{"id":890801,"date":"2025-12-22T20:39:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-acolyte-shows-the-limits-of-tv-in-the-streaming-era"},"modified":"2025-12-22T20:39:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T20:39:03","slug":"the-acolyte-shows-the-limits-of-tv-in-the-streaming-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-acolyte-shows-the-limits-of-tv-in-the-streaming-era\/","title":{"rendered":"The Acolyte shows the limits of TV in the streaming era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/the-acolyte-shows-the-limits-of-tv-in-the-streaming-era.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nOnce upon a time, there was this little thing called cable. It let you watch many different shows, most of them kind of awful, for an amount of money that didn&#8217;t really seem all that fair, but hey, what else are you gonna do, read a book? A lot of TV channels&#8217; output was mostly just something to have on in the background while you have a cuppa with your nan, but at the very least you had a lot of choice, and a lot to watch too. Seasons would last up to 24 episodes sometimes, and even if a show wasn&#8217;t perfect, it at least had time to grow, particularly from season to season. Then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/companies\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a> happened.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m sure you generally know the rest: it was a cheaper alternative to cable that had all your favourite shows, eventually introducing original content you could only get there. One of the issues, however, was that there just wasn&#8217;t as much of it. Seasons gradually got shorter and shorter, to the point that most of the subscription selling hits run from around 8-10 hour long episodes a pop. And it has hurt television quite broadly, with the most recent victim being the latest addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/universes\/star-wars\">Star Wars<\/a> universe, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/tv-shows\/the-acolyte\">The Acolyte<\/a> (major spoilers ahead for the first five episodes).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSet around 100 years before the events of the original Star Wars films, The Acolyte is set during the High Republic era, a time of general peace, with something sinister going on behind the scenes. Some guy who certainly looks like a Sith (whose identity I won&#8217;t spoil for you) has been manipulating a young, Force sensitive woman to go around killing Jedi. This is of course complicated by the fact that said young woman has a twin sister, who she was separated from, also Force sensitive and a former Jedi-in-training. There are also a couple of side characters, Yord, a slightly incompetent Jedi Knight, and Jecki, a smart and confident Padawan.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-acolyte-shows-the-limits-of-tv-in-the-streaming-era\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/the-acolyte-shows-the-limits-of-tv-in-the-streaming-era\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, there was this little thing called cable. It let you watch many different shows, most of them kind of awful, for an amount of money that didn&#8217;t really seem all that fair, but hey, what else are you gonna do, read a book? A lot of TV channels&#8217; output was mostly just something to have on in the background while you have a cuppa with your nan, but at the very least you had a lot of choice, and a lot to watch too. Seasons would last up to 24 episodes sometimes, and even if a show wasn&#8217;t perfect, it at least had time to grow, particularly from season to season. Then Netflix happened. 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