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In the new book *The Art of Star Wars: The Acolyte, *a scene that has been long speculated about, but never confirmed to have existed, has been revealed: a kiss between protagonist Osha (Amandla Stenberg) and antagonist Qimir (Manny Jacinto).
A black witch teams up with a Sith to expose the hypocrisy and corruption of the Old Republic Jedi order. It's surprising this thing ever got made.
Along with Andor, this was a stab at Star Wars for grown ups and it's a shame they killed it.
It was canceled because it was bad.
Qimir was great and I think the big lightsaber fight is some of the best in live action star wars.
However, the story is horribly under developed and is full of nepotism. I don't care that the setting is a lesbian witch commune, I do care that the showrunner hired her wife, who's acting is so bad, I spent the first scenes she's in wondering how she got the job.
The trailers hyped Carrie-Anne Moss and positioned the show almost as a star war version of The Matrix type action, only to kill her character almost immediately.
Sol is incredibly creepy.
I recently rewatched it to see if I would come away with a different feeling, but no, I agree with most of this. I didn’t know about the nepotism, but that tracks.
Sol was the worst. His motivations were creepy, his emotional attachment and paternalism to Osha was unhealthy even for a non Jedi.
The more the story of Osha’s “kidnapping” was fleshed out, the more frustrating the whole thing became. Sol was selfish, presumptuous, and motivated by personal feelings.
The big lightsaber fight was devastating. It was incredible action and for sure some amazing cinematography, but
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killing all the padawanswas a huge swing that was a bit too blunt of a tonal switch for me. But I get why they did it, it had impact.
The only thing I would say is a lot of shows have rough first seasons. Even classics like Star Trek: TNG had an extremely uneven first season. Babylon 5 season 1 was pretty bad despite leading into probably the best 3 seasons of TV I've ever watched.
Exceptions like Heroes and Battlestar Galactica are rare.
The Acolyte has some rough edges but it seemed to promise a much better season 2.
Thing is, except for technically Babylon 5, which didn't really have that bad a season 1, shows that could recover were all episodic shows that didn't build on the story as it went along.
The Acolyte would have had to ass pull at levels that would make The Rise of Skywalker blush to fix that story. It was as expensive as a theatrical release and was losing them subscribers. It simply wasn't salvageable.
Did not know that. Makes sense though, her acting was indeed atrocious.
Eh I think it’s less of any story quality but rather the show had a budget of a big screen theater and Disney is penny pinching so wants projects that are established or at least have a good long term vision.