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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Star Wars' 'The Acolyte' Is a DISASTER Waiting to Happen | 3/5/24

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Leslye Headland and Kathleen Kennedy are on a quest to destroy a galaxy. The new Disney+ show "The Acolyte" is proof! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.2

I was aware in terms of Hollywood as a white institution, you know, I think it took me and I mean I was aware in terms of the direct experiences I had, you know, being a little brown girl and only getting particular kind of kinds of role submissions or you know experiencing racism

0:21.0

in different ways or whatever.

0:23.0

But I think it wasn't until I was older

0:26.0

and I could really understand things infrastructurally

0:29.0

that I got, oh, right, Hollywood is a white institution.

0:32.0

And that means that that

0:35.4

representations within Hollywood are going to be extensions of white

0:38.7

supremacy. A new Star Wars series called The Acolyte is coming to Disney Plus this summer but unfortunately

0:45.2

for Star Wars fans it looks like this series is going to be the worst that Disney Star Wars

0:51.5

has ever seen.

0:52.8

Now strangely enough, at least in my opinion,

0:54.8

the show's premise just as a concept

0:57.4

doesn't actually sound that bad.

0:59.4

As comic book resources reports,

1:01.2

it said the acolite is set approximately 100 years before the first

1:04.8

prequel trilogy film Star Wars episode 1, The Phantom Menace.

1:08.1

The story will primarily follow Stenberg's former Padawan as she reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes.

1:15.8

And apparently this series is being pitched as sort of like a mystery thriller.

1:20.2

Maybe it's just me and my love of mystery thrillers, but that as a premise sounds kind of interesting.

1:26.7

Where things go terribly, terribly wrong, though, are with the people involved with the project.

1:32.6

So this series creator is Leslie Hedlund,

1:35.4

and in case the glasses just weren't enough of a warning sign,

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