"Why did you kill my mooooooom????" "She turned into a terrifying smoke monster with no prior warning during an already tense situation where mind control already happened. Are you dumb or something?"
Feels to me like they were trying to make a "parallel to gun violence by cops" by having the """cops""" "misinterpret" the intentions of a character and "shoot" them.
Yes. I had to laugh pretty hard! Especially, because it looks so cheap. It looks like a german kid's show with puppets from 75 years ago, when you cut their strings, especially the dying lesbian space witch in the center, that looks like a turtle 😂
Disagree. Anyone still watching Star Wars at this point is just in it for the pleasure of pain and torture. This show is a reward for the lunatics who stuck around after Farce Awakens.
But it most obviously was, given how thoroughly the creators despise their perception of what the Star Wars audience is, vs what they believe it should be.
Lets not forget that Torbin's entire character arc is he's a young padawan that gets mind assaulted by a witch, then has to defend himself from said witches, at some point he becomes a master, then gets mad depression from the witch events and waits around for a decade for Mae to show up so he can take his own life. Hell of a character there, truly unparalleled writing
At this point "Star Wars" is like some band from the 70s where all of the original members are dead, and the closest thing they have is a bassist who used to be the original drummer's gardener, but they still tour as a band that everyone used to love.
The witch gaslighting Sol after he stabbed her was the most sickening part, you turned into a Dark Side abomination and tried to turn his allies against him so no shit you were gonna get stabbed lady. But no, the Jedi are somehow the bad guys in Leslie’s story.
There is no bad guys in this story, just different perspectives. EDIT:I was being sarcastic and simply saying what the writer and some actors said about the show. I genuinely do not believe what I wrote.
> punishes le gay witches that are clearly stand-in for themselves > jedi are being slowly deconstructed from the famous characters and pre-established lore. Gee, I wonder who Leslie is making the villain!
I legit feel sorry for him, probably the only decent human being involved with the whole thing and just wanted a chance to play a Jedi aka literally every actors dream. He’s giving it his all in a show that really doesn’t deserve it.
Smilo Ren trained hard for the fight scenes. He was also wasted on this garbage and the predatory behavior from Headlamp who sexualizes him (totally an L in LGHDTV++. Yeah, sure...) in this show "for kids" is disturbing.
It's sad because I still see comments saying, yeah i finished the episode and it sucked lol. I am like why on earth would you pay for this garbage at this point? I would keep any comment of me watching, pure crap kind of under wraps lol. It shows people are not for watching good tv anymore. They know something is crap, and still PAY to watch this mind dribble lol. Why would you pay for this when House of the Dragons or something better is on? Boy oh boy are people as brain dead as this show. I don't care about any comments saying well I paid for this show, or it's not as bad as you think. It's worse, made for the lowest of intelligence viewers. It's not mean to tell the truth, it's just dumb to defend pure crap tv. So take that as you will. Please defend a show of lez bo witches by all means and tell me I am the dumb one. Brain rot is a true thing, prove me wrong.
Nepotism is a huge problem everywhere, but I guess it's OK if you are gay! Also, of course she tires to confuse evil and good and when she was the henchwoman for the biggest rapist in history...
I have the same reaction when they keep showing the hideous spike-head woman. Her single wooden expression is scorn. Call me toxic, but I don't want to look at that.
Token white guy spent ten years in a trance and was completely invulnerable to attack due to his mastery of the force. Dude went from padawan to master in 6 years, speedran his career faster than Anakin, then started his trance. They unwittingly wrote the only white guy main cast member as the most op jedi of all time.
@@gusce6933 He may not have been actually invulnerable, but he was still more difficult to harm than Anakin or any other character in the show. So hyperbole aside, they still managed to unwittingly write one of few white male cast members as an overpowered Jedi when their goals were to do anything but.
@@dbaider9467 The funny thing is that's exactly how I describe my sense of humor, but that's a perfect description of how those people unironically live their lives.
What makes that now infamous clip even more cringe & pathetic is that that actress, on that same stage that same day sat there in front of the SW fan base literary BRAGGING about how she plays this powerful leader. Now when we know the result of her character the character is first of all dead (thank goodness) & secondly I would not exactly call that character a powerful leader to begin with. A leader of some kind living in hiding that knows a few party tricks in the Force that she has renamed into the Thread. I'm not saying she is powerless but I always assumed that she was this great ruler of a whole planet or something the way the actress went on about it. Instead Disney SW has given us yet again a black actress a very bad, meaningless role that ends up going nowhere & that anyone with half a brain realizes beforehand that no one's gonna be buying that action figure. Who exactly IS the sexist racist I keep asking after following Disney SW for a decade now. They are not exactly giving their black actresses any meaningful roles that people will like, do they? But we all know exactly why these black actresses were hired. So the show runners & KK & Pablo & the rest of the insane gang at Lucasfilm can have yet another black actress to hide behind so their lack of story telling talent can be ignored by all the hate they toss at the fan base that merely points out that this was yet again more shitty writing with another shitty character that just happened to be cast by a black woman.
I seriously thought 'the power of many' was going to demonstrate a super duper holy phuck moment to demonstrate great accomplishments through complete unity of a people. Truly disappointed.
@@eldoradocanyonro I am not sure about that, since Leslye Headland is "Darth Groomer"...I propose advancing The Critical Drinker to Grand Master Drinker.
I can hear it now: "So Episode four of The Acolyte came out. It may be the best episode if the whole show. Because nothing... fucking.. happened. Anyway, that's all I've got for today. Go away now."
If I remember right from another review, the only thing of ANY consequence that happened in episode 4 was the Wookiee Jedi with the ridiculous- looking partially- shaved head was killed, and even that occurred offscreen because they didn't have the budget to give a full scene of him trying to fight and then being killed (On a show with a $180 million budget).
@@GavinWilliams1 It's a reference to the fact that Leslye Headland used to be the personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein, and how it's pretty much guaranteed that she knowingly looked the other way while he sexually assaulted young women.
Leslie is simply writing what she knows. People in positions of power obsessing over young children, kidnapping them and taking them isolated islands. Hmmm, sounds like I've heard this story in real life.
The Power of the One BILLION DOLLARS WASTED! The Power of the Two BILLION DOLLARS WASTED! The Power of the Many DISNEY SHAREHOLDERS FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY!
Naked man attempting to seduce (to the dark side) a confused woman to indulge her darker passions, desires and emotions? Lelsye really wrote what she knows.
Hi, 56 yr old SW, comic book and action figure fan here. When I saw SW for the first time it was mind blowing to my 14 yr old mind. For those doing the math, yes I saw Episode IV and V in 1983(I turned 15 in DEC), I then won tickets on my local radio station to see Return of the Jedi at a premiere at a local theatre, It was a surreal experience. The only other movie to have that same impact on me was Spider-Man in 2002(at 34 yrs old). At the end of that movie, as the credits rolled I had tears streaming down my face because I had waited so many yrs to see Spider-Man on the screen. I do not believe for a second any one involved with any of the Disney SW or current Marvel media has experienced any life changing moments when it comes to any form of pop culture. They cannot be true fans, they do not understand or respect the source material. It is very sad. By the way, I am half white and half mexican, been married for 36 yrs and have two grown children, so that destroys the racist white male/incel narrative progressives like to spout. Ultimately shows like the Acolyte just depress the hell out of me.
@@cornercomics67 It stands for INvoluntary CELibate. Someone who just can't get women, usually because they're too lazy to better themselves and/or go out and try. Anyone who seems 'bitter' against women is just painted as an incel even if it's a genuine grievance they have. Or if they say something that women don't like to hear.
@@Kuk0san Although realistically it's beginning to look more and more as though it's less involuntary, as who really wants to get with a hairy annoying wokester?
turning into a super scary Force smoke monster and trying to disintegrate a child, then acting surprised when the Jedi tries to intervene was visual insanity...
Right? I mean the least she could have done was explaining what she’s about to do if she’s soooo wise 😂😂. There was no urgency that gave her reason to rush and not explain what she’s about to do (whatever that was 😅). Another example of lazy writing just to have Mae witness her mother’s death by the Jedi for her meaningless revenge plot she gave up mid season 🤣🤣🤣
Let's all acknowledge the great public service The Critical Drinker is doing by watching absolutely horrific stuff so the rest of us don't have to. I salute you, sir.
I have watched every single Drinker review of The Acolyte, but not a single episode of the actual show. Thank you Drinker for your service and sacrifice!
I mean if u watch it in x1.25 speed skip 75% of it only watch the fights turn off ur brain not think of any Star Wars canon or logic and most importantly get ABSOLUTELY PLASTERED (or high) it is not that horrible normal everything 1.6/10 overall Skipping most of it (my way) 3.4/10 Fully but plastered (3.6/10) Combination of all ways (4/10)
The Acolyte is quickly becoming one of my all-time favorite shows I've never watched. Between the active attempt to destroy the source material, AND the internet's reaction to this assassination, the Acolyte has given me more entertainment than any 7/10 show ever could have.
Saaaaahhhhcaaaaasssmmmm.... Anyway, you're right! Ending an episode abruptly and hoping people think of it as a cliffhanger is the best decision Disney's made!
Weirdly enough this episode is trying to shout at us "The Jedi are the bad guys!" But pretty much everything they did was understandable, apart from a few things. The witches are the aggressors, they use powers and abilities that either look hostile or directly just are hostile and Mey did burn down the fortress because the fortress apparently was incredibly flammable and explosive.
The padawan lost his mind while on a 6 week mission. They built it up like he was there for 6 years. Dude was on like a standard business trip and collapsed
Force Witch: *does furtive gestures in front of a space cop* Also Force Witch, after The Force escalates: “Officer, I was complying…” That’s some Force level gaslighting right there.
I could just picture the Pitch Meeting dialogue: writer "All of the Lesbian Space Witches die suddenly." producer "What err why?" writer "because the script says so." producer "Oh Okay then."
I was expecting that the wookie jedi would be released from the mind control stuff because the fire that May started end up spreading to the room all the witches were in (they were made of the same flammable rock, I assume), not suddenly die after got disconnected or something.
“I was going to let Osha leave with you.” That’s like Andor raising his gun at Luthen, causing Luthen to shoot him, and while he lays dying, Andor tells Luthen he was actually going to join the Rebellion.
The irony of having a whole episode to recontextualize the Jedi as even more evil and incompetent than they've already been portrayed in the show, only to have their actions basically amount to justified self-defense or the defense of others when it comes to killing the space-witches is the real twist of the show.
it wasnt justified self defence in any way shape or form. You cant break into someone property, demand to test their kids, threaten to take their kids away with no evidence of anything, claim theyre concerned the kids are going to be harmed, by their own parents and then go in and try to kidnap them. and then claim its self defence when the parents try to stop you. thats nonsense.
@@ge2719 You can't. But when you're dealing with a magic energy that, if used wrongly, will actively corrupt you and turn you into a vicious power addicted psychopath, it's a different story. Then it's more like CPS, checking to see if kids grow up in a home that is actually a cult full of drug addicts, trying to get them out of that situation. Then they see the cult member flip out and attack (mind control) them, multiple times, threatening to hurt one of the kids.
This doesn’t even sound like a “the Jedi are bad” scenario. It sounds like a “everyone involved with this operation were idiots and now everything is on fire” situation.
@@spartanhawk7637 the Jedi are on fire, the witches are on fire, the… stone is on fire? We really went for gold in the high jump of incompetent characters.
Exactly! It sounds like the "Worst" thing the Jedi did was covering up what happened, especially as none of them were particularly in the wrong for doing what they did up to that point and they thus shouldn't have had to worry about coming forward. Even if Lesbian Sith Witch Mama didn't mean any harm with what she did (Though it sure as hell looked like she did, we could see the kid disintegrating), Squid Game Guy assuming that she posed a threat seemed pretty reasonable under the circumstances, thus making his skewering of her justifiable. Trinity was just trying to snap the Wookiee Jedi out of the possession/ spell, she had no way of knowing her doing that would kill all the other lesbian Sith witches. The Jedi should have just told the Jedi council what happened, the council would have almost certainly understood. Even that cover- up, though, while a mistake, shouldn't cause the Jedi to be seen as "The bad guys" in the situation.
@@Adamguy2003 I certainly don’t like the idea of the coverup either. There’s just the whole wacky situation. Imagine having to explain it to the council. “So lesbian witches used not mind control, but FULL POSSESSION on us on TWO different occasions. They were talking some weird shit about ‘thread’? You know what? Nah, I quit. Jedi never told me about Leslie Headland’s fan fiction. Gonna go drink titty milk on that island Luke will eventually inhabit” --signed Sol.
They try to but fail horribly. Granted I've not seen it and probably never will but nothing I've heard made.e think the Sith or the covenant are the good guys.
That's kind of what the prequels did, no? The prequel trilogy showed that the Jedi weren't infallible. They also made you sympathize with one of the greatest eventual evils in the galaxy- Darth Vader. This is nothing new.
Well it doesn't tell you anything about their values.... only that they thought it would be an innovative spin. An artwork (yes even this is technically art) of fantasy does not tell you a lot or even anything about the moral standards of the authors. (Interpretation of good faith is still a standard the fun hate train should not loose bro)
And yet, the Jedi _still_ haven't done anything morally reprehensible to justify being villainized.😂 If there's anything, ANYTHING at all to take away from this show, it's that Darksiders more or less cause their own problems and have terrible reasons for doing what they do.
It's nice to see how even Leslye Headland can't remember that according to her, the many are stronger than the one. When one Trinity feedback looped 49 witches to death.
2:22 What’s even more funny is that, in Star Wars lore, there are actual Jedi who are assigned to do things like this. They are part of a group called the Jedi Survey Corp, and they are basically Jedi Padawans/Younglings who failed to pass their final test and don’t become knights, and so are given more menial (but still important) jobs in the temple, like being an Archivist or Explorer. So not only does this mission not make sense, it also breaks the lore, because they sent Jedi Masters and Knights to do work that should be done by the Survey Corp.
I know,I am the same. And the clips in the TH-cam reviews are more than enough to see what is going on and tell the limited story, without you having to endure the padding, terrible writing and dire actors. Its the same for Doctor Who, and Trek and Marvel films and show. You dont want to see them anymore as you know its a waste of time and they are bad. But you know you will get entertainment from TH-camrs tearing them to bits and highlighting the stupidity and bad writing. And its the small part of you that is curious to see how bad things have become and how far the things you loved have fallen. Its like slowing down as you drive past a road accident to try and work out who is at fault and who crashed into who....
Thanks Critical D for taking another one for the team ... my Acolyte virginity remains intact. I've managed to outsource passing this $180m (!!) dump. Thanks for the honesty.
As a somewhat cynical ex vfx designer, and part-time "grumpy old man", I'd just like to say thank you. Not only to The Critical Drinker, but also, to everyone commenting. It's been an awfully long time since I've laughed so heartily, and nodded in agreement with so much discourse. You are collectively that most wonderful of things - a bastion of hope! I salute you all - cheers, TJ
It's nice to have a sanity check and to know that the majority of people are actually all thinking what the fuck is happening with our modern world and entertainment by extension.
The funny thing is Mae is still sort of responsible for the whole disaster. If she didn't go on this weird rampage breaking things, and setting a fire which caused explosions, she wouldn't had freaked out and got her mom killed for turning into a dark ghost. The explosiosn and such also seem to have set off the Jedi. And if its not Mae's fault its her mom's for encouraging her to do it in the first place. The Jedi are actually completely in the right here, the show's just kind of...playing with the idea of them being bad without committing to it.
I can’t make fun of the Trade Federation ships in Phantom Menace anymore after that. Or Padme dying of sadness. lol this was basically a Phantom Menace but all the witches just died of sadness! 😂😂
@@barnabusdoyle4930 It was the combined effort of the ghosts of Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand, Sir Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Jeremy Bulloch, Sir Christopher Lee, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Drewe Henley, Richard LeParmentier, and even Bea freaking Arthur (She was in the 'Star Wars Holiday Special,' and her part is generally regarded as the only good part in that entire special), all uniting together to undo the damage done to the franchise that each of them helped in some way to build or expand. Now, THAT'S an example of "The Power of Many" that I could get behind!
Don't forget that they are simultaneously extremely fragile and easily triggered by any criticism of the abomination their malice and incompetency has turned Star Wars into. Cry-bullies is the term I believe.
@@emiami458 I like that - only their own self aggrandising delusion makes them believe they are intimidating enough to be bullies, when the truth is that they are just pathetic fanatical weirdoes with obsessions nobody who is even remotely well adjusted cares about.
You’re close. This Star Wars is made for those type of bullies. The people who actually do make this wrote terrible fan fiction and never got picked for sports.
@@LudwigPaiste28 Only difference between fan-fic and official canon is a paycheck from whoever holds th epublishing rights. Works the same in comic books.
I still have yet to see what the Jedi actually did wrong. They were only going to take the child that actually wanted to go with them. Mae was the one to set fire to the complex while the witches were the ones who used threats, tried to shoot and stab the Jedi with various weapons, used one of the Jedi as a puppet, and only died when they got kicked out of that Jedi's head. They were the ones who kept escalating the situation.
The Jedi opposed the wishes of the lesbian space witches. The Jedi are a stand-in for the Patriarchy and the lesbian space witches are oppressed womyn. This show is **not** subtle about who the enemy is.
"I was going to let Osha go. I guess I should have told you before I changed into a Smoke Monster and began to dissolve my daughter. But that's *your* fault."
So what actually happened? She was going to kill the bad twin but leave the other one go? Why? Did she think Mei was a bad egg then? What did she say preceding the change into a smoke monster? haha
@@Feenicks30Mae runs into the chamber to say Osha is trapped by the fire. The witch’s reaction is to turn into smoke and start to dissolve Mae. Sol panics and stabs her.
Lmao they wanted to make a female centric Star Wars show. And in that show they have female characters who are so indecisive that their entire motivations flip on a dime, they respond to minor conflicts with massive emotional outbursts, and then they blame everyone else. And this is supposed to make women look good? If you told me this show was made by misogynists trying to play up all the worst female stereotypes, that would make more sense.
Yeah, Star Wars Theory got into that on his review of the episode. However, like I said on there, the selective use of the Force and what the Jedi and Sith can do with it has always been sketchy since the original trilogy. They can force push a pack of droids off a cliff but can't do that to an enemy they are fighting in a light saber battle (Anakin and Obi-Wan could easily have force pushed each other into the lava pits on Mustafar for merely one example). They can use force choke at any time but rarely use it when it could get them out of a dire situation (like in a light saber battle when they get disarmed for example). Inconsistent and illogical from the start to be honest.
@@LukeFitzgerald-kh9zr Leslie Headland, the creator of this show is Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant. When that drama was going down with him, the media never questioned Leslie once. If you're unfamiliar with who Weinstein is look it up and then rewatch this review.
@LukeFitzgerald-kh9zr She was Harvey Weinsteins assistant, he was a powerbroker in Hollywood and known for sexually assaulting subordinates and using his power in Hollywood to force himself on women while Leslie and most of Hollywood looked the other way. So this scene of a the female character seemingly seducing the token white male is a similar scene. He's in prison now I believe.
@@xx_mojat_xx Well you have to admit that watching a predator really seems to be something that leaves a lasting impression. It is also funny how in movies or shows they don't understand that this behaviour is still wrong when a women does it. Similarly to the Wonder Woman movie where they let a character to something horrible that should be a "good guy" (or in this show where they want to tell us she is a good guy, even though she seems to be pretty damn evil) because they seem to not get that it is still a huge issue and makes the character look extremely bad.
Hey don’t forget that Token White Guy managed to achieve the rank of Jedi Master in six years. He was a Padawan sixteen years before the present and then went into a trace for ten years. So he managed to get promoted to Jedi Knight, then got to Jedi Master in record speed. I guess whining does get you places.
You are so good and so bang on with your critique. You are hilarious and break it down so eloquently. I love one of the top comments on here saying how they look forward to your review more than the show and agree 100%. Keep it up
The sheer disregard for the foundations of the Star Wars universe by the creators of 'Acolyte' is beyond frustrating. They've managed to turn what was once a beloved franchise into a nonsensical circus of mediocrity.
This is so subpar, it is even beyond mediocre. Mediocre means, or at least meant at some point, passable average. This is a nonensical flustercuck. I am aware the average has dug deep towards the marianna trench in the recent years, but I think this one manages to whip out drills and dig even deeper.
The worst thing about this, is that the employees in the Walt Disney Company losing their jobs or bonuses or stuck on low salaries are mostly regular folk who have nothing to do with these disaster productions that nobody wants to watch. The board needs to be held accountable and collectively fired.
My cousin works at the ticket booth in the Magic Kingdom. Great person, great wife and mother, supports her family with that job, and even uses her employee perks to get my girlfriend and I free one- day passes each year. Even if it weren't for that last part, one fear I have between the money Disney pisses away on crap projects and all the boycotts against them is that it'll lead to her and other such "Low on the totem pole" Disney employees getting laid off due to budget cuts and thus being unable to provide for their families while the incompetent and/ or corrupt higher- ups such as those responsible for this show have no such worries. She deserves her job a hell of a lot more than Bob Iger or Kathleen Kennedy deserve theirs.
@@montarakid1943 Trinity cut them off of the matrix...... "No, not like this." Or Trying to mind-control a Wookie is like playing chess against them; it's fine as long as you let the Wookie win. Otherwise, it's arm-ripping-off-time or, in this case, mind-ripping-time.
Turning into a demon smoke monster unannounced whilst mid conflict, then getting killed and blaming the person who killed you because you had good intentions, is like taking a toy gun water pistol to an airport during hot weather to try and cool people off. Your intentions may be good, but you're the worlds biggest idiot if you think that's a good idea, and no one else is to blame other you for being so stupid, in this instance, the creator of the show.
I 2000% agree. It's like taking a rake and selling it on ebay for turkish dollars and then being annoyed that the service charge has tripled because you were adopted. Anyway hope you find this useful.
"I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE" you shout, reach into ur bag, pull it out, and point it at people "IM REALLLY GONNA DO IT", you get shot, and act surprised "I was just trying to cool down people, i cant stand heat!" is basically what happened lol.
It is kind of fascinating how she's 44 years old and does not understand basic science and geography but still managed to become director of a famous SCI-FI franchise.
Also have this nagging feeling where the scene in episode 1 where first see what Smilio Ren on the shore, that that was a flash forward, and it is infact the twins final confrontation. Had the twin swap, and one of them donned the helmet.
For over a thousand generations, the Jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old republic...before the Leslye Headland...before kathleen kennedy.
Laughing about Star Wars has become more fun that watching it. Thank you Ditsbey for providing us (unintentionally of course) with endless hours of laughs.
Maybe this is a case of legit money laundering. Hundreds of millions invested on these TV shows and you just can't see it, hell, Rings of Power is another blatant example
6:22 *"...Jedi Wookie shows up but he's been possessed by the lesbian space-witches."* Oh, man, I had to re-watch this part of your review like a dozen times to feel the absolute absurdity of what was just said. :D
"What do we do with Indara's team? They are grossly incompetent." "There is an old mining outpost out on the rim. Make up some shite that there us a vergence or something out there and send them to investigate. Send the Wookie too, I can smell his robes from orbit."
Mace Windu: "You must realize there are not enough Jedi to protect the Republic. We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers." Darth Leslie: "Good, now go waste the time of four Jedis gathering moss and looking for coins in the soil with a metal detector like a bunch of morons."
Star Wars Fan here. Last week I watched the original Star Wars movies with my son. We had a great time. Not for a second are we considering to watch anything past the original movies.
The failure of One!
The failure of Two!
And the failure of Many!
Maaaaannnyyyy... 😂
😂😂😂😂
lol
ManneeennneeeEEEEEE
MmmEEyYnnNeEEeeee..
Writing black twins with no father and a mother that commits deletion by cop is wild.
Well the writers said they were pretty big on social commentary....
Remember, Kathleen Kennedy says that Star Wars needs to reflect a "modern audience."🤦🏽♂️
@@Dizzy247365pluslucky she didn't have them steal space stereos then
Damn, is this show a documentary?
No thank you, .... im not gay, it's not for m
"Why did you kill my mooooooom????"
"She turned into a terrifying smoke monster with no prior warning during an already tense situation where mind control already happened. Are you dumb or something?"
And apparently hid her feelings from the jedi who could have felt her intentions..
Feels to me like they were trying to make a "parallel to gun violence by cops" by having the """cops""" "misinterpret" the intentions of a character and "shoot" them.
I'm a child!
"That happened over a decade ago!! Your sister needs help."
OHSHA: *THAT'S why I bailed.*
@@antirevomag834Should've put quotes around the word "character" as well.
@@antirevomag834 It should be a cautionary tale on how to act around cops. Don't do anything sudden. Don't pull a weapon. Don't verbally threaten.
That bloody "Yaass, yaaaass" will forever hunt this bint! Rightfully so.
I didn't know you could spell "ass" with a "Y". It goes to show what I know...
All those Yass and those slay,queen will forever haunt me
The witches in a trance all dropping over dead at once when their connection was broken was hilarious.
The world of Disney Star Wars, where now using the Force too much can kill you.
I thought they all passed out lol
I think Angry Joe called it actually! 😂 this shit is so funny!
Yes. I had to laugh pretty hard! Especially, because it looks so cheap. It looks like a german kid's show with puppets from 75 years ago, when you cut their strings, especially the dying lesbian space witch in the center, that looks like a turtle 😂
Let's hope it is a metaphor for the wokerati.
You’d swear this show was literally made to punish Star Wars fans
It probably was
Disagree. Anyone still watching Star Wars at this point is just in it for the pleasure of pain and torture. This show is a reward for the lunatics who stuck around after Farce Awakens.
It surely has to be
But it most obviously was, given how thoroughly the creators despise their perception of what the Star Wars audience is, vs what they believe it should be.
Meanwhile: the Lord of the Rings fans - look how they have massacred my boy
Lets not forget that Torbin's entire character arc is he's a young padawan that gets mind assaulted by a witch, then has to defend himself from said witches, at some point he becomes a master, then gets mad depression from the witch events and waits around for a decade for Mae to show up so he can take his own life.
Hell of a character there, truly unparalleled writing
He became a jedi master, despite all that internal strife, in record time too.
So...professional victim?
It's shocking the writers approved this. The events of what happens make no sense why he did that for 10 years.
Him drinking the poison makes no sense whatsoever 😂😂
He’s the Jedi embodiment of (the ever mythical) “white guilt” seems to be what they were going for.
"Yess Yesss!"
It literally hurts my brain to hear her say this
its yassss not yesss
Glad I'm not the only one suffering.
"Write what ya know, eh Leslie??"
Shots fired, right into the bullseye.
Imagine making an entire show of television so bad it made being a personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein your second worst mistake...
I died
Not Like Us vibes
Emotional damage
Leslye Groomer.
At this point "Star Wars" is like some band from the 70s where all of the original members are dead, and the closest thing they have is a bassist who used to be the original drummer's gardener, but they still tour as a band that everyone used to love.
And play all their own new and sucky material, instead of the classics the band they stole the name from used to play.
ngl I'm probably going to steal that analogy for future use.
@@muznick And they insult the original members of the band, and accuse everyone who prefers the original band's style of being bigots.
Oddly specific comparison is oddly specific....
Which band were you thinking about?
That is probably the best description of DEIsney ever. Right on the money. Still sad though.
The witch gaslighting Sol after he stabbed her was the most sickening part, you turned into a Dark Side abomination and tried to turn his allies against him so no shit you were gonna get stabbed lady.
But no, the Jedi are somehow the bad guys in Leslie’s story.
Who said they're bad guys?
There is no bad guys in this story, just different perspectives.
EDIT:I was being sarcastic and simply saying what the writer and some actors said about the show. I genuinely do not believe what I wrote.
@@tnmblonewolf8799 nice Disney PR tagline
@@tnmblonewolf8799 Just bad writing.
> punishes le gay witches that are clearly stand-in for themselves
> jedi are being slowly deconstructed from the famous characters and pre-established lore.
Gee, I wonder who Leslie is making the villain!
Props to squid game guy who, despite being handed a terrible script in a language he recently learned, still plays good .
I legit feel sorry for him, probably the only decent human being involved with the whole thing and just wanted a chance to play a Jedi aka literally every actors dream.
He’s giving it his all in a show that really doesn’t deserve it.
his diction is horrific he cant speak english, it was an awful casting. its laughable hearing him try to say his lines.
@@vanguardRailgun924Manny Jacinto isn’t that bad either
It makes me sad because he is clearly awesome. Script sux
Smilo Ren trained hard for the fight scenes. He was also wasted on this garbage and the predatory behavior from Headlamp who sexualizes him (totally an L in LGHDTV++. Yeah, sure...) in this show "for kids" is disturbing.
The inserts of the "Yass, Yass!" clip are simply brilliant.
It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
“Oh you didn’t like episode 3? Have you tried episode 3 with wide angle lenses?”
Great South Park reference
It's sad because I still see comments saying, yeah i finished the episode and it sucked lol. I am like why on earth would you pay for this garbage at this point? I would keep any comment of me watching, pure crap kind of under wraps lol. It shows people are not for watching good tv anymore. They know something is crap, and still PAY to watch this mind dribble lol. Why would you pay for this when House of the Dragons or something better is on? Boy oh boy are people as brain dead as this show. I don't care about any comments saying well I paid for this show, or it's not as bad as you think. It's worse, made for the lowest of intelligence viewers. It's not mean to tell the truth, it's just dumb to defend pure crap tv. So take that as you will. Please defend a show of lez bo witches by all means and tell me I am the dumb one. Brain rot is a true thing, prove me wrong.
Nepotism is a huge problem everywhere, but I guess it's OK if you are gay! Also, of course she tires to confuse evil and good and when she was the henchwoman for the biggest rapist in history...
Underrated comment, lmfao
It's just like Rashomon, see? We're good writers! Please believe us.
Every time the "yEs, yEs!" clip plays I have to fight the urge to punch my laptop.
ngl i find that hot
I have the same reaction when they keep showing the hideous spike-head woman. Her single wooden expression is scorn. Call me toxic, but I don't want to look at that.
It's fucking infuriating that someone like that was allowed to play a part in Star Wars isn't it? 😂
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaas
“Yas, Yas!”
Token white guy spent ten years in a trance and was completely invulnerable to attack due to his mastery of the force.
Dude went from padawan to master in 6 years, speedran his career faster than Anakin, then started his trance.
They unwittingly wrote the only white guy main cast member as the most op jedi of all time.
😆
Was he invulnerable? I could see him. You could see him. So a laser could get to him as light was getting in and out of that force field.
@@gusce6933 He may not have been actually invulnerable, but he was still more difficult to harm than Anakin or any other character in the show. So hyperbole aside, they still managed to unwittingly write one of few white male cast members as an overpowered Jedi when their goals were to do anything but.
Hilarious
The "write what you know, Leslye" shot was next level.
Agreed 👍
The Drinker is loving reviewing this crap, reveling in the digs. The whole thing is perverse and corrupt and rotten.
@@dbaider9467 The funny thing is that's exactly how I describe my sense of humor, but that's a perfect description of how those people unironically live their lives.
That “Yes, YAAASSS” clip infuriates me to no end. It’s incredible how it just seems to sum up everything that’s awful about everything.
It's what I'd expect if the concept of smugness was a person.
I’ve seen that clip hundreds of times now in Drinker reviews and somehow it never fails to be nails-on-chalkboard grating.
What makes that now infamous clip even more cringe & pathetic is that that actress, on that same stage that same day sat there in front of the SW fan base literary BRAGGING about how she plays this powerful leader. Now when we know the result of her character the character is first of all dead (thank goodness) & secondly I would not exactly call that character a powerful leader to begin with. A leader of some kind living in hiding that knows a few party tricks in the Force that she has renamed into the Thread. I'm not saying she is powerless but I always assumed that she was this great ruler of a whole planet or something the way the actress went on about it. Instead Disney SW has given us yet again a black actress a very bad, meaningless role that ends up going nowhere & that anyone with half a brain realizes beforehand that no one's gonna be buying that action figure. Who exactly IS the sexist racist I keep asking after following Disney SW for a decade now. They are not exactly giving their black actresses any meaningful roles that people will like, do they? But we all know exactly why these black actresses were hired. So the show runners & KK & Pablo & the rest of the insane gang at Lucasfilm can have yet another black actress to hide behind so their lack of story telling talent can be ignored by all the hate they toss at the fan base that merely points out that this was yet again more shitty writing with another shitty character that just happened to be cast by a black woman.
this clip kills me everytime
Yes, YAAASSS!
Funny how "the power of many" was just defeated by a single Jedi perforning a Vulcan mind meld.
I literally said out loud “so much for the power of many” when that happened 💀
This episode should have revealed the Jedi are actually agents working for the machines and everyone in this universe is in a separate Matrix.
@@ReadingAdam Look, if we're gonna do a crossover extravaganza, let's do it right. Drop the Matrix and get the Borg in here.
One wonders why they would do such a spell where they can so easily die if it is interrupted.
I seriously thought 'the power of many' was going to demonstrate a super duper holy phuck moment to demonstrate great accomplishments through complete unity of a people. Truly disappointed.
"Write what you know eh Lesley?" A brutal killer line showing her up for exactly who she is. Another masterclass from the Critical Drinker.
I nominate him for advancement to Darth Critical
@@eldoradocanyonro I am not sure about that, since Leslye Headland is "Darth Groomer"...I propose advancing The Critical Drinker to Grand Master Drinker.
Exactly 'what' she is...........
You were proud of that one and we can't agree more.
"Yesss, Yesss!" (tongue in cheek) 😎 It was a nice dig!
We lost Starkiller and Mara Jade for this. For THIS.
Last I checked, the EU novels, comics, and games still exist in their own continuity. Who cares what the clowns at Disney consider canon?
I still say The Thrawn Trilogy is the real sequel Trilogy.
Never forget about Dash Rendar
Disney slops are not canon
@Lonovavir It certainly is.
I like how every episode of The Acolyte got a review except for episode 4 because literally nothing happened whatsoever in that one
The drinker was probably in the ER after watching and reviewing ep 3 that’s why he wasn’t able to review ep 4 😂
Just noticed now there is no ep 4 review 😂😂😂😂😂
I can hear it now: "So Episode four of The Acolyte came out. It may be the best episode if the whole show. Because nothing... fucking.. happened. Anyway, that's all I've got for today. Go away now."
It's like watching an episode of The View but with lightsabres.
If I remember right from another review, the only thing of ANY consequence that happened in episode 4 was the Wookiee Jedi with the ridiculous- looking partially- shaved head was killed, and even that occurred offscreen because they didn't have the budget to give a full scene of him trying to fight and then being killed (On a show with a $180 million budget).
That " yaas yaaaaaaasssssss" chills me everytime, it gives emperor Xerxes "bow to me mortal" vibes
It would be a regrettable waste
😂
I think it's all the needless bling, nose jewellery etc.
She and Xerxes would be a great power couple if it wasn't for political leslye-anism
Omg right. It's made it's way to the top of my "most annoying sounds in the world" list.
"Write what you know, eh, Leslie?" That got me 🤣
Dovetails nicely into it being "a masterclass of stupidity", don't you think?
I just saw that part of the video and went searching for this comment, knew it would be here 🤣🤣
"We're here to find a vergence, a powerful centre of force energy"
*cut to the wookie looking for it with a metal detector*
And it turns out that the force is two non-identical twins who are terrible actresses.
He just pursues his hobbies, leave him alone. He's been collecting moss for 6 weeks straight ...
the writers read that The curse of Oak Island was popular, hence the metal detectors
Nah, he's just dicking around because he knows this is all stupid.
Jedi Detectorists!
"Write what you know, eh Leslye"? Absolute gold.
What's the reference?
@@GavinWilliams1 Really? Weinstein.
Oh snap!
I laughed so hard at this....💀
@@GavinWilliams1 It's a reference to the fact that Leslye Headland used to be the personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein, and how it's pretty much guaranteed that she knowingly looked the other way while he sexually assaulted young women.
Leslie is simply writing what she knows. People in positions of power obsessing over young children, kidnapping them and taking them isolated islands. Hmmm, sounds like I've heard this story in real life.
That's what I was thinking.
And she loved every minute of that rollercoaster and wants to share the fantasies with everyone to seek some appeal where it's not needed
She loved every minute of that wonderland and wants to share her fantasies with everyone to seek some appeal for her elite hollywood daddies
Lezly loved every minute of that wonderland and wants to share her fantasies with everyone to seek some appeal for her elite hollywood daddies
"Seems familiar, so to speak pathetic sort ahead" *point down gesture*
Star Wars 1977-2005
The only good thing of these "Star Wars" shows are the existence of the reviews. Love the Drinker!
Plus the Star Wars EU.
The power of 1, the power of 2, the power of many shots to get me through watching this shyte 😅
Impressive. There is not enough liquor on god's green earth to get me to watch this and I'm not even a star wars fan.
That's why I don't watch it as I partake in the shots. That shit will send me to the nearest mortuary 😂
is that a real scene? i will not watch
The Power of the One BILLION DOLLARS WASTED! The Power of the Two BILLION DOLLARS WASTED! The Power of the Many DISNEY SHAREHOLDERS FILING FOR BANKRUPTCY!
"Aclshyte."
- How could we use Carrie-Ann Moss?
- Let her collect moss!
Lmao. I knew I should keep reading comments so far down.
bravo sir!!!! 🤣
hehehehehehehehehehheheheehheh HEH!!!
Lol, nice
...so...Carrie-that Moss?
(I'll see myself out...)
"Write what ya know, Leslye!"
Brother you hit the bullseye on that one. I'll drink to that.
That burn was so bad I needed ointment.
What does he mean? Someone fill me in please.
Naked man attempting to seduce (to the dark side) a confused woman to indulge her darker passions, desires and emotions?
Lelsye really wrote what she knows.
@@Aaronhoulston Leslye was a personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein.
So well said.
Hi, 56 yr old SW, comic book and action figure fan here. When I saw SW for the first time it was mind blowing to my 14 yr old mind. For those doing the math, yes I saw Episode IV and V in 1983(I turned 15 in DEC), I then won tickets on my local radio station to see Return of the Jedi at a premiere at a local theatre, It was a surreal experience. The only other movie to have that same impact on me was Spider-Man in 2002(at 34 yrs old). At the end of that movie, as the credits rolled I had tears streaming down my face because I had waited so many yrs to see Spider-Man on the screen. I do not believe for a second any one involved with any of the Disney SW or current Marvel media has experienced any life changing moments when it comes to any form of pop culture. They cannot be true fans, they do not understand or respect the source material. It is very sad. By the way, I am half white and half mexican, been married for 36 yrs and have two grown children, so that destroys the racist white male/incel narrative progressives like to spout. Ultimately shows like the Acolyte just depress the hell out of me.
What is an incel?
@@dchozn1 I believe it's a male who dislikes anything about women?
@@cornercomics67 It stands for INvoluntary CELibate. Someone who just can't get women, usually because they're too lazy to better themselves and/or go out and try. Anyone who seems 'bitter' against women is just painted as an incel even if it's a genuine grievance they have. Or if they say something that women don't like to hear.
@@Kuk0san Although realistically it's beginning to look more and more as though it's less involuntary, as who really wants to get with a hairy annoying wokester?
@@Kuk0san Thanks, I knew it was something like that, I'm just a little out of touch with all this. Appreciate your explanation!
That "YASS YASS" is something nightmares are made of.
Don't forget laughs as well 😂
insufferable
Nails on a chalkboard!
Can someone tell me where the writers of this show live?
Searching for "the vergence" with a metal detector is the equivalent of "combing the desert" in Spaceballs except it's somehow even more ridiculous.
I mean this HAS to be the best comment here.
As a non-native speaker I heard that they were looking for 'the virgins' and it made it all the funnier.
"hey kelnaka, hows it going over there?"
kelnaka "Arrr urrr grrrr aaah arrr"
"yeah.... i aint found s*&^ neither".
If the metal detectors detect vergences, why dont they use it on the twins?
😂 👍
turning into a super scary Force smoke monster and trying to disintegrate a child, then acting surprised when the Jedi tries to intervene was visual insanity...
Right? I mean the least she could have done was explaining what she’s about to do if she’s soooo wise 😂😂. There was no urgency that gave her reason to rush and not explain what she’s about to do (whatever that was 😅). Another example of lazy writing just to have Mae witness her mother’s death by the Jedi for her meaningless revenge plot she gave up mid season 🤣🤣🤣
I didn't see the episode because I deleted my Disney account after episode 3 - why did the mother want to kill her child again?
@@deepblue812 hahahaha 101percent correct i was the whole episode laughing
@@JD-xd4sy no one knows
Turns out the lesbians were evil all along. So much for being "Woke".
Let's all acknowledge the great public service The Critical Drinker is doing by watching absolutely horrific stuff so the rest of us don't have to. I salute you, sir.
I have watched every single Drinker review of The Acolyte, but not a single episode of the actual show. Thank you Drinker for your service and sacrifice!
Same !
I mean if u watch it in x1.25 speed skip 75% of it only watch the fights turn off ur brain not think of any Star Wars canon or logic and most importantly get ABSOLUTELY PLASTERED (or high) it is not that horrible normal everything 1.6/10 overall
Skipping most of it (my way) 3.4/10
Fully but plastered (3.6/10)
Combination of all ways (4/10)
@@andymouse Ditto!
Same. Me watching another split second of Disney cringe garbage, that'll be the day...
Dont you feel pathetic watching a middle aged hater hating on a kid's show for 7 straight episodes?
Here's where you're wrong drinker, you can't lose what you never had in the first place
*you're, not your.
You're
Ur*
Yorrr
You're'nst
The Acolyte is quickly becoming one of my all-time favorite shows I've never watched. Between the active attempt to destroy the source material, AND the internet's reaction to this assassination, the Acolyte has given me more entertainment than any 7/10 show ever could have.
It's true; I've never been so invested in a show I'll never watch. Pure entertainment gold. GG Disney.
Absolutely nailed how I feel about it too!
🤣🤣
Perhaps it's so absurd because it's supposed to be a comedy and we just didn't know it
Saaaaahhhhcaaaaasssmmmm....
Anyway, you're right! Ending an episode abruptly and hoping people think of it as a cliffhanger is the best decision Disney's made!
Weirdly enough this episode is trying to shout at us "The Jedi are the bad guys!" But pretty much everything they did was understandable, apart from a few things. The witches are the aggressors, they use powers and abilities that either look hostile or directly just are hostile and Mey did burn down the fortress because the fortress apparently was incredibly flammable and explosive.
The padawan lost his mind while on a 6 week mission. They built it up like he was there for 6 years. Dude was on like a standard business trip and collapsed
Thats what ya get when you drink only soy milk.
@@Berstalin Yeah, and the in-flight service ran out on the trip over... dude hasn't had his latte for ages.
The Green milk diet destroyed the Jedi
Should of stuck with the blue milk
“I was bored in the woods for six weeks, then I lost an eye fighting a possessed bigfoot while a cult Jonestown’d themselves.”
Paid vacation to the Space Boonies ~ what’s not to like lest your veins are filled with soy.
Force Witch: *does furtive gestures in front of a space cop*
Also Force Witch, after The Force escalates: “Officer, I was complying…”
That’s some Force level gaslighting right there.
“I didn’t do nuffin’!” When art actually does imitate real life. 😂
"Hands up, Force powers down!"
This show REALLY was made for "modern audiences".
So are the rest of these "witches" are going to shout witch lives matter and raid space shops ?
@@alexmuenster2102 I'm genuinely surprised they didn't have her say "Don't stab me!", a la Michael Brown's fictitious "Don't shoot!"
“All of the Lesbian Space Witches die suddenly because the script says so.” 💀💀
I could just picture the Pitch Meeting dialogue:
writer "All of the Lesbian Space Witches die suddenly."
producer "What err why?"
writer "because the script says so."
producer "Oh Okay then."
because they've read the script and really died on camera.
Some how the space lesbians removed
I was expecting that the wookie jedi would be released from the mind control stuff because the fire that May started end up spreading to the room all the witches were in (they were made of the same flammable rock, I assume), not suddenly die after got disconnected or something.
@@PaiSAMSEN It was just me or when they fell you also heard "Your bluethooh dewice was dishconected"
I love the fact that lightsabers are incapable of killing flesh and blood humans, but ca easily kill incorporeal force ghost/demons
“I was going to let Osha leave with you.”
That’s like Andor raising his gun at Luthen, causing Luthen to shoot him, and while he lays dying, Andor tells Luthen he was actually going to join the Rebellion.
young Sol makes Anakin looks like a Beacon of patience and wisdom 😂never thought anyone could do that
pretty sad, personally rather watch prequels then watching anything Disney star wars
Why was he so obsessed with her? I mean WTF. Call in child protection services or something.
@@johnsmith-i5j7iright? Even Quigon wasn’t that adamant, and he suspected Anakin was the friggin Chosen One.
@@johnsmith-i5j7i yeah that was weird af
@@johnsmith-i5j7i he formed an „emotional attachment“ which is weird considering he only knew them for 10 minutes
The irony of having a whole episode to recontextualize the Jedi as even more evil and incompetent than they've already been portrayed in the show, only to have their actions basically amount to justified self-defense or the defense of others when it comes to killing the space-witches is the real twist of the show.
“There is no right or wrong, there is only stupidity and the people who wield it”
it wasnt justified self defence in any way shape or form. You cant break into someone property, demand to test their kids, threaten to take their kids away with no evidence of anything, claim theyre concerned the kids are going to be harmed, by their own parents and then go in and try to kidnap them. and then claim its self defence when the parents try to stop you.
thats nonsense.
@@ge2719 Nothing makes sense in this show... there is nothing to understand
@@ge2719 You can't. But when you're dealing with a magic energy that, if used wrongly, will actively corrupt you and turn you into a vicious power addicted psychopath, it's a different story. Then it's more like CPS, checking to see if kids grow up in a home that is actually a cult full of drug addicts, trying to get them out of that situation. Then they see the cult member flip out and attack (mind control) them, multiple times, threatening to hurt one of the kids.
@@ge2719 So a parent has the right to oppose the transing of their children, right?
I love watching these different reviews the amount of hilarious mockery is amazing 😂🤣😂🤣
"Not telling the Jedi Council just feels like creating drama for drama's sake." New Star Wars in a nutshell.
I just watched Jeremy Jahns’ video earlier. Dude’s taking the hits so we don’t have to.
@@SamaritanPrime Dude's taking the shots each review to cop with it all, wish him to be on stream with drinker soon tho
Lazy writing.
Stolen comment from Jeremy's video
this jedi council were idiots anyways
This doesn’t even sound like a “the Jedi are bad” scenario. It sounds like a “everyone involved with this operation were idiots and now everything is on fire” situation.
That was my take away too
@@spartanhawk7637 the Jedi are on fire, the witches are on fire, the… stone is on fire?
We really went for gold in the high jump of incompetent characters.
Exactly!
It sounds like the "Worst" thing the Jedi did was covering up what happened, especially as none of them were particularly in the wrong for doing what they did up to that point and they thus shouldn't have had to worry about coming forward.
Even if Lesbian Sith Witch Mama didn't mean any harm with what she did (Though it sure as hell looked like she did, we could see the kid disintegrating), Squid Game Guy assuming that she posed a threat seemed pretty reasonable under the circumstances, thus making his skewering of her justifiable.
Trinity was just trying to snap the Wookiee Jedi out of the possession/ spell, she had no way of knowing her doing that would kill all the other lesbian Sith witches.
The Jedi should have just told the Jedi council what happened, the council would have almost certainly understood.
Even that cover- up, though, while a mistake, shouldn't cause the Jedi to be seen as "The bad guys" in the situation.
Sounds like my typical d&d session, but way less fun
@@Adamguy2003 I certainly don’t like the idea of the coverup either.
There’s just the whole wacky situation. Imagine having to explain it to the council.
“So lesbian witches used not mind control, but FULL POSSESSION on us on TWO different occasions. They were talking some weird shit about ‘thread’? You know what? Nah, I quit. Jedi never told me about Leslie Headland’s fan fiction.
Gonna go drink titty milk on that island Luke will eventually inhabit” --signed Sol.
The space witches didn’t just die out of nowhere for no reason.
They died out of pure shame
If only the writers could feel an ounce of shame
And lost to Trinity's power of one
Died of pure unadulterated cringe....😂😂
These prostitutes don't have any shame.
They lived because the plot allowed it, they died when the plot demanded it.
"Don't follow anyone's story, not even yours" - Lesley Headland.
I never watched one single episode of this series, but I can't miss the weekly roasting on youtube
Exactly!! 😂😂😂
Same. Cancelled my Disney+ sub after that terrible Moon Knight show. I like these weekly reminders that it was the right decision.
@@mihmo2663yeah I don’t know how they fucked that up
The fact that they paint Jedi as evil and Sith as good tells you all you need to know about their morals
They try to but fail horribly. Granted I've not seen it and probably never will but nothing I've heard made.e think the Sith or the covenant are the good guys.
That's kind of what the prequels did, no? The prequel trilogy showed that the Jedi weren't infallible. They also made you sympathize with one of the greatest eventual evils in the galaxy- Darth Vader. This is nothing new.
Well it doesn't tell you anything about their values.... only that they thought it would be an innovative spin. An artwork (yes even this is technically art) of fantasy does not tell you a lot or even anything about the moral standards of the authors. (Interpretation of good faith is still a standard the fun hate train should not loose bro)
The Star Wars universe is Manichean, the strength of the light and dark side has real effects on people and it's not just white or black colors.....
And yet, the Jedi _still_ haven't done anything morally reprehensible to justify being villainized.😂
If there's anything, ANYTHING at all to take away from this show, it's that Darksiders more or less cause their own problems and have terrible reasons for doing what they do.
It's nice to see how even Leslye Headland can't remember that according to her, the many are stronger than the one. When one Trinity feedback looped 49 witches to death.
Force feedback can be(at) a bitch (or 49 of them) !
100th like.
2:22 What’s even more funny is that, in Star Wars lore, there are actual Jedi who are assigned to do things like this.
They are part of a group called the Jedi Survey Corp, and they are basically Jedi Padawans/Younglings who failed to pass their final test and don’t become knights, and so are given more menial (but still important) jobs in the temple, like being an Archivist or Explorer.
So not only does this mission not make sense, it also breaks the lore, because they sent Jedi Masters and Knights to do work that should be done by the Survey Corp.
You could argue they sensed there was more on that planet that needed Jedi
And squid games guy seemed excited to be there
Waiting for roger wilco, jedi janitor apprentice to pop out of the closet in the last episode. Yep, that would so cool.
"Waking up on my kitchen floor in a pool of my own bodily fluids" [0:30]
Critical Drinker's origin story:
the power of One Too Many.
And finding out it wasn't even his kitchen floor...
Underrated comment, and now my favourite takeaway from this mess of a show after the Episode 6 read-aloud version.
Weapon of choice = Lemon flavored toilet duck😂
More like, Many too Many ...
One Twoo Many lol
This is the only show that I've watched zero minutes of showtime and hours of TH-cam trashing it
same and it's far more enjoyable
I know,I am the same. And the clips in the TH-cam reviews are more than enough to see what is going on and tell the limited story, without you having to endure the padding, terrible writing and dire actors. Its the same for Doctor Who, and Trek and Marvel films and show. You dont want to see them anymore as you know its a waste of time and they are bad. But you know you will get entertainment from TH-camrs tearing them to bits and highlighting the stupidity and bad writing. And its the small part of you that is curious to see how bad things have become and how far the things you loved have fallen. Its like slowing down as you drive past a road accident to try and work out who is at fault and who crashed into who....
I've done the same for 'Batwoman,' 'Gotham Knights,' 'Robyn Hood,' and 'Velma.'
More excited about the reviews rather than the show. Wonderful.
I'm just here for the comments, I haven't even wasted my time watching the reviews.
Thanks Critical D for taking another one for the team ... my Acolyte virginity remains intact. I've managed to outsource passing this $180m (!!) dump. Thanks for the honesty.
Taking what for who ? he makes money from these videos so it is worth it for him 😂
@@nitrowarrior-lj5ip thought you can only monetize videos if they're at least 10 mins long?
I'd rather pay a nominal fee via third party to Drinker than spend my money on Disney+ to watch it. Besides, his takes are far more interesting.
@@Male_Ficent I think having it 10 min along allows you to add midrolls but you can still have ads at the beginning and end.
@@nitrowarrior-lj5ip 😮 wow really?! Never occurred to me 🤯 ... Thanks all the same.
"Write what you know there, Leslie." I was howling.
"write what you know leslye" 😂😂 that was a direct hit
wookie using a metal detector.
sol: find anything yet?
wookie: we aint found shit!
Keep Combing the dessert!
The white guys have normal combs, the black guys get the Afro comb
May the Schwartz be with you!
They already combed the desert in Book of Boba Fett.
😂🤣😂
As a somewhat cynical ex vfx designer, and part-time "grumpy old man", I'd just like to say thank you.
Not only to The Critical Drinker, but also, to everyone commenting. It's been an awfully long time since I've laughed so heartily, and nodded in agreement with so much discourse.
You are collectively that most wonderful of things - a bastion of hope!
I salute you all - cheers, TJ
It's nice to have a sanity check and to know that the majority of people are actually all thinking what the fuck is happening with our modern world and entertainment by extension.
In the words of sad Affleck - "I agree"
The funny thing is Mae is still sort of responsible for the whole disaster. If she didn't go on this weird rampage breaking things, and setting a fire which caused explosions, she wouldn't had freaked out and got her mom killed for turning into a dark ghost. The explosiosn and such also seem to have set off the Jedi.
And if its not Mae's fault its her mom's for encouraging her to do it in the first place.
The Jedi are actually completely in the right here, the show's just kind of...playing with the idea of them being bad without committing to it.
All witches dying at once was probably the force trying to balance itself out again
I can’t make fun of the Trade Federation ships in Phantom Menace anymore after that. Or Padme dying of sadness. lol this was basically a Phantom Menace but all the witches just died of sadness! 😂😂
It’s a hopeless task trying to make sense of it.
It was actually Lucas’a future ghost trying to make this series have never existed
They cringed so hard they actually died.
@@barnabusdoyle4930 It was the combined effort of the ghosts of Irvin Kershner, Richard Marquand, Sir Alec Guinness, Peter Cushing, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Jeremy Bulloch, Sir Christopher Lee, Carrie Fisher, Peter Mayhew, Drewe Henley, Richard LeParmentier, and even Bea freaking Arthur (She was in the 'Star Wars Holiday Special,' and her part is generally regarded as the only good part in that entire special), all uniting together to undo the damage done to the franchise that each of them helped in some way to build or expand.
Now, THAT'S an example of "The Power of Many" that I could get behind!
“Write what you know, eh Leslie?” I’m dying 😂 You are hysterical and well spoken, great video!
The people who used to bully you for liking Star Wars are now in charge of it.
And now they make fun of you for disliking new Star Wars
Don't forget that they are simultaneously extremely fragile and easily triggered by any criticism of the abomination their malice and incompetency has turned Star Wars into. Cry-bullies is the term I believe.
None of the people who make this show would be intimidating enough to be bullies, they are just salty feminists
@@emiami458 I like that - only their own self aggrandising delusion makes them believe they are intimidating enough to be bullies, when the truth is that they are just pathetic fanatical weirdoes with obsessions nobody who is even remotely well adjusted cares about.
You’re close.
This Star Wars is made for those type of bullies.
The people who actually do make this wrote terrible fan fiction and never got picked for sports.
@@LudwigPaiste28 Only difference between fan-fic and official canon is a paycheck from whoever holds th epublishing rights. Works the same in comic books.
"The people who used to bully you for liking Star Wars are now the ones in control of it."
And they are still bullying the fans by twisting their beloved fictional universe into a total garbage.
I admire the critical drinker’s sheer psychological stability which enables him to watch every single episode of this disaster…
He earnt something like $1600 dollars for this video. I think it didn't hurt his psychological stability. And that number will be higher tomorrow.
I feel a little guilty knowing he's going through this for all of us.
I don't think that the aforementioned "3 day bender" was just an elaborate metaphor...
Unlike AZ who almost had a Chris Gore level heart attack.
You must be one too since you're here every week to hate
I still have yet to see what the Jedi actually did wrong. They were only going to take the child that actually wanted to go with them. Mae was the one to set fire to the complex while the witches were the ones who used threats, tried to shoot and stab the Jedi with various weapons, used one of the Jedi as a puppet, and only died when they got kicked out of that Jedi's head. They were the ones who kept escalating the situation.
The Jedi opposed the wishes of the lesbian space witches. The Jedi are a stand-in for the Patriarchy and the lesbian space witches are oppressed womyn. This show is **not** subtle about who the enemy is.
You don't understand! The Jedi are (mostly) men! Reeeeeeeeeeee! 😜
Butbutbut muh Jedi brutality! #DefundTheJedi
Wow! So you watched this turd of a show?
the jedi trusted the writers to write them a good show. That was their mistake...
"I was going to let Osha go. I guess I should have told you before I changed into a Smoke Monster and began to dissolve my daughter. But that's *your* fault."
So what actually happened? She was going to kill the bad twin but leave the other one go? Why? Did she think Mei was a bad egg then? What did she say preceding the change into a smoke monster? haha
#georgefloyded
@@Feenicks30 I believe she was reabsorbing the thread she used to create Mae so the Jedi couldn't have her.
@@Feenicks30Mae runs into the chamber to say Osha is trapped by the fire. The witch’s reaction is to turn into smoke and start to dissolve Mae. Sol panics and stabs her.
Lmao they wanted to make a female centric Star Wars show. And in that show they have female characters who are so indecisive that their entire motivations flip on a dime, they respond to minor conflicts with massive emotional outbursts, and then they blame everyone else. And this is supposed to make women look good? If you told me this show was made by misogynists trying to play up all the worst female stereotypes, that would make more sense.
Dude was holding up the bridges….
Fuck the bridges. Hold up the kids. Probably a lot fucking lighter.
Yeah, Star Wars Theory got into that on his review of the episode. However, like I said on there, the selective use of the Force and what the Jedi and Sith can do with it has always been sketchy since the original trilogy. They can force push a pack of droids off a cliff but can't do that to an enemy they are fighting in a light saber battle (Anakin and Obi-Wan could easily have force pushed each other into the lava pits on Mustafar for merely one example). They can use force choke at any time but rarely use it when it could get them out of a dire situation (like in a light saber battle when they get disarmed for example). Inconsistent and illogical from the start to be honest.
"Write what you know Leslie"....Pure Gold!!!
My mind thought more of Amy Schumer forcing herself on a drunk guy that can’t consent and she had a career after that
I don't get it. Is there something I'm missing?
@@LukeFitzgerald-kh9zr Leslie Headland, the creator of this show is Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant. When that drama was going down with him, the media never questioned Leslie once. If you're unfamiliar with who Weinstein is look it up and then rewatch this review.
@LukeFitzgerald-kh9zr She was Harvey Weinsteins assistant, he was a powerbroker in Hollywood and known for sexually assaulting subordinates and using his power in Hollywood to force himself on women while Leslie and most of Hollywood looked the other way. So this scene of a the female character seemingly seducing the token white male is a similar scene. He's in prison now I believe.
@@xx_mojat_xx Well you have to admit that watching a predator really seems to be something that leaves a lasting impression.
It is also funny how in movies or shows they don't understand that this behaviour is still wrong when a women does it.
Similarly to the Wonder Woman movie where they let a character to something horrible that should be a "good guy" (or in this show where they want to tell us she is a good guy, even though she seems to be pretty damn evil) because they seem to not get that it is still a huge issue and makes the character look extremely bad.
The real winner in all this is that "Oh Man, Oh God, Oh Man" guy.
It's Ryan O'Neal in the film Tough Guys Don't Dance when he finds out his wife is cheating on him. Not the words I would use lol
@@Squallfie66 Thanks for the reference. I've always wondered what that is from. (That and the "this is definitely sh@#e" clip.)
Hey don’t forget that Token White Guy managed to achieve the rank of Jedi Master in six years. He was a Padawan sixteen years before the present and then went into a trace for ten years. So he managed to get promoted to Jedi Knight, then got to Jedi Master in record speed. I guess whining does get you places.
He had one hell of a training montage, all to prevent any 3DPD from ever entering his safe space without his consent ever again.
All while apparently suffering from emotional anguish...
If they ever get around to it in an inevitable continuation, they'll probably say it was white male privilege somehow.
It does when you’re a DEI (didn’t earn it) diversity hire in Hollywood.
Obi-Wan is a Padawan in Ep1 and a Master in Ep3, so a 13 year timespan, but the council was short of Jedi because of the war.
You are so good and so bang on with your critique. You are hilarious and break it down so eloquently. I love one of the top comments on here saying how they look forward to your review more than the show and agree 100%. Keep it up
The sheer disregard for the foundations of the Star Wars universe by the creators of 'Acolyte' is beyond frustrating. They've managed to turn what was once a beloved franchise into a nonsensical circus of mediocrity.
@xeofang I'm willing to bet that there is fanfiction out there that is ten times better than this.
Your frustration was literally the mission here. They LOVE that you are so titled about them shitting on your beloved Star Wars.
Cool it with the antisemitic remarks.
Star Wars died when Disney took it. This show is just poking the corpse.
This is so subpar, it is even beyond mediocre. Mediocre means, or at least meant at some point, passable average. This is a nonensical flustercuck. I am aware the average has dug deep towards the marianna trench in the recent years, but I think this one manages to whip out drills and dig even deeper.
The worst thing about this, is that the employees in the Walt Disney Company losing their jobs or bonuses or stuck on low salaries are mostly regular folk who have nothing to do with these disaster productions that nobody wants to watch. The board needs to be held accountable and collectively fired.
Yep, they fired all the competent and creative Lucasfilm employees. It’s criminal.
I own 1 share of Disney stock, but that should be enough for me to vote on matters like that.
"First rule of leadership - everything is your fault." Hopper, A Bug's Life
My cousin works at the ticket booth in the Magic Kingdom. Great person, great wife and mother, supports her family with that job, and even uses her employee perks to get my girlfriend and I free one- day passes each year.
Even if it weren't for that last part, one fear I have between the money Disney pisses away on crap projects and all the boycotts against them is that it'll lead to her and other such "Low on the totem pole" Disney employees getting laid off due to budget cuts and thus being unable to provide for their families while the incompetent and/ or corrupt higher- ups such as those responsible for this show have no such worries.
She deserves her job a hell of a lot more than Bob Iger or Kathleen Kennedy deserve theirs.
"and then all the witches just died"
That was a masterclass in how to not write.
What were they thinking?!
They weren't.
I'd be interested if someone could explain that one.
"Somehow the witches died"
@@44ThaNatos44😂 Yas YAS 👏
@@montarakid1943 Trinity cut them off of the matrix...... "No, not like this."
Or
Trying to mind-control a Wookie is like playing chess against them; it's fine as long as you let the Wookie win.
Otherwise, it's arm-ripping-off-time or, in this case, mind-ripping-time.
"i was gonna let her go with you...she chose you dude thanks for murdering me..." 😂😂😂
Turning into a demon smoke monster unannounced whilst mid conflict, then getting killed and blaming the person who killed you because you had good intentions, is like taking a toy gun water pistol to an airport during hot weather to try and cool people off. Your intentions may be good, but you're the worlds biggest idiot if you think that's a good idea, and no one else is to blame other you for being so stupid, in this instance, the creator of the show.
I 2000% agree. It's like taking a rake and selling it on ebay for turkish dollars and then being annoyed that the service charge has tripled because you were adopted. Anyway hope you find this useful.
@@timbradshaw5481 😂😂😂😂
"I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE" you shout, reach into ur bag, pull it out, and point it at people "IM REALLLY GONNA DO IT", you get shot, and act surprised "I was just trying to cool down people, i cant stand heat!" is basically what happened lol.
@@ManCheat2 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 perfect explanation from you, and they still want people to believe the jedi are the villains here
this show is pure comedy at this point
"write what you know Leslie" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
being an accomplice pays the bills
It is kind of fascinating how she's 44 years old and does not understand basic science and geography but still managed to become director of a famous SCI-FI franchise.
Takes like 30 minutes of space travel to get anywhere, and yet Torbin is homesick because somehow couldn't get home on the weekends.
Also have this nagging feeling where the scene in episode 1 where first see what Smilio Ren on the shore, that that was a flash forward, and it is infact the twins final confrontation. Had the twin swap, and one of them donned the helmet.
Good point! It only takes 30 minutes to get to the outer rim. These people can get to other planets faster than I can drive to work every day.
Why are you so invested in children’s media?
@@leos4243 why u so invested in what other people think?
@@leos4243 why do you keep putting the same comment in every reply, looks like you’re more vested in this than anyone else
For over a thousand generations, the Jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the old republic...before the Leslye Headland...before kathleen kennedy.
Disney: "I feel a huge disturbance in The Farce, as if millions of SW fans were cancelling their subscriptions."
“Write what you know! Eh, Leslie?!?” Lmao!!! Thank you for saying it!
are you saying Leslie is a lesbian smoke monster?! that would make sense.
She literally writing her island trips romanticizing her fantasies to seek some appeal
@@edwxx20001she was the personal assistant of one of the members of the tribe™ who prayed upon young people
We should be grateful for The Acolyte, it's given us some of the Drinker's finest critiques, and maybe that was the real prize all along.
Disney: We want tell our story our own way.
Audience: Then create something new instead of telling it using beloved franchises.
Disney:
Laughing about Star Wars has become more fun that watching it. Thank you Ditsbey for providing us (unintentionally of course) with endless hours of laughs.
They spent 80% of the episode with simple rerun footage of episode 3, just let that sink in, $180 million, just let that sink in!
Money laundering
@@victora.1329100% something simply CAN’T be this bad
Maybe this is a case of legit money laundering. Hundreds of millions invested on these TV shows and you just can't see it, hell, Rings of Power is another blatant example
6:22 *"...Jedi Wookie shows up but he's been possessed by the lesbian space-witches."*
Oh, man, I had to re-watch this part of your review like a dozen times to feel the absolute absurdity of what was just said. :D
Every time that "Yess yess!" clip pops up I feel like slamming my head into a meat grinder.
Don't do that...if you do that, Darth Melonhead will win.
i already did and it's nowhere near as bad!
its yasss
Chewy looks so sad roaming the plains with his 1980s metal detector 😪
Probably because it's hot as balls in that suit lol
I think it's supposed to be a virgin detector. They couldn't find any virgins hiding under the moss, so they had to bring out the tech.
The “yas,yas” clip throughout the video 😭😭😭😭😭
_Yas~, Yaass~!_
Oh Drinker you clever bastard! When you said "write what you know Leslie" I spit tea all over my laptop!
The clean-up was worth the laugh!!!
The power of 1
The power of 2
The power of snoozing 💤
"What do we do with Indara's team? They are grossly incompetent."
"There is an old mining outpost out on the rim. Make up some shite that there us a vergence or something out there and send them to investigate. Send the Wookie too, I can smell his robes from orbit."
Mace Windu: "You must realize there are not enough Jedi to protect the Republic. We are keepers of the peace, not soldiers."
Darth Leslie: "Good, now go waste the time of four Jedis gathering moss and looking for coins in the soil with a metal detector like a bunch of morons."
We had no idea how good the prequels were back then in my day
Oh look there are free Jedi when the galaxy is not AT WAR. Are you all really this stupid or just pretending?
@@attilatormasi1733They would never send this many Jedi on a mission like this at any time period.
@@cedricroney1475 it could have had very good effects, a potential jedi temple. I would send more than one master to scout out a temple location
@@attilatormasi1733 They know where their temples are.
Star Wars Fan here. Last week I watched the original Star Wars movies with my son. We had a great time. Not for a second are we considering to watch anything past the original movies.
Watch Rogue One. ;)
I only consider the original trilogy canon, and always will. The Thrawn trilogy was pretty good, though.
@@anymice Rogue One is a worthless deep fake of a movie, just play Dark Forces.
Thanks!