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Beer & Queso
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I am 4 episodes into The Acolyte. A couple of observations, arranged in buckets:

The bad:

  • I would give the overall acting a C+ grade.
  • I would give the dialogue a C grade. It is not particularly witty, compelling or insightful.
  • I would give the story a C grade so far. Maybe it will get better but it is not drawing me in much.
  • The Jedi are a whiny, humanistic bunch. Lots of odd plotting and scheming with a surprising lack of uniformity.
  • the character depth is very, very slow to develop. It’s like they swapped in a bunch of b-grade writers. I wonder if the franchise has saturated and overwhelmed the available good storytellers.

The meh:

  • The Jedi die at an alarming rate. Maybe this is a first generation in the timeline and their skills are not yet refined.
  • the (CGI) set design is not on par with other Stat Wars series. Looks lower resolution and gamerish vs. high quality.

The good:

  • There is a new Star Ears series to watch.
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Disney has available good storytellers?

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Tony Gilroy and… well that’s about it I suppose.

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The fact that Ahsoka - Filoni’s baby - underwhelmed was the most alarming SW development since RoS.

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A big part of the problem is that Filoni has all the creative talent and writing acumen of a dimwitted seven-year-old.

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I’d say several seasons of Clone Wars and two seasons of Mandalorian disagree.

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I agree.

Filoni seems to like the slow burn which has its place.

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The Boys turns the unsubtle up to eleventy.

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Every week, you think The Boys cannot get more hilariously obvious than the week before. Yet every week, they do.

Also, they took perhaps the greatest feel-good summer song of all time, and splattered horrific images on top of it to ruin it forever.

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It absolutely fucking hilarious to me that right-wingers watched three seasons of this show before realizing it was “woke”.

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Yo tambien.

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Good news/bad news

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And more good news

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It’s bizarre how they can make SNW so good, but the show from which it spawned remained so bad.

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Oh, MCU. What are you doing??

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Rounding up some Star Trek news from the last few days:

SNW S3 teaser. Chapel looking especially yowza with the new hair.

Lower Decks S5 teaser.

Section 31 teaser. Really hope the movie is better than this trailer cut.

Starfleet Academy casting news: Tig Notaro (Jett Reno) and Robert Picardo (The Doctor) are back as regulars, while Mary Wiseman (Tilly) and Oded Fehr (Admiral Just-For-Men) will be guest stars.

Finally, Tawny Newsome (Mariner in Lower Decks, writing on Starfleet Academy) is helping co-develop another new Trek series.

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Disney has cancelled The Acolyte.

I feel the same way about that news as I did about the show: meh.

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The show itself was pretty blah, but man, the choreography of the fighting and the tease of actually seeing but not getting to learn more about the story of Darth Plagueis is fucking criminal.

Fucking Disney.

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They cancelled it instead of trying to make Season 2 better. That seems to be the norm these days.

What I think they’re missing is that people - like me - don’t bother to get invested in new shows because there’s a very high probability that they won’t make it past one season. Thus new shows get a tepid response from viewers and get cancelled. Rinse, repeat.

Maybe there’s a tax write-off to be had by cancelling the show and writing down the value of the IP. I don’t know if that’s what happened here, but I have seen a theory (it’s too smart to be mine) that, when studios do this, the now valueless IP for which they are taking a write-off should become public property. Like trash in the street.