I read yesterday that The Acolyte, the newest Star Wars show, will not be coming back for a second season. This makes it a pretty expensive failure for Lucasfilm/Disney+.
It seemed kind of half-baked to me, narratively. The backstory was too complicated, so there were too many coincidences and unnatural character turns.
There are a lot of Internet nerds spiking the football.
It seems weird that they have such a hard time making Star Wars shows and films. I don’t get it.
If Disney didn't micro-manage Star Wars to the nth degree, maybe the resulting movies and shows wouldn't feel so patched-together and unsatisfactory. It's like comparing the slapdash, too-many-cooks-in-the-kitchen Alien 3 to the tight, auteur-driven sleekness of its two predecessors, where Fox trusted Ridley Scott and James Cameron and wasn't constantly second-guessing them.