MACHTAILS FROM THE CANTINA LIVE! (#59) THE ACOLYTE (PART 1)

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[@Pikaroth]

AWESOME episode! Far, far more people need to listen and watch you and your content. I’m posting this both on Patreon and on TH-cam, so you may see it pop up twice.
As I type this, we are six hours away from episode six of The Acolyte, and I cannot wait! I know your conversation was the first four episodes, but that fifth episode was out of this world awesome!
I know I sent this to you, but after the fifth episode, and I say this prior to the sixth episode, but I do believe Master Sol is going to the dark side. Some random thoughts as to why: the name Sith has now been mentioned to him, and part of me still says he does NOT report that to the Jedi on Coruscant. If he does, then, of course, the entire thing of it being a cover up of the Jedi Council does work, but I don’t think they are going that way. I don’t think he ever makes it back to Coruscant, and I don’t think it’ll be due to his death.
Further, we know something very, VERY bad happened 16 years ago just as you talked about with everyone here. Something so bad that Kelnacca has exiled himself, and Torbin willingly drinks poison and dies in the hopes of atoning. Sol himself is clearly attempting to hide what went down, and Qimir outright talks about the darkness inside of Sol and how Sol himself is wearing a “mask,” of sorts.
Additionally, in the expanded lore, Plagueis’ master was, I believe, Darth Tenebrous, and the word tenebrous means “dark, shadowy, obscure,” and you could argue that Sol (the Sun) is going to be “obscured.”
Finally, since the first episode, we have been asked with HOW do you kill a Jedi? A Jedi cannot be killed by weapon as a Jedi is not an individual but an ideal and belief. You “kill” a Jedi by destroying his or her very belief IN the Jedi. I think this will be Sol.
Regarding Leslye Headland - I think it speaks volumes that people (the person on RFR, for example) somehow blame her for Harvey Weinstein knowing what he was all about, BUT THEY BLAME HER INSTEAD OF WONDERING IF SHE IS OKAY.
She worked for Weinstein for a year, she has spoken out about how people like her and other women and even male assistants are treated in Hollywood, and she even WROTE A PLAY about it. If anything, people should be celebrating her.
Headland is awesome, and she clearly knows and understands Star Wars. Between her and Filoni and many others, Star Wars is in very, very good hands.
I’ll keep this “short” and leave it at that, but outstanding as always! Also, to hell with the haters. They don’t matter.