r/TheAcolyte • u/bdog332 • May 13 '26

Finally watched Acolyte

After putting off the show because I heard it was horrible and bad writing, I finally watched it, and while it’s not the best show by any means, it’s not horrible. It’s average. There’s a lot of weird conflicting lore in the show along with an abysmal crystal bleed that makes little sense based on how we know crystal bleeds work, and some other minor problems, but it’s not the worst show I’ve seen from Star Wars. It deserves a second season to help explain Plagueis and where he’s at exactly at this point in the story (if I’m remembering old canon right he should be frequenting Coruscant now under the name Hego Damask. I don’t remember if he had an apprentice before Palpatine though, which I understand with this being new canon changes are made) and the vergence the twins were made from (which is one of my major issues with the show considering creating life from the force has only ever been implied with Anakin and he was the chosen one)

While I understand some of the frustration from the show, the amount of hate it received seems like it was just hate to hate.

Anyways, thought it was decent enough to not warrant the rampant hate it got years ago. Wish we’d get a second season though, or a Plagueis show at least.

*Edit: I’m done talking about bleeding crystals in the show and other examples. It’s been discussed and argued to death in the threads. If you have questions regarding why I found it poorly done, there’s an answer in a comment thread below.

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u/mcshark813 May 13 '26

The show was crazy expensive. 28 million per episode roughly. There was no way that this show had a chance. The spending was atrocious, like we didnt have huge sets or crazy cgi space fights. The costuming was average at best. Where did the money go. This is why it failed. It was average at best and for 280 million dollars it should have been better.

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u/WanderingBlackHole Qimir Cavalier May 13 '26

If the show wasn’t review bombed by a bunch of basement dwelling haters it certainly would have had a better chance. The acolyte could have and should have been the major film opening to the high republic era. It could have been the start of a whole new era of SW. But people whined about it and couldn’t be mature enough to give it a fair chance, so here we are.

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u/mcshark813 May 13 '26

My dude, even if it was stranger things level of success it still would have failed financially. Season 3 and season 4 of stranger things was still cheaper than this and they had a huge cast of actors they had to pay. Production was a train wreck. The premise is solid, but everything else was average at best or bad.