The Acolyte - Episode 4 - Somehow, Worse Again
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- The Acolyte Episode was chiefly notable for pre-birthing Ki-Adi-Mundi, until Amandla Stenberg released her remarkable diss track. The episode is, if anything, worse than the last one - which is really saying something.
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Something very stupid and annoying happened to the VO track in this one so it may be choppy in places. I’m not entirely sure why, but it’s since fixed itself, so sod it.
We'll do a Disney Star Wars and cope
The Lesbeonic Manouvers in the Dark joke makes up for that^^
Hey Platoon could you cover Star Trek Prodigy as season 2 is coming out.
I swear you istaphobes don't realise the utter brilliance of the Acolyte, how stunning and stick-bundled it is, how it's a show to DEI for! It's rated ESG for Everyone (who conforms). Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm giving the Disney board of Directors a Reach-Around to celebrate how we defeated Wasicm! *Twerks in black and white aggressively*
In my mind, nothing produced by Disney is cannon starwars.
"I am in favor of oppressing whatever the fuck this is"
lmao that shit was pure comedy
That was the funniest line so far!
had my dying too 😅
This is a 180 million dollar therapy session for Leslie Headland. That’s what makes it so disrespectful. She’s willing to hurt millions of fans to make herself feel better. This is how disconnected Hollywood is from what it means to be human.
Platoon's own line from his appearance on Nerdrotic's stream.. used here? Niiice..(posted this before viewing)
@@phatmantv Sounds like someone's ancestors sucked at war.
You hate The Acolyte because it's bad - and rightly so. I hate it because it has given Platoon an excuse to delay his review of DUNE. We're not the same.
What if... now hear me out... what if I hate The Acolyte for BOTH of those reasons?
Am I the same if I want him to review season 2 of Velma?
I want him to find a copy of Willow (a torrent maybe) and review each episode!
@@sionnadehr3313 Both? Both is good.
RoP will be coming out sometime soon. The inevitable ticking clock for that S1 review is upon us all
Kylo Ren has a black helmet because he's fetishising Vader. Vader has a black helmet because he HAS to to live. The Sith in The Acolyte has a black helmet because the muppets who made it think Sith have black helmets. Stupid muppets.
That's so funny....it's true.
Vader doesn't need a black helmet to live. He could go for a nice pink or green.
@@OrionJAhe didnt have choice in the matter. It was darth Sidious's decision.
"All rise in the presence of Dark Helmet!"
@@billjacobs521 "I can't breath in this thing!"
Somehow Kiadi Mundi lived.
Keanu Monday?
The light side is a pathway to many abilities some would consider lore-breaking...
Actually it was a coatimundi…
@@markiangooley You! You are Coatlmundi-man! Yes! And you shoot magnetic lasers...from your eyes!
[edit: In case you don't know, that's a reference to MST3K's The Pumaman]
Maybe it was actually Palpatine disguised as a Jedi the whole time
"I am actually in favor of oppressing whatever the fuck this is" is a banger of a line, good sir. A banger of a line.
Boty (banger of the year) candidate for sure
Insert Skeletor unzips meme...
Fun fact: this video would have been an hour shorter if Platoon had simply said “oh-sha” instead of “Occupational Safety and Health Administration” each time.
I’m genuinely tempted to do a second channel super cut of OSHAs once this show is over so we can finally see how much time would’ve been saved.
@@TheLittlePlatoon Well it's not like you need any more sleep than you're currently not getting.
@@TheLittlePlatoon Do it
@@Vladislav888Do it
"Alas, I deplore informality" - Leslie the supervillain (no, not that one. The one from Mitchell and Webb)
I liked the scene where Henry Cavill and some Space Marines jumped out of a drop pod and showed those witches what the Emperor of mankind had to say about their coven.
Coven are genestealer cult confirmed
Canon
Yeah because if The Witcher taught us something, it's that Henry Cavill being there, involved and fan of the source material means it will not be woke trash at all ! /s
Don't you say those things unless they're true!
@@Ron_Jambo_ I mean, Cavill tried his hardest to have the show as lore accurate as possible, he had no creative control though, so his efforts were futile.
I'm quite convinced the only reason squidgame is called Sol is because the writers couldnt come up with a name, asked where he's from, he said Seoul and they were like 'I've got a genius idea'
They kind of did that in the sequel trilogy too. What would you call a Sith No One Knows Exists? It's right there: Snoke.
@@BiggieTrismegistus Did you just make that up? Because it's not even that much of a reach if you did. Nice one.
I haven't seen the show, but I have heard the name (aside from being called "Master Squidgame"), and, being Korean, I actually thought that that was the reason for it. Not even joking. I have so little regard for Disney Star Wars that I felt comfortable assuming that that was the truth.
It wouldn't surprise me, tbh. At first, I was tempted to think that all the silly names were deliberate jokes, what with Sol, and the OSHA, and the soap brand... But that would mean that they have some creativity and a sense of humour, and there's no further evidence to support that.
"What's your name?"
"Lee-Jung Jae."
"No, I mean what's your character's name?"
"Wait, you call me all the way from Seoul and you didn't even think of the character's name yet!?"
"Seoul, Seoul...okay, your character's name is Sol."
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”- Orwell
Normal people read '1984' and find what's described in it horrifying, and its ending devastating. And rightly so, because it was written as a warning.
Others see it as a manual of behaviour.
The name given by Platoon to "Chungo Fat" is probably the best thing to come out of the Acolyte.
I also enjoy Order 66 McNuggets from HeelvsBabyface.
Temu Ezra is a winner
Occupational Safety and Health Administration being said in place of Osha gets me every time
Its got competition from Smylo Ren.
@@Allybob001that's my fave as well. 😂😂😂
Talk about writing what you know. "We should inform the proper authorities" "No, it would cause a scandal"
😂
Deep and scathing. Nice!
I can't remember the exact quote, but it's along the lines of 'a good writer deliberately tells you about the characters, a bad writer accidentally tells you about themselves'
Near perfection.
If it was in haiku, then it would be.
“Somebody is trying to kill the Jedi, who we’re portraying as space cops”
Ah yes, what a scandal, in what world are officers targeted for violence?
Whenever he says “Occupational Safety and Health Administration” I crack up laughing!😂
That's why this video is so long.
I love when people call her sister FEMA. Such nice symmetry. It’s like poetry. It rhymes.
@@lacolem1 As twin names should.
Imagine taking a shot every time he said "Occupational Safety and Health Administration"
And he's been so consistent with it. He's shown more attentiveness to being consistent with his joke name for Osha than the writers of this show have been for their characterization of most of their cast!
"I wish I'd never been born"
"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
I can't wait for Gandalf to show up in Ahsoka Season 2. "At the turn of the tide."
@@TheNoonish Makes as much sense as anything else that happened in that show!
Gandalf is so goddamn based, and so is Ian McKellen for his portrayal of him. Face it, you read that comment in HIS voice.
@@Werewolf.with.Internet.Accessthought it was Kamala word salad 😂😂😂lol
This was actually taken from an anti-abortion rally in Rohan that Gandalf spoke at
A Platoon takedown, even before viewing, is guaranteed to be infinitely more entertaining than a new multi-million Star Wars show. What a world we live in
I only watch the show as preparation for the roasting.
@@deadpan_delivry7476 aint no one got time for that
@@deadpan_delivry7476 Same. We’re the “original audience” they deserve. I also love “The Room” and saw “Madame Web” on opening night. Like most Acolyte supporters, I watch these things alone.
Not checking in on the wookie for a year is even more ridiculous considering the show has established that you can warp back and forth across the galaxy in mere minutes.
They could have dropped in on him for lunch!
This show already has an abysmal sense of time, but its sense of distance might even be worse.
All they needed was a line expressing how bad the wookie smells.
huh, but that would defy the original purpose he was sent there for. That is getting rid of that stench. In this episode it was clearly established he can be smelled a miles away even when he was not present for a year. That must be really something.
Probably the reason Darth Ezra has the mask, the only one prepared, since he is the only one that was there before.
Ki-Adi-Mundi being included in the Acolyte is yet another example of how the Lucas Story Group, the supposed "keepers of the canon", are nothing but a rubber stamp group that doesn't actually double check projects for potential canon errors and violations.
Their bonus pay less if they actually say no to anything 😂
Is it the same in the EU? Was there a period of no Sith for a 1000 years the before the Phantom Menace? I really don't know the deep lore - just curious.
@@sharksbreath7 No Sith were known to the Jedi in that time period, though they did certainly exist all that time on the fringes of the galaxy. That's after the prequels came out; I wouldn't be surprised if something had been written pre-Phantom Menace about a Sith.
The retcon probably would’ve blown over too if Wookiepedia hadn’t made such a fuss. Instead they got caught red-handed by SWT, got salty, and put a huge spotlight on themselves and Disney. What a bunch of rats.
@@sharksbreath7 yes and no. The Sith did, indeed, exist.... but only because the Jedi believed them extinct. They kept themselves well hidden.
Because a key, and i mean key, plot point of the entire prequel arc is that the Jedi have grown complacent after a millennium of no serious threats to their order. This ties directly into why they've become so complacent and hide bound, because they're an order that's basically been on autopilot for generations
Which ties directly into why this is such a massive problem for Disney cannon. Because if this show remains canon, then the Jedi Council at the time of the prequels has first hand knowledge that these threat do, indeed, exist. One of it's members was there when it was uncovered... yeeeah, that's kind of a big problem, innit?
but no, the writers of this show never considered that, they just lashed out at the 'nerds' they're trying to impress by including Mundi in the first place, thinking that somehow fixes this sudden massive continuity problem....
Other people may not refer to Osha by her proper name, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, but Platoon does. And I adore him for it.
It's his English appreciation for formality.
Pretty sure Fanny Mae is also shorthand for another government agency.
I liked the bit when Smilo Ren said “it’s Smilin time!” And then he smiled all over the place.
Smilo Ren vs Torbius: The Torbin Time Awakens
Youngling Anakin: "Now this is smiling!"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The smile is always right!!!
I'm gonna smile all over these walls, call OSHA it's not safe!
"It's always an honor to witness something transform into the force"
And suddenly the mystery of all the missing pets near the Jedi temple becomes clear.
Such a weird line--I can't tell if she meant that death=becoming the Force, or if she meant that Osha learning to sense things again is "transforming into the Force." Both answers are clunky.
Yes...that line makes Jeky, or whatever her name is, seem quite odd and more than a tad sinister.
She kills them, Jediabetes eats them.
That explains her collection of tiny shoes…
@@billjacobs521A clunky reference to the prequels I think.
Yoda councils Anakin on the nature of Death and tells him that those who die become one with the force and he shouldn't dwell on death being a bad thing.
Kind of like how a religious person might put a positive spin on the death of a loved one becoming closer to their god.
Unfortunately they wrote it more like this freak delights in the killing things to watch it happen.
I've heard of being born prematurely, but Ki-Adi takes it to a whole new level.
His dad nutted so hard Ki Adi Mundi time traveled.
In fairness, if Ki-Adi-Mundi randomly rewrites canon on a whim, then perhaps he was actually correct when he said that the Sith had been extinct for a millennuim. And when he said Dooku was not a murderer. He's just operating on a different canon to everyone else. A canon in which the droid attack on the Wookiees is *never* overlooked.
Maybe he travels a lot at near light speed so he as aged relatively little. And maybe that's also what's wrong with his face.
@@-taz-star wars theory, is that you?
@@morganseppy5180 He's cool but I had Star Wars theories 10 years before he was even born. Like, how did Obi-Wan just disappear? My theory is that he was a ghost the whole time. But no... Prequels ruined that idea!
Disney corp fanfic does not get to rewrite the originals, stop trying to cover for their poor writing, give it up man.
It's just his stand, "Crazy Talk".
Whenever he says something he perceives as fact, reality immediately rewrites itself to make that statement false.
I love how Platoon's "Acolyte" title cards become steadily more morose over time. From a tentative "The Beginning of the End?" to the deeply depressed, "I Wish I'd Never Been Born." And we're only halfway thru the series!
Where does he go from here? My vote is just start using track names from stages 4-6 of Everywhere at the End of Time.
"A brutal bliss beyond this empty defeat" would make a fine finale 😂
@thebeetalls I was thinking references to Dante's "Inferno", but I'm liking yours a lot. 😂
when the guy who learned english last week is the best actor on the show ✅✅
It makes me love him more. And then get more depressed that *this* is the Star Wars show he was cast in.
He deserves better material to work with. I can see him being a great detective jedi.
Ironically, "Temu Ezra" would absolutely fit as an actual character name in the Star Wars galaxy.
Fr. I've been watching all of these and just got that he was making a joke
LP I admire your dogged commitment to use the fully worded title of Occupational Safety and Heath Administration each and every time her name comes up, no matter how many times it does.
Yeah, it started funny, became annoying in episode 2 and 3, but by now I smile every time, because this joke became funny again by sheer brute force
@@TheHalogen131 It's best when there is at least 4 different persons with... new names mentioned in a single sentence. And for me, it's never been annoying.
Yep, even MauLer got bored of saying "America!" in a dramatic voice in his Multiverse of Madness video
Ah yes, annoyed boredom.A great method for redeeming a person from the alluring grip of the dark side. Luke should just have ran around the forests of Endor a few days with Vader chasing him and Vader would have been like "Fuck it! I hate hiking! Ok, you win Luke, lets go take out the Emperor, I am done being naughty boy."
This made me laugh WAY harder than it should have. 😂
Last episode’s “OSHA wanted to leave the coven because she’s fascinated by the Jedi even though everyone around her hates the Jedi” *could* make sense IF it was clear that the Space Sedai were using the Dark Side and OSHA, who is the embodiment of the Light Side, were naturally repulsed by that. But Mae suddenly switching her loyalty to OSHA from the Sith kind of undercuts that, because then it’s not about which side the twins are drawn to.
They are both Force fluid 😂
😂😂😂 took me a minute to get the Space Sedai reference, but I'm definitely down for it!
I saw it somewhere else, so I can’t take credit for it. 😂 But seriously, isn’t that “pull the thread and change everything” just a cheap version of the Aes Sedai pulling on the Loom with the One Power?
well unfornely the writers of this show are not that intelligent to ger this point
@@samuelademeso9041Now that I think about it, did that one witch even mention the Dark/Light side of the “thread”?
THE AUDACITY FOR DISNEY TO ADVERTISE THE ACOLYTE TO ME ON THIS VIDEO LMAO
That only means Platoon makes even more money of them. :)
The algorithm doesn't know what to do with this show lol
Remember, guys, godzilla minus one was made for under 10 millions.
An estimated 15 Million, actually, but yes- it was a triumph for far, far less than this cost... to be a failure.
Most expensive TV show of all time, BTW.
@@underthepale the directors said that it was more likely to have ben under 10 mil
@@Eggs_Bennidict_Cucumber_Batch Oh, well, that's *awesome,* then.
Remember folks, that after the money laundering, Acolyte probably has less than $10 mil to play with.
@@underthepale that would be Rings of Power with $58mil per episode I think
The "she racks diciprine" line out of nowhere almost made me spill my coffee. 🤣
The only solution to the 'kill them without a weapon' problem I can see making sense is turning a jedi to the dark side.
That’s about the best possible outcome. However…
I mean do we count buttons as a weapon? What if they opened a door to space and shot them out into it. Does the button count as a weapon. Does a crashing ship count as a weapon as long as its not being used with the purpose of crashing into them but ligit being shot down and using it to splat them anyways.
There is a fair amount of things that could work. Its a shame the show tells us none of the rules.
Didnt the witches say the Forc- uh, the Thread isn't a weapon? Just use that
But that's figurative language. That's way too complex for Disney Star wars.
@@ikept_the_jethryk2421this feels like the more “logical” setup Disney would use, and I hate it
Wait. Even *Palpatine* couldn’t just breach the force shields of multiple Jedi to toss them around. How can the writers think this nobody can do that?
Oh, right. If you can’t google a character’s age, it’s probably asking a lot for them to know the canonical explanation for force user’s not constantly throwing each other into walls
To be fair Yoda did break palpatine force shield (which spook him so he tried to flee the duel) but that's Yoda, if one can break force shield like butter thought knife that's him.
@@itachiaurion3198 Correct. And it’s the response that matters. It was clear this was scary and unexpected. I’m also thinking of when Darth Maul did so with Padawan Obi-wan, or the vastly stronger Dooku did so to Obi-wan in Revenge of the Sith. These times help establish a character’s power. So when the episode has this happen so casually to so many Jedi at once, it feels like “this guy is stronger than Palpatine.”
For me, the biggest problem I see is the writers having no sense that events in their story are happening off-screen, both on the larger and smaller time scale. For example, at the end of Episode 2, Mae learned that her sister is alive.
After this revelation, she goes to kill Ezra Miller, but he stops her because he can give her information leading her to her next revenge target. So what she does is continue to flee the Jedi, including the group her sister was with, leaving the planet her sister was on. Then she travels however long to Kelnacca's planet. She takes the time to land on the planet, to unload materials from her ship, to pack a bag of supplies from the things she inexplicably carried off of her ship, and then starts wandering in the forest. While on the way, she continues talking about her plans to get revenge and to kill a Jedi without a weapon.
It's only after ALL of this that she decides, "You know what, if my sister is alive, the thing I learned days or weeks ago, maybe I no longer need to get revenge." It's the writers not realizing that characters still exist when the camera isn't on them and having no idea what they're thinking or feeling. This is a problem on the large scale, as well, since what Mae did with her life between the flashback and the start of the first episode are never going to be properly filled in. For example, if Smilo-Ren turns out to be one of her mothers, why doesn't she know this? Why did her mother hide her identity from her own daughter, and then train her daughter to be an acolyte hunting down Jedi? Surely Mae needed help getting off the planet she was on to wherever she ended up, and if her mother was alive, surely her mother was the person who helped her.
The root cause of this is, I believe, writers who only think scene to scene instead of looking at the events of the story. This is the scene, so here's the information they want to convey, but there's no framework for what the character is doing before and after the camera is pointed at them. You can have the inverse of this problem, which is when writers are only thinking of a narrative and not thinking about how to create scenes where information is efficiently relayed, so you end up with tedious scenes where only one thing is happening. In a tight script, plot and characterization happen together, and even if you slow down so characters can converse and relay expository information, there is subtext and character information coming in on top of the exposition.
But this is entirely people thinking about what the next scene will be and where the story needs to go in that scene without thinking about the character as someone who exists and has motivations just before the scene starts. Mae is supposed to have thoughts about the Jedi, perhaps judgments of their ideology, but those suddenly turn on their head when she thinks she'll just surrender to Kelnacca and trust the Jedi even after she's murdered at least one of them. She's presumably close in age to the actress, so she's had two decades of ideas about what the Jedi are and what they stand for, but the writers don't know their own character enough to figure out what those conceptions are.
Which is such a DnD campaign-like flaw, considering how in those games no charas are really offscreen, and time can only be linear
If the writers could anticipate the outcomes of their decisions and hold a complex linear narrative in their minds, they would not pass the political litmus test needed to work at Lucasfilm.
The editing on these videos is hilarious. Every single reaction clip from past movies and shows fits perfectly with every line from Platoon's script. I can't imagine how much effort this took.
Quite a lot! I was up til about 10am this morning finishing off the last 15 minutes.
@@TheLittlePlatoon you do all of that yourself?!?!?!
I am his editor but with these videos we have very tight deadlines and share the work, I did the first 1 hour of this one which took me 4 days and many long hours 😅
@@altriesallthetime I could be using a Vietnamese child but they demand better working conditions.
@@altriesallthetimeYour work is appreciated. 💕
Eagerly awaiting content on your channel youtube.com/@altriesallthetime?si=CNEo8dUk0Gu4MVSk
At this point, I wish they'd just "Willow" this whole mess from existence. I know they'd never do it with that budget and a cast this diverse, stunning and stick-bundled, but one can dream.
Stick bundled? I haven’t heard THAT one yet.
@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access Yeah. It's code for a possible no no word the algorithm might frown upon, lol.
I wish they'd un-Willow Willow because that was the funniest show on Disney+ yet! Willow just randomly owns a flamethrower in on episode, and then at the finale they all eat caterpillar cum with almost no convincing!
@@dvm421the old english definition
Imagine the internet if this show got willowed
> captions the video "I wish I'd never been born"
> shows character who has been born twice.
Dear Santa,
I have been a very good boy.
For Christmas (yes it's June but in MY HEART it's Christmas) I want a Little Platoon diss response rap.
It's Karate Monday, my favorite Space Wars character!
Why the long face? What's wrong with his face!?
Coatimundi?
Platoon, your reviews help prevent my rage from manifesting in addiction etc
“Haven’t you heard of police brutality?! Aren’t you supposed to be black?!” I fucking lost it
The titles of TLP's coverage of The Acolyte seem to indicate the downward spiral of his sanity... and the editor's too.
So killing a jedi master earns you a...misdemeanor?
Well, considering the Jedi are supposed to be the bad guys in this story.... should earn them a medal.
When a woman says that you need to have a "meaningful conversation", jettison the canopy, pull the yellow handles, and EJECT! 😮
I like how it's an admission that most of their conversations were, therefore, meaningless.
Also known as an EBS (Emotional Blackmail Session).
"HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU LOVE HER WHEN YOU WONT EVEN TRY TO BURN HER TO DEATH."
- Possibly a derranged Fanny Mae somewhere in a galaxy far, far away....
Plot twist. Green bean is actually Smylo. She or her mother were part of the coven and she would have trained both girls to take revenge but osha was a dropkick and mae would've been distracted to learn about her sister. Calling master squid game back was to provide enough time to deal with the wookie.
"Killing a Jedi without a weapon" doesn´t mean not using a weapon to kill. It means KILLING AN UNARMED JEDI! Top notch quality writing right there Leslie.
tbf killing an unarmed Jedi seems like a better idea than trying to kill jedi without using a weapon
So Master Tommen Barantheon? And the first master (forgot her name) turned her lightsaber off. So didn't she technically succeed already?
@@gakeon963 Maybe it only counts when the Jedi doesn´t have the LS on their person? Remember how Mae tried to snatch it away from Master Trinity and Master Squidgame? And Master Tommy, well, he might have had a saber under his robes... Again, briiiiiiiilliant writing.
Exactly one show, Obi-wan, should have been set on Tatooine. And it mostly wasn’t
And Book of Boba, to be fair. But other than that, yeah, Obi-Wan should have been there, and it really mostly wasn't.
@@olafgurke4699 book of boba shouldn't have been made tbh. boba fett was dead, he should have stayed dead
@@Grizzly8505 Actually, no. He was alive as far back as the EU, which most still consider canon. BoB wasn't the best, but also not the worst show, and ultimately I'm rather glad it got made.
@@olafgurke4699 LOL I managed to forget that one existed 😂
@@olafgurke4699 I didn’t know that, I generally consider canon to be the original 6 movies, the Disney plus shows (mando seasons 1 + 2) and most of the animated stuff (except stuff like visions).
The EU isn’t as easily accessible as the stuff I just said, so I apologise for not having seen that.
I do however think BoBF shouldn’t have been made, at least in the way it was, if it was more like his appearance in mandalorian where he was badass and fun to watch it would’ve been fine. But as it was it was boring and slow, not much happens and it’s not too enjoyable for me personally to watch.
I'm looking forward to the adventires of Occupational Safety and Health Administration again 😂
"If he is indeed a powerful dark side user, then it is implausible he wasn't sensed."
That's not consistent in Star Wars. Think of the literal hundreds of Jedi who were and would have been near Palpatine thousands of times over the years on Coruscant without noticing anything. Even if he was using some technique to cloak his presence, we don't have to assume that technique would belong solely to him.
I agree it’s inconsistent. You also get the Episode 3 line: “the dark side of the force surrounds the chancellor.” That’s a problem with the prequels - one of many. But it’s not an excuse.
It’s a problem for Star Wars, but it’s at least not a new one. This show does a fantastic job of creating problems that have never existed anywhere else, like the inability to recognize that time is passing differently in different parts of the plot.
And their vision through the Force was almost entirely blocked that whole time.
Give them some slack, how the hell would they know which thread to pull on out of the many...? 😁
This is the only time I'd wait for anything "Star wars Disney related"
Star Wars was bad before Disney
Somehow Keanu Monday returned...before he was born.
I would love to have seen a show where a janitor in the jedi temple strumbles in the middle of a conspiracy plot to corrupt the jedi order from within, where they have to work with some students to uncover it and save their masters who are getting picked off one by one by a former pupil with a twin currently training in the temple.
Sounds like the current state of KathysFilms (Formerly Lucasfilm) to a T
I really like it when people with clear political agendas tell me I'm not allowed to talk about the space fantasy show. I'm sure their motives are completely pure.
I like to think discount Ezra's "what are you doing" was just his honest reaction to reading the script for that scene
The funny thing about the whole Ki Adi Mundi bit is that they could've just owned up to the mistake, but they were so intent on being right they decided it was better to rewrite history to suit them.
14 years ago, in World of Warcraft, something kind of similar happened, where a character called Falstad was placed on the Dwarven Council in a book leading up to the expansion. But in the game, a different dwarf was in his place. A fan, famously known now as Red Shirt Guy, brought this up at a Q&A at Blizzcon, and you know what the writers said? "Really? We'll get that fixed." _And then they did._ And they added Red Shirt Guy as a Fact Checker NPC next to Falstad.
Please do remember to take time for yourself good sir. As much as I greatly appreciate and even go so far as to say love your work, your pace and subject material brings me cause for concern. I’d say keep up the good work, but now I am beginning to feel bad! Thanks again for everything you do. 😅❤
I’m definitely looking forward to a holiday once the show’s over!
“I write for disney star wars”
“I know”
“Bad things there do not excuse bad things here, it’s not that complicated” - that’s a harder lesson to teach writers who chant “from the river to the sea” than it seems.
There was a bit of an important statement in this episode, see 41:20. The Jedi were "stationed" on Space Witch Planet. Not deployed. Not sent to. Stationed.
People who get stationed in places tend to have to stay there for longer periods of time, and maintain a presence for whatever purpose. So why did the Jedi decide to randomly station Jedi on an empty planet outside of jurisdiction? Did they do so to keep an eye on the witches? Was the goal to get the twins? Where were they supposed to live while stationed on the planet? How long were they supposed to be stationed there?
It is easily explained as the writers using the wrong word, but the character is supposed to be in a leadership position of an at least somewhat militaristic order. She should know the correct terms...
Yeah, I’ve picked out that line in earlier videos - the problem is that, with writers like this, it really could just be sloppiness on their part. Or it could be really important to the setup.
Acolyte is just decimating the corpse of star wars on purpose like you can feel the bitterness emanating through this cosmic travesty
46:45 The characters acting out Platoon's script is so well done here. They even look like they are saying the words at points. Nice work editor!
The Newspeak instructions at the Wookieepedia HQ were brilliant! 😂😂
I wasted many hours on that but as I was rereading 1984 while editing this, it couldn't be helped
@@altriesallthetime It wasn't a waste to me, so many thanks! I'm also a 1984 junkie so I doubled over in laughter when I saw it! 😂
Clever assassin is the funniest bit of the show
*insert clip of her punching and kicking a force bubble*.
Genius she is.
This ranks up there with RLM’s Picard series entitled: Every night I wish I was in a grave.
It broke new ground!
Except they clapped when they saw the Enterprise D and went back on hating it. I don't think that's happening with TLP.
Saying "Ki-Adi Mundi doesn't know anything about the Sith because he hasn't encountered them before" is the equivalent of saying "No one today knows anything about the Nazis because that was back in the 30s and 40s."
"Occupational health and safety administration"😅🤣🤣👌
It’s painfully obvious that Green Bean (middle name “Flickma”) is the traitor Jedi/Sith.
She was a Palpatine all along! Or she is just as dumb as everybody else
It's sad when we are more excited for your review and others of the show than actually watching the show.
They hit the bottom of the barrel years ago and started digging.
And the barrel stands on a pile of cow manure.
Digging through the planet core!
@@nextPr0fess0rCha0s They hired Deep Rock Galactic to drill ever deeper. That's where the latest update comes from.
"...Lesbionic Maneouvres in the Dark..." 😂😂😂
Fredrick Nietzsche and jedi goes well like together like coffee mixing with camomile tea.
They’re going to make Ki-Adi-Mundi the head of the cover up team, aren’t they?
The poison dealer looks like Kylo rens drug addicted brother
_You wanna buy some Deathsticks?_
The prequel era Jedi were not dumb. They were blind. They couldn't connect to the force because of dark side clouding. So they were basically handicapped with their main way of perception being compromised.
And they didn’t think it odd that the dark side was surrounding the chancellor, they didn’t particularly listen to Dooku telling Kenobi about the Sith, they didn’t think to ask the Senators to take a midichlorian blood test, they didn’t think to send more than two Jedi back to Naboo to protect the endangered Queen (even though that’s literally their job), they kept sending Anakin off alone with Padme despite his obvious erection, they never thought his obvious distress at the prospect of losing her was at all suspicious, let alone dangerous; they prodded him when he was already angry, they only sent 5 Jedi to confront Sheev *after* being told he was a Sith Lord…
I could go on. They really are quite dumb.
@@TheLittlePlatoon The dark side surrounded many in the Senate. It was corrupt so no it wasn't particularly odd. They did listen to Dooku but they also knew he would say anything since he has fallen to the dark side. They couldn't make adults take blood test and Palpatine had already had a fake blood test produced by his family when he was a child. I agree they should have sent more than just Anakin but they thought trusting in Anakin was the will of the force. The five Jedi they sent were the absolute best warriors in the order and they were enough even though most of them died. You didn't acknowledge the fact that their main way of perception was compromised. You try to walk around blind without bumping into something. Even with all that they still won. They defeated Griivious, Dooku And Palpatine. It was only the betrayal of Anakin that sealed their fall. They were not perfect but they were far from dumb.
Hmm. The Dark Side was not surrounding JUST the Chancellor, or anyone--it was blocking their sight entirely. They didn't listen to Dooku because why would they listen to a fallen Jedi traitor? Why would they ask the Senators to take a Midichlorian test? Protecting Queen Amadala is NOT really their job--the Jedi are peace-keepers to a point but they don't get involved in every dispute, especially not without Senate approval. Even Chancellor Valorian getting 2 Jedi to go was sort of a back-channel action. Sending Anakin alone with Padme isn't really a huge problem; the two knew each other, and they believed Anakin would stick to his vows, and being distressed at the thought of her dying is normal; it's something all Jedi wrestled with, the ability to let go of attachment. I don't really know what "They prodded him when he was already angry" specifically means so I have no thoughts there. Master Mace Windu grabbed 4 other Jedi knights to go arrest Sheev (keeping in mind that the Jedi were largely out fighting in the war), which seems perfectly reasonable; Obi-Wan and Anakin took out Dooku, while Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan took out Maul, so why wouldn't Windu think he, with 4 full knights as backup, couldn't take out one man? They had very limited experience with the Sith at this point and no real knowledge of his power. Also, since Anakin just told them this news, and said bluntly that Palpatine himself admitted to being a Sith, Mace had every reason to think he needed to hurry because Palpatine acted against the Jedi, since he obviously wouldn't admit to being evil and then just do nothing.
That being said, I do think they were dumb, just not in these ways; their stupidity was in letting themselves become dogs of the Republic, doing things like allowing Palpatine to choose someone to sit on the Jedi Council without even discussing it with them. They became tools, which made it easy to control them, then set them up to be wiped out.
@@cedricroney1475 crazy how none of this is in the movies
@@billjacobs521”The dark side of the force surrounds the chancellor”-A literal quote from the prequels. Yeah, they were kinda dumb
In the show's defense for Temu Ezra being Smilo Reno, if Palpatine could have in-person meetings with Mace Windu and Yoda and not give away his true identity, I can buy Darth Teeth being able to fool this pack of idiots quite easily.
It still blows my mind, that twin sisters who've been apart for years have matching haircuts.
I mean..I have twin sisters but their identical ponytails are way less of a stretch than *complicated elaborate beaded dreds.*
20:40 “she’s barely legal in most systems” as Kenobi would say
I just noticed that! Why the fuck is Jeckie using a universal translator when that's what Protocol Droids are for in Star Wars!?
I wonder if they confuse *canon* with *cannon*. One being a large expensive thing that causes great damage, and the other being a type of artillery.
I cant help but wonder. 50 years from now, when lucasfilms stocks are so low Apple buys them out... Will this all finally be decanonized, or will the fact that three entire generations of people who dont give a fuck about the franchise are now the primary consumers make it not worth it?
50 years from now star wars will be as well known and beloves as flash gorden.
Except for the disney shit.
Who said disney corp fanfic is cannon? They don't get to pick simply because they purchased the IP.
4:50 .. only thing that beats sand is ... pocket sand
< insert "I don't like sand" reference here
I never thought I would look forward to Tuesdays so much.
When star wars canon goes in weird places I am down. I can tolerate inventing more. What is painful is unlearning canon I grew up with.
I used to love star wars trivia competitions… now they depress me. The answer to who is Han Solo’s child is? Is Jacen, Jaina and Anakin and all three are students of Luke’s Jedi Academy.
Ocupational safety and health administration meets Squid Game. Sounds like a neat concept.
are we white males even allowed to watch this episode?
I kinda wish we were physically prevented from watching this... My head hurts trying to wrap my head around this whole thing.
@@Juhno would be great lol
Why would you want to watch something you hate and give it a higher view count?
Unfortunately, yes
No
The Acolyte and the masters of the Butler and Maiden conversation , how could we know otherwise what the charachters did and feel.
What if Mundi gets startled awake by Mace Windu tapping him on the shoulder with increasing aggression in the Jedi Council chamber. Then Anakin walks in with Obi Wan. “But the Sith have been extinct for over a millennia” cut to black,title card, Linkin Parks What I’ve Done plays, roll credits.
Bravo! Wow! amazing assemblage of video clips to synch up with the contents of the voice commentary. Uncanny skill indeed!
Master Squid Game will try to warn the Jedi Council about the Sith but they will think he is talking about a shitty master.
That's just his uncle, Ki-Adi-Tuesdi.
Thanks! Brother these "the Acolyte" videos you've been making have bumped you up to neck-and-neck with my current favorite, Despot of Antrim. He hasn't touched this nonsense tho! Brilliant work!!
You can tell how bad the writers are when they don’t understand their characters don’t know what the writers know, because they lost contact with the Wookie Jedi a year ago, it would be logical to suspect he could already be dead & have been the 1st victim, but they never do, they somehow KNOW he’s still alive?
I love the adventures of Fannie Mae and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
You have a really great work ethic to get these done so soon and with so much effort.
It would be truly hilarious if they introduced Darth Plageis without any foreshadowing as Smilo Ren
Did I miss an explanation of how Osha lost her Force sense? She was trained as a Jedi after the witches died so it wouldn’t be that.
Other than severe psychological trauma, the only way for that to happen I know of is a Jedi technique that irreparably cuts them off used as a punishment for Jedi that turn evil.
Gee it would be funny if in the final moments of the final ep in this series, Occupational health and safety teams up with the horny Padawan to re-establish the remote witch coven :-)
That intro legitimately made me laugh out loud
"For fucka sake, greenbean!" Made me snort my yogurt. Outstanding.