cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/13458510

It seems some Star Wars fans are accidentally review bombing the 2008 Australian horror film Acolytes instead of The Acolyte Disney+ series. The Acolyte is the latest live-action Star Wars series to air on Disney+, premiering its first two episodes on June 4, with new episodes airing weekly until the finale on July 16. The show has earned mostly positive reviews from critics so far, but it has been incredibly divisive among Star Wars fans, to say the least.

At the time of this writing, the Rotten Tomatoes critic score for The Acolyte is a respectable 84%, while its audience score is an abysmal 16%. Without delving into spoilers, there are Star Wars fans who are not happy about some of the creative choices in the show, feeling as though it doesn’t fit with the rest of the Star Wars canon. Others are not impressed with the show’s quality, and are unhappy at the direction the Star Wars franchise has been going in general. There are also some people who are upset that the show focuses on female characters and has a diverse cast.

Those unhappy with The Acolyte, whether it’s due to legitimate criticism about the show’s quality or anger over its “woke” content, have taken to Rotten Tomatoes to let their displeasure be known, spamming the series with low ratings to bring down its audience score. However, some individuals seem to have gotten lost, instead review bombing the 2008 Australian horror film Acolytes, which has nothing to do with the Star Wars franchise in any capacity. Now, the Acolytes film was never popular with audiences anyway; from what we can see using the Way Back Machine, it’s gone from about a 42% audience score to a 33% audience score. Still, it does seem as though its score has been impacted by Star Wars fans who actually want to review bomb The Acolyte instead.

  • fox2263@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2414·
    5 months ago

    So what’s actually wrong with Acolyte.

    It’s only been 3 episodes and I’ve found it fine.

    Are the “fans” unhappy because there’s:

    • Black Jedi
    • Female Jedi
    • Black Female Jedi
    • Witches (Female)
    • Lesbian witches
    • Witches that used the force to create life
    • That the fire was too quick and didnt explain why Floating Jedi with Shit Hair killed himself.
    • The witches weren’t Nightsisters
    • All of the above

    Sure there’s glaring holes and dumb stuff but it’s still entertaining. Better than Book of Boba, but not as good as Ashoka and definitely not as good as Andor. The jury is out on if better than Obi Wan, that had Vader so gets automatic points. I keep seeing YouTube’s about it being “DEI” whatever that means and just derogatorily calling out the show runner forcing in woke was because she’s lesbian etc.

    Are only straight white Jedi allowed? I haven’t seen anything “woke” shoved in your face that I can think of.

    And you’d think people would like lesbians.

    The story is still unfolding so I’m sure we will find out what actually happened to the witches, if they got youngling’d or not etc. We’ve seen the POV of one twin so perhaps the other is coming, like what’s she been up to etc.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      151·
      5 months ago

      Uh maybe you’re missing the foreshadowing (or I could be wrong) but it seems like the Jedi killed everyone. That little fire Mae started in the upstairs bedroom wouldn’t have caused all the damage we saw in the basement. The Jedi bombed them, and that regret is what caused floaty Jedi to kill himself after meditating on it for years.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        I’m wondering if the Jedi just aren’t on a guilt trip and it was the sith/dark Jedi that set shit on fire.

        • Uruanna@lemmy.world
          3·
          5 months ago

          The main canon has been dancing around it for a bit but the theme that Jedi ideals are actually shit has been around for a while, ever since the prequel trilogy showed that their complacency allowed fascism and corruption to rise and spread easily. I thought episode 3 showed the rift pretty well: Jedi don’t like to leave strong force-sensitive kids on their own because they don’t trust random nobodies to raise them “properly” therefore they make a law that they can check up on every single kid being born (but only if they want to and with the parents approval!) and obviously people don’t trust the guvmint surveilling every single planet and kidnapping their kids.

          I’m leaning toward “the Jedi did really do it” because they thought they were up against crazy religious fundies (especially with Joe No Chair apologizing to the point of drinking the poison voluntarily), and I’m looking forward to the real answer, whether it confirms or denies my expectations.

          • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            The Jedi frequently can get very heavy handed- at least sometimes in cannon. Especially when it comes to other Jedi dying.

            But, just hear me out here.

            The sith/dark Jedi dude said “we kill the dream.” Now, hypothetically, let’s say the 4 of them saw the fire and got heavy handed. Maybe they killed a few witches, maybe not, maybe they bombed them, or maybe they just did enough to get to their recruit.

            Now, let’s say they left with their recruit, and the sith dude slipped in and slaughtered everyone, while rescuing Mae. (Remember, Mae survived too, probably got rescued.) and then raised Mae telling her the Jedi did it.

            as for the Jedi, they returned to keep and eye on whatever the freaky cult was doing only to find everyone slaughtered. They can’t really remember doing it, but they were angry, and it was all a bit sudden and rushed…

            So, they personally accepted their guilt, and the Order just kind of brushed it off as “unfortunate “, maybe the others of the order are trying to be nice, but are ultimately patronizing because they don’t know how to deal with PTSD, so it goes untreated.

            Fast forward a decade or two, and now things are even more uncertain for those 4… and those four are doing whatever they can to atone. Inara was a wandering Jedi doing the have-lightsaber-will-travel thing, Mr Floaty Jesus was doing the Floaty thing, the fireball went into exile protecting nature and Sol returned to teaching younglings.

            None of them really dealt with the emotions because Jedi aren’t supposed to have them. Of course Floaty takes the poison.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      81·
      5 months ago

      Definitely better than Boba, but I think the fight scenes have been better than Ahsoka, and the plot premise also.

      The witches are nothing new in Star Wars lore (I think Darth Maul came from their tribe), and I’m all for getting more of that.

    • Cort@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      If you haven’t caught up, spoilers below.

      Looks like my theory was wrong, jet fuel does melt steel beams.

    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      98·
      5 months ago

      Are only straight white Jedi allowed?

      Don’t you know every character is only allowed to be one of the following:

      • non-white
      • non-male
      • non-heterosexual
      • main character
        Otherwise it’s woke.
      • negativeyoda@lemmy.world
        92·
        5 months ago

        That “woke” shit is so fucking stupid. Rogue One has a pretty obviously gay couple and that movie is universally loved. One can even make the argument that when the empire was in charge that OF FUCKING COURSE gay people wouldn’t be out. It’s even cannon that the empire was racist towards non humans.

        If the stories are good, fans will eat it up. That some reprobate is butthurt because a main character isn’t a straight, white dude is the dumbest shit.

        Conversely, I hope this series is good, because if it isn’t, I won’t want to talk about it and inadvertently join the chorus of those mouthbreathers who are all screaming go woke go broke when legitimate criticisms with have NOTHING to do with that

    • SergeantScar@lemmy.world
      13·
      5 months ago

      Agreed. At this point in the show I’m hopeful I’m reading it right… But I think everything has been misdirection and showing one person’s point of view that is impacted by their own impressions. The few YouTubers I’ve seen that haven’t gotten sucked into the anti-DEI rage hole are actually putting out some great theories on what is happening… But I think the show runner’s comments have enflamed so many of the bro-chad-fans they are looking for reasons to be mad …

      I am hopeful that my read of things is true, so I’m enjoying it so far. It is possible they mess up, but I’m gonna give it the season to fully judge.