The Luminate Streaming Charts For The Acolyte – Week 4

Whereas we nonetheless have to attend one other 1 1/2 weeks for Nielsen to lastly launch their streaming numbers for early June and thus lastly together with The Acolyte, new participant on the town Luminate releases their numbers in a way more well timed style. So we already know the numbers for final week (Friday – Thursday) for The Acolyte. And to not mince any phrases right here… the numbers are BAD. Click on by means of for extra!

Few individuals care

The Acolyte has dropped to #9 on the Luminate streaming charts for unique reveals with a paltry 232.4 million viewing minutes – different reveals like Home of Dragon that are an “acquired” collection, because it additionally runs on HBO cable, will not be even included right here.

The Acolyte may actually drop out of the charts as a result of it’s presently solely 4.3 million minutes “higher” than Bridgerton season 1,  however already behind Bridgerton season 2… an previous present, however the brand new season made individuals rewatch all of the previous episodes and since Luminate lists seasons individually (Nielsen doesn’t) Bridgerton has three entries right here.

This can be a drop of 11% in comparison with final week and since each episode 4 and 5 are nearly the identical size this immediately displays an extra lack of viewership.

And earlier than I examine The Acolyte to the opposite reveals please bear in mind all of the caveats, it’s nonetheless unknown how Nielsen and Luminate examine, each use totally different intervals, definitely have a considerably totally different methodology and many others and many others and many others so that is for informative functions solely however not a 1:1 comparability!

I’ll as soon as once more examine complete viewing minutes for the season and complete runtime. If I simply take a look at episode 5 then 7.3 million individuals would have watched it, if that they had watched nothing however episode 5, which they didn’t, as a result of from Friday – Tuesday evening individuals may solely watch episodes 1-4, so attempting to gauge precise episode viewership is kind of pointless. It stands to purpose {that a} majority may have watched episode 5 on Tuesday evening and the next two days however we have no idea the odds right here. So complete runtime and complete viewing minutes to calculate the season common is the higher strategy right here, for my part. All numbers however for The Acolyte are Nielsen numbers, preserve that in thoughts!

The Acolyte: 1,084.7 million viewing minutes – 183 minutes complete runtime – 5.93 million common views
Ahsoka: 2,352 million viewing minutes – 220 minutes complete runtime – 10.69 million common views
Andor: 1,883 million viewing minutes – 254 minutes complete runtime – 7.41 million common views
Obi-Wan-Kenobi: 3,399 million viewing minutes – 211 minutes complete runtime – 16.11 million common views

The Ebook of Boba Fett: 1,999 million viewing minutes – 173 minutes complete runtime – 11.55 million common views
The Mandalorian S3: 3,655 million viewing minutes – 163 minutes complete runtime – 22.42 million common views

Even when the Nielsen numbers had been 50% greater than Luminate’s for The Acolyte it might at greatest compete with Andor for the title of least watched stay motion Star Wars collection on Disney+ ever. Likelihood is that Nielsen too will see it even behind Andor although. And that may be a full catastrophe for a present that prices $180 million, and make no mistake, even for Andor it’s a catastrophe as a result of that present value $250 million to make. Why would anybody spend a lot cash on issues that don’t attain a majority of Star Wars followers? Additionally, given the very, very quick runtime the cash per minute of screentime spent right here is solely loopy. The Acolyte has by far the shortest complete runtime of all reveals to date, keep in mind that each Ebook of Boba Fett and Mandalorian solely had 4 launched episodes at this level vs. The Acolyte’s 5. The Acolyte is at greatest a 4 half mini collection. Stretched out to eight episodes. In actuality Disney ought to have pulled an Echo right here and dump all of it on the identical day to get it over with (any sane particular person would by no means have greenlit this within the first place after all). Now we have now what Marvel wished to keep away from with Echo, to have followers complain about and mock the present for weeks and weeks. And we nonetheless have one other two weeks of this, plus the aftermath.

The Acolyte possibly has only one quarter of The Mandalorian’s numbers, and I don’t assume this may considerably change with Nielsen’s numbers. So 75% determined to not even take a look at if The Acolyte is any good. The advertising, the interviews, the trailers made them assume “nah!” with out having watched a single minute of the particular present.

Why is Lucasfilm allowed to sink a lot cash into initiatives that any particular person with some information of Star Wars (or the viewers generally) would instantly establish as “area of interest”?

Andor, the very best factor to occur to Star Wars on Disney+ in accordance with some (me included), would at all times have been recognized as tremendous area of interest by anybody with even distant understanding of Star Wars. There are not any Jedi in it, no Pressure, no duels, no epic house battles, briefly, it doesn’t embrace ANY of the weather that made Star Wars in style. Making a personality drama set within the Star Wars universe is definitely attention-grabbing, however the restricted attraction of this implies nobody of their proper thoughts ought to ever give this mission a 250 million funds.

And out of doors of Star Wars: who would greenlight a sequel present to a semi profitable Eighties fantasy film that solely individuals ages 40 and up bear in mind after which make it a gen z centric collection with two younger lesbians because the protagonists? And who would spend insane quantities of cash on an motion journey film that includes an 80-year-old who ought to in all probability retire for good or solely play grandpa roles?

The Acolyte is a sufferer of its disastrous and outright silly advertising. All of the “feminine centric”, “queer id”, “protected house for black nerds”, “Star Wars is patriarchal… Yaaassssss” and particularly “the present gained’t be variety to the Jedi” nonsense the showrunner and actors spouted apparently turned off a majority of followers proper out of the gate. Additionally, who of their proper thoughts would assume somebody like Leslye Headland ought to make a Star Wars collection? Of all of the individuals in Hollywood you’d prefer to work on Star Wars, what particular person would choose somebody like Headland?

I stated it final week, I say it once more, the Disney overlords should clear home at Lucasfilm. The whole management has to go, Filoni may at greatest keep as an concepts man however NOT as the one that oversees the inventive course of. He greenlit every The Acolyte script and apparently at all times nodded his head and didn’t need them to vary the nonsensical character motivations, arcs, foolish plot and awful – even for Star Wars – dialogue.

And Kennedy has now totally ventured into “I rent individuals primarily based on agendas” territory, there isn’t a different purpose why anybody would ever rent individuals like Headland or Obaid-Chinoy to make a collection and a film.

Final phrase on the Rey film is it gained’t begin filming this 12 months. And we’re already on the midway level anyway. As a result of they STILL shouldn’t have a script. And Knight is now busy making his Peaker Blinders film. We all know how that normally ends. This additionally explains why Obaid-Chinoy retains making all this noise with random and nonsensical appearances on television or journal interviews. Final idiocy she uttered was that Rey is on the coronary heart of Star Wars, yeah certain… I believe she’s doing all this to make it an increasing number of troublesome for Disney to quietly cancel this film. Anybody with even one mind cell left should understand that the Rey film has a excessive likelihood of turning into a field workplace catastrophe. To cancel it, particularly after the “feminine centric” viewers flop that’s The Acolyte, appears to be probably the most prudent factor Disney may do.

And although Leslye Headland won’t ever learn this… expensive Leslye, if you say “my present gained’t be variety to the Jedi” don’t be shocked if persons are not variety to your present.

Star Wars doesn’t want a revisionist, deconstructive strategy, ethical relativism or any references to present day earth, in actual fact all these items destroy Star Wars. It’s speculated to be a fairytale set in a galaxy far, distant. Pronoun “jokes” and attempting to make the Jedi into overbearing, bumbling fools, idiots and crooks who preserve secrets and techniques from one another and are typically shady is nothing most individuals wish to see. That Kathleen Kennedy greenlit this inane mission is yet one more large mistake on her already spectacular listing of massive errors. But right here she is… and I wager she’ll nonetheless be right here subsequent 12 months and the 12 months after that and after that. Till she, possibly, dies. Except they develop a de-aging drug, then she’ll be Lucasfilm president in 100 years from now in all probability. At this level I ponder if she truly has leverage on all of the individuals who would possibly possibly hearth her or not lengthen her contract. Different individuals would have been fired after Indy 5 on the newest.

Additionally, Bridgerton, which is already waning, as a result of Netflix drops all episodes without delay, nonetheless has 4 instances the viewing minutes of The Acolyte at #1 – and that’s just for the present season, season 2 has extra viewing minutes as nicely. All Bridgerton seasons mixed give The Acolyte 15% of the viewers this present has. Pathetic. And as I stated final week, attempt to guess which “feminine centric” present truly has a feminine viewers. As a result of it has components that ladies truly take pleasure in.

Except the Lucasfilm management is fired or made to depart whereas saving face nothing will change for the higher. If that Rey film truly will occur we must always brace for the worst.

At this level I concern Skeleton Crew could really feel the total brunt of The Acolyte’s aftermath, with individuals making it the least watched present when it releases in November. The premise is but once more very area of interest. A bunch of pre-teen children are quasi misplaced in house. Actually, who needs to see that? When your viewers is age 30+ and 70+% male? And your Star Wars Children YouTube channel is a wasteland? However chances are high just a few Mandoverse characters could seem on the present. It stays to be seen if that’s sufficient.

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