The most annoying thing about the cortosis is that it’s been used well before in Star Wars. There’s a comic (pre Disney, go figure) where a bunch of Jedi survivors set a trap for Vader in a spice mine in Kessel, by leaking that obi wan was hiding there. One of the Jedi masters, Shadday Potkin had a cortosis blade, and used it to deactivate Vader’s blade. While she was gloating, Vaders response was to go “cortosis, that’s annoying, and very rare. Kind of you to bring one to me” Snaps her neck, and uses the blade against the other Jedi. Because he’s Vader. Gimmicks don’t work on him for long. Also we have a “badass angry female padawan” who rushes Vader at the start. She lives approximately 3 seconds. Incidentally, that’s what I wanted the Kenobi series to be. Vader rampaging through the galaxy like a hurricane killing Jedi and Inquisitors and Rebels alike, trying to find where Kenobi is. Prime Vader “you have failed me inquisitor.” All of that. Obi-Wan on the other hand is trying his hardest to stay hidden, because he has a more important job to do than settle a grudge match with Anakin. He’s looking after Luke.
That wouldn't have ever worked because the Vader = Anakin retcon has the glaring plot hole of Kenobi and Skywalker living on Anakin's homeworld using their real names. 🤦♂️
Yes, it was actually the Obi-Wan Kenobi series that did me in. It was so disappointing. They could’ve done so much with it. They wasted an opportunity by having Hayden and Ewen get back into it close to the shape as they were in for revenge of the Sith Instead they wasted it by telling us stories about Reva and Leia and Leah is definitely one of my lifetime favorites. I mean, I’m an OG girl. I don’t remember my first time seeing any of the movies but I do always remember playing Leah and being Leia they made me resent Leia, she just didn’t belong there. This was Luke’s story so the bait and switch to I don’t know to try to draw girls or make girls happy. no I was here to see the men that’s what they advertised plus, I messed up by reading some of the EU stuff about Kenobi and so I expected better stories. I know I’m done but gotta keep in mind. I love Mando one and two and this was coming right off Mando one and two. Of course they ruined Mando three and was it for me My most recent video focuses on the treatment of male fans. My comments have several from life long female fans like myself that are done too.
There's a really good Comic with the special material involving Vader and an assassin. It's hilarious cause the Assassin disables Vader's saber.. and then Vader just beats the breaks off the assassin cause he is mostly robot hahah
Yord referring to Jecki as a Jedi, made me roll my eyes. She was a Padawan, not a Jedi. You’re only a Jedi if you complete the trials. The writers must have been smoking blunts, or were half asleep when they were writing this.
The scene where Luke collapses in the blizzard on Hoth feels real because it was real. They filmed on a glacier in Norway in the middle of a blizzard, just yards away from their hotel. The filmcrew was standing on the patio while Mark struggled through the snow right outside. Between every take the whole crew rushed back inside because it was so bad.
Practical effects and real locations will ALWAYS be better than CGI. You don't have to tell the actors, "look cold, imagine you're in a vast winter wasteland" they will naturally act appropriately because they're IN the environment!
Cortosis was very well handled and very well established by a talented writer, Timothy Zahn, that made some of the best Star Wars novels. He also had creatures named ysalamir that created these.... bubbles... of dead space where the Force could not be felt or manipulated. All discovered on a single world where there were predator species that literally hunted via the Force. The Thrawn trilogy is fantastic. This use of cortosis in Acolyte is just another example of Disney taking good ideas of better men and bastardizing them just like they did with Grand Admiral Thrawn himself.
Correct, in the EU the Cortosis ore had severe downsides to being used as armor, you could not headbutt with a helmet of it like the Acolyte showed, Disney has made it on par with Beskar which is stupid.
I've always thought ysalamiri didn't make much sense but Zahn used them well and consistently enough that I was able to accept them. The people involved with the Acolyte can't manage the second part.
They were both really bad and a better writer wouldn't have needed them. Cortosis, Beskar, Ysalamari, Phrik, none of them should be in big-budget Star Wars projects. For the record, Force Storms that can destroy entire fleets and that stupid little Ghost Navy that Luke Skywalker created were also bad. George Lucas knew about all of these before creating the PT, and he had the rightful sense not to introduce any of them. Zahn wrote himself into a corner by making Force users more powerful than GL intended, so he needed something to "balance" out his own mistake. When Star Wars was first bought by Disney and they announced they were canning the EU, I thought the silver-lining was that they wouldn't be beholden to a Star Wars universe that had ridiculous shit like the aforementioned, but instead of cherry-picking the good stuff, they're cherry-picking the lamest elements of the EU.
@@MN-jw7mm Zahn's Cortosis was a pretty balance for a unique material that was more of a curiosity that expanded the world than the anti jedi armor that Disney made it. How did Zhan make the Jedi more powerful than Lucas intended? The Trilogy and Duology made the Jedi more grounded and usually power down the Jedi. Did the EU have Dragonball type power level spikes for the Force, yes but it wasn't Zhan. Totally agree they are cherry picking the worst parts of the EU, that is why I can't watch most of it anymore because all I see is where the plagiarized from the EU and somehow made poor source material worse.
Yep you are too right sol said he recognised him the other moronic jedi said "he gets in your head he stays there." Then mae says "my mother could do that" out of nowhere for no fukin reason soooo yeah id say somehow he brainwashed that floaty suicidal jedi kill the witches and that was the deal there....
The only reason he didn't turn off his lightsaber this episode is so that they can badly execute the bugs attracted to light thingy. Osha won't have the opportunity to exposit that the bugs is attracted to light if he turned it off.
Ep. 5 is a prime example of People have been eating sh*t for so long, when Disney sprinkles some sugar on it, they call it ice cream. But not just that, when people eat the "ice cream" they get all weird and feel compelled tell everyone that, "Hey, at least they put sugar on it this time ... And sugar is sweet." ... Uh, sure ... Sugar is sweet. But you're still eating sh*t. "C'mon guys. Lets give credit where credit is due and be "ObJeCtIvE"... Its not ALL sh*t ... There's nuts in it too. And I like nuts..." ...😐😑
If the Prequels have taught me anything it is that people will defend Star Wars so long as it has even the slightest tinge of sweetness, they only truly hate it when there is absolutely nothing. The Mandalorian also proved that, so many episodes were pointless filler or mediocre at best, but because it wasn't absolutely horrible people were gobbling it up. Episode 5 was a lot more like Star Wars then every other episode of The Acolyte, but to say it was "Star Wars" is like saying a pile of shit is ice cream because it actually once was ice cream. I can't quite blame the fans though, I think we've been dying for good Star Wars media for far too long now.
The stun gun scene reminds me of the scene with Christopher Walken: "Give me that stun gun!" "No." "Why?!" "Because I don't want to." "But I have a light saber!" "I don't care."
Put your hands up. - No. What? - I said no. Why not? - I don't want to. But I've got a gun - I don't care. But.. that doesn't make any sense. - Too bad. 7 Psychopaths best scene imo
Every character in this show says things like. "IM NEVER GONNA DO THAT!" Then say "Let's go do that, immediately! It was always a good idea you idiot!"
You impz are the reason you're single. You types gas up the heads of 3s and 4s, now they ALL think they're 10s and ALL think they're out of your league, even when they aren't, this keeping you single.
Agree with Mauler, and I've commented this many times. The fight between Luke and Vader in Empire is by FAR the best sabre fight in Star Wars because of what it SAYS in the scenes. At first Vader is basically submissive, he doesn't want to kill Luke, he wants to capture him and return him to the Emperor. That's WHY he tests the Carbonite on Han! He's even fighting one handed. He has zero respect for Luke's abilities. It's only when Luke gets a hit on him that he gets angry and starts using 2 hands, and he's over it. Even though Luke's doing his best, Vader unleashes his anger and cuts his arm off. Only THEN does he get control and once again try to convert Luke, eventually revealing that he's his father. Which by the way, NOBODY believed in 1980. Everyone thought it was just a ruse to trick Luke. Then we had to wait 3 years until Jedi to know it was true. THIS is how you do sword/sabre fights in movies. You tell a STORY.
Agree with everything you said.... EXCEPT I still like the duel in Jedi the best. At that point we've seen Luke complete his character arc and it's really the second and third most powerful force users in the Galaxy dueling it out in front of the most powerful. Vader had to fight harder than in Empire, but overall he had the upper hand because of Luke's compassion for him that caused him to hold back and lower his guard, but then Vander yucked it up by threatening Leia. It was only then that Luke lost control and let his rage make him strong enough to beat Vader down with sheer violence.... and then at the last second before chopping his head off like he did in Dagobah swamp (dooming himself in the process to the Dark Side) he sees his wounded father, robotic hand severed just like his own was in Empire and he realized... "I'm becoming him!" Only then does Luke cast away his light saber and face the Emperor with complete vulnerability Then the capstone is when Vader, seeing his son dying at the Emperor's hands before his eyes, flips the tables on the Emperor and kills him (forever, Palpatine never "somehow" returned... that movie does not exist), sacrificing himself in the process. Soooooo many high stakes in that last duel and the climax. Father and Son dueling for the fate of the universe and themselves. The Light side triumphs over the Dark. Good wins. Evil is vanquished at a high cost.... YAY!!!! It's only later when you think over the timeline that the duel didn't matter much.... Han's team deactivated the shield and the rebels blew up the Death Star anyway. Everyone on there: Luke, Vader, Emperor.... they would've gone ka-blooey in about 10 minutes regardless of who won. But it mattered because we saw Luke almost fall into Darkness and Vader's redemption. That's why it mattered.
The duel in Empire is also the best of the franchise because it handles one thing that the rest of the series either forgets or neglects. Lightsabers are fucking dangerous. No flashy flips and flourishes. It looks more like two fencers, carefully probing the other's defenses and just attempting to land a strike. ANY strike. As even a touch will cause severe damage to your enemy.
The main problem with the Cortosis is that it is not set up properly as a plot element. In the Mandalorian, Beskar has enough exposition so that you understand how durable it is, and then when we see characters in Beskar tanking hits, it makes sense. Here, Smilo Ren shrugs off direct blows from lightsabers, causes the weapons to malfunction, and there's no explanation given. And no amount of "Ermm, Akshooally...🤓" is going to fix that because most normies are either going to be like: "They nerfed lightsabers again" or "Why don't they mass-produce this armour?" and just baffled in general because it's not properly set up or explained in-universe..
Contrast to the second appearance in the EU, where Luke and Mara filling in each other's knowledge gaps (Luke has heard the name and some stories of it and what it does but never actually encountered it pure before, Mara has seen layers of it incorporated into the walls used to shield Palpatine's throne rooms but never had any idea what made it special or why her former boss was so interested in it) and them physically interacting with it informs the audience of everything they need to know.
Starsky and Hutch was a great tv series in the 80s, but the movie version was fucking hilarious. Ben Stiller playing Starsky mistakes Cocaine for Sugar and what follows is one of the funniest scenes ever.
Does ingesting cocaine have the same effect as snorting? I haven't seen the movie- but 'Deadwood' mentioned a character eating mar1juana ('a ball of dope'), rather than smoking it - so I was just wondering if it was a possibility...
There was a Darth Maul fan film that had similar fight choreography to the new Acolyte episode. I don’t think they deserve too much praise for taking many years to reach the standards of a fan film.
I was pleasantly surprised by what happened to jecki and Yord. I’d just assumed that they would have impenetrable plot armour and we’d have to put up with them till the end.
In the EU cortosis not only has a believable in-world explanantion to it, but is also introduced into the EU in a way that works (adds to the story, makes sense both in a narrative sense and an in-world factual sense, it was explained to the readers as well and in a way that didn't take you out of the story) unlike in this show. Much like how in real (Lucas) SW fire happened in space as well sound, the problem is not the 'thing' itself but how disney wars (mis)uses these 'things' in their stories and how weak their basic story telling is - they tell us things they should be showing us and show us things they should be telling us.
the helmet breaks conveniently by the chic which is obvious plot armor and girl power move---even in a sci-fi or fantasy series you need some logical reference points unless you explain everything away with magic
@@nondei-2025 EU pure cortosis was brittle and useless for anything but lightsaber defense, so it breaking from a punch is reasonable. The problem is EU cortosis also was still damaged by lightsaber strikes, even though it disables them, so it should have gotten visibly scorched each time it was hit.
@@kanrakucheeseyeah, they didn't establish what it was so it looked cool but is simultaneously stupid and raises more questions. The show also seems to imply that it blocks force energy, though only one way seemingly. 🤔 Unless they're trying to suggest the 'thread' analogy is the correct one and the energy field view that's already established is incorrect? 🤔
@@kanrakucheese exactly. In the EU it had established rules and reasons which made in-world sense why you didn't see people running around with cortosis armour. And it wasn't completely "magically" impervious to lightsabers. Disney wars went for what looked "cool" without any substance behind it which then makes it ultimately seem stupid unless you're happy to stay at the purely surface level aesthetics. But Disney Wars is all about aesthetics more than anything else. They continue to take things from the EU and abuse them in their "story telling". Personally I'd rather they leave the EU alone than have them do things like this.
5:00 Nice I remember in Force unleashed, the last mission, starkiller was in a snow planetC and they put him in all white looking shrouds. I remembering thinking “whoa…. He looks dope. A white ninja”
Fun Fact. Cortosis. Was also used in Soulcalibur IV. To explain why Darth Vader, Yoda, and Starkiller(The Apprentice) couldn't cut through everyone else's swords. Apparently Earth is abundant with Cortosis. And Earthlings are really good at turning this metal into whatever we want.
14:00 Cortosis is super brittle, that’s why it shatters when Jecki elbows it or whatever. It’s not used everywhere bc it’s bad as a practical armor, it’s only good against Jedi. I hate this show but the Cortosis is probably the best memberberry they have in the show.
The force in the original movies was very hard to use, very subtle and required immense training and self control to utilize. Now children can drag planets around space like a pool table. It's a wholly different thing. They should call it super-force or something
Kenobi killed that for me. Vader basically using the Force to keep a ship from taking off with full thrusters WHILE in combat with Reva (kinda)? Meanwhile Yoda took forever and a day to lift an idle ship out of a Dagobah swamp when Yoda is every inch a Force user as Vader...sure, Disney.
It makes sense that it would be given that it’s inspired by the weirding way from Dune, which is the culmination of physical and mental perfection of humanity over centuries combined with years of training (and drugs)
disney: dur hur cortosis shits down lightsabers without explaination Expanded Universe that connects the geroge lucas era: cortosis was used in the construction of a specifically designed b-3 Ultra Battle Driod, preventing lightsaber cutting or easily plasma damage
I think it's mentioned even in some new canon books, the new Thrawn trilogy, to be exact. There is a flashback part in one of the books about Anakin meeting Thrawn and discovering Separatist's secret factory producing cortosis clone trooper's armors. And it is hinted there, that Palpatine was probably planning on using these reinforced armors for Order 66.
At least in Mando, they had the good sense to note that beskar is super hard to come by, and that he's doing the jobs to assemble a suit bit by bit... or one super big job.
@@TheSchaef47 if you are talking about the show they created, i feel like they are leaving things out or misinforming on behalf of their lousey atempt of their own lore between the skywalker story
@@clonecommando-cn6bo no, I just mean that Mando wasn't finding beskar under every rock and tree, and there were limits to how much plot armor it provided.
Cortosis is actually an interesting material, not complete bullshit like beskar. The showrunners are retarded, so they made it into an impossible material. I believe Cortosis is a mineral, not a metal, making it very hard to work with. Being a mineral also makes it very brittle. Cortosis blades would usually be a normal metal blade with a sliver of cortosis in the edge area, great for lightsaber fights but mostly useless for everything else. And in good fashion of the writing, jedi have no idea what cortosis is or what properties it has, so they keep attacking his helmet and his vambraces. I find very hard to believe jedi would not know what cortosis is and what it does to a lightsaber beam. In one of the legends comics, right after Order 66, Vader starts hunting down the last remaining Jedi. And a group of them lays a trap for him. He is casually steamrolling them, until one of them pulls off a cortosis enhanced blade and shutsdown his lightsaber. This only pisses Vader off and he just force pulls her with massive power and one handed strangles her to death. Yes the EU comics are grea (not the Filoni shit though) And one last thing. Jecki actually uses her lightsaber hilt to break the mask, not her elbow. Of couse its the only instance the helmet could appear to be brittle, but still takes two hits to break. I was kinda glad to see cortosis appear in a live action StarWars show, but its really sad that its in a show with this quality.
After all the diverse people involved in the production took their cut they had a handful of change to make the show. And it shows. Or more accurately it tells me because there really is fuckall showing going on.
This is also why the Anakin vs. Obi-Wan fight in Revenge of the Sith is so great: Anakin’s fighting style changes and gets more brutal during the battle. There is characterization worked into the choreography, and you literally watch him become Darth Vader during that fight.
The first time I heard of the concept of a metal that can resist lightsabers was when it was used in the video game "Jedi Outcast" where the last batch of powerful Dark Jedi were used to fight Kyle Katarn during the last mission of the game.
My first as well. They primed you on what the material was before your first encounter with the Shadow Troopers, which was a great way to naturally demonstrate how the cortosis was being used.
Cortosis alloy is relatively common in video games. It shows up in the KotOR games (which a WotC rulebook establishes is why the material is so rare: All the mines were depleted back when enemy lightsaber was a real threat, and nobody bothers with new ones when enemy lightsabers aren't a thing anymore), a few games set in the Clone Wars, and some other stuff. Pure cortosis, which disables lightsabers, was only ever shown (instead of described in text) in some comic books.
The Helmet breaks off because apparently the metal, Cortosis, is brittle after it’s finally forged. So it shorts out the lightsaber, but the lightsaber isn’t brute force, it’s plasma. Theoretically, it would actually make more sense the hit it with a blunt object. Which Jecki…or whatever her name was…did.
The big problem with the Cortosis usage is that it gets zero explanation or implication to it's usage in the show, so only the people who have extensive knowledge of the EU might catch onto it- the EU that, if one remembers, was officially decanonized by Disney. yet they still pull pieces of it whenever they think it's cool for something.
Master Squid Game: "Osha, why does your hair stink?" Osha thinks, what if he reads my mind to find out I'm Mae, and I hacked my hair off like a child getting ahold of scissors to get gum out? What if he asks me questions only Osha knows? Master Squid Game thinks, I should read her mind. Nah, the script doesn't call for it.
It was usually backed up with how rare it was and how there weren't any (maybe three) beings who could forge stuff from it. Obviously we'd have to wonder why super rich people wouldn't use it despite its costs and difficulty, but you'd have plenty of reasons why they wouldn't (Sith don't use them by way of lifestyle, it's too easily spotted and would make you a target by force users, it's also not well known etc. ). It's dumb that some rando Asian Ezra Miller wannabe has armour made out of it, and it's clear it was haphazardly put in because "it's cool".
Drinker makes the crucial point so many seem to miss. A Star Wars fight is not really about how good the choreography is. It's about INVESTMENT in the outcome of that fight. Investment in terms of the work done to build up tension, investment in the characters involved, the stakes that are presented, everything that came together to lead up to a dramatic point. Even animated fights, such as Rebels Obi-Wan vs Maul, understood this. That 2min scene in Rebels eclipses anything seen here in 20min of live action. So Disney have understood this in the past, so has Filoni, they are just choosing not to do the work anymore.
Most of the acting and script for this series is just not very good... though, episode 5 was a step in the right direction (it was the most Star Wars feeling episode). The 3rd episode was horrible. The other episodes have been below OK. I was relieved to see Yord Fandar character ended (he was weak and didn't add anything to the series). I also didn't care much for the Jacki Lon character, based on all previous episodes... however, I was slightly sad when she was killed off (after seeing her excellent combat skills). It was stupid (I would say surprising, but this shit show is not very surprising) that Sol didn't know that Mae traded places with Osha. I understand he is emotional at this point, but Mae cutting her hair with a lightsaber like that wouldn't necessarily make her look exactly like Osha. Besides, Osha and Mae have different "vibes" and body movements that a Jedi Master should have picked up on. Is Cortosis a rip off of Adamantium and Vibranium??? WTF?
"They were willing to kill off fairly important characters." Were they even fairly important, tho? They were barely characters. More like props, like Osha's pocket droid. They accomplished nothing of any substance (aside from being idiots and doing everything to allow SmiloRen to get away and escape in Ep2) in the episodes they were in. Jecki or Yord did less than Osha's pocket droid. The only thing that makes them unique is they have names and spoke words. Their characterization was inconsistent and superficial. Will they ever be brought up again in any meaningful way? Their deaths barely registered on Sol or Osha's emotional radar. In the end, they were things to build up Osha (like exposition), and their deaths were to build up SmiloRen as the baddie. But, more importantly, their deaths were 100% required to aid the ridiculous Parent Trap switcheroo at the end the writers seemed to really really want. The switch couldn't work if they lived. So which was more important to the writers/showrunners? Them as characters, or getting the Osha/Mae switch plotline in the show? It will really reveal if they even mattered in-story to the characters in any substantial way or to the writers themselves if these characters are ever brought up again and how. But the fact Sol walked off without addressing their deaths or even bothering to check them shows an indifference (primarily by the writers) to the characters, all unceremoniously sacrificed to serve the plot revolving around Mae, Osha, and Sol. It is highly likely the writers never cared about the characters and are really only hyper-focused on the Mae-Osha storyline, which continues to refuse to be remain consistent. They couldn't have Sol stopping to check everyone for signs of life, mourn his dead allies and/or give them a funeral because that would damage the identity switch plotline when fake-Osha is having to pretend to be her sister in Sol's immediate company. Even they probably knew that would stretch the boundaries of believability that Sol wouldn't pick up on that in such a character-driven scene. Or they just didn't care about the characters. I think they wanted an identity switch plot and probably get Osha to Coruscant, thus needed to get Mae-as-Osha to wherever they need her to go for next forced scene to take place as quickly as possible. And all those Jedi couldn't be alive for this story to happen. So they axed them. Not really caring that this doesn't make sense as far as how the characters would reaction, or how it might negatively reflect on Sol's character. The only thing that matters is getting Mae alone with Sol and wherever else they want the plot to go. And they sure as heck felt more of a need to have as much action and flashy-flash in ep5 and zero in character focus aside from Mae/Osha. Honestly, Yord and Jecki mattered to the The Acolyte show as much as the unnamed Jedi did. They existed to fill out the ranks until they weren't needed anymore.
Those jedi clothes looks more like cheap bath robes from TEMU, they don't look like jedi, they look more like a cheap party using leggings, that female protagonist is using her granma jumper, the golden lightsabers were supposed to be super uncannon, only found in video games. super lame... but I like your reviews :)
This criticism is so lame. I mean, at least this Light saber fight has multiple layers, has a turning point when the mask comes off and he switches to kill mode, the Darth Che does not want to kill the padawan until he has to, even retreats from the fight at one point. Everyone has their own fighting style. Sometimes multiple ones they switch between. What is it you want? Fights of many against one are always a bit stupid, with ppl stumbling around the scenery to wait for their turn. Not saying everything was perfect but ... for a Series it was pretty damn good I'd say.
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14:17 Yeah ... Cortosis can short-circuit lightsabers, BUT beside it being very hard to refine, it only has a little chance to have the aforementioned effect on lightsabers, it doesn't even nearly work every ... f*cking ... time!!!
EU cannon for Cortosis basically can be summed up as this: It’s a really rare resource that exists only in a few backwater worlds that don’t have the infrastructure to mine it very well, or the ability to process it very well. What amounts of it can be extracted cost a small fortune to buy and refine into anything beyond a trinket, but the material when refined is energy absorbent and heat immune, making it the perfect anti-lightsaber metal. It’s a cool gimmick item for top of the line bounty hunters or warrior nobles to use to cross with a Jedi when they do things the council doesn’t like.
people always forget the clone wars. it’s animated, but the light saber battles there are insanely good. especially in season 7, the fight between ahsoka and maul is motion capture and the choreography is so good
Disney productions do not have characters, they have representations, to the point when even the one white guy can be seen as a representation. So again, how many representations were killed off in this episode by Smilo Ren?
And then it's even only good looking on the surface. When you take a closer look, then it becomes ridiculous whenever there are more than 2 people fighting. Suddenly they stand still and do nothing or they do complete nonsense. In each fight where Smilo Ren takes on more than 1 opponent at once he would die if not for their stupidity to do nothing or nonsense.
A friend of mine remarked that the writer of the show just might be bad with numbers and thought a millennium was just 100 years. I laughed till I choked up in realization that this might be true.
Cortosis is fine, but its poor storytelling to just have it appear out of nowhere. It should have been set up earlier. Maybe in a scene where an idiot, instead of saying you can't kill Jedi with x y z, is explaining different x y z ways of defeating jedi.
Oh Cortosis. I remember the KOTOR games have straight up swords made out of them. You get funny scenarios where you fight normal dudes with your lightsabers and then pull out your metal sword against siths.
It's cause those games run off of a fork of Dungeons & Dragons, D&D having always been very melee-focused, and them needing a way to explain all those melee weapons going toe to toe with lightsabers.
The most annoying thing about the cortosis is that it’s been used well before in Star Wars.
There’s a comic (pre Disney, go figure) where a bunch of Jedi survivors set a trap for Vader in a spice mine in Kessel, by leaking that obi wan was hiding there. One of the Jedi masters, Shadday Potkin had a cortosis blade, and used it to deactivate Vader’s blade. While she was gloating, Vaders response was to go “cortosis, that’s annoying, and very rare. Kind of you to bring one to me” Snaps her neck, and uses the blade against the other Jedi. Because he’s Vader. Gimmicks don’t work on him for long. Also we have a “badass angry female padawan” who rushes Vader at the start. She lives approximately 3 seconds.
Incidentally, that’s what I wanted the Kenobi series to be. Vader rampaging through the galaxy like a hurricane killing Jedi and Inquisitors and Rebels alike, trying to find where Kenobi is. Prime Vader “you have failed me inquisitor.” All of that. Obi-Wan on the other hand is trying his hardest to stay hidden, because he has a more important job to do than settle a grudge match with Anakin. He’s looking after Luke.
That wouldn't have ever worked because the Vader = Anakin retcon has the glaring plot hole of Kenobi and Skywalker living on Anakin's homeworld using their real names. 🤦♂️
Bruh I’d watch that without a doubt
Yes, it was actually the Obi-Wan Kenobi series that did me in. It was so disappointing. They could’ve done so much with it. They wasted an opportunity by having Hayden and Ewen get back into it close to the shape as they were in for revenge of the Sith Instead they wasted it by telling us stories about Reva and Leia and Leah is definitely one of my lifetime favorites. I mean, I’m an OG girl. I don’t remember my first time seeing any of the movies but I do always remember playing Leah and being Leia they made me resent Leia, she just didn’t belong there. This was Luke’s story so the bait and switch to I don’t know to try to draw girls or make girls happy.
no I was here to see the men that’s what they advertised plus, I messed up by reading some of the EU stuff about Kenobi and so I expected better stories. I know I’m done but gotta keep in mind. I love Mando one and two and this was coming right off Mando one and two. Of course they ruined Mando three and was it for me
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I'm just shocked anyone attached to this show knew cortosis was a thing!
It also sounds and looks in writing like a disease, not a metal
You can paint a garbage can gold but in the end it's still a garbage can.
The teeth on the helmet probably belonged to those dead witches... Power of many... Power of Plot magic
I wouldn’t even call it garbage at this point? It’s just straight up a travesty what they’ve done with the Star Wars franchise. Lol
There's a really good Comic with the special material involving Vader and an assassin. It's hilarious cause the Assassin disables Vader's saber.. and then Vader just beats the breaks off the assassin cause he is mostly robot hahah
Acolyte Episode 5: one of the episodes of all time
14:00 that stuff existed even on legends. It was the stuff that mandalorians used and reason why they could have fighting chanse against Jedi
Yord referring to Jecki as a Jedi, made me roll my eyes. She was a Padawan, not a Jedi. You’re only a Jedi if you complete the trials. The writers must have been smoking blunts, or were half asleep when they were writing this.
Snary jay... fuck ya. Love when yters get together like this
The scene where Luke collapses in the blizzard on Hoth feels real because it was real. They filmed on a glacier in Norway in the middle of a blizzard, just yards away from their hotel. The filmcrew was standing on the patio while Mark struggled through the snow right outside. Between every take the whole crew rushed back inside because it was so bad.
Wow, that's really cool. Never really looked into behind the scenes stuff in those movies and I didn't know that.
@@SamtheBravesFan You should! The BTS of the original 6 is amazing
Practical effects and real locations will ALWAYS be better than CGI. You don't have to tell the actors, "look cold, imagine you're in a vast winter wasteland" they will naturally act appropriately because they're IN the environment!
Didn't know that. Wow. Thanks for the post.
@thelaughingrouge disney needs to return to that, the cgi sets are horrible and it isn't covid anymore.
"What's your name, son?" "Sith." "Sith, what? Who are your people?" "I have no people. I'm alone." "Sith... Solo."
Just for the record... I've never seen this soy latte drinker at any of the Sith gatherings. So, I'm calling B.S. on his claim of being a Sith.
Those idiot writers at disney think that ANYONE using the dark side of the force is automatically a sith.
@@TJCID22pff we let normies take control and look what happened...
come on man the solo movie is one of the better disney sw failures cut it some slack
LOL. You all will diss me for this, but... I liked Solo. Ahhh. Said it!
Cortosis was very well handled and very well established by a talented writer, Timothy Zahn, that made some of the best Star Wars novels. He also had creatures named ysalamir that created these.... bubbles... of dead space where the Force could not be felt or manipulated. All discovered on a single world where there were predator species that literally hunted via the Force. The Thrawn trilogy is fantastic.
This use of cortosis in Acolyte is just another example of Disney taking good ideas of better men and bastardizing them just like they did with Grand Admiral Thrawn himself.
Correct, in the EU the Cortosis ore had severe downsides to being used as armor, you could not headbutt with a helmet of it like the Acolyte showed, Disney has made it on par with Beskar which is stupid.
@@Amoschp524 stupid but it was kinda cool
I've always thought ysalamiri didn't make much sense but Zahn used them well and consistently enough that I was able to accept them. The people involved with the Acolyte can't manage the second part.
They were both really bad and a better writer wouldn't have needed them. Cortosis, Beskar, Ysalamari, Phrik, none of them should be in big-budget Star Wars projects. For the record, Force Storms that can destroy entire fleets and that stupid little Ghost Navy that Luke Skywalker created were also bad. George Lucas knew about all of these before creating the PT, and he had the rightful sense not to introduce any of them. Zahn wrote himself into a corner by making Force users more powerful than GL intended, so he needed something to "balance" out his own mistake.
When Star Wars was first bought by Disney and they announced they were canning the EU, I thought the silver-lining was that they wouldn't be beholden to a Star Wars universe that had ridiculous shit like the aforementioned, but instead of cherry-picking the good stuff, they're cherry-picking the lamest elements of the EU.
@@MN-jw7mm Zahn's Cortosis was a pretty balance for a unique material that was more of a curiosity that expanded the world than the anti jedi armor that Disney made it. How did Zhan make the Jedi more powerful than Lucas intended? The Trilogy and Duology made the Jedi more grounded and usually power down the Jedi. Did the EU have Dragonball type power level spikes for the Force, yes but it wasn't Zhan.
Totally agree they are cherry picking the worst parts of the EU, that is why I can't watch most of it anymore because all I see is where the plagiarized from the EU and somehow made poor source material worse.
What you haven't comprehended by now: Qimir is one of the witches - he just has recently trans-sith-ioned.
Groan!!! Boooo!!! Lol
😂
Don’t disrespect the Sith like that.
this is exactly the kind of shitty plot twist i am expecting from this series
Yep you are too right sol said he recognised him the other moronic jedi said "he gets in your head he stays there." Then mae says "my mother could do that" out of nowhere for no fukin reason soooo yeah id say somehow he brainwashed that floaty suicidal jedi kill the witches and that was the deal there....
"A jedi only pulls his lightsaber when he is ready to kill"
*Yord using it as a flashlight for 3 whole episodes*
The only reason he didn't turn off his lightsaber this episode is so that they can badly execute the bugs attracted to light thingy. Osha won't have the opportunity to exposit that the bugs is attracted to light if he turned it off.
He is always ready to kill our patience
@@dire213 Referencing a scene and series of events _he himself witnessed_
And obi wan cuts some random limbs here and there on episode 4 if I remember correctly
He's killingTheDarkness.
Ep. 5 is a prime example of People have been eating sh*t for so long, when Disney sprinkles some sugar on it, they call it ice cream. But not just that, when people eat the "ice cream" they get all weird and feel compelled tell everyone that, "Hey, at least they put sugar on it this time ... And sugar is sweet."
... Uh, sure ... Sugar is sweet. But you're still eating sh*t.
"C'mon guys. Lets give credit where credit is due and be "ObJeCtIvE"... Its not ALL sh*t ... There's nuts in it too. And I like nuts..."
...😐😑
lol !!
Mae: How many Shite Creams 💩 are you going to have? 😮😊
Disney Star Wars, The Diabetus Returns
Well said
If the Prequels have taught me anything it is that people will defend Star Wars so long as it has even the slightest tinge of sweetness, they only truly hate it when there is absolutely nothing. The Mandalorian also proved that, so many episodes were pointless filler or mediocre at best, but because it wasn't absolutely horrible people were gobbling it up.
Episode 5 was a lot more like Star Wars then every other episode of The Acolyte, but to say it was "Star Wars" is like saying a pile of shit is ice cream because it actually once was ice cream. I can't quite blame the fans though, I think we've been dying for good Star Wars media for far too long now.
The stun gun scene reminds me of the scene with Christopher Walken:
"Give me that stun gun!"
"No."
"Why?!"
"Because I don't want to."
"But I have a light saber!"
"I don't care."
(Charisma 100)
@@patrioticcat5768 lol playing through New Vegas with 100 Speech
"But that doesn't make any sense"
@@patrioticcat5768 speech 100
Put your hands up.
- No.
What?
- I said no.
Why not?
- I don't want to.
But I've got a gun
- I don't care.
But.. that doesn't make any sense.
- Too bad.
7 Psychopaths best scene imo
Spectacle without substance is nothing
It's worse than nothing...it's robbery
there is some tiny bits of substance from the fight and the character but its just sucked out by the setting.
Unfortunately the substance is THE MESSAGE, and even then that's been overshadowed by the nonsensical plot.
Sound and fury, signifying nothing
Every character in this show says things like. "IM NEVER GONNA DO THAT!" Then say "Let's go do that, immediately! It was always a good idea you idiot!"
No character in this show can ever make up their mind. It's like they're running on short-term memory alone.
Yeah it's basically the characters from Kung Pow!
"I will never do it!"
"Please! I implore you to reconsider"
"OK"
That's a goofy comedy though.
@@EvilDoresh Hello, I'm from the council, and I have short-term memory loss.
The way a woman’s mind functions, basically.
“A Jedi like you might call me…Sith.”
“So what, we’re some kind of Suicide Squad?”
They’re the same picture.
"Good. Twice The Pride, Double The Fall."
"No, Dooku. It's Morbin time"
Is it some kind of…Dracula
It looks like to solve this Im going to have to become Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
“There are some who call me… Tim.”
for the tin fargments o credit to give.
nah there. one is just name dropiing, the other is the guy being coy/mocking.
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Booba Fett, more like.
@@1OnlyOneOnlyOne1Why you looking bruh ? 👀😏
She's annoying AF
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Agree with Mauler, and I've commented this many times. The fight between Luke and Vader in Empire is by FAR the best sabre fight in Star Wars because of what it SAYS in the scenes. At first Vader is basically submissive, he doesn't want to kill Luke, he wants to capture him and return him to the Emperor. That's WHY he tests the Carbonite on Han! He's even fighting one handed. He has zero respect for Luke's abilities. It's only when Luke gets a hit on him that he gets angry and starts using 2 hands, and he's over it. Even though Luke's doing his best, Vader unleashes his anger and cuts his arm off. Only THEN does he get control and once again try to convert Luke, eventually revealing that he's his father. Which by the way, NOBODY believed in 1980. Everyone thought it was just a ruse to trick Luke. Then we had to wait 3 years until Jedi to know it was true. THIS is how you do sword/sabre fights in movies. You tell a STORY.
essentially saber duel is to forward the plot/story, not the entire point of its own.
Cuts his hand off 😉 I really liked the emotion in Luke/Vader saber battles.
@@superdupermax It's like a musical that sings songs while forwarding the plot compared to a musical where the songs are fluff apart from the plot.
Agree with everything you said.... EXCEPT I still like the duel in Jedi the best. At that point we've seen Luke complete his character arc and it's really the second and third most powerful force users in the Galaxy dueling it out in front of the most powerful. Vader had to fight harder than in Empire, but overall he had the upper hand because of Luke's compassion for him that caused him to hold back and lower his guard, but then Vander yucked it up by threatening Leia. It was only then that Luke lost control and let his rage make him strong enough to beat Vader down with sheer violence.... and then at the last second before chopping his head off like he did in Dagobah swamp (dooming himself in the process to the Dark Side) he sees his wounded father, robotic hand severed just like his own was in Empire and he realized... "I'm becoming him!" Only then does Luke cast away his light saber and face the Emperor with complete vulnerability Then the capstone is when Vader, seeing his son dying at the Emperor's hands before his eyes, flips the tables on the Emperor and kills him (forever, Palpatine never "somehow" returned... that movie does not exist), sacrificing himself in the process.
Soooooo many high stakes in that last duel and the climax. Father and Son dueling for the fate of the universe and themselves. The Light side triumphs over the Dark. Good wins. Evil is vanquished at a high cost.... YAY!!!!
It's only later when you think over the timeline that the duel didn't matter much.... Han's team deactivated the shield and the rebels blew up the Death Star anyway. Everyone on there: Luke, Vader, Emperor.... they would've gone ka-blooey in about 10 minutes regardless of who won. But it mattered because we saw Luke almost fall into Darkness and Vader's redemption. That's why it mattered.
The duel in Empire is also the best of the franchise because it handles one thing that the rest of the series either forgets or neglects.
Lightsabers are fucking dangerous. No flashy flips and flourishes. It looks more like two fencers, carefully probing the other's defenses and just attempting to land a strike. ANY strike. As even a touch will cause severe damage to your enemy.
The main problem with the Cortosis is that it is not set up properly as a plot element. In the Mandalorian, Beskar has enough exposition so that you understand how durable it is, and then when we see characters in Beskar tanking hits, it makes sense. Here, Smilo Ren shrugs off direct blows from lightsabers, causes the weapons to malfunction, and there's no explanation given. And no amount of "Ermm, Akshooally...🤓" is going to fix that because most normies are either going to be like: "They nerfed lightsabers again" or "Why don't they mass-produce this armour?" and just baffled in general because it's not properly set up or explained in-universe..
Contrast to the second appearance in the EU, where Luke and Mara filling in each other's knowledge gaps (Luke has heard the name and some stories of it and what it does but never actually encountered it pure before, Mara has seen layers of it incorporated into the walls used to shield Palpatine's throne rooms but never had any idea what made it special or why her former boss was so interested in it) and them physically interacting with it informs the audience of everything they need to know.
Even in a Galaxy far, far away... The black character has no Father and resists arrest. Outstanding. Xoxo
The first episode "you match the description of someone from the crime scene" had me 😂
The unintentional racism is hilarious
@@thelaughingrouge but the truth so its not racism
Did they also have a pair of boxed Nikes under their arm?
@@joemama69448"we bought the witness to identify you, instwad of over communication devices"
Seems Cortosis would be a really suitable material for a lightsaber crossguard. Saber clash, enemy blade shorts out - you win 😂
Dual wielding a lightsaber and a cortosis blade seems like it'd be optimum.
Starsky and Hutch was a great tv series in the 80s, but the movie version was fucking hilarious. Ben Stiller playing Starsky mistakes Cocaine for Sugar and what follows is one of the funniest scenes ever.
Does ingesting cocaine have the same effect as snorting? I haven't seen the movie- but 'Deadwood' mentioned a character eating mar1juana ('a ball of dope'), rather than smoking it - so I was just wondering if it was a possibility...
There was a Darth Maul fan film that had similar fight choreography to the new Acolyte episode. I don’t think they deserve too much praise for taking many years to reach the standards of a fan film.
Yeeting flatulence is better than solid matter I suppose
You'd wonder if they, ahem, follow through...
I was pleasantly surprised by what happened to jecki and Yord. I’d just assumed that they would have impenetrable plot armour and we’d have to put up with them till the end.
From the clips it looks it was filmed in a Garden Centre lol
Rainforest Cafe at some random Mall
It's the best of the worst; not exactly a high bar, but it's a bar no less. 😂🎉
Episode five being the best episode so far is like being the tallest midget in a circus sideshow.
....they prefer little people 😮
@@deez3913Just not for the Snow White remake apparently.
bob igar take a billion dollar IP and hand it to secretaries great job KK
In the EU cortosis not only has a believable in-world explanantion to it, but is also introduced into the EU in a way that works (adds to the story, makes sense both in a narrative sense and an in-world factual sense, it was explained to the readers as well and in a way that didn't take you out of the story) unlike in this show. Much like how in real (Lucas) SW fire happened in space as well sound, the problem is not the 'thing' itself but how disney wars (mis)uses these 'things' in their stories and how weak their basic story telling is - they tell us things they should be showing us and show us things they should be telling us.
the helmet breaks conveniently by the chic which is obvious plot armor and girl power move---even in a sci-fi or fantasy series you need some logical reference points unless you explain everything away with magic
@@nondei-2025 EU pure cortosis was brittle and useless for anything but lightsaber defense, so it breaking from a punch is reasonable. The problem is EU cortosis also was still damaged by lightsaber strikes, even though it disables them, so it should have gotten visibly scorched each time it was hit.
@@nondei-2025even magic in good fantasy series has rules and precedents established so the viewer know what's possible.
@@kanrakucheeseyeah, they didn't establish what it was so it looked cool but is simultaneously stupid and raises more questions.
The show also seems to imply that it blocks force energy, though only one way seemingly. 🤔
Unless they're trying to suggest the 'thread' analogy is the correct one and the energy field view that's already established is incorrect? 🤔
@@kanrakucheese exactly. In the EU it had established rules and reasons which made in-world sense why you didn't see people running around with cortosis armour. And it wasn't completely "magically" impervious to lightsabers. Disney wars went for what looked "cool" without any substance behind it which then makes it ultimately seem stupid unless you're happy to stay at the purely surface level aesthetics. But Disney Wars is all about aesthetics more than anything else. They continue to take things from the EU and abuse them in their "story telling". Personally I'd rather they leave the EU alone than have them do things like this.
I laughed when Osha screamed at the guy who just got his leg cut by a lightsaber to RUN
Drinker, for your liver’s sake, please stop watching Acolyte and continue your Firefly marathon.
Snarky Jay!! Love her channel, glad she's amongst it here :)
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Nice
I remember in Force unleashed, the last mission, starkiller was in a snow planetC and they put him in all white looking shrouds. I remembering thinking “whoa…. He looks dope. A white ninja”
The Acodyke Episode 5: Attack of The Weave
Knew Snarky Jay belonged here
Best episode yet! 1/10
Grumpy Grandpa here. The only thing you got there is a dumpster fire. That's losing money every day. 😂😂😂👍
Not about the money, gramps.
Fun Fact. Cortosis. Was also used in Soulcalibur IV. To explain why Darth Vader, Yoda, and Starkiller(The Apprentice) couldn't cut through everyone else's swords. Apparently Earth is abundant with Cortosis. And Earthlings are really good at turning this metal into whatever we want.
14:00 Cortosis is super brittle, that’s why it shatters when Jecki elbows it or whatever. It’s not used everywhere bc it’s bad as a practical armor, it’s only good against Jedi. I hate this show but the Cortosis is probably the best memberberry they have in the show.
But why would Jecki know that? Why did she punch, what was from her perspective, something solid?
From what I've heard, its another lightsaber destroyer called Phrick.
The force in the original movies was very hard to use, very subtle and required immense training and self control to utilize. Now children can drag planets around space like a pool table. It's a wholly different thing. They should call it super-force or something
That’s a good point. The Force gave subtle advantages to those that mastered it, for the most part. Now you can blast whole space fleets with it.
what broke it for me was that video game where you pull a star destroyer into the earth.
Kenobi killed that for me. Vader basically using the Force to keep a ship from taking off with full thrusters WHILE in combat with Reva (kinda)? Meanwhile Yoda took forever and a day to lift an idle ship out of a Dagobah swamp when Yoda is every inch a Force user as Vader...sure, Disney.
It makes sense that it would be given that it’s inspired by the weirding way from Dune, which is the culmination of physical and mental perfection of humanity over centuries combined with years of training (and drugs)
@@michaelfortenberry5735eh I can see darth vader doing that cause he’s basically evil Star Wars Jesus.
Still waiting for Despot's overall takedown, when this trash is done with: Bros - Cleopatra - Napoleon - Damsel - you've killed it every time!
I mean, good-looking? The fight scenes were terrible. Who choreographs like that. All dark and crap blocking... Ooooohhhh...
Let's not forget to overlook OSHA openly flirting with an underage padwan " I'm way more flexible than a droid" 😱🤢
disney: dur hur cortosis shits down lightsabers without explaination
Expanded Universe that connects the geroge lucas era: cortosis was used in the construction of a specifically designed b-3 Ultra Battle Driod, preventing lightsaber cutting or easily plasma damage
Also isn't it really rare to the point of almost non existent?
I think it's mentioned even in some new canon books, the new Thrawn trilogy, to be exact. There is a flashback part in one of the books about Anakin meeting Thrawn and discovering Separatist's secret factory producing cortosis clone trooper's armors. And it is hinted there, that Palpatine was probably planning on using these reinforced armors for Order 66.
At least in Mando, they had the good sense to note that beskar is super hard to come by, and that he's doing the jobs to assemble a suit bit by bit... or one super big job.
@@TheSchaef47 if you are talking about the show they created, i feel like they are leaving things out or misinforming on behalf of their lousey atempt of their own lore between the skywalker story
@@clonecommando-cn6bo no, I just mean that Mando wasn't finding beskar under every rock and tree, and there were limits to how much plot armor it provided.
Cortosis is actually an interesting material, not complete bullshit like beskar. The showrunners are retarded, so they made it into an impossible material.
I believe Cortosis is a mineral, not a metal, making it very hard to work with. Being a mineral also makes it very brittle. Cortosis blades would usually be a normal metal blade with a sliver of cortosis in the edge area, great for lightsaber fights but mostly useless for everything else. And in good fashion of the writing, jedi have no idea what cortosis is or what properties it has, so they keep attacking his helmet and his vambraces.
I find very hard to believe jedi would not know what cortosis is and what it does to a lightsaber beam. In one of the legends comics, right after Order 66, Vader starts hunting down the last remaining Jedi. And a group of them lays a trap for him. He is casually steamrolling them, until one of them pulls off a cortosis enhanced blade and shutsdown his lightsaber. This only pisses Vader off and he just force pulls her with massive power and one handed strangles her to death. Yes the EU comics are grea (not the Filoni shit though)
And one last thing. Jecki actually uses her lightsaber hilt to break the mask, not her elbow. Of couse its the only instance the helmet could appear to be brittle, but still takes two hits to break.
I was kinda glad to see cortosis appear in a live action StarWars show, but its really sad that its in a show with this quality.
$180 million and somehow I feel that this whole episode took place inside the zoo snake enclosure in the Sorcerer Stone :P
After all the diverse people involved in the production took their cut they had a handful of change to make the show. And it shows. Or more accurately it tells me because there really is fuckall showing going on.
This is also why the Anakin vs. Obi-Wan fight in Revenge of the Sith is so great: Anakin’s fighting style changes and gets more brutal during the battle. There is characterization worked into the choreography, and you literally watch him become Darth Vader during that fight.
The first time I heard of the concept of a metal that can resist lightsabers was when it was used in the video game "Jedi Outcast" where the last batch of powerful Dark Jedi were used to fight Kyle Katarn during the last mission of the game.
My first as well. They primed you on what the material was before your first encounter with the Shadow Troopers, which was a great way to naturally demonstrate how the cortosis was being used.
Cortosis alloy is relatively common in video games. It shows up in the KotOR games (which a WotC rulebook establishes is why the material is so rare: All the mines were depleted back when enemy lightsaber was a real threat, and nobody bothers with new ones when enemy lightsabers aren't a thing anymore), a few games set in the Clone Wars, and some other stuff.
Pure cortosis, which disables lightsabers, was only ever shown (instead of described in text) in some comic books.
How would you judge the fight choreography, when they turned the lights out and put all the trees in front of it?
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The Helmet breaks off because apparently the metal, Cortosis, is brittle after it’s finally forged. So it shorts out the lightsaber, but the lightsaber isn’t brute force, it’s plasma. Theoretically, it would actually make more sense the hit it with a blunt object. Which Jecki…or whatever her name was…did.
The big problem with the Cortosis usage is that it gets zero explanation or implication to it's usage in the show, so only the people who have extensive knowledge of the EU might catch onto it- the EU that, if one remembers, was officially decanonized by Disney. yet they still pull pieces of it whenever they think it's cool for something.
But why would Jecki know that i.e., why did she think punching what looks like a solid object is a good idea?
The saber fights were like a bunch of Ewoks going skitz at a rave on Endor.
Master Squid Game: "Osha, why does your hair stink?"
Osha thinks, what if he reads my mind to find out I'm Mae, and I hacked my hair off like a child getting ahold of scissors to get gum out? What if he asks me questions only Osha knows?
Master Squid Game thinks, I should read her mind. Nah, the script doesn't call for it.
Very cool of you to invite SJay.
The bar felt like a sausage fest lately.
I've been wondering where Melonie and Baggage Claim are lately.
A pick me girl
Snarky Jay in the house!
Are you sure these are perma-deaths? Somehow Palpatine returned!
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17:30 Cortosis is also very brittle. And yeah, even most EU fans of Star Wars always thought Cortosis was pretty stupid.
It was usually backed up with how rare it was and how there weren't any (maybe three) beings who could forge stuff from it. Obviously we'd have to wonder why super rich people wouldn't use it despite its costs and difficulty, but you'd have plenty of reasons why they wouldn't (Sith don't use them by way of lifestyle, it's too easily spotted and would make you a target by force users, it's also not well known etc. ). It's dumb that some rando Asian Ezra Miller wannabe has armour made out of it, and it's clear it was haphazardly put in because "it's cool".
Drinker makes the crucial point so many seem to miss. A Star Wars fight is not really about how good the choreography is. It's about INVESTMENT in the outcome of that fight. Investment in terms of the work done to build up tension, investment in the characters involved, the stakes that are presented, everything that came together to lead up to a dramatic point. Even animated fights, such as Rebels Obi-Wan vs Maul, understood this. That 2min scene in Rebels eclipses anything seen here in 20min of live action. So Disney have understood this in the past, so has Filoni, they are just choosing not to do the work anymore.
Most of the acting and script for this series is just not very good... though, episode 5 was a step in the right direction (it was the most Star Wars feeling episode). The 3rd episode was horrible. The other episodes have been below OK. I was relieved to see Yord Fandar character ended (he was weak and didn't add anything to the series). I also didn't care much for the Jacki Lon character, based on all previous episodes... however, I was slightly sad when she was killed off (after seeing her excellent combat skills). It was stupid (I would say surprising, but this shit show is not very surprising) that Sol didn't know that Mae traded places with Osha. I understand he is emotional at this point, but Mae cutting her hair with a lightsaber like that wouldn't necessarily make her look exactly like Osha. Besides, Osha and Mae have different "vibes" and body movements that a Jedi Master should have picked up on. Is Cortosis a rip off of Adamantium and Vibranium??? WTF?
"They were willing to kill off fairly important characters."
Were they even fairly important, tho? They were barely characters. More like props, like Osha's pocket droid. They accomplished nothing of any substance (aside from being idiots and doing everything to allow SmiloRen to get away and escape in Ep2) in the episodes they were in. Jecki or Yord did less than Osha's pocket droid. The only thing that makes them unique is they have names and spoke words. Their characterization was inconsistent and superficial. Will they ever be brought up again in any meaningful way? Their deaths barely registered on Sol or Osha's emotional radar. In the end, they were things to build up Osha (like exposition), and their deaths were to build up SmiloRen as the baddie.
But, more importantly, their deaths were 100% required to aid the ridiculous Parent Trap switcheroo at the end the writers seemed to really really want. The switch couldn't work if they lived. So which was more important to the writers/showrunners? Them as characters, or getting the Osha/Mae switch plotline in the show?
It will really reveal if they even mattered in-story to the characters in any substantial way or to the writers themselves if these characters are ever brought up again and how.
But the fact Sol walked off without addressing their deaths or even bothering to check them shows an indifference (primarily by the writers) to the characters, all unceremoniously sacrificed to serve the plot revolving around Mae, Osha, and Sol. It is highly likely the writers never cared about the characters and are really only hyper-focused on the Mae-Osha storyline, which continues to refuse to be remain consistent. They couldn't have Sol stopping to check everyone for signs of life, mourn his dead allies and/or give them a funeral because that would damage the identity switch plotline when fake-Osha is having to pretend to be her sister in Sol's immediate company. Even they probably knew that would stretch the boundaries of believability that Sol wouldn't pick up on that in such a character-driven scene. Or they just didn't care about the characters.
I think they wanted an identity switch plot and probably get Osha to Coruscant, thus needed to get Mae-as-Osha to wherever they need her to go for next forced scene to take place as quickly as possible. And all those Jedi couldn't be alive for this story to happen. So they axed them. Not really caring that this doesn't make sense as far as how the characters would reaction, or how it might negatively reflect on Sol's character. The only thing that matters is getting Mae alone with Sol and wherever else they want the plot to go. And they sure as heck felt more of a need to have as much action and flashy-flash in ep5 and zero in character focus aside from Mae/Osha.
Honestly, Yord and Jecki mattered to the The Acolyte show as much as the unnamed Jedi did. They existed to fill out the ranks until they weren't needed anymore.
Those jedi clothes looks more like cheap bath robes from TEMU, they don't look like jedi, they look more like a cheap party using leggings, that female protagonist is using her granma jumper, the golden lightsabers were supposed to be super uncannon, only found in video games. super lame... but I like your reviews :)
Holy Shit, who is SnarkyJay? Uber HOT!!!
She's awesome. Great channel.
This criticism is so lame. I mean, at least this Light saber fight has multiple layers, has a turning point when the mask comes off and he switches to kill mode, the Darth Che does not want to kill the padawan until he has to, even retreats from the fight at one point. Everyone has their own fighting style. Sometimes multiple ones they switch between. What is it you want? Fights of many against one are always a bit stupid, with ppl stumbling around the scenery to wait for their turn. Not saying everything was perfect but ... for a Series it was pretty damn good I'd say.
Yeuy! Snarky Jay joined the Chasers! When are you gonna invite the Woke Critic to put you aaallllllllll in your place with reason & irrefutable political correctness??
14:17 Yeah ... Cortosis can short-circuit lightsabers, BUT beside it being very hard to refine, it only has a little chance to have the aforementioned effect on lightsabers, it doesn't even nearly work every ... f*cking ... time!!!
EU cannon for Cortosis basically can be summed up as this:
It’s a really rare resource that exists only in a few backwater worlds that don’t have the infrastructure to mine it very well, or the ability to process it very well. What amounts of it can be extracted cost a small fortune to buy and refine into anything beyond a trinket, but the material when refined is energy absorbent and heat immune, making it the perfect anti-lightsaber metal.
It’s a cool gimmick item for top of the line bounty hunters or warrior nobles to use to cross with a Jedi when they do things the council doesn’t like.
people always forget the clone wars. it’s animated, but the light saber battles there are insanely good. especially in season 7, the fight between ahsoka and maul is motion capture and the choreography is so good
Disney made the EU non cannon. Then use the EU to save their rubbish. Fantastic.
Hypocrisy at its finest LOL
I still think Maul Vs Ahsoka is the best choreographed lightsaber fight in Disney Star Wars
Disney productions do not have characters, they have representations, to the point when even the one white guy can be seen as a representation.
So again, how many representations were killed off in this episode by Smilo Ren?
And then it's even only good looking on the surface. When you take a closer look, then it becomes ridiculous whenever there are more than 2 people fighting. Suddenly they stand still and do nothing or they do complete nonsense. In each fight where Smilo Ren takes on more than 1 opponent at once he would die if not for their stupidity to do nothing or nonsense.
No hate towards Dafne Keen (Jecki). She's actually pretty talented.
I want to know how the sith character can see anything through his sith helmet visor, vision would be seriously impaired 😂
A friend of mine remarked that the writer of the show just might be bad with numbers and thought a millennium was just 100 years. I laughed till I choked up in realization that this might be true.
Guess that explains where the budget went 😂
Critical Drinker and Snarky Jay joining forces is like my TH-cam Super Bowl.
Entertaining visuals? Lol what.... The bar is lowered so low with star wars that this pile is good 😂.
A guy that gets defeated by moths shouldn't be calling himself a "Sith" but instead "Pith lord".
Despot has been killing it lately. I look forward to his videos more than most. Best pommy accent ever.
"Her name was Robert Paulson." made me a fan.
It's ironic that Disney is going after drinker, he seems to be the only one watching Disney's shows and therefore, one of their best fans.
Saying Episode 5 is better is like saying getting the flu is better than getting AIDS.
Either way, you’re gonna suffer
Great to see Snarky Jay here!
Um, Ackchyually, Han's coat was brown, not blue.
No wonder the set was shit. They spent all the budget on choreographers 😂
Why do people still pretend to like Star Wars? Why does it have a cult?
I'm so happy that the Despot is a fan of German media. It warms my steely German heart 💙
Love seeing Snarky Jay here, a breath of fresh air compared to the crotchety old dudes here 😆
Disney’s eternal quest to make lightsabers meaningless.
When I saw Jay's video blew up I though she'll probably be on Drinker's podcast sooner or later. Sure enough...
Cortosis is fine, but its poor storytelling to just have it appear out of nowhere. It should have been set up earlier. Maybe in a scene where an idiot, instead of saying you can't kill Jedi with x y z, is explaining different x y z ways of defeating jedi.
I keep believe that they killed that one guy, that girl, that other character, X-23, and Jedi Killmonger.
Oh Cortosis. I remember the KOTOR games have straight up swords made out of them. You get funny scenarios where you fight normal dudes with your lightsabers and then pull out your metal sword against siths.
It's cause those games run off of a fork of Dungeons & Dragons, D&D having always been very melee-focused, and them needing a way to explain all those melee weapons going toe to toe with lightsabers.