re: 'The Acolyte' Megathread: The Grand Finale is now streaming

I think he worked on the witcher for a bit, i’m not sure wich season and what his level of involvement was. IMDB credits him as a second unit director or something.

Headland also went into an interview and discussed how they weren’t using the lightsabers they used in the PT and Ashoka which she says were pretty heavy and limited the actors.

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Cortosis is heavily exaggerated in ep5

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I guess I will take your word fir it. I had never heard of this before. If you are going to show it in action in this show, I’d think you might have at least dropped a mention of it in show just so your audience knows wtf is going on in that fight. The clip I saw made it look like the dude just head butted a light saber blade out of existence.

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Imagine how stacked the Empire would be if it knew about Cortosis and at least used it to insulate exhaust ports on the Death Star.

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You do realize the entire star wars universe was not completely planned out when they destroyed the first death star in the first star wars movie 47 years ago right?

Hell even the first 3 movies canon didn't make sense but you expect a show released almost 50 years later to match it

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They didn’t fly into the exhaust port. The second Death Star was still under construction. They just had to fly into the massive hole to blow up the reactor directly. It was fully protected by the shield generator Han and Leia destroyed.

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Its funny the things people nitpick over when they wanna hate something.

First star wars: greatest superweapon ever created has a spot that if you shoot it the entire thing blows up, not a plot hole.


The acolyte: Omg they gave a villain this material that would have saved the original death star, how unrealistic!

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Rogue One addressed the very issue of the vulnerable spot of the Death Star.

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40 years later lol.

Rogue one is my favorite star wars movie. Even above the original trilogy.

You are correct that I am a star wars tourist tho. I still haven't watched rebels or finished the clone wars

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40 years later lol.

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It's subtle. It's not a retcon, which is what Disney Star Wars is obsessed with for all manner of reasons.


And the tourists I was speaking of are mostly the likes of Leslye Headland and just about everyone currently working on Disney SW.

But yeah, there are plenty of tourists and band jumpers who want to white knight for this crap posing as Star Wars.

Most OG fans have tapped out. Like with Doctor Who fans, the ratings are taking and new fans aren't replacing the ranks.


Disney Star Wars is dead. It just doesn't know it yet.

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Like with Doctor Who fans, the ratings are taking and new fans aren't replacing the ranks.

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Amazing. I'm contractually obligated to point out every time you say something stupid about Doctor Who.

Doctor Who ratings have been in steady decline since 2009, the Tenant specials. The season of Doctor Who that just wrapped had what I would call a stupid release strategy, if the BBC cared about traditional ratings. Each episode premiered on the BBC iplayer hours before it was broadcast on TV, which meant many viewers watched the episodes early, or at their own convenience. It was the same strategy in America, but on Disney+. Traditional linear ratings clearly were not the priority.

That said, every episode of the season was in the top 25 most popular broadcasts of its respective week, even with the early digital releases. Not the biggest deal on British TV any of those weeks, but Doctor Who hasn't been that in 15 years.

Also, the one demographic Doctor Who grew this season was its younger viewers, so it currently does not have the issue you're attaching to it. Leave Doctor Who out of your youtube hatred circle jerk.

Cope harder. There's a gradual falling off, then there's the sheer cliff drop from Doctors 13 & 14.

Current 'Doc What' has set FRANCHISE historic lows in viewership that's over 60 years old.

The shenanigans going on with the viewing #'s since Doctor Who got absorbed by Disney can't be ignored either.



Whatever they think is needed isn't working.

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Whitaker's worst episode was 4.57 million

Gatwa's best episode was 4.06

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And it was the best performing show of the day it premiered, which says a lot about the declining numbers of linear tv viewers, not as much about Doctor Who.

You've done a good job ignoring all the info about the release schedule. Hard to call it a nosedive when the BBC has intentionally shifted so much of the viewership to streaming.

And back to Kaiju's original point. Under-30 fans are making up a larger than normal percentage of Doctor Who's viewers. That's a big deal for a 60+ year-old character. Obviously the BBC would like for this show to still dominate ratings, but they've pivoted to a strategy that they hope will keep the show relevant. It's currently working in a way the show hadn't before. We'll see if that sticks.