The Acolyte - Disney Plus Star Wars Series

[jvmacross]

https://gizmodo.com/disney-acolyte-cancelation-costs-lucasfilm-star-wars-2000541990

[Thom]

I like one of the reviewers saying it was 'so god-awefully terrible,' but they watched it twice anyway... C'mon!

[azrael]

4 hours ago, jvmacross said:

https://gizmodo.com/disney-acolyte-cancelation-costs-lucasfilm-star-wars-2000541990

Yeah, we kinda got wiff of that reasoning back in July/August when they announced the cancellation. It really costed twice the amount The Mandolorian costed per episode and didn't garner as much ROI.

[Seto Kaiba]

6 hours ago, jvmacross said:

https://gizmodo.com/disney-acolyte-cancelation-costs-lucasfilm-star-wars-2000541990

Yeah, that's about what I'd expect in terms of Disney trying to frame the show's cancellation in suitably neutral corporate language.

Instead of saying "we didn't think it would flop like this", you say "we were happy with it, but it did not meet expectations".  Instead of "audiences hated it", "engagement was good but not as high as we'd have liked it to be".  Instead of "we cancelled this because making season two would be like burning a quarter of a billion dollars in the parking lot" you say "it wasn't where we needed it to be in terms of cost performance".  

 

5 hours ago, Thom said:

I like one of the reviewers saying it was 'so god-awefully terrible,' but they watched it twice anyway... C'mon!

Some folks want to be thorough and not base their whole review just on a first impression.  I can respect that.

It's similar to how I tend to refuse to drop a show partway even if I don't like it because it doesn't feel fair to criticize the work as a whole based on just part of it.

[Thom]

2 hours ago, Seto Kaiba said:

Some folks want to be thorough and not base their whole review just on a first impression.  I can respect that.

It's similar to how I tend to refuse to drop a show partway even if I don't like it because it doesn't feel fair to criticize the work as a whole based on just part of it.

I get that, but if I don't like something, I don't finish it and then watch it again, and still complain that it's not good. As far as I'm concerned, it someone didn't like it the first time but went through it again, they secretly did like it, but don't want to admit it to themselves.😉

 

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Thom

[pengbuzz]

53 minutes ago, Thom said:

I get that, but if I don't like something, I don't finish it and then watch it again, and still complain that it's not good. As far as I'm concerned, it someone didn't like it the first time but went through it again, they secretly did like it, but don't want to admit it to themselves.😉

Yeah, not like it's going to suck less with repeated viewings, right?

I think they should do a Season 2, but:

Spoiler

Both main characters gain a ton of weight and get really big.

They can title it The Acoheavy.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by pengbuzz

[Big s]

5 minutes ago, pengbuzz said:

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Both main characters gain a ton of weight and get really big.

They can title it The Acoheavy.

Maybe that should be for the son of Jabba. Maybe give it a slight tweak to your title and call it the Anchovy and be the reverse of the Whale where the son is just too thin for other Hutts to take seriously, so he’s gotta go through some serious weight gain training to be able to eventually take his father’s throne.

[Big s]

1 hour ago, Thom said:

I get that, but if I don't like something, I don't finish it and then watch it again, and still complain that it's not good. As far as I'm concerned, it someone didn't like it the first time but went through it again, they secretly did like it, but don't want to admit it to themselves.😉

 

 

 

It’s possible, I didn’t like it, but can only handle it once. Although I do have to admit that I liked Smilo Ren totally destroying those Jedi and especially Watching her die still brings me great pleasure and I like rewatching that triple tap over and over and try to pretend the rest of the show didn’t exist 

[Seto Kaiba]

2 hours ago, Thom said:

I get that, but if I don't like something, I don't finish it and then watch it again, and still complain that it's not good. As far as I'm concerned, it someone didn't like it the first time but went through it again, they secretly did like it, but don't want to admit it to themselves.😉

What I recall from the one film studies class I took in college, film enthusiasts generally recommended to watch a film two or more times to fully appreciate it.

Most people wouldn't, if they really hated it, but there are some sticklers out there.  (Not to mention Star Wars fans determined to catch every little easter egg and bit of lore.)

FWIW, I only watched The Acolyte once.  If it hadn't been so offensively awful I might've done it twice just to make sure I was taking it all in.  But nope, no thank you, once was once too many for this hot mess.

Edited 1 hour ago by Seto Kaiba