The Acolyte is ANTI Star Wars
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The nightmare of the Acolyte season one is over. As is the destruction of Star Wars by people who neither understand nor wanted to understand it. Leslye Headland has brought to this universe her interpretation which boils down to - Jedi bad, Sith Hot.
Welcome to Star Wars according to post-modernism.
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I can't be the only person who got slightly aroused watching you 'polishing wood'. Gotta love a woman with an intelligent sense of humour xxx.
Yasss yasss!
The sisters kissing connected back to headland, who said that the real love story of Frozen was between the sisters, and there are also allegations that she was sexually pursuing a sister.
Do not listen to Dave filoni. He’s a fraud and doesn’t know fucking shit about Star Wars like the boy who thinks there is no good or evil and anakin blew up the Death Star
GREAT THE ACOLYTE SERIES REVIEW BAGGAGE CLAIM THE ACOLYTE HOT 🔥 GARBAGE
There is no real evil - from the personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein.
It's a great tragedy of our age that Star Wars, an epic myth that resonates with everyone, wound up in the hands of people who not only don't understand it, but giggle with girlish glee as they strip away the very things that made it great. Truly pearls before swine.
When the swine are in charge they cannot help but fill the trough to service their gluttony.
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A man joins an institution and the institution molds the man into something better. A woman joins an institution and expects the institution will change to accept her.
I think she hit the issue perfectly... this is simply the postmodern interpretation. Any art remade for a (post) "modern audience" will end up the same way.
The Yasss... yasss... woman (bald, red dress) just wanted to *colonize* the "patriarchal" world of Star Wars.
“It’s about power, and who’s allowed to use it”
What a very Sith thing to say
Meanwhile, in our universe, it's a very 'Critical Race/Gender Theory' thing to say.
They are *obsessed* with power... and who is allowed to have/use it...
"... through a lens of POWER..."
@@Nyet-ZdyesI wonder if that's significant 🤔
@@jamesavis1 I suspect so. After all, the writer & director self-identifies as a Sith.
So, apparently, does her wife, who played the part of the green Jedi woman.
Am I the only one flashing back to Voldemort's monologue in Chamber of Secrets?
@@Embrace-The-Dork-Side nope, you are not the only one. Got total Voldemort vibes from that line.
It's amazing how you, who isn't that into the deep Star Wars lore, was able to research and understand the Jedi so much better than the people who are actually supposed to be adding to universe.
Yeah, but then, she has more integrity than the people working on the show.
...But she also explained "why" that is the case. I have watched untold amounts of YT content complaining and taking shots at this show, but this is by far the BEST explanation I've seen as to why. The answer being the views and position taken by the show were done without a doubt on purpose....and as most would say....an agenda.
@@daveleevicks8749 Otherwise known as... "The Message".
But, yes, Baggage Claim did an excellent job.
The overall themes in this video, especially about the ultimate goal of the Disney SW execs and creators wanting to co-opt the franchise and change it fundamentally so that it doesn't resemble the original except superficially in the misguided and delusional attempt to make it "better" (i.e. to fit their contrarian world view), was really spot on.
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“The Sith ALWAYS betray their own. A lesson I’m sure you will learn soon enough.”
Master Shaak Ti
From the Force Unleashed game 🔥👏🏻
Maul and Savage didn't betraye each other, tho this may be because they are brothers
@@user-fg5ox9kr1n Yeah, they are the exception not the rule, basically everyone else betrayed their master/apprentice in some way, since the whole point of the rule of two is eventually killing your master, but not every master is keen on that lol.
Star Wars ended the moment Disney took ownership of it.
And when the fans attacked George Lucas back in 1999 with the PT hate.
YES IT DID
@@chasehedges6775 no just the Disney ownership, stop blaming the fans
yes
@@jorgelewcas6241 People who shat on Lucas for the Prequels are not fans, so don't worry, we ain't blaming the Fans, we're blaming the "fAnS"
Star Wars: The Phantom Audience.
Brilliant. I am stealing this one.
Bravo 👏🏻
Love that!!
The Show has three major problems:
1. The Show
2. See 1.
3. See 2.
4. See manyyyyyyy.
EXCELLENT WORK. BAGGAGE CLAIM THE ACOLYTE SERIES DISASTER REVIEW 😡😠😡😤😈😈😈☠️😈😈😈😈😈
dont see the show. Do something more productive like a root canal.
#1. The show
#2. The premise
#3. The writers
#4. The actors
#5. Postmodernism
#6. Leslie Headland and whatever is wrong with her
@@pittland44 a couple of the actors were great. Manny Jacinto and Lee Jung-Jae. Dafne Keen as well. Don't diss everyone just because the main actress who played the twins, the witches, the guy who thought Anakin blew up the Death Star, the red shirt Jedi extras, and the green lady, etc. all sucked.
This show is like a bad high school play but with 180 million behind it
Right. I compared it to a fan fiction I would have written in highschool 😂
The power of MANYYYYYYYYYYYY
Disney removed the thing that I watched these ‘stories for kids’ for, hope.
Division of the fans, gatekeeping and disrespect for what has come before, only a sith could crave these things.
I have a new hope.
Hope that Disney goes broke.
“What can be, unburdened by what has been.” You know who.
PG-13, not for kids anymore, which is part of the problem. Star Wars used to be family appropriate.
The Acolyte is the Vergence between narcissism, stupidity, and hybristophilia.
Hybristophilia. Learned a new word today. thanks
AH! So THAT'S the clinical term for jail bunnies!
@@finnpichai8934 Me too.
In case you’re me: Hybristophilia is a paraphilia, or abnormal sexual interest, that involves sexual attraction to people who have committed crimes
Huh, Hybristophilia... Of course there is a term for that! You learn something new everyday
Baggage Claim: I don't know Jedi philosophy well.
Also Baggage Claim: Proceed to explain it better and more understandably than some Star Wars fans 😂
Better than neo-fans of the franchise anyway. Any time EU fans try to explain we just get shot down by smooth brains that can't understand nuance.
@@dondon5011 I'm particularly annoyed by the "Anakin brought balance to the force by reducing the Jedi to two, equal to the Sith" theory that's spreading recently. People are taking the Yin-Yang and ATLA-style meaning of "balance" and applying it to Star Wars when the philosophy is drawn entirely from different sources.
Better than Disney themselves
@@jeidafei1165thank you. Finally, someone said it.
Seriously she hit the target dead center with style and grace. Best philosophy overview I've heard on it.
"Polishing wood, like i do everyday" omg, i died
Hey she can come to my home to polish wood anytime!
When the power of many was in the background i lost it even harder. 😂
Bro I think I'm finally cured of internet brain, because in the video it just seemed like a ridiculous task no one would do. Only after reading it did the inuendo click 🤣
@@fffx2 Hawk tuah and polish that wood
Never been a big Star Wars fan but I've been waiting on this one!!😂
Remember kids - cancel your Disney+ subscription, and your TV turning itself on and forcing you to watch Star Wars is no longer a risk!
The most frustrating part is that I know I will continue to watch every Star Wars show they put out no matter how awful it gets. I just really like the "idea" of Star Wars and think it could be so amazing if done right, even if Andor and the Cal Kestis video games are the only pieces of Star Wars media that I've actually enjoyed in many years.
@@HenryThreedude just move on... There are plenty of other great sci universes to explore.
If people keep watching these shows even to hate on them it doesn't matter to Disney. They will still keep making them
Honestly I never had D+. And after the first season of Mando, when the interesting, intriguing Client was replaced by cackling villain #394 but brown, I stopped going to the high seas as well. Nolt worth my time; I'd rather give it to online critics.
@@HenryThree And that is exactly the reason that they have continued to ruin Star Wars... and will continue to do so.
While they are at it, they will destroy the concept of good and evil... right and wrong... and it will spread throughout society.
Oh, excuse me, *continue* to spread throughout society.
@@HenryThree Pirate it. It doesnt matter if you watch it. It matters if you pay for it. Every episode was on torrents 15 minutes after its end. -> 45 minutes of waiting.
To quote Little Platoon: "I'm all for oppressing whatever the **** this is." This show is repugnant.
Between this show, the olympics opening ceremony, and all the other crap people in the "lgbtq+" community do to every aspect of society, yeah I can understand why the world oppressed the hell out of them until the early 2000s.
Harvey Weinstein disagrees
@@stellviahohenheim he needs to be oppressed too.
I’m with the Platoon
Proud squad member of the Little Platoon
I feel bad for Master Squid Games' actor
Especially since the "Diversity, Equity, and inclusion" people decided to name the one Korean guy "Seoul."
He deliberately chose to go out of his way to be a part of it, so I don't feel bad for him.
Why? He probably earned more money with this than he will for the rest of his career.
Also, you needn't percieve acting as childishly as people do these days; somehow equating actor to the character. If his performance was good, he'll get hired again; regardless of the show being trash. Professionals can tell which part of the performance is the writing, and which part is the acting. Only the bits I did see online... he better work more on that english.
@@codinghusky5196 He was miscast, like everyone else in this show aside from Carrie Anne-Moss, who is still amazing even when playing a shitty character in a shitty show.
@@BKPrice Did you not even consider his actual background? I don't think he even knew what he was getting into, just thought he was finally getting to be in a _Star Wars_ project.
Being a foreigner, he probably doesn't even know about Hollywood's idealogy, or at least he didn't until now, and was probably brought in to draw the Asian audience. This is especially when he didn't even know English before this, and is still not that good with the language.
Given how much this cost, I assume it must be a money laundering operation.
$180m. Its a nepotism scam
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At this point I’m not angry or sad, just indifferent.
That being said it’s pretty funny seeing it fail.
They pushed a lot of fans past the point of anger and now they’re just apathetic to it, and good luck selling tickets or merchandise to people that no longer care about your IP
I was gone as soon as they dissed the expanded universe.
Remember Fan4stic? We watch four people get superpowers and then it cuts out the best part: Them learning how to use it and live with it. They skip ahead to were the Four are fighting wars and throwing tanks around.
This series wants me to believe one girl got taken in by the Sith coven. The other by the Jedi. But we NEVER see them BECOME a Sith or a Jedi. Both girls just mope and be mad or sad. Sith girl wants to kill the Jedi who murdered the coven. Okay. What does Jedi girl want though? She has NO reaction to finding out her twin sister she thought was dead for sixteen years was actually alive. She stands there with a wooden face and gets knocked out instead.
at 20:46 this quote from Empire comes to mind:
Luke: "Is the dark side stronger?"
Yoda: "No, no. No. Quicker, easier, more seductive"
these people are all giving in to their desires. So I get why they want to be Sith - it's the easier way to power
"Cult, I mean family"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Omg this is gold
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@2night78 it was about as annoying as the show was shit
@@6d9dnd74 line got overused so within 2 minutes
@@6d9dnd74 🤣
This is not only the best analysis of "The Acolyte" that I've heard but the best take-down of the Postmodern philosophy that animates it that I've heard (and I'm a philosophy professor).
Wow what a compliment coming from a philosophy professor. Thank you!
One of the hallmarks of being an adult is that you have mastered your emotion. It's not just a skill for Jedi.
this made me so sad at what star wars has become.. i grew up watching with my father and its stories on good vs evil, hard work and friendship were some of my early lessons as a child.
Same. Star Wars is a tarnished brand 😢
@@chasehedges6775”Tarnished” is a kind way to put it.
@@ta0paipai Agreed. Graped is more apt.
Same, I saw the original in Chicago in 1977. Lines around the block, a cultural phenomenon. Same for the two sequels in the early 80s. I remember being super-excited for the sequels.
Fast forward to 1999 and the prequels were okay though they look like high art compared to the current franchise killing movies and series. Rogue One was good but all the rest has been terrible.
And what is worse, the most recent failures look like Disney is destroying this (and other franchises) on purpose. You can't flip a coin ten times and win without cheating. By the same token, you can't flip and lose ten times without something being rigged. It is difficult to be this bad for this many movies and series and never learn or make adjustments. I can't help but think they are destroying their franchise gold on purpose. Maybe it is dogmatic adherence to the Message, maybe it's something else but Disney's current "leadership" is a plague on franchises and Ip that used to be gold.
I'm not a big Star Wars guy. But I am a writer. This show COULD'VE been so much better if besides May and Osha, we had Jecki Lon or another Jedi as a protagonist.
They did the "one sister is Sith, one is Jedi". But they didn't write any training. We did not see either's beliefs being shaped. Its all posited on the back on one bullshit flashback about who started a fire and who actually killed the parents / witches.
Idiotic.
Instead, we watch Jecki Lon and one sister be friends and train together under Sol. And then we have the other sister and Sexy Jedi already together.
At the end, Sith girl kills Jecki and Jedi girl realises that is her twin sister whom she thought was dead. NOW there's real conflict: Jedi sister realises her mentor Sol kinda lied and stole away her childhood. On the other hand, her Sith sister just killed her best friend. Its upto Jedi girl: Either have the Rashomon effect, and have HER relate what she remembers from the day the Jedi visited the coven, and have the two sisters fight it out. OR you have Jedi sister agree with her sister's POV and both girls fight Sol and he lets them end him or he defeats them both but refuses to kill either.
Simple. I know it is LITERALLY the same story as Luke (pick your family or the greater good) and Obi Wan (you just killed my best friend, what do you expect me to do now?)
“This isn’t about good or evil, this is about power and who gets to wield it”
Sounds EXACTLY like something a Sith would say, or at the very least someone with next to no moral compass trying to justify their evil.
And even Voldemort said the same thing in the first Harry Potter movie.
Evil people always try to justify their actions and push moral relativism to assuage their guilt
They've exchanged lightsabers for fleshlights.
I love how nonchalant they were about erasing someone's memory. Like losing 16 years of your life is no big deal and a decision to make after thinking about it for two seconds.
"Okay, honey, you can leave Harvey's office now. And remember, this never happened."
@@BKPrice Combine that with the way they try to justify the guilt Torben feels after getting essentially mind r*ped in the interviews, it's honestly pretty disturbing.
Someone unjustifiably feeling guilt and offing themself years after SA is a pretty common occurrence, but these twats somehow think "he was feeling super guilty because he wanted to go home when he was a teen once" is a reasonable explanation for it. It's mind boggling.
"Parent traps her way onto the ship."
That is HILARIOUS. Bravo.
I love the way Baggage Claim has made the connection of showing that The Acolyte is just a visual representation of Post Modernist thinking in all of its absurdity.
Yeah, the brit youtube, Disparu, also did that in one episode but BC did it more in depth and better.
Disney brainwashing females. Two female protagonist in a row that fall for the bad guy for really no reason other than seeing him without a shirt.
As someone who claims to not be a Star Wars fan, you nailed the Jedi Philosophy. And not only did you fully grasp that concept, but you took it one step further and explained the nuanced differences between the Jedi and the Sith.
The fact that you used the showrunners inability to understand these concepts to sytematically call out and destroy post modernism was the icing on the cake. Honestly, thank you for so eloquently and rationally explaining the issues with postmodernist thinking.
So many people have been trying to explain why Acolyte is so bad, but you managed to do it flawlwessly. Gained a susbcriber with this one.
From the moment I walked out of The Last Jedi, I knew that Kennedy and Disney held some sort of grudge against George’s creation…that they’ve only doubled down on ever since. Your video does an outstanding job of explaining why. 👏👏👏
"That was GREAT!" -brother in law.
"They pissed down my leg and told me 'its raining' " - me.
Not just "George's creation"... men... pretty much all men... especially if they happen to have low melanin and be str8.
Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who, Indiana Jones....Jesus. What can Hollywood ruin next?!
Real life
They're shooting for Blade, and I think the backlash is going to be wild
_Time Bandits_ will soon get The Treatment.
Answer - A very large part of Western society... in real life.
Think it's just meaningless fiction?
People would say the same about all of the old mythologies, like Greek, Roman, Egyptian, etc...
And most atheists would say the same about the Bible and the Koran, etc.
"It's just fiction. It doesn't mean anything."
Hey don't forget about Middle Earch... luckily Tolkien's grandson didn't sell Amazon the rights for LOTR.
Apparently you can do anything you want as long as you claim to not have power while you do it.
"Polishing a piece of wood, like I do every day" 😂😂😂
The "not about good and evil" line invites a comparison with Potentium, a philosophy that came up in Legends. Potentium can be summed up as "There is no Light or Dark, there is only the Force," essentially stating that actions should only be considered moral if they work to bring and maintain balance in the Force. It was understandably suppressed by the Jedi as its followers extensively fell to the Dark Side due to the fostering of Templar-style "for the greater good" rationalization.
The fact that someone who has only watched the movies, you’ve done an amazing job describing Jedi and the light side and dark side. The only thing I will add is that Jedi don’t just take the kids but they ask the parents if it’s ok and if the parents say “no” then the Jedi say ok and leave. Everything you said is 100% true though thanks so much for the video!
This is something I always hate to see people perpetuate. The idea that Jedi just snatch babies out of their cradles or something, and forcefully take what they want. No, they make it abundantly clear to the parents what the situation is, and they let them make the decision to either let their children be trained, or to stay and let their powers fade.
I will consider that they might be strongly persuasive about it but yeah they ask the parents for permission.
Identical twins aren't capable of having different haircuts, unless they use a lightsabre
Thanks for reminding me of the stupidest scene I've ever seen in any SW show or movie.
The showrunner is a turncoat who'll change her skin at an instant
And she is surrounded by people who sympathize with darkness and backstabbing and doing what you feel like
Duh it's the end
She also worked for Weinstein in the past, and possibly knew about his abhorrent crimes for years.
This show is a love story.
A love story written by a woman who worked closely for Weinstein and saw nothing wrong. A woman who saw Frozen as an incestuous love story between two sisters.
Acolyte is a glimpse into the mind of a progressive liberal lesbian feminist.
@@striderreborn1467that explains all the weird sexual stuff in this show
She's also Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant. That's how some of these hollywood types without any talent -- hello Kathleen Kennedy -- rise to these positions of power in the industry.
The Ancient One: Arrogance and fear still keep you from learning the simplest and most significant lesson of all.
Dr. Strange: Which is?
The Ancient One: It’s not about you.
I love how the “Anakin Blew Up the Death Star” guy says “Darth to Luke” - Darth is not some first name, it’s effectively a title. Yes Obi Wan says Darth in ANH but that works in context. What this guy did was essentially say “Dark mister to Luke”. Er, okay.
"i fell asleep" 😂😂. So did I when i gave the acolyte a try.
Moi j'ai le visage aplatie a force de me facepalm et je commence aussi a comprendre le point de vue "la télévision, jeux vidéo rende violent" car après avoir vu ces films et séries digne de Belzébuth je sens l'obscurité, la violence... monté en moi 👿
mais oui moi aussi je me suis évanouie au moins 1 fois par épisode 😵💫
Also, I just find it RIDICULOUS that the show tries to paint Jedi as the bad guys that do bad stuff but LITERALLY like the first 5-10 minutes a Jedi essentially gives her life to save an innocent bartender that the villian threw a knife at. Like.... are Jedi good or bad?🤔
Y'all gotta make up your mind.
A lot of angry discourse about this film, but you nailed the actual core issues very well. Everyone who saw this show and couldn’t quite understand just why it’s caused such anger and truly does ruin Star Wars. Well done
Leslye isn’t laughing anymore, while she’s not ready to accept she failed badly, but she now realises that an audience can’t be guilted into consuming rubbish.
Identity politics is so dumb they care about the attributes of a character rather than the actual plot
It is hilarious how they write it:
Luke sneaks into his nephew's room to murder him because of a dream.
The witch who is disolving a child into smoke and gets stabbed to stop her tells Sol, "You idiot! I was gonna let her go!"
Bitch, stfu!
You’ve got me beat. Even I don’t polish wood EVERY day. I’m old, however, so I’m not as energetic or enthusiastic about it as I used to be. Allowances must be made…
Moar liek, "hawk tuah give that hardwood a real polish"
Baggage, you knocked it out the park with this one 10/10
Please pardon me Star wars died when they ended the Skywalker blood line however keep up the good work
The Acolyte is what happens when you create a Star Wars show for the 50 Shades of Grey fanbase. What Disney apparently doesn't know is that there isn't a lot of overlap there. Anyway, really enjoyed this insightful video essay on this huge misfire of a show. Subscribed.
"I was polishing a piece of wood, like I do everyday" is crazy LuL
Its a story that's been done to death already right? How many times have we explored this idea of "Is it necessary to teach people to wield exceptional powers responsibly?" It was done in Xmen and even previously in Anakin's Story? Yes the Jedi are 'imperfect' but the reason for their existence is proven necessary time and again! It's like the ideals of Democracy and Free Speech. Yes they are 'imperfect' but WAY better than the alternatives!!!
7:50 - "This show is so weird!" Perfect summarization of the show. haha
You have the philosophy of the Jedi right. They strive to be Vulcan-like (to mix my series). That philosophy lacks an awareness of the power of emotion. Emotions put someone in motion. Repressing emotions is a fruitless task. But using the energy of emotions with mindful intention, channeling that energy into what will be fruitful and not destructive; that would be the integrative (balancing) way. Indeed, what motivates the Jedi to act against dark-side users? Fear of what destruction and oppression they might wreak, anger at their indifference to the suffering of those they oppress and joy in the vision of a good world that they seek to have. The downfall of the Jedi in the Prequels is what they became: soulless bureaucrats mindlessly pushing rules without heart and without intention, merely doing what has always been done rather than seeing the growing threat and acting with full-hearted mindful intention.
Thank you for sharing this!
As a prosocial psychopath (not Hollywood version), I live with absent or muted emotions. You don't need them to function. You do need priorities and some kind of motivation.
You don't need the energy of emotions, but only to choose and act. In absence of emotion, you need a code to guide actions.
But "emotional" people do evil as easily as logic based people, they just don't think about why they do it.
It is a bit like living as a Vulcan. It's not terrible once you get past the myth that you need emotions, but emotional people push that myth hard.
"It's not about good or evil , it's about power." what you have is foucault's star wars !
I get the sense of nietzsche attempting to go beyond good and evil and claiming victory by burying himself under it.
Damn! My dog left a big pile of acolyte on the carpet!
Star Wars is not the same … I haven’t watched it for many years…. It’s terrible what they’ve done
Ever since Disney bought it. Lost its way
@@hayswhitethe only good things to come out of it has been the final season of Clone Wars (which was largely written beforehand and the stuff Disney did add wasn't liked), Rebels( which was written by actual fans) and the Cal Kestis video games ( which were mostly developed by EA).
The power of "one too many" - MauLer
I think this is the best, well articulated description of this entire Disney star wars mess. Great overview. It so accurately portrays how real evil in the world is blinded by an entitlement they think they are owed. If you can make yourself a victim you can free yourself from self responsibility, believing cruelty is justice.
This video was on another level! The intro, the editing, the way you laid out your points-really awesome!!
Star Wars Ended, the moment they killed off all the Solo/Skywalker Line, gave that insulting line to Ray "I'm Ray Skywalker". ignored everything in the EA Books, did a crappy Solo prequel and gave the world The Acolyte.
As it stands, Solo is one the best things Disney has done with SW, flawed as it is. I liked it and The Force Awakens well enough, and loved Rogue One and Andor and hated just about everything else Disney's churned out.
For me, it was when The Last Jedi was still new... like... right after the opening weekends, and I learned what happened in it.
No. Solo was trash. Lando wanted to bang a commie droid.@@IMP3TIGO
I recently looked up the Sith code from one of the old Starwars games, and was shocked at just who it reminded me of:
"peace is a lie, there is only passion. Through passion I gain strength, through strength I gain power, through power I gain victory, through victory my chains are broken. The force shall set me free. There is no peace, there is anger. There is no fear, there is power. There is no death, there is immortality. There is no weakness, there is the dark side.
I am the heart of the darkness. I know no fear, I instil fear in my enemies. I am the destroyer of worlds. I know the power of the dark side. I am the fire of hate, the hole universe bows before me.
I pledge to myself, to the darkness, I have found true life, in the death of the light.
I know the true power of the dark side.
I am sith!"
"Polishing wood" is an unfortunate turn of phrase.
You got to hawk tuah on that wood to really get a nice spot shine polish
Nah.
She got it down perfectly
Ironically, the Jedi would have probably just had the Senate colonize the planet
You're absolutely right I don't have enough self-loathing to actually sit there and watch the full episode of this garbage
The best part about star wars is there is good and evil and people can be tempted to either side for whatever reason and redeemed in their final moments.
i still cannot BELIEVE that they made Luke literally drinking milk from an alien as a way to destroy masculinity
Tricking women to go after the bad gay. Rae and osha both basically fell for the bad guy after seeing him without a shirt
300IQ play:
Anakin blew up the Death Star because as he is so in-tune with the force, he knew there was a weakness there and chose to do nothing about it.
Through his inaction he caused the deaths of potentially millions of people. (While also saving trillions of people because if the Death Star survived it would have been an easy out for any potential rebellious planets.
Fantastic explanation of how they now view Star Wars! It has made me mad for years seeing them be so against having someone be evil just because they are evil, like Palpatine. There is a very obvious good vs bad in Star Wars, that’s why it’s fun. So you can cheer for the good guys! I like nuance with it as well, like I think Jedi were too prideful in the prequels which led to their downfall, but it feels different now. Like they’ve taken all black and white out and absolutely everything is just grey.
A documentary about the effects of the Acolyte on people seems more interesting that the show itself.
Yep i have said goodbye to my Disney stocks, They need to focus on the story not woke ideology
How long have you clung to them?!
@@Tail_sez i bought them 2021, There is alot better places to invest in than Disney
When there is no emotion - there peace.
When there is no ignorance - there is knowledge.
When there is no passion - there is serenity.
When there is no chaos - where is harmony.
When there is no death - there is the Force.
It's quite simple code, actually. And quite health.
When you at peace - you don't act rashly, you, in most cases, don't hurt anyone with some bad idea, that did look good in the moment, but not in the long run.
I guess Disney never reeded it.
And kudos to you @BaggageClaim, that you managed to grasp that idea while you researching this topic.
Baggage Claim, this is your best video yet! We live in this "don't tell me what to do" culture that they fail to realize Freedom Needs A Structure of Governance to act for those freedom's. You hit the nail right on the head.
The End of Star Wars...😢😢😢
IKR! It’s soooo depressing
I think this is one of the best reviews out there. So concise and to the point. While others are entertainment focused this tickled my philosophy brain in the best way and is fun.
Historically what differs between jedis and siths is that the first one are seeking for the balance in the force. They fondamentaly believes they are the spectators of the events and need to intervene when there is an umbalance. It is why they are trained since their earliest age it is because someone with emotions can t stay neutral so they must not have any emotional attachement. Like with Anakin the decision was really criticize to have him as an apprentice because his age was too advanced so he already developed deep relations with his mother (first reason why he shifted to the dark side when she died)
In comparison, the siths reinforce though the umbalance in the force. They firmly believe that power was given to them to use it. They endorse the use of emotion like rage and anger in order to develop theirs potentials. That s the reason why they can use power like lightning or strangulation it is because theses powers need the use of bad emotions so the jedis are totally incapable in normal circonstance to use them.
To resume, jedis are diplomats and protectors, only intervene when there is a massacre else all is regulated though diplomatic ways. Siths are dictators, killers and murderers so yes there is a good and bad in Star Wars.
Yes the Jedi try to teach to not act on their feelings however after a “millennia” of peace that has become detachment to their abilities. And Luke is able to redeem Vader because he loves his father and can control his reactions to his abilities. Luke teaches self mastery, and in legends actively teaches both sides of the force.
Of all the analysis videos out there, your eloquence is unmatched. Very nice
Thank you for this very insightful analysis, Boba Fett, Ashoka, Obi Wan were all terrible shows but this one was like having spiders crawl under my skin. I felt physically bad watching it… and I think you nailed the reasons. The entitlement, nothing is earned in any way, on screen and behind the camera.
everything you've said here can be applied to so many other franchises like Assassins Creed, God of War, LOTR, MCU, Mortal Kombat, etc. Especially Assassins Creed.
"Discount Rashomon."
Nah... just the idea of Rashomon by someone who might have heard about it once. The fact that Sol wasn't telling the full story is bloody obvious to anyone who isn't Osha because victims of a fire don't lie gathered in the middle of the floor with zero fire damage to their bodies or clothing.
"Without miscommunication, there would be no show."
-Pitch Meeting 🎯🎯🎯
Great video, thank you! 🙏🩵
Understanding one's mortality and detaching oneself from the wants of desire feels like Buddhist teachings.
Similarities with stoicism, too.
considering that Lucas borrowed quite a bit from asian popculture and mythology when creating the OG Star Wars, yes the comparison is quite apt
Goddamn, this quote "The Acolyte is not just a mediocre show, mediocre is being a generous term, it's a supercilious display of the new guard basking in its take over of a once much loved franchise reveling it the effective destruction of the work of others. it's a victory lap of how evil has successfully overthrown good, and snuffed out the last remnants of the rebellion." What a well written line that is both epic and 1000% true. Incredibly well put. Kudos Baggage Claim.
Great video!
Disney has completely forgotten the first rule of entertainment which is to entertain first.
They’re media only exists as vehicles for “the message” and entertainment has gone out the window.
I wish I could say that there’s no way The Acolyte will get a season 2 but if they cancel the show that would prove the so called “sexist” “racist” “bigots” right and they won’t allow that to happen.
I have a feeling that lots of "wood polishing" happened in that cave with Plagueis watching in the distance.
Your opening made my day thanks for the memories 😂😂😂🤣
I did speak up. I turned them off. I voted with my $$. They get none of it.
Excellent upload, thank you.
Wow , you hit it out of the ballpark with this video. A different style with different editing to go with your writing. Your writing has always been well-crafted but this time, it's executed in a slightly different genre. Definitely a great promo for Invideo AI if you used it. It just complements your original content.
really nice video and explanation of the concepts.
Fantastic Essay, you made a lot of great points. Also, the music was fire... gonna need to know where that's from lol.
This is an amazing video. I feel like you have given me a glasses that allow me to see the world through the post-modern and understand why they are doing what they are doing. Everyone thinks what they are doing is right, and I try to understand those perspectives. So thank you!
Disney has to just stop everything!
"I remember I was polishing a piece of wood, like I do every day."
Hahaha. If that wasn't meant as an innuendo...Ok, it was. I just got to the throbbing blade.
Great take! I thought it was a little too late to be bashing on that trash as all angles of that trash has been analyzed already. But I love the take on post modernism. These people are nuts!!
Deep philosophy is always good food for the thoughts 😋
Whoever the writer of the Acolyte is, wants to have the audience's sympathy for a tragic hero, has the absolute freedom and full reign of a villain protagonist, people cheering for them like an exemplary hero all while having the morality of Jack Horner while having as much grace as HBO Velma.
I’ve managed 2 episode of The garbage but seen many reviews on it… this was the best, I gotta start polishing wood daily 😂
You are the best at explaining the philosophy behind modern Star Wars.
Best exploration of this mess that I have seen.
Wow! You managed to completely explain why it bothers me so much how what they did to Start Wars.
This was so well presented 🎉 thank you for putting it into such words