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The core irony is that many defenders are driven less by genuine enjoyment and more by a desire to maintain the narrative that Star Wars remains relevant or "saved" by these new installments. The audience's current dissatisfaction, reflected in a plummeting viewer score of approximately 177%, signals a crisis: the franchise's latest offerings are widely considered unengaging, incoherent, or sacrilegious to the original spirit. Yet, instead of accepting this, some fans go to great lengths to defend the Acolyte and similar projects—sometimes even resorting to outright dishonesty—claiming, for instance, that the show is a “smash hit” or that it represents "diversity" and "representation" as enough to justify the content.