As a fun little experiment, this video has 150 real dislikes and 404 via the extension.

KZfaq hiding dislikes was so stuiped

I’ll watch at least an episode or two. It isn’t Andor, but we didn’t know Andor was Andor until we saw it.

I watched the trailer and was like: ehh whatever. Doesnt look bad, doesnt look suprisingly good. We will see when it comes out

They never should have removed the dislike display.

The lack of negative criticism able to be directed at a YT video in the form of a public 'dislike' tally renders the public 'like' button virtually pointless to the viewer. It's only purpose is 1) to provide redundant analytical data to the uploader, and 2) to manipulate the viewer with positivity bias. It's YT's equivalent of the Ryugyong Hotel in North Korea.

I didn't hate the acolyte's trailer but it really didn't seem that interesting at all

It’s probably just general fatigue from the force or how it’s been mishandled and people are hungry more for the other side of starwars that Andor shows with the more common man and woman, much like what Rogue Squadron could’ve been and Mandalorian started off with.

I think the other aspect is that one of the gals running the show was Westeins former assistant

The problem as I see it is Disney has just demonstrated a record of poor management over the star wars IP. With rushed projects, cancellations, poor writing and directing, etc... and just overall star wars just feels like a mess right now. So think back about when we first started getting announcements for new Star wars shows the reception was overall very positive but now after getting our hopes and expectations constantly broken it's hard for a lot of fans to maintain that same optimism. I'm sure everyone wants this show to be amazing but Disney is going to have to prove to us first that they can deliver on that before this pre-emptive backlash starts to subside

I will give it a watch and see what it`s like. I can`t base the quality of a show based on the trailer alone.

Keep in mind people prob don’t dislike as much because it’s harder to see the like button or u just can’t

The extention figures may be a bit off but given KZfaq hid the dislikes to help corpos we have no choice but to go with them. People have been conditioned to dislike Disney products, years of failures and hating on fans will have that effect.

The acolyte's dislike ratio is the least surprising news I've seen come out of Hollywood since the success of Endgame

I presume it's related to Headland, bith her statements and history with Weinstein.

Okay, not a hot take, just my honest opinion, I'm not excited for the Acolyte but not for the reason you might think. I'm actually decently okay with the High Republic, I'm just not fully versed in it, and as far as the Sith involvement goes, Star Wars has done weirder and more lore-bending shit before. I'm not excited for it mostly because it's likely going to re-hash a point from the prequels: "The Jedi are so caught up in their own power and supremacy that they're not able to stop the rising threat of the Sith and their own apathy and complacency kills them". I just honestly feel like we already have a good representation of this in the prequels and I don't see the need to have it be rehashed. There's plenty of dark already in the world right now, both fictional and very real, and I find it hard to get excited for a show that will inevitably have to tread some very dark ground without resolving anything. We know that a couple hundred years from this, Palpatine will destroy the Jedi and the Sith's plans will either go undiscovered until it's too late, or the Jedi of the past find out about it and cover it up, dooming the order. I don't think the show will be bad by any means, it looks decent, it's just not what I'm looking to watch right now.

Disney lost my trust after Book of Boba Fett… Then Obi-Wan… Then season 3 of Mando… too many misses to even bother at this point.

I disliked the trailer mainly because it feels like it's going to be a "Kenobi show" and not a "Andor show" if you catch my drift.

I'll wait for trusted people to tell me this is worth it before I watch it.

I don’t know why they don’t make shows like Rogue Squadron or the Old Republic

Congrats on a million bro! Been watching you for years it makes me so happy to see so many people love your content too!

I use the extension as more of a ballpark. I think you can definitely say this trailer was not universally well received, and probably has a substantially larger number of dislikes than your average trailer. I don't get hung up on the exact number or even whether it has more dislikes than likes.

Get well soon my friend! We will see how it goes!

I just can't be excited anymore for Disney era star wars. I can only be pleasantly surprised.

I just thought it was "meh." Not bad or good, just something I didn't need to go and watch.

I searched for the acolyte trailer and What I saw recommended more was like 3 channels do videos about how it was the Kathleen Kennedy South Park episode. “Put a chick in it and make her gay”. Which at this point after Andor, Kenobi and mando being about male characters I’m just convinced those people will be upset anytime a woman is cast in general. All of those videos were also about the dislikes and were saying that it proves their whole thing. One of the thumbnails said “they just finally killed Star Wars.” With Kathleen Kennedy and the South Park characters 😅

thanks for the video get well soon man🖤

What does “volume” mean in this case of colour?

about 5 seconds looked like star wars everything else is just generic space fantasy i was very disappointed

Since the announcement of the acolyte series I've been the most hopeful about it of any new star wars series. I generally love those dark sider oriented stories because there's so few of them. After the trailer though I'm really not excited about it anymore. It looks very bland and safe to me. I don't want a story about bad guys to be safe and I don't want an "actually they're the good guys" narrative either. I want a dark side story to be, well, dark, and I don't think Disney has the balls to do it right.

#AskEck: Do you have any battle breakdowns planned for the future? I discovered this channel through your battle breakdown of Jakku and I would love to see more in the future, there are still plenty of space battles in this universe that you haven't covered, like the battle of Batoon, and I wish you could continue my favourite series on this channel.

Thank you so much for this video. Super informative! I will be probably be spreading this video around whenever I have the chance :)

acolytes is going to be trash. Just wait my Padawan

My take away from the trailer: That’s a lot of Jedi in a show about the sith

Everything Disney has made has broken the lore in minor and major ways. Gone are the days when fans eagerly anticipated new content, now everything is waited on with a sense of dredd

Hey Eck, Just a fun question amidst the turmoil, but if you were a pilot in the SWU, what Ugly would you create to make the perfect personal starfighter?

Fans being frustated at Disney + trailer being meh + high republic trilogy being shit = people having very low expectations and thinking it will be shit COnsidering how Disney stil haven't changed I am not willing to give it a chance

Star Wars as an IP has been mismanaged to the grave. The trailer left me with nothing, and I didn't even bother to dislike it because I don't care anymore.

#AskEck do you think that the new canon will follow up on any of the Unknown Regions concepts being developed by Timothy Zahn in the Thrawn Ascendancy and imperial Thrawn books (like the Grisk threat or the protégé officers like Vanto, Faro, or Pelleon). It almost seems like they are setting up new canon versions of Empire of the Hand and unknown region threats but ignoring it in more official media in favor of High Republic connections instead

The high republic novels are excellent. IDK why it would be controversial. The only negativity i've heard about The Acolyte is that it will be woke.

People when the trailer doesn’t spoil everything 😡

Bro, the last few years have been painful.

No matter how thy explain it, it'll be convoluted. I have no confidence they will do anything truly clever.

I don’t have any hate towards the high republic but it’s lucas films/disneys own fault that no one really cares about it, all they’ve done is release mid books (which most casual fans don’t read) and have a couple mentions of it in other media, no reason to get hyped about the high republic or anything surrounding it since most casual fans aren’t interested in it

I'm very intrigued by The Acolyte. I hope that it is good and does good so that we'll get new Star Wars content not so centered around the same few decades of the galaxy that is really beginning to get bloated.

Honestly I'm not even interested in the Acolyte. Didn't watch the trailer and won't watch the show. I've been disapointed too much latetly by Star Wars

#AskEck What do we know of the development of the Venator? Was it ready at the outset of the Clone Wars or did it enter service sometime after it began? And what did the Republic Navy have before the Venator (and by extension, the Victory) came into service that could stand up to Seperatist capital ships? Lore ship Versus video request: Resurgent vs. Starhawk Tie Striker vs. New Republic V-Wing World Devastator vs. Vong Worldship Tie Silencer vs. X-83 Twintail Tie Silencer vs. Tie Defender (legends version) Keldabe vs. ISD II MC90 vs. Nebula class star destroyer Nebula class vs. Pellaeon class Majestic class vs. Bothan Assault Cruiser EAWX: FOTR’s Mandator II portrayal vs. Subjugator Praetor vs. Subjugator EAWX: TR’s Mediator portrayal vs. Resurgent Starhawk vs. Bulwark MK III Gargantua/Aratech 520 Battle Platform vs. A6 Juggernaut

#AskEck what would win? Spaceball one or bellator class dreadnought?

It's one of those shows im going to forget it's coming out until its out cuz nothing makes me excited for the show

when you made this vid, the dislikes were at 600k, whats your explanation?

What I hate about this whole thing is that I feel like I have to defend a show I am not going to watch and do not like because I see about a million reactionaries online whining about things that didn't happen. I have to get out there and do my due diligence and educate myself about something I don't really care about in the first place because people are bellowing and seething over tiny little things that ultimately add up to looking suspiciously like they simply have really weird and regressive values and could not care less about Star Wars.

I swear the dislikes used to just be hidden but easily accessible. So now it seems KZfaq went even further and made it impossible to find the dislikes.

Star Wars was destroyed the moment Jake skywalker casually threw dad’s lightsaber over his shoulder in TLJ.

of course people are negatively charged towards it. Any good faith old fans had was depleted gradually through the years. And the trailer like you said wasn't anything special, it told us close to nothing and if it used some of the best scenes in the show (like trailers usually did in the past) then it's gonna be another mudslide at best and another Kenobi at worst.

I stopped caring about starwars at this point

My biggest gripe with the trailer is that there is little to no hint as to the premise of the story, it’s basically: “ooo there’s someone with a red lightsaber, red bad, Jedi good”

Filoni has been aping Legends at every turn for decades. How could anyone think otherwise? Of course he's going to "steer" towards legends, whatever that means, by stealing the ideas he likes, watering them down, cutting out all incredibly important and nuanced context, and splashing on the most bland, Sequel-esque paint on them. He's been doing exactly that for decades.

I'm gonna wait for more stuff, but the trailer did not really entice me to look forward to it.

congrats on one million!

Yeah I agree with the point on power usage for interdictors, considering you’re basically bending physics it would probably use so much power it would compromise the ships ability to perform other functions in a fleet

Honestly I just feel like the reason so many people are skeptical of the acolyte is because the past few Disney+ Star Wars shows haven’t been all that great so people think that trend will continue with the acolyte. Here’s my take, it’s kinda similar to this: Let’s say you have a favorite sports team and the new season is about to start, however you have very little faith in said team, why? Because in the last 5 seasons they have had losing seasons and missed the playoffs, so while the new season could be different, it could also be similar to the other 5 seasons in counting a trend of being a bad team that has a losing season and misses the playoffs. Now back to the acolyte, while it’s new and while it could be good, the last few shows Disney has done with Star Wars hasn’t been good so I do not have faith this show will be good even though it could be good, I still don’t have too much faith that it will be good. That’s just my take though.

f disney sw is dead

I am interested in seeing The Acolyte but I'm very worried about the lore implications with the Sith and what not. I just hope they don't ruin this like so many other shows. And I don't think it's gonna be all that great. I want it to be. But currently if it's not Andor or a Dave Filoni show. I'm not having high hopes about it

I find interdictors interesting especially in canon. So far as I know there have been mines from the unknown region, a prototype star destroyer interdictor from earlier empire, and the interdictor cruiser. I hope they have the thrawn pincer in future content

Kinda seemed bland from the trailer, not really interested in high republic but if there was a republic show old republic wouldn’t have this dislike issue. If you could have acolyte or a KOTR/old republic show I mean come on a darth revan story arc it’s a no brainer man, also get a director who puts Star Wars and a solid plot first

I am just not really interested in it. I don't see anything star warsy about it beyond the light sticks. It's just not for me

I honestly thought the extension was still getting the actual dislike numbers. The dislike-bias in the extrapolated data does make sense, that's good to know.

Let's hope they're saving the best announcement for Star Wars Day, aka May the Fourth Be With You. If not, I have Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks to look forward to.

If that trailer was supposed to get me to watch even one minute of the show, it failed. What I saw was boring and nothing new. Especially the 'someone is killing Jedi' part. A good trailer would have shown us at least one Jedi getting killed. Maybe even a Jedi getting killed while he tries to warn the others. As for the red lightsaber? I feel they just put that in to start the very discussion about broken lore it did, because they have nothing else left to spark any interest in the show. In my case however, I don't care any more, because I know they don't care about logic as shown in the first episode of Ahsoka and they don't care about entertaining us.

It’s a trend now to literally shit on something before it comes out. But then again Disney has been shocking star wars out since the last Jedi. The only acception is andor.

#AskEck So I recently started watching all of star wars start to finish and when watching Episode 2 it is stated that the Jedi Council did not know about the creation of the clone army. I don't remember if it was in Ep 1 or 2 but it is also mentioned that the Jedi have recently lost some power in the force. A dead jedi is the one responsible for the creation of the clone army. The question is why would the Jedi Council have allowed the use of the clones in such a wide spread war without knowing without a shadow of a doubt that it was actually a jedi who placed the order. It just seems so naive to me that the Jedi, especially Yoda of all, wouldn't find it oddly convenient that the Clones are discovered at such a critical moment.

I still see the buttons. But my phone is super old lol

It’s like all Disney knows how to write with Star Wars are a bunch of evil and edgy jerks and they refuse to make any stories about the Sith or the Empire and just try to make a bunch of unlikeable “good guys.” Just watch Pirates of the Caribbean and you’ll get what I mean. “If you’re good at something, never do it.” -Disney

I’m very interested in the high republic era. The trailer looks fine to me.

Im still excited to watch it, i was cautious on Andor, but it turned out great.

I saw the trailer for the first time, didn't hate it but couldn't understand what it was about. Then I saw it a second time and still couldn't figure out what the hell it was about. Not a single glimpse of the plot (granted, I like SW but I am not the most into-the-expanded-universe guy, and not the brightest observer). That is my biggesst gripe about it. I'll give it a try, but might not end the whole season (specialized critics will mean play its part too)

Fandom for Star Wars is over the top toxic but this is what you get when you combine social media and the selling out of a well loved franchise to a clueless media conglomerate like disney. Personally the movie series ended with Return of the Jedi and the outlier that is Rogue One.

I'm cautiously optimistic, as obi-wan would say.

Don't feed the bears!

I will be holding my judgement until I watch the whole series. I think it has potential, but obviously we can't know from just a single trailer.

A note about the dislikes, I for one would have made it a point to dislike it if dislikes were still a thing on KZfaq. As they are not, I didn’t even bother watching the trailer. I watch your videos because I enjoy your content. I comment on videos like this to let the world know how much I hate modern Star Wars and Disney. Still hoping Disney will get forced to sell star wars to avoid bankruptcy. That or lucasfilm leadership changing so much it may as well have been sold are the only things that will make me consider giving new Star Wars content a chance.

I just don’t care about Star Wars anymore.

Disney just lost the plot. We all want them to be greater but we just don’t think it’s possible at this point.

4:30 The reason the First two seasons of Mando looked so good on the volume was Greig Fraser. He knew how to shoot using it. He also was the cinematographer for the Batman, which also used the volume. He left after season 2 of Mando, so ever since then every show using the volume looks...... like it does. So yes the volume isn't to blame, just the people who don't know how to use it. Need to have a "how to shoot on the volume class" led by Greig Fraser. lol

We're at the point where even as a lifelong die hard Star wars fan, I now get more entertainment from watching the bad reviews and the hilarious "shill react" videos. This is not a truth I chose or want, but it's a reflection of what Disney have intentionally done to our beloved franchise. They simply aren't interesting making good stories any longer, they have other agendas which we're clearly all sick of. The good news is that Andor (and Rogue one, see the theme?) Have demonstrated that if they just let somebody with talent make a good show, the fans will still accept it. So there is still hope for Star Wars in future, I don't believe Disney have killed it fully. But I also have absolutely no faith in them to be the ones to turn it around. I also expect the Acolyte will be just as bad as The book of Boba and Kenobi etc. That's the normal expectation now, and that's not our fault. If something like Andor comes along and isn't shite..... Well that's awesome!

I hope someone retcons the entire Disney verse at some point because I'm 100% checked out on anything new they put out now its over, done, finished, dead IP to me. I'll still watch the old movies because they are legitimately great and play the games I like (Empire at war mostly) but thats it, I don't even plan to watch season 2 of Andor despite liking season 1 because I'm done. For some context as a kid I don't even know how young I was when I watched Star wars its so young that its one of my eariest memories its like just part of me and its sad to say that the love has died. I just don't want anymore (of this) Star Wars ever again

Even if you aren’t as excited Eck, I do thank you for keeping an open mind regarding the acolyte.

The trailer was just boring over all it did not make me excited at all.

love the vids man, truly, i know everyone just says this but i truly mean it, best sw channel out there.

Everything is painful all the time. Is it bad, is it politics, is it bad but people will say its politics etc etc etc just to exhaust us

Yeah on the early Imperial Interdictor designs the gravity well generators were so power hungry and bulky they took up most of the ship leaving little space and power for conventional armament. They did get miniaturised over the decades such that they could be fitted inside ships still possessing a conventional armament. I think also they were so expensive and vital assets that they never expected them to be deployed on the frontline in combat and they would always be in a fleets supply train. In the novels rather than only working at short range and bringing a ship out of hyperspace right on top of themselves they had an effective jamming range across an entire star system so any ship brought out would have to cross the system at relativistic speeds taking hours or possibly even days in order to engage them.

This could make sense but the trailer is now at over 500,000 dislikes so theirs no question whether this is very unpopular to most star wars fans

I find it understandable that a lot of people prejudge this show as it comes following many star wars propositions that were lacklustre and disappointing. Added to this, the marketing put forward so far features mostly how this is socially groundbreaking rather than how intriguing or interesting the story will be. I just expect more of what we've mostly seen so far from Disney's star wars. I don't expect to be surprised or uplifted. I don't expect to be the targeted audience. Hence, I am not looking forward to watching this. I have not marked the trailer as liked nor disliked, but nothing it was showing made me reconsider my expectations about what is to come.

"I have a bad feeling" that they will rip off Revan origin story and put it's storyline in Acolyte, because according to Disney you can sell shit if it's smell of flowers.

The fandom menace is back in full force lmao

It could also be that the extension is under-reporting the dislikes because it's only picking up the dislikes of the people with the extension and not picking up anyone else who might be hitting dislike and don't have the app.

Ima give it a try

#AskEck In the Legends X-Wing books it is stated several times, that Wedge had to pass up a promotion to General to keep flying with Rogue Squadron. But there's General Salm who commands squadrons of Y-Wings and General Crespin who commands a wing of A-Wings. What's the difference between Wedge and them?

This is the same argument that YT used to remove dislikes.

One just needs to take a look at Leslye Headland to know this ain't worth it.