“Oh come on, do you REALLY care that much about a character who got two seconds of screen time in TPM???” Someone did. Someone making this show thought it necessary to make Ki-Adi-Mundi 40 years older and include him in these events, when they could have had another original character standing there, with no difference made since Mundi doesn’t say anything any other original character couldn’t have said. But come on. The one character who explicitly said the Sith hadn’t been seen for a millenium? Out of ALL the characters you could have picked, you chose THAT one to be the one standing around during the events of 100 years prior when a not-Sith was killing Jedi? Nah, they knew exactly what they were doing. I’m not gonna be gaslit into thinking this doesn’t matter when clearly they had to go out of their way to make this happen, so butchering his character clearly mattered to someone.
I’d argue even more than 40 years, since this occurred 40 years before he was born, but here he is already aged… unless of course that’s how a literal baby looks like for their species
The thing is, I could care less about ki adi mundi being alive at this time, because his birth date is based on material that disney has already decanonized, but man is it absolute dumbassery to have him be the one to deliver the line of the sith, even if the jedi order come to the conclusion that this darkside force user was definitely not sith, you cannot make me believe a dude who witnessed the events of a "splinter order" would be this skeptical to a dark side force threat, especially when according to a qui-gon, a master jedi, it was a definitely a sith in
Agreed. Also, it's just part of the whole "making Jedi evil" thing. And trying to "solve" the lore breaking of Mundis line in The Phantom Menace. Essentially, "see, we didn't break canon! Mundi was just lying in TPM as part of the Jedi cover up!".
She’s single-handedly made the argument to outlaw lesbians from being in any position of any authority, even as lowly as unlocking public toilets, due to the sheer magnitude of incompetence they embody.
Where's the money, Lesbian Headlamp? 180 million, where did it go? These people are not even cool enough to have a crippling cocaine addiction. So where is the money, Lesbian? Bob Iger should be asking this while Kathleen Kennedy watches, as goons go to work on Lesbian's kneecaps. But we all know why Lesbian Headlamp is protected, why Kathleen Kennedy is protected. Lesbian Headlampo was Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant. She scheduled his meetings, booked his hotel rooms, handled his private communications with VIPS and assignations with, uh, people. She was as connected to the dirt going on as any studio exec. Being that close to criminality yet you walk unscathed? She turned on dear old Harv and bought this future. And she is failing, hard
Is it character assassination? Because they didn't make him act in a way contradictory to how he was established. They had him exist in a place that was impossible. It's so much more dumb of a blunder than what we typically see when describing something as "character assassination." The incompetence on this one is honestly hilarious to me.
@@bongwaterbojack I´d argue that him being an accomplice in the whole "hiddin info" from the council because "it would look bad" is kinda damming for his character. I do agree that him being there before he was alive is hilarous, tho.
Nah, it was actually the fumes of the wookie's incinerated chest hairs that did him in. There must've been about a decade's worth of spilled meals in there if the tracker managed to find him from a year-old piece of cloth.
@@wishuponamonkeyspaw2458 You know, an easier explanation for the tracker would have been "Kalnaca is probably the only wookie on this planet, he's visitied this village recently, and they have a strong, distinct smell." rather than them just having a rag on standby.
I know it's never really explained, but wouldn't a lightsaber boil your blood the moment you get stabbed with it? Like it's so hot it would just melt your insides, not leave a nice hole with nothing flowing out
@@ZeSgtSchultz No, they don't emit heat. They only incinerate whatever touches the blade. Otherwise you couldn't even hold them, they would boil the flesh off your bones just by igniting it.
What's crazy is that the internet firestorm has basically peaked. We have accusations of death threats, disstracks from the actors, ists and phobes are flying around everywhere...and we're only halfway through the show lol This is going to get so spicy when its revealed that the Jedi intentionally covered up the return of the sith.
I'm pretty sure someone talked Amandla (?) into making that weeeeeird "music" video, kind of a leap off the cliff you would kind of consider a lot more if close people don't tell you it's what needs to be done. Also "in only 72h", MCs worldwide are laughing at that, and some of that time definitely went into breeding this masterplan first.
The reason there’s a sink in the opening is because the CGI/visual effects team are trying to tell us that they too believe that Star Wars has gone down the drain. They just can’t say it openly, otherwise the almighty god of Star Wars Kathleen Kennedy will banish them to the Disney dungeons to work on another live action Disney remake.
So apparently looking at another comment the sink is to reference Revenge of the Sith where they told production they wanted everything except the kitchen sink so in the opening space battle scene they added an kitchen sink
For anyone who doesnt know, in DISNEY Canon, let alone real canon, Yoda is GRAND MASTER of the High Council presently for 200 years and running, essentially the boss of all the jedi. There's NO way you dont tell him bout this/hes not all over it
I mean, that’s not even far off lol. In the High Republic content he just up and vanishes for the majority of the initial “phase” of content, presumably so he doesn’t solve a shitload of their problems singlehandedly. I think they explain it as him going to find some secret knowledge to stop the current threat or something.
The writer was asked about Mundi on Twitter, and she replied it was originally planned to be Yoda but apparently he was "unavailable" you can tell by the words she uses that the studio was not willing to let them use his character. So Filoni did something right at least.
@@a_fine_edition2746Ah-ha, but dontcha know, friend-o? Yoda in the new canon is no longer the epitome of what it means to be a Jedi; nor is he any longer the strongest or most impressive. The High Republic has at least a few other Jedi that are explictly more Jedi-ey and more powerful than him. Isn't that cool? So quirky, uwu.
The sink: legend says that during the making of ROTS' opening space battle, the artists were told to throw everything into it, "everything except the kitchen sink". The story goes that they disobeyed these orders and actually *did* throw in a kitchen sink: at the very start when Obi-Wan and Anakin's fighters are flying through the battle in the one-take, there is this one bit where one of the republic ships shoots a big blue laser from its hangar. the debris that is ejected from the explosion and that the camera briefly follows is supposed to be this legendary sink.
@rogerborg Its 100% true. Rick McCullum confirmed it in the dvd commentary. I remember being 16 years old when the movie came out and watching the flick with commentary and being absolutely flabbergasted.
Don’t forget about also temporarily abandoning pursuit of that dangerous fugitive so Master Squidgame’s padawan could attend Lightsaber Choreography 101.
At least 1-3 had a plot it was drunkenly stumbling through while announcing it as loudly as possible. This one returned to Ahsoka/BoBF levels of standing around doing fuck all.
As a comparrison, John Wick 1, 2, and 3 _together_ cost 135 million. Or 75% of The Acolyte. And the acolyte only has 8 episodes of 30 each so the runtime is similar.
@@maninthemask6275 Possibly, but I think it's just women all deciding to eat at luxury restaurants and buying designer clothes and buying mansions. The people who make this show definitely have an entitled attitude.
Smilo Ren gliding behind her felt like what you'd see in video games behind the scenes when a character that's not in the frame during a cutscene gets moved around in preparation for the next shot. And since characters tend to appear out of nowhere or get frozen in place when they're not in the frame in current day SW, I'd say this fits well with this whole video game vibe they got going, except it's like we weren't meant to see that lol.
I see it all as extremely tropey horror shit. They have to have a list of sticky notes somewhere that says "things that happen in horrors" and I guarantee these were on it: -Bad guy floats down behind the team -Someone accidentally wakes up a dangerous creature -Jump scares
Only 8 episodes. I would be PANICKING as a writer on having ONLY 8 episodes to tell all the story I have in my head. Meanwhile Disney writers have mid season filler episodes where they recap the character relationships and restate their motivations.
@@john_squatson It's crazy. She thanked her for "proving her innocence". How did she do that? Seriously how? Why are they acting like they're in love? Why isn't there anyone in a position of power to stop the moron writers?
I would bet, that they didn't even had 8 episodes, but cut some of them up to get to 8. Would explain the short runtime of episode 4 and the harsh cut at the end. Also I would bet, that we get at least 2-3 more filler episodes before the finale.
@@Lemmiwings Where did all the money go, too?! Like, Rings of Power is also shit but I can at least SEE how they used all that money on special effects and such. How did they write a show with so much filler and so little special effects that cost THIS much?
I’m rewatching an EFAP highlights video. In it, MauLer talks about the bad guy turning good. When the cohosts speculate on reasons, MauLer insists that she doesn’t need a reason for “bad guy good.” *Either MauLer is a prophet, or these authors are laughably predictable.*
She's a female & a person of colour. What on earth made you think she would stay the bad guy or be defeated or in any way be held responsible for her actions of directly endangering innocent people & murdering people? It's like you haven't been paying attention to Disney priorities.
@@nhagan001 It's Leslie, but she thinks she is just misunderstood and actually in the right. It would just fit perfectly with her history in the industry.
It's kind of sickening to see the writer say that they cut the wookie fight because of the budget after seeing them waste so much money and time on sweeping shots of CGI forest, the CGI tracker alien, the CGI tree bug, and all of the other frivolous things they waste time and money on in the other episodes. $180 million btw
Ryan is more knowledgeable on Star Wars than literally anyone I have ever ran across. He is so knowledgeable it makes Star Wars Theory look like a brand new fan. (I love Theory, but I'm js)
The only person I have ever met who potentially knows more than Ryan was this waiter at Applebee's who was my waiter for my 10th birthday party. He had a nokia phone with a star wars ringtone and told my friend and I there were many ranks above Jedi Master. Thats probably not canon anymore tho
@@Joe-rq9tdI recall there being two ranks above Master. Master of the Council (Windu) Grandmaster (Yoda). They're equivalent in rank, Windu is the logistical leader of the Jedi (CEO), Yoda is the spiritual leader (Chairman). Not all Masters sit in the Council e.g., Qui-Gon, so Council members might be Master+ or something 😂
Here to explain the sink in the intro: there was a running joke in the Revenge of the Sith introduction ship battle that they threw in every detail leading to them using the popular phrase “we threw everything and the kitchen sink into it “ leading them to edit in an actual kitchen sink hitting one of the ships. It’s a tiny detail that most people would miss, but became an inside joke with the VFX team.
Mae’s heel turn was so abrupt and makes no sense. She’s responsible for the death of two Jedi, even if she turns herself in, they are going to send her to prison. Also, her doing it for her Osha, makes no sense either. “My loyalty is to my sister.” She tried to burn her sister alive, and the last moment she talked to her, Mae was seemingly blaming her for what happened to the other witches. She should not have any loyalty to Osha.
Can't wait to watch this after work tonight. Also does anyone else call BS on the show costing 180 million and then they say they don't have it in the budget to put the wookie fight in. Sounds like Leslie pocketed most of the money for her self. .
This trainwreck costing 180 million vs Godzilla minus one costing 15 million to make simply does not add up. They are either pocketing a ton of money or about to crash harder than the Hindenburg.
pretty much a standard Adam Sandler style money-laundering operation. (Allegedly) Just get all your friends to show up and kick them all a couple million of that sweet sweet DEI money.
Expanded U kid here. Something that bothers me about modern Star Wars is the lack of emphasis on the dangers of being untrained in the Force. The Force…*was*….at least at one point, a very real threat to anyone who didn’t understand it. In a sense, it’s an emotional magnifier. Whatever is inside you, emotionally and spiritually, is cranked up to 11 once you become attuned to the Force. This is why, despite the faults of the Jedi, they were necessary. If you were Force sensitive, and didn’t get trained, then all it takes is one small slip, one bad day, and you start down a path with almost no chance of escape. Even if it’s no fault of your own, one Force user who loses control can cause immense suffering. As soon as one force user goes Dark, then the galaxy devolves into Salem Witch trials levels of mistrust and fear. But now, there is no downside. There is no stakes. People just go bad because they hate Jedi, or they feel slighted, or some other half-assedly justified BS that doesn’t account for personal responsibilities. Dah good people can just come out the gate with top tier master level powers with ZERO risks involved. They don’t have to earn it. Balance used to be more about INTERNAL balance, not just this generic *good v evil* schtick. It was about seeking the darkness and light inside oneself, coming to terms with them, and walking a fine line of discipline and self discovery. There was a very spiritual side to Star Wars. Now the soul has been replaced with…..this….. …..sad.
This reminds me of that Teen Titans episode where Raven and Starfire got body switched and, because Starfire’s powers are based on being emotional and Raven’s are being the opposite, Starfire kept activating Raven’s powers and that was, like, the drama. Those two learning how to control the other’s powers and bonding over that. Even if you don’t do body switching-which Star Wars shouldn’t-that would still be something neat to explore
Dave Filoni is the guy who put Eeth Koth, a character who dies in Attack of the Clones in his Clone Wars cartoon. These writers don't care about things like when characters were born or when they died.
Ah yes, the episode in which Ki-Adi-Mundi is character assassinated for colluding with a small group of Jedi Masters to conceal extremely important information from Yoda's Council and feign ignorance on the matter when Qui-Gon brings up the threat of the Sith's return to the Council. Why? Because this is who nu-LucasFilm have left now for the purpose of character assassination. They are running out of legacy characters for that.
I wager 400 Republic Schlurpos that E5 will be another flashback episode, while real time is frozen, because all they know is teasing what they _won't_ deliver.
I thought by this point that I was completely apathetic to Star Wars, but watching this coverage of Acolyte has surfaced a surprising amount of frustration and sorrow for this once beloved franchise.
Same...I'm finding a lot of this interesting for other reasons than that it is a comedy masterpiece as well. Watching all these reviews of it, I learn way more about Star Wars lore than I have ever known due to real fans correcting so much that they have made up. ALL ideologies of this class of people revolve around deception, and being parasitic of something that someone else created. Every aspect of their ethics, morality, and souls trends to evil. Shockingly they were honest enough in interviews to have someone say that Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant, Leslie Headland was a "Sith". NOTE: Post will be auto-deleted like all of mine are because "not woke". Only you might see it in your notifications.
I love how they have to be explicitly stopped from chasing Mey to strategize, only for strategizer in charge to decide they need to keep chasing Mey. It reminds me of that movie that RLM reviewed, when Leo Fong had stopped chasing a criminal scum to go to a bar to ask where that criminal scum was, only to be told that he was where he was.
If there was a gruff old man detective Jedi who constantly failed to properly park his speeder and just lived a lifestyle of trashy sloth, but still kicked ass and took names at the end of the day- Call him Master Feo Long or something... I would watch his show 800 times before watching a single un-commentated episode of The Acolyte.
Lol, rags, I'm so happy you pointed out the thing with taking the boxes out of the ship then packing your bags from the boxes thing. I was so confused as to why there were doing that. Edit: you guys keep going on about the black bins. Love it.
I am amused by the apothecary guy having to explain the planet Khofar as "a relaxing forest retreat" like he's announcing the Wheel of Fortune getaway prize. You would just say it's "Outer Rim", and maybe mention "forest-type". But the extra adjectives are so meta, like "It's not like Endor's moon, though, Mae, in case you were wondering. This one is a developed forest world. It's different, we swear." *Then, he redefines the planet as so spooky, "some bounty hunters won't come here"?? Is this a relaxing forest retreat, or a lawless wilderness, SIR?
Also, between Phantom Menace and Clone Wars, Ki-Adi-Mundi used the World Between Worlds to travel back to this time. He'll return to Clone Wars after this show is finished. That way "the Sith have been extinct" still fits since he didn't know better. Plot hole fixed! lol
I was so pleasantly surprised when Inside Out 2 turned out to be about regular friendship issues and peer pressure. They got a cool older girl with colored hair who's good at the stuff main girl is into, and _didn't_ immediately make it a weird sex thing. Thx for that. Proper friendship plots are worth their weight in gold these days
@@mala6238 Nah...it's like 5 minutes after he kills Windu in a moment of panic & fear while he's worries about Padme dying that he kills children. Don't get me wrong the quality of the writing was significantly better than anything Disney has produced but making Anakin kill innocent Jedi children so soon after he turns to the dark side is ridiculous at least "FROM MY POINT OF VIEW..."
@@mala6238 Yeah the prequels were indeed bad films. Anakin killing children isn't something that should be done 5 minutes after being pretty much a good guy with anger issues who loves his wife.
Spoiler alert! Lord of Edge, Smilo Ren is actually...... The same actress revealed in Solo a Star Wars Borie and Captain Falcon and the Winterman. Third time's the charm.
@@Сайтамен oh wow, I didn't know that one. She must have a very very specific clause in her contract. "Our client required at least one face reveal per project and her character must bring down some sort of system of oppression" lolol.
I loved Ryan's epic rant at the end, but Filoni hasn't been ruining Star Wars for 12 years, he's been ruining it for 16 years. TCW was the beginning of the end of ever having coherent continuity in Star Wars. So many of Filoni's worst writing quirks are present in that show, most notably the complete disregard for established canon.
So, the Jedi had a rag of the the Wokie to track him, meaning he didn't have a communicator and they just let the guy do off with no way to contact him if he (a Jedi MASTER) was needed. That seems incredibly irresponsible for the Jedi Order when communicators should be pretty common and cheap, even at this early time period.
I'm even more confident now that Smileo is the carrier mother. That was way too much baiting for Qimir to be Smileo, and I don't see how he could hide the helmet while traveling with Mae. Not to mention Smileo standing face to face with Osha tells me Qimir is taller than Smileo. So I believe the carrier mother came to the wookie and revealed herself, so he essentially let her kill him. What worries me, is knowing how bum fuck stupid the people at Disney are, that they'll reveal Qimir is a Young Darth Plagueis who gets his idea for a force sensitive being through the actions of this show. And a secondary fear, that because the carrier mother is the same race as Darth Maul, they will reveal and hint she is also Darth Mauls mother and he is possibly a force creation as well. And I'm also sure people's fears are correct and they'll make Anakins mom one of these space witches.
How do the masters on the council, especially Yoda, not know that 2 masters have been murdered? The show is trying to paint this as the biggest thing to happen to the Jedi in centuries, yet Yoda is completely unaware. I hate this show so much.
You're right. Even in Disney shows like The Clone Wars, Palpatine is very much keeping tabs on the dark side wielders adjacent to him. And yes, that's _Palpatine_ and he is very powerful indeed, like a spider sat in the middle of it's web. The example I am referring to, demonstrates Palpatine sensing the rise in Asajj Ventress's power from Coruscant, while she was fighting over Bothawui. Keep in mind that this is totally canonical. Palpatine is sat on Coruscant, and can feel Ventress getting a bit stronger. That is obviously a concern to Palpatine because he doesn't trust Dooku and thinks that if Ventress gets strong enough, Dooku and Ventress _combined_ might bring him down. Pretty basic stuff and entirely logical, according to the Sith. Palpatine immediately ordered Dooku to execute Ventress, having the rest of her fleet open fire on her even as Obi-Wan and Anakin seemed to be in the process of capturing her (Dooku, reluctantly ordering the rest of her fleet over Bothawui, to open fire on the ship Ventress had landed in, before retreating from the lost battle) Dooku didn't really want to execute her, but Palpatine pulled rank on him and used the excuse of her defeat. The moment Darth Maul and Savage Oppress became slightly too big for their boots on Mandalore, Palpatine cracked his knuckles and went in to personally kick their backsides himself, for becoming a rival to the true Rule of Two (himself and Dooku/Tyranus, at that time) It's quite possible that Dooku had no idea that Palpatine had done this, come to think of it. After all, Dooku could have been sent to Mandalore instead, being stronger than Maul and easily able to slay Savage. But because TCW nerfed Dooku to insane levels, with wildly inconsistent portrayals (sometimes somewhat badass, sometimes quite pathetic), that didn't happen. Palpatine just handled it himself. I guess the Senate wasn't busy that day (in more ways than one) It was really Palpatine breaking lose and enjoying himself, one might say. If Palpatine can do that, why not Yoda? Well, 'the Shroud of the Dark Side' had fallen, and in Episode II Windu mentions how the Jedi had to tell the Senate that their 'ability to use the Force had been diminished'. It's an often forgotten and maybe throwaway line in Episode II, but it is absolutely part of the canon as one of the main, episodic films in the Skywalker Saga. Now, sure, the Sith are essentially obfuscating and spoiling the clarity of how the Jedi can use the Force to understand things. That is what is implied. But Jedi can still, you know, sense each other - whether on-world or even if they are many planets away. Yoda senses Anakin's pain from Coruscant, while Anakin is on Tatooine. That's some range. And yes that's _Yoda_ aka the Grand Master of the Jedi Order himself. All the same, many Jedi could attune themselves to such long range sensory ability, if you think about it. Why not Windu, or Dooku before he turned to the Sith (and he'd definitely be able to afterwards, as a Sith Lord) There are such skills as masking your Force signature (in the old lore, Dooku and Obi-Wan Kenobi do that a lot, respectively, during the Clone Wars) Palpatine is clearly the most terrifying at that ability, because he can casually sit in a room with the strongest and 'wisest' of the Jedi Masters in the entire galaxy, and work as a Senator and then the Supreme Chancellor in the Senate around them all the time for decades (13 years as Supreme Chancellor, and many years before that as Senator for Naboo) These are skills that exist for reasons in Star Wars, and in Palpatine's case, obviously his specific reasons for doing that were horrifying, because of what he really is. Disney kind of forgot, though.
Mundi showing up earlier than he was alive? "Boy I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder." Or alternatively Acolyte Releases "Boy I sure hope everyone got fired for that blunder."
Brandon Sanderson has a lecture where he talks about being aware of the promises your story is making (and all the implications of that implicit promise regarding both how you write your story and how the reader views it, and what it means to break that promise). It's very interesting. It's on TH-cam. For free. Maybe someone at Disney should watch it. Hell, they could watch the entire lecture series while they're at it, they might learn to suck a little less.
Goddamnit Fringy, that is legitimately the best analogy for how Disney Star Wars has been since the start. You beautiful, hilarious, green bastard. I salute you, sir.
Speaking of glaring things people forget, doesn't Yord _have_ a Padawan of his own-Tasi Lowa, the Zygerrian from E1? If they're assembling a team of Jedi to confront a Jedi killer, why bring Jecki (a rookie Padawan who's had a total of one field mission so far) rather than (or at least not in addition to) his own Padawan, who's presumably older and more seasoned?
Oh wow. I feel so dumb. I literally thought Smiler Ren was actually that dudes name, because SW is just that now. I didnt realize Fringy was memeing the whole time. Well done lads.
So... Ki-adi Mundi is on this, despite not being born yet, but Yoda is not here, despite him being a Jedi Master at this time. It's like Disney can't help but mess with their own timeline.
@@dragonknightleader1 Well, yeah, I'd prefer they just not show the Jedi Temple at all... It doesn't make sense they do anyway since there is a ticking clock here. It's just telling Disney thought: "Oh! Ki-adi Mundi!"
This can only make sense if nu-LucasFilm resurrect some Legends/Expanded Universe lore, which says the Jedi Order carved out an exception to the "no marriage" rule for male Cereans due to their naturally low male birthrate. Ki-Adi-Mundi in the EU has multiple wives. The new canon wiped off this exception so as much sense this would make to fix the timeline issue, only LucasFilm's stubbornness to avoid paying EU authors royalties stands in the way.
Judging by how obi-wan kenobi tore apart the canon and tried to glue it back together in the final episode. I suspect they are going to have ki adi mundi have a line at the end that "they have to cover up that this happened." . . . And I guess that Cereans actually have 3 times the life span.
Man, Disney, really nail these redemption arcs, huh? First Kylo, then Reva, now Mae. Avatar really wasted 3 seasons on Zuko when they could've apparently done it in 5 episodes. Chumps.
I wonder whether some of the Coruscant scenes in this episode were moved to an earlier point in the timeline than was originally planned, possibly because the Wookie fight was cut. It would help explain why Osha and Jecki are inexplicably close all of a sudden, why Sol says there is still good in Mae (despite her being pure evil up to this point), why the timing of events feels so bizarre here, etc. Feels like the Coruscant scenes were supposed to take place after the forest scenes and after Mae tries (and likely fails) to do the face-turn.
I realize that team Rocket make more logical in times. If they get blasted away and show back up in the episode it takes time before we see them again. They don’t instantly teleport back to the place
Even the Force Unleashed game, which is an insane power fantasy, understood that you would have different outfits for the vastly different planets/ecosystems found throughout the galaxy.
The Shlurpolite, Episode 4 Bad Shlurpo continues her journey to get revenge on the Jedi by killing Grand Master Porkins of the famous Porkins dynasty. However, he has already died of diabetes by the time she gets there. Now, after finding out Good Shlurpo is alive, for some reason, she decides to stop killing people and become Good Shlurpo 2, rebelling against her master. Meanwhile, the Jedi discuss how they are going to go after Bad Shlurpo. They consult Blotto, the ancestor of Watto, since he is used to junk and the script is about as knackered as crashed speeder driven into a wall. They realise that Poggle the Lesser was the mastermind behind all of this and has been controlling all the events, although this will all be forgotten by the time of the Prequels for some reason. Next time, I am hoping for another interpretive dance number.
So the wookie's cut "fight scene" is further proof to me that the whole Disney Star Wars fiasco is straight money-laundering. The CGI is in-house, the easter-egg- references are always without thought and embarrassing, the continuity is ignored, the writing is always poor, the productions are always rushed and the politics act as a way to shield their failures from critique. Pretending to spend money while purposefully hiring awful teams to produce mediocre irreverent contents. They bait with derisively shallow "themes" while dangling fan-favorites as a way to shut the fandom up. They don't care and they don't care that we no longer care. As long as their scheme keeps failing upwards than they are raking in the green.
19:50 The chainmail is yet another thing that absolutely boggles my mind in this show. In the world of STAR WARS where LASER WEAPONS are common, what actual benefit is chainmail going to have??
Some say he/she/they/it is edgier than Shadow the Hedgehog and Snyder cut Steppenwolf combined. Some say he/she/they/it likes to monologue nonsensically. Some say he/she/they/it takes long walks on rocky beaches. Some say he/she/they/it lights his/her/their/its lightsaber for absolutely no reason. All we know is that he/she/they/it is named Smilo Ren.
*Calling it now: OSHA and Mae are not in fact born from the Force but are instead the illicit love children of the cult leader and Master Squid Game.* It might not be the case, but it’s at least more inventive than whatever they otherwise have planned, yes?
I actually think Smilo Ren might be Osha & Mae's father, and Anasaya "created them" via test tube-like ways. That's highly likely not to happen, but you never know with these hack writers.
32:17 Again... I can't NOT not notice that the "tracker" doesn't even hold the rag up to it's nose... instead it is inhaling the Wookie's essence? Also... uhmmm... what part of clothing is that really? Not seen very many Wookies fully-clothed in the lore...
I've said this elsewhere but this episode reminded me of last weekend's episode of Doctor Who (Legend of Ruby Sunday) but if I didn't give a shit about Sutekh and Pyramids of Mars... Both of Legend of Ruby Sunday and Day stretch out their episode's plot to fill time so that the cliffhanger reaches the end of the runtime and both do so by mostly stretching out scenes instead of focusing on character based conversations (to the point where I saw someone reviewing this Acolyte episode say that they felt like the episode failed a plot version of the Bechdel Test as almost none of the conversations felt like they were about two or more characters talking to each other without needing to mention plot relevant stuff). The main difference aside from placement in the season is that Doctor Who at least had aspects that stick in my mind such as "We'd all like a lot of things that aren't going to happen" and the Doctor is just a more charismatic protagonist... including Gatwa's delivery of the line "Do you dream about being an ambulance?". Along with that, the leadup to the cliffhanger actually had me on the edge of my seat with Sutekh's return (at least the speech/dialogue, the H. Arbinger point should've been more subtle) unlike when the Sith/Masked Dark Sider floated in where I was just imagining a memed version where he aggressively T Poses towards the Jedi. Although the latter part would likely be flipped for casual fans jumping onto each franchise with the respective series given how Sith would be more recognisable than a random Classic Who villain that appeared once in the 1970s (even if that story was really good and has the most popular incarnation of the Doctor).
On a point limited to just Star Wars: Why does every live action show feel the need to have potentially Galaxy altering stakes (even when we know it won't do so due to its placement)? The only one that earned it was Andor because it was about the early days of the Rebel Alliance. All a show in this timeframe and this focus needed to do was base itself around a Jedi Knight or a Master and their Padawan doing what would be considered the more dangerous side of regular Jedi missions of this era. Maybe take the idea Rags had in the show's first episode or do some other 'X genre in Star Wars' idea. Alternatively if you want to keep the barebones idea of the show as it is, remove the Sith and have Mae fill an Aurra Sing role as a former Padawan who went through hell in her training, fell out of the Order with her Master thinking her to be dead (for understandable reasons instead of her being stabbed with a Lightsaber yet pulling a Darth Sion being too angry to die) and becomes a Bounty Hunter that goes after Jedi.
“wasn’t tech avail” So either they couldn’t afford the CGI, OR someone refused to allow Yoda in it. Either way!! This is the story you get because of THAT bullshit… holy fuck they might as well have a Pepsi Cola decorated side quest at this point… You’re not seeing what you’re seeing because ANYONE had an actual story to tell, just some loosely cobbled together moments and images. Wankers.
"What about the offscreen attack on the Wookie?"
He’s right. It’s a system we can’t afford to show.
:))) this needs to be top comment
“Mundi kinda forgot that he knew about the Sith before the Phantom Menace but the Sith certainly haven’t forgotten about him.”
Like, they ruin characters like bail and luke aunt but they somehow ruin an dead character too? "Somehow he forget" I can't wait to see the defenses
Nobody is safe, even background characters with almost no lines.
Mundi is a secret sith himself. He even faked his own birth to appear 40 years younger - and everybody on the council fell for it!
Palpatine set his Mygeeto demise up personally offscreen. “This is for my grandmama”
Mundi😂! Mundi is word for a persons head in india
The reason why Smilo Ren could force push all those Jedi was because Smilo Ren was all the Sith, but they were not all the Jedi. See? Logic. Wahbam!
@3qtipkillaExcept that Darth Plagueis is still a thing.
@Lobsterwithinternet "except that Darth Plagueis is stil a thing"
For now, son. For now....
Touche 😂
@Lobsterwithinternet this IS Plagueis! I'm calling it now. "Oh but Plagueis is a Mun" not in Disney canon yet!
@@2ndlegend125 fuckin nailed it...I wouldn't be fuckin surprised if Sheevs apprentice was retconned as a She.
“Oh come on, do you REALLY care that much about a character who got two seconds of screen time in TPM???”
Someone did. Someone making this show thought it necessary to make Ki-Adi-Mundi 40 years older and include him in these events, when they could have had another original character standing there, with no difference made since Mundi doesn’t say anything any other original character couldn’t have said.
But come on. The one character who explicitly said the Sith hadn’t been seen for a millenium? Out of ALL the characters you could have picked, you chose THAT one to be the one standing around during the events of 100 years prior when a not-Sith was killing Jedi?
Nah, they knew exactly what they were doing. I’m not gonna be gaslit into thinking this doesn’t matter when clearly they had to go out of their way to make this happen, so butchering his character clearly mattered to someone.
Its even worse when they revealed that they wanted use yoda originally
I’d argue even more than 40 years, since this occurred 40 years before he was born, but here he is already aged… unless of course that’s how a literal baby looks like for their species
Turns out, fans care about established lore.
The thing is, I could care less about ki adi mundi being alive at this time, because his birth date is based on material that disney has already decanonized, but man is it absolute dumbassery to have him be the one to deliver the line of the sith, even if the jedi order come to the conclusion that this darkside force user was definitely not sith, you cannot make me believe a dude who witnessed the events of a "splinter order" would be this skeptical to a dark side force threat, especially when according to a qui-gon, a master jedi, it was a definitely a sith in
Agreed. Also, it's just part of the whole "making Jedi evil" thing. And trying to "solve" the lore breaking of Mundis line in The Phantom Menace. Essentially, "see, we didn't break canon! Mundi was just lying in TPM as part of the Jedi cover up!".
Leslye Headland: We have Trinity and a Wookie Jedi!
Also Leslye Headland: Oh, but they die after 2 minutes
She’s single-handedly made the argument to outlaw lesbians from being in any position of any authority, even as lowly as unlocking public toilets, due to the sheer magnitude of incompetence they embody.
Where's the money, Lesbian Headlamp?
180 million, where did it go? These people are not even cool enough to have a crippling cocaine addiction.
So where is the money, Lesbian?
Bob Iger should be asking this while Kathleen Kennedy watches, as goons go to work on Lesbian's kneecaps.
But we all know why Lesbian Headlamp is protected, why Kathleen Kennedy is protected.
Lesbian Headlampo was Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant. She scheduled his meetings, booked his hotel rooms, handled his private communications with VIPS and assignations with, uh, people. She was as connected to the dirt going on as any studio exec.
Being that close to criminality yet you walk unscathed? She turned on dear old Harv and bought this future.
And she is failing, hard
I was not expecting to add "Character assasinating Mundi" to my bingo list, but hey, here we are.
A surprise to be sure but a most unwelcome one.
Is it character assassination? Because they didn't make him act in a way contradictory to how he was established. They had him exist in a place that was impossible. It's so much more dumb of a blunder than what we typically see when describing something as "character assassination." The incompetence on this one is honestly hilarious to me.
It's the Free Space.
@@bongwaterbojack I´d argue that him being an accomplice in the whole "hiddin info" from the council because "it would look bad" is kinda damming for his character. I do agree that him being there before he was alive is hilarous, tho.
@@That_One_Guy-. Yeah, that's a fair point. Maybe they'll show him bumping his head on a blast door and say he got amnesia.
It’s kind of funny that slashes from lightsabers kill people, but not stab wounds
Nah, it was actually the fumes of the wookie's incinerated chest hairs that did him in. There must've been about a decade's worth of spilled meals in there if the tracker managed to find him from a year-old piece of cloth.
@@wishuponamonkeyspaw2458 You know, an easier explanation for the tracker would have been "Kalnaca is probably the only wookie on this planet, he's visitied this village recently, and they have a strong, distinct smell." rather than them just having a rag on standby.
I know it's never really explained, but wouldn't a lightsaber boil your blood the moment you get stabbed with it? Like it's so hot it would just melt your insides, not leave a nice hole with nothing flowing out
Unfortunately the poor wookie wasn't wearing his plot armor.
@@ZeSgtSchultz No, they don't emit heat. They only incinerate whatever touches the blade. Otherwise you couldn't even hold them, they would boil the flesh off your bones just by igniting it.
What's crazy is that the internet firestorm has basically peaked. We have accusations of death threats, disstracks from the actors, ists and phobes are flying around everywhere...and we're only halfway through the show lol
This is going to get so spicy when its revealed that the Jedi intentionally covered up the return of the sith.
this, the people not realizing the goal is to have the Jedi massacre "innocent" "unarmed" women is gonna hit bigly
@@RestrictedAudiencesOnly that’s when the whole cast makes a whole album of diss tracks against the critics. I’m calling it now
Peaked? You fool, this isn't even my final form.
I'm pretty sure someone talked Amandla (?) into making that weeeeeird "music" video, kind of a leap off the cliff you would kind of consider a lot more if close people don't tell you it's what needs to be done. Also "in only 72h", MCs worldwide are laughing at that, and some of that time definitely went into breeding this masterplan first.
You merely adopted the peak, I was born in it....molded by it.
I will comment this now, If the fake smile-o Ren happen to be one of the mother and she utter "I am your mother" like vader did, there will be CHAOS
but... she will have Vadered...
This might be best case scenario then 😂 I say make it as returd-ed as possible
Oh god, now that you say it i bet they did that.
That's absurd ... so very possible.
I don't think that will happen. They cannot have a female villain. But maybe I'll be proven wrong. I'm curious to see how cringe it becomes.
I can’t fucking believe Leslye Headland made it so that Reva doesn’t have the most unbelievable 180 in Star Wars
The only thing that happens in this episode is learning that Mundi has dementia during the prequel era.
So Osha, who failed the Jedi training, manages to sense the living being clinging to the tree... yet the dozen or so actual Jedi can't?
I thought they just weren't dumb enough to touch it, but you might be right
Also if those insect things were attracted to light, wouldn't Sol be swamped by all the things hanging around in the trees?
The reveal is that she and Mae are a Dyad and getting closer to each other is unlocking her powers. Calling it.
She sensed it??
You can see the f**king thing!!
Black woman magic bro.
Top Picks for the Identity of Smilo Ren:
1. Jedi Master Trinity (she obviously faked her death)
2. Master Sol's evil twin brother
3. Teenage Chewbacca
4. Yoda on Stilts (trolling everyone)
5. Time travelling Darth Maul
6. Agatha Harkness
7. John Kramer
I love this list.
8. Kirby.
9. Evil Anakin from the World Between Worlds.
I'm retracting all of my criticisms if it's Yoda on stilts.
10. Grogu in another mech suit
The reason there’s a sink in the opening is because the CGI/visual effects team are trying to tell us that they too believe that Star Wars has gone down the drain. They just can’t say it openly, otherwise the almighty god of Star Wars Kathleen Kennedy will banish them to the Disney dungeons to work on another live action Disney remake.
To quote an old video about the Live Action Lion King:
"PUT THE IMAGES IN THE MACHINE, JON! PUT THE IMAGES IN THE MACHINE!"
The sink is also as interesting as half the characters in the shows usually.
@@Jasper_Silva , and that’s being pretty generous, I’d say.
So apparently looking at another comment the sink is to reference Revenge of the Sith where they told production they wanted everything except the kitchen sink so in the opening space battle scene they added an kitchen sink
“Yohohoho, into the editing Dungeon you go.”
- God Empress of Star Wars KK
For anyone who doesnt know, in DISNEY Canon, let alone real canon, Yoda is GRAND MASTER of the High Council presently for 200 years and running, essentially the boss of all the jedi. There's NO way you dont tell him bout this/hes not all over it
It's ok, this whole show takes place during his vacation.
I mean, that’s not even far off lol. In the High Republic content he just up and vanishes for the majority of the initial “phase” of content, presumably so he doesn’t solve a shitload of their problems singlehandedly. I think they explain it as him going to find some secret knowledge to stop the current threat or something.
The writer was asked about Mundi on Twitter, and she replied it was originally planned to be Yoda but apparently he was "unavailable" you can tell by the words she uses that the studio was not willing to let them use his character. So Filoni did something right at least.
@@a_fine_edition2746Ah-ha, but dontcha know, friend-o? Yoda in the new canon is no longer the epitome of what it means to be a Jedi; nor is he any longer the strongest or most impressive. The High Republic has at least a few other Jedi that are explictly more Jedi-ey and more powerful than him. Isn't that cool? So quirky, uwu.
That's why Row said the council shouldn't know...
The sink: legend says that during the making of ROTS' opening space battle, the artists were told to throw everything into it, "everything except the kitchen sink". The story goes that they disobeyed these orders and actually *did* throw in a kitchen sink: at the very start when Obi-Wan and Anakin's fighters are flying through the battle in the one-take, there is this one bit where one of the republic ships shoots a big blue laser from its hangar. the debris that is ejected from the explosion and that the camera briefly follows is supposed to be this legendary sink.
Is that true, or did you write it on Wookipedia?
No, no. He's right. I watched that commentary too.
I am choosing to believe this is true. If its wrong dont tell me.
Why does it have steam whistles??
@rogerborg Its 100% true. Rick McCullum confirmed it in the dvd commentary. I remember being 16 years old when the movie came out and watching the flick with commentary and being absolutely flabbergasted.
I can't believe the action centerpiece got cut to focus on unloading the ship extremely inefficiently
Don’t forget about also temporarily abandoning pursuit of that dangerous fugitive so Master Squidgame’s padawan could attend Lightsaber Choreography 101.
At least 1-3 had a plot it was drunkenly stumbling through while announcing it as loudly as possible. This one returned to Ahsoka/BoBF levels of standing around doing fuck all.
This show was budgeted ten thousand dollars a second, and a Wookiee fight scene would have been _too expensive?_
As a comparrison, John Wick 1, 2, and 3 _together_ cost 135 million. Or 75% of The Acolyte. And the acolyte only has 8 episodes of 30 each so the runtime is similar.
@@slaaptwow, that's ridiculously expensive when put in those terms!
John Wick also had some epic fight scenes too.
I know the term money laundering gets thrown around a lot but...
@@maninthemask6275 Possibly, but I think it's just women all deciding to eat at luxury restaurants and buying designer clothes and buying mansions. The people who make this show definitely have an entitled attitude.
Holiday special was entirely dedicated to Wookies...
Smilo Ren gliding behind her felt like what you'd see in video games behind the scenes when a character that's not in the frame during a cutscene gets moved around in preparation for the next shot. And since characters tend to appear out of nowhere or get frozen in place when they're not in the frame in current day SW, I'd say this fits well with this whole video game vibe they got going, except it's like we weren't meant to see that lol.
Halo bts type moment
I see it all as extremely tropey horror shit. They have to have a list of sticky notes somewhere that says "things that happen in horrors" and I guarantee these were on it:
-Bad guy floats down behind the team
-Someone accidentally wakes up a dangerous creature
-Jump scares
The sink is in the intro because someone didn't understand that "kitchen sink" is just an idiom.
oh god, I laughed for a second, but then I realized that you might be right. We are living in "Idiocracy"
Unironically yes, look up Revenge of the Sith kitchen sink.
No, you're an idiom.
Only 8 episodes. I would be PANICKING as a writer on having ONLY 8 episodes to tell all the story I have in my head. Meanwhile Disney writers have mid season filler episodes where they recap the character relationships and restate their motivations.
and gaslight the audience with relationship that weren't a thing before, but suddenly are
@@john_squatson It's crazy. She thanked her for "proving her innocence". How did she do that? Seriously how? Why are they acting like they're in love? Why isn't there anyone in a position of power to stop the moron writers?
I would bet, that they didn't even had 8 episodes, but cut some of them up to get to 8.
Would explain the short runtime of episode 4 and the harsh cut at the end.
Also I would bet, that we get at least 2-3 more filler episodes before the finale.
I’m a writer, and the story I’ve written would take like three seasons.
@@Lemmiwings Where did all the money go, too?! Like, Rings of Power is also shit but I can at least SEE how they used all that money on special effects and such. How did they write a show with so much filler and so little special effects that cost THIS much?
I’m rewatching an EFAP highlights video. In it, MauLer talks about the bad guy turning good. When the cohosts speculate on reasons, MauLer insists that she doesn’t need a reason for “bad guy good.”
*Either MauLer is a prophet, or these authors are laughably predictable.*
OMG that rings bells! Either that or I can just easily hear Mauler saying that in my head…
Either way, course he fuckin did 😂
The answer is yes.
Mauler has the power of the spiders on his side.
She's a female & a person of colour. What on earth made you think she would stay the bad guy or be defeated or in any way be held responsible for her actions of directly endangering innocent people & murdering people? It's like you haven't been paying attention to Disney priorities.
Commenter! Commenter! Could you tell the audience which highlight it was? I would like to revisit this myself. Thank you.
Plot twist:
Occupational and Safety Hazzard Association is the chosen one who impregnated Anakins mom
You KNOW at least one of the writers has already pitched that idea.
Shmi looks great for a woman who's 140 years old and a slave. 😂😂
You remember when Leslie said this was about her and her sister?
…so who was the murdering psychopath in the family?
I too like the little platoon. He's pretty cool.
@@nhagan001 It's Leslie, but she thinks she is just misunderstood and actually in the right.
It would just fit perfectly with her history in the industry.
It's kind of sickening to see the writer say that they cut the wookie fight because of the budget after seeing them waste so much money and time on sweeping shots of CGI forest, the CGI tracker alien, the CGI tree bug, and all of the other frivolous things they waste time and money on in the other episodes. $180 million btw
Why does random Ryan know so much more about star wars lore than the people writing the stories. I love how he overnerds, very interesting to listen.
Ryan is more knowledgeable on Star Wars than literally anyone I have ever ran across. He is so knowledgeable it makes Star Wars Theory look like a brand new fan. (I love Theory, but I'm js)
The only person I have ever met who potentially knows more than Ryan was this waiter at Applebee's who was my waiter for my 10th birthday party. He had a nokia phone with a star wars ringtone and told my friend and I there were many ranks above Jedi Master.
Thats probably not canon anymore tho
Because the people writing this doesnt care. They are just making marxist propaganda.
@@Joe-rq9tdI recall there being two ranks above Master.
Master of the Council (Windu)
Grandmaster (Yoda).
They're equivalent in rank, Windu is the logistical leader of the Jedi (CEO), Yoda is the spiritual leader (Chairman).
Not all Masters sit in the Council e.g., Qui-Gon, so Council members might be Master+ or something 😂
Here to explain the sink in the intro: there was a running joke in the Revenge of the Sith introduction ship battle that they threw in every detail leading to them using the popular phrase “we threw everything and the kitchen sink into it “ leading them to edit in an actual kitchen sink hitting one of the ships. It’s a tiny detail that most people would miss, but became an inside joke with the VFX team.
Is that true, or did you write it on Wookipedia?
Yeah I'm pretty sure this is the real answer, I immediately thought of revenge of the sith when they mentioned it
I didn't know this and I appreciate it very much. Kind of like the Battle of Endor sneaker in ROTJ
I'll have to keep an eye out for that if I ever watch SW again! Thanks 😊
i always thought it was a bathtub..
Ah yes: Khofar. The extremely dangerous and relaxing forest retreat.
I'm thinking the writer confused the term forest reserve, and wrote retreat instead, lol.
Mae’s heel turn was so abrupt and makes no sense.
She’s responsible for the death of two Jedi, even if she turns herself in, they are going to send her to prison.
Also, her doing it for her Osha, makes no sense either. “My loyalty is to my sister.” She tried to burn her sister alive, and the last moment she talked to her, Mae was seemingly blaming her for what happened to the other witches. She should not have any loyalty to Osha.
and their last interaction involved Osha shooting at her, don't forget about that little gem
1:01
I love that MauLer not only knew exactly what scene Fringy was referring to, he has the inflection of the quote down pat too.
Can't wait to watch this after work tonight. Also does anyone else call BS on the show costing 180 million and then they say they don't have it in the budget to put the wookie fight in. Sounds like Leslie pocketed most of the money for her self. .
This show doesn’t look like it cost anywhere near $180 million
This trainwreck costing 180 million vs Godzilla minus one costing 15 million to make simply does not add up. They are either pocketing a ton of money or about to crash harder than the Hindenburg.
Hence why she gave her wife a role: gotta double-dip into that budget.
They just told that to get headlines and engagement.
It probably cost around 18 million. But that doesn't sound outrageous enough.
pretty much a standard Adam Sandler style money-laundering operation. (Allegedly) Just get all your friends to show up and kick them all a couple million of that sweet sweet DEI money.
Fans: Cool there is going to be a Jedi wookie and Trinity from the Matrix in a Star Wars show!
Disney: Hmmm. Yea. It’s going to be great.
Expanded U kid here. Something that bothers me about modern Star Wars is the lack of emphasis on the dangers of being untrained in the Force.
The Force…*was*….at least at one point, a very real threat to anyone who didn’t understand it. In a sense, it’s an emotional magnifier. Whatever is inside you, emotionally and spiritually, is cranked up to 11 once you become attuned to the Force.
This is why, despite the faults of the Jedi, they were necessary. If you were Force sensitive, and didn’t get trained, then all it takes is one small slip, one bad day, and you start down a path with almost no chance of escape. Even if it’s no fault of your own, one Force user who loses control can cause immense suffering. As soon as one force user goes Dark, then the galaxy devolves into Salem Witch trials levels of mistrust and fear.
But now, there is no downside. There is no stakes. People just go bad because they hate Jedi, or they feel slighted, or some other half-assedly justified BS that doesn’t account for personal responsibilities. Dah good people can just come out the gate with top tier master level powers with ZERO risks involved. They don’t have to earn it. Balance used to be more about INTERNAL balance, not just this generic *good v evil* schtick. It was about seeking the darkness and light inside oneself, coming to terms with them, and walking a fine line of discipline and self discovery.
There was a very spiritual side to Star Wars. Now the soul has been replaced with…..this…..
…..sad.
This reminds me of that Teen Titans episode where Raven and Starfire got body switched and, because Starfire’s powers are based on being emotional and Raven’s are being the opposite, Starfire kept activating Raven’s powers and that was, like, the drama. Those two learning how to control the other’s powers and bonding over that.
Even if you don’t do body switching-which Star Wars shouldn’t-that would still be something neat to explore
Dave Filoni is the guy who put Eeth Koth, a character who dies in Attack of the Clones in his Clone Wars cartoon. These writers don't care about things like when characters were born or when they died.
They need the sink in the opening because it's attached to the drain that Star Wars is circling.
I have trouble even imagining the ways this show can get even worse, but worse it will get - I am absolutely confident about that.
Ah yes, the episode in which Ki-Adi-Mundi is character assassinated for colluding with a small group of Jedi Masters to conceal extremely important information from Yoda's Council and feign ignorance on the matter when Qui-Gon brings up the threat of the Sith's return to the Council. Why? Because this is who nu-LucasFilm have left now for the purpose of character assassination. They are running out of legacy characters for that.
Chef's kiss for this comment.
Couldn't have summed it up myself.
No character in Star Wars is safe
The worst part is that he didn't even care about the attack on the wookiee. 😭
@@lukew6725 :D
STAAAARR WAAARRRSS ITS NOTHING LIKE STAAAAAARRR WAAARRRSS ITS FKN SHHIIIITTTEEE, heelvsbabyface best quote ever
I wager 400 Republic Schlurpos that E5 will be another flashback episode, while real time is frozen, because all they know is teasing what they _won't_ deliver.
That's a lot of shlurpos to wage! What are you a shlurpionaire?
You know how many Plumbus' i could buy with 400 Schlurpos?! You madman!
I thought by this point that I was completely apathetic to Star Wars, but watching this coverage of Acolyte has surfaced a surprising amount of frustration and sorrow for this once beloved franchise.
Same...I'm finding a lot of this interesting for other reasons than that it is a comedy masterpiece as well. Watching all these reviews of it, I learn way more about Star Wars lore than I have ever known due to real fans correcting so much that they have made up.
ALL ideologies of this class of people revolve around deception, and being parasitic of something that someone else created. Every aspect of their ethics, morality, and souls trends to evil. Shockingly they were honest enough in interviews to have someone say that Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant, Leslie Headland was a "Sith".
NOTE: Post will be auto-deleted like all of mine are because "not woke". Only you might see it in your notifications.
I love how they have to be explicitly stopped from chasing Mey to strategize, only for strategizer in charge to decide they need to keep chasing Mey. It reminds me of that movie that RLM reviewed, when Leo Fong had stopped chasing a criminal scum to go to a bar to ask where that criminal scum was, only to be told that he was where he was.
I mean they can teleport so it’s not like they’re losing ground by doing that
"showdown" if i recall
If there was a gruff old man detective Jedi who constantly failed to properly park his speeder and just lived a lifestyle of trashy sloth, but still kicked ass and took names at the end of the day- Call him Master Feo Long or something... I would watch his show 800 times before watching a single un-commentated episode of The Acolyte.
@@Phoenix0F8 This is an actual billion dollar idea lol
@@Phoenix0F8 that just sounds awesome
Lol, rags, I'm so happy you pointed out the thing with taking the boxes out of the ship then packing your bags from the boxes thing. I was so confused as to why there were doing that. Edit: you guys keep going on about the black bins. Love it.
I am amused by the apothecary guy having to explain the planet Khofar as "a relaxing forest retreat" like he's announcing the Wheel of Fortune getaway prize. You would just say it's "Outer Rim", and maybe mention "forest-type". But the extra adjectives are so meta, like "It's not like Endor's moon, though, Mae, in case you were wondering. This one is a developed forest world. It's different, we swear."
*Then, he redefines the planet as so spooky, "some bounty hunters won't come here"?? Is this a relaxing forest retreat, or a lawless wilderness, SIR?
Hell yes, Ryan is the man. He has some of that Wolf energy just throwing bombs out there lol
Also, between Phantom Menace and Clone Wars, Ki-Adi-Mundi used the World Between Worlds to travel back to this time. He'll return to Clone Wars after this show is finished. That way "the Sith have been extinct" still fits since he didn't know better. Plot hole fixed! lol
I love the retcon- I mean the world between worlds, it makes everything I write make sense!
I was so pleasantly surprised when Inside Out 2 turned out to be about regular friendship issues and peer pressure. They got a cool older girl with colored hair who's good at the stuff main girl is into, and _didn't_ immediately make it a weird sex thing.
Thx for that. Proper friendship plots are worth their weight in gold these days
5 bucks says they are gay for each other in Inside Out 3
And we thought that Anakin's turn was too quick😭😭 what the fuck is this writing
That quick Anakin turn is a modern myth.
@@mala6238 Nah...it's like 5 minutes after he kills Windu in a moment of panic & fear while he's worries about Padme dying that he kills children. Don't get me wrong the quality of the writing was significantly better than anything Disney has produced but making Anakin kill innocent Jedi children so soon after he turns to the dark side is ridiculous at least "FROM MY POINT OF VIEW..."
@@josephkerrigan733 EP2 too
@@mala6238the prequels were rightly criticised, they are not good films
@@mala6238 Yeah the prequels were indeed bad films. Anakin killing children isn't something that should be done 5 minutes after being pretty much a good guy with anger issues who loves his wife.
I think the sink is an easter egg joke by some jaded CGI artist to symbolize Star Wars continuously sinking to new depths
Spoiler alert! Lord of Edge, Smilo Ren is actually......
The same actress revealed in Solo a Star Wars Borie and Captain Falcon and the Winterman.
Third time's the charm.
Fourth time, she was in Willow. Her first scene was with a fencing mask.
@@Сайтамен oh wow, I didn't know that one. She must have a very very specific clause in her contract.
"Our client required at least one face reveal per project and her character must bring down some sort of system of oppression" lolol.
Unironically that would be hilarious.
Oh no it’s Smilo Ren! Quick Osha, play your Diss Track, so he’ll go away!
Lmfao
“I’m oppressed despite being the lead in a 200 million dollar show”
*twerks*
I loved Ryan's epic rant at the end, but Filoni hasn't been ruining Star Wars for 12 years, he's been ruining it for 16 years. TCW was the beginning of the end of ever having coherent continuity in Star Wars. So many of Filoni's worst writing quirks are present in that show, most notably the complete disregard for established canon.
That's the Sink Between Worlds. It's where Anakin washes off the dark side after he Vaders.
So, the Jedi had a rag of the the Wokie to track him, meaning he didn't have a communicator and they just let the guy do off with no way to contact him if he (a Jedi MASTER) was needed. That seems incredibly irresponsible for the Jedi Order when communicators should be pretty common and cheap, even at this early time period.
What kind of organisation would keep year old dirty laundry of their members 😂
That gopher wasn’t the only one sniffing laundry
I'm even more confident now that Smileo is the carrier mother. That was way too much baiting for Qimir to be Smileo, and I don't see how he could hide the helmet while traveling with Mae. Not to mention Smileo standing face to face with Osha tells me Qimir is taller than Smileo. So I believe the carrier mother came to the wookie and revealed herself, so he essentially let her kill him. What worries me, is knowing how bum fuck stupid the people at Disney are, that they'll reveal Qimir is a Young Darth Plagueis who gets his idea for a force sensitive being through the actions of this show. And a secondary fear, that because the carrier mother is the same race as Darth Maul, they will reveal and hint she is also Darth Mauls mother and he is possibly a force creation as well. And I'm also sure people's fears are correct and they'll make Anakins mom one of these space witches.
How do the masters on the council, especially Yoda, not know that 2 masters have been murdered? The show is trying to paint this as the biggest thing to happen to the Jedi in centuries, yet Yoda is completely unaware. I hate this show so much.
You're right. Even in Disney shows like The Clone Wars, Palpatine is very much keeping tabs on the dark side wielders adjacent to him. And yes, that's _Palpatine_ and he is very powerful indeed, like a spider sat in the middle of it's web. The example I am referring to, demonstrates Palpatine sensing the rise in Asajj Ventress's power from Coruscant, while she was fighting over Bothawui. Keep in mind that this is totally canonical. Palpatine is sat on Coruscant, and can feel Ventress getting a bit stronger.
That is obviously a concern to Palpatine because he doesn't trust Dooku and thinks that if Ventress gets strong enough, Dooku and Ventress _combined_ might bring him down. Pretty basic stuff and entirely logical, according to the Sith. Palpatine immediately ordered Dooku to execute Ventress, having the rest of her fleet open fire on her even as Obi-Wan and Anakin seemed to be in the process of capturing her (Dooku, reluctantly ordering the rest of her fleet over Bothawui, to open fire on the ship Ventress had landed in, before retreating from the lost battle) Dooku didn't really want to execute her, but Palpatine pulled rank on him and used the excuse of her defeat.
The moment Darth Maul and Savage Oppress became slightly too big for their boots on Mandalore, Palpatine cracked his knuckles and went in to personally kick their backsides himself, for becoming a rival to the true Rule of Two (himself and Dooku/Tyranus, at that time) It's quite possible that Dooku had no idea that Palpatine had done this, come to think of it. After all, Dooku could have been sent to Mandalore instead, being stronger than Maul and easily able to slay Savage. But because TCW nerfed Dooku to insane levels, with wildly inconsistent portrayals (sometimes somewhat badass, sometimes quite pathetic), that didn't happen. Palpatine just handled it himself. I guess the Senate wasn't busy that day (in more ways than one) It was really Palpatine breaking lose and enjoying himself, one might say.
If Palpatine can do that, why not Yoda? Well, 'the Shroud of the Dark Side' had fallen, and in Episode II Windu mentions how the Jedi had to tell the Senate that their 'ability to use the Force had been diminished'. It's an often forgotten and maybe throwaway line in Episode II, but it is absolutely part of the canon as one of the main, episodic films in the Skywalker Saga. Now, sure, the Sith are essentially obfuscating and spoiling the clarity of how the Jedi can use the Force to understand things. That is what is implied. But Jedi can still, you know, sense each other - whether on-world or even if they are many planets away. Yoda senses Anakin's pain from Coruscant, while Anakin is on Tatooine. That's some range. And yes that's _Yoda_ aka the Grand Master of the Jedi Order himself. All the same, many Jedi could attune themselves to such long range sensory ability, if you think about it. Why not Windu, or Dooku before he turned to the Sith (and he'd definitely be able to afterwards, as a Sith Lord)
There are such skills as masking your Force signature (in the old lore, Dooku and Obi-Wan Kenobi do that a lot, respectively, during the Clone Wars) Palpatine is clearly the most terrifying at that ability, because he can casually sit in a room with the strongest and 'wisest' of the Jedi Masters in the entire galaxy, and work as a Senator and then the Supreme Chancellor in the Senate around them all the time for decades (13 years as Supreme Chancellor, and many years before that as Senator for Naboo) These are skills that exist for reasons in Star Wars, and in Palpatine's case, obviously his specific reasons for doing that were horrifying, because of what he really is. Disney kind of forgot, though.
The sink in the preview mauler, is symbolism… it’s symbolism of this franchise sinking further and further into the drain, every release, everyday…
So, that 'sink' is the robotic gizmo that Kenobi used in Kenobi's first episode to clock out of his job.
But that's no fun, so a sink it shall remain.
Why would they put a clock-in/clock-out mechanism in the opening reel? Of all the things?
I thought it was the sink from ahsokas ship
@@KingKayro87They just ran out of masks
"That was actually a waste of time, I don't even know if you need to bother puttin' this one out"
HOLY SHIT 💀💀💀🤣🤣🤣
Ryan and Theo is like PB and chocolate.
I need more into my veins.
Mundi showing up earlier than he was alive? "Boy I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder."
Or alternatively
Acolyte Releases "Boy I sure hope everyone got fired for that blunder."
Someone got promoted for that and you know it
Rags forgets, a main staple of the Jedi diet is chicken. That's why they all wear gloves.
Brandon Sanderson has a lecture where he talks about being aware of the promises your story is making (and all the implications of that implicit promise regarding both how you write your story and how the reader views it, and what it means to break that promise). It's very interesting. It's on TH-cam. For free. Maybe someone at Disney should watch it. Hell, they could watch the entire lecture series while they're at it, they might learn to suck a little less.
That sounds like hard work though. Disney producers and directors don't want to do that.
Wow I cant believe the Acolyte de-canonized women in Star Wars
Goddamnit Fringy, that is legitimately the best analogy for how Disney Star Wars has been since the start. You beautiful, hilarious, green bastard. I salute you, sir.
Speaking of glaring things people forget, doesn't Yord _have_ a Padawan of his own-Tasi Lowa, the Zygerrian from E1? If they're assembling a team of Jedi to confront a Jedi killer, why bring Jecki (a rookie Padawan who's had a total of one field mission so far) rather than (or at least not in addition to) his own Padawan, who's presumably older and more seasoned?
The rapid-fire, hard-hitting criticism at the end was great. Fantastic editing.
funny how the wife of the woman who had to cover up rape for years plays the same role for the jedi
Oh wow. I feel so dumb. I literally thought Smiler Ren was actually that dudes name, because SW is just that now. I didnt realize Fringy was memeing the whole time. Well done lads.
So... Ki-adi Mundi is on this, despite not being born yet, but Yoda is not here, despite him being a Jedi Master at this time. It's like Disney can't help but mess with their own timeline.
At least this show doesn't ruin Yoda. If he was in this show, he'd have to be as dumb as the other Acolyte characters.
@@dragonknightleader1 Well, yeah, I'd prefer they just not show the Jedi Temple at all... It doesn't make sense they do anyway since there is a ticking clock here. It's just telling Disney thought: "Oh! Ki-adi Mundi!"
Maybe that stupid chainmail is made of Beskar 😂
My first thought is that sounds really silly, but we're post Filoni Star wars now, everyone probably has Beskar underpants by now.
@@MediumRareOpinionsBeskar condoms "Because children is not the way. *Mando noises* "
No no no, this is a common misconception; This is Ki Adi Mundi the first, the one in the prequels is his grandson, Ki Adi Mundi the third.
This is the easy and logical way to fix the problem
For his species, Ki Adi Mundi is like John Smith; a somewhat common name
Ki Adi Thirdi
@@СайтаменKi-Adi 3D
This can only make sense if nu-LucasFilm resurrect some Legends/Expanded Universe lore, which says the Jedi Order carved out an exception to the "no marriage" rule for male Cereans due to their naturally low male birthrate. Ki-Adi-Mundi in the EU has multiple wives. The new canon wiped off this exception so as much sense this would make to fix the timeline issue, only LucasFilm's stubbornness to avoid paying EU authors royalties stands in the way.
Fun fact that may have been brought up already: Lady talking to Ki-Adi is elevator lady from the first Resident Evil film.
The sink is there because they’ve thrown everything and kitchen sink at you, and they just want to make sure to give the kitchen sink proper credit
Judging by how obi-wan kenobi tore apart the canon and tried to glue it back together in the final episode. I suspect they are going to have ki adi mundi have a line at the end that "they have to cover up that this happened." . . . And I guess that Cereans actually have 3 times the life span.
Man, Disney, really nail these redemption arcs, huh? First Kylo, then Reva, now Mae. Avatar really wasted 3 seasons on Zuko when they could've apparently done it in 5 episodes. Chumps.
love how i can tell wolf edited this by him singleing rags out for the gloves comment. Keep being the silent voice ofreason wolf ❤
Only Mauler and Fringy have editing credits. You can look in the description that's where the credits usually are.
Someone did if consciously 🤷🏻♂️ felt like his touch
I wonder whether some of the Coruscant scenes in this episode were moved to an earlier point in the timeline than was originally planned, possibly because the Wookie fight was cut. It would help explain why Osha and Jecki are inexplicably close all of a sudden, why Sol says there is still good in Mae (despite her being pure evil up to this point), why the timing of events feels so bizarre here, etc. Feels like the Coruscant scenes were supposed to take place after the forest scenes and after Mae tries (and likely fails) to do the face-turn.
It’s over Anakin, I have the dike ground!
I realize that team Rocket make more logical in times. If they get blasted away and show back up in the episode it takes time before we see them again. They don’t instantly teleport back to the place
Even the Force Unleashed game, which is an insane power fantasy, understood that you would have different outfits for the vastly different planets/ecosystems found throughout the galaxy.
All they needed to do was have a Rorschach like jedi character investigating jedi deaths that’s all
Apparently everyone in the universe outside of Luke and Obi Wan can understand Binary.
The Shlurpolite, Episode 4
Bad Shlurpo continues her journey to get revenge on the Jedi by killing Grand Master Porkins of the famous Porkins dynasty. However, he has already died of diabetes by the time she gets there. Now, after finding out Good Shlurpo is alive, for some reason, she decides to stop killing people and become Good Shlurpo 2, rebelling against her master.
Meanwhile, the Jedi discuss how they are going to go after Bad Shlurpo. They consult Blotto, the ancestor of Watto, since he is used to junk and the script is about as knackered as crashed speeder driven into a wall. They realise that Poggle the Lesser was the mastermind behind all of this and has been controlling all the events, although this will all be forgotten by the time of the Prequels for some reason.
Next time, I am hoping for another interpretive dance number.
The power of one, the power of two, the power of Shlurpo!
The first TV episode in history to get a Schlurpillion views.
Amandla released the dance number separately.
So the wookie's cut "fight scene" is further proof to me that the whole Disney Star Wars fiasco is straight money-laundering. The CGI is in-house, the easter-egg- references are always without thought and embarrassing, the continuity is ignored, the writing is always poor, the productions are always rushed and the politics act as a way to shield their failures from critique. Pretending to spend money while purposefully hiring awful teams to produce mediocre irreverent contents. They bait with derisively shallow "themes" while dangling fan-favorites as a way to shut the fandom up. They don't care and they don't care that we no longer care. As long as their scheme keeps failing upwards than they are raking in the green.
They couldn't fit in a fight scene for a budget reason on a $180 MILLION BUDGET???
But oh that 27 minutes of boring exposition was preferable 🙄😮💨
This is the story, they’re just wasting money and not caring how it’s spent.
19:50 The chainmail is yet another thing that absolutely boggles my mind in this show. In the world of STAR WARS where LASER WEAPONS are common, what actual benefit is chainmail going to have??
Would have stopped a throwing knife...
Some say he/she/they/it is edgier than Shadow the Hedgehog and Snyder cut Steppenwolf combined. Some say he/she/they/it likes to monologue nonsensically. Some say he/she/they/it takes long walks on rocky beaches. Some say he/she/they/it lights his/her/their/its lightsaber for absolutely no reason.
All we know is that he/she/they/it is named Smilo Ren.
But shadow is actually cool though.
*he or they
[1:38] "comment in our web zone" bout killed me, I nearly choked while eating because I laughed so hard at that
*Calling it now: OSHA and Mae are not in fact born from the Force but are instead the illicit love children of the cult leader and Master Squid Game.*
It might not be the case, but it’s at least more inventive than whatever they otherwise have planned, yes?
The leader of the lesbo victims cult going at it with a man?
Sounds like a great twist.
Would be funny if they actually weren't twins
Ha, in a show made by smart people, that would be a really cool idea.
I actually think Smilo Ren might be Osha & Mae's father, and Anasaya "created them" via test tube-like ways.
That's highly likely not to happen, but you never know with these hack writers.
@@Good_Boy_3000I actually like this idea. But it’s probably not happening
I actually can't believe this series is basically a hit-piece on the Jedi. That's wild.
Keep in mind that they originally wanted to use Yoda but they weren't allowed
It humors me to think they thought the space gopher would bring tons of kids in. LOL.
This show and Rings of Power are the two most obvious money laundering operations that have ever been televised.
32:17 Again... I can't NOT not notice that the "tracker" doesn't even hold the rag up to it's nose... instead it is inhaling the Wookie's essence?
Also... uhmmm... what part of clothing is that really? Not seen very many Wookies fully-clothed in the lore...
I've said this elsewhere but this episode reminded me of last weekend's episode of Doctor Who (Legend of Ruby Sunday) but if I didn't give a shit about Sutekh and Pyramids of Mars...
Both of Legend of Ruby Sunday and Day stretch out their episode's plot to fill time so that the cliffhanger reaches the end of the runtime and both do so by mostly stretching out scenes instead of focusing on character based conversations (to the point where I saw someone reviewing this Acolyte episode say that they felt like the episode failed a plot version of the Bechdel Test as almost none of the conversations felt like they were about two or more characters talking to each other without needing to mention plot relevant stuff). The main difference aside from placement in the season is that Doctor Who at least had aspects that stick in my mind such as "We'd all like a lot of things that aren't going to happen" and the Doctor is just a more charismatic protagonist... including Gatwa's delivery of the line "Do you dream about being an ambulance?". Along with that, the leadup to the cliffhanger actually had me on the edge of my seat with Sutekh's return (at least the speech/dialogue, the H. Arbinger point should've been more subtle) unlike when the Sith/Masked Dark Sider floated in where I was just imagining a memed version where he aggressively T Poses towards the Jedi.
Although the latter part would likely be flipped for casual fans jumping onto each franchise with the respective series given how Sith would be more recognisable than a random Classic Who villain that appeared once in the 1970s (even if that story was really good and has the most popular incarnation of the Doctor).
"That'll be relevant later"
-Fringy giving the writers WAY too much credit
On a point limited to just Star Wars: Why does every live action show feel the need to have potentially Galaxy altering stakes (even when we know it won't do so due to its placement)? The only one that earned it was Andor because it was about the early days of the Rebel Alliance. All a show in this timeframe and this focus needed to do was base itself around a Jedi Knight or a Master and their Padawan doing what would be considered the more dangerous side of regular Jedi missions of this era. Maybe take the idea Rags had in the show's first episode or do some other 'X genre in Star Wars' idea. Alternatively if you want to keep the barebones idea of the show as it is, remove the Sith and have Mae fill an Aurra Sing role as a former Padawan who went through hell in her training, fell out of the Order with her Master thinking her to be dead (for understandable reasons instead of her being stabbed with a Lightsaber yet pulling a Darth Sion being too angry to die) and becomes a Bounty Hunter that goes after Jedi.
God, had to go back and quickly watch the Battlefront II video with Luke after this review to remind me of what Jedi should be.
So Ki-Adi-Mundi who isn't born yet is in the show, but not Yoda...
“wasn’t tech avail”
So either they couldn’t afford the CGI, OR someone refused to allow Yoda in it.
Either way!! This is the story you get because of THAT bullshit… holy fuck they might as well have a Pepsi Cola decorated side quest at this point…
You’re not seeing what you’re seeing because ANYONE had an actual story to tell, just some loosely cobbled together moments and images.
Wankers.
Ryan's knowledge of the EU is nearly unparalleled.