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"Would Have Been Incredible": 'The Acolyte's Manny Jacinto Reveals How Many Seasons Were Laid Out Before Cancellation
The Acolyte's Manny Jacinto revealed that the show's creator Leslye Headland had plans for at least two more seasons as well as a feature film.collider.com
Planning for three seasons and a movie with such poor plotting, unlikable characters, and an all-around deficit of fun? Take it away, Admiral Clancy!
I guess you hate Babylon 5, too.Planning for three seasons and a movie with such poor plotting, unlikable characters, and an all-around deficit of fun? Take it away, Admiral Clancy!
I'm not the biggest fan of The Acolyte and it's my least favorite of all the streaming live action Star Wars shows, but it was clearly planned out. Not excellently. The show drags and suffers from its clunkiness and drawn out, paper-thin storyline. But I can't in good faith call it "not planned out."
Acolyte had a lot more care and effort put in to it that most will give it credit for.
That they focused on too many characters or that the storyline became unnecessarily complicated doesn't make it less planned out. I don't get the need to rip on writers.
If anything they put TOO much detail and effort into a storyline that just wasn't hefty enough to support all of it.
Honestly, if I were to tweak it I would just pull Basil out, and the whole spying plotline. I would give more time to Osha talking about her training and what it meant to her but why she never felt like she belonged because she couldn't give herself fully to the Jedi. It's why she was so susceptible to the dark after she discovered Mae was alive; she was afraid to lose her again.
Focusing on that thread and more with Mae and Qimir and what led her to killing the Jedi would be a better use of the time.
I wanted more Qimir.
And Plagueis. Shame we didn't get at least more of Qimir, and Osha needed a little more fleshing out.
And Plagueis. Shame we didn't get at least more of Qimir, and Osha needed a little more fleshing out.
Plagueis was the tease of all teases. We waited almost 20 years to see him onscreen and that's all we got.
Weak.
Weak.
Let's be fair. If we saw more of him fans would just bitch that he's not right. And then would peg for Palpatine and whine that he's not right.Plagueis was the tease of all teases. We waited almost 20 years to see him onscreen and that's all we got.
Weak.
It might be weak, and I do want more Plagueis, but honestly, might have dodge a blaster bolt there.
Have you ever heard....
Aaaaaand, that's where you're wrong. Editing and fine-tuning is a key and vital aspect of planning, no less so than building in narrative complexity and varied characters to being with.
Agree to disagree and really can't take you seriously with the little emoji.Aaaaaand, that's where you're wrong. Editing and fine-tuning is a key and vital aspect of planning, no less so than building in narrative complexity and varied characters to being with.
I stand by what I said that they had a plan.
It feels like we found out as much as we could about Osha.
It would seem that The Acolyte might be becoming something of a sleeper hit.
It has some decent character moments and good choreography. So, yeah some might appreciate it.
Thanks, we could all use a good belly laugh on a Tuesday.
From the article the video cites, courtesy of clickbait farm Screen Rant: "New data from Parrot Analytics (via THR) suggest Lucasfilm may have been too hasty, however. Rather than looking purely at viewership, Parrot measure 'demand' by combining that data with things like social media conversation, wikis, and search activity."
Disney Execs: "Subscription-based revenue? Who needs that, when we can spend hundreds of millions of dollars and get social media action, much of which is mocking and negative?!"
Again, funny stuff.
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