Natalia Hernandez

I've been a fan of Star Wars since I was a kid. My favorite doll was a Princess Leia, and my first movie star crush was Harrison Ford. In the last few years, I've been seeing the steady decline of this franchise and this is the final nail in the coffin. Not that this matters, but I'm a bisexual Hispanic woman with black grandparents, and I've never felt that Stars Wars excluded my demographic. I don't have a problem with female-lead shows and I don't give 3/5ths of a s$@t if they're gay. I'm so sick & tired of this trend, where if you criticize anything Disney has put out lately, you're racist & homophobic. This from the same people who removed Finn from the Stars Wars posters in China. The level of hypocrisy is just astounding. This is not the problem with The Acolyte. Or, Obi-Wan. Or, the last season of Mando. The problem is that these shows are not written well. These stories are being told in the laziest way possible. In this particular episode, people contradict themselves from one breath to the next. There's no explanation for things that could be taken care of with a simple sentence. Why were the Jedi there? How were they able to find 2 children in the entire planet hidden in some sort of huge fortress? Why was the coven so against the Jedi? How could an 8 yr old child just instantly decide to threaten their twin with death? None of these things are explained or handled well, and they're not acted convincingly enough to make me care about anything happening on the screen. I imagine they were crying and patting themselves on the back after filming what I consider one of the most cringe-inducing scenes ever filmed for a television show. "The power of one, the power of two, the power of many" sounds ridiculous and the entire scene is unintentionally hilarious. There's nothing more embarrassing than when people take themselves overly seriously and insist on injecting their politics in a way they think is smart. We don't care that Osha (or Occupational Safety & Health Administration) is black. We don't care that there's a coven in some random planet that are lesbians. WE WANT A GOOD STORY, WRITTEN BY TALENTED PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THEIR AUDIENCE.