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Very little has united Star Wars fans recently quite like The Acolyte. A show so awful that even Disney’s usual damage control efforts through shill access and bot-farms cannot contain the fan reactions.
The show has gone viral, for all the wrong reasons. Memes, YouTube dissections, hours of discussions, Reddit forums. The stink of this one spreads throughout internet-land.
When all damage control efforts have failed, there is but one trick left to pull. Cry “Review Bombing!” and then simply deny reality. And here we are. In an interview with Collider (via Dark Horizons) the showrunner Leslye Headland attempted to brush it off.
“Oh, yes. Everybody knows what review bombing is like. Truly when the show first came out, my publicist was like, ‘OK, with the review…’ I was like, ‘Does anybody take that seriously anymore?’
Perhaps the average… I understand the point of it, which is that the average viewer would look at the site and say, ‘Oh, the user review is really low.’
But I think that, if you’re in the Star Wars fandom, I think you already know what review bombing is. So I guess if you’re totally new to the fandom and you’re considering watching the show, it could affect you.
But I also think that my work in the past has been very word-of-mouth anyway, so I don’t know if it… I think that because behind the scenes, we all know what it is – it’s not that it’s not concerning – but I think it’s pretty expected. I would say.”
If it doesn’t really matter, then why was everyone connected to the show screaming about it when the episodes began to drop?
Jesus tapdancing Christ. When does season 2 of Andor drop? I need something to drown out this noise.
