The Acolyte Episode 5 Is Pure F***ing Stupidity (Review)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- The Acolyte episode 5 released on Disney plus to horrible reactions by fans once again, and after watching it myself it's easy to see why. The Acolyte episode 5 may be the worst episode in this series yet. From the Sith being beaten by birds, to terrible dialogue it's safe to say The Acolyte is a new low for Disney Star Wars.
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I let my anger get the best of me, it’s not the worst episode yet 🤣 however it’s still bloody awful!
It had action at least. That’s all I can say positive.
@@erroneous6947 yeah too bad you couldn’t see the action 😂
Good, good. Give in to your hate! It makes you strong...
A bit too much hate? Like sure if you aren't a big fan of star wars I'd see why people are confused because it's not regular pl star wars media
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The blaming of one...
The blaming of two...
The blaming of many~....
Ahahahaha
If the lesbians space witches would have learned how to count to three... they would have maybe survived burning rocks to their doom...
The power of one
The power of two
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The worse this show gets, the better the reviews get.
Bahahahaha
That is the truest statement
This was a better episode, the show overall is trash, but the fights were good and so was the Sith actor, it's ok to like something and dislike something.
@@kicknowledgesmith8608 preach, it’s important to point out the good to remain objective. Dudes always been a good actor and deserves props. The choreography was decent, but like every episode, the writing and directing were abysmal.
@@Aporiaofficial Agree
I'm just waiting for the end of the finale, where Qui-Gon wakes up and states-
"what a strange dream, I must tell Obi-Wan".
The ending scene will be like:
Mae picks up the "sith" helmet and says *"So, that's it, huh? I'm some kind of Acolyte"* . Roll credits and a post-credit scene shows that Kylo Ren was actually a time traveling Mae. The Force was always female.
@@n4ughty_knight I like my ending better...
The true ending will be far dumber than anything we can come up with.
I was hoping this was the ending to game of thrones, Bran wakes up and the shit ending we got was just a fucked up vision.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
Sith is Jedi.
The desire to turn Star Wars into a white colonial occupier narrative is insane!
Truths are Lies
Lies are Truths
It is a reflection of the Wokeness that is going on right now in our twisted and backward society....
It would actually be cool to see a world like the one in 1984 and Star Wars. A mix between George Lucas and George Orwell
And the TRIPLE STAB is SPECIAL
Since Jedi don't have a purpose then this show's only purpose is to destroy star wars.
Ahahahah exactly
The "lore" kinda explains that the Jedi are too lenient and busy with bureaucracy to actually be in touch with the Force.
So Sad Disney destroys everything!
Start wars has been destroyed for me forever. And i own the Christmas special on vhs!
Did you watch the Prequels at all? Qui-Gon Jinn’s whole deal was that he thought the Jedi had lost sight of their true goal. Dooku left the order because he was sick of the Jedi being political puppets.
The Jedi Order by this point is in a state of decline, going from an order of galactic peacekeepers to tools of the Senate constricted by politics.
The Jedi eventually lose touch with the force. It’s something Mace Windu says in Episode III. Yoda talks about being the force being ‘clouded’.
This was something Lucas came up with 25 years ago.
All they’re doing here is going along with that idea of the Jedi being in decline.
Disney promoting the Dark side as "morally good" is the most funniest irony ever setup
Well they’re morally evil
At every single level
So it makes sense
They’re basically saying doing bad things is good n good is evil
The Bible warned us about Disney
I know right!!
It's not when you know why.
It is nothing new. They have already tried to shoehorn Bo-Karen as a her-o since TCW and Rebels. And it keeps not working because you can´t pretend evil is good.
@@asadadon to brainwash young audiences...
"worst episode yet" you are tripping if you think that no way it was worse than 3 or 4
Maybe I let my anger get the best of me episode 3 was pretty dang bad ahahaha but I’ll rewatch it once the whole season is done and figure out which episode is truly the worst 😂
this is probably the best episode but the bar is below rock bottom, and this episode is just rock bottom
It's a pretty frustrating one. The first 10 mins, I actually thought they do ok. Then it is a complete disaster. The writer can't write shit. They should consult chatgpt before writing anything. Well, they shouldn't write anything. Especially for Disney.
Ep5 certainly doesnt do the series any favours, like, theres nothing redeeming about it, so in a way, yeah, it kinda is the worst episode yet.. ep5 solidifies that this show is not ever going to get better..
Exactly. The overall story has writing problems no doubt, but the fights were good in this episode and so was the actor that played the Sith, he did a good job. The bug thing is a nitpick in my opinion, but everyone is entitled to their opinions.
It's funny how the High Republic setting was supposed to be the golden woke era of Disney's SW, but in the end they still make stories of wokes being marginalized in the form of Sith, and Jedi being corrupt in the form of cops. They fetishize their own oppresion, allergic to the idea of being the new status quo because then they wouldn't be able to label themselves as revolutionaries.
Or, you know, maybe the bad guy is wrong.
"The jedi are evil,The sith are good, Anakin blew up the death star R2D2 is a lesbian,C-3P0 is gay,The force is a thread, weird lesbian space witches can now make kids,and now Sith lords,the most powerful beings in the galaxy,that can wipe out multiple Jedi,can now be defeated by a flashlight and bugs
Because... reasons???
Fever dream just became reality. Thanks Lesley.
I have to throw up...v🤢🤮
He wasn’t defeated tho.. they just carried him away
@@christopherbailey3547defeated then? All those Jedi couldn’t stop him yet those big bug birds are the ONLY reason he was subdued. Also a damn padawan was the only one keeping up with his ass with the masters couldn’t? Okay
EVERY episode of The Acolyte is The Worst Episode YET.
How is this worse than the previous episodes?! lol
No objectivity…that’s how you spot a hater
Its a high bar to achive and yet they do it every episode;)
This is the best episode yet. The twist can be seen by a blind window licker a mile away
Not true. Ep3 was an absolute garbage. Ep 4 and 5 are just incredibly bad and soulless, something you want to curse yourself if you wasted precious time of your life on it. But Ep3 is where you want to just kill someone for participating in that abomination.
What we've learned today that they could've stopped Palpatine's rise with birds instead of training the new generation of Jedi for completely no reason.
It's funny how the writers for The Acolyte and Satan both have the same line of logic when it comes to the concepts of good and evil.
lol amen to that. I’m team Jedi all the way. I was rooting for Asha so hard when she said she wanted to be a Jedi because she knew that sketchy witchy stuff was satanic and evil.😂
Not even a lightsaber can penetrate plot armor.
It’s cortosis Mr Star Wars “fan” lol
@@MrParagon. His Arm?
@@briandoty769 he used it on his bracers lol
@@briandoty769 Bracer on the forearm. And before you ask why he didn't have it covering his entire arm: because Cortosis even in Disney canon is rare as hell, ludicrously expensive, and an absolute _bastard_ to forge into a wearable armor without weaving it into another material.
...Which just makes Qimir using the cortosis helmet the way he did all the more idiotic because he gave the game away on that life-saving piece of equipment and now it's absolutely useless...
Or should be. Knowing the writers they might have a scene of him reforging/repairing the damn thing, completely invalidating the whole 'it's rare as hell' part of their own canon. Hell, they might not even say its cortosis.
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Wait, I thought Mae was going to give herself up to the Jedi anyways? How did he kill the Wookie before Mae got there as well? This writing is absolute trash. The sith dude is one minute clumsy then smashes everyone...except the bugs
Don’t forget the bugs carried him away… after osha stopped sol from killing him. He just massacred all those Jedi and because osha said so, he gets to live just for her to put a light on him to attract bugs that could kill him… I don’t get it bro
@@youngog9150 From what I have seen, Sol kind of got l angry that he killed that padawan. So from what I can tell he fought with anger/hatred at that scene, which is something only one from the dark side does. Osha shouting out made him snap out of it and made he realize that darkness is growing in him so he turned back to the light and didn't proceed by killing him.
That's what I read while watching it for the first time
@@heuzame6198 so do they want the sith dead or not? Even after cutting down their forces they still think they can capture this guy? I thought Jedi only took out their weapons to kill? And then why did osha put the light on him to attract the same bugs that tried to kill her an ep earlier? The only reason osha stopped Sol is plot progression… I liked some of the fight scenes but the plot holes can’t be overlooked
@@youngog9150 the sith should either die in combat (armed) or be captured. When Dooku got his hands cut off, Anakin stated he's unarmed now, so he should live only to do it anyway because palpy wants to. Now Osha isn't a jedi anymore but a civilian, so she technically doesn't have this rule to follow even if she's force sensitive. Also, if Sol killed him in this state, he would have done it out of grief-driven vengeance, which also is against the Jedi teachings.
@@heuzame6198 we’ll see where it goes but I think that ep was supposed to be the highlight so idk how much better it gets
This show continues to highlight the intellectual vacuum of KK, Filoni amd Headland. It is hard to believe that this is a real show. Ignore the canon and fandom, this show is just utter trash. I can only think that someone has mountains of blackmail "dirt" on others to get this garbage approved. Even using $100 notes as toilet paper would be money better spent rather than waste $180 million this way.
20,000 degrees would cook much of that leg even on a graze.
Nah, just walk it off. Same thing with being impaled by a lightsaber - just walk it off and you'll be fine.
Since we're made of carbon, and its melting point is 3,550 degrees Celsius, It would be more than enough to melt it.
it kinda reminds me a lot like anime, where a strike could break the ground but when it hits the person, they block it with ease and no damage at all.
B-But the midi-chlorians!!!
20,000 degrees would cause anything and anyone in the vicinity to melt or vaporize.
Episode 3 "Worst episode yet"
Episode 4 "Worst episode yet"
Episode 5 "Worst episode yet"
Episode 6 ... well , you know where this is going.
It’s all to just get clicks. Half of these ‘review’ channels just spout the same nonsense every week to appeal to a certain audience and get cheap views.
@@scottishjedi1522 Or you didn't watch the clip that went shot for shot through the episode. 100% of Disney shills don't actually attempt an argument.
@@briandoty769 I have better things to do, especially as there’s like 20 different channels full of angry white dudes shouting the same arguments.
I’d honestly give the show a 5.5/10 so far, it’s not great by any means but it’s not the biggest abomination in the history of tv like some people are making out to be. It’s better than Book of Boba Fett.
@@briandoty769 TRIPLE STAB SPECIAL
@@scottishjedi1522although I don’t get the hate Ahsoka and obi wan get (every scene in obi wan that doesn’t have young Leia in it because she breaks ANH lore) I enjoyed them while people say they suck. This show however is the absolute worst thing Disney has churned out since TROS. I think people are just happy with receiving the bare minimum of sith finally dispatching Jedi like they’re old clothes. The bar was already on the ground very hard to set it lower but the writers of this show will be damned if they don’t try 😂😂😂
edit: grammar
Not even a good lightsaber duel will save this show...
I know right
Lightsaber duel fans at least get something. Space battle enjoyers didn't get anything for years now.
i think it was good (the lightsaber duel)
It's not even good to me. The people playing the parts are not athletic enough to move with the force and intention an actual duelist would use. I see kids in dress up making big, long, slow movements when I watch it. It was better than the throne room duel with Rey for sure, but I would rather rewatch the Sith fight from the prequels, that dude actually looked like he knew how to use a weapon and fight.
Seriously it was laughable
When I look at these episodes and their length, at the end it turns out that the entire series is about 3 hours long, which is as long as a movie. And we are supposed to believe that 180 million was spents on these 3-hour film made into a series? Where is the money, why does Coruscant's skyline look worse than in the prequels?
The money is in someone's pocket my friend :)
Dune part 2 had a similar budget and it´s also about 3 hours long. :D
@@Mouse_Metal And Dune part 2 was STUNNING
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Money laundering
The moths are because the writers can’t be bothered to make a cohesive plot but they can easily rely on some random animal coming out of no where to distract the enemy and allow the good guys to recoup.
They needed the moths b/c they can’t have a rational agent actually intervene to save the day and so something good. Why not? Because they can’t have ‘good guys’ or ‘bad guys’, so animals are a nice neutral factor. This is the stupidity we get when you introduce moral ambiguity into Star Wars.
The moths getting attracted to light, but not getting attracted to the light from the lightsabers.
So just Deus Ex Machina, the most lame and hated plot device in history of writing
Which makes no sense because Force users are able to mind trick animals. It is easier to mind trick animals than to mind trick sapient beings, so even a flock of animals shouldn´t be a problem.
Lucas: "Jedi are good because they are compassionate and selfless... Sith are evil because they are purely selfish"
Acolyte: "Like Lucas established, the Jedi are corrupt, child-snatching, over-bearing, police-of-the-universe, pious religious leaders. Kiss their ring lest they be angry 👑 ..." 🤦♂️
😂😂 it’s honestly beyond stupid at this point
It's like a knee-jerk teenage rebellion reflex for the showrunners... Because the Jedi were the Old Republic's diplomats/peacekeeping corps, hence part of the "government" so to speak, that makes the Jedi part of "the Establishment". And everyone who is part of "the Establishment" is automatically evil in this simplex worldview.
Nevermind that the whole point of the prequels trilogy was that the Republic was undermined by the _real_ corrupt evil people to become the Empire controlled by Sith Lord Palpatine. Or that the rebels in the original trilogy and sequels were rebelling against first the fascist Empire and then its regrouped successor the First Order to _restore_ the law-abiding Republic where people had rights.
Nope. These people only think in labels (as much as they protest that they don't label people or aren't racists when they hate "white" people for being born "white"), so _any_ political structure that is in place at any given point in time become evil simply for being the government.
@@thejessegrant i think its good that theyr focusing on the sith point of view their just doing it the wrong way
The Jedi in the prequels were dogmatic and inflexible, Qui Gon defies them multiple times because he thinks they’ve lost focus.
The whole reason Anakin was forced to turn to Palpatine was because the Jedi were so inflexible that if he revealed what was actually going on with them they would’ve cast him out rather than help him.
They also refused to let him go back and free his mother all because ‘attachments’ are wrong.
This is all stuff Lucas wrote. The Jedi Order went into decline in the prequel era. They weren’t the noble, compassionate figures Lucas intended true Jedi to be. They were political pawns used by the Senate and too dogmatic and rigid to see otherwise.
This is nothing new.
@@scottishjedi1522 Yeah the Jedi have been portrayed as rather
immoral
Quite a few times
DAMN YOU ATRIS
But the key is to make it "Yeah, the Jedi Order can be flawed, but conceptually, they are good, and sith will always be worse"
A Sith master kills multiple Jedi, and the Jedi know this. 100 years later: "The Sith have been extinct for a millennium". :D
You guys are all focusing on that one detail when they're obviously going to explain it away the rest of the show is just fucking terrible every aspect of it sucks balls but you're so focused on Mondays one line😂😂
@@Darthdoodoo it's breaks a major plot point.
Yoda wouldn't sense all this nonsense?
@@Darthdoodoobecause it makes no sense at all
I wonder if he's really a Sith and not just some edgy Padawan. He's too young to be a master.
@@n4ughty_knight Given how bad the writing is and who is writing it, I wouldn't be surprised if you're right or the answer is much dumber.
Bad takes are bad
That ridiculous side head tilt that the “sith” does was just so cringe.
He held the pose for so long 😂
Yep, like he was Michael Myers admiring his kill 😂
Lol I just said the same thing. He's got rapper grills
What sith? Just see a generic bad guy nothing about him says sith, Disney fucking shit up
I cant stand that😂 its what bad film makers do when they have zero original ideas
Jedi are the new Stormtroopers.
And Red skirts
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what we learned in episode 5:
- lightsaber slice to the chest = you're dead, to the leg = "walk it off soldier"
- want to defeat the Sith, all you need is a swarm of bugs
- if you need to go undercover in the Star Wars realm all you need is a quick saber haircut or a long shawl to cover half your body
I've been waiting for this one!
So Mae went from: "I'm gonna kill my sister and the Jedi!" Then (out of no where) to: "My loyalties lie with my sister! I'm gonna turn myself in!" Then (out of no where again) to: "I'm gonna betray my sister again, steal her clothes, and leave her to rot on this jungle planet only to be kidnaped by the Sith dude." Also, Sol(or however you spell his name, I don't give a flying shit enough to check) should have naturally sensed that it was Mae in disguise, and not Osha. And if Mae goes on to be around other Jedi whilst in disguise, and she STILL doesn't get sensed, that's gonna piss people off and I can't wait for it haha!
Ok, credit where credit is due: the fighting was pretty good. Jeke put up the best fight. Her and Yord's death was brutal. I found it funny that Sith dude stabbed Jeke 3 times like as if he watched other Disney Star Wars trash and wanted to make damn sure that Jeke wouldn't survive.
But like a few minutes in and the Sith dude is.....breaking Light Saber blades?? With his arm and helmet??? UuuUuuMMmmM W U T???? I mean, I can see it being deflected if its made of Beskar, but totally breaking the saber beam??
Oh ya, the Sith using Force Heal is complete dog shit. Force Heal is only useable by Light Side users or REALLY POWERFUL Dark Side users, not just any sith person can use it. Disney is just using the Force Heal to explain how Rey was able to use it like, "See everyone, Force Heal is a thing!"
But soooo what's the plan now? I feel like the story should have ended here. There were plenty of opportunities for the Sith dude to die. Kill him, Sol lives on to cover up the "Sith" appearance, Mae is captured and put in prison, Osha is released and goes on about her life. End of story. That should've been the way it ended, but it didn't so what do now? Is Mae really gonna try to infiltrate Corascant or something? There's no way. Is Sith dude gonna take Osha as her apprentice? Is Osha gonna turn to the Dark Side? What the fuck is going on??
This series' sole purpose is to make the Jedi look as dumb, immoral, and as incompetent as humanly possible.
Ahahahaha
They will ruin everything you value until we are all equally morally bankrupt.
1. Mae never wanted to kill her sister she thought she was dead. when she found out she was alive she abandoned her goal to be with her sister again when her sister said she sided with the Jedi Mae abandoned her because she thought she would be on her side.
2. remember sol just watched 7 people get slaughtered he’s not in the best state of mind
3. The material on the sith arm has been shown in comics before so it’s not new or anything
@@acolyte8106 The material in question is called cortosis, it's rare as hell in both versions of Star Wars (literally only found out around the Unknown Regions), and what we saw for both the helmet and vambrace/bracer is exactly how lightsabers react to it. The fact Sithie boy only has the one bracer & helmet shows they might know the stuff's hard to come by and the cost of making an entire suit of armor of the stuff could buy someone an entire planet. I'm saying _might_ here because unless in the next couple episodes they explain what it actually is, the casual [read: tv/movie fans] are going to be very confused by what it is and write it off as 'bs plot armor'.
Cool to see it in live-action though.
I dont understand how jecki did better than jedi masters that makes no sense.
Mae: "The Sith are good. The Jedi are evil."
Osha: "If the Sith are so good, then WHY haven't you apologized for trying to kill me, and setting our stone home on fire?"
"Who are you !?!?"...
"I'M BATMAN !?!!"
Typical Dissney Star Wars checklist:
- lightsabers are not deadly ✅
- a random padawan can go toe to toe with a Jedi killer✅
- good is evil, evil is good ✅
- whamen can do nothing wrong ✅
Bonus:
- Sith can´t use mind trick to control some animals because the script says so
lightsabers aren’t deadly but 80% of the jedi in the episode + 2 cast members end up dying to a lightsaber
sure
WHY do all these writers, producers, and directors who HATE Star Wars write for , produce, and direct Star Wars?
Here’s how I would have fixed the show, just cancel the damn project before it got into production.
I guess in this parallel Star Wars universe, master Jedi can get killed by a throwing knife and Sith can get taken out by birds.
I wonder what kind of s--t Disney will think of next.
if you thought those were birds, you may need to get glasses
Somehow Palpatine returns
No, you are wrong. This episode is good, it’s much better than episodes 3 and 4. It’s the best episode of the whole series.
So it’s a sparkly piece of shit then?
@@hillzskillz7695 Episodes 3 and 4, not 5.
Just goes to show you what happens when you have writers that don't undeerstand the fans nor the source material...
I get having a decent amount of respect for the source material but the fans? No.
I was born in 1984. If one thing is true in all my years of geekdom it’s that the majority of the Star Wars fanbase are toxic and cynical in ways that not only contradicts themselves but can also cause my head to hurt more than getting reverse cowgirled by a Hutt.
My guess is it is a money laundering scheme.
@Filminformer1984 Hmmm.... hussy.... probably decent.
If you slow down the clips, you will see the “sith” block and disable lightsabers with his BARE ARM! Once in the multi-Jedi fight, he blocks the blue with his arm and disables it, following that up with a headbutt (!) blocking and disabling the yellow one. He then repeats that same tactic to defeat Yord - bare arm block. When did disabling lightsabers become a thing?! Um…Lightsabers = 20,000 degree F plasma. Just saying.
47 years ago I saw Star Wars in theaters. WTF am I watching?
Cortosis has been a thing since 1991, which is a metal which disrupts and deactivates lightsabers, not saying this show is good but you can’t call this a Disney blunder when this was established Lucas era lore
As much as I hate the acolyte, I'll give them credit for that.
The sith is most likely using a rare legends material known as Cortosis as his armour, which was able to deflect lightsabers like beskar and even disable them for a bit, but it's also a lot less durable than beskar
While I personally hate it, the creators of The Acolyte did not come up with this idea by themselves. In some of the Star Wars: Legends novels there is a metal called cortosis that has a special property of absorbing energy, resulting in being impervious to balster fire and even being able to disable lightsaber blades which hit it for a short time (by sucking up their energy or something like that). So yeah, it's stupid and I don't like it, but it is something that's pretty established in the expanded lore.
See, now I’m confused. What lore has Disney kept and what lore have they dumped? Help me make it make sense. (And I’ll own the fact that I see the bracer on his arm in a re-watch). Just feels “Holdo Maneuver” to me. IMO.
@@TupZZ-fe1gpAppreciate the information. Learn something new every day. Best to ya. And yeah, The Acolyte gives me heartburn, too.
Any jedi would know the twins switched ffs
The guy just witnessed every other Jedi (including his young Padawan) get brutally murdered by one Sith who seemed to know whatever secret he’s been keeping. He was then stunned and just recovered. His head would be all over the place and so it’s reasonable at first glance he wouldn’t notice.
@@scottishjedi1522damn it’s like all Jedi arent psychic and cant read minds and intentions.. oh wait 😂
Where is the Jedi counsel? How are they hiding from the counsel the fact that multiple Jedi Knights, Masters and now Padawans have been aced? Yoda and Mace Windu could both feel when Anakin killed the Sand People and that was light years away. Yoda could feel when Jedi started dying during order 66. Obi Wan could feel the destruction of Alderaan. Luke could feel & sense Vader's presence from a different ship. Not only that but wouldn't folks attached to these now ghosted Jedi be asking, "Where is everybody?"
Glad I’m not the only one thinking about this 😮😊😂
This episode was what the Acolyte series should have been. Super dark episode. IMO I enjoyed it a lot. However, that third episode and bad writing overall still holds the show back.
fr i feel like everyone is just hating now i enjoyed episode 5
@@user-lf8wp9mz8mI know I completely aggree
You are allowed to enjoy stuff that is shit, you just have to be honest, it's like enjoying a greasy fat burger, go wild,you do you, just don't pretend that somehow your subjective perspective translates into objective reality...
@@champagnestupernova7428 You're genuinely delusional if you think episode 3 wasn't the absolute worst one and that this episode is worse, like come on it was AWFUL
@@historicflame972 a bowl full of dirt is objectively better than a box full of human faeces but I don't want either for dinner...
Wait, did I just see the sith blocking a lightsabre's slash with his helmet and then see the same helmet smashed by some sabre's hilt strike???
It’s made of cortosis, which is a material from some of the novels that predate Disney. It disrupts the energy of lightsabers, but is very brittle otherwise
Lightsaber blades are weightless
Cortosis is a metal from legends it’s been in the lore for a while which makes me upset that they added that lore heavy detail but put Ki Adi Mundi 50 years before he was born in this show AS AN ESTABLISHED MASTER JEDI
Making "good guys" morally ambiguous means there is no right, there is no wrong, only power. There can be no argument from morality when morality is devolved into acts of power.
This isn’t Star Wars. Nope. I refuse to watch it. TH-camrs’ reviews proved me right.
hater
The lines, the delivery, it's just terrible. I feel like the writers for The Acolyte are trying to make each line iconic; they want to find their "Do or Do not; there is no try," moment. The more Disney Star Wars fails the more I yearn for original canon Star Wars.
The only thing this told me was that someone actually hired a good fight choreographer. Calling it "lackluster" is insanneeeee. That shit was good.
Does it make up for the entire show? No. Just like ahsoka, the anakin cameo didn't save the show.
However, the fact that these TH-cam critics can't swallow their pride and give one episode a good rating is so pathetic tbh.
The writing for the show is bad, the choreography, fucking amazing. Cmon now.
i dont understand why is it so hard to give what the true fans want. which equals to...CHA-CHING💸💰🤑
They hate you. Disney is doing this across the board. If parents let their kids grow up on this stuff, they legit change culture
Read up on Cluster-B personality disorders and the so-called Dark Triad, that'll clear things up for you. Doesn't take all that long, either, but is infinitely more rewarding, interesing, and worthwhile than wasting your life on depraved garbage like Disney Sh1t Wars.
Because what fans want goes against the woke DEI groomer agenda.
@@noneyabizz8337 exactly, they are more concerned with social programming than making actual entertainment products, it's plainly sinister, they are banking on your kids getting subliminally programmed on this mind-poison
they want kids to be born and raised stupid.
I don’t get the motivations of the characters. May wants to surrender herself to the Jedi at the end of lasts episode but when Jackie, tries to arrest her, she fights back. Why does she attack the Jedi, that try to save her from her master?
I don't think Leslie knows the gray Jedi are a thing...
gray jedi is an asinine concept, there is just light side and dark side, even george lucas said this
@@_lisan_al_gaib That's an interesting opinion. How is it asinine?
Humans are complicated. Not everyone will gravitate to one extreme or the other. Many will skirt the middle.
Even with today's political climate...I don't consider myself right or left. I'm more of a centrist. I like some of the left talking points; I like some of the right talking points.
Lightsabers have depreciated in power every time someone ignites one it seems. They’re eventually not going to be able to pierce a piece of paper.
On the contrary, he recognized that people weren't dying anymore and hit em with that TRIPLE STAB SPECIAL
The Acolyte's acting, writing, and directing all stink.
Star wars is so diverse that its not even relatable anymore.
Did smiloren fucking punch a lightsaber and take no damage? I’m not the only one who saw that right?
I saw him block a lightsaber with his forearm twice. Kinda silly. Even for this show.
Cortosis is a material that is lightsaber resistant and causes them to short circuit for a few seconds. It pre-dates the house of mouse so I’m surprised the writer brought that in but couldn’t come up with a cohesive plot
The physical acting is horrible, they're struggling to make themselves appear convincing..
That's what happens when they cast actors based on their skin color or "sexual orientation" rather than talent!
“I guess you could call me: Sith.”
Aaaaand Darth Bane just had an aneurism
@@arbknight12 he didn't say he was a sith. Fucking christ you people are brainless
Calling it now.. he’s the first knight of Ren. Kylo’s music played during the credit roll
They set up the bugs being attracted to light… by Sol’s lightsaber. But they are not attracted to all the lightsabers during the battle? But when there’s a flashlight?
Lazy 90s tv show writing.... are we watching hercules? Xena the warrior princess? This is freaking STAR WARS....
Even lazy 90s tv show writing was more entertaining than modern tv shows today.
THEY'RE FUCKING BEETLES. IN WHAT WORLD ARE THOSE BIRDS
its star wars you know that right?
its sci-fi
Umbramoths? (That’s what the subtitles called them)
In what world is this Star Wars
@@JEREMCEEDISNEYWORLD
Bro I don’t even like the show but saying “make the sith powerful by killing 80% of them” when he killed 7 of 8 Jedi, 87.5% of them…. Is acolyte level logic 😂
Thank you. I tweaked out when he said that😭
It’s fcking clickbait
A clothing swap, really? We've reached Harry Potter levels of plot contrivance. We have androids, aliens, FTL and cloning, but they lack the tech to simply identify someone? The CCP had facial recognition over a decade ago, and of course twins were considered.
Well it worked in Ahsoka when Thrawn the supposed military genius just allowed that ezra chap on his ship as he left.
Can we just pretend this show NEVER happened?
It’s bad because the writers,showrunners and actors are the real life sith.
They are evil,and evil always thinks it’s right,they’ll never think what they think or do is wrong,there’s no self assessment of their bahiviour.
They demand respect,they can’t see past their own opinions,and they identify with the sith,not the Jedi,because the sith are all about themselves.
And the Jedi are selfless and do things for the greater good.
So self obsessed showrunners and writers are not gonna identify with the Jedi as everything is about their power,their ideas,their view.
Seriously this show sums up how morally awful the people in Hollywood are right now.
The lot of them are basically the wicked queen from Snow White,looking in the mirror at themselves,but not asking who’s the fairest of them all,they just tell the mirror they are the fairest,as it doesn’t occur to them ever,they are just plain wrong.
Sad times for entertainment.
I’ll miss Star Wars but I’ll never watch an episode of anything Disney put out again.
In a way, what you say about the Jedi being bad kind of confirms what Matpat said in his Star Wars Film Theory
One liners are like icing sugar on a cake. Disney have removed the cake and expect everyone to either eat or snort the icing sugar.
I never thought I would ever have cause to type these words... but don't disrespect Steven Seagal's acting like that. I know he is meme-ably bad, but he isn't The Acolyte bad.
To be honest Star Wars was never my favorite scifi story, and in my opinion is not even the best, but the characters where really engaging, the lore was interesting and the music was simply amazing. Now we have modern SW, with one character more lame than the other, a lore that keeps changing for the worse every day and probably one of the winniest songs ever made as the face of this new show.
Can Star War really be considered Science Fiction? It's more like Science Fantasy. Sure, there's some "science" but the rules are always bending.
@@n4ughty_knightstar wars was a space opera.. at this point. Its just a bad franchise that only has good things from its more older original works. N even then. They werent all that amazing completly. Storm troopers losing to teddy bears shows even the originals are not really prefect ...
The last good thing dtar wars was SW ToR republic n that launched with a miriad of problems. But over all turned out to be pretty great story wise.
So the Jedi cannot beat the Sith, but putting a flashlight on him so the bugs get em is what kills him? Because they HAVE to give the victory to the woke, strong female lead, cause ya know "men bad".
This is some lazy ass writing. They work real hard to make sure their woke-isms are all over this atrocity, but don't have the mental energy or acuity to write a solid consistent plot resolution?
1. He doesn’t die
2. He won overall
Watch the show not just talk shit online
The postmodern idea of "Let's deconstruct everything by redefining the previous heroes as villains" was the fresh approach for Scifi/Fantasy/Superhero media in the 1990s (the decade of the antihero), but quickly became itself a tired trope and a target for deconstruction. As the Woke movement is deeply enmeshed with the pretentious fringe of postmodern academia, it's no wonder they take this route, as they have nothing new to say... they can only tear things down.
Kotor 2 was goated
This translates to, "if I say fancy words people will think I'm smart"
Disney should've just made GOOD sequel seasons of Mandalorian & Andor. They had such golden geese and yet they choose to put the 'Message' & show a fcked up lesbian space witch drama 🤧
Andor was really good compared to other shit disney had put out.
Literally was one episode. Plus, how do you feel about Wonder Woman and her island of all women or the Dathomir Witches also were all female? Just curious.
@captsternn those people lived by a canon story, these actors from the acolyte have no clue what star wars is, i am sure that they have never watched or read any star wars book / movie
@@captsternn at least that doesn't feel forced neither does it break the lore. Lesbian space witches reinvented force and made it into thread.... What a fcking joke
Andor is getting a second season right now as we speak
Like it's actually being made Jerry, where are you
Krennic is appearing btw
the angles at which the fight scene was shot are so god damn terrible... George Lucas made sure we had wide shots in the prequels to have a good view of everything that was going on... but with those close ups and shaky cams from Disney, the fights just look absolutely terrible. I can't see shit. Nothing to admire. Just chaos.
100%
That's how you hide terrible sword play: With terrible camera work.
Those were movies. This is just some silly series to promote more products.
I really disagree. This comment would be 100% fitting for obi wan kenobi. Compared to that I never noticed the camera work in a negativ way. I also think that wide shots are not that usefull in a forrest like this
Gets hit with a extremely hot sword, "Tis but a scratch".
I haven’t seen it but I sure won’t take unhinged critics seriously in the least.
The beginning of the episode made me feel like the director of this episode (who is not Leslye Headland) was trying to undo the work of the director who did the fourth episode and then I realise it's the same director. Also, in case no one has noticed this but Smilo Ren is so overpowered, most of the things he does only gets used once which reminded me of a movie known as the "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness". Having a villian who is also overpowered and only uses most of her powers once (Scarlett Witch). Disney does not give this crap writing style up. I understand this show is annoying you like there's no tomorrow which I don't think there is a tomorrow so long as this show exists. Love your videos though. Thank you so much for the sacrifise you've put in for us. You deserve millions of subscribers. Also, be careful about what you say about the animals, you might also be called a toxic fan for saying anything about animals. Plants are next 🤣, then food 🤣.
fr i would not fix this pile of shi(t) that disney made themselfs i would scrap the acolyte even when they call me a toxic star wars tell them that i don't give a fuc(k) .disney star wars is nothing but a rotting course of a franchise . i would ratter fix sonic forces than a lost cause like disney.
Abaha
if i magically got kennedy's job tomorrow i would scrap everything being filmed right now, no filoni nonsense, no high republic nonsense, i would basically retcon the jar jar abrams sequel trilogy, i would maybe keep andor around but rename the show as simply "Star Wars: Rebellion" because it is much more marketable than a random name like "Andor", and I would commission a KOTOR series made for cable + streaming and maybe re-engage star wars cinematic ambitions with a sith/jedi origin story (that would be different than the ones kennedy's lucasfilm is trying to push)
Within the logic of the writers, i truly don't understand why they seem to have no clue what personality Mae should have.
Ep 1 hated Jedi and wanted them dead, even seemed to take pleasure from knowing she killed 1. Ep 2 suddenly has the whole "kill them without weapons" so now she has a tragic backstory. Ep 3 just shows her as a lunatic even as a kid who tried to murder her sister. Ep 4 takes a massive turn and she's suddenly good and wants to turn herself in because "her loyalty is to Osha". Now in Ep 5, she's back to evil and wants to infiltrate the Jedi.......for some reason, instead of staying with the sister she just said she was loyal to.
They legitimately have zero clue what they're doing.
They just copied Bo-Karen´s -redemption- falling upwards "arc".
It happens with "plot-driven writing", when writers just string scene together and then make the protagonists act in whatever way is required to make the "cool scene" the writers envisioned happen.
Tackling how Jedi and Sith can fall into morally gray territory isn't bad in itself. Knights of the old republic 2 is indicative of that. The problem is moreso that these aren't writers that can make it compelling.
Here’s an idea stop watching it
There are legit channels and people who find this garbage good and i dont understand how. like its not even funny bad its just cringe bad writing with bad ideals.
Paid shills.
Because they have different opinions.
@@noneyabizz8337 That´s where the absurdly high budget went.
@@battledroid8010 i respect that but they are mad and hating own those people who say the show is bad. I dont hate them.
@@jaivettasheem1314 you don't but there are others who do.
I love how the thumbnail just says "Turd"
I take back EVERYTHING bad I said about the holiday special.😅
And ofcourse they made the Sith a white japanese looking dude. Totally not rasist agenda detected.
He’s not white, he’s Asian. Mixed Filipino-Chinese descent.
So we have a Korean actor playing a Jedi and a Filipino-Chinese actor playing a Sith. Both would be classed as ‘Asian’:
So no racist agenda.
Huhhhh
The Jedi was Asian and the Sith was Asian how the fuck is it racist see this is what the clickbaiters do
The only fix for Disney's Star Wars is fire everyone and erase all records of the movies and shows.
Someone has to ask the question: "If the bird-bug-things are attracted to light sources... _why didn't they attack all the Jedi/the Sith earlier?!_
As for 'Good vs Evil', the only characters who people can root for that are villains are people like Grand Admiral Thrawn, who operates on a 'Order vs. Chaos' instead of straight 'good vs evil', which people can relate to. People can't relate to Sith being portrayed as 'good guys'. Protagonists maybe, but definitely not 'good guys'.
Instead of watching this shitshow, I watch only the reviews for every episode. Much more entertaining :D
Tbh this episode was really good compared to rest of the series. There is no logic but this one was good. Try it
@@Milu2786 I will not punish myself by walking through absolut dogshit content just to get to a maybe somewhat acceptable episode.
And if a episode where a complete OP sith lord is beaten by a bunch of alien moths considered a good one, nahhh I'm out.
@@b14ckyy its upto ya but this ep was good tho
Okay but then you don't get to have an opinion of it. If you haven't watched the show you don't get to have an opinion
@@DarksideGmss0513 LOL. I can have an opinion about whatever I want. And I can watch or not watch whatever I want. That's none of your business xD
When I see lesbian force witches and a dude headbanging a lightsaber and then getting carried away by giant space moths, that's enough for me to have the opinion that this show is dogshit I don't wanna watch at all.
Love how the whole fan base has been brought together for the first time since Revenge Of The Sith because of how awful the Acolyte is, they thought they could split us and tear us appart, theyve had the shock of their lives that we will not let them continue to destroy something we hold so dear, this is the real 'power of maaaannnnyyyyy'.
He was not beaten by the moths; I am not sure what you were watching. The show was an improvement from the last 4 episodes, but it still is lacking. But it certainly was not the worst.
Unfortunately the yt community around star wars is dominated by these hysterical dudes who make a living from hating like there is no tomorrow. As you said it, this episode had its strengths and sadly again fumbled hard, esp in the second half, but thus „review“ is just blind rage
To be fair, the fight was probably the most entertaining in all of Star Wars, except ROTS.
and all the other prequal fights
You hate it so much that you waste your time reviewing it. Stop lying
Naw it’s hot trash dude. Not everyone needs diversity and inclusion to like something.
this show is slowly taking my IQ away from me with every episode
"Star Wars can't be morally grey" yeah its not like Kotor 2 is one of the most beloved pieces of star wars media ever created
Its absolutely disgusting what these people have done to Star Wars...
Disney: Jesse Grant is a Toxic fan who doesn't understand anything
Me: Jesse Grant is a great reviewer with common sense
i mean he is kind of toxic this episode wasnt BAD like hes potraing it to be
On the positive side Jecki and Yord are dead.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
#4 Fix: KNOW that Jedi can read thoughts and Master Sol would know INSTANTLY that Osha was actually Mae
Also, Smilo Ren can whip 6 Jedi PLUS a padawan, but a few minutes later, that same padawan can go toe-to -toe with Smilo and even knock his lightsaber-proof helmet off with a glass-shattering sound from her elbow.
Then get killed by a lightsaber dagger
If they want moral gray area type stories for Star Wars, then center it around bounty hunters and crime organizations and make it a more mature story set in the Star Wars galaxy. Not about the main conflict of Jedis vs Sith or Empire Vs Rebellion. Also, don’t make it like Book of Bobby Fat was. 🤮
To be fair, Obi-Wan was struck in the leg with a lightsaber and was pretty much fine after Dooku left
He was pretty much wholly incapacitated for the rest of the fight though, not running around like he has a small stone in his shoe and nothing more.
Nothing "fair" about talking rubbish. Stick to things you know something about.
Forgot this show exists
Ahahahaha well sorry for reminding you 🤣
LOL - Imagine if Marvel wrote something about the avengers being evil. Like ... the entire plot of the movies. How the avengers caused all the destruction, they have the sign the geneva accords, bucky killed tony's mom .... but you're right, it's totally black and white with no grey area there. If only star wars would do that too. SMH - this episode was good.
Count Dooku sliced Obi-Wan's arm and leg in AOTC and Obi-Wan was out of the fight after that. WTF is this????
He was walking it off because he really needed to see anakin blow up the Death Star
Pretty sure we have all given up on Starwars.
No just this small echo chamber/ hate watching circle jerk, of a small portion of fans that can't just watch Star Wars without seeing it through their own twisted idealogy
@@ryans7721 Okay Ryan (Bot)
Don’t like the show? Don’t watch it and go watch what something you enjoy. 👌🏼