Reflections From a Murky Pond

Yes, not too surprisingly, Disney has “canceled” The Acolyte. It will not be given a second season. The saga of the lesbian space witches has died… though, maybe it should be described as DEI’d, given the nature of the series’ agenda-driven creation. 😉

Perhaps putting out a series with no connection to any of the proven story arcs and then making sure to make it not just non-canonical, but actively anti-canonical was a stupid idea. Forcing a #Woke agenda into it was certainly a mistake and an easily avoidable one.

And, in response to their show’s failure, Leslye Headland and Kathleen Kennedy – the woke womyn running The Acolyte – went full-on Bud Light, even though everyone should know that you never go full-on Bud light.

Yeah, taking a page out of Alissa Heinerscheid’s playbook and insulting and attacking the core customers when they choose not to partake of something that wasn’t made for them and was apparently made to alienate them is a level of self-destructive stupidity that I thought was now well-understood and deprecated. But Disney’s DEI hires have proved me wrong.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. Even if the fanbase is everything evil and horrid that these two claim them to be, it doesn’t matter. Headland and Kennedy had one job and one job only – to make a television series that was profitable for their employer, Disney. In that they failed utterly, completely, and humiliatingly. They created something that very few people watched and spent $180 million doing so.

In point of fact, if the Star Wars fanbase is everything evil and horrid that these two claim them to be, it was Headland’s and Kennedy’s sole job to produce a series that catered to their desires, prejudices, and preconceptions, unless there were credible studies definitively showing that their was a large enough replacement audience to make the series profitable despite it not being accepted by the existing fanbase.

One either produces a series that people will watch and, hence, provide profit or you have failed. It doesn’t matter why they watched or didn’t watch. All that matters is whether they did or didn’t. And, in the case of The Acolyte, not enough people by a wide margin watched it because it wasn’t something anyone wanted to see and spend their time on.

Bikini Interlude – A Freshwater Edition

There’s no point in this post other than to remind you all that there’s more than beaches. Lakes, rivers, and such are also perfectly fine for bikini fun. 😛

Just a photo collage of George Takei, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, William Shatner, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, and Nichelle Nichols before they boldly went where no man had gone before.

Well, apparently they were going to reboot Power Rangers. But, sadly or happily depending upon how one feels about that, it was a failure from the get-go. You can’t have the White Ranger anymore.

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It’s definitely time to go fishing. Then again, to be both self-aware and honest, I pretty much always think it’s time to go fishing if the weather permits. And, my tolerance for “bad” weather is just as high as one might expect from a man born and raised on Florida’s Gulf Coast. 😉