• MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    I won’t pretend it was a good series, but the incel review bombing was an unnecessary distraction. It had potential and I would have liked to see them correct course and continue the story for another season.

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      2 months ago

      I am not sure there was any real “incel review bombing”. Looks more like an excuse of the show’s creators. The show was shockingly bad, even from a purely technical standpoint. It felt like a not very good fanfiction. The Kenobi show was the same.

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          1 month ago

          That entire article is based off coincidental reasoning, and does nothing to connect the review bombing (which did occur) to anything incel or right wing.

          Yes, it’s absurd that the Acolyte’s audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes dropped to below the Holiday special or any other piece of Star Wars media faster than any other piece dropped, but that article itself calls out the most likely reason: people believing that the third episode was retconning the canon of Anakin’s “virgin birth” making him the chosen one by implying the twins were also “virgin birth” force babies.

          That’s kind of a massive, setting breaking retcon, if that was in fact what the show was saying (which still seemed to be the implication as of the end of the series). I can understand why that would draw more ire from fans than any other new piece of Star Wars media under Disney. No outside agitators needed.

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    2 months ago

    I feel like the show would’ve been better if it was 6 episodes or less. The main issue I had with it was pacing. It was clearly a story you could tell in fewer episodes but they stretched it out to 8. Like one episode was literally the same as the other, just from a different character’s perspective. That can work in certain cases, but it didn’t for the show because it already had pacing issues in the first place.

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    2 months ago

    I didn’t like this show, but I want a second season so that I could like it. It’s obvious that the one season wasn’t meant to be considered in isolation.

    There’s plenty of examples of shows that didn’t have a great first season that, given the chance, really found their footing later on.

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      2 months ago

      That speaks more to your lack of taste than the show’s quality. The show was laughingly bad. From acting, to directing, even the special effects.

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          1 month ago

          Of course it can. There is nothing subjective about bad directing, bad acting, and bad writing. Fools who claim everything is subjective and “every idea is a good idea” are the reason we get shit TV and movies like the Acolyte and Kenobi.

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    2 months ago

    I never even saw it. In fact i never even heard of it till right now. I stopped watching Disney Star Wars stuff after season 2 of the mandalorian. They were pumping out WAY too much content which made the quality of everything sink. After there were multiple shows running concurrently none of it seemed special anymore

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    2 months ago

    Wasn’t this the show where some chick shows up and has all the skills without even training?