Disney has announced that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars: The Acolyte isn’t beꦓing renewed after a single season despite its finale ending on a cliffhanger just weeks ago. All those loose threads willbe left unanswered, and all the predictable right wing🥃 pundits that have been dragging the show through the dirt since its reveal are acting as if this story reaching a premature end is some cause for celebration.
But now, Disney is agreeing with them, and not long after D23 when both fans of the show and the talented people behind it expressed ample interest in another season. It’s one of the few Star Wars shows in modern history to feature entirely origina🅺l characters and concepts, brave enough to step outside the shadow of the Skywalker Saga and explore a brave new story about the force which expands on a tired history that is decades long in the tooth.
It limits storytelling at the foundational level and restricts whꦅat is easily the biggest franchise on the planet to repeating the same tales over and over again, because everyone with the power to tell those stories is abundantly aware that fans will only embrace the familiar. Any attempt to introduce something daring, new, ♋or diverse is a recipe for unjustified outrage.
It’s impossible to emerge victorious when trying to appeaꦇl to such a volatile fanbase. Like all great TV shows, The Acolyte was laying a set of ambitious foundations it would build upon in seasons to come, but in the age of streaming, it’s becoming harder and harder for any show to be given a chance to cultivate an audience or flirt with a slow burn 🔯that demands patience rather than instant gratification. You are either a world dominating hit out of the gate or you have no reason to exist; even Star Wars isn’t immune to that.
Our own James Troughton has written 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a brilliant piece about certain parts of the fandom writing off The Acolyte before it🥃 even aired its first episode. All because it dared to feature a diverse and queer cast that strived to push the Star Wars universe forward.
Right now, the only live𓆏 action Star Wars shows currently enjoying life beyond their opening seasons are The Mandalorian, Ahsoka, and Andor, and who knows if any of those will suffer th𝐆e same fate if enough people don’t show up on the day of the next premiere.
Many of these shows exist within established eras and explore characters involved in the periphery of conflicts with a defined beginning, middle, and end we know it can’t deviate too much fro🍃m. At their core, everything they can and will do is tra𓃲gically predictable and held back by a dedication to stubborn fan nostalgia that Star Wars doesn’t need anymore. Yet it will never move on.
Fans won’t give The Acolyte a chance, but are more than happy to bat for the Ahsoka show despite its titul🐓ar star being the subject of similar vitriol when The ♉Clone Wars debuted back in 2008. Funny how that works.
In our review of The Acolyte, we described it as the most interesting Star Wars project since The Last Jedi because it was daring to expand the universe rather than hone in on the same few familiar 💃faces. Not only did it explore the strange secrets and cloudy history of the High Republic era, it did so through the eyes of fresh characters with no attachment to Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia, or any of the big players that remain shackled to the property for all the wrong reasons.
It played with the series’ mythology and wante🐈d to try new things, the majority of which hardcore fans rallied hard against because it was nothing like the films and shows they love and grew up with.
I bet if something like The Clone Wars was released today it wouldn’t make it past a single season. Fandoms just don’t have the patience they once did, and many of them are far too coddled and entitled. Imagine how many excellent TV shows would be lost if🌌 we didn't have the patience 🅠for slower first seasons - Breaking Bad, The Office, Parks and Rec, Always Sunny, and The Sopranos are just a few.
But things change, and some of the best characters and stories are born from taking a big chance and letting ⛎creatives cook, but Star Wars is treated with such hostile intimacy that any attempt to do just that is met by either angry viewers or corporate giants b💟owing to the pressure.
The thing is, even when you🌃 correct course and try to do exactly what you think fans want, that t🐈oo ends in disaster. Rise of Skywalker is despised when, on paper, it is the film all of these crybabies were asking for. They will never be happy, and they simply do not deserve a show like The Acolyte that wants to expand their horizons of what Star Wars can and wants to be.
I want to care about Star Wars, and The Acolyte was the first time in a very long while that I actually did because it promised a future for the franchise that wasn’t afraid to leave꧒ its past behind. But with its premature end, I fear Disney is going to retreat to its old ways never to return, and as one of the biggest sci-🌳fi names in history, Star Wars deserves better than that.
