I’m sure we all know about the low audience scores given to The Acolyte. Rotten Tomatoes was sitting down at 14% since around the third episode, and was that low up until at least the last episode. Now that it’s nearly a week out from the season finale, I figured I’d take another look.

The Rotten Tomatoes score has gone up to 17% and other review platforms have gone up a bit also.

So I decided to read through a few of the recent ones. Here are two examples:

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The showrunners accuse fans of “review bombing” but are apparently just fine with artificial review boosting. I saw a bunch of these double reviews and nearly every single one talked about things like diversity, a “fresh take”, production values, etc, all in that typical bland corporate-speech type of language.

Whereas the negative reviews are detailed and specific without ever getting into racism, bigotry, sexism, or other things fans are often accused of. If you read through the negative reviews they are often well thought out criticisms of the story itself and the quality of acting.

I just wanted to bring this fake review boosting to the community’s attention. If you enjoyed the show, that’s awesome. But it’s dishonest to dilute honest and fair criticisms of a show.

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Kenobi ruined a lot of IV, and even some of III. Acolyte ruined Anakin in general, and also ruined the jedi order in general. Both have tons of cringe and nonsensical moments, both feature times where a single swing could end things but can’t because plot.

      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldOP
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        5 months ago

        Both have tons of cringe and nonsensical moments

        Absolutely

        both feature times where a single swing could end things but can’t because plot.

        Yup, and that’s bad writing.

        Kenobi ruined a lot of IV, and even some of III

        See, I disagree with this part. I think the issue is that some of the ideas weren’t introduced or handled properly. But I think the overall concept was there. But Disney is incredibly inconsistent with some things. Like Obi-wan, who was not all that strong in the force, could live a field of giant boulders and hurl them at Vader. But Sol couldn’t hold two small girls up? Nevermind the fact that he was holding the bridges instead of just the girls.

        But the storyline with Reva was just trash. A center mass lightsaber stab from Vader isn’t fatal (twice) but a small knife from Mae is fatal.