I don't understand. I thought destroying the established lore of a franchise, calling the fans racists and sexist, and releasing a diss track were supposed to guarantee record profits... 🤔
@@aki2662 Oh, I *wasn't* calling The Wokalyte a chick flick. It would be a total failure even at that... but it might have been an *attempt* at doing it. In fact, *everything* that has come from Disney SW is *probably* an attempt at doing that. I think Bob Iger is on record as saying that is what KK wanted to do... turn SW into a girl brand. IMO, that isn't possible... any more than turning GI Joe into a girl brand... or Barbie into a boy brand... nor should it even be attempted.
I’m gay and Latin and I don’t care about representation. I care about good stories and movies and shows and staying true to the lore of whatever it is that’s being told. Like don’t make a royal Victorian show with a person who is Latin and gay when that doesn’t work and we know damn well it wasn’t present or out as accepted back in the day like Brigerton.
Think this is what I find so interesting. The fact that this idea of the “community” isn’t really speaking on behalf of everyone who identifies within that community. It’s more so catering to this extremist version who’s using identity politics to make themselves feel oppressed and victimised and therefore always have something to fight against. I’ve seen countless people who have stated that they are either gay, lesbian or even trans and aren’t aligning themselves within the community cos they think it’s become toxic and pandering.
I'm straight and like putting my body parts in women. Just thought I'd share that with you because it's the biggest part of my identity. God people need to get a life
@@timbradshaw5481 And of course, because putting our male body parts inside of genetically female, female body parts is the entirety of our identity, we never stop talking about it, writing about it, and constantly making sure that people are constantly hearing about it, in order to make sure that everyone else can’t stop thinking about it.
@@davidfairweather3301gay Latino here too..... I'm a history nerd too and it pisses me off when I see non white people playing royalty or aristocrats in those shows. Just make the show good who cares what "representation" there is
@@oscarfun100 This user is referring to the show including many black characters, woman characters, and lesbian characters. As you know commenters like this hate anyone that leads a movie/show, that isn't a white straight male. Gay = bad in their head, woman = bad, and any race other than white = bad. That is literally all they're saying.
@@oscarfun100 The message is that skin color, sexuality and gender are the only important features of a human being, and a person's conduct and level of skill is of no consequence.
It’s honestly not shocking or surprising though. Disney’s favorite hobby right now is ruining every franchise or series they get their hands on, even including franchises and series they began!
And celebrate, but I don't expect much to change the people who produce this crap are blinded by their ideology and will never learn despite how dire the consequences are .
When they say “no homework required”, they’re actually talking about themselves. They don’t want to do the homework to fit their show into the established universe they’re making it in. They want to do their own thing their own way, while piggybacking off the recognition of an already established IP.
@@rj8877 yep. And therefore there’s not actually good and evil. Because lots of people working on planet destroying space station, died when it blew up. 🤦♀️
With her earlier work, Headland was mostly making original projects. Heathers had been dormant since the 80s, but was a work where fans of the original would likely enjoy being subversive. You could have a restaurant where the gimmick was being deliberately insulting or where the chef made whatever the hell they wanted (they could name the restaurant "Eat me"). But you'd be negotiating a contract with new customers. You tell them (or otherwise arrive at an understanding) that they'll be sitting down for a different kind of dining experience. Then there's no betrayal, no breach of faith. Most restaurants, if the chef messes up, they'd apologize and fix the dish OR refund your money. I don't see Disney Plus refunding customers.
It’s this brash pride that they put out that almost spits into the faces of real Star wars fans that fell in love with the franchise for its uniqueness and epic storytelling only to see it become a den of thieves.
The funniest thing about this whole debacle is that the people I know personally who were all enthused about it, and who are now outraged that it has been cancelled...never watched the show. Why? Because they couldn't care less about Star Wars. They watch their social media threads and dramas and reality shows, but think Star Wars is stupid.
They say things and then are surprised when we agree with them and act upon their words. It’s like a child saying they’d rather not eat than eat broccoli or whatever and then when they don’t get desert or anything they complain and are confused why we won’t let them eat, even they said they didn’t want to eat the food provided.
The actor playing Disney Doctor Who told fans if they didn't like it, go touch grass. Cue lowest watched season in the shows history (even beating the one that got it cancelled the first time). Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
They can blame "review bombing" all they want. At the end of the day, a studio renews a show based on VIEWERSHIP, not reviews. That is how some awful shows can still get renewed, while some incredible shows can still get canceled. No viewers, no show. This show failed to hold an audience and was therefore canceled. This isn't rocket science.
And it was cancelled by the incredibly woke Disney... NOT the fans or anyone else. It was cancelled by people who *knew* how many viewers the show had.
You do realise viewership is affected by reviews, right? Like I'm not invested in Acolyte either way, but the amount of people I know who have refused to watch a show, any show because of some review they saw or read online that trashed it. There are certain review sites that have millions of followers who will watch or not watch anything they suggest. So yes, viewership is what they look at but reviews affect that. Otherwise, why would the trolls go through so much trouble to try to review bomb them, if it wasn't a factor. There is a correlation between the two. Like, I'm surprised it even needs to be said. This isn't something new.
@secretlyadragon4723 Two things. First, just because something has poor audience reviews doesn't automatically mean it will fail to find an audience. Look at how much money every single Michael Bay Transformers movie made despite a rotten audience score for every single one of them, with the exception of the first film. Hell, Captain Marvel was "review bombed" and still made a billion dollars worldwide. Second, the Acolyte had a fairly decent premiere. Then steadily lost viewers as the show progressed. That tells me that audiences lost interest in the show, not that they avoided the show because of negative reviews.
I don’t consider it canon. Why didn’t Disney just dig into the expanded universe and the books. There were so many good stories they could’ve followed. They didn’t. They just tried to push their message at the detriment to the franchise.
Right it’s weird because Disney keeps making movies based on stories that have already been told before, you’d think this would be right up their alley.
How do win over the fans, make a show with likable characters, have them flawed but with good intentions, have them struggle to grow into themselves and their powers, have a huge and believable lightsaber fight, the hero can even lose and be saved by their master who shows more power than their padawan, maybe the master sacrifices themselves to save them. Boom you win.
this is very similar to giving a friend a gift that YOU like, not what your friend likes. Imagine you friend loves Star Wars but you love Twilight and you decide to gift them a Twilight T shirt. Do you think that person would enjoy it?
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The Acolyte not going to inspire millions of people to create their own stormtrooper outfits, lightsabers, style their hair, or build remote control R2-D2s. These are not the droids you're looking for.
I actually didn't see this coming, because I assumed Disney would greenlight it for the message. The fact that it had a terrible moral message is exactly why I thought it would get another season.
Oh please, the show was just bad in every aspect. The lesbian witches were in it for like 2 minutes then they were killed off. If the two leads had a straight couple as parents, the show would have failed just as much. But now people can complain on the woke side that they canceled it because of homophobia. Which is ridicolous.
So the creators of rhe acolyte thought star wars was sexist and racist because.... reasons so they made their own that was ACTUALLY racist and sexist, then called the fans racist and sexist for calling out their bs. How did they not expect this to get cancelled?
I've seen people blame racism for Star Trek fans hating their new slop too, which is rich because classic Star Trek has made history for its diversity. The original series was massively controversial because it had a black woman as a competent and respected officer, MLK Jr was a huge fan! Voyager has a female captain, a Native American first officer, a Latina chief engineer, a black Vulcan, and a Korean ensign. And guess what? WE LOVE IT
When the message becomes the focal point of the story it overshadows the actual content. The problem with Disney is they’re trying to force the audience on thinking a certain way through a propaganda type of narratives. If you ask most people they want diversity in races, backgrounds, gender, and sexual orientations. However, it must be done organically where it’s built around the actual narrative, not the other way around. When it feels forced and unnatural you’re going to get pushback from your audience.
Honestly, they didn't even go for it though. If Osha and Jecki were actually gay lovers, and then she got full of dark side rage when her lover was killed, that actually might of been interesting. I mean the witches 'might' of been gay but it was entirely in the background and didn't effect anything at all.
Agreed. I like the way My Adventures with Superman does it. There's gay people, but it's not a super focus, nor do they draw extra attention to it. I'm not a supporter of the woke agenda, but THAT'S the way to make it work. Clark is kind of a simp, but he always was. Lois is a girlboss, but she always was (at least from the 90s cartoon). Plus, her background story makes her toughness make sense.
About 07:45 _"They canceled 'The Acolyte' because they can't stand two hot people of colour holding hands."_ Total BS. Critics who are demonised as "far right" don't mind 'Star Trek: TOS' having not only a female black officer but also her kissing with the captain.
i may be wrong, but wasnt there also a gay guy in the show or something? i might be wrong, im not a super fan of the show. last time i remember watching was when i was like 8 with my dad lmao
@@Ruthie_the_G0blin AFAIK not a gay character but at least 1 gay actor, George Takei who played Zulu. I'm not sure about Walter Koenig who played Chekov.
Anyone who watches CZcams knows the audience is key to being successful. To completely talk shit about your audience and straying away from content your audience likes is a recipe for a downward spiral
Excuse me but didn't Disney have a female "Star Wars" star that the fans liked, Gina Carano, & they fired her? If I remember the reporting, she had a popular "Star Wars" series, "The Mandalorian", & Disney begged her to return. Carano wound up suing Disney & how is that law suit going?
The Book of Boba Fett not getting renewed: 😶 Obi-Wan Kenobi not getting renewed: 😶 The Acolyte not getting renewed: CANCELLED!!🤪🤪🤪👹👹👹 stupidity at its peak lol
There was actually *four* characters in The Acolyte that we all recognize apart from the one you mentioned. All the other three were shoehorn-ish cameos, the first of which came across as a retcon: Ki-Adi-Mundi, Yoda, and Darth Plageius.
As far as I’m concerned, the Star Wars story ended after Lucas stopped directing. With the exception of Rogue One and Mandalorian, every “New Star Wars” story has been horrific 😂
Didn't Leslye Headland come out and say that she didn't want people to like her show ? 🤔 So whats the point of wasting $180 Mill on a show no one is going to pay to watch?
I was actually surprised because this isn't the first time a show has underperformed and Disney has since continued making content like this, so it wasn't obvious to me that they would change their plans for a Season 2.
"What happened? I sensed a great disturbance in the force, and suddenly millions of voices cried out in relief". "yes you did, Star Wars fans. Yes, you did." -- Hishe, Phantom Menace.
Me and a friend of mine at work yesterday were talking about how gen Z grew up when Disney was in a great spot. Great shows, fantastic movies, and it was fun to turn on the TV and watch Disney’s stuff because it was always entertaining. I wish I could go back to those days, Disney’s become the opposite of what they were before.
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Lesyle didn't fall in line Brett. She knew exactly what she was doing. Taking the rotting corpse of star wars to her former boss harvey weinstein's private suite
They also just canceled a new theme park land that was “definitely coming”. It was supposed to take over Tom Sayer Island in Magic Kigndom, and people were so mad and the backlash was so great that Disney decided against it
As someone that owns a High Republic era book (Defy the Storm by Tessa Gratton & Justina Ireland), I don't think the High Republic era is bad. I personally think, if given a better writer who actually cared about what Star Wars fans want, a High Republic era themed TV show could be fun. But now here we are, getting blamed for something that for once wasn't our fault. I simply didn't watched the Acolyte on Disney+ and just watched it through the reviews by fellow Star Wars CZcamsr, Star Wars Explained.
The moment Mae approached Trinity at that bar, with "Attack me, with all your strength" I knew it was over for that show. I turned it off and never came back to it.
@@TheChampCave Learned their lesson? No! Disney at this point is like a bratty child that has fallen into a cult. Disney will NEVER learn their lesson. Sure they may not make the same mistake for about 6 months, then they’ll go right back to making content that focuses on arbitrary validating identity politics into a series that doesn’t need that crap rather than telling a good story.
Hiring people who specifically don’t know the franchise or care about it is so asinine. Have they learned nothing from the multiple successful passion projects? Movies and shows that were actually made by and starred fans, like Deadpool?
I have been a Star Wars fan since I was a little kid in the 80s. I have never experience any negativity in the fandom until Disney took over the franchise. They are the bully they are complaining about. (Disney, the call is coming from inside the house)
Most people hated the prequels and thought they were awful. George Lucas butchered them, and because of the backlash she decided to sell Star wars. Ironically most of this could have been avoided had he just listened to some of his other writers.
@@insaneweasel1 When I referred to "negativity' I wasn't referring the quality of the films. I was referring to the discourse around the films and the fandom. The likelihood of being attacked based on an opinion about a fictional universe went up when Disney started customizing Star Wars content to checking boxes instead of focusing story lines. The supposed 'toxic fandom' was something fostered by Disney's choices within Star Wars as an IP rather something that existed organically since the original trilogy.
@@tg0611 There was a toxic fandom and it started during the prequels that you may not have noticed. I'm guessing you've never seen The People Vs George Lucas documentary.
@@decoyaardvark2828 if you read the above comment. It literally says I have never experienced it. Not that it didn’t exist. So it’s my opinion and isn’t up for debate unless you can chronicle my personal experiences online.
@@tg0611 That's a fair statement and one i cannot refute. You must not have been paying as much attention to the Fandom in 1999-2014 as you did Post Disney though. To be fair I am one of more hard-core fans. A casual fan may not have noticed the toxicity during 1999-2014....or even 1983-2014. The Ewoks were saw as a disgrace to the first two films.
The only money I’ve given Disney in like 3 years now was to see Deadpool skewer them while proving how incompetent they’ve been with just making a good movie
I mean before the first episode was released they stated that there wasn’t going to be a second season, so when they say it’s been cancelled…. It was never scheduled.
Disney SW Shills Leading Up to the Acolyte: "This show is NOT for you (the normie or legacy Star Wars fan), so don't watch it!" Disney SW Shills Now: "WhY dId ThE sHoW gEt CanCelLeD wHy DiD nO oNe WaTcH iT?!?!?" As a completely not famous and terrible Disney actress once said, "That's Hollywood Baby!"
One of the first clues to how we know they didn't care about the franchise... they start with explaining the 'lack of diversity' of the originals and lack of 'strong female characters'... they started out with misconceptions, and it went down hill from there.
Had really big names in it, actors that people actually cared about. But Leslie set them up like dominos, just to knock them over and spat in our face while doing it.
Why should I waste my time with Disney's Star Wars that has a proven track record of making flops? I looked over the reviews and said, "Nope... Not worth wasting my time on this one."
I hated when disney glorifies the villains. Homosexual was in the DSM for a reason. The "stonewall riots" in the late 1960's removed it. What changed? Science didnt change, the politics did. They are what the DSM says in versions one and two before they forced a change in the textbook by rioting. Red light garbage is nothing good to society. Just more moral corruption.
The cutest part about this is that they blame “toxic fans” for it one interview, but review bombs in the next. Reviews don’t renew shows, ratings do. If all of us toxic fans were the problem, why are ratings low? Surely you must have an army of defenders of The Acolyte watching this trash with how much it’s propped up, right?
I remember a time where a series had to prove itself and justify its existence with every season. Even the greatest shows were constantly on the brink of cancellation by every season finale. When Disney Lucasfilm announces a season 2 in its arrogance before even knowing if season 1 would be a success or not, it really shows their hubris and makes their downfall a well deserved one. Also, in my vocabulary, if a cubist is not someone who hates cubes and instead cubes are actually their main artistic focus, I say sexists and racists are those whose main artistic focus are exclusively sex and race.
Ryan reynolds should just be the ceo of disney cause that Deadpool & Wolverine movie was one of the best movies Disney ever had and also gave way for Channing Tatum's Gambit and possibly a Henry Caville Wolverine
@@yourname7254 I LOVED DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE!!! I got plushies of both of them the other day and I’m probably gonna take them to go see it a second time at some point. That movie made me feel hope for the MCU for the first time in a very long while.
@@TheFistOfNuevaYork Tbh I don't want Deadpool to be part of the M(She)U but if Disney just did what Ryan Reynolds does by giving the people, who keeps the company alive, what they want then Disney will succeed. But of course only if they had a brain
I’m still floored by the fact that one of the stars (Amandla) created a song about all the “haters” calling everyone who didn’t like the show racists all the while talking about wanting to “make white people cry”
In addition to cancelling season 2, Disney has yanked promised Acolyte-themed merch from the Disney Store online. That's a bad sign for the show, as even unpopular movies/single-season shows like The Last Jedi & Kenobi have a few pieces of merch available. It sounds like Disney is planning to give The Acolyte the Willow series treatment - scrub it off Disney + servers and refuse to acknowledge it ever happened.
Idk what happened with Disney, but its absolutely pathetic, how they do this with every single show. Its fine to have diversity here and there, but what they are doing is feeding people with that stuff, acting like not being gay isnt normal anymore.
I don't understand. I thought destroying the established lore of a franchise, calling the fans racists and sexist, and releasing a diss track were supposed to guarantee record profits... 🤔
You got it 👍
@PoolKid75 yeah that's how to make die hard fans love you...right??? Your comment had me rolling 🤣 😂
Great comment! So true. So true.
In marxism, the customer is always wrong
welp! now they found out.
The only downside to this, is that I won’t get to see Critical Drinker or Disparu tear it apart anymore…
Me too.
The power of bad writing
The power of bad acting
The power of cancellation
Trying to turn a male-appealing franchise into a chick flick.
"Not a great plan."
And the power of overloading money.
@@Nyet-ZdyesDon't call it a chick flicks, women don't even want to watch this crap😂
@@aki2662 Oh, I *wasn't* calling The Wokalyte a chick flick. It would be a total failure even at that... but it might have been an *attempt* at doing it.
In fact, *everything* that has come from Disney SW is *probably* an attempt at doing that.
I think Bob Iger is on record as saying that is what KK wanted to do... turn SW into a girl brand.
IMO, that isn't possible... any more than turning GI Joe into a girl brand... or Barbie into a boy brand... nor should it even be attempted.
😂the power of stupid people ruining great things...
I’m gay and Latin and I don’t care about representation. I care about good stories and movies and shows and staying true to the lore of whatever it is that’s being told. Like don’t make a royal Victorian show with a person who is Latin and gay when that doesn’t work and we know damn well it wasn’t present or out as accepted back in the day like Brigerton.
Think this is what I find so interesting. The fact that this idea of the “community” isn’t really speaking on behalf of everyone who identifies within that community. It’s more so catering to this extremist version who’s using identity politics to make themselves feel oppressed and victimised and therefore always have something to fight against.
I’ve seen countless people who have stated that they are either gay, lesbian or even trans and aren’t aligning themselves within the community cos they think it’s become toxic and pandering.
@@davidfairweather3301 exactly thank you! Yeah I am starting to distance myself from that community because it is so toxic
I'm straight and like putting my body parts in women. Just thought I'd share that with you because it's the biggest part of my identity. God people need to get a life
@@timbradshaw5481
And of course, because putting our male body parts inside of genetically female, female body parts is the entirety of our identity, we never stop talking about it, writing about it, and constantly making sure that people are constantly hearing about it, in order to make sure that everyone else can’t stop thinking about it.
@@davidfairweather3301gay Latino here too..... I'm a history nerd too and it pisses me off when I see non white people playing royalty or aristocrats in those shows. Just make the show good who cares what "representation" there is
This is what happens when they prioritize "the message" over good writing.
What was the message? It was a boring show, boring story, acting and all that. Just shit. But what message?
@@oscarfun100 This user is referring to the show including many black characters, woman characters, and lesbian characters. As you know commenters like this hate anyone that leads a movie/show, that isn't a white straight male. Gay = bad in their head, woman = bad, and any race other than white = bad. That is literally all they're saying.
@@oscarfun100that there needs to be more rainbow Mafia and feminist stuff 😂##FreedomOfSpeech
The real message here being “go woke, go broke”
A tale as old as time
@@oscarfun100 The message is that skin color, sexuality and gender are the only important features of a human being, and a person's conduct and level of skill is of no consequence.
Disney: "IF YOU DONT LIKE IT JUST DONT WATCH IT!!"
Also Disney: "WHY IS NO ONE WATCHING OUR NEW STAR WARS SHOWS?!??! 😭😭😭"
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It's no secret, just add some cameltoe and n*pples! Rule number one, btw. 🙏
you have to watch it to know that its crap
No you don't, @rangerrick2246 . I don't have to watch the twilight movies to know that they're crap.
@@rangerrick2246 Nope! I saw the previews and 5 minutes of the first episode, and I was done for good.
The failure of one!
The failure of two!
The failure of eeeevvvvvvvvverrrrrrryyyyyyy Star Wars project under Disney and KK.
The failure of manyyyyyyyy!
@@PoolKid75 Exactly 💯 👏
The failure of one!
The failure of two!!
The failure of _Disnneeeeyyyyyyyy!!!_
It’s honestly not shocking or surprising though. Disney’s favorite hobby right now is ruining every franchise or series they get their hands on, even including franchises and series they began!
Good one 😆
Disappointing to see emphasis on diversity override story quality. I'd like to see Disney revisit original elements that made the franchise legendary.
The fall of Disney must be studied
And celebrate, but I don't expect much to change the people who produce this crap are blinded by their ideology and will never learn despite how dire the consequences are .
Disney is the reason i c The Boys over MCU nowadays.
Atleast The Boys is more interesting than MCU.
A case study in gas-lighting.
if by "fall" you mean racking in billions of $, it's one i will gladly take.
It would only take 5 mins.
When they say “no homework required”, they’re actually talking about themselves. They don’t want to do the homework to fit their show into the established universe they’re making it in. They want to do their own thing their own way, while piggybacking off the recognition of an already established IP.
Absolutely, didn't one of the key cast members insist Anakin Skywalker was the one who blew up the death star...in three separate interviews?
@@rj8877 yep. And therefore there’s not actually good and evil. Because lots of people working on planet destroying space station, died when it blew up. 🤦♀️
"Give the fans what they want, not what you want to give them."
The lesson Kathleen Kennedy will never learn.
With her earlier work, Headland was mostly making original projects. Heathers had been dormant since the 80s, but was a work where fans of the original would likely enjoy being subversive. You could have a restaurant where the gimmick was being deliberately insulting or where the chef made whatever the hell they wanted (they could name the restaurant "Eat me"). But you'd be negotiating a contract with new customers. You tell them (or otherwise arrive at an understanding) that they'll be sitting down for a different kind of dining experience. Then there's no betrayal, no breach of faith. Most restaurants, if the chef messes up, they'd apologize and fix the dish OR refund your money. I don't see Disney Plus refunding customers.
I swear, more people push and support gay people than there are actually gay people
What will Disney learn from this? Absolutely nothing
They said if you don't like it don't watch it and we listened
It’s this brash pride that they put out that almost spits into the faces of real Star wars fans that fell in love with the franchise for its uniqueness and epic storytelling only to see it become a den of thieves.
True lol
The funniest thing about this whole debacle is that the people I know personally who were all enthused about it, and who are now outraged that it has been cancelled...never watched the show. Why? Because they couldn't care less about Star Wars. They watch their social media threads and dramas and reality shows, but think Star Wars is stupid.
“If you don’t like it, dont watch it”.
And now its cancelled because no one watched it.
You reap what you sow
LOL!
They say things and then are surprised when we agree with them and act upon their words. It’s like a child saying they’d rather not eat than eat broccoli or whatever and then when they don’t get desert or anything they complain and are confused why we won’t let them eat, even they said they didn’t want to eat the food provided.
The actor playing Disney Doctor Who told fans if they didn't like it, go touch grass. Cue lowest watched season in the shows history (even beating the one that got it cancelled the first time). Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it.
🤣😂🤣
You, in fact, get what you fucking deserve
0:51 Thanks.... I was in the middle of taking a drink when that came up lol
What a pleasant surprise 😂😂 I did not expect it either
They can blame "review bombing" all they want. At the end of the day, a studio renews a show based on VIEWERSHIP, not reviews. That is how some awful shows can still get renewed, while some incredible shows can still get canceled. No viewers, no show. This show failed to hold an audience and was therefore canceled. This isn't rocket science.
You must remember this is the left where they think that if you come you get a trophy. If you film it you deserve an emmy.
And it was cancelled by the incredibly woke Disney... NOT the fans or anyone else.
It was cancelled by people who *knew* how many viewers the show had.
You do realise viewership is affected by reviews, right? Like I'm not invested in Acolyte either way, but the amount of people I know who have refused to watch a show, any show because of some review they saw or read online that trashed it. There are certain review sites that have millions of followers who will watch or not watch anything they suggest. So yes, viewership is what they look at but reviews affect that. Otherwise, why would the trolls go through so much trouble to try to review bomb them, if it wasn't a factor. There is a correlation between the two. Like, I'm surprised it even needs to be said. This isn't something new.
@@secretlyadragon4723plenty of poorly reviewed movies became box office smashes. 🤦
@secretlyadragon4723 Two things. First, just because something has poor audience reviews doesn't automatically mean it will fail to find an audience. Look at how much money every single Michael Bay Transformers movie made despite a rotten audience score for every single one of them, with the exception of the first film. Hell, Captain Marvel was "review bombed" and still made a billion dollars worldwide. Second, the Acolyte had a fairly decent premiere. Then steadily lost viewers as the show progressed. That tells me that audiences lost interest in the show, not that they avoided the show because of negative reviews.
Dear Disney: Please stop making Star Wars.....The horse is dead.....you can stop kicking it now.
Silly woman dances at the olympics and gets her sport removed from future competitions.
Silly actress dances and gets her show cancelled.
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Well said
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It wasn't part of the '28 Olympics anyway.
Moral of the story is, don’t dance so silly!
I am sad though because pretty much everyone else danced so well and it was so fun to watch 😅
Spoilt entitled feminists get a dose of reality
The Acolyte makes the Holiday Special look like Empire Strikes Back
I don’t consider it canon. Why didn’t Disney just dig into the expanded universe and the books. There were so many good stories they could’ve followed. They didn’t. They just tried to push their message at the detriment to the franchise.
Anything with THRAWN would have been fantastic
Because they think what they write is better.
The Yuuzhan Vong invasion would've been really cool to see
Right it’s weird because Disney keeps making movies based on stories that have already been told before, you’d think this would be right up their alley.
Cause no lesbian space witches
How do win over the fans, make a show with likable characters, have them flawed but with good intentions, have them struggle to grow into themselves and their powers, have a huge and believable lightsaber fight, the hero can even lose and be saved by their master who shows more power than their padawan, maybe the master sacrifices themselves to save them. Boom you win.
So the hero's journey? 😂
@@star-nh8pj yea it seems Disney don't understand basic writing
It's like going to a steak house, ordering a steak and getting squash spaghetti instead. 🤦♂
😂😂 true
Don't forget the staff yelling at you the whole time. "What you don't like the meal that we made for you!!! You 'current thing'-ist!"
@@GLJoshlol good one ! And it’s true
It's like going to a steak house, ordering a steak and getting moose turd pie.
Wokesters will say "but it's good though!"
this is very similar to giving a friend a gift that YOU like, not what your friend likes. Imagine you friend loves Star Wars but you love Twilight and you decide to gift them a Twilight T shirt. Do you think that person would enjoy it?
Sorry to hear you have Lyme 😢 I've had chronic Lyme for over 10 years. It sounds like you are on the right track with reducing inflammation. Best wishes on your health journey. 💜💜💜
I bet Lucas is regretting selling Star Wars to Disney now.
He does.
Or not, because now the Prequels look masterpieces compare to this piece of ****. XD
Don't forget Lucas is a sellout just like Metallica...
I mean, at the very least, he's proved Star Wars' underlying message to be true with selling it off to Disney and having Kathleen Kennedy take it on.
Never forget!!!!!
If Disney doesn't start learning from its mistakes soon it's going to go out of business.
The Acolyte not going to inspire millions of people to create their own stormtrooper outfits, lightsabers, style their hair, or build remote control R2-D2s. These are not the droids you're looking for.
I actually didn't see this coming, because I assumed Disney would greenlight it for the message. The fact that it had a terrible moral message is exactly why I thought it would get another season.
A show about lesbian space witches was bound to fail.
Oh please, the show was just bad in every aspect. The lesbian witches were in it for like 2 minutes then they were killed off. If the two leads had a straight couple as parents, the show would have failed just as much. But now people can complain on the woke side that they canceled it because of homophobia. Which is ridicolous.
Yep
@@oscarfun100 Oh sweet summer child...
But a great premise for XXX video 😂
@@oscarfun100Thank YOU! Someone actually speaking sense here
So the creators of rhe acolyte thought star wars was sexist and racist because.... reasons so they made their own that was ACTUALLY racist and sexist, then called the fans racist and sexist for calling out their bs. How did they not expect this to get cancelled?
It’s such a slap in the face for them to continue to blame racism on all fans when it’s just terrible writing and bad acting.
I've seen people blame racism for Star Trek fans hating their new slop too, which is rich because classic Star Trek has made history for its diversity. The original series was massively controversial because it had a black woman as a competent and respected officer, MLK Jr was a huge fan! Voyager has a female captain, a Native American first officer, a Latina chief engineer, a black Vulcan, and a Korean ensign. And guess what? WE LOVE IT
It’s a cheap way to not admit to their own faults
Projecting. Both sides project their own shortcomings upon their opponents. But more so the left on the right.
I went to see Walt Disney on ice!!!
Turns out it was just some dead guy in a freezer 🤷♂️
When the message becomes the focal point of the story it overshadows the actual content. The problem with Disney is they’re trying to force the audience on thinking a certain way through a propaganda type of narratives. If you ask most people they want diversity in races, backgrounds, gender, and sexual orientations. However, it must be done organically where it’s built around the actual narrative, not the other way around. When it feels forced and unnatural you’re going to get pushback from your audience.
Honestly, they didn't even go for it though. If Osha and Jecki were actually gay lovers, and then she got full of dark side rage when her lover was killed, that actually might of been interesting. I mean the witches 'might' of been gay but it was entirely in the background and didn't effect anything at all.
Agreed. I like the way My Adventures with Superman does it. There's gay people, but it's not a super focus, nor do they draw extra attention to it. I'm not a supporter of the woke agenda, but THAT'S the way to make it work. Clark is kind of a simp, but he always was. Lois is a girlboss, but she always was (at least from the 90s cartoon). Plus, her background story makes her toughness make sense.
About 07:45
_"They canceled 'The Acolyte' because they can't stand two hot people of colour holding hands."_
Total BS. Critics who are demonised as "far right" don't mind 'Star Trek: TOS' having not only a female black officer but also her kissing with the captain.
i may be wrong, but wasnt there also a gay guy in the show or something? i might be wrong, im not a super fan of the show. last time i remember watching was when i was like 8 with my dad lmao
@@Ruthie_the_G0blin
AFAIK not a gay character but at least 1 gay actor, George Takei who played Zulu.
I'm not sure about Walter Koenig who played Chekov.
Anyone who watches CZcams knows the audience is key to being successful. To completely talk shit about your audience and straying away from content your audience likes is a recipe for a downward spiral
"This is how Liberty dies... with a thunderous applause" -Padme
Nothing Value was lost
You took the words right out of my head! Lol
Only some grey brain cells
Right??
"The failure of one! The failure of two! The failure of many!"
The needs of many out weigh the needs of the few. -star trek
My brain at 2:37 in the video
'YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DESTROY THE SITH, NOT JOIN THEM!!!!!!!''
It cannot be considered canon. It cannot be considered canon.
It's fanfic, at best.
It is Cannon, Austin!
But it can be considered Cannon-Fodder! 😀
none of disney star wars is canon
yea nothing disney makes is canon fuck that. rouge one was pretty good though.
Writing was subpar and the acting was c tier. The show had no feelings, no soul. I felt no connection to any of the characters ,I felt nothing.
Excuse me but didn't Disney have a female "Star Wars" star that the fans liked, Gina Carano, & they fired her? If I remember the reporting, she had a popular "Star Wars" series, "The Mandalorian", & Disney begged her to return. Carano wound up suing Disney & how is that law suit going?
The Book of Boba Fett not getting renewed: 😶
Obi-Wan Kenobi not getting renewed: 😶
The Acolyte not getting renewed: CANCELLED!!🤪🤪🤪👹👹👹
stupidity at its peak lol
The power of woke
The power of broke
The power of copeeeee
And the power of *NOPE*
@@df6148 that’s the most sacred power that we have left
Disney is definitely proving that their morals are changing to trash values
Omfg 😂 yes.
@@Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0000unfortunately “Awake” is different than “Woke” by today’s definition
There was actually *four* characters in The Acolyte that we all recognize apart from the one you mentioned. All the other three were shoehorn-ish cameos, the first of which came across as a retcon: Ki-Adi-Mundi, Yoda, and Darth Plageius.
Bro a huge huge win for actual Star Wars fans. Glad it was cancelled ruined a couple characters. The screws were blaming fans, crazy.
Thats the sad thing if your pocketbook is big enough you can get anyone to do anything and/or make anything you want
I'm still waiting for Brett's snow-white movie 😢
scheduled to release in 2025
@@Sanderusthank you so much 🙏🏻
Me too 😋 can’t wait
The REAL live action Snow White remake
Can't wait to see her hair flip in the garden 😂😢
As far as I’m concerned, the Star Wars story ended after Lucas stopped directing. With the exception of Rogue One and Mandalorian, every “New Star Wars” story has been horrific 😂
@@zetaplus7911 and only the first 2 seasons of the Mandalorian. Season 3 had Queen Lizzo💀Rogue One is seriously awesome though. I LOVE that movie!
Didn't Leslye Headland come out and say that she didn't want people to like her show ? 🤔 So whats the point of wasting $180 Mill on a show no one is going to pay to watch?
Tell that to Taika Waiti who said his star wars movie is gonna piss people off
If thats true, im predicting an Acolyte 2.0
I was actually surprised because this isn't the first time a show has underperformed and Disney has since continued making content like this, so it wasn't obvious to me that they would change their plans for a Season 2.
I’m just glad we don’t have to see Yoda being pathetic in season 2 now. 😂
Thank you! I agree completely
that one scene was enough
😂😂
Truth you do speak, my friend. Hard it is, to hear words put falsely into the mouth of someone who never spoke them.
We just know that is *exactly* what was going to happen.
LucasFilm under Darth Kennedy just wouldn't be able to resist the opportunity.
"What happened? I sensed a great disturbance in the force, and suddenly millions of voices cried out in relief".
"yes you did, Star Wars fans. Yes, you did."
-- Hishe, Phantom Menace.
The crazy people at Disney have not learned anything. I don’t think they care if the company goes broke.
They/them: The Acolyte was CANELED! 🤬
Us: Oh no, anyway last week...
Me and a friend of mine at work yesterday were talking about how gen Z grew up when Disney was in a great spot. Great shows, fantastic movies, and it was fun to turn on the TV and watch Disney’s stuff because it was always entertaining. I wish I could go back to those days, Disney’s become the opposite of what they were before.
It’s sad😢 kids can’t watch it now and they can’t experience the same thing
It used to be stories for kids now it's for odd 20 something's
Gen Z here! 20 years old and can verify that this age of Disney breaks my soul
@handle1627 there's nothing wrong with that. As long as the topic is handled maturely
My aunt had Lyme too. She's had it for many years and it's been very hard on her mental health and physical health. Between all the medications as well it's affected her mind in a very bad way I'll be keeping you in my prayers and I'm sending lots of love. May God heal your body. Also, I have been watching you for a long time. I love your content and I'm happy to be a viewer of yours
I remember my grandmother saying to me, “I don’t care what Brett Cooper tells you, Admiral Ackbar was trans”.
Nicely done 😂
LMFAO 😂
It's a trap!
And black.
A literal trap!
Lesyle didn't fall in line Brett. She knew exactly what she was doing. Taking the rotting corpse of star wars to her former boss harvey weinstein's private suite
Man, who would’ve thought insulting basically your entire audience would bring you financial failure?
They also just canceled a new theme park land that was “definitely coming”. It was supposed to take over Tom Sayer Island in Magic Kigndom, and people were so mad and the backlash was so great that Disney decided against it
As someone that owns a High Republic era book (Defy the Storm by Tessa Gratton & Justina Ireland), I don't think the High Republic era is bad. I personally think, if given a better writer who actually cared about what Star Wars fans want, a High Republic era themed TV show could be fun.
But now here we are, getting blamed for something that for once wasn't our fault. I simply didn't watched the Acolyte on Disney+ and just watched it through the reviews by fellow Star Wars CZcamsr, Star Wars Explained.
The moment Mae approached Trinity at that bar, with "Attack me, with all your strength" I knew it was over for that show. I turned it off and never came back to it.
at various points today I have just been laughing hearing “the power of [losing] moooonneeyyyyy” in my head
Disney FINALLY makes a smart decision. The show was abysmal.
Nah, the smart decision would’ve been to never have green lit this atrocious… thing in the first place!
@@ulfberht4431 you would think!
Oh don’t worry, the next Star Wars series will be even more gay.
@@jjd-lx5vr idk, I think they've learned their lesson 😅
@@TheChampCave
Learned their lesson? No! Disney at this point is like a bratty child that has fallen into a cult. Disney will NEVER learn their lesson. Sure they may not make the same mistake for about 6 months, then they’ll go right back to making content that focuses on arbitrary validating identity politics into a series that doesn’t need that crap rather than telling a good story.
Hiring people who specifically don’t know the franchise or care about it is so asinine. Have they learned nothing from the multiple successful passion projects? Movies and shows that were actually made by and starred fans, like Deadpool?
You wouldn't ask a teacher to do a surgery, why ask non Star Wars fans to make a new Star Wars series
Exactly 7:10 is when this was read about.....
Sounds like there's little (very little ) hope for demented Disney
Having someone who doesn't know Star Wars work on a Star Wars project is like having a 3rd grader work on the atomic bomb.
3:37 I’m so sorry to here that, I hope you have a amazing day❤❤❤❤
Damn, Lyme disease is no joke
*The Acolyte gets cancelled*
Me: "Oh no...so anyway
Insert the Jeremy Clarkson meme 😂
They told fans "if you don't like it don't watch it..." - But then attacked fans and label them as racist and phobes for not watching.... SMH
I have been a Star Wars fan since I was a little kid in the 80s. I have never experience any negativity in the fandom until Disney took over the franchise. They are the bully they are complaining about. (Disney, the call is coming from inside the house)
Most people hated the prequels and thought they were awful. George Lucas butchered them, and because of the backlash she decided to sell Star wars. Ironically most of this could have been avoided had he just listened to some of his other writers.
@@insaneweasel1 When I referred to "negativity' I wasn't referring the quality of the films. I was referring to the discourse around the films and the fandom. The likelihood of being attacked based on an opinion about a fictional universe went up when Disney started customizing Star Wars content to checking boxes instead of focusing story lines. The supposed 'toxic fandom' was something fostered by Disney's choices within Star Wars as an IP rather something that existed organically since the original trilogy.
@@tg0611 There was a toxic fandom and it started during the prequels that you may not have noticed. I'm guessing you've never seen The People Vs George Lucas documentary.
@@decoyaardvark2828 if you read the above comment. It literally says I have never experienced it. Not that it didn’t exist. So it’s my opinion and isn’t up for debate unless you can chronicle my personal experiences online.
@@tg0611 That's a fair statement and one i cannot refute. You must not have been paying as much attention to the Fandom in 1999-2014 as you did Post Disney though. To be fair I am one of more hard-core fans. A casual fan may not have noticed the toxicity during 1999-2014....or even 1983-2014. The Ewoks were saw as a disgrace to the first two films.
The only money I’ve given Disney in like 3 years now was to see Deadpool skewer them while proving how incompetent they’ve been with just making a good movie
Acolyte has a writing problem, the individuals behind it's production have an ego problem.
Wasn't expecting to hear the "industry never learns" sound bit from Zero Punctuation here but I greatly appreciated it.
Oh boy… I was drinking coffee when the skit with C-3PO started 😅😅 “what the f**k did you just say to me?” Hahaha 😂 I need to clean the table now.
😂😂 lol
I mean before the first episode was released they stated that there wasn’t going to be a second season, so when they say it’s been cancelled…. It was never scheduled.
Disney SW Shills Leading Up to the Acolyte: "This show is NOT for you (the normie or legacy Star Wars fan), so don't watch it!"
Disney SW Shills Now: "WhY dId ThE sHoW gEt CanCelLeD wHy DiD nO oNe WaTcH iT?!?!?"
As a completely not famous and terrible Disney actress once said, "That's Hollywood Baby!"
One of the first clues to how we know they didn't care about the franchise... they start with explaining the 'lack of diversity' of the originals and lack of 'strong female characters'... they started out with misconceptions, and it went down hill from there.
Star Wars has never been more divisive than it is under Disney.
"Tell me with a straight face that C3PO is straight"......C3PO is a robot????😭
Had really big names in it, actors that people actually cared about. But Leslie set them up like dominos, just to knock them over and spat in our face while doing it.
Why should I waste my time with Disney's Star Wars that has a proven track record of making flops? I looked over the reviews and said,
"Nope... Not worth wasting my time on this one."
I'm 99% sure Leslye Headland is Harvey Weinstein in a wig.
It’s amazing that Disney destroyed every single IP they acquired. It truly takes a whole different dimension of incompetence
Leslye Headland: Anyone who doesn't like me, my vision or my work is toxic.
I hated when disney glorifies the villains. Homosexual was in the DSM for a reason. The "stonewall riots" in the late 1960's removed it.
What changed? Science didnt change, the politics did.
They are what the DSM says in versions one and two before they forced a change in the textbook by rioting.
Red light garbage is nothing good to society. Just more moral corruption.
"I know headland, ive worked with her before"
You dodged a bullet.
Tuned out after that. Headland was brilliant at getting out of the Weinstein mess with 0 blame.
It speaks about who she is and what she's doing.
The cutest part about this is that they blame “toxic fans” for it one interview, but review bombs in the next. Reviews don’t renew shows, ratings do. If all of us toxic fans were the problem, why are ratings low? Surely you must have an army of defenders of The Acolyte watching this trash with how much it’s propped up, right?
I remember a time where a series had to prove itself and justify its existence with every season. Even the greatest shows were constantly on the brink of cancellation by every season finale.
When Disney Lucasfilm announces a season 2 in its arrogance before even knowing if season 1 would be a success or not, it really shows their hubris and makes their downfall a well deserved one.
Also, in my vocabulary, if a cubist is not someone who hates cubes and instead cubes are actually their main artistic focus, I say sexists and racists are those whose main artistic focus are exclusively sex and race.
Ryan reynolds should just be the ceo of disney cause that Deadpool & Wolverine movie was one of the best movies Disney ever had and also gave way for Channing Tatum's Gambit and possibly a Henry Caville Wolverine
@@yourname7254 I LOVED DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE!!! I got plushies of both of them the other day and I’m probably gonna take them to go see it a second time at some point. That movie made me feel hope for the MCU for the first time in a very long while.
@@TheFistOfNuevaYork Tbh I don't want Deadpool to be part of the M(She)U but if Disney just did what Ryan Reynolds does by giving the people, who keeps the company alive, what they want then Disney will succeed. But of course only if they had a brain
I’m still floored by the fact that one of the stars (Amandla) created a song about all the “haters” calling everyone who didn’t like the show racists all the while talking about wanting to “make white people cry”
The Acolyte got canceled? Ermahgerd i am shocketh
In addition to cancelling season 2, Disney has yanked promised Acolyte-themed merch from the Disney Store online. That's a bad sign for the show, as even unpopular movies/single-season shows like The Last Jedi & Kenobi have a few pieces of merch available. It sounds like Disney is planning to give The Acolyte the Willow series treatment - scrub it off Disney + servers and refuse to acknowledge it ever happened.
I'm telling you. All daily wire editors are made of gold. These edits are so funny😂.
That last quote of yours Brett is such a banger "Focus on the story of Star Wars rather than the actors Skins" *Microphone Drops *
Your editing is so smooth, loved it!
Idk what happened with Disney, but its absolutely pathetic, how they do this with every single show.
Its fine to have diversity here and there, but what they are doing is feeding people with that stuff, acting like not being gay isnt normal anymore.
The people screaming about it being cancelled don't even care about or watch Star Wars.
Disney is only getting the logical outcome of ignoring and then condemning its audience.