It’s now been a few months since Disney+ and Lucasfilm canceled The Acolyte. And it’s fair to say that the fandom still hasn’t let it go. As the petition to continue the show keeps getting […]
There’s been much discussion about Disney/Lucasfilm’s cancellation of The Acolyte. On Nerdist, we shared our perspective on why canceling The Acolyte was a mistake. However, a recent report from Forbes indicates that the series’ budget/financial concerns were the biggest reasons […]
It’s been a few weeks since Lucasfilm canceled The Acolyte. But the Star Wars fans out there who love it have not let go of hope that we’ll see the further adventures of Osha and […]
Lucasfilm Two things can be (and are) true at once: Star Wars has a legitimate issue when it comes to toxic fandom, and The Acolyte, canceled by Lucasfilm after just one season, was a […]
At the risk of evoking Woody Allen in any context these days, the old Catskills comedy gag he quotes at the beginning of Annie Hall has endless applications. The joke is two people complaining about […]
Disney+ Disney and Lucasfilm continued their desecration of the Star Wars brand this year with the release of The Acolyte, the first of their Star Wars shows to be canceled after just one season (The Book of Boba Fett, which […]
The news that Lucasfilm cancelled The Acolyte sparked well-justified anger from many in the Star Wars fandom. And sadly, there’s a certain group of people who are gloating at this unfortunate news because they never […]
The cancelation after one season of Star Wars: The Acolyte still has its devout fans in shock. And not just the fans, but cast members as well. We now know that Jedi Master Sol himself, […]
In the days since the announcement that Lucasfilm was canceling The Acolyte, fans of the show have galvanized online. Sure, this often happens whenever they cancel any show with a devoted following prematurely. But when […]
The Disney+ era of television series generally means the continuance of a particular show is always in flux. No one expected Loki to have a second season, but, lo and behold it, did. Presumably if […]
Image: Disney Though Disney Plus’ The Acolyte series introduced some very compelling new characters and lore to the Star Wars canon, its story about the dark side of the Force won’t be continuing with a […]
The pitch for The Acolyte probably kicked ass. It’s easy to imagine how compelling it looked in brief, on paper: A coven of women who challenge the Jedi’s binary view of The Force. Twin sisters […]
The final episode of The Acolyte teased several things we know are playing an important part in Star Wars lore. The biggest was the reveal of who is almost certainly Darth Plagueis, the Sith master […]
The “heart” of a lightsaber, the very thing that gives laser swords power, is a kyber crystal. They are special, extremely rare Force-sensitive gems inherently full of light side energy only found on a few […]
[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for season 1 of Star Wars: The Acolyte.] Darth Plagueis has made his live action debut thanks to the season 1 finale of The Acolyte. The show didn’t make […]
It’s the high heat of the summer, the time when temperatures spike and days are lazy. This used to be a time when TV was scarce, with everyone looking ahead to the fall premieres. But […]
Amy Tsang. Photo Credit: Diana Ragland Actress Amy Tsang (The CW’s “Kung Fu”) chatted about the Disney+ series “Stars Wars: The Acolyte,” and she remembers the late “General Hospital” actor Johnny Wactor. “The experience was incredible,” she said. […]
One of the biggest mysteries in Star Wars: The Acolyte is how exactly its main characters, Mae and Osha, were born. We’ve recieved hints about the twins’ origins throughout the series, coming to understand that […]
Star Wars: The Acolyte‘s Qimir, played by Manny Jacinto, has electrified fans of the series. While there are a lot of mysteries surrounding Qimir, one question fans have had since before we even knew he […]
“A vergence in the Force.” It’s a term we first heard in The Phantom Menace, when Qui-Gon Jinn described young Anakin Skywalker as a vergence in the Force to the Jedi Council. Because of this […]