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'The Acolyte' Canceled: Disney's Star Wars Spinoff Done After One Season
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2024
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disney caving to the toxic part of the fandom and cancelling another show with a poc lead? this is why we pirate.
The "anti-woke" (or whatever they call themselves) hate is absolutely ridiculous, and anyone who takes it seriously is an idiot.
That being said though... The show was just bad. Nonsensical or missing character motivations, a thin excuse for a plot, and a huge disappointment compared to what it could have been.
I really hope the reactionary hatred didn't factor into the cancellation, or at the very least that Disney doesn't take away from this that they should hire fewer women and people of color. I hope they take away to invest more into better writing.
FWIW, they ran a survey prior to the cancellation asking if people watched the whole thing, what they liked, what they didn't like, what they'd like to see in Season 2.
I expect those survey results had more to do with it than anything else.
More like, show's dogshit
You can't handwave a show that's written as badly to botch the golden premise that show had
I mean a fucking Jedi killer? How the hell do you hire writers that bad to botch this?
if that was the case then d+ wouldn't have removed every single merch item from the store. they basically just caved to a bigoted mob for no reason.
If your show is unpopular merch doesn't sell either lmfao
The merchandise getting pulled was probably for tax reasons. If your going to write off the entire project as a loss you don't want anymore revenue being booked to it. Same reason Disney memory holes some streaming shows when the numbers don't survive.
If your pirating a show you like, your viewer numbers don't contribute to keeping it going.