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The Acolyte Episode 8 - Season Finale Review
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- We've reached the end of the first season of The Acolyte! Here is my review for the finale episode!
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Darth Plagueis is just standing there... *MENACINGLY!!!*
GET OUTTA THERE OSHA!
Darth Plagueis is a peeping Tom watching Qimir skinny dipping
A “Phantom Menace” one might say
@@ariesstorm9577 I see what ya did there!
@@CascadianRangerthats his maniac shiek! Hes going to attack (sigh I mess classic sponge bob)
Bazil’s scenes are confusing bc we haven’t got to the s3 reveal of Darth Bazil
what a usless scene lmao
Legitimately at one point in the episode the thought of Darth Bazil crossed my mind
Reminds me of Shnoz if anyone is into the Berserk manga series as well
@@swiftsamurai6833yes, Mae already explained that the ship was too large for the asteroid field. Just remove bazil sabotaging the spaceship and sol looking backwards at him and it still makes sense.
Darth Bazil is the master of Darth Jar Jar, the two true sith lords with far greater power than Palpatine could ever wish for
It’s 100% Darth Plagueis. They use the same song from the Opera in ROTS.
He didn’t look Muun.
@@vermontmike9800 what? He def looked muun, he looks almost exactly like he does in the cover of the plagueis novel
@vermontmike9800 Its him, he was confirmed
@@brunohommerding3416 check out the Muun in the prequels and clone wars. Not close.
@@vermontmike9800he looks straight off the Plagueis novel cover lol. He’s even in a cave on the same planet at the start of that book
Basil’s language barrier was extremely frustrating as an audience watcher. Why did it do the things it did? Why did it stop SOL from shooting the escape ship? That’s one character I’m kind of annoyed with.
I'm not a fan of Basil, but in his defense: he works for the Jedi Order, not for Sol. Even he could see that Sol was slipping hard.
I'm a little confused as to his actions too, like what his purpose was or what he was meant to do in episode 6.
Yup. Felt like they kept forcing him in for no good reason because they didn't have anyone talk to him to tell us what the hell he is doing or why.
I liked Bazil too, but wasn't sure what was going on there. I did NOT get the impression that Sol was going to shoot her down _ thought it was going to be some kind of grapple or something, which was why he got so close. It makes more sense if he was going to fire, but I've had to watch episodes twice to get a lot of that - which isn't a great reflection on the storytelling.
@@snuffles504 ok... good point! I can live with that!
I contend that Sol was right. Manipulating life in that manner is a dangerous dark side power, and there no way to interpret the "menacing evaporation" as anything other than a hostile act. The entire operation was thrown into disarray by Torbin's rash rush to liberate the girls and go home, a reaction ultimately caused by the witches hostile takeover of his mind. The rushed confrontation and apparent death of the entire coven made it forever impossible to figure out just what the witches were up to, so they had no good answers for either Osha or the Council. Sol was willing to reveal what little he knew to the Council, but the dogma of the Order would have condemned Osha. In the end, it was the choice between the right thing and the bylaws of the Order that destroyed Sol, led to the deaths of many Jedi, and made an already bad situation for Mae and Osha far worse.
Pretty confusing why the Order would've problems with Osha, Mae, or severely condemn the Jedi for some very silly, pretty contrived, emotional (despite pre disney Jedi training hard to control emotions so as to not succumb to dark side) actions (all done by males, [even supposedly balanced Sol], except for Indara's weird unnecessary coverup plan), the rest of their actions being self defense or desire to protect children from perceived immediate danger of death. Jedi actions didn't really give any serious signals they were forcibly going to take children especially when Jedi are small in number (seems to be a real strange fluke that Indara might've killed many). Is the Order supposed to treat Osha and Mae poorly b/c they're similar to Anakin? They treated Anakin well. If they wanted to coverup something then just try to coverup the girl's origins and say there were some men in the cult. How would've Osha's Jedi training changed if Order knew the full story? Would they think she was created by dark side and be more easily tempted by it? They'd then for sure give more intense anti-dark side training and warning, maybe monitor her more and try to avoid situations that might increase the chance of a turn, since Jedi know dark side causes suffering in the galaxy.
Sol died and took the info of Qimir being a sith with him, Mae had her memory wiped, no one on Coruscant heard the word sith, nobody on Coruscant thought of the sith and if they did they kept it to themselves and Vernestra thinks Qimir is just a regular dark side warrior.
Sorry, what was that about Ki Adi Mundi being retconned?
It's so amusing how many people jumped to those conclusions and didn't believe the word of the showrunner when she said that it wouldn't break existing canon.
Sol was accused of doing a murder a planet away while he was teaching kids on Coruscant. No one thought it was odd he murdered someone while on a different planet? Or the bar keeper left alive who saw Osha murder Trinity.
I don't believe for a second that 10 jedi were murdered and just cause Vernestra says Sol did it that they are all like "okay, good enough for me" and Yoda is now either complicit or oblivious.
B-B-But the Topps Card!
When that trailer dropped and all the man babies cried "that ruins Star Wars unless literally everyone in that scene dies". Welp...
@KaneSoulbreaker they did the same thing with the droids in the prequels. So many people never considered C3PO getting his mind wiped, and they head-canoned Obi-Wan lying about not knowing R2 eventually... but they were near hysterical about it on release.
Sol did the right thing. What would you do if a women suddenly turning into a smoke demon and actively dissolving the child as well. She also looked real scared.
Yes poor Sol got framed since he was dead and couldn't defend himself. I knew this last episode would be abysmal based on her zoom interview on Star Wars Explained. She literslly said, "Star Wars is about the betrayal of the father"
For real. This show is wildly bad, idk how people can stretch their imagination to make the scenes work and actually enjoy it 🤦♂️. No one acknowledging the fact that the mother turned into a demonic creature and just blaming Sol is wild. Especially when these witches invade peoples’ minds
One thing I definitely applaud this show is the fight scenes.
The way they did the flips and jumps, the use of the force, Qimir's brutality, every time it just felt like playing a more action-y version of SWTOR combat
And specially combined with the outfits, Sol wearing his jedi armored gloves is way more Old than High Republic in my mind.
Qimir was the only competent light saber fighter. All the Jedi were terrible and I was a little bit disappointed, and the fighting choreography didn’t look that like the Jedi at their best moment. 🫤
@GerardoBuenrostro I can agree, but honestly?
That makes sense.
These jedi have not seen proper combat against a lightsaber-welder THAT ACTIVELY WANTED THEM DEAD.
It's only ever sparring and practice.
IIRC Yord was even like: "They don't fight to protocol" or whatever the line was.
Of course they suck.
I've seen children with sticks do better.
@@Ronald-gu3ft Jecki WAS a child with a stick.
That's the point.
I really aplaud the dedication that Kalnaca had in cooking almost in every scene!!!
Who noticed vernestre quoting Obi wan when referring to qimir - “a pupil of mine until they turned to evil”
She is so unlikeable and the actor had no nuance even if she is suppose to be just bland and no personality
Yea stealing a line so creative
did you notice they stole like 50 lines from OG & prequels throughout the show, they are scattered everywhere, zero creativity.
@@hongsmoker ever consider they do it as an homage to the original movies that you hold so dear ? And you idiots just use it as an excuse to
Bash them lmao. And hang on to lines like “I hate sand it gets everywhere” now there’s some creative dialogue. Why don’t u guys just admit u don’t actually like Star Wars, move on with ur lives and maybe be a little more pleasant 🤣🤡
@@hongsmokerare u too stupid to understand they do that kinda thing as an homage to the original stuff u all claim to hold so dear? And u haters just use any and everything as an excuse to bash them. But yeah “I hate sand, it gets everywhere” and “hello
There”, yeah there’s some creative dialogue !!!! Just admit u don’t like Star Wars anymore and maybe you can move on and
Enjoy life a bit more 🤡👍🤣
They've laid the groundwork for Plagueis to recognize an unlikely ally; the senate. If there are more seasons, he is bound to see the power the Republic has over the Jedi and realize he needs an apprentice who can influence policy.
I'm so glad Qimir didn't die. He's the most interesting character and killing him off would've been such a waste.
I was half expecting an ending were Osha and Mae would've beaten Qimir with "the power of two" but nope. They committed to the protagonist switch and I am very happy.
I think he’ll be turned back at some point
Show might have been interesting if they spent more of it fleshing him and the sith out instead of what we got. You can like or not like the show, but we can agree exploring Qimir more - with his clothes on - would have been more interesting.
I agree, I was very apprehensive about them going down this route
He should have died, than resurect like sabine, and then die again to fight Yoda as a ghost. Than come back by Esra and killed by darth Mull and Vader.
Vasil is the rodent that would love for grogu to eat!!!! Or maybe kalnaca, that cooked during the whole show
The High Republic posed the question, "What do the Jedi fear?" I think Venestra is acting out of the fear brought out in the High Republic series.
👍
@@lyndsaybrown8471 true that!!
I think the red we saw in Osha’s eyes were a literal reflection of the lightsaber she said she saw. If you look carefully, the red in her eyes are in the shape of a lightsaber blade.
Sure, because this writers will think about it😂😂😂
@@jorgechiubomberos What? They very clearly did put thought and intentionality behind that decision… seeing as how it’s literally in the show.
@@jorgechiubomberos They're better writers than you.
Yes it was this exactly!
And to add to that, it’s the same reflection we see after she bleeds Sol’s crystal
Well… I’ve always found (spoiler) to be interesting and intriguing but damn… for that one little cameo he felt downright scary…
Yeah, Yoda Is creepy
@@RoyChamorro666 I can’t help it… puppets creep me out! 😆
@@RoyChamorro666😂
Who
@chrisromesburg1942 darth plagious
Am i the only one who thinks Qimir gave Sol that look when he talked about creating life because he knew Plageuis was responsible for teaching the witches how to create life? I don't think he's thinking that his master could learn from the witches (who are dead anyway), i think he's worried that Sol knows too much. It would also explain why Korill is worried about what would happen if the jedi figured out how she learned to create life, because a sith taught her. Then it could also be what Palpatine was telling anakin about.
Nice one, didn't think of that
Yeah, I immediately thought of Plagueis creating life when Osha and Mae's origins were discussed. I have no clue if he was involved directly, but it would make sense and also be reason to bring Korill back in Season 2
This is probably the direction the show means to go in. Leaving Koril alive definitely hints in that direction. Hopefully the show gets renewed for another season...
I thought the same thing while watching.
But while thinking about it afterwards, i thought it’s possible Qimir didn’t know about the manipulated creation of the twins, if his master hasn’t told him the full story either. I don’t think Qimir was involved on brendok years ago as he doesn’t look much older than the twins, so he was likely at the Jedi temple as a young padawan when they was born etc.
it would be interesting if Plagueis was there on brendok when the place burnt down etc. now writing this, what if the mother with the horns was plagueis apprentice at the time? 😵
But back on topic, qimir hearing Sol could’ve been qimir realising his master plagueis must have created them and why qimir has been instructed to corrupt/train them
i dig it
The first 25 seconds of this review is making my head spin...you want another season? Episode 8 was satisfying??? I must be taking crazy pills
Totally! I think he means, I don’t know what happened hopefully someone will tell me… in season 2.
Agreed, every episode needed to be about 10 minutes longer to provide context necessary to clarify what's going on and less clunky dialogue.
I thought Sol was trying to use a Tractor Beam.
I had the exact same thought. Or maybe tow cables or something. I think it very unlikely he was trying to blow her out of the sky.
Yeah, wasn't handled well as it wasn't clear what he was about to do.
That scene was confusing. And Bazil suddenly disabling the ship.
One of the biggest issues with the whole show, the audience being very confused on what happened. And most of em aren't things that get answered later on. They just stay confusing
@@chrismobley6339 Hopefully, they'll do a better job in season 2- if there's a season 2!
Me seeing (spoilers) in the cave like “IS THAT THE GRIM REAPER?!”
Looks like Plaigues is now canon
@@edkwon hes always been in canon, palps alludes that plagueis was his master in revenge of the sith
For some people in this story, he may be haha
@@devanwallis3454 yes but now it is canon that he is a muun. It wasn't before because the Plaigues novel was non canon.
I wanted to see more. When I saw him, I was like wtf are u. Wait no come back WHAT ARE YOU. I mean cmon, u show me a menacing figure and don't expand more on it??
I hate how sol died though, he was the best character
Fax
I really liked how grey Sol was character wise, such a flawed man, with the best of intentions but too arrogant for his own good
I liked the original trilogy and prequel Jedi that were very noble (although also complacent and unwilling to adapt to possible new threats) and generally worked hard to exerted control over their emotions so as to not succumb to the dark side. Lucas has said that to him being balanced in the Force means there is little/no dark side.
First of all, prequel Jedi were never Noble. That was literally the whole point of the prequels. And that's one of the things I love about. The show is we're seeing the beginning stages of how they completely lost their way and became corrupt during the prequel era which set up their own downfall. Second of all, we have to remind ourselves that which is something I wish was more explored. More that when we see the Jedi in the original trilogy we see it through Luke's eyes. Luke's eyes is that he grew up with Obi-Wan kenobian saw him as an extended good uncle, which means he completely excused all the bad stuff that Obi-Wan did during the prequels. He also was fed's stories and saw only one side of the picture and thus that's why he could redeem his father. It was more through naivete and it was more his father's choice than his choice. Very apparent in the sequels which is an aspect that I like about them, which is that Luke's job was to bring his dad to the light to bring ballards to the force. His job was not to bring back the Jedi border again because as the definition of insane he goes his doing the same thing multiple times in thinking you'll get different results. He literally tried to bring back the Jedi Order of old, not realizing how entirely flawed they originally were which then caused his own downfall and that's why he's so bitter in the last Jedi finally saying the quiet part, all the fans said about loud about how terrible the old Jedi were, except he learned that lesson way too late. Why? I'm really interested in praying for that Ray sequel interval because it should be really interesting to see how a Jedi should be instead of the way they previously were. I think a huge part of it is actually listening to the force and obeying the will of the force and thus the will of the people. Because once you start doing things for your own perceptions like trying to label things good and evil. Based on how you see it, you inevitably pave your way for your own downfall. I mean think about it. Everyone loves Han Solo but to most of the Galaxy and also in the beginning Han Solo was just a lowly scum criminal who worked for one of the worst awful criminal organizations and not only just the cartel but the direct head of the cartel, it's like literally being the second-hand man to Vladimir Putin. Course we know he's done a lot of extremely good deeds especially later on in his life. But the fact of the matter is that if we judged Hannah at face value, kind of like what we did in A New Hope, we would have just thought he was some scoundrel and that's kind of the whole point of how the Jedi became corrupted. They were more about their order instead of being a Jedi. Kind of like a difference between Christians who just know a couple of Bible verses and then follow what their politicians and preachers say instead of a Christian who actually is trying to be like Christ and is trying to follow his teachings and his messages of love and insight. Again this is why I hope if they do it smartly we're going to see this in the Ray movie but Lucas film has screwed up before so.
Sol was more female than the females..
@@Legion-p6y Huh?
@@jordanwhite352first of all the word noble can mean a class like how there's a royal class. And that wasn't the point of the prequels. The Jedi were very noble they just became pretty arrogant. Noble the way ur using it is having good personal qualities or moral ideas. The Jedi definitely had good moral ideas in the prequels. Wat r u saying?
The Basil scene was infuriating! His actions made no sense whatsoever. And still no explanation! Why sabotage the ship?!!! WHY?!?!
To prevent sol from killing Mae.
Even Basil could see that Sol was desperately slipping.
Is it only Basil actions that don't make sense? Mae wants to be bad, then wants to be arrested, then fights arrest, then is good again, then is bad again...Qimir could've easily used his ignited saber on Osha in 4th episode but instead Force pushes her away. Then in 5th episode he throws a spinning saber at Osha that is cutting trees until dues ex Sol eventually shows up for the first time that episode and blocks it. Then at the end of 5th episode Qimir takes Osha to some world and in the 6th episode he makes innuendo about her enjoying holding his lightsaber!?!?
@@fernandofreitas2615why are you just listing things that happen with question marks after them? I agree that Mae’s motivations felt weak but everything else is easily explained if you just watch the show and think for a second.
@@mrmoto66 yeah because the rat is so stupid that he forgot Mae killed (or helped to kill) all the jedi he was travelling with just few hours before. What a stupid show. WORST Tv series ever.
"That is some straight up Greek tragedy $#!^ right there" - Star Wars Explained - 2024. I whole heartily agree on this take.
we can agree on the last word at least!
My biggest problem with the finale is that Sol never clarified that he killed Aniseya because she scared him and he thought she was attacking Mae. I can see no logical or psychological reason for him to omit that, except maybe feeling so guilty that he has a subconscious death wish. Maybe we could have seen him try but get interrupted by Osha's stop talking and as he tries to continue or say he loves her THEN she chokes him and it's all the more tragic
@@Jander833 who cares the story makes no sense from 1 episode to the next. Theres so many plot holes and contrivance that it's silly anyone even considers this is something that can be explained if we just see more nonsense.
@@stevencatone what are you even doing in the comment section of this channel if that's the attitude you bring? Can you name any of the plot holes or contrivances you talk about and make your case or have you just been told they're there and that's enough for you?
I think he’s deluded himself into thinking that he did nothing wrong, admitting that Aniseya’s magick scared him into attacking her would be an admission of wrongdoing so he repressed that part of the memory.
@@alenor210 if we want to rationalise it, it's possible that he told that to Mae, but since we saw she still was confrontational after hearing the story he may have gotten defensive after that. When it comes to Osha I think he may feel so guilty and be so exhausted that he has a bit of a subconscious death wish so he doesn't even bother making a strong case.
What would be the point of explaining that to Osha? He killed. Her mother. It's not as if Osha didn't know her mother was a witch.
1:25 small but cool note, her eyes aren’t ringed with red here! It’s a reflection of a red blade. The same reflection you see later in the episode after she bleeds the crystal! We were seeing the end of her vision in her eyes here!
I found it disappointing. I have liked all the other shows, but this one I struggled with. Am glad it's finished, which is a weird feeling. I love the High Republic books It was really disappointing how this show was. I may have liked it more if I didn't have that comparison.
I wanted to like this show, I really did- it had so much potential and it had a mostly promising start, but man the writing is just not good. Most of the characters are very one dimensional, they make silly decisions and their motivations are either unclear or change from moment to moment without a good explanation, the story itself was very non-compelling and predictable… I just felt no emotional weight behind anything because the execution was so clunky. I could keep going but those are my main points. It just wasn’t good. Things I liked were Qimir, Jecki, Sol (until the very end), the fights… that’s probably it. If you enjoyed it then great, I’m not gonna hold that against you or anyone else. It just didn’t hit the mark at all for me.
I'm with you. Very much wanted to love it.
What do you people even want anymore? Seriously. You claim that TFA was too samey and you wanted something different and daring. The TLJ came out, and you bitched about it not being what you wanted either. Then you complained about the TV shows being not reverential enough to Legends lore, but here comes Acolyte, filled with nothing but reverence for Legends, deep cut references, etc., and of course, you still don't like that, either. The writing was "bad."
Just admit it: you don't like Star Wars anymore. You like hating Star Wars.
@@Progger11 easy there bud. I absolutely love TLJ. I've very much enjoyed every show they've done. This is the first thing I didn't think was good. And if you dug it, that's great. I wish I did too.
@@Progger11 that’s an awful lot to assume about me based off me having criticisms for one show. I also stated what I liked but of course you ignored that. You complain about people just ‘wanting to hate star wars’ yet as soon as someone has a criticism you tar them with the exact same brush. You’re just as much of a problem as the losers who scream about ‘wokeness’. Like I said, if you like this show, good for you. Great. Enjoy it as much as you want, you’ll get no judgement from me. But people are allowed to critique things. Get over it.
Also I actually like TFA, and TLJ lmao. It’s not a perfect movie but I liked what it was doing a lot more than TROS. So maybe don’t just assume crap when you flip out over someone not liking what you like, yeah?
I enjoyed it, but I admit the writing is bad. The character's motivations are very inconsistent, specially Osha's at the end. I think the format of 8 episodes of 30 minutes a season is really hurting the storytelling whereas the could have more time for dialogue and character development that this show really desperately needed.
Revan is canonically male; you don't need to use gender neutral pronouns
Finally someone who doesnt b*tch for 15 minutes and actually does a really good review
It works if you ignore established canon and decide that Star Wars doesn't need basic logic.
agreeeeeed
@@NoCluYTthe show could have been halfway decent with all of its flaws if the writing, pacing, and acting were much better. Like you said there’s little/no logic in this series
@@NoCluYT Which established canon are we ignoring?
@@NoCluYT Please tell me which established canon is broken by this series!
The coven were definitely not good people imo. The mother had a last minute change of heart. Instead of being a leader she chooses to be a mother. But before that she and the coven had bad intentions with the twins.
How do you know they had bad intentions? There is no data to support that.
@@davepruittyou might not know this but. IMO means “in my opinion”.
I don’t KNOW, but based on context clues I can assume that a dark force user manipulated life and was going to use that life for her own personal/selfish desires. In the end she chose not to be selfish and to be selfless and put the needs of her daughter over the needs of the coven.
@@davepruitt Heavy mind control for multiple minutes of a Wookie and getting him to almost kill his allies suggest use of the dark side. Use of the dark side had caused a lot of suffering in the galaxy, let alone for two young girls in a cult.
@@fernandofreitas2615 they were acting in self defense. Their home was being invaded.
@@davepruitt invaded as "this police officer invaded my home"
One thing people forget is Bazil works for the Jedi Order, not Sol.
Bazil sees Sol going AWOL and trying to cover up his mistakes and responds by alertimg the Jedi to where they are, and tryong to stop him from chasing Mae.
Bazil also so a sith kill a bunch of Jedi and knows Sol didn’t kill his friends on Kasheek. If he was willing to stop Sol from killing Mei then he would also tell the Jedi counsel about the sith and how Sol didn’t do the murders. Also why would the Jedi be okay with lying about Sol going rogue instead of just telling them the truth this whole show doesn’t make any sense
@@austinparr9949 1. Bazil did not see Qimir or hear the word Sith. He was lost in the forest
2. The Jedi Council didn't believe a Jedi Master saying he saw a Sith in Phantom Menace. Do you geniunely believe they would listen to their tracker saying he saw one?
3. Bazil is still TRAPPED ON THE SHIP WITH SOL. Sol is the only one with all the information. Forcing him to give up on his chase and report to the council is his best option.
4. The Jedi are under investigation by the senate, settling the issue as quickly as possible is in their best interest. Its almost like that's a major plot point explained in two episodes. Most people also dont speak Bazil
5. A rogue Jedi killing Jedi is a Jedi problem, a Sith is an everyone problem.
Its almost like if you watch the show, it explains the show.
I wish we had got someone who could interpreted for Bazil at some point so we could have got some idea of what the character was thinking and why they were doing what they were doing. Would of helped clear up their motivation
I know the show is set ~100 years before the Phantom Menace, BUT... the man on the comms talking to Vernestra sounded EXACTLY like Ian McDiarmid.. and aside from the top billed cast and additional voices later in the credits, none of the supporting cast were listed.. which is SUSPECT.
I thought it sounded like him too. I’m surprised it hasn’t been brought up more. Timing doesn’t make sense IF he’s human but who knows?
I never truly bought Osha and Mae’s flip. It never felt fully earned and made their later actions feel clunky. They had to make the catalysts more distinct and powerful rather than just through dialogue.
After seeing the whole season I thought the season was ok. I enjoyed exploring the coven of witches and Qimir but felt lacking how stretched out and disjointed the show was.
This⬆️
Exactly how I feel too ESPECIALLY after the finale which saved it for me. Ep5 is one of the best episodes of Star Wars television ever and the finale was good but many of the other episodes were what I like to call underwhelmingly decent at best but then you had ep7 which was just so not good. The show has many filmmaking mistakes that need major fixing if a season 2 happens.
Disjointed. Perfect description of this show.
Finally, someone who doesn't say this is the "worst Star Wars show ever," like I haven't heard that a million times in so many videos.
@@kzilla8864 Exactly. Like, i get some of the criticism, it is a flawed show. But calling it the worst thing ever made is just nonsense. This was a solid 7/10 for me. Nothing special, but pretty cool stuff. If we get a Season 2, i hope they make the writing a bit tighter. I really hope it will be more like Ep. 5 and 8 and less like Ep. 3 and 7.
okay = too short
They left those cameos just to keep us interested. Other than that. The writing and acting was poor. They didn't do this show justice. Wasted potential again. The only positive thing I liked about the show was the light saber fights.
Bazil was sniffing evil. Or, you know, just didn't want to die crashing through a planetary disc. Also, I reckon Sol was going to fire grappling hooks.
The force does move around a creature/person that's about to kill 🤔
I guess the rule of two isn't important. The acolyte obviously sucks.
The Acolyte was ok in a very few spots. As a whole it's bad. Poorly thought out, written, directed, acted (REALLY BADLY), just all around not good and a waste of time. If people blame the guys behind GoT then Leslie Headland is to blame for this mess. So much potential to tell a really good story, wasted. They tried to make people believe Sol was this great Jedi master and he was probably the most incompetent example of a Jedi ever created. The Jedi have always been fools but this show really made them look worse.
The reveal here felt like the Thanos reveal at the end of Avengers 1. He may not be the bad guy in the next show, but he'll be the over arching baddie for this era. Similar to how they started teasing Thrawn in Mando season 1.
Wait wait wait did i miss something because what was the thrawn tease in season 1
@@chilltrooper9423 my bad, season 2. It was the Ahsoka episode.
So my thoughts on the Acolyte:
I am glad the High Republic era finally got to come life outside of the books. I know a game is being made but we have no real estimate as to when it’ll be released.
I thought characters like Sol, Mae, Osha, Qimir and Jecki were interesting. Especially Qimir and Osha; one being a Jedi murdering menace and the other becoming the real acolyte. I very much approve of the martial arts and lightsaber duels employed as many bemoaned the sequels for lacking the umpf of those saber battles.
That being said, there is a lack of true focus on the sith here. The focus on the jedi and their mistakes siphons too much of the momentum. They had something going with Mae targeting the Jedi responsible for the loss of her home. But we don’t get to see how she met Qimir, her thoughts about him (or rather his mask persona). We don’t even get a vision or flashback as to how Qimir slipped into the darkside.
Overall, the series to me isn’t as terrible as people made it, but it definitely needed more here. Two or three more episodes might’ve fixed some of the issues here.
If this storyline gets continued, I’m not betting on a season 2. More likely a one off comic.
I think you were expecting too much, especially re: flashback on why Qimir fell. This season wasn't about that, it was about Brendok and the fallout for what happened there.
I think it's wise to delay telling the audience how Mae and Qimir found each other until the next season, same as with why and how Qimir turned bad.
There's definitely a set up for both for a season 2. With the Qimir-Mae linkup, juxtapose him finding her in the past with him training Mae's sister in the present. And given the Padawan setup with Vernestra, it makes sense putting what happened with Qimir in the next season too because it seems like she's our new main Jedi in the show and that could be our next main mystery.
Am glad am not the only one who notice that the lightsabers look a bit strange In the day time
Yhh I don’t think it really works in Morden times unfortunately but it’s just such core part of the franchise what can they really do?
Yeah it really stood out to me too
That’s how they look in Galaxy’s Edge so that’s how they gotta look in the show to sell to consumers. Shoutout Disney
Jokes aside, the show was good, not great, but I enjoyed it. Don’t agree with all the hate. The finale was really good I thought. The reveal of the master was incredible, I vocally exclaimed with enjoyment
Agreed!
My thoughts exactly
Nice to see some positivity
8 episodes? 4 episodes should be able to tell the story.
Good show
Best charcter was Sol. Now they just killed any reason to watch.
Hire did you like the finale? I enjoyed the whole show until in the finale where we were shown that the height are evil and the sith are great. How could you like that?
I loved it. The kill scene was so dope. I kept thinking she was gonna stop and theyd talk more...but he just kept choking. But then the crystal changing on top of that. Really just so dope. Way to earn that fall to the dark side. The fact I was rooting for her to do it speaks to the writing. I wish someone on yt would cut that scene to Slipping into Darkness by War
@@jasontaylor4752 yeah, but they wrote it in a way that the sith were portrayed as good, and the jedi, evil. I don't care about "breaking cannon" but that's the lore. It's what star wars has been for the last 50ish years, its one of the reasons it did so well, because of the basic, good, evil. The message might as well have been, good is bad, bad is good. I liked the tv show but I just can't accept this post modernist piece of bullshnitzel.
Anakin skywalker:"from my point of view, the Jedi are evil!"
Obi Wan Kenobi:"then you are lost!"
Star wars is lost.
@@shaharbob3167 I think it's more nuanced than that. I don't think the jedi in the show were evil. In fact, i think that she show really takes an interesting look at moral relativism in the sw universe. Since KOTOR there's been an emphasis on balance between light and dark; and introduced grey jedi. There was the Bendu in the Rebels cartoon who also was all about balance. I think that Sol as an individual got caught up in his own ambition, driving Osha down the path of the darkside. And I thought a story where I s actively rooting for that outcome was new and exciting. Obviously i think that Osha will be redeemed in season 2 and would like to see both Mae and Osha take on an Ashoka-esque grey jedi role.
I thought the show had some interesting things, but the writing was terrible. It was like Rings of Power meets Star Wars
Why didn’t Anakin’s lightsaber bleed red after he became Darth Vader? Workout not have been bled red as he excepted Order 66 ( if not before). Why was it so easy for OSHA / Mae to bleed it??
8 30 minute episodes weren't enough.
I just want to thank you Damons for being two of the very few who were also able to enjoy the show for what it was.
I've seen other guys on here just shitting on pretty much every episode time and time again, where I thought: "Then why keep watching? Is it just for the YT content?"
While the show definitely had its flaws, I did find most of it enjoyable and would be happy with another season (where they would hopefully take some of the valid criticisms and fix them).
My biggest problem, though, was that I simply didn't care for Osha and Mae, even though they were main characters.
For a second season, I would hope to see much more of the training of Osha on the Dark Side. Qimir's scenes after the reveal have been the best part of the show. Plus: that's more of what the series was pitched as to begin with.
The reason I make critiques is that if there isn't a change in the quality of shows and movie then eventually rating and box office will be too low for disney to make anything unless it's similar to very low cost fan-made stuff.
@@fernandofreitas2615 and you think they’ll listen to that? They listen to their metrics and their bank accounts.
So if you don’t like what they put out, you’re probably better off to stop watching and even cancel Disney+.
Not that I think it’s wrong to critique. I have my own issues with the show. It’s certainly not perfect. But some people act like it’s torture to watch the show. Then why watch it?!
I'd be down for more Acolyte. I really want to see Vernestra in action against Qimir.
I warmed up to Vernestra as the season went on.
@@DaNewWaveLee imagine advertising a lightsaber whip just to have it on screen for 2 seconds to kill a bug.
I wasn't 100% sure that Sol was dead at the end as there was a shot later where his lip very slightly moved but couldn't tell if it was a mistake or a tease that he survived. After seeing the body burning though It was like ah fair enough probably a mistake then.
Also, Sol offering her his lightsaber in the beginning and her taking it at the end is a nice detail.
I didn’t even peep that till you said it lol
What if Tenebrous is alive and Qimir is trying to overthrow both because he doesn’t care about the sith grand plan
Yeah, and Plagueis was on the rocky island to eliminate them.
I am curious about this storyline. Plagueis seemed very surprised. Like he might not even know what a sith is. But if they follow previous work and that planet was founded by Tenebrous than he knows what is going on.
It's possible that Qimir is just a Sith wannabe and Tenebrous and Plagueis are the 2 REAL Sith at this time, OR Qimir was Plagueis' first apprentice before Sidious. We don't know for sure yet.
@@lorider700 "OR Qimir was Plagueis' first apprentice before Sidious"
Yeah thats what I implied.
@@DaNewWaveLee
" Like he might not even know what a sith is."
What?
Fairly certain that Plaguis showing up was the thing Leslie said she wanted in that interview. If it is then that shouldnt be just a silly cameo, THAT should have been this show.
I thought there were some really cool moments throughout the show but i'm pretty dissapointed in what we got.
Oh well, i'm looking forward to Andor still!
Bro this sith can erase memories of jedi trained force users. Nah he way to powerful. And why doesnt he use this in the beginning.
I'm surprised that I did not enjoy how the season ended. I was lukewarm to the series until episode five but that's unfortunately where it peaked for me. May give it a rewatch and see how it holds up
I was hoping Mae’s mind wipe reminded more people of Revan’s mind wipe
Casual fan here is that power a neutral ability or dark sided?
wow I didn't even think about that.
@@poenpotzu2865if my memory serves correctly it sounds neutral cause the Jedi are the ones who did the wipe
@@knoxds9732 I’d say it’s up to interpretation, it was used with good intentions, but one day those good intentions will be the downfall of your order, and Revan can choose to return to the Dark side even after said mind wipe (SPOILER) 😳
bro! great catch.
An entire season for 1 cool fight scene in episode 5 and 8. Pretty much the standard post Disney. Bunch of forgettable new content with some enjoyable moments throughout.
The whole Twin force thing idea had potential if by the end of the season they learned how to harness the amplified power but only when in very close proximity to each other. Like the mutant brother and sister in Gifted. When holding hands their powers are like an omega mutant.
For the twins, they can have a cool gimmick. One sister can be blinded and the other lose their hearing. But together they have their full senses through each other and the force. Learning to fight perfectly together and respond to the battlefield off of each other. Lastly, when they are holding hands their control of the force is near Anakin level. For unique special move when they need to pull a ship down with the force or push a gate of a defensive fortress down etc
I can't believe we saw a bleeding. GODDAMN that was awesome
It was just a lightsaber turning from blue to red, it was kinda mild
except that the execution of that scene breaks continuity again but then who cares ...
Funny how the only jedi character that survived is Leslye Headland's spouse. In general i disliked the show due to how confusing the characters are, they never seem to know what they are doing. This, the bad acting and stupid plot solutions killed the show for me.
As someone who expected this series to be only with dark side protagonists, it feels that this season was a prelude to the real season 1. I remember when The acolyte was anounced to be a dense dark side story, maybe the Disney executives did not like it and everything was changed to be more family friendly. I dunno… I wish I was more satisfied with the series, it felt that it was re-shot over and over, the edditing was the low point of the series.
I do hope s2 does fix all that.
I liked the show overall. That said i don't think I'll end up watching it again. Maybe a couple of reactions or lore videos.
At the end of the episode i didn't really feel like I NEEDED to know what happened to a lot of the characters next.
Throughout the shoe some of the beats that seemed like they were supposed to be subtle kinda missed for me. And others were very on the nose and pretty heavy handed.
Hey man, idk if you read the comments but I just wanted to say that I have been watching your channel for years and I don’t think I’ve ever commented this. But thank you for always being a beacon of positivity in a community that’s unfortunately filled with so much negativity. We know that some Star Wars projects are not as good as others but this channel is always a safe space of positive for myself and others to come and talk about our comfort stories. And i appreciate that it’s not just blind positivity, you do have your criticisms, as do I, but you just state them in a constructive way instead of an angry one. I just hope you know you’re really appreciated in this community for that.
For a story, there needs to be consistency. Instead of people going back and forth, Not knowing whether to be good or bad, they can make the good ones, make mistakes, but still be good. And the bad ones, wonder if there's a better way, but still be bad. Over time, they can change with different experiences.
This finale was deeply disappointing and it distilled the most frustrating parts of the series: characters making choices that defy their own motivations and making wild swings between loyalties. Mae was ready to go to the jedi just before the first fight with Qmir, Osha was ready to go to the jedi just before the jedi find them under the tree, Mae was ready to back with Qmir but suddenly wants to have her memory wiped so that Osha can go instead. It was bizarre, unprompted, and stupidly clunky.
Try rewatching it again cos thats some very surface level stuff and breezing over info the series gave u. There's answers for almost everything u just said.
I admire your enthusiasm and positivity but I was thoroughly underwhelmed by this series and specifically the finale. I wouldn't necessarily be against a second season but it would need a serious shake up in the writers room to make me interested. Fights ruled though.
So, if 16 years of memories were wiped from Mae, shouldn’t she be cognitively stunted to back when she was ~10yrs old? 😅 This show is ridiculous and should be wiped from SW canon. The writing is lazy and elementary at best.
The story had a great potential but the delivery was very poor, not all of it is bad but It will remain as the worst live action series so far.
I don’t think it was plausible that Mei would give up her memories so easily, or that Osha would go along with it.
I wonder why Quimir seemed tentative and afraid in that last scene.
Mae wouldn't go with the Stranger. She doesn't want that life for herself anymore. Even if she did tag along and was dropped off somewhere, the Jedi would eventually find her and/or she'd be living a life on the run. This was option C and it was quick and convenient. I buy it.
@@c-hildy Do you think she gave up on wanting justice and for the Jedi Council to know about the Brendok massacre?
@dramaturge231 if she told the Jedi the truth they'd continue hunting her sister down. Remember that Mae nor Osha know of a past connection between Vernestra and the Stranger.
@@c-hildy But they’re still hunting her sister down anyway. She’s missing and a big part of a murder scandal.
@dramaturge231 yeah but with no memory she can't lead them there. Remember it's been a big point that the Jedi can "read their thoughts" (like Kylo does in TFA) so they would've done that with Mae. But now they can't.
I wish I could get my time back. This was a the worst show I’ve ever watched. I can’t believe you’re here telling people it was good. You clearly have an agenda and it’s not honesty
What was the point of Bazil? First he helps the Jedi, then he sabotages Sols ship, then helps the Jedi again......seemed to be the most pointless character.
He far from the only character that should wear a tag with a picture of flip flop footwear.
I am really heartbroken over Sol dying. We technically did not get a close-up of his body burning, so it's possible he's still alive. Though I'm probably just in denial. He definitely didn't appear to be breathing after Osha choked him.
I wonder why Sol said it was ok and didn't fight back from being choked. Did he feel he deserved this for what he did?
Bleeding the kyber crystal was cool but very sad. It was sad to see Osha's fall to the Dark Side.
Vernestra covering up everything and framing Sol was just gross. Did she do this because she wanted to use Mae to find Qimer?
Plagueus looked awesome!
The thing that bothers me is that, during their final fight, the Stranger had the opportunity to defuse Sol's lightsaber many times with his helmet and just didn't.
As we saw, his helmet clearly takes damage when it shorts out a lightsaber. Qimir also may have suspected Sol would use Dark Side tactics like turning your lightsaber on and off to stab somebody, which is 1. something Qimir would do and 2. a move that would completely ignore the cortosis helmet.
@@cyclogenesis3179
why would the helmet taking damage matter? He has it to use against lightsabers, he's going against a Jedi.. but he doesn't want to have to repair it again so he doesn't use it?
And why would suspecting he might turn off and on his lightsaber make Qimir just not use the helmet at all I don't understand
It’s more of a gamble now that Sol knows his style. But i get what you mean, they should’ve showed Qimir trying it once in a different way.
🤦🏽♂ You werent watching the fight. Sol was intentionally avoiding the sneaky tricks. The thing about a trick is it loses its effect once you see it. You could clearly see Sol changed up his approach to handling the fight against Qimir.
Qimir had several advantages in that first fight that he no longer had in the rematch. Some of yall never been in a fight before and its telling.
The way Sol disables Qimir's saber is literally through dodging the cortosis headbutt that would've disabled his... are ppl even watching this series properly?!
Why does Bazzle pull the wires to stop Sol’s ship?
I'd guess to stop him from firing on her. But they didn't shoot/edit it well as we weren't 100% clear that what he was trying to do was to shoot her or how Bazzle would know that or why he would stop him.
@@curtisbme Maybe he thought that it'd stop him from pursuing her further, and damage the ship even more (since he's on the ship as well, he's got a vested interested in making it out alive, obviously); my guess is that maybe he thought that by sabotaging his (Sol's) targeting solution, he'd bring the ship to a halt, and exit the ring-belt in a safe manner.
I knew every main character, especially Jedi, would die in this series but I was not really prepared for each of their deaths, even Indara.
the protagonist's fight against herself is the most ramshackle, cumbersome, ungainly and clumsy I have ever seen, among Jedi and non-Jedi alike
Right?! She spent the entire series separating herself from her sister. She meets her sister's master who encouraged her to join the dark side, and she's ready to strike him...until he is naked outside and starts just..talking to her? Then she immediately kills her former master, after spending less than a day with Qimir? I know he's got nice forearms but my god, girl, get up! Your entire established personality is ruined within the first few sentences exchanged between you and this man?? Who you watched just murder your former friends/jedi colleagues?? Osha, the established calm and collected one, never let's Sol speak? Because he quite literally defended himself, and her mother and be cult was manipulating their minds and did so twice. He feels such a connection to her, such a bond that he does kill her mother in the process of stubbornly trying to train her, but when she TRULY needs his guidance, he just...let's her choke him to death? Mae also just kills the other Jedi in pursuit of Sol, but when she gets to him finally and can now kill him, she just wants him to testify in court? She didn't want the others to do that? The amount of inconsistencies within character motives and abilities is INSANE.
@@rachel5399it’s just poor writing
The story is nonsensical
Isn't anything used to kill someone, by definition, a weapon?
I loved the scene in the moon’s ring. I thought it was visually beautiful.
I think Sol was giving in to his fear when Mei left and thought that he couldn’t let her escape with the truth out of his control. This whole time he’s been trying to control the information about his past and has manipulated, hurt and killed people along the way. Bravo, Basil, for saving the day!
I just thought the scene before he said to Mae that he wanted to bring her and Osha to the high counsel to vindicate his actions 16 years ago. But you know... next moment wants to kill her?
@@brettmcinnis473 Because she escaped and he felt a loss of control is how I saw it. 🤷🏿♂️
So suddenly Sol is going to kill Mae-I don't know?
Bazil risked everyone dying on the ship. His action was foolish and it's only due to luck that the situation turned out well
@@sinistra7450 Yeah, his good intentions could have killed them all, unless he understood the mechanics of space ships that well. 😂
I know people keep saying Plagueis is Palaptine's master, but I don't think that's canon. It's in the book, yes, but that's not part of the canon and the only other mention that I know of it Palpatine telling Anakin about him. It's possible that Plagueis is Qimir's master and Qimir (or Osha) is the one who ends up training Palpatine and he hears the story from them.f
I don't know if they will do this, but they might if they want to keep viewers guessing about what will or won't happen. Remember that we all thought Yord and Jecky had plot armor going into the fight with Qimir.
You questioning Sol's motivations on the ship in the asteroid field sums up my feelings on the episode as a whole. Too many times I was taken out of the episode to question characters' motivations, and it all just felt really jarring and clunky. I didn't really have any problems with the for the first 7 episodes aside from maybe some questions about Mae's behavior, but in this episode I found I couldn't really figure out what ANY of the characters really wanted. None of the emotional bits landed for me. For that reason the finale was probably my least favorite of the 8 episodes. Still lots of stuff to enjoy though. Combat was top notch once again, and I also really enjoyed the Senate scenes.
Overall I enjoyed the series. Great concepts, some spotty execution, but overall a positive addition to the franchise.
This feels like a "this was fine, I guess" finale. It did what it needed to do but I didn't find it too interesting.
Lies are true from a certain point of view.
Loved the duel between Sol and Qimir, and the Plagueis tease was great, but I’m just really struggling with the Osha turn to the dark side / Sol guilt. When he killed mother Aniseya, she was turning into some sort of smoke monster from his perspective and he saw who he thought was child Osha disappearing as well.
Osha brutally murdering him comes across as an unambiguously evil and unjustified act, but it seems like the show expects us to sympathize with her, considering the emotional Osha/Mae goodbye scene. I’m happy for folks who enjoyed it, but it all just left a really bad taste in my mouth.
I knew this last episode would be abysmal based on her zoom interview on Star Wars Explained. She literslly said, "Star Wars is about the betrayal of the father"
Qimir is being pretty possessive of Osha. Not really sure that's reciprocated.
Man… I was feeling okayish about The Acolyte till the last 2 episodes…
Osha’s & Mae’s relationship felt off and super rushed. Osha’s turn was predictable from episode 2.
Just so much of the writing was not the best.
Sol's death was so anticlimactic.
Anticlimactic deaths are what Star Wars does best
How was osha able to bleed a lightsaber after one murder when anakin still had a blue saber when he fought obi wan after he murdered younglings?
Because Lucas wanted Anakin's light saber to still be blue because it becomes Luke's.
I am glad somebody else noticed weird looking lightsabers.
But honestly the show is for me 5-6/10 at best. It has some high hights and some very very low lows. My main problem is that the show simply lacks the run time to properly execute all things it set up, and it’s therefore very rushed. (Like why is HOD able to produce 10 1h long episodes with 200mil while Acolyte only 8 30-40 minute episodes with 180, and don’t blame it on effects, they are not better than in HOD….).
I am glad you enjoyed the show, I am glad for everyone who enjoyed it but for me storytelling wise and filmmaking wise it has lot to be desire to me. Which is shame considering the potential.
To me it's the opposite: the show seemed to have a lot of filler and stretched out scenes. This show could probably be condensed into a 2 hour or so movie.
This show had some great moments but they never knew what to do with May. Her motivations are all over the place. They had zero reason to split up at the end. None.
They just need to get rid of osha and Mae altogether. She’s a crap character
Qimir wanted to kill her originally, the deal was that she could live so long as he wiped her memory and that Osha went to train with him. He didn't want to leave any loose threads with Mae running around him and Osha in her head
@@teatimelexicon7896 sure but y wouldn’t she just tag along with them? Shes no friend of the Jedi. He just tried to get Mae to kill Sol. With no memories she can’t get justice from the Senate. What’s stopping her from just training with her sister?
@@cameronrussell6276 Because here's the one core of poor writing: you come up with the destination you want (namely swapping the twins from ep1 to ep8), then try to scramble a bunch of scenes and dialogues and developments that are frail and do not hold up upon closer inspections so that we somehow get to the destination. Similarly, when they are trying to convey a moral of a story arc, they come up with the moral first and add in whatever crap story to fit into the moral.
My favorite Sol line from the show..
“You have a lightsaber , but you are no Jedi !”
Loved that .
Thanks for approaching this show honestly and without hate in your heart. Really appreciate your in-depth review every time an episode of Star Wars comes out!
Can someone help me understand why Sol could hypothetically want to KILL Mae during the asteroid chase sequence just to then pretend he didn't?
When did he pretend that he didn't?
@@snuffles504 by not bringing it up again? It felt like it was something the writers needed for the chase scene alone
Maybe I interpret to much but I think the show subtly tries to suggest that Sol is also slowly turning to the dark side or at least losing control over his emotions. Deep down he knew all along that is actions were wrong but he lied to himself for 16 years and belived his own lies in the end. However, his negative emotions were never really solved just supressed so I think when Mae forced him to admit the truth, his false reality finally shattered and that in this moment he was consumed by his surpressed negative emotions. I don't believe he really thought about it in this moment, maybe a little bit like when Anikin slaughtered the men that killed his mother.
Killing her doesn't make sense for him, he wanted both of them alive so he could prove to the council that there's vergence on the planet
@@Niesmiesznyy I agree. Logically killing Mae does not make any sense. But since the scene was shot this way, we have no idea what Sol was thinking or going to do. Maybe he, metaforically, was blinded by his anger and blacked out completly, only acting on impulse. Maybe he did not want to kill her but was just trying to damage her ship so she could not flee.
The reveal of "killing a Jedi without a weapon" just being a Force choke was a bit underwhelming. It makes sense, but like... How difficult is it to Force choke a Jedi? Can Qimir do it?
Qimir already killed a Jedi without a weapon earlier via neck snapping. Force choking works, too. I was expecting lightning myself.
I assume a Jedi can resist a force choke through their own connection to the force. My current understanding is that Osha's latent power was so heightened in the moment by her intense anger, hatred, and grief such that Sol couldn't overcome her grip on him.
It’s never really said outright but you see this all the time, if someone wants to use the force directly on another force wielder, they need to either catch them off guard or overpower them. It’s why, in Fallen Order, Vader can toss Cal around like a rag doll but not Cere.
@@snuffles504 I also don't think Sol was fighting back. He did say to her "it's okay" as she was killing him. He accepted his death and let it happen.
Mae used Osha to kill Sol, so Mae was able to kill without a "weapon".
I have to just say here that honestly I hated this series. I LOVE everything Star Wars and in general I have a really low ceiling when it comes to what I'll watch, read and enjoy. But I think as a community it's fair to say out loud when we think something is genuinely bad so that the creators are not just in a bubble. This series was so poorly written, poorly acted and poorly thought out. Ugh. I think it was a disaster.
Well said. Almost a complete and utter disaster. Embarrassing for the franchise
The Acolyte is peak star wars. Besides the first two seasons of Mando nothing by disney comes close.
@@jasontaylor4752 Ah interesting! I really appreciate that you love it. The non Skywalker era stuff definitely gives a lot of room for our imaginations to wander around in. I really would love to see more about how Indara ended up at that table, in that bar, with that interesting cadre of people.
Unfortunately, this is true. Star Wars is capable of being much better.
@@Soulsilver75 After the first season, I'm kinda hoping Mae is all like, 'oh I have no memory and force powers. I must be a Jedi.' And her Jedi captors just go along with that rather than tell her the truth. But in a twist she proves to be a competent Jedi and goes after the dark side threat only to confront Osha who's all like, 'wtf, I'm only dark side in the first place to save you!' And then they kill everybody together.
What is the purpose of Bazil?
Nice t-shirt selection. The Acolyte is the closest we've come to Sith-as-potential-hero from Vision's Ronin in cannon story telling.
He left BASIEL who just showed his not on his side, sabotaged his ship alone on his ship......................What a absolute dumpster fire
I still feel conflicted about this series, but now it's all out I'll binge watch it and see if I feel more positive about it especially as I found certain episodes were better on second viewing.
They probably done 'just enough' to get me invested in another season especially with the cameo of Plagueis and me wanting to know more with this series supposedly meant to be a Sith-centric story.
I have previously compared The Acolyte to Rings of Power - storyline rather predictable, bizarre decision-making from the writers, frustrating, played too safe at times, struggling to connect with majority of the characters, and questioning where have they spent all that money?
Overall my general feeling is this was just 'ok' but massive room for improvement.
I wouldn't be disappointed if they decided not to do another, but if they are committed to doing another, the powers-that-be really need to review whether they have the absolute best people creating this show because right now it feels like wasted potential. Sorry, this comment sounds far more negative than originally intended as I try to be a positive type of person when it comes to Star Wars.
You do great job spinning this terrible story. The best part of the Acolyte were the fighting scenes. Everything else was terrible. So many holes.
Can someone explain why Osha and Mae didn't both go with Qimir? That confused me.
Also prefer rotoscoped lightsabers. It makes them feel fantasy. In camera is "realistic" but lacks proper flash (literally)
Mae already failed as an acolyte and betrayed Qimir, wouldn't make sense to take her in again. Qimir also needs just one apprentice if he wants to continue the rule of two after deposing Plagueis.
@@Dass_Jennir okay fair enough 👍 thanks