Nomad 303

I grew up with the original Star Wars trilogy and, as a kid, my room was often difficult to enter, because of epic battle scenes I created with Star Wars figurines and space-ships. I stayed in love with Star Wars all my life and I cannot count how many times I watched the original trilogy. Unlike many other fans of the first hour, I didn't even hate episodes 1-3. Admittedly, the computer graphics were terrible and had nothing to do with SW aesthetics, but the plot (apart from the introduction of silly characters, silly battles, silly space races, and failed attempts at humor) was pretty decent and the space battles were epic. I watched every Star Wars movie and every show and some are very good, in my opinion; mainly because they manage to capture that Star Wars feel (especially Rogue One, The Mandalorian, Ahsoka). So, I think I have a pretty balanced view and I can appreciate new additions to the SW universe. Having said that, obviously not everything Disney did to the Franchise was great. Episodes 7-9, for one, were total garbage. I still cannot believe they brought back Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford for this nonsense. How did they get away with this storyline? 'Hear me out - a death star but BIGGER!'. It's the lamest re-hash in the history of sequels, sprinkled with lengthy and unnecessary scenes (the 'casino' planet, the pouty Skywalker scenes, the blue space milk, the fleet escape, Leia in space, love triangles, and so on...). So, if episodes 7-9 deserve a one-star review, the Acolyte is not much better. A boring, stretched-out plot with uninteresting characters nobody cares about. One of the things I always liked about Star Wars, was the combination of futuristic technologies and the existence of a well-defined supernatural power, as opposed to the existence of 'general magic', that makes everything possible and allows for everything to be explained. Now this kind of 'general magic' is increasingly being introduced in Star Wars. I didn't like it in Ahsoka, but The Acolyte takes it to new heights. Apart from the lame story, many directing decisions are also questionable: why did we have to watch the coven burn down twice just to introduce another perspective? I highly doubt that anyone would want to watch this show again. The director of The Acolyte definitely does not understand what captured the hearts and minds of millions of fans for so many decades.