The Acolyte: How Disney Destroyed Star Wars Forever

It’s simple: People don’t have a problem with women taking the pivotal role in a movie. They have a problem with bad writing. Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor & Vi etc. are beloved female characters because they’re relatable, flawed & compelling not just because they’re strong. Edit: aaaaaand (thus far) it sucks. I have a sneaking suspicion that all criticism of the show’s plot and characters will be deflected by calling people sexists & bigots 🧐 Edit 2: That was an understatement. Acolyte is absolutely awful.

Disney Star Wars: we’re finally putting women in Star Wars as main characters! Leia and Padme: am I a joke to you?

In defence of The Boys, they were directly taking the piss out of Marvel with their "girls get it done" running joke.

"Diversity" took the place where "good storytelling" should've been. Groot was a walking talking tree but he has more charisma than the entirety of the Eternals cast.

I'll never forget that they robbed us of Finn's story. A stormtrooper becoming a Jedi.

It's not just women, but men too. I hate this 'every guy is an incompetent pushover' trope with silly personalities who are okay with being mildly antagonized. I want the assertive rugged men back in movies

The whole idea of politics in movies is to have a shield to deflect against legitimate criticism. They want to say things like “the fans are racist and sexist” rather than saying “we made a bad script”

I don't have any hope for Star Wars anymore, Darth Katleen really killed it

The Japanese have had powerful female roles in anime and film but the only difference is they don’t make it propaganda

The ratio for the acolyte tells me that Star wars fans have finally accepted Kylo Rens words Let the past die.

Luke, who essentially becomes the most powerful user of the force in star wars history, was being trained by one of if not THE best teachers ever (Yoda), and he still lost his first fight with Vader. He then had to go back and spend MONTHS training even more. Ray who finds out she is a Jedi like a few weeks ago with zero training whatsoever can defeat Kylo Ren who has been training his whole life? Already there are zero stakes, she easily defeats the big villain without going through any hardship or development. Compare this to Luke, who with the power and training mentioned, gets his hand cut off in his first fight against Vader who was going easy on him the whole time. Horrible horrible horrible writing.

How to write a good female character: step 1: write a good character step 2: make character female

People don’t hate the “girl boss” characters because they’re women it’s because they’re poorly written

I’m glad they’re finally starting to realize that unearned power and confidence doesn’t resonate with an audience, but the experience and journey that the characters took to develop. It’s OK to put women through tough trials and tribulations for character development, that is not misogyny.👍💯

“Woke we are - much broke we will be” -yoda

Luke lost his first duel to Vader, and Luke had experience. But Rey wins against Kylo ren without any previous experience. Like WTF

Finn would have been a much better lead than Rey. A stormtrooper turned Jedi, with proper struggles with PTSD and trying to keep up with Jedi teachings despite his emotional turmoil.

No, unfortunately Disney will not stop doing it. They know everyone hates it but they dont care. When they announced Rey was coming back, that was the confirmation their politics outweigh common sense. Because that was not a thing in the pipeline they had to burn off, that was a decision moving forward knowing girlboss films fail and not caring.

If you have to humiliate and push down your male characters (specially the iconic ones) in order to elevate your new (or old) female characters, your movie/series will fail no matter what.

Marvel fans have been begging for a Black Widow movie ever since the first Avengers, and when it finally came out, it was a hot steaming pile of dogshit and we were called sexist for not liking it...