Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Because it is Star Wars. I saw A New Hope in theaters when I was 4 and they rereleased it. It had a profound effect on me. It is the one property that is a constant for me.

I keep watching hoping that it will improve and I will like the next show.

I saw the original Star Wars in the theater in 1977, when I was 11 years old, and the most disappointing movies or TV shows I have seen since then are Rogue One and Andor. Even Book of Boba Fett was more enjoyable than those two. Rogue One and Andor had bits and pieces that were good, but overall not great.

 

[Reynard]

Even Book of Boba Fett was more enjoyable than those two.

You know you are an outlier here, right. Bok is rightly panned.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It will improve next time you are 4.

You jest but that seriously is the issue and you see it with a lot more stuff than just Star Wars.

A lot of people don't seem to get the "you can never go home again" thing when it comes to media - i.e. you can never be young twice - and they just increasingly negatively judge anything which doesn't mimic or echo the experience they had when they were a child, which, over time, becomes a larger and larger proportion of related media.

You could see the same with World of Warcraft, for example. There was a subset of players who absolutely obsessed about Vanilla/TBC/WotLK, just insisting it was better than modern WoW. So eventually Blizzard launched Classic servers, and did those people play them? Not really. They played for a little while then quit or went back to modern WoW. Why? Because they were remembering how they felt, and that wasn't a factor of how the game was designed. It was a factor of being young and in school or university, and being in guilds with people of a similar age and so on. There are smaller number of people who genuinely do like the older style, but ironically they're mostly people who didn't play way back when!

 

[damiller]

im really enjoying it. so much I am rewatching the two episodes.

Am I right in understanding that in this era the Jedi are an Arrogant Police power? Im hoping that Master Sol isn't actually involved in whatever dark doings happened at the fire on Osha and Mae's planet. And I am wondering what level of negligence was practiced that led to Mae's hate.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Am I right in understanding that in this era the Jedi are an Arrogant Police power?

The Jedi of this era are much more concerned with their rules and what they feel they "must" do than conventional right/wrong. They also have a proprietorial attitude to the Force, and think that basically anyone with Force aptitude has to be trained by them.

That said they don't normally seem to be involved in possible massacres or the like. So something must have gone particularly badly.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Come guys Disney is a massive corporation, they can take a little criticism lol. Personally I haven't seen this show, as I don't have Disney Plus and haven't enjoyed a lot of the movies and shows Disney has put out and haven't been a huge fan of how they managed the new trilogy (I liked parts of it, disliked other parts, but overall it felt poorly planned and coordinated). I think though people should be able to express negative views of a show or movie if they have seen it and feel that way, just like people should be able to express positive views. I checked out this thread to get both just to get an impression of it, in case it was something I might want to do a month of service to check out. Negative and positive reactions are part of a healthy media discourse

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Personally I haven't seen this show

Incredible.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Incredible.

how is that incredible?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

how is that incredible?

You've come here to offer an opinion without even bothering to watch the show. It's very representative of how you're not actually engaging in "healthy media discourse".

 

[Bedrockgames]

You've come here to offer an opinion without even bothering to watch the show. It's very representative of how you're not actually engaging in "health media discourse".

I haven't given an opinion on the show. I don't know if it is good or bad. I came into the thread hoping to get a broad sense of reactions to it because I am curious. I haven't watched it, as I said, because I don't have Disney Plus and I haven't been super enthusiastic about Disney Star Wars. That doesn't mean I issued an opinion on the show. My only opinion was positive and negative reactions both seem fair to me. And that push back against negative criticisms for a massive media company seems a little silly to me.