Meme - "Diverse cast with a good story. All of a sudden no one is a review bombing bigot. *The Mandalorian Season 1*
93% Tomatometer 91% Audience Score"
MasteroftheTDS on X - "Amandla Stenberg, the star of Star Wars: The Acolyte, decided to pull the racism card and "own the haters" by flailing around like a fish out of water gasping for air while singing about how oppressed she is. This is what Star Wars is now."
The Acolyte’s 15% Audience Score Is Embarrassing, For The Audience Scorers
If you don't shut up and consume, you're a bad person
MasteroftheTDS on X - "When you don't watch it and talk about it, they tell you that you have to watch it to have an opinion. When you watch it and talk about it, they tell you to stop watching it if you don't like it. There is no pleasing them in this scenario."
MasteroftheTDS on X - "Understanding the Obsessive Defense of Disney Star Wars on Twitter/X
I wanted to take a minute to share some of my thoughts about the current and past discourse around Disney Star Wars on Twitter/X, given my experience working as a therapist. It is my belief that many of the individuals on Twitter/X who cannot tolerate negative opinions about Disney Star Wars may be exhibiting traits commonly associated with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Individuals with OCD often develop intense obsessions with things they are passionate about and strongly identify with these obsessions. When confronted with an opposing opinion, it introduces doubt about their own beliefs. This uncertainty, resulting from the challenge to their views, compels them to justify themselves through behaviors such as lashing out or engaging in fruitless arguments. Their primary goal is to alleviate their discomfort and reaffirm their opinions. Over time, this compulsion to lash out or respond becomes a conditioned response that is difficult to break. When they encounter someone who holds a different opinion and refuses to conform to their perspective, the situation often escalates. These individuals persist in lashing out and attacking, driven more by a need to validate themselves and feel secure in their beliefs than by a genuine desire to silence dissent. They make demands to suppress opposing views in order to feel safe and certain in their own opinions. I have observed this behavior repeatedly and am confident that others have noticed it as well. What we may be witnessing is an endless cycle of OCD-driven behaviors, causing these individuals to persist in their actions without finding resolution. Thanks for reading."
StarWarsTheory on X - "Era: TPM
[INT] Jedi Council Chambers. Daytime.
Qui-Gon Jinn informs the council of a terrible truth. The encounter of Darth Maul.
Ki-Adi Mundi: Nah, the sith aren't here Qui-Gon, F what you fought, probably just some weirdo with a red lightsaber he bought off a merchant on Tattooine lol.
Qui-Gon Jinn: I fought him. He was trained in the Jedi arts. A sith Lord.
Ki-Adi: This guy's insane!! First a kid made by the force, now a guy with a red lightsaber? Cmon man, you ok?
Qui-Gon Jinn: Masters, you must believe me...please.
Ki-Adi Mundi: yaya, w.e., fine, send MAXIMUM 2 Jedi to fight this supposed Sith Lord. So him and lil Obi-Wan.
*Jedi Grand Master Yoda nods in approval*
*Mace Windu leans over to Master Mundi
Mace: Didn't you say a red lightsaber wielder took on 6 Jedi about 80 years ago? And they lost? Didn't you also say some random witches created not just one force sensitive child manifested from the force itself, but two?!
Ki-Adi Mundi: haha yeah idk, w.e. man s'all good fr fr.
Mace: Bet
*Mace leans back into his seat
Mace: We'll discuss this later"
Hector Navarro on X - "It doesn’t even matter if he thought they were Sith or rogue Jedi. The point is, everyone involved in this show knew the weight of Ki-Adi-Mundi’s iconic line in the prequels: “Impossible! The Sith have been extinct for a millennium.” Yet, they still decided to bring him into the mix. They knew it would be controversial and did it anyway, fully aware it would rile up fans. This was a classic case of stirring the pot just for the sake of it. They could have chosen any super-centenarian Jedi for a cameo, but they went with Mundi. Both the Star Wars Story Group and Dave Filoni gave it the green light. Any guesses why?"
SilkyMule on X - "How about we just wait until the end of the season to see if they tie it off with a reason. Too many people are freaking out before seeing the final vision. Just shut up and enjoy it, discuss theories and after it concludes, THEN we can talk about the plot holes it created"
Hector Navarro on X - "We can critique a show on an episode-by-episode basis. If the creators want us to evaluate the entire series at once, they should release all episodes simultaneously. They only sent four episodes to critics, so by your logic, we should disregard their reviews and ignore the 94% Rotten Tomatoes score. We shouldn't be told to "shut up" if our reviews aren't positive."
Deep Squats, Shallow Thoughts on X - "Exactly! Also a lot of us did that in good faith with the Force Awakens: all its mystery boxes, and its compete undoing of the character and plot developments of the OT. We noticed them but figured they must have a brilliant master plan to explain em all. Then…they didn’t. At all. Every such similar case with Disney Star Wars since then regarding questionable choices about lore, canon, respecting the original material has had the same outcome. They’re insisting we not recognize clear patterns."
Meme - Lily* @300mirrors: "100 years later he forgot to tell the Jedi that there were twins conceived with the force and Anakin wasn't a big deal? 🤦🏽♀️What happens when the people that created The Acolyte don't know Star Wars."
Meme - StarWarsTheory @realswtheory: ""his age was never mentioned!!!" so many sources mention his age. George wrote him as is, and it should be kept. Even so, let's say his age doesn't matter...his line in TPM makes no sense after being involved with this hidden secret of jedi dying and a fallen jedi/sith training this assassin. So sad."
DrixPerspective @washedjohn: "2003 Prequels Top Trump card. Not saying its the end all be all, but people saying his age is never mentioned related to the films 🤷♂️"
"Age 70"
Meme - 0mega6 @noCinErik: "In fairness, I don't think we give this woman nearly enough credit. She managed to make lesbian space witches completely uninteresting and unappealing to the 18 to 52 male demo. That is no small feat..."
Meme - StarWarsTheory @realswtheory: "Dang. If only they had $180M.. Budget costs tho"
Desert Daddy: "And we never got a chance to see the Wookie Jedi fight. Shame on you."
"CK" Kiechel: "Unfortunately not everything gets to be included for budget and story reasons, we had an early draft that showed his fight and death scene but it ultimately broke the POV of the episode in a way that I think wouldn't have worked as well."
MasteroftheTDS on X - "The next time someone tells you that you are a "toxic Star Wars fan," just remember the kind of people you are dealing with. These are death threats being made towards @realswtheory , including someone saying they want to publically chop his head off and sell popcorn. These are the REAL toxic Star Wars fans."
Meme - "What if a baby grand piano just comically fell out of the sky and landed on him like a looney REAL tune? What then?"
"My thoughts are that we need to do a public beheading of Star Wars Theory. I'll be selling popcorns."
"I think we'd be better off as a species if we just yeeted these losers into the fucking sun."
"the SW fandom just needs to be nuked at this point"
"someone needs to get rid of this man"
"Can we kill this motherfucker"
"Toxic" fans are those who refuse to shut up and consume. If you are on the Right Side of History, whatever you do must be Justified
'Star Wars Jedi: Survivor' Developer Jordan DeVries Declares "Hate Has No Place In The Star Wars Fandom," He Supports Body Mutilation - "Wookiepeedia would later make it clear it was indeed accusing YouTuber Star Wars Theory of sending his followers to issue death threats against them, death threats that the online encyclopedia never shared or made public... Theory responded to this on X, “Politely. F yourself. These aren’t MY people. Don’t attach that to me or there will be serious consequences for you. These are people on their own. Nothing to do with me. Please find where I have instructed people to send death threats to anyone. Quite the opposite. In fact, 8 years I’ve taken death and R threats to my past partners, poison threats to my mailbox, threats to my parents and animals. Daily. Non stop. First for liking episode 9. Then when I changed my mind. Where the f was anyone then? Where the f were you when I was being laughed at for crying to Luke Skywalker? You joined in, in fact alongside Pablo and LFL taking jabs at me publicly. That’s how it was handled. And I just have to take it. Cause that’s what i do.” He continued, “Bullied as a kid for liking sw and then again as an adult. I’ve taken so much abuse from you psychotic people that I’ve finally had enough. F yourself and deal with shit on your own like I had to. Stop blaming me for other people’s actions you moron.” In a follow-up he wrote, “I’m so fkn tired of people trying to constantly cry to me for other people’s actions when they just throw the most disgusting hate towards me, my parents, my appearance, and my views just because I made a star wars YouTube channel? What about the dude who said I should have died of cancer instead of surviving it? Boo boo me. No. Grow a pair and move on. It’s the internet. Piss off and leave me alone.”... The official X account for Wookieepedia replied and implicated Theory being behind alleged death threats it received... Not only is there evidence of Star Wars Theory receiving hate, and none directed at Wookieepedia, but DeVries himself promotes hate in his personal life. At the end of March he wrote, “People are so much more than their economic and/or creative output but do you know how many video game projects would’ve completely grinded to a halt if not for the heroics of trans devs.” He then added, “Anyway, support trans people of all (and no) occupations.”"
David on X - "The problem is, people making all the terrible, non-canon decisions, DO NOT understand or appreciate Star Wars story, lore or fans. They blame fans for THEIR poor performance & now even accuse fans of being racist for not liking it. “The dark side clouds everything”."
The Acolyte is a better generic SciFi show than a Star Wars show. This is what happens when you get someone who has never watched Star Wars to be a writer for a Star Wars show
StarWarsTheory on X - "Mae for 17 years trains with hatred and vengeance to seek revenge on the Jedi Fight me with all you've got!
Mae few episodes later: I'm going to turn myself in. I was wrong.
And people have a problem with Anakin's turn to the dark side. lol."
Meme - YouTube: "Hi Star Wars Theory, After manually reviewing your video, we've confirmed that it isn't suitable for all advertisers. As a result, it will continue to run limited or no ads.
"The Fans Are Finally Uniting After The Acolyte - Just Look at This"
StarWarsTheory @realswtheory: "The censorship has begun
@YouTubeCreators there's nothing that violates TOS. Care to explain this manual review?"
TeamYouTube @TeamYouTube: "just heard back: our review team confirmed that your video will remain in limited ads status due to the use of profanity in the thumbnail (1/2)
Daniel Bocic Martinez @Dan4CA31: "Selective application of ToS"
"Sponsored. 1 of 2
Shubh - King Shit (Official Audio)"
Disney Forced To Reveal Unequal Pay On Star Wars Show ‘The Acolyte’ - "just 30% of the 695 employees are women and women's average hourly pay was 19.4% lower than men’s... closely reading the reviews in some of the most prestigious print titles reveals serious structural problems with the show... Under Disney, Star Wars appears to be suffering from a strategy that can be described as the “Three Is” - Innovation, Institutionalization and Iteration... The show was shot in the United Kingdom between October 2022 and June 2023 at Shinfield Studios, around an hour outside London. Studios filming in the UK receive a reimbursement of up to 25.5% of the money they spend in the country but have to make detailed financial disclosures to get it. As revealed, pre-production of The Acolyte cost $48.5 million (£38.3 million), more was spent on the groundwork for Rogue One. Even pre-production costs of the main installments in Disney's Star Wars saga weren't far off The Acolyte. Disney only spent 17% more on pre-production of The Last Jedi in 2017 and that was a sure-fire hit thanks to an A-List cast playing classic characters headlined by Hamill in the iconic role of Luke Skywalker Spending isn't the only disclosure the UK government requires from studios that film in the country. Any employer with a headcount of 250 people or more (excluding the staff of agencies on their books) is also forced to disclose the difference in pay between men and women on their payroll... Inequality has been a hot topic recently for Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. But not this kind of inequality"
'The Acolyte' review: 'Star Wars' series all about Jedi is silly - "Full of logical fallacies, hokey dialogue and nonsensical plots, "Acolyte" feels entirely of a piece with the worst elements of the prequel trilogy... All the sci-fi/fantasy jargon, dramatic costumes, brightly colored lightsabers, fancy hairdos and ominous villains Headland can stuff into "Acolyte" can't make a good story on their own. There has to be some emotion and depth to the characters and their woes. There has to be more than perfunctory plot points. There has to be a sense of adventure and wonder. And there has to be something that captures the feeling of "Star Wars," not just the aesthetics. "Acolyte" doesn't have it, no matter how hard it tries... Determined to bring in Mae or Osha (or both) and figure all this out is Jedi Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae, "Squid Game"), who trained Osha before she left the order. He's joined by a handful of other colorful and utterly forgettable Jedi: Is Mae out for revenge for what she believed happened to her family all those years ago? Or is there a more nefarious power brewing in the galaxy? There's the pickle, and a flashback episode featuring Jodie Turner-Smith as the girls' mother, Aniseya, and the leader of a "witch coven" doesn't provide many answers. It's all a little too complex (witches, in this galaxy?) and a little too simple (ah yes, the old evil-twin twist). The reveal of Mae comes too early in the series, removing much of the mystery element that makes "Acolyte" unique in the ever-expanding "Star Wars" canon. There are too many characters with too many quirks to make them stand out from one another. You'll be hard-pressed to tell the difference between various aliens paired with Charlie Barnett's Jedi knight Yord... superfans can forgive a lot of sins. Some genre TV series can make their mythology and internal world-building more interesting and engaging than this (Amazon's late, great "The Expanse," among many others). As it stands, though, the Jedi lore is obtuse and dull. It needs spicing up. Like the young Padawans (the "Star Wars" term for students or apprentices) that are omnipresent in the series, "Acolyte" has a great deal of potential. "The Mandalorian" made "Star Wars" a Western. "Andor" made it a revolution. "Acolyte" could have made it a great work of fantasy and mystery. But mostly it's a great big sigh."
‘The Acolyte’ Review: ‘Star Wars’ an Even Longer Time Ago - The New York Times - "Moving a “Star Wars” story out of the main time stream — no Empire, no R2-D2, a century before Luke Skywalker — has not liberated it from the franchise’s oldest conventions and clichés, however. “The Acolyte” tweaks the formulas here and there, but, to a greater degree than other Disney+ shows like “The Mandalorian” and “Andor,” it falls back on signature moves: the electronic whoosh of the light saber; the outstretched hand summoning the Force; lovable droids and fuzzy holograms; dark masters and chosen children... a coven of witches who tap into the Force with a holistic, communitarian ethos. (They feel borrowed from an early episode of “Star Trek,” with a swerve into unintentionally hilarious musical theater when they perform one of their ceremonies.)... The fights are copious, and in another new twist for “Star Wars,” many of them take the form of balletic martial arts face-offs. But the storytelling force is not strong. Putting more female characters, and a stronger female point of view (even if it is sometimes redolent of 1960s earth mother), into an otherwise traditional “Star Wars” framework is worth the attempt. “The Acolyte” doesn’t bring enough energy or invention to the task, though. It goes through its space-opera paces, offering some blandly pretty forest planets and the occasional impressive landscape... Beneath the familiar trappings, the visceral pull that “Star Wars” can summon in its best moments — “The Empire Strikes Back,” “The Last Jedi,” parts of “Andor” and “The Mandalorian” — doesn’t manifest itself. Characters speak in platitudes about loss, grief, loyalty and revenge, and the cast mostly works down to the level of the dialogue. Stenberg is capable and charming but can’t make either twin very interesting... In the “Star Wars” universe, robots tend to have as much personality as their flesh-and-blood co-stars, if not more, and Osha’s pocket-size droid, Pip, is a trouper. With proper maintenance, he might outlast the High Republic."
Star Wars: The Acolyte review — trouble there will be for the Jedi - "As we creep closer to half a century of Star Wars it’s clear that, as cosmic metaphysical powers go, the Force is problematic. Sure, if you have it within you you can do anything: raise a crashed spaceship out of a lake, use your lightsaber to deflect blaster bolts, continue to exist after death. Except that, as we find out early in The Acolyte, a lightsaber can be no match for a couple of small daggers... On the evidence of the four episodes handed out to reviewers the latest effort on Disney’s Star Wars treadmill is a commendably different but uneven addition to the saga... Things open with some nifty Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon martial arts moves (there are several such balletic fight scenes)... much of the first two episodes are rather lacking in jeopardy or wonder"
‘The Acolyte’ Rotten Tomatoes Score Keeps Falling, And Maybe It Should If We Ever Hope To Find Balance In The Force - "The vision of what a galaxy far, far away should look like differs wildly from one person to the next. That’s a top-down problem in many respects. Disney’s sequel trilogy was a jumbled mess. Even its various creators couldn’t agree on where the story was going, let alone what this new, revived version of Star Wars ought to become. I’m still baffled that Kathleen Kennedy and J.J. Abrams and the rest of the sequel trilogy shot-callers didn’t come up with a coherent three-movie story from the get-go. It’s one of the great unforced errors of modern cinema. So much potential squandered. As a Star Wars fan since as far back as I can remember, it’s just another heartbreaker. But hey, somehow Palpatine returned... The Mandalorian had two pretty strong seasons, but fell apart in Season 3. The Book Of Boba Fett was a weirdly feckless affair, that did little to encourage fans that Disney had a coherent vision for the space opera. The show was only partially saved by the arrival of Mando, but even then it undid much of what The Mandalorian’s second season set up with Luke Skywalker effectively just handing Grogu back rather than training him in the ways of the Jedi. It was clear that Disney wasn’t interested in taking narrative risks, playing it safe at almost every turn. The much-hyped Obi-Wan Kenobi with Ewan McGregor reprising his role as the popular Jedi Master in hiding fell flat. Many observed that there was about enough story in the series to fill one decent movie. The rest was filler. And young princess Leia was a massive misfire. More’s the pity. At least we know she grew up to be one of the most awesome characters in all of Star Wars. Ahsoka had its moments, but Dave Filoni’s attempt to make the leap from Rebels and Clone Wars to live-action never quite worked. Something was lost in translation. Only Andor really stuck the landing thanks to its incredible writing and production values, but it was headier stuff than many Star Wars fans were accustomed to, and many passed. Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is a minor figure in the big scheme of things, and there were no Jedi and no lightsabers and no Sith. It was a masterpiece, a diamond in the rough, but not necessarily a crowd pleaser... I rate it somewhere around the same quality as Boba Fett or Obi-Wan: Quite poorly, in other words, but not necessarily any worse (though that witch chant takes the cake for cringiest Star Wars moment since Disney took over)."
'The Acolyte' Deserves Its Bad Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score - "Many in the press and on social media are trying to pass this off as just another instance of angry fans showing their true colors as racist, sexist homophobes, and while that may be true at the very fringes, I think many fans have genuine concerns with the series (and many critics have expressed similar concerns, despite their reviews being counted as “Fresh” on Rotten Tomatoes). After all, these same fans have been pretty upset by shows like Halo, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Book Of Boba Fett all of which feature white dudes as protagonists. In many ways, The Acolyte is just the cherry on top of a whole lot of built-up disappointment and disillusionment with the way Star Wars (and other beloved franchises) have been mismanaged so badly for so many years. When True Detective: Night Country received a similar 92% with critics and 56% with audiences a lot of people wagged their fingers and said the same thing: “These are just a bunch of sweaty-palmed incels raging over a female-led fourth season. These are just Season 1 fanboys of the show’s creator who wasn’t involved this season, review-bombing the show out of spite. These are just racists etc. etc. etc.” The reality is that Night Country was badly written, portrayed its female leads in a terrible light, and treated the indigenous Alaskans like stereotypes. HBO puts out a lot of terrific TV shows, and Night Country simply didn’t live up to that pedigree. Then again, neither did Season 2 of the show, and people seem to forget that it scored even worse than Night Country with 47% critic / 27% audience scores. That was a season created by Nic Pizzolatto. Three of its four main characters white men (arguably, Rachel McAdams’ character Detective Bezzerides was the most popular of the four, though Colin Farrell’s deeply flawed Ray Velcoro was pretty great also). This line of defensive narrative-building is par for the course when it comes to shows like The Acolyte and Night Country and other shows that boast diverse casts but objectively terrible scripts. The same happened with The Rings Of Power, which most people were upset about not because of black elves but because it felt like something ChatGPT would come up with rather than a story that shares a creative perch with J.R.R. Tolkien’s body of work. It’s all gaslighting, or using the worst instances of noxious trolling to paint large swaths of fandom with the same broad brush. After all, I have plenty of examples of TV shows and movies that have gotten really great audience reception in recent years despite having diverse casts, LGBTQ representation and female leads. These include, but are not limited to:
House Of The Dragon which is currently airing its second season on HBO and Max. This show has two strong female leads, a diverse cast, LGBTQ representation and yet somehow it has a 90% critic score (lower than The Acolyte and Night Country smh) and an 82% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Hmmm...
Andor, which I consider the very best Star Wars since the original trilogy, and has an extremely diverse cast, is quite certainly the most left-leaning politics of any Star Wars ever created, LGBTQ representation and so forth, still manages a 96% critic score and an 87% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, almost as if great storytelling trumps every other consideration.
Station Eleven
Fallout
Happy Valley
Speaking of strong female leads, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga was really great! While it bombed in theaters, critics gave it a 90% and audiences gave it an 89% on RT. I thought fans of these franchises hated women or something? What gives? (Fury Road has a 96% critic and 86% audience score, by the way).
There’s this whole faction of people on the internet who say things like “If Alien came out today, people would be angry that Ripley is a woman!” and I just find this extraordinarily disingenuous... What most people want is pretty simple: Authenticity. We want adaptations of books we love to be authentic and true to the source material—not 100%, of course, there have to be changes from page to screen, but we want to see the creators of these shows make an honest try. That’s why people are so mad at The Witcher, for instance. It doesn’t feel like a sincere effort to adapt the books, whereas the video games feel incredibly true to the source material (while actually telling new stories in that universe)... It’s almost like a bunch of imposters have taken over our favorite IPs, determined to reshape these works to fit their own incredibly narrow worldview rather than just tell a great story and do justice to the source material or established franchise. (I’m not against subverting expectations, but that requires a clever screenplay and a delicate touch—again, see Andor). With The Acolyte, which isn’t an adaptation, but rather an extension of a well-established IP, it simply doesn’t feel like an authentic piece of Star Wars. A lot of this just comes down to the mediocre writing, a problem across a lot of Star Wars. More and more people are becoming disenchanted with the House of Mouse’s shoddy stewardship of this beloved IP. We keep wondering when Bob Iger will wake up to reality and start making shows that fans actually want to watch. There’s a lot of money to be made. The missed opportunities are truly staggering. On top of authenticity and fidelity to the source material, we want great storytelling... Accusing people who aren’t on board of bigotry is a losing tactic. The problem with leveling that accusation all the time—and creating a narrative that is just accepted as fact rather than examined critically—is that you end up blurring the lines between genuinely upset fans and actual racists and misogynists, giving the real bigots cover while chasing away your audience. All of this is why I find another common line—“If you don’t like it, don’t watch it”—equally absurd. I get this from fans all the time when I write a harsh review of a show or movie or video game that I think deserves a great deal of criticism. It’s obviously silly to say this to a professional critic, but I’d argue that it’s just as silly to tell fans to stop watching something just because they’re unhappy with it. I didn’t like Season 7 or 8 of Game Of Thrones but not watching it, even as a fan, was obviously not an option. I wanted to know what happened. We all did! And there was this hope wriggling about the back of our brains: Maybe it will get good again! How could I know this if I just didn’t watch? Besides, if people just stop watching a show, it’s ratings will fall and that often leads to cancellation. Is that really what you want when you tell people “If you don’t like it, don’t watch it?” Also, isn’t this a bit like saying “If you don’t love America, leave it!”? Shouldn’t our instinct be a desire to improve? Since when is being a quitter a good thing? It’s bizarre that we’ve started hearing showrunners and producers saying this exact same thing... Maybe—just maybe—it would be more useful to listen to the many smart critiques out there and ignore the “go woke you go broke” comments (and please, please don’t make a diss track about it). I’ve seen a lot of people say—even diehard fans and people who share Kripke’s political views—that The Boys has gone from clever social commentary and satire to extremely on-the-nose political commentary... the delivery has lost its edge"
Telling your customers to go away is a winning recipe for success
No wonder I'm seeing a lot of memes mocking conservatives for only just realising that The Boys was making fun of them, even though I didn't see anyone upset at The Boys - it's the usual playbook
Perma Banned | Facebook - "A single Star Wars Acolyte episode is double Godzilla movie’s whole budget? Huh… Now this is a feeling I’m having but… I’m having an inkling that despite each episode costing double the whole Godzilla movie…not much of that is actually spent on the show itself. I hazard a guess most of it is on classic “consultations” or “overhead”."
“Where did all the money go?”: Star Wars Fans Can’t Believe Disney Spent Twice the Money as Godzilla Minus One to Make Each Episode of The Acolyte - "Although the Star Wars show successfully grabbed people’s attention with its rich history and expansive lore, fans cited the Kaiju film’s groundbreaking visual effects, intricate set designs, and award-winning VFX, top-tier."
