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With Star Wars Day around the corner, fans seem to be revisiting their favorite adventures set in a galaxy far, far away. While many of the franchise’s most beloved films and shows witnessed viewership spikes, one title stands out. The series premiered in 2024 and received mostly positive reviews from critics, but it was review-bombed on aggregator websites, demonstrating just how toxic certain fan communities can be. While this wasn’t the reason for its cancellation, the show didn’t return for a second season. Lucasfilm claimed that it exceeded its budget and underperformed in terms of viewership. However, two years after its controversial run, it remains one of the most-watched shows on the domestic Disney+ viewership chart.
We’re talking, of course, about The Acolyte. Spearheaded by filmmaker Leslye Headland, the eight-episode show was set before the events of the Skywalker Saga. It starred Amandla Stenberg, Lee Jung-jae, Dafne Keen, Jodi Turner-Smith, Carrie-Anne Moss, Manny Jacinto, and others. The Acolyte remains one of the most notable examples of review-bombing — a concerted effort to lower a title’s audience scores on aggregator sites such as Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb. Unsurprisingly, trolls tend to target titles that prominently feature actors from minority groups. Other projects that were similarly targeted include Captain Marvel and Ghostbusters: Answer the Call.
The scores below reveal how the Force sees you. Your highest number is your true alignment. Read on to understand what that means — and what it will cost you.
Disciplined, compassionate, and deeply attuned to the living Force, you have walked the path long enough to understand its demands — and accept them. You lead not through authority alone, but through example. You have felt the pull of the dark side and chosen otherwise, every time. That is not certainty. That is courage.
You are earnest, powerful, and brimming with potential — and you know it, which is both your greatest asset and your most dangerous flaw. You act before you think, trust your gut over your training, and sometimes confuse impatience for bravery. The Masters see something in you, though. The question isn’t whether you have what it takes — it’s whether you’ll be patient enough to find out.
You are not simply dangerous — you are certain, and that is worse. You have decided what the galaxy needs, and you have decided you are the one to deliver it. Your power is genuine and formidable, earned through sacrifice that would have broken lesser beings. But examine your victories carefully. Every Sith believed their cause was righteous. The dark side’s cruelest trick is that it agrees with you.
You were forged in fire and reshaped by those who found you at your lowest. You serve, because service gave you structure when you had none. Your allegiance is not to an ideology — it is to survival and to the master who gave you purpose. But there is something buried beneath the conditioning. The Jedi you hunt? You recognize them. Because you remember what it felt like before the choice was taken from you.
You have looked at the Jedi Code and the Sith Code and found both of them incomplete. You walk the line not out of indecision but out of conviction — you genuinely believe both extremes miss something essential. The Jedi don’t fully trust you. The Sith think you’re wasting your potential. They’re both partially right. But so are you.
The Acolyte’s audience score on Rotten Tomatoes is currently languishing at 19%, even though its critics’ score is sitting at 74%. However, according to FlixPatrol, The Acolyte has now spent 30 days on the domestic Disney+ chart. This came as Star Wars fans gear up for the franchise’s first big-screen installment in seven years, The Mandalorian and Grogu. On the small screen, the franchise has expanded significantly in recent years, thanks to shows such as Andor, Ahsoka, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and, of course, The Mandalorian. Next year will see the release of Shawn Levy’s Star Wars: Starfighter, a new standalone adventure starring Ryan Gosling in the lead role.
*The Acolyte was canceled after a single season, with blame being directed at its reported $230 million production budget. By comparison, Andor’s two seasons cost a reported $650 million, while J.J. Abrams’ **Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker ***remains the second-most expensive movie ever made with a reported budget of just under $500 million.
Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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