As a die hard Sta Wars fan, I’m pretty hesitant to even identify as that now. It was 100% shitty toxic fans that ruined this show. I guarantee most people saw the negative internet backlash and never even bothered with the show. Incels backlash is organized and planned. This shit has more reviews on RT than Mandorian, a 5 year old show after 2 weeks. It’s all bots and fake review spam. Almost all criticism I saw leveled at the show was from people who had CLEARLY never seen Star Wars, and were NOT watching The Acolyte. They were bitching that Dathomiri Force Witches were woke lesbians! Give me a fucking break Force Witches have been part of SW lore for 30 fucking years. Acolyte was amazing Star Wars and I pity the fans who are too stupid to enjoy it.

I miss the time when new series got at least a second, sometimes a third season to prove themselves.

or maybe it just wasn’t very good.

I don’t really have any horses (bantas?) in this race, since I just didn’t have the time to watch most of the new Disney Star Wars stuff, but friends that did watch it said they didn’t find it all that good, and especially felt like the queer characters felt a bit two dimensional beyond the representation they added.

Regardless of whether that’s the case, I very much do believe that they got a lot of vitriol from reactionary fools.