Edit: Full disclosure -- I'm pretty annoyed that they canceled The Acolyte. As laser sword-twirling slop goes, it was fiiiiine. For me, the bar is "do I find this significantly less watchable than TNG season 2?" Aim any higher than that, and normal jagoffs are just going to think you're a hateful little freak who's too much of a snob to ever like anything basically ever.
I thought the show was at least a good concept, and I liked that they tried to flesh out some of the dark sider lore and incorporate some Expanded Universe stuff in spite of the ropey overall execution (a Star War staple, tbh), and that grown-ass men should not be pissing and shitting themselves because OH MY GAWD JEDI MASTER PENIS-HEAD BEING IN THIS BREAKS THE HOLY CANON before that story thread has even been wrapped up, completely oblivious to the fact that they're portraying the Jedi Order as being a bunch of unlikeable, incompetent, self-centered bureaucrats, which was the whole point of the prequels. (I am not touching "the power of one/the power of two/the power of maaaaaaanyyyyyyy.")
I do find it off-putting that Leslye Headland was Weinstein's personal assistant in the time leading up to the MeToo movement and more than likely provided cover for some heinous shit, flatly denies having done so, and wrote and produced a TV movie about a protagonist who is a personal assistant to a powerful sex pest.
The show is weird because like, solving a murder involving someone killing Jedi is kinda cool, lot of stuff can be done with that
Having the story be based around a grooming plotline is a fucking bizarre choice. That throwaway line about Luke being too old to train as a Jedi should never have entered canon because now the Jedi are all creepy as fuck
Not beating the allegations until they come out and say, in actual film dialogue and not in a fucking novelization that literally no one will read, that children are easier to train because of something something neurological development stages and learning to commune with the force being easier before age and experience start clouding your capacity for imagination and therefore connection to the 5-pin DIN MIDI Thru cable or whatever. Hell, that could have been a scene in The Acolyte -- a perfect chance for an outsider to pose the question, "but why children?" with the implication that maybe force witches do things a little differently and don't need to indoctrinate them as kids. It could even have been a brief Qui-Gon/baby Anakin exchange in Phantom Menace. But nah, leave it to George Lucas to not be able to recognize when his characters look like groomers.
But nah, leave it to George Lucas to not be able to recognize when his characters look like groomers.
Remember Raiders of the Lost Ark? During the pre-production, Lucas and Spielburg had a spirited discussion, with drinks, where they nearly made the Marion character even younger when their protagonist first creeped on her
I admit I'm a bit disappointed that the canceled show featured at least an attempt at a non-Jedi/Sith take on the Force. Fumbled it pretty badly, but it was an attempt... and they're not likely to try that again for a long, long time, if ever.
I am not touching "the power of one/the power of two/the power of maaaaaaanyyyyyyy
Edit: Full disclosure -- I'm pretty annoyed that they canceled The Acolyte. As laser sword-twirling slop goes, it was fiiiiine. For me, the bar is "do I find this significantly less watchable than TNG season 2?" Aim any higher than that, and normal jagoffs are just going to think you're a hateful little freak who's too much of a snob to ever like anything basically ever.
I thought the show was at least a good concept, and I liked that they tried to flesh out some of the dark sider lore and incorporate some Expanded Universe stuff in spite of the ropey overall execution (a Star War staple, tbh), and that grown-ass men should not be pissing and shitting themselves because OH MY GAWD JEDI MASTER PENIS-HEAD BEING IN THIS BREAKS THE HOLY CANON before that story thread has even been wrapped up, completely oblivious to the fact that they're portraying the Jedi Order as being a bunch of unlikeable, incompetent, self-centered bureaucrats, which was the whole point of the prequels. (I am not touching "the power of one/the power of two/the power of maaaaaaanyyyyyyy.")
I do find it off-putting that Leslye Headland was Weinstein's personal assistant in the time leading up to the MeToo movement and more than likely provided cover for some heinous shit, flatly denies having done so, and wrote and produced a TV movie about a protagonist who is a personal assistant to a powerful sex pest.
The show is weird because like, solving a murder involving someone killing Jedi is kinda cool, lot of stuff can be done with that
Having the story be based around a grooming plotline is a fucking bizarre choice. That throwaway line about Luke being too old to train as a Jedi should never have entered canon because now the Jedi are all creepy as fuck
The magic cops needing to kidnap children and indoctrinate them to train more magic cops was a bad idea all along if I was supposed to like them.
Not beating the
allegations until they come out and say, in actual film dialogue and not in a fucking novelization that literally no one will read, that children are easier to train because of something something neurological development stages and learning to commune with the force being easier before age and experience start clouding your capacity for imagination and therefore connection to the 5-pin DIN MIDI Thru cable or whatever. Hell, that could have been a scene in The Acolyte -- a perfect chance for an outsider to pose the question, "but why children?" with the implication that maybe force witches do things a little differently and don't need to indoctrinate them as kids. It could even have been a brief Qui-Gon/baby Anakin exchange in Phantom Menace. But nah, leave it to George Lucas to not be able to recognize when his characters look like groomers.
Remember Raiders of the Lost Ark? During the pre-production, Lucas and Spielburg had a spirited discussion, with drinks, where they nearly made the Marion character even younger when their protagonist first creeped on her
From my point of view, the jedi are evil
Child snatching fits in well with the jedi's role as mind controlling wizard cops actually.
I admit I'm a bit disappointed that the canceled show featured at least an attempt at a non-Jedi/Sith take on the Force. Fumbled it pretty badly, but it was an attempt... and they're not likely to try that again for a long, long time, if ever.
Mike created a very entertaining series of videos in the late 2000s but also a monster in his image.