• culpritus [any]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      The Acolyte show that is getting canceled after one season was trying to do:

      spoiler

      some kind of metaphor of forced assimilation of children with the Jedi as stand-ins for church/state kidnappings and lethal enforcement of policies, etc. As far as I could tell it was trying to do some form of ‘good intentions’ white washing while ‘feeling really bad about it once we realized it was bad/mistake’. There were some ideas in the threads being woven together, but I think it was just too much of a jumble to succeed with the general fandom. The whole season is showing the insular Jedi wall of silence as space cops causing organizational failure, and the finale was that the situation had become so serious it was necessary to now inform Yoda about it. Yoda as the CEO meditating on force innovations in his office or whatever.

      So yea basically

      • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        The Acolyte had some neat ideas, a few solid performances, and a lot of messiness, though. I’m a little bummed that S2 got the axe when there’s been worse Disney Slop

      • robinnist@hexbear.netEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        How exactly were the Jedi in the wrong in any regard? At most, we could say, their advised non-interference is the issue, which translates back to the fall of the Jedi being due to their transformation into Republic soldiers who put keeping their political standing over all else, which the show incorrectly and lazily flips in the direction of “predicting” their fall due to their “good intentioned” interference.

        One could call the whitewashing of the cult that mind-SA’s teenagers (which “we” could justify by pointing to the Jedi’s “invasion” of the cult’s land and their “lethal enforcement of policies” to the point of refusing to fight back when being attacked and only killing when the life of the children they’re trying to protect is being put in danger) and abuses its own children in numerous ways incorrect, but we can be assured that the show puts things right when the traumatized mind-SA victim lets his walls down and drinks poison after being egged on to commit suicide by the righteously angry child of the good cult due to his guilt over too quickly going in to the mind-SA cult’s sovereign borders and “forcing” them to destroy themselves.

        Ah but the Jedi did take the cult’s children (in a bit of cult infighting), in one sense, albeit only temporarily to be tested with the consent of the cult and this in the first place being triggered by the request of one of the children.

        This truly evil show (as though it may be) did not make the Jedi adequately villainous in this regard, and justified their actions with such nonsense as “one of the children we were trying to protect was being turned into dust before our eyes”, or “the traumatized teenage mind-SA victim was simply eager to enter the noble enclave of the child abusing club and be done with it all.” Truly a tragedy at both ends.