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Disney pulls the plug on ‘gayest’ Star Wars’ series ever after just one season

August 23, 2024 | | Print Article

Star Wars fans can take comfort in knowing that the Force is truly with them now that Disney has pulled the plug on the widely panned “woke” addition to the franchise’s universe.

According to Deadline, there won’t be a second season of “The Acolyte” which was described as “the gayest” Star Wars ever, and while it may have thrilled leftists, normal people were repulsed by the hijacking of the beloved science fiction tale by “lesbian space witches.”

“The story of The Acolyte will not continue, with Lucasfilm opting not to proceed with a second season of the Star Wars offshoot starring Amandla Stenberg,” the entertainment-focused outlet reported, citing sources.

The show debuted in June with the first two episodes grabbing 4.8 million views on the first day of streaming on Disney+ for the service’s biggest premier ever. But even though it did well with critics – a 78 percent on Rotten Tomatoes – it was less well received by actual fans with a big reason being the left-wing political messaging, something that Disney just can’t resist inserting into nearly everything that the entertainment colossus produces these days.

Reactions to early criticism by the show’s creator who seemed to accuse naysayers of being bigots probably didn’t help.

Leslye Headland who was touted by The Hollywood Reporter as the “first openly queer person to create” a “Star Wars” project, lashed out to the negative reception that the series has received as the “gayest” ever addition to the original trilogy’s expanded universe.

“I don’t know what the term ‘gay’ means in that sense,” she said of controversial remarks made during a recent interview alongside “The Acolyte” star Amandla Stenberg, adding, “I don’t believe that I’ve created queer, with a capital Q, content.”

Critics panned one of the series’ episodes in which two witches who are members of an all-woman society use the power of the Force to birth their offspring, the twin female characters portrayed by Stenberg.

“They’re in a matriarchal society. As a gay woman, I knew it would read that their sexuality is queer, but there also aren’t any men in their community,” she told the outlet.

“I think that ‘Star Wars is so gay already,” said Stenberg in another interview. “We’d be like look how gay this is and then send each other references…”

“And are you telling me with a straight face that C-3PO is straight?” Headland asked.

X users reacted to the news that Disney was aborting the series after just one season.

It’s taken a while but DEI finally seems to be in retreat and that’s something that Star Wars fans should cheer as loudly as when Luke Skywalker blew up the Deathstar in the 1977 original that launched the franchise into the cultural orbit.

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