General grievances (Disney rants)

It can. It can be worse, even, and I'm predicting it will be. The first episode and 11/2 of Disney's Willow -- oh, let's just be generous and say the first two episodes -- was borderline working. From there it would spiral in near consecutive steps further and further into a kind of baffling species of bad that in and of itself at least warranted a certain curiosity. But throughout the season run when the show at any given moment wasn't huffing 'corporate culture' paint, it was to be honest inoffensively goofy fun, at a just sorta okay level. There are a few moments of Hensonesque art-direction and some gleeful abandon with the tone & pacing. 

The Acolyte? I don't even have the words for what they're marketing here. It's like watching a video of a Quaker sitting on a stool describing the process of paint drying ...only not as erotic. It looks like something produced by the lamest fucking algorithm after having been passed up by all the cooler algorithms; the fat kid algorithm  ...and only after pounding a bottle of NyQuil. Halfway through the trailer I sear to God I drifted out of spacetime, beyond the vanishing point of boredom, happening upon some new dimension of cognitive inertia, a colorless dot amidst a colorless void, just to keep my brain preoccupied. What that trailer trailer'd in both stuff 'n' style was so goddamn insipid that it left me wondering if in the foreseeable future Disney-Lucasfilm execs will be barricading themselves inside panic rooms away from some quixotic dog toy company based out of Des Moines storming their HQ in a literal hostile takeover attempt to liberate at gunpoint the Star Wars IP/licensing for their own purposes.

The Acolyte trailer is so dumb, it just looks dumb and it looks sucks. And is stupid.

If The Acolyte trailer got together and had sex with the Madame Web trailer, their baby would be The Acolyte trailer.  

I forgot what we were talking about. I'm about to make myself a bath-salt & catnip smoothie.