Episode 6 of The Acolyte is FRUSTRATING... (Review)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ก.ค. 2024
- The Acolyte Episode 6 has arrived! And after a fantastic episode 5, does it live up to last week's quality...? No, it's a frustrating mess. Let's talk about it in my in-depth review!
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One step forward... two steps back I guess. The Acolyte is so damn frustrating, but that's Star Wars I guess. Let me know in the comments below what you thought of Episode 6 - Come follow me on Twitter for all things Star Wars! -
I am not against sex and sexuality in Star Wars at all, but it feels weird when Disney is the one doing it. Disney is all for censoring strong female sexuality like Slave Leia bikini, but they will show this it just feels fake. They style themselves a prestige television program, such as House of the Dragon, but lack the quality and adult themes. 30 minute episodes are for Spongebob, not your "prestige television" series.
2 words: money laundering.
You know I get the feeling that they storyboarded up way more story and at some point someone came to the story team after the good idea fairy hit them up. That person who was visited by the good idea fairy then told them that they would have fit it into 30 minute episodes.
Watching both House of the Dragon & The Acolyte week to week has unfortunately shed a light on just how little we get from the characters in Star Wars shows on Disney+. It's unfortunate & Episode 6 of The Acolyte really suffered from this. I would've loved to spend the entire episode with Osha & Qimir seeing them build a relationship, slowly gain each other's trust, & just see where both their heads are... which would make the ending where she puts on the helmet so much more tragic.
What’s hilarious is that, just like the Last Jedi throne room battle, if you really slow down the fight in acolyte ep 6, you see so many ridiculous moves and you keep asking: “what happened” or “where did he go” lol 😂. I’m not saying the entire fight was terrible, but you really see some poor choreography in this.
I have to admit, I disagree with a lot of your takes….A LOT, but you are spot on regarding the emptiness of story/plot congruency. Coupled with the fact (as you pointed out) the episodes are only 30 mins long, you nailed it. ✊🏾
Just the pacing? I feel like other than Sol, the acting is cringe
Everything ok sir? Missed your review last week! Hope you are in good physical and mental health
At this point I kind of think you're hating on it for its own sake.
I wish this show was from Qimir's perspective, and maybe also Sol's since they are both by far the most interesting characters in the show and the coolest. All the other stuff with the twins and whatnot is pretty boring, meandering, inconsistent and just seems poorly thought out. Also I don't understand where this shows millions of dollars of budget has gone into; nothing seen so far seems to warrant anywhere near that much spending money.
The episode runtimes are really my only issue with the show so far. Well that and how the pov flashback episode was wedged in there. Binging through the episodes isn’t that bad, and easier to follow. But 30 minutes a week for a long format story is really frustrating. Basically, we get half an episode one week, and just when it feels like we should be going into the 3rd act, like most shows, where everything goes down, it’s over. And then we have to wait another whole week for the next episode to drop to finish what every non-Star Wars show would call a full episode of tv.
I said on many reviews from Ep2 "I bet the green alien wife of the writer will be the big bad." (lazy writing)
I liked the contrast between Sol restraining Mae and Qimir doing the opposite with Osha. Also, I think the implication is Sol knew it was Mae the entire time but he was playing dumb.
They're making movies and cutting them up randomly to make episodes. This show would work much better if it were a 2 1/2 hour movie. Also they need to keep one damn director and writer doing every episode in a series. Otherwise there is no stylistic or tonal consistency. And for the love of god stop with the board room mandated reshoots. Get the thing mapped out and the script refined before you ever start shooting. If the board wants something changed do so then. Reshoots are to polish and help tidy up the film, not remake it into a Frankenstein monster.
very slow episode
I feel like after Disney+ started to REALLY push Star Wars into a TV format, but mostly after The Acolyte inparticular, we're seeing a 3rd major type of Star Wars fan. One that defends anything in their niche of Star Wars, like it's continuity, it's show, it's writers, etc, regardless of objective qualities.
Its so sad, I was riding the high of episode 5, but looking back, episode five was like finding a half eaten cheeseburger in a pile of trash
Never did I think there would be a Star Wars episode where an overgrown beaver taunts and then attacks someone in the engine room with stomps and bites, a pocket droid squirts oil in their face and said beaver then scurries away from the "battle" victorious.
I do think this show could be so much better than it is, but the actors playing Sol and Darth Smiley McGhee are doing well in my opinion. They teased the lightsaber whip so much just for it to be used as bug zapper is pretty disappointing