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It still wasn't good.

It wasnt bad, definitely not as terrible as the trolls and neck beards screamed it was, but it was all over the place.

Describe the main character? What's her motivation? They created a whole tragic backstory for her, but for most of the series her only motivation was to basically hang out with her old gang, maybe get back in, but that wasn't clear either.

They had an opportunity to tell a beautiful story, and the setting showed potential, the republic at the height of it's glory.

They overplayed their message, the Jedi order was both perfectly idealistic while also wholly corrupt. The witches suffered prejudice and intolerance, but also violently lashed out at anyone concerned for the wellbeing of their kids, who were basically being abused by a religious cult. Reverse the sexes: if it was a colony of mandalorian men who kept some force sensitive boys against their will how would that play?

None of it really went anywhere, huge strokes that hinted at epic scope and fizzled out. Flashbacks that revealed what was hinted at, but just answered questions without meaning. Finally, the few characters they actually tried to build up, they killed in one huge scene to feed the significance of their main villain.

So many post-covid scripts have this: they start with these beautiful themes and backdrops, but fall apart as the plot is meant to evolve. Almost all the MCU fell for this short of the spidermen.

It drew far too much hate, and it probably deserved a second season to pull itself together, but the first season was a mess.

You need to use those epic backdrops as a lure, to get viewers to be patient while you set up the internal character conflicts that actually matter.

Compare the elevator scene in andor, or just the heist episode to anything in acolyte, it's just not even the same league.