The Acolyte: The Best of the Worst
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- The Acolyte: The Best of the Worst
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What annoyed me the most about this episode was Master Squid Game leaving all the dead Jedi and their light sabers behind in the jungle.
And on a different note, I’m all for the reappearance of the word, “retarded”. You used it perfectly.
We need take back our “so called” no no words
I believe it comes from the French retardé, meaning backwards. Similar etymology to retreat, or reverse.
I think...
At first I was going to say that he probably going back to his ship to bring other jedi in to move the bodies. Then they would have to explain why no one knew a Sith attacked and killed all of these jedi 100 years ago. Also h could have used the force to move all of the bodies instead of calling for help with the bodies.
Either way it doesn't explain why Yoda or Mundi doesn't know about all of these dead Jedi or this sith?
This show is stupid no matter how much u try to rationalize it its just DUMB!
Also Just some guy might have been wrong about the fight scene being better because they were at least attacking instead just hitting each other swords. The fight between Jecki and Smylo Ren. Smylo is fighting defensively while moving forward while Jecki is attacking while moving back. You would think that since Smylo is the one being aggressive and moving forward he would be the one attacking and Jecki would be on the defensive blocking his attacks. Also attacking while moving back would mean she was off balance and could have tripped and fell.
Acolyte writers room: "Star wars is patriarchal and we'll write our own show!"
Acolyte writers room: "Lets just do what Jar Jar Abrams did and present a dozen mystery boxes without answers!"
"She was a child"
He is so concerned then he proceeds to leave her corpse just there lmao
She is now part of the force, the corpse is just a shell to return to the universe.
But really, the writers have no object permanence.
@@rh906 Jedi are meant to cremate the bodies of their fallen. Hell, during the clone wars they often ordered clones to torch any dead Jedi they found
You could argue that the enemy was still nearby and it wasn't safe to do so but I think that's giving the writers too much credit.
@@cubeflinger yeah that coulb the answer but still nothing, no comments like "you are now one with the force, rest my padawan in peace" or taking her lightsaber, he just leaves
Also......theres.....quite a bit of lightsabers lying around there too
"I want the freedom to be evil and no one should be allowed to say "no-no, naughty boy" to me!"
yeah that was stupid...
@@ppsarrakis It was....but isn't it an excellent picture window into Headland's mindset. How interesting.
@@darthlaurel reminded me of the Batman death scene and Harley
This undisciplined writing reminds of some wannabe creators I knew in my teen years. They come up with reasonably cool concepts that were not well thought out nor fleshed out as they went on. Mind you, these were just kids with big ideas and no formal experience or higher education in creative writing.
This shows reminds me exactly of that.
And that's why they could get away with it. But we hold these allegedly professional writers accountable for it. These are just kids with no experience, meanwhile, the chick who made this show and her co-writers and producers and actors are all proclaimedly professional with million dollar budgets. Backing them up to make everything look like it's a sophisticated installment, but the writing of which is garbage
I guarantee you, there are better Star Wars fanfics out there than this trash
The only mystery is how they spent so much money.
Embezzlement
TH-cam Epsteined a comment off to Gitmo
Issa scam.
It’s honestly scary
Coke I swear it's the only option 😂
Im pretty sure anyone can fool the Jedi in this universe just by Groucho Marx glasses.
Absolutely not true! You have t have the attached fake mustache and plastic nose to pull it off...
Me a sith lord? Why that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!
Yea they were so perceptive in the prequels and the clone wars! You know how palpatine played among us with them for over a decade and how they found out Dooku was related to the creation of the clones and the inhibitor chips but they just shrugged and said it was fine . Yea the Jedi have always been 200IQ master detectives.
@@jeffsmith5436The fake mustache, nose, and eyebrows are what OP was talking about by saying Groucho Marx glasses.
probably made with one of those rare metals in obscure literature. Anyway, just throw some sand and you can escape easily.
"Freedom. Freedom to wield my power as I like without having to answer to you Jedi."
So...he basically wants to use his Force abilities to kill innocent people (like the apothecary in episode 2), to steal whatever he wants, and to rule over others like a selfish god without consequences? That's not freedom...that f*cking TYRANNY! Is THAT what the Leader of the Lesbian Space Witches was preaching about? "It's about power, and those who are allowed to wield it", huh? To any Star Wars fan, THAT is why Yoda warns about the Dark Side!
You want to know the joke? It's a big galaxy. He could easily go where no one would bother him even if he went on a murder spree or took over the planet. Chose the right planet and not even the Jedi would ever get wind of it. Or he could arrange something with one of the Hutts and live there. People without the Force can make deals with them. If he choose the right planet the locals might even see him as the hero without him manipulating the situation.
He could even find a fitting Acolyte as he isn't bound by the rules of the Jedi and slavery is still a thing.
All he had to do was not revealing himself to the Jedi.
It's more meta than that.. what you're seeing is the will of the writers, to Shit on the Jedi and Star Wars fans.. maybe you've noticed the show has almost no White males in it, that's by design.
They're shitting on you and your heroes, hoping you won't notice. But you did notice. The villain of the story is a hero to the writers. The focus isn't on how good the Jedi are, or even showing them in a good light, they look like inept fools, they're easily killed but hey, that's what they get for impeding the villain's freedom, he's like Lucifer yearning to be free of their morality
That's entry level illuminati BS
The show sucks ass because they're sending messages rather than telling a good story
@@Dreamfox-df6bgyou put more effort into this reply than the Disney writers did in crapping out that steaming pile of elephant shit
@@Dreamfox-df6bg That's not a joke; that's just pointing out the obvious that the rest of us already realized the moment his character said it. Of course he could already do whatever he wanted without the Jedi stopping him (he had been doing so BEFORE his "acolyte" started killing Jedi). The REAL joke here is just how stupid the plot is and just how stupid the writers, directors, and "activist" actors are for thinking that this is what Star Wars fans want. (We know that all of this is simply to push the BS agenda of the Socialist Left while normalizing their "message" to the students being indoctrinated in the schools/colleges/universities!)
Men dream of being a hero and protecting people.
Women dream of doing whatever they want to whoever they want and having zero repercussions.
So they stole the Magneto idea with the helmet,but wouldnt a helmet that protects you from mind reading/manipulation stops you from mind reading people at the very least?
It’s the mind like a steel trap trap
It should
Feminist arts graduates.
Logic - who needs it?
I think they think it works how they think Magneto's helmet works. He can still use his powers but not the other way around.
That's the best way I can wrap my head around it.
@@kylekillgannon only explanation i got that could work is that it only stops "light side" powers effecting the user,maybe some kind of sith alchemy at the works
0:57 "it looks like they're trying to attack and kill each other and not just hit each other's swords" while playing a clip where the characters are literally just trying to hit each other's swords.
Some truly shocking choreography in the fight, can’t lie.
Not only was cortosis in the books, but cortosis weave was also used in armors in the Knights of the Old Republic video games. Having said that, it's still a DEEEEP cut. It would have been too easy to add in two or three lines to establish the metal and its properties.
Also, no one EVER established ANY ability of cortosis to block Jedi mind reading. Heinous fuckery is afoot.
the mind reading thing might be sith alchemy
@@ppsarrakis Might also be bullshit plot convenience.
Cortosis weave is what they came up with to make conventional melee weapons make sense against lightsabers and for game balance. How it is depicted in game it functions more like beskar, which in retrospect I think fits better with lore. The republic just barely defeated the mandalorians in a war and are now in conflict with the sith so having beskar somewhat wide spread would make sense. While beskar is rare it is certainly more common than cortosis and in this period beskar would be at it's most pentiful. Too bad beskar was introduced 3 years after the game released.
@@VikCachat Cortosis was actually introduced in the books back in the '90s. In it's purer forms, it COULD disrupt lightsaber blades. In weaker forms (like the aforementioned weave armor), it only reduced damage.
Either way, my main point was that it NEVER had the ability to block Jedi mind powers, and certainly not one way.
It's not as deep as one might think, since it was reintroduced in the Disney thrawn trilogy novels and apparetntly has been in a few of the Disney comics. So it's a bit more surface level... but definitely not tv show surface level.
That being said, yeah, even in Disney canon, cortosis doesn't block mind-reading/force senses. It ain't the Ysilmari.
I don't think people are looking for reasons to complain, I simply think it becomes easier to focus on every little thing when you're not actually engaged with the story or the characters
I knew he was using Cortosis immediately. But then again, I'm that much of a nerd. Most people are not that nerdy.
I haven't watched the show I just assumed it was Mandalorian iron or Mandalorian steel but being used very well. I figured it didn't matter that much.
It’s still stupid.
@@jaymea8907 not really. Its a sound tactic that the Jedi wouldnt expect. They havent fought the Sith in an age and its been equally that long since anyone has used Cortosis in a battle. It would completely surprise them.
@@FURognari think he meant that none but the hardcore fans know about it is stupid and not that he is using it.
I actually think headbutting a lightsaber is a bad combat move. It's was effective, yes, but also just unnecessarily risky. A fight that made me question why.
The Jedi never would have come to take May and OSHA because they had attachments to their mothers…
And to each other. Although they might have come just to test them if the force led them there.
Also, they seem to be Anakin’s original age. If not slightly older
@@AmericanRollo And even Anakin was denied training by the council and only Qui-Gon's insistence brought him to that. We certainly can see, in the prequel trilogy, why attachment is a bad thing, when Anakin goes and slaughters all the Tusken Raiders, not just the perpetrators of the torture, but the women and children and pets, too.
Luke was only trained, because by that point in time Yoda and Obi-Wan were running out of options and lifespan and Luke, in a way, lost the attachment to Tatooine, too, at the hands of the Empire.
@Schnittertm1 Plus, Luke was destined to not only redeem Vader, but to also rebuild the Jedi because he was able to see they were flawed and that some level of attachment is fine.
@@BrightWulph True. But in this timeframe Jedi would not have bothered to offer training to these girls.
You just know one of the writers couldn't stop gushing about the lightsaber hair cut. Somewhere there's a memo going around explaining how black women's hair is *so important,* and it's even more important to represent them in control of their own hairstyles, for Reasons.
The topper to all that was the overly-dramatic pose she did immediately after the hair came off 😂
SPeAk TrUtH to pOwEr!
It was a cool scene. She did it so effortlessly too. I would of for sure taken off a bit of my nose
@@renesrelics It wasn't cool it was dumb and would instantly got her caught. The cut wouldn't match identically and also she'd smell of burned hair which would be a dead give away.
@bradmiles1984 Star Wars is Fantasy Adventure. Acolyte has added a bit of a horror element. Being overly logical is gonna make this fantastic series a bit less enjoyable for you, friend.
Apart from where the money went, the only other mystery is why we should care about any of the characters. This is the kind of show where you root for the bad guys just because you want everyone to just die already.
yep, because you want it over quicker.
With the Cortosis, I think it went something like this:
"Wouldn't it be cool if Darth Vader Via Temu could disable the Jedi's lightsabers?"
"Yea!"
"How, though?"
"Eh, there's probably something in the books that does it, anyone that cares will probably be able to figure it out."
_Meanwhile, in a living room far, far away..._
"How is he headbutting lightsabers and disabling them like that?"
"I dunno, there's probably something in the expanded universe that lets him do that."
"Didn't Kathleen Kenedy nuke the extended universe?"
"Stop being sexist and enjoy product."
Seriously, when did people start deciding that it was 'good storytelling' to stop and give an exposition lesson the instant something new shows up on screen? Its not going to kill you if they wait and explain it later.
@@mizu7662
There are two problems here.
The first is that you're giving the writers of The Acolyte the benefit of the doubt. The same people who unironically wrote the exchange "The Jedi are bad!" "The Jedi are good!" and the The Power of One/Two/Many choir.
The second is that mechanical elements like this need to be set up _before_ a massive climactic fight sequence more than halfway through the series. JSG already gave a great example of how they could have done this.
Doing it this late in the story creates the feeling that the writers are pulling things out of their ass to manufacture drama, because of how easy it is to give hints early on if you're actually planning ahead.
That kind of thing could work in an Ace Attorney game, where noticing the incongruity and working out the explanation after the fact is how the mystery element is handled, but not in a TV show in the middle of a giant action set piece.
@@Camkitsune You do remember that this show is a mystery first and foremost while the action is a secondary element, right? By saying it works for mysteries to do it you are saying it works for this show to do it.
@@mizu7662
I think you can only say that if you have either never seen a competent Mystery story, are being a determined contrarian, or just really feel the need to shill for the Acolyte.
Compare the Acolyte to something like a few episodes of Poirot, or either of Ryan Johnson's Knives Out films. Or, hell, Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated.
Good mystery stories generally have the audience asking questions from the beginning to the end. If you are given information that points to an answer to an important question, then that answer has to either:
-lead to more and deeper questions, or
-quickly be shown to be incorrect, either by further evidence or by recontextualization.
As of now, the Acolyte has had _two_ central questions that have lasted longer than an episode: 'Who is We Have Darth Vader At Home', and 'What did the Jedi do to the Coven of Lesbian Force Witches?'
One of these has now been answered, and it's on the same level as the answer to the central mystery of the children's parody film Hoodwinked.
The other, the question of what evil thing the Jedi did, is both screamingly obvious and would remove the one element of the antagonists' decision-making process that makes any sense.
The kind of beat the material-pulled-from-the-expanded-universe helmet/gauntlet thing _might_ have worked as has already been attempted - and fucked up - by the Acolyte - the poison back in episode 2. If they've already fucked up this beat once, why would _anyone_ assume they'd do it right when the set-up is even more borked?
@@Camkitsune No, I am dead serious. I literally don't see why introducing it in episode 1 would have been better then introducing it in episode 5. It is really not as important as people are making it out to be. This is not some massive setting changer. It was, in fact, something that had already previously been introduced in other works in the new canon so its technically not even something that is new. Cortosis is just too rare to be a game changer like people are treating it as. Not to mention the fact that, as we saw, its shit at anything besides blocking lightsabers and was easily broken when they struck his helmet and gauntlet with physical blows because of how fragile it is.
So its too rare to see widespread use and has a massive weakness people would know about if it did become widespread. Its literally only good in this exact situation, being used against a jedi who has no idea what it is because its not widely used and will be caught off guard by it. And even then they still ended up smashing it by total accident.
You MUST have been severely drinking if you thought that episode was "fine" in ANY way. NONE of those fights were ok, NONE of them made ANY sense. NONE of the characters make ANY sense. ALL of this show is STUPID.
are fights on a disney show ever ok? this episode was OK for disney standards imho.
Agree. In Ahsoka, we got a fake Sith......a Sabine who was lame and brooding and learned how to wield the Force when the plot needed her to do so......a brooding and extremely dull Ahsoka......and Ezra who refuses to take his lightSaber and use it to defend himself.
In Acolyte, we get Trinity being dispatched within 5 minutes of the opening episode......then "The Power Of Many" BS.......a bunch of red shirt Jedi being slaughtered.......and a twin that thinks that simply cutting the length of her locks will shield her from Sol's abilty to read her thoughts?
I'm so hoping, Andor season 2 doesn't shit the bed.
@@rickbase833Ahhh the mysterious fart cloud sith
@@rickbase833 Only good thing in Ashoka was Ray Stevenson's character. There was some intrigue with him and his motivations. Too bad it will never be revealed. RIP Ray.
@bradmiles1984 Agree......even his apprentice was more interesting that any of the mains.
RIP Ray.
Cortosis was changed in the "Thrawn: Alliance" novel by Timmithy Zahn in 2018. It's part of the overall Disney Thrawn series consisting of the Ascendancy Trillogy (Thrawn's origin in the Chiss Ascendancy) and the Disney Thrawn Trillogy of "Thrawn", "Thrawn: Alliances", and "Thrawn: Treason" (Telling the story of his earlier years in the Empire up tot he events of Star Wars: Rebels). Cortosis alloy can shut down lightsabers temporarily, as well as absorb and dissipate energy over it's sruface. It's super rare (only 2 known sources in the galaxy) as well as prohibatively expensive to refine and then alloy.
i liked how the girl broke his helmet easy,i would like to see cortosis being terrible to be used for armor/weapons very brittle like obsidian weapons
@@ppsarrakis it's not too bad depending on what it's mixed with to make the alloy, but the only way to really make it strong would be to do so with something like phrik or beskar.
If I remember the episode correctly, cortosis was discussed in a Clone Wars episode. In that episode though, it was a newly discovered element at that point in the galaxy. So, as I said, if I'm remembering correctly that means that Disney switched thown canon around again by introducing it 100 years prior to when it had been discovered.
@@ppsarrakis It didn't really break from what I've seen, more like knocked off.
@@RobertNold considering the fact that the use of cortosis was indicated at least 4000 years BBY per KotOR I & II and the Darth Bane novels in the EU, they've retconned the retcon once again.
But, I can only laugh at what used to be my favorite franchise. I'm a never-die pre-Disney EU fan. Everything since the ink was put to paper in 2012 has been sun-baked landfill garbage.
"It looks like they are trying to hit each other and not each other's swords ..."
Someone needs to watch Shad's video on this abomination of a lightsaber duel.
The fight scenes were great if I'm comparing them to what we've been getting these last 5-10 years
Lets be honest, Shad's standard for sword fighting is likely higher than required for the average viewer. A "good" sword fight can be full of technical flaws, and still be considered good for the purposes of a movie or television. Sometimes, critiques about combat in movies reminds me of people complaining about guns in video games.
They'll play a game where you're killing space aliens from jupiter, and go "Uhm...that's NOT how you reload a revolver! That reload is so unrealistic!".
@@luckyducky7819 Nope the fight scene was badly done and just lazy. They do attack each others weapons not the person . . . that is when they dont kick a person for some stupid reason.
The main problem was story. Everything else in the show is dressing to hide the story problems.
The story has problems because it's an agenda dressed up as star wars AND if you read between the lines, a giant f... you to the fanbase
To paraphrase Admiral Ackbar: "IT'S A CRAP!!!" 😆
I knew of cortosis. I've been a Star Wars fan for all my life, so I knew it existed. There are other lightsaber-resistant metals, like phrik, which was used in Grievous' magnaguards' electrostaffs, and Dark Trooper armor from Dark Forces.
you'd think the jedi would know and understand the +1 rule...always assume there's another. Another weapon, another enemy, another exit point, another bullet? Always looks at the present threats and assume +1...it's policing 101.
jup, if only Jedi Trinity would have assumed +1 dagger 😂
Modern writers hate anything that represents goodness and heroism.
Literally had someone make the argument Jedi were never heroes, because they had flaws… This is why modern writing sucks
I want to also add to that: many seem to be allergic good story telling in general.
@@AmericanRollo "Jedi were never heroes, because they had flaws…" So this person's idea of a hero is a 'Mary Sue/Gary Stu'?Have they never heard of the classic Greek/Roman heroes? Every single one of them had a flaw/vice. Same goes for heroes from Arthurian legend (The Knights of the Round were hardly a squeaky clean bunch by today's moral standards). Or every single memorable hero/protagonist in any film/book/comic worth remembering written in the 20th century.
Gee, it's like overcoming one's flaws/confronting one's vices is part of the hero's journey or something...
Thanks for watching so I don't have to...
According to the lightsaber colors, 2 of the jedi should have been heavy force users.
Yeah, but in this show the lightsaber colors are just aesthetic.
sadly in this show they treat the colors the same way you treat RGB strips on tech. Eg its a pretty color to show off.
Great review! I agree a simple mention of the cortosis early in the season would have gone A LONG WAY
He's Sol's bastard.
You're all welcome. 😉
Also, I always thought when they showed female societies, they always ended with some poor guy burning to death in some god awful piece of wicker folk art.
_....I hate how much sense this comment makes._
Not The Bees!!!!!!
I think he was there with the witches some how. If you noticed his arm has burn scars. Watch it will be revealed he was there when it happened, maybe he even he made the fire spread like it did.
There was a comment made on Greg Owens' channel that made perfect sense. The Acolyte is made for 10 year olds.
Insult to 10 y/o and what they will grow-up into by feeding utter slop...
You really hate kids, don't you?
No, The Acolyte is made for the writer and her white guilt ridden white friends.
That is weird since it is rated tv-14
@@andrewphillips8341 The mentality of the show seems pretty elementary to me.
My problem with the first fight at the beginning of the show was the fact how fast the Jedi knights got cut down. Then a Padawan was able to handle the Sith longer and better.
Disney mantra is don't think just consume product. Any bit of thinking about any part of the show and it crumbles like it should.
Obviously, she's a girl boss.
_ This may just be my opinion. There are a couple of ideas in this show that would have been great for a mystery:
+ You can't kill a Jedi with steel or baster you have to kill the dream
+ The witches focused on a different application of the force(emphasising the connection between people)
+ The heroin has an evil twin presumed death
_ Here's my idea. The mysterious assassin use mental attack, illusion to trick the Jedi into falling into traps or convince them to off themselves(using their guilt like the guy in ep 2. There are witnesses seeing the heroin near the crime scene but she is nowhere near as powerful enough to do this(and wasn't trained to do this), he sister was the one trained by the witches with this aspect of the force; but her master saw her sister died. The twist is the sister is a force ghost secretly possessing the heroin(basically using "the power of 2 /many" thing the witches were chanting as the 2 soul connecting in one body give the sister more power than 1 could muster)
Are they also called Diacetylmorphine and Diamorphine?
@@WrongParadox Sorry, typo I was about to go to bed after writing this
Here's an easy mystery they could have done. What if you don't know Mae really is alive or dead? Have Osha lose time and black out. You could play it up all season that maybe Osha is really is doing it or her sister is alive. Go fight club and Tyler Durden it where at the end they reveal Osha lost her mind when her sister died and she grew another personality that takes over.
@@bradmiles1984
_ It's a cool idea. Her blacking out is a bit obvious. maybe the murder only happens at night when she goes to sleep
_ This can combine with my idea that Mae's Force ghost is possessing Osha
@aokhoinguyenang3992 yep or what if the one moms ghost is controlling her because she was so powerful with the thread. If she could create life becoming a force spirit should be something she could do.
Its in darth plagues, the bane trilogy, and in the Timothy zhan Disney thrawn books ..( alliance's) set during the clone wars .
Anakin and thrawn meet and discover a mining facility making it for driods and clone trouper armour. Its had some contention to the galaxies edge Disney park ( crap)
Costosis was owned by the jedi and was used in star ship production.
Mad props for using that clip from child's Play 3 👌
I’m glad I’m not the only one to think discount Darth Maul would have been a better reveal as the bad guy.
He's Darth biceps and is cool in his own way.
That show is one plot hole after another. Pure shite. But it could've been good......even with the gay thing. Just write a good story, have good actors and direction. And a solid color -pallet. Cheers!
I'm just surprised they killed off all the DEI jedi here.
This is how much they *really* care about DEI, as opposed to how much they *say* they care. I don't know what they *do* care about, but 'helping oppressed people' isn't it.
@@TerryB01 they have to or they break canon beyond repair. Even they realize this.
They excluded non-diverse persons as a matter of principle. Then, when the plot needed rando red shirts, they were forced to sacrifice lives that mattered. Scylla and Charybdis.
It’s easy when all the Jedi are DEI
Wait...Tagalong is JASON FROM THE GOOD PLACE!!!
One good will not outweigh the bad since that would be quantity over quality, rather than quality over quantity.
Correct. But when they do something well, we gotta give em props when its due.
Point out BOTH the good and the bad so they know what we want them to ditch AND what we want them to keep.
Get rid of the shitty writing and dialogue. Keep the energy of those fight scenes.
I'm sorry, but I just started watching your video, and you are wrong. The fight scenes were horrible. Far too much attacking air, attacking the opponent's saber, not taking advantage of huge openings, not finishing off an opponent when given an opportunity, etc. Add in characters standing around waiting their turn or simply vanishing for long periods, and it was a truly horrendously choreographed fight. It might be better than Ahsoka, but it was very much in the vein of the sequel trilogy.
The Padawan couldn't be trusted to train with live lights sabers, but now is a better than masters?
If anything the Acolyte is not a torment to watch: it's a borement. This is supposed to be a murder mystery yet it has all the suspense of a Scooby Doo episode with Scrappy in it.
atleast scrappy made you want to stay because you would hope he would be knocked out. This is just boring all around.
Are we forgetting that the "Sith" elbowed a lightsaber out of existence before doing the headbutt maneuver?
There are many lightsaber issues too. Characters not attacking when they should, aiming for Lightsaber just best in Disney era
The fundamental issue with the people who make this kind of material (apart from lack of talent) is their doctrine that "Everything I do is ok because I'm doing it" - that is a fundamentally evil point of view.
If the only thing by which you measure yourself and your actions is you, then you are a monster.
Disagree completely about the choreography being good.
little to no full shots
stupid uses of the force
no prior establishment of lightsaber turn off metal
lightsaber turn off metal being used as just a time out
jecki lasting longer as a padawan than the 3 other knights combined
edgy sith boy just disappearing for no reason
Soul just disappearing during fights
just a stupid show
I do wish that Tag-Along guy would do something to volumise his hair, or, at the very least, wash it. Even a comb-over would be preferable to what we see on screen.
1st and I know my boy JSG was about to pull up
I thought Cortosis was a fiber not metal?
Its not a metal. Its a mineral like asbestos.
It was probably more coherent before it tested abysmally and the reshoots began...
The only thing that's really keeping me going in this whole thing is knowing that Tagalong is the Apprentice, and that we still have yet to meet the Sith Lord.
IT'S BLACK MAMA!!!
Who cares about logic? Apparently
I think the show has been really weak so far, but the light saber fight was quite good. The trees were an important element because Qimir was outnumbered, and he was using the terrain to limit the number of people who could attack him at once. If you have to fight eight people, you don't want to do so in the middle of a clearing.
I was sorry to see the girl Padawan get killed. She had attitude, competence, and fraught well.
The fight scenes are atrocious, so says Shad at Knight"s Watch.
Well at this point I’d guess Tagalong is actually the Jedi apprentice that got mind-r@ped in the flashback and that the witch’s telepathic manipulation turned him evil. He could then have killed the witches in revenge, explaining May’s motivation for hating the Jedi. And it would explain why he would expect his old master to recognize him, or at least his force aura, Obiwan and Vader both recognized each other just from getting a whiff of their force auras.
The Jedi Padawan that got mind controlled by the Mom was the Jedi Master who drank the poison in episode 2. He was the white guy who unalived himself over his own guilt.
The apprentice who got his brain violated by Witch Mom was the same one that Mae physically couldn't touch, so her solution to the problem was "Kill yourself, pretty please?"
Disagree with your high praise of the fight coreography...
True but it was a little better the squeal movies
Its just a bad..... straight up...😊
It doesn't make sense for Disney-SW denies the existence of the EU. Yet they use so many plots from the said EU and claims these as their original ideas.
They just want to pluck things from it when it's convenient. They just take things but usually make them worse. Look at the sequel movies Kylo is really Jacen from the EU and Rey is Jaina. They just cut the familial link instead gave them the force diad/romantic crap. Sad thing is Disney literally could of just taken the EU made it into movies and had success with minimal effort.
Is it just me or does this have really strong fan fic self insert vibes? Surely I can't be the only one to think that.
most if not all of the disney starwars content does.
The showrunner literally said she wanted to write a show about sisters because she's estranged from her sister. So yeah whole thing is a self insert.
Watching these reviews has helped me realize that the show does in fact have all of the ingredients for a great story in it. They're just put together in one of the worst possible ways.
Frankly I find that even more frustrating than if it was pure incompetence all the way through.
Answer to all your questions: Because the "creatives" (activists) behind The Acolyte have no talent, creativity, vision, or originality, were never fans, know ZERO lore, can't write the characters correctly because they don't know good from evil, or rather they ARE evil, don't like or respect Star Wars, and they hate you.
2:35 - it may be very, very obscurely in the "lore" but that lore is admitted to be in the EU - which Kennedy tossed out... so which is it? Does it exist, and is it fair game to use or no. Because I'm a bit tired of them pulling Schrodingger's cat out of the box just to shove it right back in again whenever it's not convenient.
Tacking the explanation for it in later doesn't make the scene less jarring to watch. Your brain goes, What? What The Fuck... and by that point, that should be what counts. That's never a good thing in writing.
JSG, you may want to actually watch the fight. It's fast, but they ARE still swinging to miss and hit each others sabers. And all just standing around waiting whenever there's more than 2 people fighting. Kicking instead of using their lightsaber. All kinds of crap. The fight is horrible.
I really wonder why that article was written claiming Sith was a derogatory term used by the jedi to describe dark side users.....Is Sith supposed to be the n-word of star wars now according to that author, cause if so that's both hilarious and the most stupid thing in star wars ever made.
Just another Disney retcon.
I wonder why YOU aren't writing Star Wars scripts????......could it be because you don't know Jack Squat about Star wars
I think Qimir is an acolyte to Mother Abeloth and the witch coven drew their power from Abeloth. Smilo Ren literally has the same smile as Abeloth. Abeloth is also not a Sith Lord, but she is actually much more dangerous than most Sith Lords, because she was able to mind control Jedi knights. Abeloth's original family is also known as "The Ones".
I don't understand why Lesley goes for the religious intolerance route. Unlike real life, the question of whose path is the true path has already been answered. You need to reintroduce ambiguity into Jedi teachings before you even consider other teachings to _maybe_ true. Has anyone successfully converted an entire church congregation away from the faith? That's how difficult the road Lesley _thinks_ she has successfully taken
'It looks like gyhey want to hit each other'
Unfortunately, in most cases they do not, and some moments are unbelievably dumb like when Sol grapples the sith by the armed hand and Jecki KICKS him instead of bisecting him
Honestly, JSG? As bad as this terrible, awful, no good, very bad show is . . . it's inspired some of your best work in months. There's a silver lining in every dark cloud.
Weren't some of those jedi, knights? Masters? They pretty much lost to a padwan. Thank you for explaining this stuff to me. I ain't going to watch it. This is so stupid.
So Pip is going to be okay thanks to Bazzil? Who actually cares about Pip? Are people buying Pip merch?
When the mystery boxes are more than the mysteries (the actual writing) within the series and the beyond laziness of the writing, directing, acting, and sound.
The fight scenes in this episode is the only thing going for it because it's the first time the show is not dull. But those fight scenes are utter bullshit. You're right they are reminescent of Hong Kong kung fu films; all the fighters are swinging wildly and doing nothing to hit the bad guy until it is their turn to die.
And him and only him uses the Force, not even one of all those so-called jedi masters even once. Because then, this fight would have ended in mere seconds.
Instead, they continuously kick during a lightsaber fight? Just like in the old Hercules The Legendary Journeys TV show where swords only serve to parry swords, never touching bodies because violence and blood censorship... But this show was not taking itself seriously, like this one does.
And then a young Padawan girl gives him more of a fight than over half a dozen of the masters that taught her. Because Girl Power!
Not to mention that all the so-called Jedi are all agressors, using dirty tricks, attacking treacherously = all acting like Sith. And the cinematography is deliberately done to hide what is happening most of the time.
And why was Soul, the best among them, out of the entire fight, only to pop up much later when it is convenient for the plot? Ah yes, the plot of course...
I've seen better lightsaber fights in 100$ fanfilms. This is the best of this awful show only because people talk less and thus have less idiotic dialogs (although there are plenty enough of those).
The Acolyte ep 4: ''Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.''
@@achaudhari101 I understand the tactic; it is genuine, but it is a _most_ risky move, especially between experienced swordsmen. And everyone doing it like all the time? It is so obviously choregraphy it looks ridiculous, especially considering the opponent is not a beginner easily fooled by such a move.
I teach martial arts. beleive me, if I have a knife in my hand and you try to kick me, you will not surprise me. You will end up bleeding at best, lame at worst, even if you're at the same level of experience as me. I know, I actually tested this numerous times. That's how definitive an advantage a weapon is to mere flesh. Now, against a lightsaber that cuts a plate armored door like butter?
Maybe once, like Darth Maul did _once_... maybe... against a guy that fights off half a dozen _masters_ with ease? Suspension of disbelief goes so far.
@@odojang if you trying to find logic on this you will fail and hurt your brain for no reason
like what about when the guy threw his cloak,it looked super slow aswell cause the actor couldnt pull off the move fast enought
it was hilarious.
@@ppsarrakis Without logic, what you are left with is nonsense. This show in one word.
The word _you_ are looking for is ''realism.'' Should we expect realism in a story about magical space samurai? Of course not. But we expect _credibility_ ; that whatever is shown, it makes sense within the context, however fantastical it may be. in other words, internal logic.
This is where this show and this episode utterly fails. The masters fight like padawans. The padawans fight like masters. The villain easily overpowers a squadron of masters yet get beaten up by one of their small, young female pupils. They continually throw kicks amidst twirling energy blades that can slice armored doors while wielded by expert swordsmen.
It's nonsense. _Especially_ in context.
The jedi never use the force, they stand there like goobers, smilo ren and all the jedi should have been swarmed the jedi, when yurd turned off the sith saber he didn't use his second one to win or the force, master squid games stands around most of the fight and everyone waits there turns, the sabers turning off are only there to tag in and out characters.
Not a branch thrown, tree thrown or dirt moved, jedi nights act like there humans with laser swords and not jedi all trained in different masterys and forms.
George should've sold STAR WARS /Lucasfilm to Sony or another Japanese studio.
you should see Shadiversity break down of the fight scene, and spoiler alert its baaad man haha fights scene aint so good when u really look at it
More JJ Abrams disciples. Mystery boxes all over the place in lieu of good storytelling.
it's always the men's fault.
i am just sitting here, and i am sure i am gonna be blamed for something these days :D
The absolute irony of a reviewer saying they want to avoid being influenced by reviewers...
Why couldn't Sol sense through the force that it wasn't Osha? She was his apprentice?
I find it sad how much time so many invested in such a franchise.
Cortosis sounds like kurtosis and gives me flashbacks to my statistics classes.
They're going to to do another flashback to reveal there was another padawan there, And it was Qimir.
There's nothing to complain about..don't tell Shad.
Remember, they spent 180 million on this crap
Nah.....they spent a few million on the show, and the majority of the budget was kicked back to Disney execs.
@@rickbase833 yep have you watched the credits and seen how many "producers" are credited. It's like 11 or 12. Wouldn't be surprised is Leslie used all her dirt from her time with Harvey to get the show made. We all know it didn't happen because she's talented.
The Acolyte is depressing because it had potential and STILL does, but when you keep dropping the ball, people are going to get tired. Plus, even the best parts of it are not enough to save it. It's not a bad show, but it's not the best either.
It's frustrating seeing just how interesting the ideas and concepts that they introduce really are (qnd i mean they are genuinely intriguing ideas) only for the execution to be so lackluster
12:20 and Sol has the personality of a cardboard cutout.
Deep cuts in lore are perfection. It's not lazy writing as it could be explained later on. It's awesome because it catches everyone including the audience off guard. It is MYSTERY.. you know that thing you said there was none of.
You keep saying there's no mystery while complaining about the mystery lol
It's not mystery it's lazy writing. The kind of mystery should of been who was killing the Jedi, was Mae really alive or was it Osha doing it all? Those could of been mysteries to last the entire season yet they answered them in the first episode. They sold the show as murder mystery yet revealed the mystery in like 20 minutes of the first show.
Couldn't the helmet also have been made of Beskar?
The Power of One… The Power of Two…. The Power of FAILUUUUUUURE! XD
Every single person in this show has Palpatine levels of ability to hide their presence from everyone else.
Also Smilo Ren easily murders an entire group of jedi, but the tiny Padawan can of course have a long and fairly equal fight with him, because wamen. Nothing indicates that she's supposed to be extraordinarily powerful.
Main character whamen who was crushing on Osha, because one or two of the Jedi that were killed were of the fairer sex but they still went down like flies.
I'm pretty sure sith discount Ezra Miller is one of the twins' space witch moms who transitioned to identifying male by siphoning the power of manyyyyyy space witches during the flashback, killing them in the process, and all this will be revealed in the last episode by Sol: "Your mom used the power of the thread/force to give themself dangling bits and turning to an evil male, and I saw it all ".
Honestly wouldn't be shocked, it did look like he had burn scars on his arm like he started that fire that burned the place down...
When discussing the fight scene, I think people are confusing best they have seen in a while with actual quality. They are the least crap of a large pile of crap. Fight scene wasn't actually that good. Just because it reused a somewhat common trope, that doesn't mean that trope was good or even used particularly well.
Tha bar is low in general. Boring times
I don't get how people think the fight is good.. they're missing each other more often than not. If you slow everything down like Shadiversity does, you can see how they continuously miss so many killing opportunities 😢
They also did the old martial arts movie trope, each waiting to attack instead of hitting from multiple angles at once. At least in Phantom with Maul they'd rapidly attack him with no breaks in it but he was shown to have so much skill he was still winning.
I just started playing Jedi Survivor. It feels like like the best Star Wars content I've experienced in years and years.
I agree
Just asking questions makes you Jesse ventura.
Somehow Mickey Mouse returned….
Let's not forget, they wanted to make Geo a character for this show. That was a sentient rock, independently created by the writers, as a joke. When it was a legitimate race within the EU called The Iron Knights, or Shards, as their body is a shard of sentient crystal that Luke met and put them in droid housing and they became Jedi. Cool, awful or whatever, independent development happens, and here it's not even for real reasons. Cortosis was a deep cut, and for those who enjoyed the comics, it was brought up often enough to not die in their minds. Much like a lightsaber whip. Again, EU fun stuff.
Just fuckin' sick of Deeznuts Star Wars.
1:47 I thought it was the same metal they made the Mandalorian helmets out of.