, it's okay for us to want to see attractive people haha
Exactly, these people cried misogyny for decades because Leia was in a bikini... now that they get to make their Star Wars content, they put scenes with male actors naked... It's so hypocritical. When these people are given the opportunity, they do the exact same shit they were complaining about for years but worse (I say it's worse because even though I'm not a SW fangirl, I can't remember a single main SW show where a woman was actually without clothes at all).
As a gay Asian American, I'm not sure if this is the kind of representation I really want on screen from Disney and Star Wars. Portraying us Asian men as either de-sexualized monks or sex objects with cool martial arts abilities but two-faced manipulative personalities is just more of the same crap that Hollywood has been giving us for decades, just wrapped in a shinier, partially naked, gym-fit bow. I wish they could focus on presenting us with characters who have compelling and enjoyable personalities and moments rather than guys who fulfill a certain aesthetic of attractiveness.
@@schildkroete As an Irish-Scottish person, I'm not a big fan of my cultures being religated to just drinking and fighting in media, but I'm okay with both men and women from my culture being sexulised as long as everything is equal. I think you can sexualise a character and still have them be a good, well developed character. I think the anime industry does that well, for both male and female characters. E.g. Nami from One Peace and Sung Jin Woo from Solo Leveling. (I know the original novel and manwa was Korean and not Japanese but I still class it as anime as it was made by a Japanese studio.)
Even now, the premise of the show states that it's about a respected Jedi Master investigating a series of crimes that bring him into contact with a former Padawan learner and reveal sinister forces. No, that's not what the show is about. He knows who's killing the Jedi at the end of the first episode. It's basically a manhunt for Mae, who isn't even that big of a threat. She can throw knives and can force push, whoop-de-whoop. Qimir was the real threat, and he didn't show up until episode 5, in an 8 episode season. Osha and Mae were boring characters, whose motivations flip-flopped so often, that I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The only character's whose goals and motivations were clear, were Master Sol, and Qimir. Everyone else was window dressing.
The Star Wars fans' complaints were never about doing something new within the franchise's universe. Other Star Wars series were very well received by the public, such as the first two seasons of The Mandalorian and Andor. However, The Acolyte never set out to explore the franchise's Canon, but to change everything that is represented in the first 6 original Star Wars films. Although Star Wars is a work of fiction, it is a work that has millions of fans all over the world. Now, aren't Hollywood film studios part of the free-market economy? What's the point of the studio financing a film or series that costs 200 million dollars if it won't bring a return? Since when is loss the new success? Wouldn't it be better to meet the wishes of millions of fans and profit from it? And what's more, leave a legacy of sympathy with these millions of fans for future releases? The Acolyte cost 220 million dollars, and brought Disney's streaming services fewer views than Willow. In other words, an unprecedented loss. The Acolyte has a mediocre script, the story doesn't develop and fails to connect with the viewer. The story is poor and full of plot holes. The plot is tiresome and repetitive. The special effects, for a series worth 220 million dollars, are far below the Star Wars standard. The interpretation of some actors through their characters is terrible. The setting of the episodes, except for the first episode, is the work of an amateur studio. And to tie it all together, there is the Woke seal, in which the series exists only to advertise this postmodern ideology. Final score: 3.
Im so glad Ryan liked ur post..thats cool...Ryan is the Goat! so damn funny! I liked the cast and the action but everything else is beyond awful...i love how Osha was angry her whole life but couldnt use the force but she sees a naked Sith and is angry at someone else and put on a hat and now she is the most powerful Force sensitive person in the galaxy! what now.
Don’t you feel stupid for watching this show now?!?!? Having someone else have to point out the obvious of how crap the show was, without ever really picking up on it yourself? Idk kinda baffling.
@@LeviAckerman-cb5ji If Nerdrotic and Drinker stop bitching about "woke" shit for two seconds I could bear listening to what they have to say. Drinker can be really insightful when he's not complaining about politics. The only reason I haven't soured over MauLer is because he's never dismissed anything calling "woke" or "leftist"
@@bipstymcbipste5641 Things don't suddenly stop being "woke" or "leftist" just because you grow weary of hearing the words. It has become engrained so much into the final product, that even Red Letter Media is pointing it out. What I love most about The Pitch meeting is that not only does it expose the soulless practices of modern Hollywood, but it also points out the hypocrisy and blind compliance of it's fans...like these two.
You know what’s such a crazy coincidence with this video! I literally searched Acolyte pitch petting reaction expecting this video then when I refresh RU-vid Presto
There is a theory that the script for this show was one of the "A Star Wars Story" movies that got cancelled after Solo's failure. So, they had to stretch it out over multiple episodes for Disney Plus.
There was no reason for the Sith guy to be nude, Palpatine didnt de-robe for Anakin and he still turned evil...Now a woman cannot not be sexual in any way because its wrong, its sexually objectifying women but every guy needs to have his shirt off in every franchise movie or show now and if r rated show everything and thats cool..its because Hollywood says men cant be sexually objectified..no such thing...
I'm so glad Achara mentioned the Good Place, every time I watched a RU-vid video about the Acolyte his voice was so familiar to me but I never made the connection haha thank you Achara!!!
Talking about how its a mystery show, and you're supposed to figure things out at the same time, and it should be exciting. Wandavizion did that perfectly imo
Actually it didn't do any good and season 2 is not happening. The actual viewership is the lowest of any star wars TV shows. It is sad die hard fans cannot believe that it failed. Too much woke haha.
It's been a while since you two did one of these Ryan George reactions. I was wondering if you'd do one ever again. I haven't seen The Acolyte myself yet, but the controversy around it makes me want to lol.
Turning to the Dark Side is easy. That's why Jedi warn against it. If it was hard you wouldn't need to warn disciplined padawans. But because its easy they had to drag that thing way out.
Thank you dear ones for your humor, euro rationality and most of all for your honest opinion in this Raction Vid!!!! Extremely refreshing to enjoy you and your clear and understandable emotions... Thank you from Germany!
You hit it right there Achara. Make it a mini-mini series. That's what they should have been doing. Find people who has a interesting idea and some experience writing/directing and give them $15 million and make 10 direct to D+ Star Wars movies a year. Use the same crew, the volume etc. just swap out the idea people. Like Visions but live action and make them movie length. Then if something is actually good and it gets views, then you spend the $200 million on that one.
THE ACOLYTE $ 180,000,000 vs Godzilla -1 (high estimate) $ 15,000,000 or TWELVE Godzilla minus one movies vs 8 episodes of the acolyte... hilarious reaction & take
When you're Leslye Headland and you release the Acolyte and suddenly being a long-time assistant to Harvey Weinstein and being his buddy, is the SECOND worse thing you've done
Adam Driver and this actor were just dollar store body types. Like, Women can develop. Its not they look like He-Man or something where its like body is work of art made through the years.
So osha found out is sol who killed her mother. "must be hard because to Osha, Sol is father figure and he is a jedi master" no she kill him very easy you know use the dark side staff"oh did he explained Osha's mom turn to a monster so Sol killed her?" no, because this will ruin the story Osha wouldnt kill Sol we want the character do whatever the director want so the character must stick to the story within any character constant
There is a difference between “some viewers are still checking the show out”, specially those who prefer to binge watch once all episodes are available, and “it is making huge ratings”. The Acolyte had some of the worst, if not outright worst, ratings of any SW show on D+.
The issue about the nudity scene is that it is out of lore, breaking immersion. Palpatine never undressed to seduce Anakin Skywalker, so why is it part of the world building, other than 'Shoot to Midnight' identity by sexuality self-insertion ?... Gender politics was the entire plot - not some mystery...
They have been stretching stories, like turning the "Obi-Wan Kenobi" movie into a six-episode series. It's just an attempt to extend viewing time, nothing more.
@@solastro5595 The acolytes will have second season because of the crying woke b*******s. Of course they will not make another season of Obi Wan because the two main stars are beloved and WHITE MALES. But Amandla is some binary person who make video about racists…and the same way she is being so racist to everybody.
Jaby took it personally when people commented that he kind of looked like Adam Driver and Manny Jacinto. So, every time Jaby saw those two actors shirtless, his mind went back to the comments made about him looking like them.
They spent the entire video talking crap about the show and you think they're shilling because of one statement one of them said towards the beginning, explain your logic there
Women: it’s ok to sexually objectify guys in entertainment if they’re hot. Also women: it’s not ok to sexually objectify any women in entertainment because it’s disgusting. Also the comments at the end where Achara completely insulted Jaby were not necessary. Jaby was only questioning what the relevance of the shirtless scene was. It had no relevance. Achara: you’re just jealous and he’s hot and you’re not! Great logic! Also Achara: women shouldn’t be objectified by creepy men. Can’t have it both ways Achara! Jaby was correct, he’s a guy that gets his shirt off for no reason. It’s completely pointless and had no relevance, neither did the entire show apparently haha 😂
"I made a funny". Achara so cute! Ive only ever read Spider-Man saying that in the 80s, never heard anyone say that out loud lol ps We NEED Achara and Krystens Deadpool and Wolverine review! 😭
Also one very important factor needs to be considered. The time of the Republic with Obi Wan and Anakin and leading into the Clone Wars was the Jefi's "weakest" point in terms of how collwctively powerful they were. Sidius being right under their noses and operating with impunity actively took away from their power. He threw the Jedi into chaos. There's no Sith Lord here doing that. EVERY SINGLE JEDI should be a great deal more powerful and impressive than Obi Wan or Anakin. Sol not being able to hold TWO small children???? Extremely unlikely. He should have been able to not only save both, but Force Yeet them right at his side.
I could barely make it through episode one. How many tween leads must there be in films nowadays? This trend is totally driven by consultants who think kiddie-led movies are what the audience wants. News flash: no. For me, the protagonist in the Acolyte is annoying and boring. Nothing against the actress. It's more of a slam against the writers, producers, and the studio for spewing out yet another factory made series to try and cash in on the SW brand. Put some effort into the story and stop with using kids as the leads.
Tween leads? The girl is in her mid20s lol. Even the other padawan are in their 20s/30s. Your opinion is entirely valid, but I think the main character was probably the best part (probably due to the main actress doing a great job). I’m with you on the writing though… i almost wish we didn’t know what happened in the past lol. They built up so much momentum just to drop the ball, setting everything on misunderstandings. All that being said, please watch a show in full before having an opinion. Don’t just watch one episode.
Nothing against the actress- you mean the actress who made a terrible homemade rap song about how everyone criticizing the show was racist? Yeah she's a peach.
I am so glad I didn't watch that shit show. I am also thankful that Ryan George made this expose to show how truly cringe it was. Why people would be interested in a show by Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant to his crimes, is beyond me.
Jaby you didn't notice the "don't hold the bridges, hold the girls". I need to rewatch your reaction of that scene in the show because I can't believe that. I thought you commented about that.
It seems the dark side truly has taken over the force that we call Disney Star Wars. Now, is there balance? Are there just as many good Star Wars as there are bad?