Other than The Mandalorian (liked it) and The Book of Boba Fett (semi-meh) I have pretty much ignored the Star Wars universe post the 3 initial original movies as most of them were just trying to leech out money of the initial storyline. And the stuff I heard from the true fans leads me to believe I was not that far off in my assessment.
But this commentary is rich. Out of all the shitty “creations” that came out of the Disney Star Wars cesspool, The Acolyte has been criticized by the fans as the equivalent of the petrified turd found at the bottom of the broken septic tank.
That the author demands to have a fix for the problem. And the problem is not that the writing and thus the show sucked but that it did not generate a return and got cancelled (Evil Capitalism!) but that even because it was a monetray loss, it should be allowed to continue in its sucking because the problem is the system and. of course, the viewers.
So in order to solve “the problem” we coud go the BBC add a tax on owning TVs to fund new shows like “Star Wars: TransLesbian Jedi Avocado Farmers of Endor” and a myriad of shitty shows just like in the British Isles. Or maybe make a subscription to Disney+ mandatory under penalty of jail and automatically included in your Internet and/or phone bill.
Just because Disney does not produce stuff people like, does not mean you should stop giving them support. Where do you think you live? In Free Society or something?
The Empire is and always was right.
(And so was The Alliance)
Andor was a good series. Excellent cast.
So if the 'real' fans all loved it and it was only a small, vocal minority of racist/maga/cis white males etc etc. , why were the ratings (not just the reviews) in the absolute tank?
Same reason the exact same crowd goes on about how wonderful the WNBA is and they should get paid the same as the NBA players. They squawk but none of them actually go to the games.
Even besides the woke garbage, it was written like an amateur fan fic. Weak special effects. Forgettable characters. Checkbox plot. Where did that $25-$30m/ep. go?
My oldest is a die hard SW fan and he didn't make it through 2 ep.s before giving up on it and he hadn't even gotten to the really bad one. 'The power of maaaaannnnyyyyyyy'.