Can’t find a source for the “star wars never had strong females” thing, so I can’t really respond to that. Could you share who said that at least?
As for the Anakin death star thing, when you watch the interview, it’s clearly just a young actor in Star Wars getting excited talking about Star Wars and misspeaking, it’s not a big deal. Getting Luke and Anakin mixed up is literally a meme because it happens so commonly. He clearly enjoys Star Wars even though he may not be a mega fan or whatever.
Actors will always do interviews about their role in upcoming shows and movies and it’s mega common for them to not to be star wars fans. You’ll often hear them say stuff like “I wasn’t really a fan before I got this part, but I love it now” in those interviews. These kinds of criticisms are often not being made in good faith, they’re being made to push a right-wing narrative, so they just cherry pick quotes and make a ton of hay about absolutely nothing.
Don’t you feel some cognitive dissonance about the Acolyte being different from other Star Wars works while also liking Andor… which is different from Star Wars works? What makes the Coven cringe but the dude with the hammer in Andor cool? Because a lot of the criticisms I’ve seen just straight up hate women, it’s hard to accept that isn’t a big reason for all the hate that the Acolyte has received. Maybe also because right wingers got some representation in Syril.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the coven’s chant. This is one of the many things which expose people as not being the huge star wars fans they claim to be, because they are making it clear that they haven’t watched Clone Wars or read any of the books/comics. The Dathomiri nightsisters (which were a major inspiration for the coven in acolyte) also use chants to focus their powers. Jedi meditate and use mantras to focus their powers. It’s pretty much a self-own to call it “not star wars enough”. If someone is making that claim, they’re not star wars enough to realise that, if anything, it’s kinda overdone.
If I told you that in June 2024, I spent $50,000, but you only saw what I did for the first week, you’d be asking “how did you spend $50,000 in a month on food?!” but then in the third week I revealed that I bought a car but you didn’t see it yet, you might feel a little foolish for jumping to conclusions, mightn’t you?
A show having a high budget has absolutely never been considered a bad thing until someone could use that as a means to complain about women. That’s what it just keeps coming down to. Really poorly thought out, bad faith arguments being made by people who don’t want to come out and tell the truth - they don’t like that there are women in the show, or non-white people, or portrayals of vaguely LGBTQ+ vibes. It’s just stereotypical reactionary crap, and I’m really sorry that you have fallen for it.
But there is hope. There is a Star Wars character who realised that he was on the wrong side, who refused to allow the evil authoritarian regime to continue unopposed. I don’t know if you are strong enough to follow their example, but I hope you are, for your sake. Anger, hate, fear - these things are the path to the dark side, and once you allow yourself to be seduced by it, forever will it dominate your destiny.
I am sure that there is good in you. I hope it doesn’t take a traumatic experience for you to find it within yourself and turn away from the dark.
Can’t find a source for the “star wars never had strong females” thing, so I can’t really respond to that. Could you share who said that at least?
As for the Anakin death star thing, when you watch the interview, it’s clearly just a young actor in Star Wars getting excited talking about Star Wars and misspeaking, it’s not a big deal. Getting Luke and Anakin mixed up is literally a meme because it happens so commonly. He clearly enjoys Star Wars even though he may not be a mega fan or whatever.
Actors will always do interviews about their role in upcoming shows and movies and it’s mega common for them to not to be star wars fans. You’ll often hear them say stuff like “I wasn’t really a fan before I got this part, but I love it now” in those interviews. These kinds of criticisms are often not being made in good faith, they’re being made to push a right-wing narrative, so they just cherry pick quotes and make a ton of hay about absolutely nothing.
Don’t you feel some cognitive dissonance about the Acolyte being different from other Star Wars works while also liking Andor… which is different from Star Wars works? What makes the Coven cringe but the dude with the hammer in Andor cool? Because a lot of the criticisms I’ve seen just straight up hate women, it’s hard to accept that isn’t a big reason for all the hate that the Acolyte has received. Maybe also because right wingers got some representation in Syril.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with the coven’s chant. This is one of the many things which expose people as not being the huge star wars fans they claim to be, because they are making it clear that they haven’t watched Clone Wars or read any of the books/comics. The Dathomiri nightsisters (which were a major inspiration for the coven in acolyte) also use chants to focus their powers. Jedi meditate and use mantras to focus their powers. It’s pretty much a self-own to call it “not star wars enough”. If someone is making that claim, they’re not star wars enough to realise that, if anything, it’s kinda overdone.
If I told you that in June 2024, I spent $50,000, but you only saw what I did for the first week, you’d be asking “how did you spend $50,000 in a month on food?!” but then in the third week I revealed that I bought a car but you didn’t see it yet, you might feel a little foolish for jumping to conclusions, mightn’t you?
A show having a high budget has absolutely never been considered a bad thing until someone could use that as a means to complain about women. That’s what it just keeps coming down to. Really poorly thought out, bad faith arguments being made by people who don’t want to come out and tell the truth - they don’t like that there are women in the show, or non-white people, or portrayals of vaguely LGBTQ+ vibes. It’s just stereotypical reactionary crap, and I’m really sorry that you have fallen for it.
But there is hope. There is a Star Wars character who realised that he was on the wrong side, who refused to allow the evil authoritarian regime to continue unopposed. I don’t know if you are strong enough to follow their example, but I hope you are, for your sake. Anger, hate, fear - these things are the path to the dark side, and once you allow yourself to be seduced by it, forever will it dominate your destiny.
I am sure that there is good in you. I hope it doesn’t take a traumatic experience for you to find it within yourself and turn away from the dark.