Culture Racists Are Review Bombing Black-led Star Wars Series 'The Acolyte' Despite High Ratings From Real Critics

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The Star Wars fandom continues to embarrass itself. The latest series in the franchise, “The Acolyte,” has fallen victim to yet another review-bombing campaign from the audience — an unfortunate practice that’s often rooted in racism and misogyny.

The prequel series, which stars Amandla Stenberg, earned glowing reviews from critics, currently sitting at 84 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The series has also been a ratings hit for Disney +, standing as the largest debut for the streamer so far this year.

Yet, despite its warm reception, the show is still not immune to some of the harshest parts of the Star Wars fanbase, as it currently sits at a shocking 15 percent audience score.

For years now, certain projects in the franchise have been review bombed, with hundreds of audience reviews on sites like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes pouring in and affecting their overall scores. Dedicated audiences feel a right to these stories, and unfortunately, sectors of these fandoms have some serious racial, misogynistic, and often homophobic biases they operate with when engaging in this content.

Stenberg opened up about some of this when speaking to GQ UK earlier this month. “There is a specific kind of ‘Star Wars’ fan that’s very vocal on the internet...they’ve called our show ‘The Woke-alyte’ a fair amount – which I’m like, ‘OK, what about it?’”

Some of the backlash from fans also came from a clip of Stenberg that started to circulate as the series premiered. As Forbes points out, an interview clip from years ago where Stenberg talked about “making white people cry” while promoting her film “The Hate U Give,” was reshared by thousands, completely taken out of its context and used as a way to criticize the actress and a perceived “woke agenda” from Lucasfilm.

Again, this is not a new move in the Star Wars fandom playbook. Stars like John Boyega, Kelly Marie Tran, and, as The Root reported, Obi-Wan star Moses Ingram faced relentless attacks and even racial threats from the fans. God forbid the Star Wars franchise represents more than just the white leads of the original series. With a Black and queer lead like Stenberg, scores of fans are finally seeing themselves in this beloved, fantasy world.

Luckily for Stenberg it seems she is focusing on the love she is receiving from other viewers, specifically the Black fans and content creators. “There’s also a significant sect of Black creators and Black ‘Star Wars’ fans on TikTok who are being vocal about…the pushback that we’ve received and where it comes from,” she also told GQ.

“And those folks make me so deeply happy, and those are the folks that I’m so grateful to, and I want to send as much recognition and love and gratitude towards them because they keep us grounded.”

 

[MirrorNoir]

Has Star Wars made any money since Disney got it? Like any at all? This has to be a hug money pit, nobody ever cares about Star wars anymore.

For years, Disney and their ilk in the media lied about Star Wars breaking even around the time that Ep 9/Mandolorian came out, but as part of him fending off a hostile takeover bid, Iger had to man the fuck up and reveal that no, Disney STILL had not recouped the money they spent buying Star Wars from Lucas.

Also, this article is from the Root, which is filled with a pack of anti-white racist niggers of the highest degree of evil, who deserve to be dragged out of their beds at night for a date with the old dull castration knife and hanging tree. Them posting this article proves that they are THAT fucking furious that actual Star Wars fans and normies have rejected the Acolytes en mass. To a degree, that I again, wonder if Kennedy is spending money from the Disney bribe coffers like a sailor on payday, because she knows that Acolytes is her last fucking chance to keep her job as far as Iger having to be forced to FINALLY promise to fire the cunt, if Acoytes flops and creates a massive backlash that further damages the franchise going forward, to stop the hostile takeover earlier this year.

 

[Point and Laugh]

So that makes everyone else racist. I guess Hugo Boss uniforms as well as white sheets are gonna be in vogue next year.

Hugo Boss made some beautiful uniforms. We will never be that lucky.

 

[GarthVader]

No one but bean flicking wine aunts are watching it.

 

[Safir]

As Forbes points out, an interview clip from years ago where Stenberg talked about “making white people cry” while promoting her film “The Hate U Give,” was reshared by thousands, completely taken out of its context and used as a way to criticize the actress and a perceived “woke agenda” from Lucasfilm.

But it's the same person, no? So what if it's from a different movie? And this is the second article that says "out of context" but neither provided the context.

racial threats

What's a racial threat? There's murder threats, rape threats, threats of war, etc. What's a racial threat? "I will make you White"?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[...]

What is it with this seemingly sudden or increased fixation on "lack of representation" of "people of color" in media now?

 

[National Defense Advocate]

For years, Disney and their ilk in the media lied about Star Wars breaking even around the time that Ep 9/Mandolorian came out, but as part of him fending off a hostile takeover bid, Iger had to man the fuck up and reveal that no, Disney STILL had not recouped the money they spent buying Star Wars from Lucas.

Also, this article is from the Root, which is filled with a pack of anti-white racist niggers of the highest degree of evil, who deserve to be dragged out of their beds at night for a date with the old dull castration knife and hanging tree. Them posting this article proves that they are THAT fucking furious that actual Star Wars fans and normies have rejected the Acolytes en mass. To a degree, that I again, wonder if Kennedy is spending money from the Disney bribe coffers like a sailor on payday, because she knows that Acolytes is her last fucking chance to keep her job as far as Iger having to be forced to FINALLY promise to fire the cunt, if Acoytes flops and creates a massive backlash that further damages the franchise going forward, to stop the hostile takeover earlier this year

Holy shit I looked it up.

They're still short anywhere from 2.8 to 3.6 BILLION dollars.
No wonder everything from them is of a much lower quality than it was 20 years ago, they're a dying company.

 

[MirrorNoir]

Its also funny because their ivory tower mentality is completely at odds with the entire idea of pop culture; as in culture derived from what is popular with the people as opposed to elitist curatorship of the arts...

It's the same thing though and has been since the 1970s once what is considered "pop culture" got commodified and exploited by the elites and their moneymen.

Through pop culture, you control the masses and the message and via force of will, reshape (or alternately, via massive censorship and retaliation to silence critics and eliminate alternative forms of entertainment) public opinion and through that, mass culture and reality.

And they got away with it, in part because the cuckold Fundie Christians say "fuck this, I'm out" and pretty much ceded the culture wars in the 90s because they got butt-hurt Americans made the proverbial faustian deal with the devil that was Bill Clinton over Monicagate and retreated into their own private world outside the mainstream pop culture.

 

[Higgs Bonbon]

These pinkos would legit put you in a camp for not liking their garbage.

 

[Sweeter and Savoury]

"Real" movie critics better watch out, the path to the code mines is shorter then you think.

Just ask all those games journalists who thought they didn't need their customers either

 

[ToroidalBoat]

These pinkos would legit put you in a camp for not liking their garbage.

Or as they would call it, "sensitivity training" or some BS like that.

 

[Yet Another Wanker]

Star Wars died after Force awakens, twitched a little bit with Mandalorian, and is now completely dead.

Andor was actually great fight me. Granted it was great because other than some tie fighters it really wasn't a star wars story at all.

 

[Harvey Danger]

Some of the backlash from fans also came from a clip of Stenberg that started to circulate as the series premiered. As Forbes points out, an interview clip from years ago where Stenberg talked about “making white people cry” while promoting her film “The Hate U Give,” was reshared by thousands, completely taken out of its context and used as a way to criticize the actress and a perceived “woke agenda” from Lucasfilm.

Fuck off, stop this embarrassing cope.

That clip was used to demonstrate the show's cast and crew are of a certain mindset. They don't get the benefit of the doubt, and they don't get a charitable interpretation of what they put on the screen. Then the show came out, and the writing, characters, and action is all objectively terrible. That is what is earning the negative reviews, not the interview clip.

The clip only serves as a counterpoint to any simps who say "be nice, at least they tried to do a good Star Wars show". No, they didn't even try. Or they did, and nobody in the studio could recognize gross incompetence.

 

[TowinKarz]

Holy shit I looked it up.

They're still short anywhere from 2.8 to 3.6 BILLION dollars.
No wonder everything from them is of a much lower quality than it was 20 years ago, they're a dying company.

The SW purchase will go down as one of the biggest disasters in American business history......

Up there with the Edsel and Kodak determining there was no market for digital cameras.....

And the absolute irony was all they had to do was NOTHING, even with over-saturation they still would've made more money than what they have/will make going down the route they went: A gritty but PG-rated adventure series with space battles and political intrigue? Well, Disney-Princessify the FUCK outta that shit!!!

Through pop culture, you control the masses and the message and via force of will, reshape (or alternately, via massive censorship and retaliation to silence critics and eliminate alternative forms of entertainment) public opinion and through that, mass culture and reality.

If that were true?

Disney wouldn't be eight flops deep right now.....

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Sir I'm not a racist I'm a white supremacist and you are my private property you need to pick my cotton right now

 

[MirrorNoir]

What is it with this seemingly sudden or increased fixation on "lack of representation" of "people of color" in media now?

DEI money is running out, economy's in the shitter, and Hollywood is starting to feel the burn from going broke from being woke and the anti-life brigade promoting the woke shit are actively bullying studios and networks (as seen most recently with the writers strike) to not dare move away from the woke direction Hollywood has been going down lately, to save themselves since without woke DEI money to keep them afloat as their woke shit flops, studios and networks are starting to feel the economic consequences of supporting the woke anti-life philosophy of diversity.

 

[National Defense Advocate]

The SW purchase will go down as one of the biggest disasters in American business history......

Up there with the Edsel and Kodak determining there was no market for digital cameras.....

And the absolute irony was all they had to do was NOTHING, even with over-saturation they still would've made more money than what they have/will make going down the route they went: A gritty but PG-rated adventure series with space battles and political intrigue? Well, Disney-Princessify the FUCK outta that shit!!!


If that were true?

Disney wouldn't be eight flops deep right now.....

There was a tactical Star wars game where you play as a Stormtrooper in development when Disney bought it.
They fucking cancelled it immediately. Fuck them. Suffer, mouse.

 

[Ghost of Wesley Willis]

I gave up on Star Wars long ago and I have yet to hear one single person talking about this show in real life. Most of my coworkers and acquaintances are still into Star Wars and have Disney+ subscriptions. I would always hear them talking about any new show around lunch or smoke breaks the last few years. But The Acolyte? Not a single word about it from them. I am only aware of the show's existence because of this retarded drama it generated.

I also have a feeling it won't be long before Rotten Tomatoes does away with the Audience Score entirely.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

How do they know they all are racist? Is there a captcha asking you if you're a racist before rating the show?

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

Sure they do. They're hanging out with all the real journalists

In a perfect world.

 

[Thiletonomics]

So how long will it take before they start having the "Good Guy" World Leaders, i.e. Biden, Trudeau, Sunak, Albanese, Macron, shill for The Acolyte, and call those who don't like it a "threats democracy that must be dealt with, to preserve democracy"?