Begun, the fandom wars have. After Star Wars launched its Disney+ offerings with The Mandalorian, other Disney+ series like Andor, The Bad Batch, and Ahsoka ushered in a new age of Star Wars media. But then came The Acolyte, a series by Leslye Headland starring Amandla Stenberg as twins living in the last days of the High Republic, about a century before the prequel trilogy.
The response to The Acolyte was polarizing, with some fans decrying even the smallest changes to canon (not Ki-Adi-Mundi’s birthday!), and in late 2024, the series was unceremoniously canceled. But recent analytics reveal the issue wasn’t viewership numbers — in fact, it did better than the year’s Marvel shows.
