Disney's latest woke disaster bombs and gets canceled after 1 season

[marvin martian]

Disney continues to self-immolate, much to the delight of the majority of the country (and nearly all Star Wars fans).

I hope they have an even worse 2025 ahead...

LOL

Disney's Woke Star Wars Show 'The Acolyte' Crashes, Burns, and Gets Canceled After Just One Season​

Disney's Woke Star Wars Show 'The Acolyte' Crashes, Burns, and Gets Canceled After Just One Season

redstate.com

Though its season one finale seemed to be setting up the series for more episodes, Deadline reports that Disney has canceled The Acolyte. Things were rocky from the start for the show as Star Wars fans displeased with its cast and premise took to review-bombing it in droves, but Disney’s cancellation decision was reportedly driven by The Acolyte’s less-than-desirable viewership numbers.

The news comes just a little over a year after Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC that reigning in spending on big budget Marvel and Star Wars projects could be an important part of his plan to get the company back in a healthier financial position. And given how expensive The Acolyte was to produce, it doesn’t entirely come as a surprise that it’s meeting its end so soon.

 

[Auld Phart]

they've taken the Stars series, both Wars and Trek, as far as they can.

same with Fast and Furious.

I'm tired of nothing but sequels coming out.

when are they going to teach college students to think, instead of copying previous works?

 

[rightwinger]

I miss the days when Disney kept blacks and minorities in their place.
Negroes were shown as servants and laborers and seemed to enjoy eating Watermelon
Orientals had bad eyesight and seemed to bow a lot
Mexicans were lazy and slept a lot

I am tired of this “Woke” stuff trying to show nonwhites as equals

 

[task0778]

I never watched The Acolyte so I can't say how 'woke' it is, but that doesn't sell to certain groups that Disney normally caters to. It's okay by me for any company to get political, but there could be a price to pay when you do that.

 

[BULLDOG]

Oh my. I'll bet that is the first time that Disney ever put out a program that didn't perform as well as they had hoped, so they had to cancel it. That sort of thing is just unheard of in the business, isn't it?

 

[jotathought]

they've taken the Stars series, both Wars and Trek, as far as they can.

same with Fast and Furious.

I'm tired of nothing but sequels coming out.

when are they going to teach college students to think, instead of copying previous works?

How about new ideas and concepts? There is an endless cycle of remakes and sequels that deviate from the original story, and many shows and movies focus on special effects for their remakes instead of generating new content or superhero movies that have saturated the movie industry.

 

[rightwinger]

Oh my. I'll bet that is the first time that Disney ever put out a program that didn't perform as well as they had hoped, so they had to cancel it. That sort of thing is just unheard of in the business, isn't it?

To Conservatives, anything that fails is either Woke or DEI

 

[marvin martian]

Oh my. I'll bet that is the first time that Disney ever put out a program that didn't perform as well as they had hoped, so they had to cancel it. That sort of thing is just unheard of in the business, isn't it?

Actually, Disney has had a long string of bombs over the past several years.

Did you really not know this, or are you just pretending to be stupid to give me a laugh?

 

[BlueGin]

I couldn’t care less. I didn’t watch it.

 

[BULLDOG]

Actually, Disney has had a long string of bombs over the past several years.

Did you really not know this, or are you just pretending to be stupid to give me a laugh?

ZOOM! Right over your head.

 

[rosends]

I watched it. I liked a bunch of it. I didn't see it as especially "woke" or anything like that. It was overly ambitious and introduced many, many threads that required the audience be familiar with all sorts of SW canon that I'm not hip to. I felt similarly about Ahsoka -- I had people saying "you won't really understand it until you watch all the seasons of ______". By moving backwards and demanding that the audience have a more comprehensive knowledge base to "get" all the easter eggs and references, Disney is asking too much of the random viewer who isn't already a fan boy.

 

[marvin martian]

I couldn’t care less. I didn’t watch it.

Apparently, no one did.

 

[martybegan]

Apparently, no one did.

Only Disney could figure out a way to make Lesbian Space Witches somehow uninteresting to guys in their 20's and 30's.

 

[Failzero]

Look for several successful yet neutral shows on other Networks gettin axed bucause that’s only fair

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Snow White may kill the Disney Studio. It's half a billion dollars now just in production costs and still needs reshoots.

 

[BULLDOG]

Snow White may kill the Disney Studio. It's half a billion dollars now just in production costs and still needs reshoots.

I'm pretty sure you can find that much money in Disney's couch cushions.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

I'm pretty sure you can find that much money in Disney's couch cushions.

But not in the studio couch cushions. Disney can't tolerate endless failures. No company can.

 

[BlueGin]

But not in the studio couch cushions. Disney can't tolerate endless failures. No company can.

I think their current Pixar movie made 1.2 billion dollars. So they aren’t a fatal failure just yet.