I probably don’t have to tell any of you this, but modern-day film critics are paid shills for the Hollywood elite — progressives who are propaganda creators only interested in helping radicals push an agenda of radical transformation they foolishly believe will lead to a utopian society — and don’t actually critique films and television shows for quality or storytelling. Instead, they use their influence with viewers to sway them to watch programs and films containing the message they want them to ingest.
That’s why it seems like today’s critics and audiences are woefully out of sink with each other. Because they are. Viewers are waking up to the fact that much of the programming being shoved into their eyeballs is like eating cotton candy for three meals a day. It might taste good but it’s empty calories and has zero nutrition. In other words, the propaganda doesn’t stimulate the mind and soul. Heck it doesn’t even entertain. All it does is indoctrinate.
And Disney’s latest entry in the “Star Wars” franchise, “The Acolyte,” is no different. The series, which is streaming on Disney +, focuses on how “an investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a respected Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior from his past.”
It sounds like it should be interesting, but, of course, it’s chock full of woke propaganda and is light on acting and storytelling, thus the vast majority of the viewing audience has been less than impressed. But guess who has been gushing over the show? Critics!
Here’s more from The Christian Post:
According to Rotten Tomatoes, an aggregator that compiles reviews for movies based on the views of both professional critics and the public as a whole, “Star Wars: The Acolyte” has a score of 84% on the Tomatometer. This indicates a warm reception among critics. Of the 99 who have weighed in so far, 79 have given it a “fresh” rating, signaling a positive review, while 20 have awarded it a rating of “rotten” to express disgust with the series. “The Acolyte” has an average score of 6.8 out of 10 among critics.
On the other hand, the average audience score of 15% means that less than one in six Rotten Tomatoes users rated the program 3.5 stars out of 5. The negative reviews from the public at large come as the series has received national attention for its embrace of LGBT ideology and other characteristics deemed as “woke.”
A review of the first few episodes of “The Acolyte” published on YouTube by the account Geeks + Gamers the day the series premiered on Disney+ warned that the third episode of the “Star Wars” spinoff attempts to “completely redefine what ‘The Force’ is” and noted that “two [lesbian witch] mothers conceive twins” as part of the plot line. The video discussion about the new series also featured one “Star Wars” fan telling another to “get ready for pronouns in Star Wars.”
One of the best sources of news and information for anything in the realm of traditional geekdom (fantasy stuff, sci-fi, comic books) is Bounding into Comics. A recent article that was published on their website the day after the third episode of the series dropped broke down the controversial show, which, if the folks who reviewed it are to be believed, utterly destroyed some very important pieces of the franchise’s lore.
The website noted that “the power to create life via the direct manipulation of the Force” was viewed as “a near-impossible feat, even for the most storied of its users” in the “Star Wars” universe.
However, the understanding of “The Force” changed after the third episode of “The Acolyte” first aired as it featured two witches using the Force to bring to life two embryos that would become series protagonists Mae and Osha.
Leslye Headland, the creator of “The Acolyte,” conducted an interview where she revealed that her goal for the series was to “make something like this that is, you know, for lack of a better term, Disney, meaning something that like my parents would have allowed me to see when I was younger as a queer person, that I would have been able to understand as a queer person.” Headland insisted that had such a program existed in her youth, she “would have had a completely different life.”
In other words, Headland wanted to take something beautiful and wholesome that had delighted generations of children and completely destroy it by introducing sexual deviancy into it, injecting it with a big old dose of “gay.”
“When I was developing this original idea to pitch to [production company Lucasfilm’s] Kathleen [Kennedy], I thought … you know it can’t just be that, you know, when you’re pitching ‘Star Wars’ you have to pull from what you know [‘Star Wars’ creator] George [Lucas] was also interested in,” she recalled. Headland ultimately created her “own new characters” who lived during the “High Republic” or “the end of the High Republic into prequels” that preceded the “Skywalker saga” that is at the center of the “Star Wars” franchise.
The only comfort I can take as a diehard fan of the original six films — yes, I enjoyed the prequels too — is that they can’t take those away from any of us fans. The films exist. We have them. They belong to us. And we have the Extended Universe (Legends) novels too, which are the true continuation and expansion of the Star Wars canon.
Maybe one day, someone will lovingly come back in and restore Star Wars to its former glory, a “new hope” if you will. We can dream, right?