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The Acolyte Is Better Than Ahsoka


The Acolyte had first-rate lightsaber and martial arts battles, better action, better acting, interesting whodunit plot, originality, livelier, edgy ideas like showing flawed Jedi. I plan to rewatch for the bada** fighting scenes.

Asoka was slow, bad acting, horrible lightsaber battles, .

They cancel the better Acolyte because incels had a problem with a female director even though she did a much better job than Filoni. I usually like Filoni's work, but Ahsoka was a huge disappointment.

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Both sucked, both flopped, and Ahsoka would’ve been cancelled too if Filoni didn’t have leverage.

The only thing Acolyte had over Ahsoka is the fight scenes, but that’s not enough to save a show, and even then, they’re a far cry from the prequel trilogy fight scenes.

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Good point about Filoni since his promotion to Creative Head Honcho.

Obi-Wan was really bad, also.

Without Lucas' creativity and innovation, we're stuck with Disney's fan fiction. Basically just taking his ideas and redoing them ad nauseam. At least Acolyte attempted to add something different like flawed, religious intolerant, deceitful, child kidnapping unpopular Jedi. That's more realistic and interesting than the 100% perfect Jedi.

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The Jedi were never portrayed as perfect, not even in the original 6 movies.

The acolyte didn’t do anything new or different, it was just a terrible show.

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There is degree of terrible. Acolyte is at least entertaining. Ashoka put me to sleep 4x and I'm only up to episode 4. It reminds me of the boring Solo movie - another snoozefest.

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Nice bait

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