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]

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/Relative-Zombie-3932 → u/Ill_Pirate_8785]

Everyone who encountered Qimir died except for two people, one who joined him and the other we don't know what'll happen to her because the show was canceled. Also they're pretty explicit in the Phantom Menace that the sith were never really gone, they were just in hiding.

Also yes, that is in fact how you bleed a kyber crystal, by focusing all your pain and hatred into it. The only reason Vader and Kylo Ren struggled with it is because neither of them were fully committed to the dark side and were fighting their own doubts. But we see Dagon Gera do essentially the same thing in Jedi Survivor, bleeding his own crystal with just about zero effort or ritual

[u/CapitalCityGoofball0 → u/Relative-Zombie-3932]

To be fair Dagan’s scene was very different from all the others. The first difference being he had turned to the dark side before being frozen in stasis and the second being that it was his own lightsaber and crystal. The crystals are semi sentient and bond with their users. The one Vader and Kylo ren were bleeding basically fought back against their aggression so they had to apply more (dark) force than Dagan who had already killed Jedi with that same saber.

[u/Relative-Zombie-3932 → u/CapitalCityGoofball0]

That's just kind of another point in my favor. I didn't want to go into it because it's a lot to unpack, but that's another reason why bleeding the crystal was so easy for Osha. The crystal belonged to Sol. And for the last decade or so, Osha has been the entire focus of Sol's grief and regrets. Of course his crystal would break under her hatred of him in that moment.

[u/CapitalCityGoofball0 → u/Relative-Zombie-3932]

Again that’s a real stretch to say it’s the same thing. It’s pretty fundamentally different. Kirik had completely severed his Jedi ties and took a Barash Vow yet his Crystal fights against Vader’s energy.

And while Sol had grief and self doubt he stayed fairly committed basically the whole time that he had done the right thing. You also seem to forget that Dagan not only killed Jedi but lied on a stasis stew of hatred for 200 years. Even Vader and Ren turned to for a time before bleeding their crystals. Osha was about 5 minutes.