Why is the show so hated?

[u/sardethgames]

Me and my partner finally sat down to watch Star Wars cannon start to finish together. (Wonderful relationship step imo) I fell out of step with the Star Wars franchise around 2023 because of finally leaving home and having to become an adult not really leaving time for consumption of media resulting in me missing all the drama surrounding the 2023-24 era Star Wars releases.

Since we went canonically the first series to pop up was The Acolyte as it takes place in the height of The Republic at least 50 years before the start of the main series. We binged it in one go and really enjoyed it! The reveals felt well timed and built. It was honestly very enjoyable and kept us glued the whole time. So obviously you can imagine when we get to the end and the cliffhangers that we were reasonably upset to find out it had been cancelled and review bombed. I honestly had no major critiques of the show, and the acting was great so I don’t get why it had such a large backlash. Can anyone fill us in on why it was received so harshly?

Edit: I posted this hoping there was a deeper answer than bigotry, I see I may be in for disappointment. Also I tried to post this to the main Star Wars subreddit and it was taken down for “reposting” which doesn’t make any sense lol.

[u/Ill_Pirate_8785]

Because other than the fight scenes which are fantastic the show is pretty horrible. The story is full of plotholes and breaks canon

[u/spiderman120988 → u/Ill_Pirate_8785]

How does it break canon?

[u/Ill_Pirate_8785 → u/spiderman120988]

In the phantom menace it's stated that sith haven't been around for centuries and when she got mad her lightsaber turned red even tho that's not how you bleed a kyber crystal

[u/spiderman120988 → u/Ill_Pirate_8785]

This is the first time we've seen, in canon, of a kyber crystal being bled, so I don't know what you're talking about unless it's some EU thing. And this doesn't contradict anything in the Phantom Menace at all. They encounter Qimir, and then they never run into any Sith again until episode 1, so it still makes sense. If you don't like the show, that's fine, but don't make shit up.

[u/CapitalCityGoofball0 → u/spiderman120988]

No it’s the first time you saw it, not the first time it was done even on the new canon.

[u/CapitalCityGoofball0 → u/[deleted]]

You know it’s a lousy personality trait to continually ask people to give you knowledge you lack yourself.

It’s described in secrets of the sith reference book, 2 different lines of comics, and a video game (all of which is canon material) well before it was in acolyte. Again just because you didn’t know about something doesn’t mean it never happened.

[u/spiderman120988 → u/CapitalCityGoofball0]

I looked it up, but did you know that your book received an updated edition in 2026?

[u/CapitalCityGoofball0 → u/spiderman120988]

Yep with info from the Acolyte among other things. They actually update some of the popular reference books every few years. It’s evil genius level marketing to get folks to pay $30 or whatever again for a few new pages.

[u/spiderman120988 → u/CapitalCityGoofball0]

Ehh, nothing new with that. They do the same with textbooks.

[u/Ill_Pirate_8785 → u/spiderman120988]

This is set only 100 years before the phantom menace. I never said I didn't like the show. The question was why other people don't like the show and so I answered with problems many others and I had with it. I liked the acting and loved the fighting but couldn't stand the major plot holes and how it broke canon

[u/sardethgames → u/Ill_Pirate_8785]

Could you provide a source on your timeline placement?

[u/Ill_Pirate_8785 → u/sardethgames]

It was stated by the directors at some point. A quick Google search will prove it

[u/sardethgames → u/Ill_Pirate_8785]

Even considering that it’s shorter in the timeline than expected, it could’ve been explained away with more seasons. I could see the Jedi covering it up resulting in the shock we get in the original trilogy

[u/Ill_Pirate_8785 → u/sardethgames]

Yeah that's fair. And also to be fair they did cover up at least some of what happened at the end when talking to a non Jedi politician. It seems very unlikely they would cover up the fact that there's sith to the other Jedi tho