The Acolyte's Writing Goes From Bad to Worse
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
- Discussing the writing flaws and blunders in the Acolyte through episode 6 and how it has hamstrung the show and broken any chance at escapism and audience immersion.
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No, the writers are not fans. They are revisionists.
I don't think they're even revisionists. I feel like they don't know what Star Wars is about.
No they are Leslie headland friends. Who doesn't know what to do 😂. So, they quess at what they think
Revisionist! New word for the Activist reference synonym…🧐📝🧠.
Let's replace the term "writers" by "people how wrote this"
I don't think so. They actually have very deep insight into the show, using obscure knowledge, like about the metal that messes with light saber.
“Bad to worse” there is Disney SW in a nutshell
This is Star Wars without a soul.
The people who made fun of the fans who grew up with Star Wars, are now the ones who are in charge of it.
Or, who didn't understand how it could be exciting, same as those who don't appreciate sports. You can tell by their way of dismissing it as "It's just someone chasing a ball" or "It's just someone waving glowsticks".
Speaking og making fun of, have you checked out the For the Empire series, here on YT? If not, I recommend it.
This show has light-years to go to achieve the level of mediocrity.
"Yes, my child."
"Attack me...with all your strength."
That was supposed to be the 'Kill Bill' thing the showrunner implied...I actually had to have that pointed out for me. I just didn't notice because it was so poorly implemented...
"I can't attack you, I am having my period."
I often think about the brilliant writing advice the creators of South Park gave to students at NYU: _“If the words 'and then' belong between those beats … you've got something pretty boring. What should happen, between every beat that you've written down, is either the word 'therefore' or 'but' … that gives you your causation.”_ So much of Disney's Star Wars is just "and then".
I like the term you coined at 4:30 - "weird bastardization". 😎👍 That's the best way to describe this mess.
Well, Leslie did hire someone who had never seen Star wars and the only thing they could say about it was about some guy in his ship who travels around space with his dog. And they were instantly hired for it
It’s so bad, but not as bad as all the gaslighting coming from the studio and the mainstream media. I have to wonder who’s idea it was to constantly attack the customer and why they think that is a good strategy.
I’m not even watching most of the reviews trashing it anymore. It is just that bad.
Quite. And they seem to change tack every week and come up with a whole new pile of cope, spew, misdirection, and foreshadowing. There are online mags I haven't heard of for 10 years being wheeled out for service. Ugh.
I appreciate your, and several other UA-camrs, service is watching this for me.
She didn't just follow him. She picked up a knife and followed him
The creators of this show absolutely want to subvert the Star Wars lore. They want to change it that it can transmit their own message to the world. It starts with KK with her message "The force is feminin" -- it just says everything. She wants to transport her feminism and rule out masculin influences.
Also the showrunner (what was her name again) -- she openly admitted that with the 6th episode she realized some kind of teenage dream of herself. That is what has become of Star Wars now: Hacks abuse Star Wars to realize their own infantile dreams.
But it even gets worse, when there are clear indications, that one of the messages the creators want to spread is: "Good and evil is a matter of perspective" for this message, they destroy the reputation of the Jedi. It seems they want to compasre the Jedi with the catolic church, which allegedly persecuted the witches in the Middle Ages to preserve masculine power. An idea, that is promoted by witches themselves and some other people but that is not proven, but just a modern accusation. Besides the question about the catolic church, the Jedi should not be abused here to spread an idea that goes against everything that comprises Star Wars and that is fundamental to our civilization.
If Satan were to produce a Star Wars show....
Remember, it's going to get worse before it gets worse.
"Hey baby, wanna hold my saber? If you're really bad, I'll let you touch my helmet." - Disney Star Wars Sith, 2024.
The degree to which they are going out of their way to make Star Wars trash in regards to the lore, the dialogue, the world building... The active deconstruction of all that came before... It's atrocious and quite honestly insane.
8:33 that is exactly what Hitler , Stalin, pol pot and chairman Mao thought!!!! There is no good or bad , it depends what side you’re on!!!!
“ are we the baddies?”
Sol - "Civilian to the ship!"
Yord - "*Squawk!* Civilian to the ship! Civilian to the ship! *Squawk!*"
"selfish and self-serving" really sums it all up .
Star Wars has always had bad writing. You're arguing in bad faith
This person never said anything about the writing? How do you come to the conclusion he/she is arguing in bad faith? You make no sense@@suzygirl1843
@@suzygirl1843 Respectfully disagree on that notion.
@@Okkotsu86275 Uh, now I know you're trifling. Don't be selective now. Be honest. Star Wars is silly YA for nerds. It was Twilight BEFORE Twilight
@@suzygirl1843 Okay, sure, whatever. Again, I respectfully disagree.
Thanks for the review.
The Ballsackolyte.
In a blue lagoon filled with frigid waterfalls,
Swam a naked, dark jedi, with shrinking balls.
They danced on the surface, weightless and spry,
Soggy and shrivelled, like a pea in the sky.
With a twirl and a whirl, they banged with a bounce,
Reylo fans, were thirsty and waited to pounce.
A marvel to see, two force sensitive spheres,
Their secrets revealed as Osha hungrily peers.
He is the Ballsackolyte, a handsome dark knight
His helmet keeps his identity locked tight
The naked sith lord, with luminous balls
A Darthmaul clone, minus facepaint, horns and overalls.
BALLSACKOLYTE - gets the award for best corruption of the title!
And like great poetry - it rhymes!
This is a very thoughtful and compelling UA-cam essay on the failings of “The Acolyte.” Not only is there no emotional connection to the source material and the lore, but the show is oddly joyless and grim. (“Unknown Planet.”) It also seems to be disconnected from established fundamentals of screenwriting, as set out by Syd Field and Robert McKee. (Did the show creators dismiss those how-to authors’ guides by arguing that they too were patriarchal? Is having a screenplay and a lead character arc follow basic principles of TV show pacing and creating any rooting interest just a “nice-to-have” these days?)
It’s just seems to be a Jedi team building exercise that went badly wrong. Exciting stuff.
You’re the first person I heard bring up those dialogue slips, spot on.
'Take the wheel…' was also a silly line. I can't remember any ship having a round earth-style steering wheel.
Thank you!
Screenwriting 101: "Don't have the screen character tell the movie viewers what they already know."
Ep. 5: (Yord to Osha), "Jecki is a Jedi. She can take care of herself."
This is superfluous writing.
Since Ep. 1, we, the viewers, know that Jecki is a Jedi. Even worse, Yord is telling Osha (who he knows since the time of Ep. 2) that she knows that. And also, Osha herself was a Jedi trainee together with Yord back in the day.
It is enough to write the dialogue as: "She can take care of herself. Let's go!"
If they wanted to make it clear that Jecki was a Jedi for some insane reason, even "A Jedi can take care of herself" would have worked better.
It's almost like AI did all of the writing
fanfiction quality produced by people who aren't fans....that's a tough combo
Exactly, no Dark Side Force user is "unarmed" Force Freeze, Force Choke, Force Stasis, Mind Probe among others such as Force Push. All can be used to kill, incapacitate or injure. Jedi are also not "unarmed" without a physical weapon although their abilities are more inclined towards the non-violent. Of course Sol would know about Dark Side abilities. His statement about "not attacking the unarmed" is absolutely ridiculous in the face of a POWERFUL Dark Side user.
where did the money went?
unions, female HR, DEI, ESG.
Thank you thank you. I have been following Cookies for a few years now. I have always seen you as a voice of moderation and balance. I like you have watched this hodge podge of whatever. Are there good moments, undoubtedly yes. But they are so few and far between as to make it irrelevant. I very rarely pop my head out to say hi but I do value your opinion on most Sci Fi Issues.
If Osha's the hero, I'm rooting for the Jedi.
In just under 48 hours, after years of training and learning from the Jedi about the Force as a Padawan, Osha throws it all out the window just to get down with the Sithness. - Worst Ex-Padawan of the Century.
“Unknown Planet” LOL
They take pride in this.
*Everything* is by design.
They did everything deliberately to make all the “””””toxic fans””””” leave the franchise and get people into Star Wars who never been into Star Wars.
The whole show is a deliberate attack on the fandom.
Don’t give them your views and attention.
Please, please, please.
*TOXIC = telling a ten year old their writing is shit*
*CRITICISM = telling an adult their writing is as bad as a ten year old’s*
*INSULT = telling an adult their writing is as shitty as a ten year old’s*
Learn the difference, Disney.
Criticism isn't toxic. You people AREN'T real critics, you're just trashing for sport
@@suzygirl1843 Where is the line in the sand that Star Wars fans shouldn't cross? When is criticism appropriate in your opinion? I strongly suspect that anyone who doesn't like what you like is wrong.
@@suzygirl1843so how does a fan voice their opinion if they don’t like a piece of media?
@perceivedvelocity9914 People were review bombing this show before its premiere and they review bombed the wrong movie called The Acolytes. That's not good faith, that's an agenda
I like the name Smilo Ren so stick people doesnt even care dude's real name anymore
lol your tone w star wars is soooo different from the tone you use w dune. i like it :D
Going back to things people say here that don’t sound “natural”. The very first minutes of the first episode immediately turned on the red flags in my mind. Starting with the “Attack me…with all your strength!” Was absolutely ridiculous. But also, hearing master Trinity say “Yes, my child?” And then something something “young warrior” - These are things Jedi would not say at all and not even sound right in Star Wars. On top of a very bad story, it is compounded by atrocious dialogue.
This Acolyte has little if any merit. The writing is awful and the creator and main character actor are both fools. It makes no sense
well said.
1:07 I wondered that but reasoned that Sol didn’t want the unknown Sith to her name.
It’s what military would say when receiving an order. The order is repeated to make sure it was received and understood but Jedi are not the military.
The writing and flow of the show is bad and the marketing and media coverage just drives viewers way with the exception of show reviewers for content.
It’s the Patty Duke show in space…they look alike and act alike and sometimes even talk alike….😂
Acolyte is the Madame Web of SW :D
Disney didn't learn from their disastrous sequel trilogy, WRITE A SCRIPT BEFORE FILMING, HAVE A PLAN!
Cancelled my Disney+ subscription over a week ago. Time to go. Signing up for Amazon Prime. Its time. Reacher is awesome, been binging it all week. Reacher has great writers and stellar acting and a compelling story. Its got strong female characters too. Highly recommended. I wonder how many starwars fans will jump to other platforms/ Disney+ just isnt cutting it. I dont think it wants to be associated with such a bad show as Acolyte anymore.
This show comes off so cheap & tacky.. It's not just the terrible writing & terrible acting. The whole thing is a complete self centered power trip.. It's horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Like it's filmed in a single green screen room.. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show.
It's so far from Legitimate Star wars movies that it feels as if this whole thing is a big parody.. A very expensive parody..
These people have proven they are only capable of writing narcissistic stories that self insert themselves and their own beliefs into anything they do. Even if they get to make something from a pre-existing beloved story, they cannot help themselves. They seem to be incapable of creating artistic creations that stray away from their own personal perspective, instead of showing they can lean heavily into escapism and pure storytelling.. They have proven time and time again that they are not capable of doing anything even remotely close to that.. (which is weird because that should be one of the most important attributes that a director or a developer or an actor has in order to be successful at their job....?)
How is there no one that will fire these people who openly hate the fans, hate the consumers who made their success in the first place.. These people who actively act like aggressive victims while also being a million times richer than anyone else. Yes they are the victims.. Poor them.. How can they afford to exist.. Compared to "The Acolyte" If you go back & watch "X-Men the Animated series" It was so well crafted. The story of the struggles of mutants having to deal with humanity was such a universally relatable storyline. Media back then was not afraid to face difficult topics head on. They found really unique ways to abstractly teach people life lessons. They touched on difficult situations & found intelligent ways to convey certain stories. Even when I was all grown up & rewatched it, it really felt like the story is crafted so well & executed at such a high level that anyone is capable of relating to it in someway or another. It's stuff like that, that we are deeply lacking nowadays. So much so that literal kid's cartoons from the 90's told deeper and more mature stories than most media nowadays.
Stuff used to take pride in who can find the most creative ways to convey certain things. Who can give the audience certain feelings without overly explaining it.
It used to not matter what kind of character, creature, species they were. What matters is that they found ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that can connect us on a deeper level.
This stuff we are seeing across the board when it comes to video games or different kinds of media really seems like we are seeing a horrible outcome of a awful trend where people keep getting positions, who in no way deserve those positions. It doesn't seem these people are hired based off of their talent or skill..? We are seeing very expensive shows, games, movies, with such terrible writing. Awful world design, character development, poor aesthetics. So much right now just feels overall creatively bankrupt and I really hope we all snap the f*ck out of it and get back to making better things. Better games better shows better movies
I feel like AI did a script and they didn’t check it lol
You're not watching the show. You're searching for fault based on what you're hearing elsewhere.
Be in the moment. (Sorry nerd cookies)
Episode six is very George Lucasy. The dark side "seduces" according to Yoda, or have you forgotten
George Lucas did things to purposely appeal to shippers?
Have Hope fans!
Messing up Star Wars with all the Lore is like messing up Pizza. You have to be super talented and self destructive to to mess up acolyte
You could shit in a box and send it in to the writers guild and it would be a better script then what the Acolyte has..
This simply what these characters look like in Leslye Headland;s twisted head. There is no relation to the Starw Wars we are familiar with. Not even the Disney canon. Because these are straight from her mentally ill imagination they don’t act like any people that we are familiar with either. They are simply caricatures of action figures being played with by nine-year-olds.
Sw was always about good & Evil. There are no blurred lines. But now the Bad guy is secretly right & the jedi are bad. Absolutely ridiculous.
Well said.
This is what happens when you hire NOT STAR WARS FANS to write a series, I can't believe what we have seen and heard in this series, it is mind boggling that the higher ups approved this BS. Its so sad that the review videos about this show is actually better than the show and why are any of us surprised at how terrible it is, I mean Disney can't even make a good Disney movie so why are we shocked that Disney can't make a good Star Wars series? The only care about making money they do not care about the fans that spend the money.
I was trying to be optimistic and positive about this show. But the bad, asinine, and nonsensical writing made it impossible. When they killed off Dafne Keen's character in the most lame way, I was done and over the show. This was a pure waste.
in Ep 1 or 2 on Jedi says, "permission to speak freely?" obviously not a phrase that would be in use among Jedi
The world's most expensive (and badly written) fan fiction.
Fellow 2008 fan!!
EXACLTY, to call this FAN FICTION is an insult to FAN FICTION! LOL
Acolyte is Bantha Poodoo
Aco-not-lyte! it's like a 4 year old wrote the script......hell, even my four year old could've wrote something better than Lesley.
Your comment about "Harlequin romance" triggered a train of thought (which very likely has been said by someone else before, but…), which is that this CW-esque writing and a story that feels like a telenovela is an attempt to bring in "normies". But why, there always have been and will always be sci-fi nerds. We like a level of cheese in SW, sure, but the story is rooted in adventure and intrigue. I'm a OT kid, but loved the prequels for being even more SW. Was the pacing and story beats badly done, yes. Plenty of cheesy dialogue, for sure🎉. This is on George for not having people around him to keep this stuff in check. But it was still Lucas's SW. Could story and writing been better, absolutely.
This, this is CW level writing, overloaded with overt signalling. In different hands, this story and these characters could absolutely work. But you need better, more experienced writers and a more experienced production team.
The counterpoint to the Acolyte is Andor. Written by competent writers, and produced by an experienced team. Does it fit in the "traditional" mold of SW, no. Can it fit in the SW universe, though? Absolutely. It covers new ground in the universe and adds a level of complexity and maturity to the original trilogy.
Ugh, anyway, I'm rambling. My point is, stop trying to "bring in" normies with these crap stories and stick to what works. First two seasons of Mando did this as well, minimal Jedi involved in that too. Oh, and look, it was a success!
Keep the lifelong fans and then expand out with other shows that appeal to the younger generations. Part of SW problem is that the movies are old. Disney just needed to keep the universe relevant with new content that respects the old. Ideally you produce shows that bring the old fanbase along, and draws in new potential fans as well. What happens? Those new fans then go back and watch the "old" stuff and.become fans of that too! You now have two generational groups, invested in both old and new content, and the money prints itself. Repeat as the generations continue. Anyway, I'm feeling I'll over the loss of what could have been. 😢
Cheers and thanks Elaine!
Reading the discussions about this show has only proven to me how bad people are at media literacy, the acting it’s uncomfortably awful. There are still posts gushing over the performance and saying the acting is incredible.
One of the things I don't understand is how, LH has gone on record saying how "Star Wars saved her life." and suddenly now, she is getting defensive when people are criticising this, going why are people taking it too seriously?
If a piece of fiction saved your live and someone else comes along and ruins it, you wouldn't get offended by that?
The fact that this much money is spent on projects that are approved and scripts are finalized tells me that LF has purged any actual talent or anyone that says no. Once LF was the top tier talent hiring entertainment business including ILM, Lucas Games etc and now its all about diversity over talent. This is what you get when you give out participation trophies and not hire actual talent. SW was once event watching now its bad TV made for CW. What else is left to ruin KK, you have disappeared Willow, created the largest flop ever in IJ film history and in less than 15 years ruined and alienated a baked in fanbase from a franchise I would have still supported for 40 more years but Im turned off by what SW has become. Im not excited to see what comes next and personally think the Mando movie looks desperate and several years too late, Rey movie why and after the Acolyte who wants to see Dawn of the Jedi? Gross Disney LF clean house and hire actual talent not full grown adults writing fantasy in their Trapper Keepers.
What writers????
Does she not realize palpatine did this with Luke… have you watched the OG trilogy??
Here's a logical thing to think about May has a face tattoo on her forehead how is he not seeing it? If Sol can't sense her feelings towards him then he should use his eyes. Hair is not stagnant it sways, it burns when cut with a lightsaber. Just saying.
This show is bad on pretty much every level, but I think that it's greatest sin is its utter lack of humanity. It's not even that it botches all the emotional beats, it basically doesn't have any. The only character that barely passes as a human is Sol and that's arguably more the actor being good than the script actually doing some work. Everything else is completely emotionless and sterile. The writing, the characters, the dialogue, the acting. All the inconsistencies just amplify the issue. Even in fan faction you need to look hard to find something so bad.
Disney+ shows lack basic proper pacing. They have not mastered the (unfortunate) modern way of doing a tv show. 6-8 episodes? Really? I mean the BBC is famous for that format but each show is a gem!!! Star Wars series should be classic: each episode is a self contained hour long story. Yea have an overarching arc, but each episode should be paced with a one hour story in mind, like classic Star Trek and NG shows. Star Wars could be great. It should be great. But unfortunately George amateurs ARE in charge of the magic.
"Civilian to the ship," is not nearly the worst dialog. It's a dismissive way to addres Osha. There are multiple times in each episode that are WAY more painful to listen to.
If I paid a penny to watch this, I would feel a few thousand dollars ripped off. The writing is horrible.
If they wanted to write a great or even good story, there are multitudes of materials to pull from. They don't want... Like with The Witcher, they just want the popularity of the IP's to propell their horrible writing.
Hearing you analyze the episode made me really think about it. You're right, the writing is bad, much of the character actions/dynamics don't make a lot of sense. I have a strong suspicion that even if the writers aren't very good, it might be Headland herself interfering with the process and forcing them to produced this garbage. It seems like something that she and Ms. Kennedy would do (probably have done all along).
I really don't know why they have been allowed to operate like this for so long. I guess Disney doesn't mind losing money, or perhaps there' something else going on behind the scenes. Smells like Blackmail mixed with sheer cowardice and incompetency. And as for the " Overly Large Budget", I'd be willing to bet that it's bloated due to very bad planning coupled with poor day to day decisions by "Management". Of course I don't know, but in situations like that, some of the "Budget" probably ends up in somebody's pocket. Just sayin.
Great video.
Osha take the wheel is a great Carrie underwood song!!!
Spoilers for the plagueis novel:
In the plagueis novel, Palpatine kills his entire family and plagueis is like, that’s great. Good job. He and Sidious go to a planet whose inhabitants worship them as a cargo cult and disembowel one of them and EAT THEIR HEART. And plagueis says literally that they should see everyone else but the sith as lesser beings and mere tools and stepping stones to their own ends.
How can there be “no good or evil” in that situation? Every culture in history would say that killing one’s entire family is wrong. Maybe a few extremists might disagree, but by and large, it’s just human nature to know that the sith are wrong. There are situations in life where it is nuanced, but “are the sith evil” is not one of them.
Said it before, SW has become the ultimate meh.
Like you're literally saying you want a story from a different perspective, well? How about a story that ISN'T about the sith/jedi duopoly perhaps? This is about something else.
They said 'it's about power'(selfishness). But the Jedi are supposed to be selfless or striving to be selfless? according to Lucas.
femcel wars
Me two watching via UA-cam .
RIP STAR WARS 1977-1983
The writers are there because they're connected with Kathy Kennedy through a shared ideology, whether shared by conviction or shared by convenience. Not because they're competent writers. When competence is no longer your guiding star, the shoals of hackery and the banal become dangerous.
Edit: Also, agreed on Ventress. She was awesome. A wasted character, imo. She would've made a much more interesting series than Ahsoka...maybe not with these writers though.
Maybe just add a laugh track to make it right
This content was not posted by a middle-aged white guy, but the narrative by disney is...
A show is so bad that you have to use your unsubdued speaking voice 😂
How is jedi calling someone their colleague weird dialogue? The civilian thing is definitely weird, but otherwise you seem to be nitpicking for reason to hate on the show.
He's NOT a sith. He's something else
Actor literally said he was told he is a Sith.
The show runner said he’s a Sith.. so he’s a Sith
The writing is bad because internalized misogyny and bigotry.
Ep. 1: someone gets stun...
Ep. 2: someone gets stun...
Ep. 3: someone gets stun...
Ep. 4: someone gets stun...
Ep. 5: someone gets stun...
Ep. 6: someone gets stun...
Ep. 7: someone gets stun...
Ep. 8: someone gets stun again...
Amazing work Lesbi Headlamp 🙌🙌😏😏
0:27 to be FAIR…. George Lucas could not write good dialogue either. So star wars is synonymous with bad writing. Disney has just taken it to the n-th degree. So they are using this as the excuse. Star Wars COULD have brilliant dialogue and great writing and be … not a joke.
Trash in 1978 and it's still trash
The acors are pretty bad including the Amandela woman. The sets and costumes look real cheap and the lises are worse than first year film students write.
Apparently they plagiarised Jordan Peterson’s work in this somewhere
There is nothing good about that show. If this show hadn't had the title of starwars, it couldn't stand 4 episodes on TV..
I'm so glad I watched this, because it just confirms for me that yall don't know what the fuck you are talking about. I'm not saying this is the greatest SW ever, but it is NOT that bad. If you can't have fun exploring our beloved galaxy far, far away during an entirely new era where everything is different than what we know, get off the fucking bus already and let the rest of us enjoy some shit. The ONLY thing in your entire rambling diatribe that I agree with is "take the wheel." That one did hit me a little 🤔
Lol. You came to my video and my comments section to tell me to leave YOU alone? 🤣
Soooooooo bad 🤦🏼♂️
Lucas himself criticized the corrupt institution of the Jedi. This show is showing us more of why they were corrupt.
The corruption didn't happen until much later during the clone wars. Remember, 'wars not make one great' quote by Yoda? (they just make one corrupt).
"By being drafted/forced/used to join the war by the Senate/Palpatine, the Jedi lose their way and become corrupted. But the thing is, it's a conundrum. Sometimes you need to stand up for what is right and fight."
Lucas
NONE of the characters motivations or conversations make any sense at all...
It's like the script was translated from English to Russian then back again.
Great take and review of the series so far, its awful and your review just further gives proof to the fact that many sw dislike this, including female sw fans...so that immediately shuts down their idiotic 'sw fanboy haters' argument they always come back with. ive seen plenty of reviews from female sw fans who said the same as you! just shows you how far they have buried their heads in the sand
To be frank ep1 and 2 were good. Ep3 was boring but the singing witches were fun to watch. The other episodes were bad...
"These are my colleagues."
"Civilian to the ship!"
This stuffy style of speech is used to highlight how rigid and bureaucratic the Jedi Order has become at the end of the High Republic era.
Hello? This is intentional.
This choice is so simple to understand I find it hard to believe you thought it was an actual criticism of the show's writing. It's almost like you started with an opinion and you're searching for reasons to justify it.
I think the problem she is referring to is the use of out-of-place modern vernacular in a fairy tale setting. The characters shouldn't sound like they're in 2024 LA. Disney SW has done this a few times I can think of and it always seems off. You response makes me think you haven't properly understood the criticism.
@@hitoshijohnson no, the language is intentional. YOU haven't fully understood the writing here.
@@hitoshijohnson The Jedi Order is being depicted as an authoritative institution, analogous to a modern police force. Clearly. I don't see any way to match your interpretation with what we've been shown on screen.
SW's connection to fairy tales and mythology is thematic; the characters don't actually speak like they are in Nottingham.
@@hoos3014 I listened to the video again and, it doesn't make a difference to the criticism if the language is intentional to serve some allegorical purpose or not (I mean, we get it). I think the point she was making is that it breaks immersion for the Jedi to be using the same vernacular as people on a reality show in the 21st century. SW has (had) gone to great lengths to not include things from everyday life detract from what is essentially a fable. That's why SW characters rarely use idioms or slang and when they do it's usually made up stuff like "nerf-herder" and not "sitting ducks" or "see you in hell" which sounded out of place when they were uttered. Also Nottingham is a real place that exists in 2024.
@@hustler3of4culture3 It sucks, does it make a difference if it's on purpose or not?