Prequel to the prequels: “Star Wars: The Acolyte” is a middling mix of “Kung Fu” and “Harry Potter”…

******STARSHIP-SIZED SPOILERS!****** A pupil leaves the monastic temple they grew up in, roaming to different lands, seeking new adventures, and getting into life-and-death scrapes as their unique skillset is often put to the test.  That is the premise of both TV’s “Kung Fu” (1972-1975) and the new Disney+ Star Wars streaming spinoff, “The Acolyte.”  And…

A glimpse into Disney+’s new Star Wars series, “The Acolyte”…

******JEDI TEMPLE-SIZED SPOILERS!****** Recently, I wrote a column about what it was like to be a young “Star Wars” fan in the late 1970s. Just writing that column was a sentimental trip that awakened all kinds of childhood nostalgia. But part of growing old with a franchise like Star Wars is watching it evolve over…