Why do people think the acolyte is gay

The writing? Few people tuned in, and many of those tuned out by the time the finale arrived.

A couple of other points arise when looking at this data.

1. We really have no business getting season 2 of Andor.

   They’re destroying what Jodie Whittaker’s tenure didn’t transform, just like the Rey reinvention in the sequel trilogy and the season 3 bait-and-switch in The Mandalorian didn’t do for Star Wars.

   (If you’re curious, The Book of Boba Fett has the longest episodes, on average. And though the economics of streamers is a bit loosey-goosey in that you can’t really tie subscriptions to specific shows, The Acolyte still fails the spirit of the equation.

   The Acolyte isn’t actually the most expensive Disney+ Star Wars show.

   The Acolyte is the latest battleground in an ongoing culture war that has leached into every part of the American experience. And because they have no sense of humor, they took a joke Headland made about the sexual orientation of C-3PO and R2-D2 as proof of her agenda. Both pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates relied on verses and stories from the Bible to ground their beliefs.

   Today, the church continues to discuss how to understand and apply Bible verses around divorce, the role of women in the church, military force, and many other topics.

   Further Reading

   Mark Noll, The Civil War as Theological Crisis (2015)

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   What is feminist theology?

   The Bible has a theme of welcoming the outcast and advocating for the oppressed.

   Many faithful Christians, when they read the Bible, see an overarching theme of God’s love and mercy for those who are on the outside.

   Not $180 million cool, though.

The Acolyte feels like a show made for less than $100 million, which is a nice way of saying it feels like corners were cut.

However, as someone who generally pushes back on the notion that queer artists are capable of creating only queer or queer-coded art, Headland remains perplexed by a recent viral moment from her show’s L.A.

junket. In contrast, there are hundreds of verses about caring for the poor and oppressed, and hundreds more about how to use one’s possessions and money. However, what’s more important than Headland and Stenberg saying their show is gay is that the interviewer is the one who brought this up, immediately called fans bigots who hate gay people, and kept egging them on for more.

The Disney+ Star Wars series The Acolytehas now premiered, and by all accounts (which doesn’t include mine because I’m not watching it, so I have no account; if I want to see badass twins getting revenge, I’ll watch Double Impact again), it ain’t great. Many people have found that the “backstory” of Scripture makes the Bible even more beautiful and meaningful, but it also reveals that some stories and verses may be more specifically directed to certain times and places than to the whole faith community forever.

Scripture was written by people.

The books, songs, and letters of Scripture were written by faithful people who had powerful experiences of God and were inspired to record them for many generations to read.

Except they had all the money they needed.

Disney didn’t get their money’s worth. It’s also the only series in which the finale was not the most-viewed single episode. Although inspired, the people who wrote the Bible were also limited by their time, their place, and their language.

Further Reading

Sparkhouse re:form, “Who Wrote the Bible, God or Humans?” (video, 2010)

Dr.

Today there is seemingly nothing that cannot be judged and measured through a political lens.



A journalist posited to her and Stenberg that The Acolyte is “arguably the gayest Star Wars by a considerable margin.” The writer-director and her star had fun with the line of inquiry, but now that the exchange has generated a bevy of responses, the question of what makes a piece of mass entertainment “gay” is one this queer artist continues to ponder in earnest.

The thing nobody seems to be talking about with all these shows is that less people are watching them.

You could sled down this trend line.

These numbers represent the total number of minutes each episode was viewed the week it premiered, averaged across the entire season. If anything, I think Disney looks as online fans with a distinct whiff of aristocratic disdain.