The Acolyte was revealed to be cancelled on August 19, only weeks after its season 1 run ended on Disney Plus. While it worked well enough with critics, a sizable portion of the Star Wars fandom outright rejected it, citing plenty of s**t reasons and a few other complaints that were actually reasonable. Now, the show’s (double) star, Amandla Stenberg, is finally speaking about the cancellation.
According to them (via Instagram), it was “not a huge shock” following the “rampage of vitriol that we have faced since the show was even announced, when it was still just a concept and no one had even seen it.” They’re not wrong at all about the obvious hate campaign that was staged against the series no matter the actual quality of it, but that doesn’t even begin to explain why it was cancelled.
Last week, co-star Lee Jung-jae was far more restrained in his comments: “Honestly, I am hoping that maybe there could be changes in the future… Because you never know what’s going to happen. So on a personal level, I really hope we could get to see further stories of Leslye’s second season.” Of course (spoilers ahead), he doesn’t care that much since his character, Master Sol, completed his arc and died at the end of season 1 at the hands of Osha, his former apprentice. That said, it makes sense he’s also quite disappointed about how things have gone down for a show he spent so much time working on.
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The Acolyte was revealed to be cancelled on August 19, only weeks after its season 1 run ended on Disney Plus. While it worked well enough with critics, a sizable portion of the Star Wars fandom outright rejected it, citing plenty of s**t reasons and a few other complaints that were actually reasonable. Now, the show’s (double) star, Amandla Stenberg, is finally speaking about the cancellation.
According to them (via Instagram), it was “not a huge shock” following the “rampage of vitriol that we have faced since the show was even announced, when it was still just a concept and no one had even seen it.” They’re not wrong at all about the obvious hate campaign that was staged against the series no matter the actual quality of it, but that doesn’t even begin to explain why it was cancelled.
Last week, co-star Lee Jung-jae was far more restrained in his comments: “Honestly, I am hoping that maybe there could be changes in the future… Because you never know what’s going to happen. So on a personal level, I really hope we could get to see further stories of Leslye’s second season.” Of course (spoilers ahead), he doesn’t care that much since his character, Master Sol, completed his arc and died at the end of season 1 at the hands of Osha, his former apprentice. That said, it makes sense he’s also quite disappointed about how things have gone down for a show he spent so much time working on.
