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I began watching Star Wars The Acolyte. If I had to sum it up in one sentence, I'd say it feels like they're running out of material.
The tone is all off. It has that glossy Disney feel combined with a lot of very surface level wuxia influence, which is totally at odds with a mystery-detective kind of story.
I don't want it to have the same tone as Andor, but I wish it had looked at Andor as proof that it is possible to shake off that Disney gloss and make a Star Wars show with a truly distinct identity.
A part of what I would say disengages me is they interpret the possibilities too strictly now, in a way they take themselves too seriously. I grew up on Clone Wars and Rebels and it was nice for something to not fall under late night show tropes. Now everything they do is done for the heck of it.
It's just nothing special is it. It's not as bad as book of Boba Fet yet but we will see how it develops.
Ironically I think they could do so much with the idea of a galactic detective show, and they're missing out on these in the execution. Or better yet, a Star Wars medical drama, like Grey's Anatomy in space. They could showcase interspecies medical conditions, lightsaber wounds, and aspects of canon that don't fit anywhere else.
The Star Wars universe is a brilliant place to tell stories, unfortunately Disney doesn't seem interested in telling anything interesting.
Disney wouldn't green light some new approach to Star Wars unless it could be merchandized endlessly and offend nobody.
Or as few people as possible I'm guessing, since they fail at that with groups not as cared about.