That is great news....terrible what Disney has done to Star Wars.
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SPOILER: The Acolyte -- Disney+ Star Wars -- begins June 5, 2024
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doctornick
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Well the killed off all the interesting characters so no loss.
Tha Realest
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‘The Acolyte’ Canceled: No Season 2 For Disney+’s ‘Star Wars’ Series
The story of The Acolyte will not continue, with LucasFilm opting not to proceed with Season 2 of the Star Wars offshoot starring Amandla Stenberg.
deadline.com
Tha Realest
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Wendy Pleakley
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The show was just okay but I still think they should either commit to giving these series a conclusion or making seasons that are more standalone.
An incomplete story isn't great for the franchise nor does it instill incentive to watch future shows, knowing we may end up with a lack of closure.
An incomplete story isn't great for the franchise nor does it instill incentive to watch future shows, knowing we may end up with a lack of closure.
Tha Realest
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Maybe. I also think a lot of showrunners intentionally leave things with a cliffhanger to induce a renewal.
networkpro
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- In the Parks
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IMHO the better show runners make the longer running series have a main focus for a season with a resolution of whatever portion of an arc has been decided but leaving the major theme hanging. I didnt see enough development of the "witches" and why there were important or even declared that they were really just poorly organized and dressed Night Sisters doing "witchy things" in a backwater force nexus.
Wendy Pleakley
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It's definitely a thing, but more I think for broadcast TV where a network orders a show but doesn't have the same level of creative oversight. They just buy 22 episodes or whatever of a show.
Lucasfilm/Disney is producing this show in house so they could certainly dictate it be more of a standalone season one.
Did Andor do better in the ratings? Some people didn't like it because it was a different type of show, but I believe they came in with a plan to do a two season story.
Tha Realest
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I think Andor was planned for like five seasons, but they agreed to pare it back to what amounted to two seasons during the first season’s production. They knew it would be renewed but only once.
Good riddance! My brother hated it! Don’t be too surprise that Kathleen Kennedy will get fired next!
Ghost93
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The show was a mixed bag, but I would have had a season 2 to wrap up all the dangling loose threads. Even if most disliked the Acolypte, it's cancellation may make people hesitant to want to get invested in future Star Wars shows if there is no guarantee the stories told in the shows will be complete.
doctornick
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The sad thing to me is that I thought the show was decent enough until the finale when the inexplicably made Sol a villain?! I’m still not sure exactly who we were supposed to be rooting for in the series. The sensible people died, the annoying people lived and the main character who we seemed to be supposed to identify with killed a person who had her back her whole life.
I’m just wondering exactly was the pitch for this show that got it approved.
I’m just wondering exactly was the pitch for this show that got it approved.
I agree. I didn’t really enjoy it, but I was intrigued by it—and assumed Season 2 would have continued to show the relationship between the surviving characters, Yoda, and Plagueis. I’m definitely less likely to watch the next SW show unless I really enjoy the episodes as opposed to having faith hoping they are going somewhere compelling with it.
I actually thought they were setting Sol up to be the Anakin-like figure who gets lured to the dark side from the very first episode, and that would have made a lot of sense in the season finale if he murdered Mae or Qimir in cold blood to protect/avenge Osha. I agree that the most likable characters were all dead by the end of Season 1, but possibly even more infuriating was that neither Mae’s actions (agreeing to split from the sister she was obsessed with and have her mind wiped and be left for the Jedi!?) nor Osha’s actions (trusting Qimir who had murdered all of her Jedi friends) made any sense. The whole final scene with Vernestra painting it all on Sol made even less sense. I too am curious what the purpose/message of the show was supposed to be—unlike the cynics here, I don’t think it was actually pitched as “see, the Jedi are going to be evil, incompetent bureaucrats!” though I’m willing to believe it could be something like “being so confident in your own religion and blamelessness can inspire confidence to do evil things and make you blind to the flaws that will eventually lead to your downfall”— but I personally think they scripted the show in a way establishing the Jedi were right to rescue Osha based on what they learned from Mae.
Disney Irish
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And we've been hearing that for almost a decade, and yet she still hasn't been fired.
Since her current contract ends this year at the end of 2024, she'll just finish her contract and retire.
That works too!
Disney Irish
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Point is that she is going out on her own terms, not because she will be fired.That works too!
Wendy Pleakley
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And then they'll bring in this mythical person that will make consistently great Star Wars stuff that everybody loves!
Something even George Lucas couldn't do, but I digress...
Disney Irish
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Well the hope is that person is Filoni as the new creative chief, but we’ll see how he does with the next couple movies and shows.