The Acolyte was revealed to be cancelled on August 19, solely weeks after its season 1 run ended on Disney Plus. Whereas it labored properly sufficient with critics, a large portion of the Star Wars fandom outright rejected it, citing loads of s**t causes and some different complaints that have been really cheap. Now, the present’s (double) star, Amandla Stenberg, is lastly talking concerning the cancellation.
In line with them (through Instagram), it was “not an enormous shock” following the “rampage of vitriol that now we have confronted because the present was even introduced, when it was nonetheless only a idea and nobody had even seen it.” They don’t seem to be unsuitable in any respect concerning the apparent hate marketing campaign that was staged in opposition to the sequence regardless of the precise high quality of it, however that does not even start to clarify why it was cancelled.
Final week, co-star Lee Jung-jae was much more restrained in his feedback: “Truthfully, I hope that perhaps there might be modifications sooner or later… Since you by no means know what’s going to occur. So on a private degree, I actually hope we might get to see additional tales of Leslye’s second season.” In fact (spoilers forward), he would not care that a lot since his character, Grasp Sol, accomplished his arc and died on the finish of season 1 by the hands of Osha, his former apprentice. That stated, it is sensible he is additionally fairly disillusioned about how issues have gone down for a present he spent a lot time engaged on.
Stenberg’s feedback additionally went past the matter of the hate they and different solid members, in addition to creator Leslye Headland, obtained: “Though, in fact I’m very unhappy concerning the present being cancelled, and I’m unhappy about us not with the ability to give individuals invested in it extra, I nonetheless simply really feel loads of levity and pleasure round the truth that I received to expertise it and that folks beloved it and that folks have been so responsive.” VG247’s Oisin Kuhnke thought The Acolyte ended up reaching a cool place even when it took its candy time to correctly begin firing on all its cylinders. I have to echo that sentiment, as I solely actually began to understand the present (flaws and all) previous the halfway level.
Famend Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider, who’s been fairly dependable with regards to Lucasfilm and Star Wars, additionally shared what he knew about The Acolyte’s cancellation, stating the choice was largely associated to low viewership numbers previous the double premiere plus the extraordinarily excessive manufacturing value for eight episodes. Lengthy story quick: This was a giant guess for Disney and Lucasfilm, and it did not dwell as much as lofty expectations.
Positive, the worst individuals circling the Star Wars fandom will use the sequence’ cancellation as a private win in opposition to ‘the wokes’ and all that crap, however ultimately, The Acolyte merely was a good present with bunch of cool concepts that simply took too rattling lengthy to get really fascinating and paid the last word worth. Now we will solely hope The Stranger and Osha’s story could be accomplished by some means someplace. We’ll even settle for a comic book ebook sequence!