Following Star Wars: The Acolyte’s cancellation, star Amandla Stenberg has stated it was “not a huge shock”

Are they right about the reasons why the show underperformed though?

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The Acolyte was revealed to be cancelled on August 19, only weeks after its season 1 run ended on Disney Plus. While it worked well enough with critics , a sizable portion of the Star Wars fandom outright rejected it, citing plenty of s**t reasons and a few other complaints that were actually reasonable. Now, the show’s (double) star, Amandla Stenberg, is finally speaking about the cancellation.

According to them ( via Instagram ), it was “not a huge shock” following the “rampage of vitriol that we have faced since the show was even announced, when it was still just a concept and no one had even seen it.” They’re not wrong at all about the obvious hate campaign that was staged against the series no matter the actual quality of it, but that doesn’t even begin to explain why it was cancelled.

Renowned Hollywood insider Jeff Sneider, who’s been pretty reliable when it comes to Lucasfilm and Star Wars, also shared what he knew about The Acolyte’s cancellation , stating the decision was mostly related to low viewership numbers past the double premiere plus the extremely high production cost for eight episodes. Long story short: This was a big bet for Disney and Lucasfilm, and it didn’t live up to lofty expectations.

Sure, the worst people circling the Star Wars fandom will use the series’ cancellation as a personal win against ’the wokes’ and all that crap, but in the end, The Acolyte simply was a decent show with a good bunch of cool ideas that just took too damn long to get truly interesting and paid the ultimate price. Now we can only hope The Stranger and Osha’s story can be completed somehow somewhere. We’ll even accept a comic book series!

Star Wars: The Acolyte

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