Hmm. The critics’ score was 78% but the users’ score (the ones paying the streaming fees) gave it 18%. Which one of these groups was paid off, I wonder?
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That's disappointing.
The Acolyte: Cancelled Star Wars Series Didn’t Perform Well Enough to Justify Cost, Says Disney Exec
Disney execs were "happy" with how 'The Acolyte' performed, but it wasn't enough to justify cost of the Star Wars series.tvline.com
Or the critics got something right for once. I mean:Hmm. The critics’ score was 78% but the users’ score (the ones paying the streaming fees) gave it 18%. Which one of these groups was paid off, I wonder?
Pathetic.
This one, right here. I only trust my own and the opinions of people I can actually engage in conversation. The rules can and should be ignored.
Neither, the critics are actually honest, while the user score is probably due to review bombing by the bigots.Hmm. The critics’ score was 78% but the users’ score (the ones paying the streaming fees) gave it 18%. Which one of these groups was paid off, I wonder?
I never understood the full reliance on scores beyond a cursory inspection. But, beyond that, the films and shows I enjoy are often much more lowly rated, yet, inexplicably, I still enjoy them.
The Acolyte: Cancelled Star Wars Series Didn’t Perform Well Enough to Justify Cost, Says Disney Exec
Disney execs were "happy" with how 'The Acolyte' performed, but it wasn't enough to justify cost of the Star Wars series.
Disney Entertainment co-chair Alan Bergman, assessing the state of past, present and future Star Wars TV projects for Vulture, said that "as it relates to Acolyte, we were happy with our performance, but it wasn’t where we needed it to be given the cost structure of that title..."
Well, I call that half of an honest statement. Here's the (reported) ratings for the week of its finale:
High budget or not, I doubt Disney is "happy" with a live-action Star Wars series getting its ass kicked by the likes of Love Island, a historical action-adventure show, and a true-crime docuseries.
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I’m sure these are all vicious lies to further the despicable “anti-woke” agenda and accompanying narrative.
I'm sure Disney is unhappy.
Somehow, my life continues.
Somehow, my life continues.
That it was. In that context, ever since the PT, Star Wars has rarely disappointed. In fact, I really can’t think of a single fight scene since then that left me “meh”.
Indeed.
And we got an excellent villain, and a new droid design that didn't suck, and the Jedi as a kung fu school, and cortosis, and you-know-who...
The Acolyte: Cancelled Star Wars Series Didn’t Perform Well Enough to Justify Cost, Says Disney Exec
Disney execs were "happy" with how 'The Acolyte' performed, but it wasn't enough to justify cost of the Star Wars series.
As someone who was never "paid off", I actually enjoyed "The Acolyte". A lot. I enjoyed the signs of corruption within the Jedi Order . . . even a century before the events of the Prequel Trilogy.
Nearly or all of the fight scenes from the Sequel Trilogy had left me feeling "meh" or even worse, "ugh". My least favorite being the duel inside Snokes throne room in "The Last Jedi". That particular fight had struck me as so clumsy that I found it ridiculous and laughable.
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Definitely! I really enjoyed the Acolyte and ST duels. Liked most of them better than the Anakin/Obi-Wan duel in ROTS.
I find that scores can still be a useful guide, so long as one knows how to read them.
By that I mean the averages, or what bar on the graph is the highest mean a lot less than the overall trends, and the thing about going by the trends is that it makes review bombs stick out like a sore thumb.
For example, if the top half of the scale is trending positive in the 3-5 star zone but there's a gigantic spike of 1 stars, then it's a review bomb and said one-stars can be safely ignored. If there's a still a gigantic spike of 1 stars AND the rest of the scores trend negative, then you probably have a legitimate stinker on your hands.
Of course that's only useful when you can get a look at the scores for each rating, and not some opaque percentage based overall score (looking at you RT!) which doesn't actually tell you anything useful.
I think what also trips people up is the impression that any of this conveys anything approaching an objective assessment of quality. It's just an easy way to see at a glance whether or not something if worth looking into more closely (i.e. reading some actual reviews and comparing the reviewer's tastes to one's own.)
The only real problem with them so far as I've seen is when actual people in the industry assign them undue value and influence to the point that they're used to decide something that should only be using internal numbers.
As for the recent statement regarding Acolyte's numbers and Disney's satisfaction; I call bullshit. If the numbers were so satisfactory and where they wanted them to be, then why not even consider a reduced budget second season?
If there's one thing Disney likes to avoid like the plague, it's public controversy (real or imagined), and I think the simple reality here is that the trolls and bigots frightened them off.
TLJ is my second least favorite movie in the Saga and has a plethora of problems, but the Snoke Throne Room battle is one of the brighter spots in the film.
My opinion on The Last Jedi has always been mixed. I've always found the stuff with Luke, Rey and Kylo to be Empire Strikes Back level good, despite a few bungled attempts at humor. The scene where Luke calls out the old Jedi Order for being responsible for its own destruction is one of my favorite scenes in the entire saga. It's made pretty clear that that's the fact in the prequel trilogy, but for to to be said outright in canon by none other than Luke Skywalker himself, was a stand up in the theater and clap moment for me.
The rest of the movie just falls apart under the weight of the stupidity of our main characters.
The rest of the movie just falls apart under the weight of the stupidity of our main characters.
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