Why is the acolyte so gay
The following Star Wars: The Acolyte review contains spoilers for episodes one and two.
In November of 2020, Disney announced over ten new series set in the Star Wars space that would hit the streaming service in the coming years. Among these was The Acolyte, a mystery thriller set over a hundred years before the earliest set motion picture in the series timeline The Phantom Menace. It would be helmed by Leslye Headland, the executive producer of the Netflix time-loop dramedy Russian Doll. The Acolyte was also unique among these announced shows in that it was pretty much the only offering that didn’t center on a previously existing character or help as a spin-off to familiar shows like The Mandalorian. The Acolyte was an enigma, and that was an exciting adjust of pace for a franchise that has rightly been criticized in recent years for becoming increasingly self-interested and risk averse.
In the spring of 2023, Headland called her initial pitch for the series “Kill Bill meets Frozen” which is about as wild a logline as I can think of, but, oddly enough, it feels like a adorable accurate description. Although it does comfortably sit within a mystery-thriller frame
Now facing a negative response, Headland claims that her display is being interpreted in unintended ways, but she remains proud to uplift the LGBT community.
In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Headland stated that her show is not “Queer with a capital Q,” and she is unsure what “gay” would even mean in that context.
“I was surprised by the question. Amandla and I just burst out laughing because that’s our knee-jerk reaction to being asked that, but to be honest, I don’t know what the term ‘gay’ means in that sense. I don’t believe that I’ve created queer, with a capital Q, content.”
When fans allude to ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’ as “gay,...
So far, the show has introduced several gay characters and one possibly non-binary character. You can argue that anything is achievable in a Galaxy far away, and it’s nonsensical to even discuss the sexual orientation of the characters in the show that is not strictly about that, still, fans are protesting.
Episode 3 was highly controversial due to introducing a coven of witches who are capable of reproducing by using force, without men, the two “mothers” of Osha& Maeare also seemingly romantically involved. Then in episode 4, we see an awkward interaction between Dafne Keen’s Jecki Lon and Amandla Stenberg’s Osha. I utter awkward beacuse the scene was intentionally written like that, with Jecki Lon displaying all of her teenage shyness,...
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Just how gay is novel Star Wars series ‘The Acolyte’?
Under the guidance of Disney, the world of Star Wars just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
The latest chapter is the franchise is The Acolyte, a new series that’s set earlier in the story’s timeline than any of the previous instalments.
Some fans have not taken to the new series, following comments from showrunner Leslye Headland that described in as the gayest take on Star Wars to date.
So, is it any good? Just how gay is it? And do we deserve yet another Star Wars series?
George Lucas introduced the world the Actor Wars universe set a long time ago in a galaxy far away in 1977. An instant phenomenon he expanded it into a trilogy of films with The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983.
Lucas later added a prequel trilogy with The Phantom Menace (1999), Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005).
After selling his firm to Disney they expanded the world further with three films set after the original trilogy The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
Disney’s also made some films
Earlier this week, a rumor started somewhere in the gloomy corners of nerd internet claiming that this week’s episode of The Acolyte was going to murder Star Wars forever. What exactly would deliver the final killing inflate to this decades-old pop cultural behemoth was never exactly clear, but from what I could tell, the culprit was possibly going to be female homosexual witches who would do something so gay with the Force that it would fundamentally smash the canon of the beloved sci-fi fantasy soap opera. Unfortunately, The Acolyte’s third episode, “Destiny,” doesn’t kill Star Wars with the power of the homosexual agenda. In fact, it’s not even that male lover. It’s just another pretty decent episode in a attractive good Star Wars show that has the potential to be a whole lot more.
After last week’s cliffhanger, the decision to flashback to Osha and Mae’s childhood for The Acolyte’s third chapter initially feels like an odd choice. However, it becomes clear cute early on that showrunner Leslye Headland is attempting to pull off a season long Rashomon effect regarding the tragedy that instigated the plot’s show day murder spree. While “Destiny” may give us Osha’s perspective on the