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If you’re wondering about the main header image, it’s just because I don’t want to post any photos of Leslye Headland. I don’t want any Outposters getting upset so early in the morning.
As you know, Headland, the former assistant of serial rapist Harvey Weinstein, ‘created’ The Acolyte. I say created, but it was more like she had several curries mixed with laxatives, then put paper all over her bathroom, let rip, and then went to Disney with the results.
Headland’s The Acolyte was one of the worst bits of Star Wars media ever created. Not only that, but it took something like Star Wars, which was on life support, and shot it in the head.
While writing this up, one website said that The Acolyte had ‘its good points’. The only good thing to come out of that show was separating the real Star Wars fans from the shills. The real fans hated the show and took to social media to let their voices be heard.
According to Headland, this was why the show was cancelled, the fascists and racists online, but we will come back to that.
She’s Back
Headland recently crawled out from under her bridge to give an interview with The Wrap about the show. According to Headland, The Acolyte was too ‘risky’ for Star Wars fans:
“[The Acolyte] was always a major risk. It was a new part of the timeline. It was all new characters. It was a part of the lore where you couldn’t use a Storm Trooper, you didn’t have the reference of the politics and war that Tony Gilroy has brilliantly exploited in such a genius way in ‘Andor.’ But all that iconography and all those visual references are original trilogy references, and our references were the High Republic novels and the publishing initiative and then the prequels, specifically with the lightsabers.”
She went on to address how she was ‘attacked online’, and subject to ‘racially-charged’ harassment some of the cast received:
“I was not online. However, I am a ‘Star Wars’ fan, which means I have always been, since the launch of YouTube, part of the ‘Star Wars’ recap/criticism/lionization fandom community. These guys I’ve known for years and years. So when I got the information from others about what the weather report was, there was this real concern from friends of mine or co-workers of mine that saddened me.”
Yes, she’s a Star Wars fan.
“I also was like, ‘I know who these guys are.’ You don’t have to tell me who’s talking about it or how bad it is online, I know exactly who they are. I supported them on Patreon. There are some of them that I respect, and there are some of them that I think are absolutely snake oil salesmen, just opportunists. Then, of course, there are the fascists and racists. So it runs a gamut. It isn’t just one thing or the other. So in some ways I wasn’t surprised, and then in other ways I was disappointed. I think you always do that when you create something, it’s just that ‘Star Wars’ is on a massive level of visibility.”
Yes, the fans of Star Wars, who slated the show, people like the Critical Drinker, Nerdoritc, countless others, including the Last Movie Outpost, are all “absolutely snake oil salesmen” and “fascists and racists”.
Star Wars Nazis
Yes, the main issue with the Star Wars fandom was the “fascists and racists”. Come on Headland, calling people a Nazi was so 5 years ago.
In fact, there is a thing called Godwin’s Law, which states: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.” It means that you can have an intelligent argument online, but as soon as someone compares someone else to Hitler or the Nazis, the intelligence has left the discussion and:
“…many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums have a tradition that, when a Nazi or Hitler comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever made the comparison loses whatever debate is in progress.”
When it comes to Headland’s The Acolyte, of course, there were some racists who took the opportunity to hate on some of the cast. However, the main focus group, you know, Star Wars fans hated the show because it was lazy, badly written, stupid, devoid of interesting characters, and the list goes on.
Yes, people slated the show, yes, people were giving it negative reviews, but that’s because most of those people love Star Wars, and this show was just terrible.
Legitimate Complaints
Headland went to address the genuine complaints about the show:
“I also think that any gripes creatively with the show are completely valid. That’s people’s reaction. It’s usually their reaction to their own reaction. But like I said the show was always a risk. It’s the old adage of the first one through the wall is the bloodiest.”
Yes, the reason the show was the “bloodiest” is because it was new, didn’t have any of the old characters, and was “risky”. Again, from the article I got this from, it’s quoted:
The series does have its defenders, who have pointed out the show’s strengths such as its amazing action scenes and how it addressed the problems of the Jedi. Many shows have suffered weak first seasons only to majorly improve, and there was a good chance The Acolyte would have corrected many of its problems in a second season.
As the interview went on, Headland carried on:
“It made me start to think, rather than these fans are toxic, or this thing is being mean to me, it made me think more that the content being made about ‘Star Wars’ will ultimately be more culturally impactful than actual ‘Star Wars.’ With Star Wars, you’re not just measured within the marketplace that you happen to be in at that time, you’re measured against every other Star Wars show.”
Yes, she thinks the fan criticism of Star Wars will become more of a cultural impact than Star Wars itself. I also like the fact that she called her own show “content”.
The article I read spoke about how a second series of The Acolyte would have fixed a few of the show’s flaws. I know we’re all hoping and praying that happens one day. Sorry, my testicles said that, and they are talking bollocks.
As I said, Headland, the former assistant of a serial rapist, shouldn’t be working in Hollywood. Let alone given $180 million to make a show about one of the biggest franchises in cinema history! Oh, wait, I forgot, she’s a Star Wars fan.
I’m also guessing she was laughing all the way to the bank, especially for being another of Kathleen Kennedy’s coven. KK acted like she wanted to see male-centric Star Wars fall, and The Acolyte really helped push it off the cliff.
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