There has been a lot of Star Wars content recently… new shows are popping up almost constantly, as well as additional seasons to slightly older shows. They’ve been of mixed quality for the most part… Andor was spectacular, Obi-Wan was generally weak but not bad, The Bad Batch was generally very good…
And then there was The Acolyte.
Generally great acting. Some spectacular fight scenes… like, really, really spectacular.
But the writing. My gods. The writing is awful. The last episode in particular is so bad as to make the series almost unwatchable in retrospect… kinda like the last few episodes of Game of Thrones or Battlestar Galactica. Not a fumble on the finish line so much as a full-body explosion.
On the plus side, I’m hopeful this means that people are starting to realize how important good writing really is!
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!