Yes because that gimmick wore off and got old quick, I knew it would. If they had kept Grogu with Luke could have actually developed him into a actual "Character" and not a *muppet*.
He was meant to go on to become a Jedi padawan with Luke teaching him at a temple for the new Jedi Order. They messed it all up. It was so obvious and so easy to create a cool kids show out of it for years to come, like a Hogwarts in space, with spin-off movies and everything. Wacky adventures every week, and tons of merchandising opportunities to fund new seasons that could see a rotating roster of characters, both old and new. I don't know what went wrong. I'm okay with Mando season 3, but I don't know how we got The Acolyte instead of at least a Grogu spin-off of 8 episodes training to be a Jedi; it could have given more weight to his decision to go back with Din, and even introduced the audience to a few new young Jedi characters to cameo or feature in upcoming films and series. Instead, it's a skinnydipping sith after murdering some Jedi having a confused relationship with some twin sisters that he's trying different ways to seduce to the dark side. How'd this happen? Is this even still planet Earth? What dimension is this?
@@ian8477 Well what happened was the Mando creator and showrunner Jon Favreau, he basically kind of snuck Luke Skywalker in there, into that story right under Kennedy's nose and she was a Exec Producer of The Mandalorian. If you watch the making of featurette for the Season 2 Finale episode - "The Rescue" showing how they made that episode. It reveals a number of insightful details. 1. Favreau and his own team of people along with the director he hired Payton Reid, all shot the Luke Skywalker fight scenes and his eventual reveal right at the end, inside of One Single Day. Favreau said they did this because they had to be quick, why? Perhaps because Favreau was doing this entirely secretly from Kathleen Kennedy, her teams and especially her - "Lucasfilm Story Group" so that they would not find out. 2. Jon Favreau purposefully had the name changed of the "Jedi" who shows up to rescue Grogu and the group, to none other than - "Plo Koon" in all of the Scripts for that final episode. One of the first people who received scripts for EVERY production that's going into filming is the Executive Producer, AND especially the CEO of the company, so in this case - Kathleen Kennedy; she has to sign off and approve that script, making sure everything is to her liking, otherwise it doesn't start filming. Look at how just recently, she has been sending notes back to the Rey movie writer - Steven Knight, telling him all the things she wants included in that movie. which is why the Rey movie has been halted. It was actually supposed to start filming like NOW. Kathleen Kennedy has alot of power and influence over every startwars production at Lucasfilm, obviously because she's the CEO.
1: Basil is a mouse, not a rat 2: Ratigan is a rat, not a mouse 3: ‘The Great Mouse Detective’ is a criminally underrated movie 4: The Basil in ‘The Acolyte’ is a poser
In 1977 (I was 6) I had a Han Solo blaster. It was plastic but it was full scale with great detail. Purchased at Sears for about $10 dollars. THATS the kind of items they should sell. But you’re right; no one is going to care next year. Also: $180 million dollars!?!! I smell embezzlement. There is fan made stuff that is way better written and performed for a fraction of the cost.
The show is lingering on stuff. The weird thing is that the original Star Wars never lingered on ships nor items. It was part of the style of story telling it once rmployed
Bazil however stupid absolutely fits the starwars kids item and is good marketing at the cost of story. It is just the 'jar-jar, ewok, porg' of the series. I did not get the feel of a waynes world product placement on the sweatshirt, now that you have said it, i imagine it will stick out forever. That being said the outfit does fit to robe motif of starwars mixed a bit with Rey's style so it isnt out of the pallette of the universe (like the calimari sweater) and comes off as reasonable merchandising. If only they could make likeable characters with consistent motivations and explainable choices the dould have a good show. But it seems to come down to Yougarts true knowledge. "Merchandising, where the real money from the fill is made" Acolyte: the plush toy, acolyte: the trendy sweater, acolyte: the flaming poo.
So many talented up and coming screen writers dying for a chance and we keep getting the same incompetent people churning out bad MCU/Star Wars/etc scripts.
Disney, Kennedy they want their "Star Wars" to directly reflect this modern real world right now today. They're always talking about it, and you hear the writers etc keep saying - "updating for the modern audience" that's code for what they're doing.
“New modern audience” is just a lie they call when something is doing so bad as acolyte. The isn’t any modern audience. They want you to accept what they produce or you are “worse kind of audience”. Don’t accept this. It’s just a product, not a project. They are capitalizing on the audience that loved SW for years and years. They want your money, but they want to call it progressive, trans, lesbian, cut your balls and breast audience. Conform to our voice! Kennedy is cancer.
What's bizarre to me, is seeing all the people effusively praising the show and claiming they're enjoying it. It's painfully boring and atrociously written. It seems like a reflexive overcompensation for the backlash and "hate". It's contrived artificial astroturf fans. "Sol Patrol, Yord Horde, Oshamir shippers" Extremely inauthentic
The head of The Acolyte merch needs to make a toy collectible burning dumpster with a gopher peeking out. The next time you watch The Acolyte unfold, Remember the gopher, brave and bold, Merch collectible, with cute furry fur, Tracking Jedi-his destiny obscure.
I love the Acolyte but you are right about the merch. I want to get some action figures. The stranger would be awesome to add to my collection … I mean sons collection
I didn't finish The Book of Boba Fett, and I may not finish The Acolyte. I don't know why it's so hard for Lucasfilm to understand, story first, all else second. Fans will forgive A LOT if the story is good.
sounds like they are attacking the cosplay industry, people take pride in making difficult replications, not something as simple as putting on regular clothes.
I stopped watching the Disney stuff a while back, it’s just so bad. Granted it’s not a “world” I was ever super into except for the first two films when they were first released. Love your vids as always. -Paul J.
