Well that show is absolute hot garbage, no wonder her rating gets lower by the day. I could have written a better script in middle school. She also absolutely looks like Steve Harrington from Stranger Things lmao
My family members who've seen it don't think it's absolutely garbage, but they're not impressed by it. For something Disney made, it should have been at the minimum good. Disney's quality's fallen off to blandly meh for a lot of what they've produced.
I just finished the 3rd episode and same. It isn't terrible like the most recent trilogy and I'm happy they are tackling something that isn't based around the empire/rebellion/new republic and shows jedi though. But if we are being honest as fans, star wars writing has never been amazing, it's always been a universe that inspires the imagination and showing a different period of that universe is in line with that.
The originally trilogy was pretty rock solid, and several of the books are absolutely excellent, the cartoon series as well has some phenomenal stuff... The video games also have some incredible narratives.... so basically it just the prequels, some early clone wars, and virtually everything made by Disney that didn't have Favreaus direct involvement that has been terrible
Yeah, I think there are glimpses where it's like "hey that was a really good decision!" Sol, in my opinion is a great character. I personally think the designs for most things look great and fit the Star Wars aesthetic.
Most of the characters I think are fine, the acting feels a little stiff but it's Star Wars, I'm not gonna harp on stiff acting unless it's just downright bad (like the kids in episode 3).
Episode 3, however, was just fuckin' weird. I won't spoil it, but the whole thing with that group and the chant was just...dumb...
I don't think the overall show is bad, I just think it's not good. Andor was amazing, Mandalorian has had amazing bits as well as just good bits. The rest of these shows have one or two things that are like super good, and then the rest is just kinda there, which brings my overall enjoyment to "eh".
Imagine if instead of whatever it was we got... We had Boba Questing to bring the seas back to the surface of Tattoine, and reveal that the Tuskans were actually Mermaid type creatures this whole time, thus the need for their life support outfits.
The worst thing about Star Wars is Star Wars fans. Show is OK, it's not great, it's not terrible. I'm entertained enough to keep watching. You'd think this show was the worst thing to exist if you went by other fans reactions.
Yeah, it feels like I'm watching a show on the Disney Channel. The concept is good, and the fight scenes are good, but the acting and dialogue is terrible, the plot is boring, and the production value often seems lacking. Not to mention episode 3 being literally nonsensical.
My favorite part was when the Jedi said "Sorry, but I'm unable to generate the specific content you're requesting. My purpose is to provide helpful and responsible information to users. If you have any other questions or need assistance with a different topic, feel free to ask!" and nodded sagely.
Yeah. Tbh, I gained more respect for Bill Burr in that episode in a single viewing than I have through all of his comedy. And he's arguably one of the greats.
They absolutely knew where they were going with it, they just rushed it, presumably because execs are pressuring them to get to the big ensemble movie.
Like, I know a lot of the fanbase was pissed about giving Bo the Darksaber, but the story has been aiming at that for a long time. Favreau has been closely following an Arthurian story arc about the pure knight who helps the rightful king retake his throne. Din is basically Galahad. The issue is they didn't take the time to actually establish Bo-Katan as a proper Arthur and just tried to shove the whole transition arc into one season.
See above mentioned executive meddling. The expected arc would be to have Grogu commit to his training and then show up after considerable time has passed to save the day when all seems lost.
But having your merchandise cash cow off the show for even a few episodes was apparently a no-go.
Solo was a great movie that suffered the fallout from The Last Jedi. Approach it as a fun sci-fi action adventure and not as Star Wars and you'll have a good time.
Solo was okay. Great for world building outside of the bog standard "how many lightsabers can we show off?" not so great for being able to tell what's going on in any scene not shot outside.
There was way to much "memberberry" stuff crammed into it - it tried way to hard and spent way to much time trying to to explain and give a backstory to every single small detail about Han.
It's like some Disney employe made a freaking Excel spreadsheet about every single detail we know about Han Solo from the OT, and then forced the writers to use it as a checklist, with a demand that they better check at least 80% of the boxes...
Oh yeah, "great" was purely subjective, being packed with details is that movies strength and most of them are shoehorned or entirely pointless altogether. Its all window dressing to a poorly lit cash grab.
It's the Kasdan's and Ron Howard's homage to Harrison Ford's career. Not kidding. There's bits from every movie Ford has ever done in that movie from Hot Rods to being a Fugitive. Next time you watch it, keep that in the back of your mind. It'll click.
i just cant understand how they repeatedly fuck up their star wars series so badly (except for andor and mando1). seriously how?
im not even expecting much. just make something that isnt dog shit for once. and if theyre not capable of that, they have mountains of books and video games and whatnot which they can use for stories and inspiration. it cant be THAT hard
It’s happening in a lot of previously niche hobbies/fandoms - Witcher, LoTR, etc. For a variety of reasons they are disregarding established lore, retconning, and shoehorning in plot points that don’t belong. Any big production now also has to appeal to a Chinese market which means making changes or excluding things their censorship won’t allow. In the end it all contributes to final products lone time fans don’t recognize/enjoy.
Hollywood is still trying, but in the last couple years Western movies haven’t done very well there. For example Barbie made $1.4B worldwide but only $35M from China.
The biggest reasons according to Chinese movie critics is lack of novelty, preferring local/relatable stories, and Chinese domestic audiences don’t like the increasing insertion of ideology in Hollywood films. Which honestly, sounds a lot like what many people in the US are saying too.
It’s because show runners and writers have a story in their heads they want to tell. But it sucks and no one will buy it. But they can use these popular IPs as a Trojan horse to make it anyway by disregarding the fact that they are serialized stories
Star Wars is NOT going strong lol. When was the last time Star Wars had a theatrical release? There is a reason for that. The franchise is on streaming life support, which is why they haven't given two shits about show quality.
Most stuff that gets made is mediocre to trash in any media/genre. The smaller the category the more noticeable it is. This is especially true if that fans of that niche care about everything that is part of it.
On top of that TV and movies are collective work of 100s of people, getting everything to come together is real hard. Even the writers have less control over the story than most people think. Easier for a novelist to be consistent.
And then on top of THAT with this much money on the line there is endless meddling and pressure and competing priorities from different power players involved. What new audiences to find, how to please the old audience, what direction does the IP develop in, etc.
Honestly it’s kind of amazing any good Star Wars shows got made at all.
Can't believe that dude ruined Star Wars all the way back in the 1980s.
I haven't seen The Acolyte, but I do know that enraged Star Wars simps have been review bombing it on any site where they can review bomb just so they can point to the scores while they jerk one another off.
Edit: Ahhhhh, Submarine765Radioman pulls the classic reply and then instantly block, so I can't respond.
Dude people not liking a show doesn’t equate to review bombing. Like how many actual bad shows/ movies do we have to hear are review bombed before people just accept that some content just sucks?
I kind of love that the answer to this comment is the fact that there's a post right now on the front page of Reddit with people celebrating review-bombing the Acolyte.
Blocking someone when you're losing an argument, but going back to check out their comments and respond to them, while keeping them blocked is such a little bitch move.
Acting like you're winning while doing it is another level of pathetic.
I didn't even know you could block someone on reddit in such a way that they can't reply to your comments. That's madness, it's not anybody's personal conversation where they can just post bullshit and cut off any rebuttal
Lol, 84% on RT when looking at the professional scores (although RT only tracks if a review was positive or negative, so a mediocre show / movie still can get a good score if everybody agrees that it wasn't complete trash) but only 16% audience score. Its time to admit that professional reviewers have no idea what their audiences want to watch.
I wasn't aware either, good thing I read the parent comment first - you could have replaced "acolyte" with "witcher" in your comment and it would have been very similar.
I've probably seen the original Star Wars trilogy more than most people have, but I'm not out here getting angry at other Star Wars movies, or at other people for enjoying them.
It says that at the top of literally every page for everything. If they are applying the alternate weighting to a property, it will say so at the top of the page, like this
Note also that at the bottom of the graph of 1-5 star reviews, it will say "unweighted mean" with the number that is the unweighted mean. Note that the Acolyte's current rating is the exact same as the unweighted mean, which means imdb has not applied any alternate weighting yet.
A youtuber I watched who isn't even star wars related, did a review saying they thought the show was OK and they talked about how the video got dislike bombed, but their analytics showed 80% of those vote were from bots/new accounts with their first action.
People are so weird about this that they're apparently searching out 50 year old guys channels on unrelated topics and making sure nobody enjoys this show.
I think it’s because you had a (at least to me) random reference to the Jews in there. But painting yourself as a victim while still in low single digits isn’t exactly a stellar move either.
Yea I've watched it and have assumed the reviews would say it's mediocre but not terrible which pretty much lines up with the RT critic score. It's very obviously being review bombed.
I went to check it out for myself, and not only are those reviews not even real, but there are two reviews doing the exact opposite and rating it 5 stars. I guess you really can't believe everything you read on the internet.
That makes so much sense and I feel stupid for not realizing that before. The show is indeed hot garbage but that is nothing new for Star Wars and it's not worse than Obi Wan or the Bobba Fett show I was wondering why the hell it was at 3.6 IMBD rating.
It's more mourning. 180 Million on Star Wars to produce this crap. Imagine what the Star Wars License and 180 Million would produce in the hands of someone capable.
The person you responded to isn't review bombing though. Telling people to just shut up and move on sucks. Fans get to say they don't like it if they don't like it. It's supposedly for them.
i mean are people actually getting worked up besides youtubers? i hate the show but like......that is where it ends? not going about my day just thinking about it and i think its mainly the youtuber and tiktoks causing all these problems.
Probably moreso only fixated in making sure other people realize he's included in the post topic, receiving fake internet validation in an otherwise underwhelming life.
A sociologist/psychologist might say as such, as one who has been studying the sociology of internet behaviors since 1996.
That is to say, only those who have fuck all going on in their lives (or their heads) would cheer in such a way that they would be this obsessed over utterly meaningless pixels on a screen.
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Ive been checking the IMDB score literally everyday its its a lower score everytime lol