The Acolyte Episode 6 - Revenge Of The Cringe
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- Well, we had one action-packed episode to distract us from the depressing reality of what Star Wars has become. Now its back to terrible writing, grim acting, lightsaber whips and giant hamsters with The Acolyte Episode 6.
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The best comment I've read "The people who used to bully you for liking Star Wars are now the ones in control of it"
They also say that nerds were never bullied, when the reality is that nerds were bullied to the point of actual, violent persecution frequently. Short memories conveniently shortened to maintain unearned moral superiority.
That's the same for everything. The people that used to call you a loser for playing video games are the ones in chagre of your games now and they're calling you an -ist and -phobe for not liking their garbage.
Yep
I don't think the absolute wet noodles in charge of this turd are capable of bullying anyone.
Most geek media IP, has the bullies in control now. Gaming, Comics. Animation. They kicked the original fandom out so they can try to profit from it.
I've seen 0 minutes of this show but listened to every word Drinker has said about it.
Yaaass! Yaasssss!
Drinker hatewatching for us.
😂bguess some people just like hearing a dudes voice in their ear. no shame. it’s 2024
Same
@@morganfreeman5260are you 14 years old?
@@morganfreeman5260we just don't want to force ourselves to watch this garbage
I disagree with the drinker on one item, Rebecca Hendersen knows exactly why she’s there. She’s the director’s wife. And it shows.
Honestly, she sticks out like a sore thumb. I can't take her and the make-up seriously. Look like someone one took a TH-cam tutorial to do the make up
Also lightsaber whips are ctual legends weapons i thought it was actually really cool to see one on screen
@@igson-in4rd what ? Where does it say this exists ?
@@mechanicalsilence1 Lumiya
@@lisztomaniac2718 it's from the books...
Jedi lesbians can make even a lightsaber soft.
LOL
Reminds me of this th-cam.com/video/yYCaKH3G1y4/w-d-xo.html
you know, they say, that L's go together
Considering Jedis are supposed to avoid attachment, they shouldn't have a sexuality. So, they're not really Jedis
@@secretname2670 oh this is gold
The layers on this joke lmfao
You know it’s a Disney product when they’re not afraid to add a wet shirtless guy as a thirst trap; but simultaneously decide that Leia in a bikini is problematic.
They only scream sexism unless its a female being nude. Its no wonder why men would rather get their passports and go else instead of dealing with western females😒
Literally! Exactly this lol.
Let's not forget that Disney was so offended by Daryl Hannah's naked bum in Splash that they had to use crappy CGI to cover it, but have no problem showing Chris Hemsworth's naked bum in Thor.
Objectify everybody! Everyone is somebody's fetish.
"You cannot be racist towards white people, or sexist towards men either!"
- Disney, probably
That little hamster thing was a direct attempt at copying the success of baby yoda in mando. That is the only reason he exists in this show.
Mission failed
@@rennmaxbetanot even successful I dare say
Every new SW property has to have a cute alien and a new robot to make toys of
More like a rip on Rocket, except it's a weasel.
It all started with the Ewoks.
I get the the impression creative writing courses at universities are now just safe spaces where no one can be criticised, leading to this utter bollocks.
As someone who went through Creative Writing at a University, that’s basically all it is!
Nobody tells you what ideas are shit, they just you what to improve and what to expand on. I didn’t feel like I learned anything about Creative Writing in the 3 years I was at a University.
I’ve learned more from TH-cam.
The only thing University helped with was where to get your work published and where to go. Other than that, I learned nothing on how to make my work better
You are just afraid of strong diverse creatives
@@m0-m0597 Yes, that's it. I'm shitting my pants because a trans fridge magnet spend has last three years studying creative writing at the highest level but is still incapable of stringing together an involving plot.
@@Teh509 *how dare you*
@@m.c.martin I recently went back to Uni as a 40 year old, studied Brewing science. I think it might just be the generation gap but fuck my life it was eye opening. Nothing is challenged and all is permitted. They're terrified of offending each other like their feeble psychological defences couldn't handle even the most gentle of slights. I went with a group of other mature students. I honestly didn't think uni was this bad until I saw it for myself.
Taking a unconscious woman to a unknown island? Lezzy headlend sure knows a lot about that
epstien island lol
Oh my god, you win the Internet today.
Mate, this is hilarious!
This!
You write what you know.
So, he kidnaps her, takes her to an unfamiliar place, then strips buff naked in front of her? LH is at least writing about something she knows.
😂😂😂
Oh snap!! 😀
it's what "they" like...
Ohhhh, burn! People write about what they know - in her case it's Harvey and his little games.
I half expected Epsnteins sith ghost to be poking its head from behind the rocks😆
No nepotism in casting your spouse in a leading role, ignoring her total lack of acting ability?
I'm open to actors not being attractive in every role so long as they're good at their craft, generic hot people who aren't great actors gets pretty boring and I kinda miss having regular looking people like in older movies. Like, no disrespect to James Woods but no way would he have made it in Hollywood today but he steals scenes as a villain.
But yeah that green chick isn't good or hot. Without knowing nepotism played a role you kinda already know something is up just looking at photos of her. It looks like a cameo except we don't know the person.
@@Roflcrabs If you watch any good British movies or shows, they have TONS more normal-looking actors than we do. Or maybe they just have more PARTS they write for normal looking people.
Clearly she knows how to handle a lightsaber hilt purple flexi-dildo, so, don't dismiss her entirely.
but she can munch carpet real good
@@Roflcrabs "SOO you're saying if I point my gun at-at the dirt. And I FIRE...I am not only putting a hole in the ground I'm...*"killing the planet"*.
Woods is a wonderful actor in his own cynical snide way. He does play such wonderful villains.
The writers are basically so focused on telling their "amazing" story, that they seem to write the plot first, get to filming, and then try to retroactively figure out how the characters would fit into it as the actors/actresses perform the script - however, instead of having the plot change around the character's actions they just give the characters "light" brain damage to push the plot along
At first I thought it was completely malicious, but now I see that it’s clearly mostly incompetence
It's both. Definitely both.
It’s malicious incompetence.
First astronaut: "wait, so it's all just bad writing trying to shield itself with the message?"
Second astronaut: * raises gun*
"always has been"
Malice disguised as incompetence
It's both, they have admitted it several times. They have contempt for the fans and the franchise.
Lesbian Headlamp wrote what she knows. Sending women to talk with a man who greeted them naked.
Heh, how about Lesbian Headlump, like a thing that sits on top of her shoulders. Lamp implies a "potential brightness". There's none of that to be seen here.
@@anymice Well you see, headlamps can be broken.
That is an underrated comment
@@anymiceI wish I could remember who said Lesbian Headlamp's face always looks like it's in the wrong aspect ration for her head.
It’s just a trick to bait the straight women
This show is a content competitor to Velma. Low effort, terrible product, and it shows immediately.
And both show runners blame the audience for its obvious failure.
Drinker, I recently began watching network television again after not having done so for 10+ years... I don't know how many people have noticed this... but if you watch network television, something has changed. Virtually EVERY. SINGLE. COMMERCIAL. is now aimed at women, and it's across multiple channels, not just one. All female actors (like 90%) and nearly all female topics(birth control, bras, drugs) except when it they're like, trying to sell car insurance or food or something, but even then it's like 90% female actors unless the guy is either hot or they're making fun of him.
I swear, when you see it, you cannot unsee it. This is not coincidence.
This is not new, women have ALWAYS been the ones to buy hone purchases. You are being pathetic amd paranoid.
Or its targeted to rump raiders.
And every single 'family unit' has multiple races and the kids always have afros - even if the parents are Indian and Japanese...🤣
Marketing is selling to your audience and their audience is mostly women, people that spend money, tend to be female.
Let us be completely honest. The knife scene exists entirely because the writers needed to remind the viewer she's the Bad Twin, because this actress is really just playing herself - badly - twice.
They don't have the ability to show her being false in organic dialogue and they don't trust the viewer to remember the events of the previous episode. So the knife-flash is literally just them going 'Ok now remember in this scene she's the BAD GUY PRETENDING, ok?'
I can't even call this amateur hour. Axe Cop has better characterization and it is written by a literal child.
I love Axe Cop
Sharknado 3 has better acting than this abomination.
Bro I forgot about axe cop. That show was so much better.
She has zero range. The only "acting" is done with the camera and music/sound. She'd play a GREAT zombie.
Could've even done the "sees jedi that they have to pretend to be someone else in front of. Takes a deep breath before approaching the jedi." Still serves as a reminder for the viewer.
The sentence "And then he just kind of walks off screen so that the next scene can happen" is a fine summary of the whole series.
I mean, it's what I did when someone suggested watching the show.
Definitely amateurish - and a billion dollar franchise must be better than an advanced student film.
That's every scene. Thet only exist to make the next scene, whether they make sense or not. Usually not.
😂😂😂
Seriously. They only have a basic thin story line, and the scenes just move the characters from a state of "knowing x and y" to "knowing x, y and z"
And best of all, the content of the scenes is resolved...by just moving to the next scene. All these years, writers have struggled to end scenes with a revelation or at least some exposition, some emotional release or an increase of tension; OR actually showing action or speech that resolves a plot point or move a character arc!!
But Sca-rew all that! Just move along to the next scene. Check the X feeds of the writers and I bet they're finding it to be hella easy.
You nailed it when you made an offhand comment about "Did she even read the previous episode's script?" . We see these shows in a certain progression, but that isn't necessarily how they were filmed. I have 100% confidence that they did not have an established story as they were filming, things were constantly getting "Brainstormed" and changed. Which is also why these episodes take so much $$ to make, because they are fixing things and adding special effects purely in post rather than setting things up ahead of time.
Sidenote: The basic lightsaber is awesome as is. Can we stop trying to reinvent the wheel with lightsaber whips, spinning light sabers, folding lightsabers, the double bladed lightsaber (lets face it, that was only cool because Darth Maul was so awesome. Him with a regular lightsaber would be just as badass). trying to make all these different types is cheesy and starts to create plot holes that bore questions that being to fray the decently woven fabric of the story universe (although, disney is doing a superior job of that now anyway)
I don't know if Darth Maul would be as cool with a regular light saber, actually. I feel his double-bladed lightsaber was iconic for him.
@@alaron5698 He was played by Ray Park, so yes, he would have been as cool with a regular saber.
Hmm...have they done a "machine gun lightsaber" yet?? Fires Force bolts so fast only the greatest Jedi could defend against it?
They haven't? Kind of surprising.
@@alaron5698 While I understand your sentiment, I think you are putting the cart before the horse. He was badass because of him, not the lightsaber he used. The lightsbaer was only cool to people because Darth Maul used it.
@@Trollificusv2 Disney better scoop you up before you sell your script about Palpatine where his faced was messed up because he was trans and the Jedi disfigured him by pouring "Space-Bleach" on him shouting this is YODA country, to Zack Snyder for his Star Wars rip off.
"Who look like they use safety scissors to open a packet of crisps" is such a great burn. I'm stealing it 😂
I mean, I have a sword, but I'm not using it to open a bag of crisps, it'd probably end terrible on the walls.
But if it's too hard by hand, at least use a strong pair of scissors that can shear throught corrucated carbard, make that slippery plastic your bitch.
Isn't that kind of an insult towards skinny men tho
@@adamH.1 Having a strong pair of scissors is never bad. This is how you beat clamshell packaging for instance, and I doubt even Schwarzie in his prime would have beaten them by hand.
Unfortunately due to the people in charge of the show, I am imagining a different type of "scissoring" entirely being used to get that "packet to open".
@@wwiiinplastic4712 You've got a point, sadly. I'm a professional smut writer and even I think too pragmatical for them.
Thank you Drinker for taking the risk of permanent brain damage to review this “Starwars product”
Edit: Thanks for all the likes 😎💪🏼🥃
Part II
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I think this only qualifies as a “Star Wars Flavored Product”
We thank him for his sacrifice.😢
A true masochist
I thought CD said he was done with SW
In the EU it was typically Sith/Dark Jedi that used lightwhips BECAUSE they would cause a lot of collated damage.
There's no way that she didn't just copy this script from some WattPad fanfic written by a 14 year old "aspiring author"...
BINGO
Remember when the Jedi were powerful, skilled mystics and the Sith oozed evil? This is like horrendous cosplay
Remember when a lightsaber could block a lightsaber? Wouldn't a bendy lightsaber whip instantly win every single lightsaber fight we've ever seen? I mean, the first time you tried to block it, it just wraps around and gets you anyways? That whip would basically retcon all the movies and half the shows, making them nonsensical.
Kinda reminds me of admiral gender studies turning her ship into a superweapon, simply by engaging a hyperdrive and then taking out a capital warship that was at least ten thousand times the size of her ship... and thus forcing every space battle with destroyers and death stars into retcon oblivion.
It's almost like these writers have never actually watched any of the films or shows that came before their own.
yeah my thought at the hyperspace telefrag was "hmm if this was a thing that worked, why don't they get some random freighter on autopilot to do this to every dreadnought and star destroyer"
@@greebj - Yup, if any old garbage scow with a hyperdrive and a droid pilot becomes a superweapon capable of taking out death stars, then basically every single Star Wars film up to that point makes absolutely no sense at all.
I don't think Count Dooku "oozed evil," necessarily. Not in the way Palpatine did, anyway.
@@Mr.Ekshin Lightwhip existed in EU before disney.
they do have a consistent rule. male fanservice bad, gay fanservice good. while being morally hypocritical about virtue signalling about it.
As a gay fan, this series is fucking trash. Like, I don't know why they think they're doing "a good thing" when their inclusion of gay characters is in a story this fucking stupid. Just write a damn good story, I don't care if the characters are gay or not lol
Yeah well I'm telling you now the gay people who like star wars don't like it either, they know when people are hating on people because they can't take criticism for their show
The Acolyte is light watching a Tesla Cyber Truck in slow motion about to rear-end a Ford Pinto.
Drinker, I want to personally thank you for taking one for the team here. Your reviews are more than enough to tell me I shouldn’t waste a single minute of my time with this show.
The lightsabre: an elegant weapon, for a more civilised age.
The lightwhip: "I wHiP mY lIGhT bAcK aNd FoRtH! I wHiP mY lIGhT bAcK aNd FoRtH!"
Those were around in Legends for a while. Not as a great option, but they aren't out of nowhere.
It was created in your beloved legends. In the 80s.
In the Expanded Universe it took considerable skill to wield a lightwhip. They were the choice weapon of the Dathomiri witch clans.
@@masteryoghurt2110and it was a bad idea then. Nothing has changed, so you don't have the gotcha you think you do.
@@masteryoghurt2110 the difference was in legends things like Yoda discovering a Sith apprentice before Phantom Menace and the existence of the lightsaber whip were handled well and with care and hood writing. Here they were just jingles in front of the audience with no care as to how they fit into the overall story.
Director overpaying inexperienced actors, casting their partner, and blowing the budget on insubstantial prop and set design...
How is this not money laundering?
because what you've described is not money laundering...poor money management is not the same as taking illegally obtain money and "laundering" it by putting it back into the system as legally obtained.
I'm telling you, Disney execs have epic shorts on their own stock. Nothing else makes any sense
Ive tried to understand for some time and finally heard an explanation of money laundering that stuck with me a few months back : It is when you set up a company, and you report the money you wanna launder as profit of said company, so that the money can be taxed. When it is taxed, it is then considered "clean". Or at least thats how it works where I live.
Might just be embezzlement.
@@laughaway7955 pretty much it. With the right people in key positions of a company, the only thing to fear with the Laundering is an extensive audit of which major corporations dont have to suffer because the auditors are part of the "Beurocratic Process."
-I've just learned the terrible truth...
-Your team was killed by a Sith lord?
-No, no, no, it's just... something big's happenning...
2:56 Did disney retcon the Jedi being able to sense danger? How is this assassin twin able to sneak up on so many Jedi undetected?
you're thinking of spiderman
@@tacocanada1888 He is another fictional character who can sense danger, but the Jedi can too. How else do they block blaster bolts, or know someone is about to attack them. In attack of the clones Anikan says he senses danger and Obi-Wan says I sense it too when those worm things were about to kill Amadala. Your answer shows why it's not part of the Jedi ability anymore, if a fan doesn't know, how would the current writers who have no interest in Star Wars know.
@@tacocanada1888 remember in revenge of the sith, yoda senses the 2 clones about to attack him
@@allnightfright619 probably because its not other force users sneaking up on them. jedis are sneaky arent they? is that lore?
dont dig so deep and just watch a show
@@tacocanada1888 Then how did Vader and Kenobi sense each other on the Death Star? Old republic the Jedi sense the attack just before the Sith pop out of hyper space. Being able to sense each other is a displayed ability. If they want to say she can hide herself from other force users, good writing demands they need to explain that to the audience.
The only good thing about the Acolyte is your weekly review where you tear each episode to shreds. Thank you for your sacrifice.
Disney keeps making this slop because y'all keep watching it.
@@dmhendricks "Y'all?" Not according to the ratings.
And certainly not me. I'm just here for TCD to support him taking the hit for most of us.
@@dmhendricks I'm not subscribed to Disney at the moment, so no, I'm not watching it but I'm watching it get torn to shreds by the Drinker and Charlie.
George Lucas is a genius. He sold the franchise for billions, and Disney make stuff so awful that people look at the original trilogy and say "wow, we need George back, Star Wars didn't suck with him here."
He'll be a genius when he buys it back for $20 and scrubs everything Disney did from existence. Until then I think he's just a masterful troll.
Disney have tanked it so badly that people look back at the prequels fondly
@@TheMarkieGoodBoywhich is amazing since they aren’t good
Yeah. At this point, I'd rather watch The Adventures of Jar Jar Binks
@@TheMarkieGoodBoy this shit is so bad, they already have people looking back at the sequels fondly.
God Bless You Drinker. This is a testament to how committed you are. To your craft or hating yourself it's hard to tell at this point.
At this point I am becoming convinced that The Acolyte is not a show, but an elaborate conspiracy to allow Drinker to produce content.
In what world does a hamster stomping on your foot cause so much pain that you have to slowly dance around until a robot squirts you in the eye. 😂
In Disney World, where a million monkeys are furiously hacking dialogue to fill the void without a brain called Bob Iger.
The same world as Jar Jar :(
@@xuvial1391 This show's "writing" makes me want to apologise to Jar-Jar. That says a lot.
Bumblebee Man on the Simpsons is now in SW
For some reason, when I heard that line in the Drinker's review I thought of 'Sweet Shin Music' and Dude Love... God, that 'jedi wookie' is like the ewoks and jar jar had a love child, and inherited the worst of both... I can't believe how much this license has fallen in the past 40 years... Seeing the original SW as a 9 year old in the theatre was a life changing event I still look fondly back on...
The physics of "He just steps on her boot, but really really hard and she stays jumping on one foot for a few seconds." lead me to believe that whoever wrote this did not mentally age past 8 years old.
Tom and Jerry-ass scriptwriting
Yeah, they've got a vague, Cartoon Physics 101 understanding of things in the physical world. And the "action scenes" reflect this.
The gooey liquid squirting in her eye also reminded me of the Nickelodeon's "Quiet on set" documentary, all those very suggestive sex acts they had the young actors do ...
That wascally wabbit!
I can see it now - that was one person's contribution in the writing room. Instead of discarding it, they decided to insert it somewhere so that writer would "feel heard", regardless of the damage it does to the overall product.
the whole show is basically an endless pitch. they don't write anything, the just pitch and pitch and then pitch some more
I was just about to say thanks for taking one for the team when I realized that the team never had any intention of subjecting themselves to this abuse.
When strong female antagonist can be defeated by a creature a third of her height stomping on her foot it’s hard to take her seriously.
Yep.
Known possible threat for revelation.
She killed Jedi, snuffing a beaver would not get a second thought.
@@Kyle-sr6jm Jedi: stamp on her toes, it’s the strong female antagonists only weakness
This kind of thing is always shit, I still hate the battle of Endor from the original trilogy. Tribal wombats with sticks and stones beating an army capable of glassing the whole planet from orbit is just stupid.
That can REALLY sting! 😂😂😂
@@ThePVTfaszkivan I miss back when that was the worst thing in the main series.
"Communist lesbian space witches." I laugh every time I hear that. 😂
It's so beautifully subtle 🤢
And finely nuanced.. 😂
@@insensitive919 But accurate.
I always laugh when big corporation is preaching about communism.
What makes them communist? I am not watching the show, so I'm asking out of interest.
House of the Dragon did the whole “one twin takes the other’s place” plotline 100 times better and less stupidly than this show.
And that shows screwed up it's source material as well, so that says a lot.
I haven't watched the show but your description of the hamster character squirting goo into the bad girl's eye and kicking her shin is hilarious. Hamster gave her "The Angry Pirate!"
I'm only going to say this once. This is not canon, nothing like this is or will ever be canon. Nothing Disney says or do will will make this canon, period. Thank you, have a great day.
Disney+ Star Wars = Anti-canon Star wars
Clearly you don't realize these shows are all based on previous books/comics...but I'm glad you're around to declare what is cannon and what is not. Thanks!
@@anthonyc8963 Clearly you don't realize that this show basically contradicts almost EVERY rule of not only Star Wars, but also disregards the basic practices of writing.
people give rogue one and andor and the 2 first seasons of mando a pass ... lol they need to understand you either have standards or you dont, and disney's SW is not worthy to be on the same level as Attack of the Clones, nor the Holiday Special,
the people running disney SW D E S P I S E the fans
The Mandalorian is cannon.
This series is worth every penny it cost Disney.
It has spawned awesome weekly content from our favourite creators.
Does youtube give Disney a cut? That would explain a lot.
It’s also helping the sinking ship that is Disney hemorrhage more money and sink a little bit more.
Man I had a really shitty day, but watching the drinker shit on the acolyte really cheered me up. Bless this lad.
The writers not even knowing how something happened is probably exactly what happened. More than that, they probably didn't even think to ask how it happened, they just needed it to work out that way and so it did.
Never in my life have I anticipated media so much, not for interest in watching it but the online trashing of it. Thank you for your service, Critical Drinker.
Yes, you're their target audience.
That's what star wars has been for like the last 6 years or so.
Same. I cannot look away. I am obsessed with how awful this show is. It consumes me.
The more cringe, the better for review and audience obviously. This is already a gold mine.
TH-cam content creators might be already the only folks watching modern Hollywood at this stage.
You know it's a bad show when even other youtube critics who aren't political in their content (Jeremy Jahns for example) are trashing it, with the same remarks regarding the writing etc.
Having a laser whip might seem like a cool idea for a second… then you realize it’s totally impractical and suicidal. I’m not surprised the idea made it into this script.
Having played around with whips when I was a kid, a laser whip is at least as dangerous to the user as the attacker.
@@TheJohn8765 And I thought Kylo Ren's lightsaber was dangerous to the user.
It was an idea from the HQs from star wars high republic, and it is a cool idea in those HQs, but I've afraid of what will happen in this show
The lightwhip has been a thing in Star Wars since the 80’s tho?? Also the normal lightsaber itself is suicidal. It just so happens that the Jedi have a magic bubble around them that protects them from chopping their limbs off.
@@starnerd064that lightwhip was a metal whip with laser blades that could be activated between the metal connectors. It was not a floppy lightsaber blade. This is not Family Guy Blue Harvest.
Edit for spelling.
The lightsaber scene reminds me of an german comedy movie called „Traumschiff Surprise“. There is a short video called „Traumschiff Surprise - Das Duell der Fetten (duel of the fates)“ which is exactly this. And disney really means it…
The only good thing about the new start wars is that we get drinker episodes ripping it apart
I love how you barely even have to make fun of this shit anymore. You just describe what happens and it mocks itself.
I began noticing that with Ryan George's 'Pitch Meetings', he'd literally just state the plot of a movie and it somehow sounded like a parody...
Agreed. Critical Drinker is a critical thinker; he identifies and points out nonsense...
Very true indeed. When I got to "the power of manyyyyy" I lost it. Been laughing ever since. I think as a comedy it actually works great!
You're delivery, it's almost like I have total cognizance of my cerebral cortex. I don't leave reviews often yet the other channel I've appreciated, such as yours, had some kitties chasing lasers. 5/7 best Staunch Wars ever. Seriously, thanks for all you do!
And those lovely corpses of the slain jedi, untouched in the middle of a forest. Not a single bird pecking their eyes, no flies/bugs, no scavengers ripping those bodies apart.
I love that the Jedi whip scene was used in EVERY marketing attempt for this show and it's just an awkward meaningless scene
I mean... every scene they could have used would just have been an awkward meaningless scene. The next step would be marketing it like Games, where they just show something that ain't even in it.
@@MadIIMikeHmm, despite "Rogue One" being actually quite good, I remember that there was a dominant scene in all the trailers, where Jin Erso stands on the Comms Tower and a T.I.E fighter looms behind her... that never made it into the movie, as the complete plot ending was changed after the trailers were released. So Disney already did this to us...😂
@@shagrat47 my thoughts exactly. it's already happened
It was awkwardly forced into the episode to establish that Vernestra uses a lightsaber whip so that it's not such a surprise when we eventually learn that she used it long ago to make the scar on Qimir's back.
@@shagrat47 Augh that movie is terrible, man. I couldn't even get through it in one sitting on my first viewing. I haven't made it through to the 'decent' battle at the end a second time. Just being the least bad Star Wars production by fuckin' Disney does not make that movie good. Far from it.
Smilo: this helmet is perfect
Osha: it will be, when it fits a whaman
Next she'll demand he calibrate the Force for her.
"It's mam!!!"
Just not what happened at all but hey. I shouldn't expect more from a star wars fan
Then it will be OSHA approved!
@@CT-1975 just a joke but hey, I shouldn't expect more from some rando acting humorless for the sake of some cheap smear
The idea of having protagonists and antagonists end up together this way is not a bad concept in and of itself. It gives you a chance to get more complex interaction than just exchanging banter/exposition during a fightscene and you're able to give a much more interesting portrayal of the personalities and motivations of your characters.
That being said, this show has not just failed to take advantage like that, it actually exposed a key problem with the writing: There are only very shallow personalities and motivations involved.
The manga Blade of the Immortal has done the "protagonist mingles with the antagonist" masterfully (spoilers ahead):
It's a story set in feudal Japan and features a 16 year old girl named Rin, whose family ran a swordfighting school. One day when she was 14, her parents were killed by a swordfighter named Kagehisa and his henchmen, so she's out for revenge and tries to hunt him down with the help of a hired bodyguard named Manji. Kagehisa, meanwhile, has started attacking swordschools all over Edo, trying to erradicate them and establish his way of swordfighting in their stead.
In one chapter, Kagehisa manages to catch Rin while she's alone, overwhelms her, pins her to a tree... and they talk. Rin explains that he killed her family and that she wants to take revenge, Kagehisa explains his own background, his family's history with her family and his motivation behind attacking swordschools. It's a pivotal moment in the story, since it adds many layers of complexity to Kagehisa as an antagonist, you can understand what his motivation is and even though you might not agree with his methods, you can at least appreciate that he's not just a one-note badguy and has his own reasons for what he's doing and why.
It's a very fascinating exchange of the different motivations of those characters. Kagehisa lets her go and the way it's explained, it's perfectly in character for him to just let her go, even though she's a threat to him.
In later chapters, there's another plotline where Rin and Kagehisa actually end up being forced to fight a mutual enemy for a time. The uneasy alliance is very fun to watch and adds much more to the character dynamics.
Of course, giving this cliff's notes description doesn't do the writing any justice, it's a great read and the way it's written you understand that the two characters are essentially victims of circumstances beyond their control, stuff that happened generations ago, that made them end up on two different sides of an unavoidable conflict.
Star wars needs to stop it with prequels, it doesn't matter what they did if the empire takes over, every single character died for nothing, just for the whole galaxy to fall to the empire
You can literally FEEL the design by committee in this episode.
“I want rat guy to warn Squid game guy.”
“NO, he should fight her directly!”
Horrible committee fighting ensues.
“Okay, since no one wants to remove their ideas, we will to both!”
Repeat ad nauseum for EVERY idea that pops in their heads.
This is so true lmao
Committee: A lightsaber whip would look cool!
One person in the room who's actually seen Star Wars: Wait... a lightsaber whip? Wouldn't a bending lightsaber instantly win every single lightsaber fight we've ever seen? I mean, the first time you tried to block it, it just wraps around and gets you anyways? That would basically retcon all the movies and half the shows, making them nonsensical !!!
Committee: Nah... it'll be fine.
The fact that there’s just so much sheer garbage to unpack that reviews of individual episodes are possible
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People need to rally up and start protesting this crap outside Disney headquarters
And this was a pure filler episode.
Watching drinkers videos on this show have been like watching someone review a pile of garbage😭
@@Nigels_Wrld At least piles of garbage show some life in the form of myriad pests and parasites squirming among them, though I guess that's not far off from this show...
My friend told me “brazzers has better plot and character development then this” 💀💀💀
I hope this series goes on forever. It is providing some of the best comedy commentary I've seen on the net for years 😂
The saddest part is that even by these snippets the difference in acting ability is so clear... Many Jacinto seems to command the screen whereas Stenbeg looks like a rabbit caught in a headlight.
Manny and Sol hands down the 2 best actors
Bortles would be so proud.
@@aleccampbell7707 I know Jacinto from The Good Place and from the snippets I`ve seen he plays a complete different character here and it looks believable, same for Lee (Squid Game).
Charlie Barnett (Lord) was good in Russian doll, Dafne Keen (Jecki) was ok in Logan. It feels like they both need a good script to get a good performance whereas Jacinto and Lee can even get a good performance out of crappy writing.
She cannot handle two roles but she is non-binary. That’s enough for Disney.
I cried when Spock showed up and said "That still only counts as one."
I cried when ms headland led me to her office and this weird dude started touching me.
When Season 2 Homelander unplugged Tom Holland from the Matrix I stood on my bed and clapped.
Dude I couldn't believe it when Jon snow finally laid down the law and said "do not cite the deep magic to me witch! It's jonning time!" And snowed all over the place. Badass episode!
Lol too far
"The power of the many outweighs the power of the few or the power of one." - Spook, 20
I cant get over how the green lady's makeup looks like something a low budget fan made film would look like
I really love how you deep dive into The Acolyte. I believe it takes some guts to dissect a series like this.
Sigourney Weaver in Aliens and Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow are two excellent examples of real “strong female” characters. How does Disney consistently get this wrong.
Don’t forget Linda Hamilton as Sarah Conner
Winona Ryder in Stranger Things was also in a way an extremely strong female character. Or at least she was before her character was changed to an annoying comic relief.
And Charlize Theron in "Atomic Blonde".
Disney only knows about writing "princess" characters.
Olivia Dunham from Fringe is a great strong female character.
Acolyte? More like Acoshite.
I'm the Acolyte and you gotta deal with it!
How about The Sackoshite?
I like The Cuntolytes
reading these comments made me audibly laugh
Yes that's definetly shite
I only watch your summaries of the show just so Disney doesn't get my hate view. Thank you for uploading these
I know how Amandla and Shrek got their parts in this show: One got the job because Headland WANTS to eat their pie. The other is there because Headland IS eating their pie. Simple.
the casting couch got more stylish with a prettier trim but its still the casting couch.
That Sith guy was so transparently the Sith because the bad writing made it so obvious, it was laughable.
Hard to believe he’s the bad guy. He killed the poorly written Jedi and that annoying padawan. He’s the hero in this series!
@@PilotHat Clearly, he is one of those illusive 'light Sith' that you can play as in the SWTOR MMO.
Bad writing? Then they're all Sith.
Remember that he wasn't captured by the Jedi because the "plot" asked for it, because the Jedi had him until they didnt just because. One thing the show is doing well is to banalize the Jedi as a whole.
just as transparent as him having been the padawan of green lady alien
Episode 1 : Kills a Jedi Master. Episode 6 : Gets defeated by a Gerbil. Sigh
Amongst all of the canon altering stuff going on I think the way Disney has handled space travel as gone under the radar. Back in the originals Solo scoffed at Luke for trivialising lightspeed travel, luke had to wear a flight suit everytime he got into a fighter. Now Ray flys xwings with just a helmet and Sol jumps to light speed from a standing start with no checks after a total ship shutdown, narrowly avoiding a holdo with his arriving back up!
Wait, green woman of exceptional social status has a WHIP?? Well, that’s it. She was Smylo’s master and gave him that scar. There’s literally no reason they’d show that whip, have her hide this from the council, and even entertain the notion that Sol would murder his friends for ZERO reason.
God, that’s… that’s just awful. What an embarrassment it must be to have your name attached to something so awful. Wait, Leslye was WHO’S assistant?!?!
Yep, I thought it was super obvious that she's the big bad, framing Squid Games.
She's the one who murdered the lesbian space witches.
Yep. Like the FIRST thing you say is “Oh, Sol def murdered them with ZERO motive”. Not the dark, assassin that’s missing, not the sith apprentice, and not the unknown quantity that is Osha. It’s DEFINITELY Sol. The writers of this show, my god.
@@GeraltofRivia22 "Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the most Sapphic of them all?!"
As much as I hate to defend this show I have to be fair. Vernestra's use of a lightwhip was established in the novel she debuted in. They're just maintaining continuity.
Amandla Stenberg and Rebecca Henderson understand exactly how they got there
Sleeping with Leslye Headland
What? I mean, I know Jedi Master Pistachio Head is her wife, but Little Miss Discourse?
Stenberg got the role because she's "Diverse" and rich.
Following in the footsteps of good ole' uncle Harvey.😉
It's either who you know. Or who you blow.
@@giveandtake8428 and that's Hollywood!
I’m sad there are only 2 episodes left. I have really enjoyed listening to Drinker and Nerdrotic obliterate it.
2 points that are glossed over in everyone’s reviews of this episode.
1: the communication sol sends back. It’s garbled but when the message is given the green girl it is exactly what he said. “His whole team was killed by something”.
2: capital planet in center of the empire and sol is at the out rim. right before clone wars in the books when actual time and space is used could take them months to reach that point.
Prequels movies take a couple hours to cross that distance.
This show if worse technology took a couple seconds to get there. “We sent a team, don’t leave”. He leaves and the show up all during the same few seconds.
I did like the line about using the lightsaber when he was in the lake or he was going to get dressed
“[Neither] Amandla Stenburg and Rebecca Henderson seem to understand how or why they got here.” Well, the latter is for the money. But for the former? It’s a mystery.
Why would Weinstein’s former assistant give a leading role to an untalented actress, and spend their press junkets pawing at her, cackling at her non-jokes, and talking about being gay?
Truly the thoughts and motives of Leslie ‘Of course she was in on it’ Hedland are an enigma.
Holy fk Rebecca Henderson and Leslie Hedland are married.. it's a nepo role LMAO
Wouldn't surprise me if Amanda had to do some bedroom favours for this role. Lesley weinstein clear as day.
@@justateddybear951good for the correction. Still doesn’t excuse any of the terribleness.
Interesting comment, that. But tell me? Am I the only one wishing the Drinker could maybe move on now? “It’s funny how we all revert to type, sooner or later, isn’t it?” Says the guy who gave us a really entertaining video about Werner Herzog and then wheels out the safe old Star Wars clickbait. Cue the memes we’ve all seen a thousand times (literally) and the echoing, “the message,” voice, as though we all have the memories of goldfish.
Maybe Amandla should stick to only voicing Spider Byte.
So the 'lightwhip' was technically a thing from the Expanded Universe...but it was always considered cringe by all but the most diehard fans. It was also supposed to be more of a physical whip surrounded by an energy field rather then a floppy noodle version of a lightsaber.
This is one aspect of the EU that they should have left buried, but Disney Star Wars is so creatively bankrupt that they had to cherry pick aspects of the EU that they destroyed to put back into their 'new' Star Wars, even the dumb ideas.
I struggle to understand the physics behind it. Light travels in a straight line. Lightasabers are straight.
@@Dave.Angel.Eco.Warrior Suspension of Disbelief
@@Dave.Angel.Eco.Warrior Fairly easily explained. It was a segmented series of cylindrical emitters emerging from the physical whip's hilt which acted as emitter/ conduits for plasma energy.
@@Dave.Angel.Eco.Warrior It could work. It is a physical whip. Maybe it has microscopic LED bulbs on it or something.
@@Dave.Angel.Eco.Warrior The ones in legends or at least in SW TFU games were more like a electrical whip, so same as weapons of Grevious Magna Guards - not cutting, electrocuting & with ability to stop light saber.
I never thought anyone could be so expressionless than the block of wood that was Kristen Stewart in Twiglight.
But this so-called hero 'whatshername' makes Stewart a Shakespearean Thespian.
And whats worse, she has to do it twice because she plays a twin.
I love these videos because I can keep up with how the series is developing, while sparing myself the pain of actually watching it
Best line of the last 6 years, "Fuck off Michael Burnham". I actually laughed out loud.
Same Star Trek Died for me before Star Wars I abandoned the Fandom early in Discoverys Livecycel.
Same now with Star Wars
Watching the Acolyte? Nah.
Watching the Drinker cover the Acolyte? HELL YEAH. CAN'T CLICK FAST ENOUGH.
Leslie Weinsteined Stenberg on her casting couch. She’s a Sith acolyte who trained under her Sith masters.
Critical Drinker et al are so much more entertaining than anything coming out of Hollywood.
Acolyte Episode 1: The Cringey Menace
Acolyte Episode 2: Attack of the Cringe
Acolyte Episode 3: Revenge of the Cringe
Acolyte Episode 4: A New Cringe
Acolyte Episode 5: The Cringe Strikes Back
Acolyte Episode 6: Return of the Cringe
Acolyte Episode 7: The Cringe Awakens
Acolyte Episode 8: The Last Cringe
Acolyte Episode 9: Rise of Cringe
Wow, original!
The cringe is so strong it single handedly created episode 9
@@samus6256😂😂😂
Maybe the Cringe Christmas Special will redeem the entire franchise.
Acolyte Episode 10: Somehow, Cringe Returned.
Acolyte Episode 11: The Power of One, The Power of Two, The Power of Cringe.
Acolyte Episode 12: It's Cringing Time.
Cue the next shill media article about Star Wars fans being the problem with modern day Star Wars and not the pile of crap they keep releasing.
I think it's CBR's turn to puke out one of those sorts of articles.
They achieved their goal. The show became very popular, but not because its good, but because its so god awful..
Star Wars is to science fiction what decaf is to coffee. But even decaf has more substance than this.
Great job, Drinker!
2:00 “anyway, Smilo Ren challenges Strong Female Protagonist to touch his lightsaber”
Written by Harvey Winestein’s former personal assistant
"But the light whip was in legends!"
Again, not everything in legends was good. Further, the person who used it was a dark sider, someone who would definitely care less about collateral damage. Meanwhile, this is a Jedi. Someone who's supposed to be the guardian of peace, defender of the innocent, etc. To give it to a Dark Sider, while it's still a silly weapon, at least makes sense with character motivation. A Jedi would absolutely not use a weapon like this.
Member when they dumped the EU? I member. They don't get to zero history something and then appeal to history.
Not to condone any part of this shambolic nonsense, but given how shady she is, and that scar across Smilo’s back, I’m pretty certain she’s his ex-master, so probably also not a jedi
I agree. Even the council would probably disapprove the use of it as well. They are very traditional and set in their ways. I don’t see how they would let a master use that when they were so critical on even certain lightsaber forms being used
Most of legends is trash. Idk why people defend that stuff like their honor is at stake. It's ok to have liked sub-par Star Wars products back when the movies were awesome. We didn't always make the best decisions as kids, but defending some of that stuff now? Yikes.
@@majorpwner241 No most of Legends is AWESOME! Legends is what made me a Star Wars fan. I was so-so about the movies but I absolutely loved the books and comics. Nearly all of my favourite characters are from Legends.
Plus Legends is what kept Star Wars alive and kept it from fading into obscurity. The Prequel Trilogy would have never been made without Legends.
Heck the word "Sith" is from Legends. It's never ONCE spoken in the movies.
Not gonna lie when you said Whip Saber before I was like "ok, that might be pretty cool", then I saw it...
There is a positive message in all this. This series will inspire all sorts of people who can't write to author stories that no one will read--stories to be made into movies by incompetent hacks for audiences that don't exist. The moral? People incapable of succeeding at anything deserve encouragement from those who have already failed. I suppose that is some form of inspiration.
the story-issues feel very AI to me..
"write me a tense scene where character A threatens Character B"
"write me a scene where Character A tries to interrogate Character B"
etc
And the thing about people who would even think of using AI to make something like this, is that they're not competent enough to know that this not actually very good. They're the same sort of people who would watch a show as bad as this and say "Yeah it was pretty good". On some level, they get that it's not great but they don't really know why... They just think that all scripts are scripts and it's just a matter of filming them.
I could gen AND write a better script than this
There's no way AI would write something this terrible.
"the power of one, the power of two, the power of many" is a perfect example of dialogue created by AI
"Write me a scene where a space hamster tricks and then does battle with a Sith."
I was told once that 'tv' shows are so much better now because writers don't have to come up with 20+ episodes of material anymore. Meaning they needed a lot of filler to create so many episodes, so you may get 2 great episodes, 6 good ones, 10 average, and 7 would be bad. The implication being in 10 episodes you can cut out all the bad and most of the average and it will be an overall very good show. I told him in theory he makes sense, but let me introduce you to reality. please meet the acolyte.
Ha! If they cut all the bad material, they won't have enough material for 2 episodes, let alone a season.
The Sopranos had what, 14 eps per season? Even the "side-quest" episodes (except maybe for the Kevin Finnerty ones), such as Pine Barrens, were entertaining.
There's no fixing or remediating incompetence.
Tv shows back then were so much better, because they had 20+ episodes imo. They would include so much in 40 minutes and had enough time to flush out the story and make us care for the characters, without rushing anything. We also didn’t have to wait over a year for the next season since it took like 5/6 months to complete 1 season 😭😭
@@qtasma What appears to be the "story" of this show would make a tight, densely-written script for a two hour movie.
A slog?
What are you on about? Watching Acolyte is my favourite time of the week.
Me and my Uncle grab a beer and snacks and get ready for the funniest 25 minutes of our lives.
This is peak parody.
So, she cuts her hair with a light saber…her hair has to stink..
“Seduced by the dark side” took on a whole new meaning with this episode.😂
Giggity.
Fifty shades of force lightning.
"What tipped you to the Darkside? The red lightsabers?"
"Yea, his 'lightsaber' did it."
Well, they already got the whip lightsabers...
Jason would take it too literal
Anyone else think about Spaceballs when the "limp" lightsaber comes on screen...I should've phrased that differently LMAO
“You mean the force?” “No. The Schwartz.”
*"The Schwartz?!"*
What’s wrong with the lightwhip? It’s been a thing in Star Wars since the 80s.
I love how light speed isn’t travel anymore, it’s galactic teleportation. Yet no-one uses courier drones to direct transmit important info instantly.
Yet 99% of the issues are caused by sending 1-2 people in personal pan-galactic TARDIS to deal with problems that the refuse to describe, are never recorded or reported on properly and are forgotten about seconds after the slaughter ends.