It’s weird that Anakin is the one character who they didn’t try to even remotely resemble the live-action actor in animation. Obi-Wan, Padme, even Dooku and Qui-Gon at least look like caricatures of the actors. But this is a completely different person.
Lucas-only prequel diehards hate to admit it but The Acolyte is probably the closest thing Disney has made to the prequels, and I mean that in all the positive *and* negative ways.
THE ACOLYTE creator Leslye Headland used the question “What would George [Lucas] do?” as a “guiding principle” for making the series, says cinematographer Chris Teague.
(Source: goldderby.com/article/2025/t…)
I get not recognizing Melshi from Rogue One but he was a major character in the most popular arc of Andor season 1 who then spends another whole episode with Cassian after that. Come on guys how am I seeing so many “who was that guy” comments about his season 2 reveal 😭
