Star Wars The Acolyte Rotten Tomatoes Updates
About: Star Wars The Acolyte Rotten Tomatoes Updates.
TV Series: Though ‘The Acolyte‘ had a 78% Rotten Tomatoes score, it had a mixed reception from fans, affecting viewership. It did OK with critics but divided Star Wars fans. The fandom wasn’t happy and review bombed the show on Rotten Tomatoes, giving it 17% (current rating).
I don’t think The Acolyte is very good, and I’m not upset that it’s cancelled. What it doesn’t deserve is a 17% rating on rotten tomatoes.
The lead wasn’t charismatic, sadly. Apart from Carrie-Ann Moss, Lee Jung-jae, and Manny Jacinto, no one was. The concept was interesting, but I didn’t really care. It has many fallacies and inconsistencies with the saga and as a series.
It’s sad that a hateful and divisive part of the fandom literally prevents any sort of new content to expand this universe.
Star Wars The Acolyte Rotten Tomatoes Updates
The show wasn’t perfect, nor wasn’t it without fault, but the studio will not try to create something different if this continues to happen. The show wasn’t as bad as many people thought. It failed to satisfy its core audience.
Mandalorian and The Acolyte: Both have filoni involved with original characters, but The Acolyte had a budget almost 50% higher. The Acolyte should be performing better in every metric. Especially considering it’s a late show and Disney should know what performs well with their audience.
We’ve gotten to the point where reviews of a show are more entertaining than the shows themselves. Disney have truly outdone themselves.
Remember when a TV series like “24” or “Star Trek” released 24 episodes every year? 43 minutes long each? That’s more view time in one season than a streaming series today will give you for 3 seasons over the course of 5 years. (Madalorian, etc.) Older shows with smaller budgets and far more episodes were significantly better than anything we’ve seen from Disney Plus shows so far.
A Visual Downgrade
It’s truly shocking how Coruscant looks in the Acolyte compared to the prequel trilogy. It looks like they are cutting corners to save money.
In the prequels, they often show wide shots of the Jedi temple at sunset or at night to make the shot look extra dramatic and impressive. And the background is loaded with details. It looks like the capital world of an entire galaxy. In the Acolyte, they show the Jedi temple at day with that hazy background to obscure the details. There’s not nearly as many buildings, and there’s 1% of the air traffic as shown in the prequels.
I also binge-watched Kenobi over the weekend, and it’s hard to believe Acolyte had twice the budget for that show.
Last night I rewatched “The Phantom Menace,” and it was so refreshing. Especially compared to anything we see nowadays. The acolyte comes off so cheap and tacky. It’s not just the terrible writing and terrible acting. Horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show.
Flawed grading system
Rotten Tomatoes is a flawed grading system. I don’t know why people continuously reference it. The average rating for critics would be about 62% if they averaged them correctly, but since most are over a certain number, they all get “fresh,” and it out comes the amazing-looking 91%.
My problem with this is that everyone is freaking out because The Acolyte is a Disney product. Disney represented gentleness, family-friendly, kid-friendly, entertainment, and enjoyable fantasy. It was a good name; it was something you could feel good about sharing with your family and friends.
Now, Disney, when I say it, or even think it, sounds like an expletive. They don’t care what they’ve done to the brand. They don’t care what they’ve done to the franchises that were entrusted to them. When it suits the narrative it’s credible, when it doesn’t it’s not credible. People are 100% logical and consistent nowadays.
