I see so many posts on all platforms of people saying something like “Finally got around to watching The Acolyte. Don’t understand the hate. That was one of the better SW shows.”

the desire for Endless Franchise is sublimated hunger for God. if the franchise ends the hunger pricks, the dread tide ebbs. the standalone short story exists, in the franchise acolyte's imagination, like the grim reaper a the end of a dark dirt road

That was the initial report, but he later disputed that account.

Amazing what being a charismatic, popular leader with a mandate sized election can do.

Would have been an easy way to weave the Emperor back in without having to do the stupid reanimation thing, and could have tied in Snoke better, and explained why Rey was there, and mirrored the OT. What a wild fumble.