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A mystery-thriller in the Star Wars universe with a Jedi detective?

It wasn’t all bad, though.

Qimir/The Stranger wields his red lightsaber and red light-dagger in The Acolyte episode 5

Even my Star Wars-obsessed colleague didn’t finish it.

So its cancellation is a bit of a shock.

That’s $22.5 million per episode and almost $650,000 every minute.

Osha and Qimir look at the Bal’demnic sunset in The Acolyte episode 8

Which leads me to my second reason thatThe Acolytefailed there’s no tether.

Yoda and Darth Plagueis in the finale.

And, I loved the fact that Lucasfilm was doing something different withThe Acolyte.

I can’t help but think its failure could see creators learn the wrong lesson.

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