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padmestrilogy · 1 month

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u can’t tell me the acolyte’s cancellation is a win when the mando movie is currently shooting,, the show had problems yes but this clearly wasn’t a decision made abt quality. what was once a franchise where you could set any kind of story, have any kind of adventure, is now a bunch of increasingly niche tie-ins about the same few characters, hesitantly branded as the “mandoverse”, made by the same few guys (who, most importantly, suck at this). the acolyte made important steps for representation, yeah, but it was also just plain NEW. even andor was a spin-off of a spin-off. you could watch the acolyte if all you knew was a guy named luke blew up a death star once. certain brilliant stuff like visions will always lurk at the dubiously-canon edges of star wars—the acolyte could’ve started a new era of the franchise. even if you didn’t care for the show, this is such a loss

#yes i know about those two yoda & plagueis cameos #those were still isolated moments. u didn’t need to watch 7 seasons of a tv show then 5 more seasons of another tv show #to care about the acolyte #and u certainly didn’t need to watch three seasons of a tv show plus one season of a spin off #to understand why certain characters were there #and yes the neilson numbers were lower. thats bc it had new characters it was still very popular #and still very much had an audience #we got andor s2 and andor did terribly #andor got acclaim but yk what….give the acolyte more eps in a season 2 and you’d start pulling in raves like andor #there were so many other paths than killing the first exciting saber fights in ages #the acolyte #star wars

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