Corrupt Media Couldn’t Save ‘The Acolyte’ from Cancellation
Reporters said not to trust our eyes, ears in defending Disney+ dud
Journalists deserve an A for effort when it comes to “The Acolyte.”
The Disney+ series, part of the flailing “Star Wars” franchise, mustered tons of positive press before Monday’s news of its cancellation.
And then some.
In the four episodes shared with critics in advance, #TheAcolyte combines the classical elements that give “Star Wars” an evergreen appeal with new additions to the canon, a strong core cast and a brisk pace.
Read the review here: https://t.co/BGg3nHjNZV
— Variety (@Variety) June 4, 2024
Reporters didn’t just share updates on the series, created by Leslye Headland. They defended the saga, showered it with glowing reviews and said anyone who disagreed was a racist, sexist troll.
We all know why.
The series doubled down on Disney’s progressive agenda, from the cast’s aggressive diversity to the creation of a lesbian witch coven. The media became Disney’s extended PR team, swatting away naysayers without giving fans credit for sussing out a shoddy series.
Funny how the same sexist, racist fans loved “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” a film with a very diverse cast led by an empowered heroine (Felicity Jones).
As Rachel Zegler might say, “Weird!”
“The Acolyte” stands as one of the worst “Star Wars” projects since Disney shelled out $4 billion in 2012 to acquire the property from George Lucas. None of the press’ accusations could save the series from itself.
Woke. Dull. Terribly written. Canon-breaking themes.
For all those reasons “Star Wars” fans rejected the series, amplified by YouTube critics like Nerdrotic and The Critical Drinker.
If the pattern feels familiar, it should.
Modern journalists no longer share the news as it happens. They sculpt narratives based on their liberal biases, attacking readers along the way. It’s why serious journalists insisted video evidence of President Joe Biden’s cognitive decline were mere “cheap fakes” created by evil Republicans to take down a leader destined to grace Mt. Rushmore.
They lied. And lied. And told Americans not to trust their eyes and ears. They knew better. Until a fateful presidential debate stopped their lies. Cold.
Something similar happened from a pop culture perspective.
Audiences rejected “The Acolyte” en masse. Viewers watched the first episodes and slowly but surely abandoned the series. The ratings drooped. The show’s sizable budget stayed the same.
Disney brass crunched some numbers and called it a series.
You’ll read no apologies to Nerdrotic and co. for correctly assessing the show’s merits and dwindling fan base. Nor will we see reporters suggest the so-called “review bombing” represented real fans with real resentment over a tepid “Star Wars” series.
No.
The cycle will happen again the next time a Hollywood studio releases a woke project that must be defended at all costs.
Until it can’t.
The show had no choice but to be poorly written. The creative process is very hard; creating great fictional stories that engage is very hard. When you layer on top of that an agenda which the creative process has to fit it in- it makes the job even harder. Then when you layer on top of THAT that said agenda is a bankrupt agenda which is, at it’s core, anti-human (progressivism is, at it’s nature, anti-human flourishing), the job goes from “harder” to “impossible”. This was bound to be a failure.
I think what this process showed, as if we needed more proof of it, is just how nakedly full of crap the media has become. Frankly, I think we need to use a different word for them from here on out. Using the word “media” gives it the patina of credibility that it simply no longer has. The “media” as we know it, is really gone,
I love that all the propaganda on this show was unable to save it. This show was created by moral nihilists, funded by a wholly captured and corrupt organization, and beamed into the brains of our population with the express purpose of grooming us to accept that moral nihilism as fitting within the acceptable bounds of the Overton window.
The pushback and rejection of this must be swift, abrupt, and permanent. The creators of this show need catastrophic financial consequences that are so profound, it causes a rethinking of their worldview, and a moral crisis of the soul. And Disney desperately needs to fail and to become as relevant in our lives as a telephone booth or a floppy disc. If you’re young enough not to know what those are…..that’s exactly my point.
Yes, Acolyte is gone, but fan backlash needs to be much deeper and wider than just that show. If it isn’t, they’ll simply reorganize, and crank out Acolyte 2, some time down the road. Disney needs a financial near-death experience to see the light.
You people really have a hard on for this show. This is was not great but no where near as bad as you made it out to be. And that was its real problem … it was mediocre. But continue the circle jerk of so-called online critics – the convict, the lazy cliche drunk, the Neo Nazi. And this coming from a conservative. The amount of “effort” put into attacking a show that wasn’t worth it
You sound like a Woke Leftist. Telling people how you feel about it is worth the effort and it’s no effort at all. Watching dreck takes effort.
Oh yeah Kastner, your a conservative. Right. We believe you. You say the show was mediocre but yet fan ratings were in the toilet. Such strawmen you create, neo nazis, lazy cliche drunk. Nerdrotic is freaking hilarious.
You are no “conservative” . You are the type of p*ssy who has “conserved” us to 75million dead babies, men in women’s locker rooms, and school’s transing kids without parents knowledge or permission. You sir are VOMIT spewed out by the devil. The lesbian space witches who “magically” used the force to conceive was just fine with a ‘conservative” like you, huh?
You sir, suck.
“This is was not great but no where near as bad as you made it out to be.”
That is correct. The Acolyte was actually far, far worse. The worst show I have ever seen, at any rate.
And don’t presume to tell us what is and is not worth it. Star Wars is obviously not important to you. It is important to us. But Kathleen Kennedy wanted to serve us only woke DEI teenage girl after school special crap like The Acolyte for the next 30 years. She wants to replace us with the mythical “modern audience”. The only way to even have a hope of stopping it was to torpedo it now.
“This is coming from a conservative.” Stop. Please. If you consider woke crap like this merely mediocre, you’re no conservative.
NAZIs are leftists. Try again democrat shill.
The lowest viewed Star Wasn’t series ever. Of course they won’t renew a show that was barely watched and sold no merchandise. LucasFilms was crazy to spend $180 million on Michael Weinstein’s former assistant’s vanity project that featured her own Lesbian wife in a major role. How far Disney has fallen!!! Disney had no money to produce blockbusters in their dark period in the 1970s and 1980s, yet today they think they can generate movies and fans automatically see their latest badly written Woke crap. Have they learned nothing? Apparently.
*Harvey Weinstein. Other than that, amen.
Disney makes all of their money from amusement parks, which are based on their old, pre-woke, animated movies. The nostalgia is what is funding the wokeness. They don’t need to make money on their propaganda, and it’s certainly not the goal.
I wonder who broke “journalists” or “urinalists” as some call them. It’s like they all forgot they are supposed to critically assess what they are reviewing. Seems most just want that sweet, sweet access to the giant corporation’s free stuff. So, they say what they are told. Some of them even have consulting companies review their reviews before release. And they wonder why no one trusts them anymore.
And I slightly liked Rogue One despite the lead actress. She was dull as dirt. Just a plank of wood. What made that movie was the supporting cast and great production design.
Lots of people who were liberal media personalities did not like “The Acolyte.” You are always writing as if there is some lockstep conspiracy when there never is. Most people are not religious fundamentalist and so they naturally prefer things different from your opinions.
You’ll probably delete this since it’s too truthful for you.
Responding to Joseph Kastner and Resident Trump:
The show was indeed that bad. It absolutely pushed a progressive, identity politics message and has rightfully been lambasted. The reason so many people watched the nerdrotic and critical drinker YouTube videos on the acolyte is because it was awful and they enjoyed hearing those guys trash a terrible project.
Resident Trump. He didn’t say every single critic acted in lockstep. However 78% of them did so that’s a majority. Also he didn’t say everyone is a religious fundamentalist but clearly not enough people “didn’t prefer things different” because no one watched this show!
I’m not a religious fundamentalist, and I read this site regularly. Not all people on the right are Bible-thumpers. You should expand your social circles.
Deleting things that are too truthful is a natural biological function for liberal/leftists.
leftism is a cult.
Just like the communist lesbian space witches of The Acolyte.