THE ACOLYTE : Episode 4 - A Boring Walk Through The Soundstage Forest
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2024
- The Acolyte is Half Over, and although questions are raised, none of them make much sense. Here are my thoughts on THE ACOLYTE: EPISODE 4!
#TheAcolyte - Zábava
I don’t watch Acolyte. However, I look forward to Jeremy’s videos each week.
The only healthy way to consume modern Star Wars
Cap
Same. He is a trooper for suffering through this for us.
big vibe
So you have no opinion of your own and you just follow others. nice
“Here we do what Disney and Lucasfilm will not do: give the fans what they want.” Nailed it!!!
We'll make billions!
If it were only and always about giving fans what they want Star Wars wouldve never existed. Neither would any other original property to ever come along.
@@meg-k-waldrenThat makes no sense. You can't be a fan of something that doesn't exist yet.
@@meg-k-waldrenu are an idiot ur one of those people that think the fans have no say at all on the things we spend are money God such brain dead thinking
“none of my theories for the rest of the season make sense… and that is why they may happen”. Well done DSW, your shows are now synonymous with illogical and irrational screenwriting. Remember when SW was a sign of exceptional quality?
Attending a weekly funeral is brutal.
Welcome to being old. It's all doctor's appointments and funerals.
I actually started to watch it, now I'm certain there's an agenda against the show... I don't know why, but I can't help but wonder if it's for the obvious reason, or if this is more culture war bullshit... Because the show is a great Star Wars show... One of the better ones by far... And it's by no means bad... Especially not to the extent youtubers pretend it is...
But hate views make more money and it's popular to hate on star wars and get no backlash... But at some point we have to think for ourselves and not be sheep driven by online rhetoric, and reviewers need to have some sort of integrity, especially when they have admitted there's a great temptation to rip shows apart because of how much more money they make when they do that
@@cruzanassassin I think the first two are decent, but wow. These past episodes are bad. It is good for a star wars show? Eh. It's slightly below mid because the last shows sucked. The writing is horrendous and the pacing is awkward. It really isn't good, but the hate does seem disproportionate
@@iloveeveryone8611 ppl were blasting the first episode... It's not as if when the show dropped we were as far into the season as we are now... And let's be honest... The original trilogy isn't good... This show is exactly like the original trilogy in terms of writing... Ppl pretend the OGs were these marvels of cinema... If they came out today they would absolutely be trashed... And that's what's confusing to Disney because they hear ppl say they want star wars to be like it was 50 years ago, yet when they DO make them that way, they get bashed... But when they do something like Andor that's nothing like Star Wars, it gets praise, yet nobody watched it because the viewership was low... So something isn't adding up
King Organa: "Master Yoda, I'm placing these Jedi in your care. Treat them well. Clean them up...and have Jedi Master Ki-Adi-Mundi's mind wiped."
Ki-Adi-Mundi: "What?"
😂🤣😂 Underrated!
I've clicked on this video faster than Anakin blew up the Death Star.
Holy crap that made me laugh more than it should have
I understood that reference
lol 😂
I understood your reference to the original reference 😅 @@klattson112
When did Anakin do that?
i’ll never forgive disney for what they did to jeremy’s star wars curtain cape
They went to his house and peed on his cape. 😢
Agreed
@@la_sn3ak3r19 basically
What _did_ they do to it…?
His hopes and dreams... turned to ash
I have this feeling that we should all give Jeremy a hug every Tuesday
The way that Sith floated onto the scene was so cool though
Well even a brocken clock tells the right time twice a day .
@@iroscoe Broken clocks can be fixed.
@@MrBrock314not all of them, though.
Yeh, there are good moments here and there, I'll give the show that much.
That last like minute was incredible
"Stabbings only work against steel doors and Qui-Gon Jinn's" the best line in the video
They can melt doors, but cannot kill small Asian girls...
Qui-Gon Gin and tonic when trying to watch acolyte
Are they going to bring back Liam Neeson for a cameo in the Acolyte? I think he is the only character from the prequels who could meet the age requirements. I think?
@@jonbaxter2254well she did stay overnight in a hospital, surely that can fix a gaping hole in your torso. FFS this is ALL so horrifly bad.
@@jonbaxter2254😂😂😂
“An SNL sketch that you’re supposed to take seriously” describes a lot of Disney Star Wars.
“Somehow Palpatine returned”
That’s good. I offer, “Lucasfilm -endorsed fanfic not written by actual fans.”
It describes the prequels too. And Legends.
I don’t think it describe Jar Jar because was worse then Steven seagal on SNL
If only Disney could hire SNL writers to do Star Wars…it would be much better than this crap
"Wookie Jedi F-Yea-Oh..." that was hilarious hahaha
I'm so glad JJ represents fans that are in no way any type of phobic or against DEI, but is so accurate and honest with his criticisms about the problems with this dumpster fire Disney is calling a show...truly a light in these dark times
When people are more interested in the reviews vs the actual show, you got a problem on your hands 😂
Haven’t watched one episode but looking at the spoiler reviews lmao I knew this would be shit
Well I don't know... Disney guys are very crafty!!!!
The trailer made it clear that is was not Star Wars. It was random scifi with beam swords.
There are more people watching this show and not watching this channel than people only living for the reviews
I'm only watching one of them 😄
Jeremy’s gonna need a new liver by the time this series is finished.
The liver is evil, it must be destroyed 😂
I will donate mine if he keeps doing these so we dont have to watch it .
@@rustytanks good good, let the hate flow
Or at least a new bottle of Lagavulin
Excellent choice of scotch though
I cancelled my Disney plus membership years ago. But i do find these reviews mildly entertaining. LOL!
"stabbings only work against steel doors and Qui-Gon Jinn's..." that one got me 🤣
I swear, Jeremy is just the purest and most genuine of Star Wars fans. He just wants a good story with uplifting themes about a conflict between good and evil. Such a simple task that Disney just does not want to accomplish.
True. We don’t need intersectional politics, boring stories, inept writing and cheap looking sets and costumes.
Stop watching they are western s from the 60s to fit yr need. Sheesh
He should watch Andor.
Disney only wants to give us pronouns and lesbian witches.
Why not write a story about the Jedi knight trilogy. Kyle Katarn was right there
180 million for this show. Mindblowing.
Whatever they've been smoking must have been expensive.
And yet it still looks cheap as hell.
@@liamphibia it really does. For context Dune 2021 was 165 million. And these episodes are really short. Definitely seems like a lot of shady business going on.
@@miket4092
Get out.😮
I’m making a feature film with the my 3 best friends for 5 grand and I’ve spent over 900 hours writing shooting editing and post production. More thought process than they ever could
I would rather watch 24 hours of scathing reviews dissecting every single frame than waste 30 minutes watching the episode itself.
Thank you for doing it so I don't have to
Honestly.......agreed.
The most interesting thing about the episode is the wookiee diying off camera after preparing himself a salad. thrilling.
The Power of One Shot.
The Power of Two Shots.
The Power of Three Shots.
Power of many shots
@@vartracktHe pOwEr oF mAaAAnNnNYYYYY shots 🤣
Floor…
Change the third to "maannyyy" then down the rest of the bottle
*smashes bottle on floor* even with the power of mannnnyyy, the acolyte still sucked to watch *passes out*
"When I was a child i fell over with my hands in my pockets.......and that was more enjoyable than watching this" - unknown reviewer comment.
Still not as harsh as Mr. Ebert's worst reviews:
"The minimum entertainment value is that a movie should surpass the equivalent time of watching the static on a channel. This movie fails to meet that standard."
And, 10 years later,
"Ten years ago, I said a movie failed to meet the entertainment value of the equivalent time of static. This movie is worse than that movie."
*_Oh! Cool, a Wookie Jedi, I wonder how it(or is it they,,,) fights with a Lightsab...oh, nevermind._*
*Our expectations were low, but holy fack*
One thing is for sure, Sam Witwer was not in the room when they wrote this.
In my mind’s eye I see her…
Leslie…
LESSSLLIIEEEEEEEEEE
aw bless Sam Witwer, I woudn't want him to be in that room tbh, watching them massacre his favourite franchise
Instead, they hired a writer who had never seen star wars before to "keep the team honest" about fan service . . .
🎶"The room when they write this, The room when they write this, The room when they write this."🎶
Thank you for your sacrifice Jeremy. Just like how Anakin sacrificed his own men when he blew up the death star.
An utter falsehood. We remember who actually blew it up…
James Bond and John McClane.
Bro is getting paid to watch a show and pretend like actually paid attention. . . wow what a sacrifice 😂
Not really his men - Palpatine's. Or if you like, Darth Vader's men, not Anakin's.
Tbh the whole Ki Adi Mundi thing is what really throws me off, like they really have no care in the world for canon
Well, what you're referring to isn't canon - that was made clear 10 years ago when it was renamed Legends.
Thank you for taking one for the team.
This show had to have been made bad on purpose
That's the only explanation
Hate viewing is still viewing.
@@TheIndianaGeoffthat’s why we watch Jeremy’s video instead
Hanlon’s Razor. These execs are not *nearly* as smart as y’all think, they likely genuinely thought this would be good & are genuinely shocked at poor reception
It's Disney's answer to Velma.
Continue to remind the world that each episode of this theater production quality series cost more than Godzilla Minus 1.
It’s strange. I remember being a kid & loving Godzilla so much more than Star Wars but Star Wars was more popular & commonly accepted amongst nerdy kids my age.
We are now living in a universe where Godzilla is more popular & more PRAISED than Star Wars… That ape dying in the Cincinnati Zoo back in 2016 really messed this timeline up. But hey, more Godzilla fans I suppose.
I'm not sure why you used the phrase "theater production quality series" - that's a compliment.
I think you mean "high school musical" instead. And, yes, it's a ridiculously overpriced series for what we're seeing. This is a Disney problem for the last several years. The Marvels has a budget of $275 million. You would never know it by watching it.
I have dodged yet another bullet. Your videos have saved me a lot of time and stress. Keep up the good work!
Wow almost 2 million subscribers! Way to go Jeremy!!!
Had a person at work complain about trolls online review bombing this show, when I asked him what he thought of the show his response was a shrug and the words "it's alright" AND THAT is Disney's audience.
I have two friends of mine that constantly keep telling me to watch it. “Dude it’s amazing, you have to watch it.” Then again, they both think everything is good and I’ve lost a little bit of respect for them both.
@@hampdog5716 I'd rather be them than you.
I almost envy the people who like every trash big budget movie that comes out. Almost
@@hampdog5716losing respect for someone because they’re able to enjoy things that you don’t is so condescending
@@brankin421 I’d rather have my own opinion than just blindly think everything is good. There’s some good Disney Star Wars out there that I still get excited for. It’s about 50/50 for me. The Acolyte is probably the worst I’ve seen from Disney Star Wars. A lot of it makes zero sense, it’s boring, there isn’t much mystery in the whole story and the fights aren’t very convincing either.
The Ki-Adi-Mundi in The Acolyte is the evil twin of the Ki-Adi-Mundi in The Phantom Menace. They're identical twins with the same name. That's why the Ki-Adi-Mundi in The Phantom Menace didn't know about the dark-side incident in The Acolyte. The Acolyte writers are so stunning, brave, and clever!
That's a bold strategy cotton.
his non-binary twin no less
Mae’s sidekick is also the guy who said “the jedi justify their galactic dominance in the name of peace, but that peace is a lie.” Basically a variation on the “the jedi live in a dream” speech. He’s the guy alright. Sighhh.
I haven’t seen a minute of the Acolyte, but watching the reviews has been highly entertaining 😂
We thank you for your sacrifice, soldier
You might be on loopers radar...👀 lmao
Lol yeah im surprised he wasn't mentioned too
I think Jeremy has never even uttered the word woke, but he might eventually get labeled a bigot for not liking the acolyte
You mean Pooper 💩
next looper episode: Why akolite failed and why it is because of racists and misogynistic white man
Looper: "Jeremy Jahns is a bigot for not liking the Acolyte"
Thank you for jumping on the grenade Captain.
Glad to see you are enjoying it. It's all over your face. Can't wait for your summery/analysis next week. Saves me actually watching it lol
He's enjoying watching the ship crash 😂
I love how Jeremy is becoming completely unfiltered with these titles. He really is cracking down on the corporate fan-fiction he’s watching. Bravo, good sir. 🙏🏼
*hate-fiction
You are giving it way to much credit calling it fan fiction. Fans would actually take the time and care to try and make something that at least seems like Star Wars. What this is, is coastal rich social justice “activists” creating story and characters based on their stereotypical and bigoted view that minorities are to stupid and shallow to understand the original IP story and world building and only care about seeing characters that reflect their skin color, sex, or sexual orientation. It’s white savior fiction.
Yea, he just won't mention the obvious LGBTQ problem that's injected into it. He's cracking down safely it seems
I heard they changed the canonical lifespan of an entire species just to get a Ki-Adi-Mundi cameo in this episode.
It wasn't canon until now.
Lol you sh1tt1ng me right ?
Ki-Adi who?
@@shawklan27 Wtf ? Yall need to actually watch the shows bro 🤣
@@robertl.wilson1199 I'd rather scoop my eyes out with rusty spoons.
It has just hit me that I've been watching this guy for 12 years 😮
Thank you so so much for taking one for the team. I'm no longer watching such trash but I love watching your review on it..... Jijijijijil 🤭 🤭 🤭 🤭
Where is Master Yoda???? “For 800 years have I trained Jedi!”
On vacation.
Apparently the Disney shills think Jedi grand masters don’t exist because they genuinely have all forgotten this quote. I’ve had them try to tell me with a straight face that Jedi masters don’t exist yet, and that somehow explains why Yoda hasn’t made an appearance. They’re hopeless
Sitting on the JC not being made aware of things . Is Mace alive at this time ?
"He's no longer cannon," said Disney probably
Didn’t you know Yoda was a lesbian at this point? Had other priorities.
Cool a Jedi wookie!
A few moment later: wtf, they killed the Jedi Wookiee off screen! 😂
To save money for combat choreo. They only had 20 000 000 bucks per episode for which they absolutely needed to show half an hour of forrest.
@@petrmiros9908the fallout show had a budget of a 153 million for 6 episodes, and yet that show is somehow better than this show made by Disney.
They weren't about to let a male get any glory. They 86'd that Patriarchal furry bastard
I think this is how I will watch Disney content from now. Thank you for your sacrifice JJ
This is the first star wars show that has genuinely felt like a chore to watch. Every tuesday I have to actively force myself through the new episode and fight the urge to turn it off out of sheer boredom. Purely because I dont want to be left out of conversations with friends over how bad it is.
Jeremy showed more acting skills in this than the 'actors' in this series 🙂
I don't blame all the actors it's just their writers and directors are incompetent. The one padawan was x23 in the logan movie where she did a fine job acting when she was younger.
@@bradmiles1984 Good point but still : Jeremy has no director and he still aced it ;-) All jokes aside : whatever the true reason might be of the shoddy acting, in the end, it's still shoddy and horrible acting and it's this outcome that we see as the consumers... scratch that... as the viewers.
@@echdareez Oh I agree. I'm just trying to be fair the same way I was for Hayden in the prequels who got so much flak for his acting but the lines people point to from him were just horrible. You could of had an oscar winning actor give those lines and it would still be bad. I feel like much of the acolyte writing is similar. Like with the one actress we've seen her act well before even when she was younger and less experienced.
@@bradmiles1984 Absolutely valid point but I think (and that's just my humble opinion) that there's nothing in here that is of any "importance" to the Star Wars lore if we at this monstrosity again in 20 years from now. Besides the atrocious acting, we have no cool ships, no cool aliens, no cool characters, no cool stories, no cool tidbits and lore and so on... Instead, they've destroyed more that they've built - not just the established lore but also the love of the fans. And that's the real shame of it all...
@@bradmiles1984 we are all with you on this
Lucas: Kathleen, Disney Corp. is evil!
Kennedy: From my point of view, the Fans are evil!
RT Critics: 👏 👏 👏
Fans: "So this is how meritocracy dies, with thunderous applause."
They CLEARLY never heard of the phrase, "Biting the hand that feeds you"
You know that both can be true right, a huge part of the fandom CAN be toxic, AND the show can be bad.
I shouldn't have to say this right?
It’s like people screaming about democracy while doing everything they can to remove the oppositions nominee. Yeah it doesn’t make sense.
@@steel5897 Yeah, now that you mention it, it does feel like a toxic relationship where both sides just outright hate each other and go out of their way to sabotage one another.
Bro the amount of good starwars phrases people have been using to roast this starwars show is poetic justice😂
I get why ppl dislike this show (for creative reasons) but surprisingly I actually enjoy the show.
Excellent Review you are the best Jeremy
"I start to have theories. None of them really make sense, and that's why it might actually happen" 😂
LOL "A SITH LORD! WELL I NEVER!" Oh god that was funny!
Jeremy’s liver may not survive The Acolyte.
Thank you Jeremy for watching this show, so I don’t have to. You’re truly doing the Lord’s work…
Green screen isn't enough, volume isn't enough, soundstage isn't enough.
What do you want, for them to actually discover a galaxy far, far away and film it there?
I remember the character Stan Edgar of from 'The Boys', talking to Homelander when he says: "You are...Bad Product'.
Fits so well.
Ironically, most of the people that are responding negatively to The Acolyte for its "Agenda" are the same people who are now just realizing that The Boys has an actual agenda against them.
No matter how bad this show is week to week, I'm grateful that we have these reviews to look forward to.
That last burn is golden!
Another magnificent video
What’s more important than giving the fans what they want is giving the fans what they didn’t know they wanted.
What Disney does reliably is give the fans what they don’t know they don’t want.
Mmm...I'd say it's closer to giving fan what they KNEW they didn't want in a lot of cases. Many Star Wars fans are very aware they don't want former canon to be broken. Like, a lot of Star Wars fans would've actively said "don't kill off Luke Skywalker - we don't want that." Some would've even said "we definitely don't want him to die single."
Poor Jeremy, taking the bullet for us
Yeah. He really risks his livihood. Talk shit about star wars .ka ching
The video paused on Jeremys face for 5 seconds and i thought he was doing a sarcastic pause. Then i realized it just stopped to load. Perfect comedic timing. Lol
Jeremy, thank you for being someone who his critical of star wars stuff without making it into a culture war BSathon.
R.I.P. to Jeremy's liver... and Star Wars.
Him and the Drinker should have an episode together
If Disney sticks to their guns and continue to make this, yeah, his liver won't be able to take it!
@@jonbaxter2254💯
👋🏿 Liver.
So why do Jedi need trackers. They’re fucking Jedi.
They need to be adding lines such as “don’t worry, the force will guide us” and “trust your instincts”. Lines used by characters such as Qui-Gon Jinn. Not rely on a weird animal thing running around the woods. Everything about this is so bad.
To be fair Obi-Wan need one ep. 2, jedi can't just use force to do anything. Or at least used not to.
Edit: I thought trackers referred to different kind.
Exactly! That budget could've been better spent on other things.
So they can feel like they're American police releasing the dogs
@@klaykid117The same American police you would be screaming for if someone punched you in the mouth.😂
It's wild how good you are at this.
watching you talk about the acolyte is better than watching the show
Ah yes, modern Hollywood delivers yet another movie/show that can only provide entertainment by listening to people tear it apart in different ways.
So true 😂
I like how Mae has been all “My name is Mae Montoya. You killed my family. Prepare to die!” And then suddenly just turns her back on her whole way of life and wants to do the right thing because she bumped into her sister who shot at her.
Movies have shown us that when you bump into someone who's mom has the same name as your mom (as twins do), you instantly become best friends. Thank you Batman vs Superman!
A sister that . . . for all we know . . . she tried to BURN to death. (she probably didn't but yet another reason this decision motivation doesn't make sense).
Mae is just equal representation for ADHD
@@calvinwilson3617 Pretty sure psychosis, not ADHD is what you're thinking of. You'd have to be psychotic to burn your own house down and threaten to kill your twin sister for real. ADHD doesn't do that.
Sure, go ahead and continue. We are very grateful for what you have given up.
These videos are great! Jeremy giving the fans what they want
Episode 3 was enough for me. That “What have you done?”
“What have YOU done?”
“WHAT HAVE YOUUUUU DONE” was my breaking point.
This is like Rings of Power’s “you have not seen what I have seen” all over again.
Same. I was done.
@@HlbkomerI’d rather watch rings of power than this garbage. At least that show had SOME production value/ quality shots
Luke : ''No... I'm YOUR father!''
Vader : ...
You weren’t done after episode 1? Impressive. Most impressive.
After 4 episodes I was so mad at Acolyte, but then I realized its a 14% show on Rotten Tomatoes and it all makes more sense now. It's exactly what I would expect from a show with a 1.3/5 rating.
I love how you say the big bad is a Him when it's definitely going to be one of the mums who didn't die.
It's more entertaining to watch you discuss the acolyte than the program.
Yes, please continue. Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated.
It's fanfic. I know I say that about every Disney Star Wars, but I'm calling it as I see it.
Disney went on AO3 to recruit writers for Star Wars. I'm convinced of it.
I've been saying the same about the piss poor sequel trilogy. To me it's just bad fanfic
Fanfic would imply it's made by passionate people, who want to tell a story in that universe.
A fanfic would get basic lore right and treat established characters with respect, instead of consistently doing the opposite
Calling this fanfic is like shitting in a river and calling it a boat.
@@ellobodehielo Yup that's why bad fanfic is more accurate
Don't insult AO3. There are some works there that are legit incredible stories!
Fifty Shades of Grey.
AO3 made fanfics mainstream. Now the majority of people would rather read(or white) a fanfic than original work.
I am absolutely biased. I also heavily generalize for the sake of gravitas and brevity, but my point is still quite valid.
His reviews for the acolyte are truly the best
Yeah I don't know why it didn't hit me sooner, but in the beginning of the episode it finally clicked when he talke about tracking for the master, and that he's been here before. I"m like if this forest is as danger as it was built up to be, and as it was "shown." Then ain't no way Qimir did this on his own. Then i followed that line of thought. He's been the one handing out the info, is there when Mae needs him, and seems to be handing out advise that she would need to hear.
Kind of like how a Jedi Master might if they were giving their Padawan More leeway on a mission to lead it. yeah at any time he could step in, but if he does, then she won't learn anything. And what is the old saying? "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist. What is the best cover for someone so powerful that they are as feared as "the Master" is? A sniveling lil side kick. After all Palpatine, disquised himself as a politician and only a very select few ever knew who he truly was until it was too late.
Going off to get water? that is when he killed the Jedi. Because he could tell that she had lost her nerve. So a new lesson needs to be taught.
As for Osha turning this over to the Jedi. I give the props literally never seen that happen in a story. Every other time it is the Sister fighting to go with the group. Begging them to just let her talk to Mae. maybe even being told no, its too dangerous and she has to stow away on the Jedi's ship, and they don't find her till the land. Well now its too late to turn back.
But that is far as my props go, because the usual way is the better story. Family doesn't give up on family. Not until the dark one is revealed to be so corrupt that the family member you thought you knew is now figuratively dead.
Then there is the sudden face turn of Mae. Its un earned. There should of been a flash back of her remembering a good time. We should see Mae on the trip in struggling with her mission. Her sister is alive, I was doing this because I thought she was dead... but if I dont' finish this. Then I may be as good as dead. Maybe have Qimir pushing her a little more to complete her mission. Then as she sits down to rest. Remembers that lil matra that they had. Maybe she says it to herself. And Osha senses it, and finishes her part of it. The Osha realizes Mae is here, as Mae realizes the same.
Mae looks off screen. "if he owes the Master so much, Qimir won't let walk away." She sighs and looks down and you see the rope., and swipe to the jedi. Osha tells sol that Mae is here for sure, and she is close. this brings up the urgency.
I don't like Sol just killing the animal/insect. Most Jedi Masters would of tried to scare the thing off, and then if left with no choice they would kill it. Here they just had Sol speak an almost anime line, and then kills it. That literally is not the Jedi way.
Then we finally get a Wookie Jedi on screen, and we never get to see him fight, barely get to see him on screen and you kill him offscreen? WTF, not only is that poor writing, its a wasted opportunity. At least have him walk out draw his saber, you do critter cam thing where something charges at him, he roars a could blocks. Its gone. a new camera angle. again the charge but this time he is wounded. He struggles to stand up. A new camera Angle and it charges in and this time the Kennaca rares, but then there is silence, Camera angle is looking up at the sky within the Forest, the roar echoes through out the forest, and then there is another wipe/transition back to the jedi. That whole scene is Maybe a Minute long. And that is more stratifying than what we got.
You have to ask where is all the money going that this thing cost?! I mean, yeah, the backgrounds look like a sound stage, they really do, and yet if we go back in time to 2001 when Band of Brothers came out there are two episodes in it which take place entirely in a forest during the winter ... and f**k me was I surprised when I found out they shot the entire damn thing in a warehouse!! I could have sworn it was out in the open ... and that was 23 years ago at a fraction of the cost of The Acolyte.
Apparently they cut a fight scene with the wookie jedi and sith because they couldn't afford it....
"A Sith Lord???
Well I never-
I can only hope the rest of the Council is as shocked as I am.
In hearing this news."
👁👁 💧
I am shocked. SHOCKED. Well not that shocked.
"In fact, come to think of it, I don't even know what a sith lord is. Never even heard of one. Did you even say sith? Or Smith? A Smith lord right?"
Jeremy suffers so we don't have to, truly a man of the people.
watching jeremy sit on the fence for ghostbusters 2016 and finally wake up in 2024 is just great
It was so odd and casual as to how quickly Mae abandoned her quest. It was like she changed her mind about which restaurant to go to.
The literal dozens of reviews of Acolyte slamming it are infinitely more entertaining than the actual show.
I like the production 😂❤
Thanks for watching i quit after 8 mins in first episode like 1 min after killing Carrie Anne. Great take as always.
Three options for the “Sith” under the mask:
1. The biological mother witch
2. The surrogate mother witch
3. The biological father Sauron (he’s the exact same character trope in Rings of Power)
7:36 JJ's acting is better than half of the cast of Acolyte
Exactly, that was so good😂
Good review
The bottle will sure need to be reset before the finale.
Mrs KK really going full "if I can't have Star Wars, then nobody can!"
Everyone talks about how lightsabers don't kill people anymore, but what about bottomless pits? No one dies from those.
Palpatine survived, Darth Maul survived, Ben Solo survived, and now Mae survived. I mean, maybe architects in are required to put in suicide nets in bottomless pits or something.
I think the sequels are included in the 'people don't die anymore' opinion.
Palpatine and Ben survived the pit drop in the sequels.
Plus we know very strong force users that are sith can use their hate to survive injuries.
Also Palpatine didn't actually survive, he transferred his spirit into a clone somehow.
Luke survived a pit too!
Boba Fett too!
Maybe we were too harsh about the lack of handrails in Star Wars
Well it’s not the fall, but the sudden stop that kills you. So with a bottomless pit, there’s no stop, so you can’t die! It all makes sense.
Look on the bright side, for the next 5 weeks may be acolyte but the 6th week is Deadpool 3
i'm thankful for these videos, Jeremy. I canceled D+ a long while ago. Your reviews prove I made the right decision. Here's to your liver.
For some reason this show gives me Saturday Morning Scooby Doo plot vibes..."I could have gotten away with this if it wasn't for you meddling Jedi!"
*What could’ve been:*
✅ Sith perspective story similar to Darth Plagueis or Darth Bane novels; Sith warrior and inquisitor stories from SWTOR.
✅ Mature and grounded story similar to Andor but with the mysticism of the Dark Side. In-depth look at Sith philosophy as we follow a master/apprentice two vs an entire galaxy story.
✅ Well-written Sith protagonists part of a two-person organization in a thousand-year conspiracy to upset the Galactic status-quo.
✅ New Star Wars timeline.
Reality:
❌ The Acolyte…. “The power of one, the power of two. The power of many.”
This is actually what I was expecting when the show got announced. We follow a young Sith acolyte working in the shadows, evading Jedi, and setting things in motion for the imminent culmination of their plans. It would have been a very interesting addition to the lore.
For some reason lets try to make this a mystery removing tons of payoffs?
It’s cathartic to hear someone else talk about Star Wars and share my sadness that it is d3ad.
Jeremy, I like your reviews and how you take the time to go through the actual narrative plot holes and bad writing.