The Acolyte Season 1 Finale Review: Another Epic Disney Star Wars FAIL 

My apologies to anyone who gets "All I wanted was a badass Wookiee" stuck in their head. That's another of my AI songs and it's stuck in my head so . . .

Justice for Sol. They threw the best actor in the show under the bus.

I agree so much with the “why can’t we have a heroic Jedi story?” My exact sentiment.

"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb" someone on the writing staff clearly didn't understand Spaceballs was not being serious

Anakin slaughtering sand people because his mother enslaved and killed, so, yeah super angry: blue lightsaber Anakin chopping off Mace Windus hand because>>>Palpatine dead>>>>Padme probably dead: blue lightsaber Anakin accepting the name 'Darth Vader', kills younglings, kills separatists, fights his father figure/brother after force choking Padme then thinking Obi Wan 'turned her against me' and fights him: blue lightsaber Luke snapping on his father on the 2nd Death Star after the life of his sister is threatened, chops off Vaders hand after lightsaber is beaten from Vaders hand: green lightsaber. Acolyte: I just got super angry and now my lightsaber is red. The concept of bleeding a kyber crystal is canon, sure, but it wasn't executed well with the inconsistency,. Agreed on the not earned and RotJ being my favorite, ESB is better.

The old Christopher Lee quote “Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.” BAZIL is the MVP.

She surely stares him to death - the same way she's looked at the audience and everything for 7 entire episodes.

andor, rouge one, the og trilogy then the thrawn trilogy and that's it! I don't think I've ever agreed with a statement more! could you imagine if instead of the prequel trilogy they would have given us tim zahn's books on film? what a waste

It's just honestly so disheartening and disgusting that they jetisoned all the EU. Only to repurpose it's mangled corpse that has the frame of Star Wars; but its clear after it walks and talk; that it is a monstrosity.

We've gone from the Sith seeking power through selfish, often murderous, violent actions and the Jedi seeking power through selflessness to a moral relativism that just doesn't work in the Star Wars universe. I've often heard people say that A Song of Ice and Fire is comprised of 'grey ' characters who are 'not black or white, good or bad', but it's just not true. It's a more complex world than, say, Star Wars, but good and bad still exist in Westeros. It's that struggle between the good and the bad where the real drama is able to unfold - and, unfortunately, that means 'objectively good' and 'objectively bad' have to exist, else that drama would not be able to exist. When you remove that, you get stories like The Acolyte. We're living in a time when the folks who are chosen to tell their stories to the wider world do not share the same values - or even aspire to the same values - as the creators who came before them. The people telling their stories now don't seem to aspire to anything more than convincing the rest of the world that their ideas are better than traditional ones. I expect we'll be getting more shows like The Acolyte. Whether anyone will continue to tune in to watch any future travesties is another story.

Another example of a show written in search of clicks and views ($$$), not creative and inspired story telling. This is what we have come to expect from large corporations that have swallowed up big popular IPs.

The last scene is bad because, as you say, it drags Yoda into this mess. It's also a reminder that the showrunner cast her own spouse in a major role. That questionable decision reminds me of another disappointment: Godfather III.

I wonder how Yoda forgot all about this... He was over 800 years old as he'd previously been training Jedi for 800 years when first met Luke. And Grogu was still (stupidly) a toddler at 50... So we know it must have taken (due to their basic failure to understand the biology of long-lived species) over a 100 years for Yoda to be old enough to train.

"De-canonize everything after the original trilogy other than Andor and Rogue One (and re add the Thrawn Trilogy)" Thank you! Bad world building just cheapens the originals. Its better to do nothing than create this wave of terrible shows and movies.

Sooooooo, Green Bald Jedi appears to be bringing Yoda into this clusterfuck? Shure….why not, he was the only thing left unsoiled in the Star Wars universe….this puts a perfect finish onto this arc. They had to destroy the hero’s, because there are no such thing as hero’s anymore. 😭

Kathleen Kennedy and her husband are worth in excess of $400M and are a Hollywood and Entertainment power couple. I don't think she can be pushed out at Disney. She is 71 though so we can hope she retires in the not too distant future.

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” Joseph Campbell

Venestra is covering things up because shes the one thats responsbile for Darth Muscles Qirmir and shes just trying to cover her own ass which is gonna be the big mystery for season 2, because of course Headlands wife has to be the most important character in the series who is the root of the entire thing cuz nepotism.

Amandla Stoneface ("Sten" in "Stenberg" is Danish/Swedish/Norwegian for "stone".)

It's all silly! Jedi bad - Sith good. Yoda: If he knows about the incident he's scum - if he's getting played he's dumb-dumb :-( And why is rat-face-tracker sabotaging the ship?

Totally agree with you about de-canonising everything except. OT, Andor and Rogue One. Totally love Andor and just hope they can land S2.

Agree about the Osha force choking Sol scene, I wasn't even sure she was doing it as she had no emotion, then having killed him, she didn't seem to give a shit. A real shame Sol is dead, as he was one of the good things about the show, season 2 will be worse without him. Mae and Osha I couldn't care less about, at least Qimir survived - more of him in season 2 please. Also WTF was Basil doing? Why did he sabotage the Sol's ship?

“All I Wanted Was a Badass Wookiee” should start touring the world with their new hit single. I can’t wait to hear the debuts of “Stupid Sexy Sith” and “Was Sol Really That Bad of a Guy?”.

- That intro haha! I think we all wanted a BA Wookie - Bad writing. This feels like fanfic, not a tv show from an epic franchise. - Amandla's acting was... not quite the level it needed to be for that role. - I like a little mystery. Agreed, stop feeling the need to explain everything. - I really dislike the way they portray the Jedi in this. Did they all have to be such idiots? - We needed more Sith story. Such a waste. - Needed 8 1hr episodes (and a few good writers) to flesh things out a bit more. Final thoughts: This was straight up money laundering.

I don't know if anyone else feels this way....but for those of us who watched the original movies as children....this hurts. We had to wait YEARS in between each movie and back then it was a series everyone loved and couldn't wait for the next one. Now we are older and if not wiser....more experienced. So the things that I think newer (younger, less experienced) viewers think is either cool (ohhhhh, lets take something thats seen as "good" and twist it....make it "evil") or think these "twists" are something new and smart. OH and perhaps even there is something of seeing the breadcrumbs left by the writers and when they make the connection a little lightbulb goes off in their head....OH....wait.....I see it...the DEEPER meaning....there is no deeper meaning....not very often...not when you have a knowledge of how movies are made and stories are written.....I'm going back under my rock. 😭

You're right about the effects of the dad and the purchasing power. I'm the one who buys movie tickets. I'm the one who buys the kids Funko pops, Lego and Star Wars Mechandise. Yes, I bought merch for The Mandalorian, but nothing since. I'm so annoyed at Disney, I've told my family I'll take them to Universal Studios and not Disney land when we visit the US next year.

I’m with you 100% that the pacing problem could be resolved by making this a two hour movie rather than an 8 episode series!

I’m glad I watched your reviews instead of the show itself. From the sounds of it there’s more genuine fun to be had conducting an autopsy.

Im appreciating your insights on RU-vid. I’d read some articles of yours that got pushed to me and usually agreed. Best thing of Acolyte was discovering you had a RU-vid channel.

Speaking of mind wipes, I wish someone could mind wipe me and just leave the OT in my head.

Do you think the primary reason why all of these writers deconstruct the Jedi (and Star Wars in general) is because it’s an easy way to feign creativity, or because they want to impress their peers by showing how smart and edgy they are?

The "Jedi Bad" is just an allegory for "Police Reform" It starts as we learn with Venestra saying in Episode 1 that if they report the murders to the Jedi Council, the Senate will get involved. Adara saying to Sol in episode 7 that "they should not report this to the Jedi Council" citing that Osha (Just like the Federal Safety Agecy's name) will be taken away or outcast. I don't understand why they would be any less accepting of an older Padawan if they told "the truth". That Senator wanting the Jedi to have an external review is something that Venestra causes by the opacity of her acts. As if she is playing spoiler so the Jedi are diminished. In short, Jedi are space cops, all cops are bad therefore Jedi bad. The one thing that I disliked the most outside of the ping-pong deathmatch of character motivation, was the implicating of Yoda in any sort of malfeasance. None of it made sense to me. I didn't understand the character's motivations or their motivations were so all over the map it was hard to follow. Also problematic is having Ki-Adi-Mundi, who proclaimed when Qui-Gon Jinn told the story of Darth Maul attacking him on Tatooine “Impossible. The Sith have been extinct for a millennium.” have some knowledge of a force sensitive attacking and killing Jedi, possibly a Sith, 50 years before he was supposed to be born. They were messing with the Rule of Two, by showing Tenebrous/Plagueis. I agree with you, this whole thing with Sol "murdering" the space witch doesn't hold up. She started transforming into a black tendriled force cloud with black eyes and long sharp teeth and the girl started dissolving too at that same time. That looks pretty suspect at the very least. That's kinda like saying, the officer is guilty of murder because he shot the guy pointing the gun at him before the officer got hit with a bullet. The frustrating thing is that there are elements of this whole series that if you were to describe it at a high level as two sisters who have a shared trauma relating to the Jedi which has put them down opposite paths. They are both very powerful in The Force and have to reconcile their destiny within It from very different philosophical perspectives that will cast doubts over how justified the Jedi are as a force of peace throughout the galaxy. There is a lot you can do within this premise in the hands of good writers. Sadly that has not been the case in this series.

When you think something's way funnier than it really is.... Air-ick, Error ick, Errik, Urric, Areic, Erik!

Think the most impressive thing, was the writers remembering they reset Pip a few episodes back, and paid it off in this episode.

I gotta say as someone you mostly likes the prequels, i have always thought Anakins story was bad. You can't come back from slaughtering a room of 10 year olds. For me it just ruins lukes fight to save his father.

It boggles my mind that Leslye Headland was given a Star Wars show and the first thing she did was write an incoherent story about how powerful people cover up a series of crimes that everyone surely had knowledge of. Have ye no shame?

Erik I have to agree that the lead actress struggled to emote. However it is the Directors goal to draw out of the actor that emotion if they are not giving it. I think more blame should be laid at the feet of the Directors decision making in this instance.

Re the prequels: One of the most baffling things to happen as I got older is suddenly people think the prequels are good. At first I thought it was irony... You know, just joking around. Being funny. But people really believe the prequels were good. A lot of them. It's amazing.

Agree that we don't need to know everything about everyone's backstory, origin, etc. And canon should only be Rogue One, Andor & original trilogy.

In my opinion the Acolyte would have made a better show if it was a loose adaptation of the Plagueis novel. That book is way too sophisticated for the writers of the Acolyte to do justice to so who do you get to be the head writer and show runner….Beau Willimon. And then have him transform the show into a cross between Star Wars and House of Cards with political intrigue and shady corporate dealings, assassinations and secret plotting behind the scenes just like in the book. Elevate the story of the beginning of the fall of the Jedi and the Republic and the rise of the Sith to a smart political thriller like Andor elevates Star Wars. There are many ways the show could be better and mine is just one opinion and it was what I actually was hoping the show would be. The original pitch had the potential to be that anyway.

You need a much bigger audience my friend.

Hayden Christensen as Anakin in Revenge Of The Sith and Cindel(Aubree Miller) and Charal(Sian Philips) in Battle For Endor are good examples of a tragic hero turned villain, a tragic heroine and an evil villainess witch DONE RIGHT! And that was back in 1985 and 2005. Older Star Wars was the best.

I’ve really appreciated your reviews throughout this root canal of a show. It leaves me ever more frustrated that Star Wars fans can’t receive a game of thrones quality show. House of the Dragon is awesome tv based off a book taken from the giant universe that is game of thrones. And it does all of that while also having a diverse cast. For this period of star wars, the Darth Plagueis book already filled in the timeline. It follows the Sith, tells their story, and makes the Jedi look like fools because they fail to ever detect the Sith directly in their midst. Instead we got whatever this was.

Osha and Mae may be the single worse protagonist in all of fantasy and sci fi history, from performance, written, aesthetic and morality. At least Morfyd clark as Galadriel was a good actress.

Erik, thank you for watching and reviewing this show. One of the highlights was the music YOU used!

"Black Fleet Crisis" should be canon. That could have its own movie/game.

I agree with you, Erik. Star Wars, to me, has always been the first three movies. Personally, I’m fine with just the original (A New Hope), it’s a complete film: it has a beginning, a middle and an end. I think Disney or whoever, looks at Star Wars as if it’s Star Trek- countless episodes in several seasons and a few spinoff series. But for myself this franchise has always been 3 movies (pre-Special Editions) and that’s it. However Andor was an amazing show. I don’t feel Rogue One was needed, though I enjoyed it. Great analysis as usual, Erik.

i’d like a 3 part series on the max reebo story, with lesbians and green girl bosses

I think they should have gone all in on The Mandalorian/Ahsoka era. A fractured galaxy, new factions rising, the jedi order being rebuilt. No side projects like the acolyte and a focus on good writing, not representation at the expense of quality.

A few months later: "Hello, welcome my brother!" said "Willow" series to "The Acolyte", the new inhabitant, recently arrived, to the Pavilion of Hidden Failures.

Amazing what passes for writing at LF. I honestly want to know what the creative process was for this? How did the script get to this? This entire show feels like half translated ideas. Everything is abbreviated and deprived of substance, leaving a bald sentence where we could have had a chapter. The other thing that dawned on me was that jedi was outright meant to be uncharacteristic of actual jedi. Leslye takes this vetted sector of "jedi" and runs off it to develop a reason that pushes Osha to the dark side. Unfortunately, it doesn't work because this is not talented writing. There's no nuance or additional depth to the offenders or muddied by qimir to help Osha's fragmented memory of the event get painted in a light that is suitable for this guy to use. There's so many creative ways you could have made jedi bad to the protagonists without beating the audience over the head as Sol is quickly butchered to generate this idea of an obsessive murderer. This would normally make him unsympathetic but since the development that is done is so uncompelling for demonstrating that Sol has any malicious blame, they then have this corrupt and incompetent jedi master vernestra use his legacy as a dirty rag for no believable reason. It just feels disgraceful because it is so blatant. Throwing in the senator who spurns them as a cult in this extended exchange with vernestra who has no real answer and couldn't give one anyways because her character is the worst possible interpretation of a jedi, a power hungry hypocrite who's loyal to their interpretation of the jedi mandate. I could go on. I wanted something good. This story was too complex to write for whoever actually made this. And LF said, "Good job, send it out."

I despise this show too. Not because it's bad or incompetent, that's forgivable. But because it's executed in such a mean-spirited and spiteful way, with a sneering impunity that just erupts out of the screen, out of every ludicrous explainer interview that Headland does, and the mind-blowingly poor choices for press and mid-season PR. It's appalling. Here's a test: who wins? who loses? And the answer to that is all anyone need know about the messaging.

I was just thinking this, backstories should stay back there. Besides, the only question I want answered is why did Vader say "no disintegrations!" to Boba in ESB. Make a movie about that!

Glad you covered the acting. Emotions are missing in most of today’s acting. It Is boring AF.

You had me at "Badass Wookie" 😂😂😂

Another clever IA song. Cute.

‘Did I tell you the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise’ ‘He was an introvert, very very shy, he would hide in his cave room whenever their were guests over’

OH Erik....seeing what you are doing with AI and creating songs...I think its nothing to be worried about. If anything we should be getting some better songs in the future....can't wait to see what they do with movies. It can't be worse than this shite....Thanks for the great review...been waiting all week for this!

They didn't lie when they said it was mystery. I spent the whole eight episodes asking myself why at every turn.

Time to rewatch Revenge Of The Sith and Ewoks The Battle For Endor again. I love those movies.

It’s like Frodo…you can never go back. Every word building genius who goes back to do a continuation of their original masterpiece…it always gets weird. Rather than create new storylines, they retcon their original characters to death and make all the characters somehow related to each other.

At the original movies, the packed theaters of fans stood up and clapped and cheered after the movie was over. When was the last time you had that feeling or reaction? Have you experienced that in a theater before? Disney is VERY far off from creating that level of fan appreciation, that level of quality, or that level of reaction. It would be smart for them to at least learn, listen, or feign curiosity in what created that, what elements were essential, or what *universally* resonated. I would assert, regardless of whether you liked the Acolyte or not, this content is not close to any resemblance of that type of reaction, and is clearly missing what created that level of universal and fanatic appeal.

100% true. It is madness to keep catering to a customer that either isn't there or doesn't support the franchise.

Post an outline of an 8 episode show, set in the Star Wars universe, 1 hour each episode. Using your murder mystery theme/police procedural idea. I really want to see that fleshed out. Use the cast of players from the Acolyte series or make all your own or any cast of charters you like. How about Ashoka, with her legit padawan, can be Sabine or maybe use a young Rey and just use this story as a way to uncanonize TFA and the rest and take the Jedi on a new being as part of Lukes's new Jedi order, maybe Ashoka will live as long as Yoda now because of the world between worlds and her age will not be an issue. I don't know. If you do I will run a D20 Star Wars game with that main plot line or run my players through the murder mystery.

Thanks for your reviews on all these series. I stopped watching Star Wars after Kenobi so I count on you to keep me up to date on what they are doing without having to suffer through the actual shows. You are way more entertaining (and spot on in your analysis)

Erik, I'm with you on the Vader, Luke, and Palps scene at the end of ROTJ. I get chills and tear up every time I watch it. Even with a "face" that cannot physically emote (because it's and actual mask), as Vader looks back and forth between the Emperor and his son, the force lightning flashes on Vader's helmet, you can "see" the emotions and thoughts going through his head. Ugh. Chills.

"Versootraboosha"...yes, for me that is that characters name from now on for me😂😂😂😂😂😂

my initial reaction to seeing stuff about The Acolyte was "you know I think I'll just re-watch some episodes of Visions instead" and it sounds like that was the right choice. There was even one already about twins created through the force where one is good and the other is bad

Darth Goose Plague sounds terrifying

Awh yeah! More Wookie songs! Also, nothing in this show was earned, not a single thing. Amandela Stenberg is a terrible actor and the fight scenes in this episode were laughably bad.

Have you ever heard the tale of death plaug, pluewgus, playgieus, plagius, plagious 😅

We're not going to get heroic Jedi because third-wave feminist don't believe in the classic heroic journey framed by sacrifice, growth, failure and redemption. This is particularly true with a male protagonist. The problem is they don't have an ethically satisfying story structure to replace those time-tested elements. Worse, the producers don't care about the quality of the writing even when that is clearly one of the reasons people aren't watching. It is the soul that has been stripped out of these IPs and we are left with the veneer.

Lesbian Headcramp knows what she is missing at home after seeing Smilo's "lightsaber"....😏😏😏😎😎😎

I agree with you regarding Jedi. I think the scene where Luke surrenders to Vader on Endor is one of the best dialogue scenes in the original trilogy. The (It is to late for me son) scene

I consider the prequels 3 of the 6 Star Wars movies. I saw Return of the Jedi 3 time in the theater when I was 6, so it took a lot to come after. But I was happy with the prequels. Definitely. This show, like kenobi and boba and the like are just shameful.

Andor and Rogue One are examples of how backstory can work and be entertaining. I think the problem was the whole witch / brendock story line, rather than the twins. So many irrational decisions and manufactured drama. They could have spent more time with plageius, showing him to plant the idea of the Jedi in a young Osha's head, and the idea of saving Osha's in Sol's head. But without justification for those irrational decisions, it felt unearned. Bazil too....why sabotage the ship?

It is a rare moment when i can say that i wholeheartedly agree with someone. Thanks for making that moment happen with this review.

Show so bad doesn’t deserve review

Absolutely agree that the throne room scene from Return of the Jedi is the apex of the franchise and everything since has been middling to bad.

You’re falling into the same trap as the “BUT KI ADI MUNDI can’t know about the Sith!!!” people. After the first season, we NOW know that Ki DOESN’T know about the Sith. We don’t know what V is going to tell Yoda. So Yoda is not complicit in anything - yet.

For the writers is Sol's affective attachment to Osha is supposed to be a weakness? Is their reasoning something like "if anger is a negative vis-a-vis the Force, then so is love and the desire to protect a child from harm"? I found Sol's willful love and emotion for Osha to be wonderful qualities that should have moved her at least in the direction of understanding Sol's actions, not rage.

I can't get over how bad the actress of Mae and Osha was in this show. The same blank stare all season no matter what situation she was in. Truly awful acting

My son was 10 when we saw the last Jedi. He turned to me and said, “that’s the best movie ever.” Seven years later he doesn’t even care about Star Wars. He watched way more than I did too. He watched the clone wars and he loved the prequels. Star Wars has lost 3 generations of fans. The OT, prequel and sequel fans have all gone away. All that’s left are the shills saying let’s go and redacting to colours. I was 10 when I saw Return of the Jedi. It was the first Star Wars movie I saw in theatres. Empire is a better movie but Jedi will always have a soft spot in my heart. It’s because it’s the first time we final see Luke doing something impressive. In a New Hope he gets the lucky shot, in empire he gets his ass kicked but in Jedi he is in control and fighting everyone.

Amandla Stenberg had to play Osha, Mae, Osha pretending to be Mae, Mae pretending to be Osha, dark side Osha and not so dark side Mae. And every one of those performances felt very similar. Just look at what Tatiana Maslany did on Orphan Black. Every one of her characters felt like a different person. And I don't want to blame the actress for that - this is probably more a failure in directing.

I had an issue with Sol's heavy accent. I had to turn subtitles on to understand what he was saying. He's a fine actor, but damn that is one think accent!

Osha's "journey" was an object lesson in terrible writing. Dragged along without agency by the plot for 3/4 of the show and then thrust into the limelight by nonsensical character shifts and contrivance plot development. As you say, nothing she does is earned or has ANY continuity of character. She not a "character" at all in fact. She's a tool of the plot. Awful show coming from someone who has watched every minute of Disney Lucasfilm live action without too much effort up to this point. 2/10 for the series.

I completely agree with you. There is so much wrong with every single scene of this episode. I felt so confused as nothing made sense, such as why couldn't the blood test be used as evidence for the vergence? My brain is numb. It just contradicted the PT and even the OT, by recontextualising George's Star Wars. I see this show and especially this episode as a huge f...u to George. I saw a lot of copy and paste from the OT and PT, the Sol and Qimir fight scene ( channeling of Anakin and Obi Wan, not as intense and as good) and how Osha turned to the dark side and becoming powerful ( channeling Anakin), implying she is more powerful than Anakin. Even the end scene with Qimir and Osha is a reflection of Luke and Leia's scene from ESB, but this is the dark version. This episode blatantly depicted how evil the Jedi are and the Sith aren't that bad, because of justified reasons to turn to the dark side.

You've made a strong argument that that Anakin scene maybe deserves more respect. He definitely had emotion. lol edit - i would argue that the clone wars series was overall fantastic.

It was so poorly written it makes you ask, why are there producers that are failing upwards in Disney? This could have been a good show. But the story at the centre of it is deliberately full of big gaping holes. You can't get people invested in things with shaky foundations. Just terrible writing.

No , Return of the Jedi is definitely the best of the trilogy. The end with Palpatine, the beginning with Luke in black and super confident and the forest planet. Everything in Star Wars is sand or metal

I still dont understand how they spent 180 million dollars on this. Far better series have been made with much less money than that.

Writing teachers should assign kids to watch The Acolyte and then write papers on all the various ways the writing sucked. The kids would like it more than reading Ivanhoe but the basics of storytelling apply regardless. (Bonus assignment: watch Game of Thrones and rewrite the ending.) It wasn't till I saw the full series that I realized there were two huge flaws. #1 the story begins with the Jedi on a mission to discover the "vergence" of the Force on the Nightsisters' planet. Why? What would happen if they failed to discover it? Would the galaxy explode? Everything that happens in the story happens because of their urgency on this mission, but it was never clarified what's at stake. They barged into someone else's home and tried to lure their children away. What the hell? They blathered on like bigots about how evil the Nightsisters are. I never saw anything evil about them. That one Nightsister was pretty assertive about defending her children, who she gave birth to, hello. I don't think that's a crime. The Jedi justified their atrocious behavior because they had to find the vergeance and the twins were proof. If the galaxy was going to explode if they fail, fine. Trespass and kidnap children. If it's just something to put in your report to the Jedi Council which will just sit on a shelf, hell no. Get lost and leave the Nightsisters alone. The whole story had a huge honkin'' plot hole at the center. Everything else could have worked and it still would have sucked. #2 Why did the twins need to be "the same person" and not twins? They never once did anything that wouldn't have worked just as well if they had been twins. The concept behind the lead character was, I'm not sure flawed is the right word. Irrelevant is the right word. Plot hole story + irrelevant lead character. No season 2. And Disney, please be more careful who you hire in the future. Make sure they know how to write a competent story first.

When your director (showrunner) is a sociopath….what do you expect?

To me, this "show" is a damning indictment on a whole host of issues that I truly cannot condense into a few words, but the easiest and most important portion of failure is the story. It's derivative of a derivative and comes across as complete amateur hour at every turn. The feel of scenes being outbof sequence and jammed together with little to no coherence is a sign this thing was chopped up and stiched back together with zero narrative consideration in editing. The acting in this show was atrocious too. As much flak as the prequels get for being hammy as all get out, at least those characters were consistent from scene to scene. This show is like a fever dream for a lot of it. Just a bizarre and utterly terrible experience as a whole.

The 1 thing I'll take away from this shttshow of a show is Mae attempting to wear a helment (for some reason) in the escape ship. Comedy gold!

None of this was earned. Just like Headland did nothing to earn a shot at Star Wars itself.

I've been generally neutral to negative about this show, but what really made me laugh out loud was the little (and rather unnecessary) transition when Mae was escaping and said "see you in hell, jedi." this show is just bad...

I think your point about the target audience was what I agreed with most. It’s time for Disney to look at Marvel and Star Wars and admit they lost their audience in a misguided attempt to be inclusive. I think alienating your core audience is bad business but Disney seems to be more about pushing a moral message than truly entertaining.

Why do they always cover everything up.... Leslye Headland wanted JEDI = BAD!

Disney and Star Wars has become a contradiction in terms.