Star Wars the Acolyte Episode 1 and 2 Review
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The Acolyte, also known as Star Wars: The Acolyte, is an American science fiction television series created by Leslye Headland for the streaming service Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise, set at the end of the High Republic era before the events of the Skywalker Saga, and follows a Jedi investigation into a series of crimes.
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Qui-Gon Jinn
Jinn = Spirit
Qigong = a meditative breathing and balancing exercise to meant to center one’s self and improve their live energy.
So, Qui-Gon Jinn isn’t random.
He is a spirit in balance with the Living Force. It’s why the theme song for his duel with Darth Maul in the Phantom Menace was called ‘the duel of fates’. They were dueling for the soul of Anakin, the Chosen One meant to bring balance to the Force, and the fate of the galaxy.
If Qui-Gon Jinn won, Anakin would’ve learned Balance, stayed in the light and brought peace to the galaxy.
If Maul won, Anakin would fall to dark and bring suffering to the galaxy. And only brought Balance to the Force because his son created that scenario.
great comment
I love when we as a fandom are so desperate to inject meaning into the thematically empty brain rot that was the prequals
@@Grogeous_Maximus Obi means Belt, denoting rank, that Obi-Won was a Master. Darth Vader meant Dark Father. The Ewok’s were the Vietcong. The Rebels war with Empire was a critique against imperialism. The Force was based on Eastern Philosophy.
Aside from his return to the at the end, is based on Lucifer’s fall from grace. Darth Sidious meant Dark insidious. The Clone Wars (at least in Revenge of the Sith) was a critique on the Bush’s wars. The problem with the Jedi was a critique on the Church…
This is all Lucas, no fanfic.
@@Grogeous_Maximus In the OT, the Emperor was Nixon.
In the PT, Palpatine was Bush. And he famously called Cheney, Darth Vader. Jar Jar was all of Senators that voted to give the President emergency powers to effectively declare war without the need for Congressional approval. In RotS and late in the development of AotC, he pointed out the his worry that Bush would use 911 and the wars to give up our democratic rights and freedoms in the name of keeping us safe.
The whole thing between the Lightside and Darkside, with the concept of the Chosen One, is about our moral choices and how they can have an impact beyond us. With a clear contrast between the chosen hero of the OT, Luke and the chosen false-hero of the PT, Anakin. The Lightside was good, those that practiced it selflessly and for good could make the world a better place, and they get to live forever in heaven. Luke chose to be good and it saved the galaxy. Whereas Anakin chose the Darkside and was evil, doing bad for selfish reasons, believing that you should have it all because you are better or more deserving or smarter, making the world a worse place. It is the way of the rich and powerful, where they hold to the religion of self and control and might or wealth makes right, and since there is nothing except this reality, will try to extend their lives unnaturally. The narratives were meant to illustrate morality and philosophy for the youth.
Star Wars, the OT (the originals) and the PT (the prequels), have just as much substance in them as Star Trek. It’s just that Lucas focused on morality and philosophy, while Star Trek focused on ethics, duty and honor. Both had fantasy and nonsense, though Star Trek often tried to makeup for it with the lay man’s understanding of science and technobabble. That and Rotenberry’s Star Trek had a lot more content, than Lucas’ Star Wars, which is just the six movies of the OT and PT.
3 minutes in and preston saves his most controversial opinions for when he's on carmine's channel lmao
The show is poor. Not terrible, but poor.
PJ out here 4-d chessing RedTeamReview dislike ratios so he has ammo to pick and choose which videos he releases on his channel. IRL maester conspiracy
Preston on his own channel: Bloodraven
Preston on Carmine's channel: Moonboy
So it’s been two weeks since this video came out and more episodes have dropped…. Are you guys ready to walk back your defense of the show and admit you were wrong/ too overly eager to suck up?
lol
You guys shilling for this but taking shots at house of the dragon shows how this is all about politics
Can you define what "shilling" is and prove the difference between that and having a a genuine opinion?
We've praised HotD/GoT for its politics. Can you prove otherwise? Send me a link with a timestamp :)
@@OfficialRedTeamReview In the first 3 minutes of this review you are dismissing negative reactions to this show by talking about grifters and review bombing. This is the same type of attitude coming out of LucasFilm that people can't stand. You guys talk about the problems with the show, the twin nonsense, but seem to give it a pass. You go on to call the show mediocre and give it a 6/10. That's fine. I didn't hear you mention the critic score on rotten tomatoes which is 91%. Why such a good score for a 6/10 show? That puts it on par with GoT season 1. Wouldn't really be an issue if you focused only on reviewing the show rather than the internet drama.
What I mean about politics is that these shows end up serving as a proxy for the woke vs anti-woke internet drama and tribalism.
The "grifters" hate Rings of Powers and Star Wars. You guys seem to favor or go soft on them. They love House of the Dragon though. Preston seems weirdly critical of it. You have also posted House Of The Dragon "drama" videos.
I watch Preston's live streams weekly and pretty sure he has said he is not looking forward to HotD season 2. Can't find that clip, but here is 1 from your channel where Preston says Daemon was ruined in Season 1.
This is at "0:51":
th-cam.com/video/6hGLFyuGlgg/w-d-xo.html
@@morningstar9222 Answer this question: Lets say you make a movie but people don't like you personally. They reviewbomb your movie on rotten tomatoes before its released. It's all negative. Are those real reviews of your movie?
It's a Yes or No answer. But something tells me you won't answer it and act in bad faith.
@@OfficialRedTeamReviewmost shows strugle with this though. Watched the first 3 and i agree that the first episode Was ok but 2 and 3 were terrible
@@lokidoki525 Episode 3 was not my favorite. I'd rate it lower than these first 2.
I said it before and I'll say it again, its mindboggling how good you two are in dissecting aSoIaF yet you are completely down for whatever SW does...
The first episodes I saw were very mid basic, yet Preston can't stop digging for hidden gems... Is it just him being contrarian? He can very well critique Westworlds later seasons or not be blindly satisfied by GoT season 5, yet Acolyte is nowhere near that level... Do you guys just hate the "grifters" so much?
Do you think it's possible that he actually just...liked it? You and I agree on it being mid basic but he enjoyed it for all the reasons he listed. We will never tailor our opinions based on what our audience wants us to say (grifters) nor will we tailor our opinions based off what other people say (contrarian).
@@OfficialRedTeamReview it's possible, but I guess it means STAR WARS brand makes his brain work suddenly different
@@jindrichdolejs623 Or he has more respect for George R.R. Martin to deliver on a mature thought provoking story VS Star Wars' nonsense
@@OfficialRedTeamReview Star wars is only nonsense, because normies accept every shit Disney produces... it doesn't have to be that way
C'mon guys!! Surving a crash from space without even a scratch, knowing the fastest way to get to your target than the people living there, a burning fire in the vacum of space, twin who haven't seen each other in 16 years have miraculously the same hairstyle. Killing one of the 3 poster actor in the first 5 minutes, you used to be more critical then that.
its liberal idiocy. preston is crazy leftist, he is not talking reasonably this days, he is pushing gay agenda.
@@Extasie57270 You never watch Preston review of the later seasons of GoT, if he would apply the same criticism, that show would get destroy. There's fiction, and there's whatever this shit show was.
There’s literally sound in space in Star Wars dude and fake gravity.
@@alex30425 Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt
Surviving the crash from space is 1000% ridiculous, especially when most ships in star wars will blow up if a lady bug lands on it.
*but*
the burning fire in space? come on bruh, don't regurgitate right-wing grifter talking points, especially when there has been fire burning in space before. Crazy how everyone wants to be an aerospace engineer the moment something happens that they don't like.
To me it feels like a great story being told in a kinda weird way that has't fully clicked for me but the potential is there, hopefully it gets better.
Fair
But what's weird about it? Could you be a little more specific? Not refuting, just curious
@@jasonmoore7223 The pacing is off, it feels like there are portions of it missing, maybe that was done in editing or maybe in some re writes, like the story and themes are there and good but it feels the show is trying to simplify it, also the acting is inconsistent, not bad, but sometimes it feels the characters are on different shows tone wise. My guess, the show is trying to be Andor but Disney wants to make it mandalorian so is not achieving being neither.
@@jesusfernandez8677 there is a looot of ADR, so you are very likely right
“In my opinion it was pretty good ….. I liked it better then The Mandalorian” Preston Jacobs 2024 🤯
The show that was so bad the reviews stopped
The legendary Ebon Hawk. Nicee
Brings back so many memories
I agree with Preston on some things, like the fact that this feels like a fresh take on Star Wars since it takes place 200+ years before the main timeline. I also agree that, although Star Wars stories like in the original trilogy have characters whose personalities stand out, in The Acolyte I like how it’s subtle distinctions between personalities. Hell, if people are more accepting of the prequel trilogy now, I find it shocking that there’s people willing to immediately reject this series. But likely it’s because of nostalgia that now there’s more love for the prequels than before. Andor is still top tier Star Wars.
How does this guy like this show more than the mandalorian after only 2 episodes ? I know everyone is entitled to their own opinion but sheesh, I don’t trust his judgment.
That's fair. I even pointed that out
Jediabetes
Not a single nanogram per deciliter of testosterone between these two.
Ah yes, liking something or thinking it's "mid" is....not manly? Thank you, guy who wants to be Vegeta
I think this show is terrible. Nothing about it interests me, dont care about any character. A ton of cringe moments with characters being stupid for no reason. The "mystery" was a joke, called it the instant we got to the ship with the twin sister. Maybe it gets better, but I doubt it.
This time it is the opposite of Andor. It went to the bottom after episode 3. And that is not only the oppinion of grifters, but also of a lot of respectable critics. And I think we should also not use the argument "It is just for kids". It is aimed at teenagers and adults (who have the money for all the merchandise). And these will not like a deeply flawed show in their favorite franchise.
Feels pretty bland overall.. the writing isn't great, I don't really feel like things make sense, nor do I feel invested in tbr story. But! I do like the fight scenes and the characters are okay
fair
No idea what Preston was smoking but "great" isn't a word I'd use to describe the show so far.. Wooden acting, wooden dialogue, lackluster fight scenes, illogical actions by the characters. Oh and despite the budget it came of as cheap looking.. It may improve but so far it's a meh from me but each to their own.
Lackluster fight scenes? So you didn't watch it. Okay, gotcha.
Hey dont say that your obviously a review bomber...... LOL their inability to take note of public oppinion shifting and insisting its coordinated efforts is getting tiring.
It was a $183M project that took 4 years to complete.
@@PrestonJacobstheSweetrobin Bog standard kung fu I've seen done better a 1000 times in better movies..
@@CJLAKE123 Looks like it was shot over a long weekend by people who've never watched Star Wars before. It's certainly no Andor
there should be a yoda. yoda should very much be alive
I bet they’re leaving him until the end to milk viewership for the series.
Leave Yoda alone. Don’t taint him with this High Republic BS
Bet there won't be Yoda, he's from the old SW. They're trying to erased the old SW.
@@CJLAKE123 Or maybe Yoda gets cameo similar to Chopper's in Rogue One movie. Nothing about milking viewership or any other species 🤗 Have a good time when stream S01 via D+ 🙂
The execution has just been ok so far but the premise and setting are more interesting than any non-Andor LA Disney+ show. Clearly above everything but Andor and S1 of Mando but that says way more about the other shows than this.
The bar really isn't high.
So we agree: it's mid so far
@@OfficialRedTeamReview It's mid with the context that is a step up from most Disney+ Live Action shows and that everyone freaking out about this are mostly doing so for bad reasons
Comparing this to Andor, just tells me you lot, are rating it just to seem different.
When did *we* compare it to Andor? Timestamp it please.
@@OfficialRedTeamReview Granted art is subjective, and how you feel a show is for you to decide. But, in the first minutes if am not wrong, you said this two episodes were similar to Andor's first two, in terms of their intriguing abilities. And I think that's false, granted Andor was a slow burn. But everything was better than this, be it, acting, writing, cinematography, suspense, getting us to care about the characters and so forth.
@@Elriquee1 I can't tell if you're being bad faith or aren't that smart because I said, and I'm quoting it:
"I'm just going based off the first two episodes it's okay like I don't love it I don't hate it and to be fair I had the same reaction for the first two episodes of Andor until the third hooked me in completely because the first you you have to watch the first three episodes together of Andor uh you can't just watch just two and and and fall back on it"
Never once, in that quote, did i say it's like or similar to Andor. What I meant, clearly, if you had listening comprehension, is that Andor took 3 episodes to hook me in and maybe this will be the same here because, just like with Andor's first 2 episodes, I'm not entirely hooked yet and perhaps, like with Andor, it'll take a 3rd to get me invested completely.
am editing this to give a timestamp: 2:12
@@OfficialRedTeamReview Fair enough.
@@Elriquee1 Not trying to be a jerk towards you specifically but, as you can see throughout this entire comment section for this video, people here have been bad faithing me all weekend so I'm on guard
It’s definitely CW Star Wars lol
It's a pretty low bar for Star Wars tv.
At least they've set it in a different time period from usual.
Haven't seen any of it yet but I'll probably check it out at some point.
Never heard Preston sound like a shill rotten tomatoes critic more than this how does he have more praise for this than HOTD? He criticized HOTD way more than this, almost feels like he's saying to the special kid "great job, kid!".
It's not "shilling" to enjoy something. He liked it.
I agree that so far the show is mid, I will probably continue to watch it. But how is Preston so good at criticising GOT and HOTD, but so bad at properly critiquing other shows?? 😅😅
Still waiting on Preston's punch-line...
Since Osha and Mae are from the same planet and the "incident" seems to have happened when they were not little toddlers, they could use similar hairstyles because of their culture. Like padawans with their thin braids.
it maybe a 4/10. have no real interest to watch the show :/
That's fair.
I'm bored of starwars not having distances and everything happening simultaneously
so far it poke my hitch for bad sci-fi show of the summer, witch is good for me. But damn do i miss the like of Killjoys or Dark matter
As someone who thinks he knows old star wars pretty well I was surprised that I didn't know that Dark Journey story. Turns out it was part of the standalone, originally non-canon, Tales series.
Preston was right about the generic name though, I did know the Dark Journey book from 3 years earlier. A completely different story.
Idk if its that much spamming negative review, Im going off of actual friends thatve seen it, and say theres like no representation in it and the actings terrible.
They literally spammed negative reviews 12 hours before it even came out
I really see the potential in this show, but it's just so incredibly below average even in it's first two episodes that I find it hard to take it seriously at all. Especially since the fourth episode came out, I feel like the show exists just to be some kind of weird or righteous fan fiction. I appreciate the sets & aliens in the backgrounds, the worldbuilding in the idea of Jedi enclaves around the galaxy is really cool. But episode 3 feels like it exists to try & just say "fuck you" to any remaining fans the series (star wars as a whole) has left. E4 is just right back to the same old below average Disney+ writing. I can't express enough how much I want to like this show, it has a brilliant concept & solid framework. I like the cast. It even looks decent, though not always. However, man do they make it difficult. I'm going to continue watching as I wanna see it through, before I just write it off... But at this point it's tough. I don't really get offended at shows or media, so I'm not angry or anything. Just frankly disappointed. (Also, Obi Wan Kenobi has always been just that, Ben is his cover name. I don't understand the criticism of the names, they've ALWAYS been weird. Even the background characters, supporting characters etc. Lando Calrissian, Yoda, Mon Mothma, Sheev Palpatine, Han Solo, Boba Fett, Wilhuff Tarkin.. I could go on. I understand not liking them, but it's a weird point to make about name schemes while in the same breath say Yord or Indara is totally normal sounding. It's nothing too serious, just a funny thing I latched onto in this video.)
Ahh Preston, always the contrarian. "Literally the best fight scenes since Phantom Menace." They were pretty cool though, that I do agree on.
Idk, it's too early to say, but I thought the characters were pretty flat, the dialogue wooden, and the twin plot was a bit predictable and poorly, like, revealed. Revealed in a stilted way. Like, the second you hear that she has a twin you know instantly what's going on, and any mystery there was is just a result of the characters not mentioning it until then which felt forced. The evil twin trope has been done before, y'know, so it's like you gotta be a little more subtle if you're gonna pull it off I think.
But, I am not willing to write it off. I want to like it. The art direction is pretty cool, and the yellow lightsaber I've wanted to see since I was a little kid. And I may end up liking it, it's too early to say. It was cool seeing Trinity from the Matrix and Kim Wexler in Star Wars, good for them.
EDIT: And then Carmine says exactly what I said, lol. I agree.
The mystery isn’t the killer but the Sith master behind the killer
But that line from the prequel was a lie the Jedi say to cover up for things they don’t want known but the rule of two was going on for that whole time as it was started a millennium ago by Darth Bane .
Panderverse
i saw that show too!
The original Star Wars was full of references to older movies.
The best thing I can say about the Acolyte is that I appreciate that it's trying to do something different. However, that's really the only nice thing I have to say about the show. It's not that I think it's bad, it's just so standard and aggressively middle-of-the-road. Sure making a murder mystery police procedure show in the Star Wars franchise is a fresh direction, but within the genre of murder mystery police procedure shows, this just feels like such a pedestrian and underwhelming safe take with a Star Wars paint job. Take out the Star Wars trappings and put the show on Earth and no one would be talking about it. As for the characters, I don't think any of them are bad, they're functional and fine but there's not enough to them to make me care about them or find their characterizations terribly impressive.
For me the biggest issue is that this isn't a TV Show, this is one of those 8-hour movie miniseries that's been broken into 8 episodes so they can call it a TV show when it really isn't one. Because of that, it doesn't have the pacing, runtime, and structure for the characters and storylines to be fully fleshed out because it's too busy running to the next scene. Because of that, we get lots of stupid stuff to get the characters from Point A to Point B for no other reason but because the plot needs to happen. It's honestly kind of amazing how after all this time there are still people trying to replicate Game of Thrones Season 1's structure, but still can't get it right.
Overall, I am not going to say this show is awful and I'm gladly take this over more of Dave Filoni's constant "Hey, remember this character from that cartoon 10 years ago" or Jon Favreau's "I'm going to record my kids playing with action figures and give it a $100 million budget" but the execution is just so lacking. This show really needs something to kick it into high gear and elevate the material into something more substantial without relying on the Star Wars setting to do the heavy lifting. Imagine if Andor was just a bog-standard spy show with no twists or turns and no ambition to be something more and that's how this show feels like to me so far. No disrespect to Leslye Headland, but this ain't no Russian Doll.
Fair and i agree about it being an 8 hour movie split into 8 part. I wonder if it'd run better as one giant movie? hmm
@@OfficialRedTeamReview
Disney have definitely decided that streaming is the way to go.
@@alanpennie It worked for Andor, Mando and a few others but for some it doesn't. Take it as it comes
@@OfficialRedTeamReview fair, indeed.
Mind blown on the Tommen actor. I also noticed The Fugitive reference.
i thought acolyte was just ... very solid!
There’s an interesting line when osha is having the vision where her and may say that they’re 2 bodies with 1 soul. I wonder if that’ll be explored
I think it was explored in rise of skywalker with force dyad stuff
The stories about twin connections in real life have been debunked. Many of these people had notable connections that explain their similarities, and the shows that pushed the narrative intentionally mislead people. But as Preston pointed out, "The Force" is Deus Ex Machina in this franchise. It will be explained by their connection.
Quick Google search:
"The Jim twins were separated at birth and reunited at 39. They quickly found that they had lived oddly similar lives. Both had married and divorced someone named Linda, were currently married to a Betty, had sons named James Allan, had dogs named Toy, drove the same car, and had jobs in security."
www.historydefined.net/jim-twins/
I’m excited to see your reaction for hotd
3rd episode gonna piss you off 🤣
We'll see
I've seen alot of reviewers try make out this is the worst show ever, its not, i dont think its that good either but I think it has potential to be alright. Dont get me wrong if you over think it, theres alot of weird plot points or dumb bits but as long as they just try to make it a fun show with jedi and fight scenes and not a serious show you can look over most dumb bits
Fairly Meh so far. Stupid choice of time setting and a mystery box for a Sith we likely never heard of before. Considering i sort of hate Andor i'd still say it's better than Andor by default but the most positive thing i can say so far is "that one droid was caked up". Killing off Master Trinity pissed me off to no end.
Edit: hard disagree on the budget. It's probably the cheapest-looking live action star wars show, where do you see the budget?
Edit 2: second positive thing i could think of - i like the owl-Padawan
owl?
@@OfficialRedTeamReview i wanna say it's the Jacky-one
I think the Sith thing will be another twin mystery reveal.. My money is on an evil dark side Carrie Anne Moss..
My main issue with The Acolyte is the fact, it assumed you already have a working knowledge base of the High Republic so the targets 💀 of the assassin actually meant something. As a man in his 50s, the original trilogy and the novels written about Luke, Leia, & Han were a steady diet in my childhood. I never got the chance to read up on the High Republic. Therefore I was a little underwhelmed when an important scene with dire consequences unfolded. From what I could decipher, the High Republic read like Law & Order: Space Victims Unit. 100 yrs before the Galactic Empire, everyone still hated space cops. How that was any different from Attack of the Clones? No clue. 🤷♂️ Without any context, this felt like the info equivalent of being dropped out of an airplane without a parachute. As a result, cool scenes spliced together but none of them really have any gravity to the overall plot.
I 1000% agree with this but, to be fair, we're only 2 episodes in and so far she is going after "Masters". Maybe that means something a little different in this era? we'll see.
I greatly appreciate you for *actual* criticism and how well written that was. Seriously, I do.
I don't like the Acolyte much at all, I actually have major criticisms about the show and it's writing (especially in the first three episodes), but it's absurd how many people are in the comments here calling y'all shills and liars. Like, you'd very clearly get more views if the both of you were trashing it the whole video and there's no incentive to lying. You would think that they know that, right?
Also, there's a lot of people saying it wasn't review bombed, but if a show has a bunch of really low audience ratings before even the first episode drops, that's review bombing, I don't know why this is such a hard concept for people to understand. Trying to talk about Star Wars online is so sad nowadays. I wish people could just let people like and dislike whatever they like and dislike.
I like the first two episodes and am interested where this goes
Im just glad that if there's gonna be more Star Wars, it's new characters in new settings. Ahsoka was just way too referential, it was exhausting. I can watch Acolyte and not have 20 names to google during/after.
Truuueeeee
I'm honestly surprised people are bothered to talk about this. I mean, who cares at this point?
I care
why are people nitpicking the twin stuff, or making comments about the mothers, when the issue of that show have nothing to do with wokeness and everything to do with the plot being ashoka level nonesense?
Because Star Wars has always been nonsense. That's the fun in it.
@@OfficialRedTeamReview idk if i agree bud.
Yeah it was a bit goofy, but it at least somewhat made sense and was somewhat self consistent .
it felt like there was a large galaxy. Now they seem to just be teleporting around. It makes it feel like it's set in a big city rather than an expansive universe. Powers and abilities depend on plot needs rather than fixed rules.
they track down osha on some random ship in hours, while bringing the witness along.
they track down maia in hours, run into the only apothecary in the area, and immediately have someone tell them "thats not the usual guy".
they lose her in a dust cloud even though they are force users and have a ship over head.
sorry the chronology of the show is cursed. They could have put more than a few hours between events easily to fix the weirdness.
and other than "it makes no sense", the dialogue is just painful amounts of bad exposition. "my dear friend", "your mothers and sisters died in the fire", etc...
Honestly, there could be something to the story if they had better writers. And a lot of my "complaints" could fairly easily be fixed. "a Jedi was murdered last night" -> "murdered X days/weeks ago".
show osha struggling to survive a few days in the crashed ship, giving time for the prisoners to be caught, brought to Coruscant, and interrogated.
Have something more complex than "the poison has to have been made in the direct vicinity".
Dont have dialogs like "there is strong evidence against her" (the word of a bartender) when the evidence against it is "she was literally on a ship with other people somewhere else and has multiple alibis"
sorry but "it has always been nonsense" doesn't cover "it's really really dumb".
Andor showed us what good writers can do.
@@OfficialRedTeamReview I think star wars has always been silly but I wouldn't say its always been nonsense
Credibility is tanking…
Nah.
its dead )))
The twin mystery is still alive. Trinity's twin is the darksider. *Taps nose*.
HA
I hope the explanation is that they go to the same barber
So far I have liked the show
Droids probably cut most people’s hair, and they’re probably mass-produced. Same face, same hair texture, same robot programming? Same haircut.
That’s a strange cope lol
I cannot get invested it this story. It does not make sense, there are no stakes. Andor is a masterclass compared to this. It is below mid.
So carmine really tried to defend the nonsense that they have the identical haircut.jesus
Quick Google search:
"The Jim twins were separated at birth and reunited at 39. They quickly found that they had lived oddly similar lives. Both had married and divorced someone named Linda, were currently married to a Betty, had sons named James Allan, had dogs named Toy, drove the same car, and had jobs in security."
www.historydefined.net/jim-twins/
@@OfficialRedTeamReview idk man, letting your hair just grow out vs same exact braid style, length and fade in colour isnt exactly 1:1. Infact the pictures i do see of them seem like different hair styles.
Look man, I hear what you guys are saying, but if I went this WHOLE FUCKING SHOW not knowing the twist was a secret evil twin, I would’ve been soooooooo pissed. That is such a dumb, hackneyed concept that it really just needs to be out in the open immediately so the audience can just move past it.
Hey Carmine and Preston, any chance before season 2, you'll consider a video about why “Andor is Woke (and that's why it is so good)”?
Talk about how Andor is a continuation of George Lucas’s Viet Cong-inspired rebels fighting against a fascist empire. We all know Antifa is woke.
The opening arc portrays a corrupt police force that is overly militaristic, yet out of their depth.
The locals of Aldhani are mistreated, their culture disrespected. The heist is led by a rich-kid lesbian (super “woke”).
Cassian's arrest, trial, and prison stay - all showing more systemic injustices. Plus the Empire’s pollution of Narkina 5 is why the aliens help Cass and Melshi escape. (Caring about the environment is woke or “woke”, idk which, but why did the grifters overlook this, shouldn't they have pointed it out and then called the show “woke garbage”? Rhetorical question.)
The Empire tries to limit the peaceful funeral-march, and it becomes a chaotic riot. What is more woke than that?
Maybe the outright political statements, speeches, and manifesto. Isn't all that woke for “force feeding the audience themes and platitudes”?
Anyway, I think we're supposed to relate to Cass as he becomes radicalized. Obviously our governments aren't so extremely authoritarian/fascist, but there are clear parallels.
Although maybe the creators also want us to be a bit critical of the “current woke movement” for being too disorganized, having too much factionalism, distrusting each other, turning on each other. The heist was done by a ragtag group, all anti-Imperial for different reasons, but one member was willing to betray the others. Luthen and Saw Gerrera are willing to sacrifice Anto Kreegyr, which might be necessary but is still super dark.
Other people have done this already. Carmine and Preston liked it for different reasons.
@@ZoomReverseFlash Others have talked about the political themes and explicitly called it woke? (in the actual meaning of woke, not just "woke" aka diversity)
And yeah, I understand most people like it for different reasons (the show is well done in every aspect), but I'm just curious if the anti-woke grifters (some of them liked Andor, yea?) have ever been called out for conveniently ignoring Andor's woke messages.
I don't really come at or go into why something is "woke". It's not what I do because "woke" can mean different things to different people and not a lot of people can correctly identify. My interpretation of what I think it is, is likely different than yours.
That said, I appreciate you writing this comment and I agree with a lot of what you say here but I don't think those things are "woke" I think they're part of being human, being a person: to fight against intolerance and evil which Andor did a good job of showing how the Empire was that. Andor is great for all the things you said but I don't think any of that is "woke" just good ole fashion Star Wars being political like its always been. Someone told me the other day that Anakin saying to Obi-Wan "if you're not with me then you're my enemy" and that was George criticizing George Bush and the stuff in the middle east. I can see that.
Personally, first two episodes get a 6.5-7 for me. Some solid stuff to work with but there’s some choppy editing.
fair
There’s a Wookiee Jedi in the animated show The Bad Batch
Never in live action though
This is comedy lol. Preston, never change.
They have different hair lengths. One is long one is short. WTF Preston?
Preston was just looking too hard for SOME interesting plot hook there. I was, too.
Felt as it was like having a good burger with cold fries.
I kinda like that analogy.
I think it’s being extremely generous to say this show is average at best
i disagree. sometimes things can just be "meh" or "average"
@@OfficialRedTeamReview I view meh as below average and this show can be viewed as average. On a cost basis though that’s kinda embarrassing considering the budget and the IP
@@OfficialRedTeamReview also sorry but I should have prefaced with Ive been fortunate enough (or in this case unfortunate) enough to have viewed the first 4 episodes so I understand we are going off different amounts of information
@@michaellee9926 We'll see how it pans out then. I'm only 2 episodes in so we'll see
how many of the 96 dislikes are actual dislikes and not people on multiple accounts? cuz i know you guys can see the real dislikes on your dashboard.
37 actual dislikes. And yes people will get on their alt accounts to dislike. This is a thing.
Preston!! Finally a Star Wars take i agree with! This show is awesome.
Wow, i 100% agree with Preston. He perfectly articulated every view that I had on the first two episodes. I really thought I was the only one, judging by all the right-wing screaming on the iternet.
Sucked
If you really like Star Wars yeah Acolyte is pretty good but I could see how some people are out.
I hated how disrespectful the padiwon are to the knight Yord. He is a Jedi knight. And an padiwon is talking down to him? F that!
it's padawan, not padiwon
Yeah it's weird. Like Ahsoka could do that with Anakin because he was chill like that. And we see how deferential she is to her own master. It's odd
This shit is mid, but with this director, I hope she doesn't try to shove her personal politics into it and just try to tell a good story so time will tell if it's great mid or trash.
It’s already happening with the lesbian director & her lesbian lead actress.
@@CJLAKE123 I'm hoping maybe it was just for publicity to get people talking about it
We'll see how it plays out. Only 2 episodes in
The dialogue is choppy and poor, typical Star Wars
Fair
I like you guys. I disagree with ur politics and this take. I understand you don’t like critical drinker and others of that ilk but cmon. The show blows.
The show isn't even completely out yet though. That's the problem with what you're saying. It may ultimately be bad, who knows, but if I knew I'd be putting bets on lottery numbers instead of replying to you.
You know, “mid” is a prefix. It is not an adjective.
Language is constantly changing and evolving. "Proper Grammar" is just a snapshot of where language was at the time those rules were written. Don't take it so seriously!
I gotchu fam:
"The term "mid" has become a popular way for people to express their unenthusiastic feelings or opinions about something in a casual, shorthand way. It is typically used humorously or sarcastically to express disappointment or underwhelm"
Old man
@@JasonWilliams89 I may be getting older, but I’ll be damned if I become less literate.
@@fleshbhones Evolution has dead ends. This is one of them.
I hate modern Star Wars. Im not of the opinion that the modern woke hollywood machine is using Star Wars to turn children into little Communist but I will be happy with the orginal Trilogy for the rest of my life. Im going home to yell at clouds now
Can’t wait to see what Preston has to say about Episode 3. Absolute dumpster fire. Worst Star Wars I’ve ever seen.
The mystery is still there. Now it's 'What the hell did those four do?' which we'll see in flashback obviously.
"Accidentally burned the village" is the current explanation. I think.
honestly, the point seems to be "jedi bad" so not much of a mystery
@@namenloss730 Yes, but in what way they turned out to be 'bad' and only that small group of Jedi, not Jedi in general. Relax well when stream S01 via D+ ^^ I will always at late evenings with "65 Led Telly 🧘♂
Preston just skewered Game of Thrones from all the dumb plot points with his hilarious characters. But because he likes the Star Wars IP he feels those problems are "minor" can't believe I'm hearing this.
Preston likes SW more than Thrones? That's new to me
@@OfficialRedTeamReview I mean how else do you explain the bias? He made entire videos nitpicking everything wrong with the episode (in hilarious fashion) but won't give it the same treatment when it comes to the Acolyte. I find both the woke and anti woke crowd are fanning the flames but it doesn't mean the criticism are wrong. I went in with really low expectations to give it a fair shot since I'm a fan of Squid games and Lee Jung Jae was in it. The acting from new people I can forgive from bad casting. The poor dialogues I can forgive from bad writing. But fundamentally stupid plots just makes the show a laughing stock. When Preston refuses to delve into these quite so obvious errors, what else is there? Unless he's a contrarian at heart and will go against the popular takes online to stand out.
In case you ask what was so egregious? Well can't post it here since it doesn't have spoiler tags but you can easily see many of those "minor" flaws that other critics are raving about. Some of which are glaring plot holes the size of Andor.
Also lastly, even as a fan of you both. Can we at least acknowledge that the review bombing comment was out of line. Seriously guys? Is this based on what, the ratio of top critics vs audience score? Why is it so lopsided? Maybe the paid shills of the major publications cannot afford to piss off big daddy Disney, so they cannot offer scathing (sorry honest) reviews. Maybe there's a shit ton of fake (sorry newly made critics) that was paid for to boost the numbers up (turns out review manipulation works both ways). Sure there can be a bandwagon effect of people giving it a low score since it's trending but the audiences aren't paid professional critics. The critics should be held to a higher standard, otherwise what is their purpose except to spread lies?
I mean the show is so terrible Rollingstone itself gave it a terrible review and had to take it down due to posting a mere hours before the embargo. Also Alan Sepinwall is not some rando critic, the dude has been in the scene forever and though you might not agree with all his reviews he's not what I consider one of the extremes that swings for either one way or another. The fact he went out of his way to shit on this show just proves how terrible it is from a fundamentally plot structure. Speaking of embargo. How does Disney put one where nobody can say anything until what 10 hours before the episode premieres? I could list 10+ things that are so stupid it would make anyone cringe (though I can't since YT doesn't have spoiler tags). At any rate would be hilarious if you brought this up next time you talk to Preson and ask him how much Disney paid him. Thanks~
@@unbeheld I read your comment out loud to Preston during a recording. we both laughed. i don't know if it'll be on TH-cam but it will be on patreon/yt memberships. we'll see when i edit it
I think that's the route they are taking, going against the popular view online, just to seem different.
@@Elriquee1 LOL that's funny. I promise you we don't take any sides based on how popular anything is or isn't. It's crazy how you guys are so willing to conform to whatever alt-right people who make money off your hate is telling you.
I hissed and shot out of my chair when Preston said he liked this better than the Mandalorian 😭😭
I mean Mando season 3 is shit
@@wisdommanari6701yeah but he literally said better than mando seasons 1, 2 and 3
Dude Carmine you gotta get him to do Shogun
Hes a busy boy with work, children, wife and destabilizing south eastern governments. In due time, my friend.
@@OfficialRedTeamReview sure but I meant instead of more star wars crap
@@Borgcow agree - i get he's busy but i think it's pretty clear shogun must be a better show than this, would much rather he spend his time thinking about that than this one!! :D
That smuggler who made the poison is clearly going to be the Sith master as he knows way to much
Yeah he knows the Sith Code Too
Hang on I've heard you guys criticise other reviewers for overly positive reviews and you guys currently sound like Main Stream Media Shills for a show made by former person assistant to Harvey Winestine Leslye Headland what is so poorly written and makes no sense all the characters act so dumb.
Well lets run down this down shall we?
1. Which reviewers have we ripped for their "overly positive reviews"?
2. What was the topic covered in that video? Was it Star Wars?
3. Can you timestamp and link that video for me?
4. I've seen this regurgitated around and its coming from grifters trying to find anything to rip the showrunner on which is funny because those people complaining about Leslye past as his assistant suddenly care about s*ex pests yet still support Trump and Gaetz. Almost like it's bad faith hmmmm
5. You using the word "shill" makes me think you don't know what a "shill" is because often times people use it incorrectly or wrongly assume that about said person
Well Emergency Awesome who I myself will say is way to overly positive I'm not looking though you're videos to find a Time Stamp it was years ago the point is it's abit Hipocritical I mean this wasn't really a review just a W**k fest for the Acolyte 😂 and say what you want about Trump he didn't cover up R**e like Leslye Headland who probably joined in with Harvey when they we're on Jennifer Laurence but what I don't understand is fine like the show you do you I just see it as Disney SW Trash again and that's why the franchise is Dead and come Ep 3 if the leaks are true this show will be a s**t as TLJ and TROS and be full of Lesbian Witches and change the force for some stupid reason that more fans will leave but ignoring that why are you defending former Assistant to Harvey Weinstein Leslye Headland? As I said like or hate the show but you can't defend her individually it just looks abit weird if you ask me but if you want to defend people who cover up R**e you do you it says alot about your character and personality 😁
Better than Mando? Gotta disagree. First two eps have been kinda boring tbh. So far I'd put it behind ahsoka and above boba fett and obi wan in show rankings. Andor is the GOAT of course
Fair
Star Wars fan are so fucking toxic, i'm a huge star Wars nerd, watch everything, read books and comics, i really like that show (and pretty much everything that Disney made (except 8 ans 9 i've got to Say)). Their so focus on the past and how THEY would like the story to go, as THEY imagine in their mind, and can't accepte that someone as a different Idea than their own.
To be back on the show, it's look great, the fight are awsome, the story seems promising, yeah there are some pacing/editing flaws but again, nothing can be perfect.
As always, thanks for your content ! Being watching for years and you're still on top aha
Appreciate you taking the time to write that and I extra appreciate you for being a normal person
I really don't get the hate. I found both episodes fun and I'm interested to see where the story goes.
Right wing grifters have tapped into this audience that have always been there but were hidden and exiled from society. Gamergate, Trump's victory and how many TH-camrs rose to success complaining about Last Jedi allowed these incels to come out of the shadows to complain. They use phrases like "you just don't like different opinions" or "why are you trying to censor me?" to hide the racism and sexism. That's where the "right-wing" part of it comes in because you usually find these types of issues on that side of the political spectrum.
In short: the hate has always been there but through a bunch of things happening one after another it's become common place and encouraged to hate on everything that talking heads and glorified pundits don't like/feel like they can make money off of. Hate sells.
@@OfficialRedTeamReview so a reasonable person can not dislike this show? or disliking it automatically makes one right wing? even if he is not American, and doesn't know what "right wing" means?
why love can not sell? everyone loved endgame, avatar and first seasons of got.
@@OfficialRedTeamReview Are there grifters? 1000% but it cannot be denied there has been a strong effort, misguided by the need to do "right" with a sprinkle of white guilt that has taken over the creativity and passion that was once in the entertainment industry. Talking heads and executives have always been about the money but they at least knew to hire the nerdy creative guys who had passion to at least balance out the executives greed with their love of the IP, maybe they even created the IP themselves and have a proven track record. That was how it was until about 2015.
Now the executives have kicked out the nerdy passionate guys with a proven track record and decided to hire people based on, ironically race and sex, you mentioned racism and sexism but who is it really coming from, right wing grifters or executives who are more concerned with making appearances, filling quotas, esg scores, rather than making sure they churn out a viable product and hiring the best people fore the job regardless of what colour their meat and bone holder is and what gender they are. I can recognize that there are 1000% grifters right wing or not that will capitalize on outrage, it makes money but you can't capitalize on thin air something already has to be off somewhere in order for you to build an audience so you can take it to the extreme.
I can recognize the right will definitely put their politics and beliefs first when assessing media but do you have the self awareness to see the other side also do the same shit? The only difference is the other side are the ones in control of these IPs So they may not say it on crappy thumbnails and youtube videos but they say it in their shitty movies and TV shows, video games ect. It all has to stop so I can get back to enjoying this shit. I don't care if it's a team of all white men or all black women, were they hired for their passion, their love and their resume and can they entertain us?
@@liberTvalance And I just wish Trump voters would stop being racist and sexist homophobes in my comment and social media feed.
if *you* have legit reasons, fine but thats not a majority of your people
Did you delete my long ass reasonable comment? Lol
EDIT: Lets see if this edit of my original comment deletes.
Are there grifters? 1000% but it cannot be denied there has been a strong effort, misguided by the need to do "right" with a sprinkle of white guilt that has taken over the creativity and passion that was once in the entertainment industry. Talking heads and executives have always been about the money but they at least knew to hire the nerdy creative guys who had passion to at least balance out the executives greed with their love of the IP, maybe they even created the IP themselves and have a proven track record. That was how it was until about 2015.
Now the executives have kicked out the nerdy passionate guys with a proven track record and decided to hire people based on, ironically race and sex, you mentioned racism and sexism but who is it really coming from, right wing grifters or executives who are more concerned with making appearances, filling quotas, esg scores, rather than making sure they churn out a viable product and hiring the best people fore the job regardless of what colour their meat and bone holder is and what gender they are. I can recognize that there are 1000% grifters right wing or not that will capitalize on outrage, it makes money but you can't capitalize on thin air something already has to be off somewhere in order for you to build an audience so you can take it to the extreme.
I can recognize the right will definitely put their politics and beliefs first when assessing media but do you have the self awareness to see the other side also do the same shit? The only difference is the other side are the ones in control of these IPs So they may not say it on crappy thumbnails and youtube videos but they say it in their shitty movies and TV shows, video games ect. It all has to stop so I can get back to enjoying this shit. I don't care if it's a team of all white men or all black women, were they hired for their passion, their love and their resume and can they entertain us?
24:12 "You've had a baby name everything.. randomly." lol
I have just accepted at this point that new star wars isn't for me anymore. I'll maybe hold out for Andor season 2, but I am definitely worried about it.
Nice Reference with Dark Journey, loved that Short Story.
That's fair, man. I'll always give any sci-fi or fantasy show a shot. Sometimes it sucks sometimes its good, flip of a coin really
I really like ep 1 and felt ep 2 was not as good.
What's interesting about the fight scenes is that assisin can't beat the Jedi masters in a straight up fight you see this with all three masters she always have to some how trick them by preying on their weakness.
I'd like to see more of that but the way Torbin went out was lame
@@OfficialRedTeamReviewI think they just hate the Tommen actor. He's the new Sean Bean
It's a bit cheesy at times. Like that ending scene in the first episode. The dude was giving the anime villain speech. Only missing that "Muahaha," lough. A power rangers villain might be a better comparison. Master Sol seems cool. Yord is essentially a carbon copy of young Anakin, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The twins are kinda like video game protagonist. Mae I suspect is what happens when a righteous player tries an evil playthrough. They end up defaulting back to playing as Osha. The show is a 5 going on 6 out of 10 in my book. Might be a 4 by the end of the season.
Watched it ,didnt like it
Fair
I really hope they start fracturing the Star Wars universe. Everything is too centralized. There is one Jedi Order and two Siths in the entire galaxy. But the Star Wars galaxy has like a million inhabited worlds. Look at real world religions, even in the same religion there are different denominations, branches, cults, etc.
I hope this show reveals that there are a bunch of different Siths and Sith cults. Because it doesn't make sense how the Rule of Two can be enforced across the entire galaxy.
3rd episode was a bit ass.
A small fire somehow spread to different parts of a Stone Mountain.
The thing that annoyed me the most was the weird parasite thing flying off into the rafters, and just disappearing.
I like the show a lot but yea grifter saying woke are cringe as hell.
Wow, the review bomb trolls are out in force in the comment section…
is it possible that any of us "trolls" has any valid reason to dislike the show?
or we re all right wing racists?
i wrote my issues with the show without bringing up race, sexuality, or anything of the sort.
I just feel like this show is a jumbled mess with terrible writing and no time passing. All events are contiguous in time when they couldn't possible be. And "there is strong evidence against her" logic being used when there is even stronger evidence it's not even remotely possible it's her.
fine.
@namenloss730 You've also been spamming this comment section as you watch which I should be grateful because at least I know you're watching instead of stopping the video not even half way into it. In your reply here you offer some *actual* non sexist or racist reasons why you didn't like it. Congrats! you've unlocked level 1 criticism. Next level would require you to go into a bit more detail on it but this is a start :D
@@OfficialRedTeamReview why are you being such a dick ?
seriously?
have i been rude?
have i been insulting?
have i done anything?
@@OfficialRedTeamReview i wrote more details in another comment.
Anything wrong with me interacting with your comment section?
i was your subscriber for years and used to enjoy your videos, probably since 2018 or 2019. Apparently I made the mistake of thinking of you as a nice guy, and not someone who would go on attack mode for no f'ing reason and be disingenuous as f
@@namenloss730 You have been spamming my comment section to the point where TH-cam has automatically sent your comments to my "held for review" section. So yes, you have been spamming
I am 100% not a nice guy but I didn't attack you? And me? disingenuous? Lol tell me you've never watched my videos without telling me you've never watched my videos.