The Acolyte - re:View
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- In this video, Mike tells Rich Evans to watch The Acolyte. Not because Mike and Rich love a Star Wars™.... I mean, perhaps somewhere deep down in their cold, dead hearts they still do? But Mike asks Rich to watch The Acolyte because Mike knows Rich is one of the most honest, unbiased people he's ever met. Rich will tell it like it is. He’ll never sugar-coat anything. Now, this video is less about The Acolyte and more about the culture war surrounding it. After Ghostbusters 2016, they felt we were all past this as human beings. A movie or show is good or bad based on the quality and nothing else. Mike saw the figurative streets set on fire after the “Lesbian Witch” episode and his curiosity was piqued. What is this? What’s all the fuss? Then there is the now famous "R2D2 is a lesbian" clip. NOW Mike is REALLY interested because he always considered R2D2 to be straight or maybe bi.
All this madness stems from one thing tearing us all apart: Politics. Specifically identity politics. This show has become the figurative rope in a tug-of-war match between people that don’t want certain things in their Star War and people that do. Mike and Rich really don’t give two shits. They wanted to step back and look at this whole circus (note to editor: find more circus music) and comment on why it is happening now and what we all can do to prepare for the future (invest in canned foods and shotguns). We harbor no ill will towards anyone on the internet whose content we’ve referenced. From those that produce content complaining about The Acolyte and those that defend it. Everyone has a right to their ppinion and free speech on this topic and that includes us. We wanted to look at this whole situation, analyze it, discuss how we got here and possibly offer solutions. This world has become an unbearable nightmare and I want my ashes shot into a black hole. Part of me hopes that a huge solar flare from the sun reaches Earth and knocks out everything that runs on electricity. Then we can all then stop and listen to the sounds of nature. Get off social media for a while. See the beauty of this world we all share together... and then think about how outrageous it is that they called R2D2 a lesbian!!!!!! - Zábava
What I've learned from this video: Wil Wheaton is absolutely insufferable as an interviewer.
Yup.
You didn't need those last 3 words
Shut up Wesley!
wil wheaton is absolutely insufferable.
hes insufferable in general.
Glad they’re back for their annual “we’re never watching Star Wars again” video.
🤣🤣🤣
Quarterly
Gosh, like do they have a life 😂
Since Star Wars ended in 1983, it's technically true.
Lmao
"Go watch Farscape. I'm talkin' to you, Mike!"
-Rick Evans.
I can't even imagine the whiplash from going from staid, flat jedi characters talking to each other to fucking John Crichton going insane and throwing Rygel around the set. It'd be like following a bowl of oatmeal up with a shot of hot sauce.
@@XX-jn8co more like following it up with a shot of absinthe
*Encounter at Farscape
I hope he keeps buggering him until he caves in. Mikes owes Rich something, he dragged him through Picard season 2!
Hell yeh
"And Ryan Johnson, we took him into a room and closed the door. Five minutes later, we opened the door and i said: he's our guy. And you know why?"
"Sexual favours"
This dialog almost started Mike's demoniac laughter.
"When I was a children I liked watching people kill each other" Rich Evan 2024
You caught that, too! Phew, I just thought my diabetes was messing with my hearing.
He fused together like a amoeba
I bet his Childrenhood was good
Rich was multiple children
You are what you eat!
"Apathy is death, worse than death, cause at least death feeds the bugs or whatever" - Mr. Plinkett, 2024
this is a metaphor for current day politics, aka the literal communism we're all living through!
"Apathy is death" - repeated by Jay, Rich, Jack, Josh, Tim, then comedically slow spooky version by Macaulay Culkin
Apathy is death
Shut up don't ask questions just be grateful for new content - rlm
In all honesty it is true, this is something that has been said in the Video Game industry for decades, the point of art is to cause emotion in the audience so something bad is still better than something that elecits apathy cause the bad thing will at least make you angry, which is a prefereble emotion to indifference.
That Wheaton clip was torture.
"Star Trek was always blahblahblah" yeah they never did literally promos for party candidates.
Kinda reminds me of The Simpsons where celebrities, even if they were politically important, stayed in character not to overshadow the show at first. Some time later, after the formula went stale, celebrities were paraded about in increasing importance without any disguise, until you got Bill Gates to gaslight people about "Mr. Burns is a stereotype guys!" in a modern episode.
...did you know that Jeff Bezos also guest starred in Beyond?
@@patbaitman3357 These jews sure do get about, huh? No one ever talks about that "overrepresentation" funnily enough.
I remember the simpsons having bill gates in, back in the day. They mocked him for being dishonest and immoral. Oy vey.
The world needs a hero who can put the "terminal" into "terminally online."
I didn’t watch the Acolyte so that this video wouldn’t be spoiled for me.
Great choice!
I thought I was the only one 😂😂😂
I find watching rants about Star Wars more entertaining than Star Wars.
If they review a movie i don't care to watch, i imagine that they're ranting about a stupid movie they made up.
@@megaultradamn Whoa that would be next level.
It really is very funny that the best the Discovery writers could do to "hold up a mirror" to modern issues was to teleport the characters to the modern day and have them shake their heads so we know they disagreed
It's just all intent with literally no cleverness to it.
They could have just taken us to a planet with alien racism and been like "Yeah, the government is breaking up families of these squid mask wearing Halloween store costume aliens! That's bad, but let's not do anything about it." And then they'd leave without fixing things like every other TNG episode, lol!
The ultimate irony of these cultural vandals... they want to insert their characters in front so they can claim to be the 1st. Well..... now you have the issue where all this diversity is in charge and it's all going to shit. Then when you hit the OG show none of this exists... meaning at some point in time everyone got sick of their problems and solved it by removing all these DEI hires......
@@dracocrusherAllegory? In these times?
And you can't expect people who can't read to be able to write.
Old Star Trek would've dedicated exactly one episode to ICE and they would've been dudes in walrus makeup.
@@yurifairy2969this is a great comment
_The Acolyte_ review.
Took them an hour and a half to say:
“We’re _Star Trek_ fans, we don’t care.”
“If it’s unsuccessful and nobody watches it, it goes away.”
If only that were so
Disney is a powerful blue haired californian based necromancer
Zack Snyder has entered the chat.
This was a comically ignorant statement from Mike, who honestly should know better.
I'm not sold on that. Look at the willow series.
@@DomSithe Willow doesn’t have a fraction of the fanbase that SW has. A fanbase that will continue to watch garbage because it has the SW logo on it.
Still insane that Rich even predicted the title of Last Jedi
Predicted? He gave it to them.
Straight up Ryan Johnson ripped Rich Evan’s off. Just another corporate fat cat getting his sweet creamy milk :(
@@awonotoyeah, seeing that clip makes me think they did probably steal it from him
He dismantled Luke, thanks a lot Rich
He Jedi mind tricked them to name it like that.
Somehow Wil Wheaton has returned
Dany kinda forgot about the Iron Wheat
Much like herpes, he's never really gone.
Is Wil Wheaton incapable of talking in a non-corporate way?
Ironically he was fangirling about an actress in those interviews I never heard of.
@@CosmicWaltz7 No one's ever really gone
I don't appreciate being jump-scared with Picard footage. Be better, Sirs.
The Jedi all have as much charisma and personality as Ben Stein telling us about having dry eyes.
Supreme Chancellor Ben Stein
But they have laser swords!
"A vulnerable desert-dwelling teenager is radicalised by an elderly cleric. They team up with a drug smuggler to blow up the seat of government."
The Death Star was the seat of government, it was a battle station. It's more like taking out a naval fleet.
D-Dune??
@@Blodhelmit was a planet destroying cannon
@@comancostin4623 Aronofsky’s Dune was one of the main inspirations for Star Wars 😊
@@Blodhelmthe second death star was though
Re:view should apologize for the lack of diversity in the cast.
They have a token skinny guy
Exactly! As Martin Luther King jr. said "The only thing that matters is your skin color"
You guys are sooooo hilarious making the same joke over and over and over and over again!
@@malis9045Bot detected
@@malis9045 "Jokes should never be offensive whatsoever." - Richard Pryor
Diversity isn't the problem, the problem is diversity being it's main draw and purpose of it's story when the story is not related.
When they talked about ICE in Star Trek, I was like. Why does ICE exist in Star Trek? Didn't the world unite after WW3?
Diversity isn't a problem because it means nothing. Diversity never helped anything to be better. Ever.
Diversity is the problem when it's just their code word for non-white men. They could have easily made the cast more diverse while also telling a good story, but they made it too blatantly obvious that their priorities lie in hating everything the franchise was until that point and lashing out against anyone who disliked what they turned it into. Star Wars is far from the only one to suffer this fate.
Look at it like this. Most modern people don't understand satire, period. They want to feel politically motivated, despite not having satire. What do you do?
WHITE MAN bad, any other color/gender good. Bonus for being crippled or trans.
It'd be one thing if it weren't so prevalent. It's been consistently this for long enough that you'd have to be a fool not to have pattern recognition kick in. They're just good little boys and girls falling into the cultural zeitgeist propaganda abyss. Don't stare too long, otherwise it's poisonous gaze may give you some very incredibly trite and tiresome ideas for a new Ghostbusters reboot... this time all gay/trans/'colored' (there words, not mine, some of these freak have documents that say such) people. That market is an untapped goldmine.
@@ChrisDeve or, or they realized that opening up the universe to show other viewpoints that weren't those of white males might bring in a larger audience.
This is kinda why its unfortunate that the word "woke" has changed meaning so many times. My original conception of the word woke was when they cynically used diversity as a replacement for otherwise good storytelling. Like "yeah it sucks but at least the protag scores a 9 out of 10 diversity points".
But now woke just means "too many colored's and queers" or something. Makes it hard to be nuanced on something.
The original idea for the Jedi was wandering samurai. Lucas wanted to cast Toshiro Mifune as Obi-Wan, and it makes sense. His name, his weird robe, the obsession with an ancient sword, the fact that Jedi comes from the Japanese term for a samurai flick.
A lot of George's original ideas for things were better. I don't know why he went with the most bland garbage. Honestly, after thinking about it for years, I'm with Rich Evans. The Jedi are boring. Weird sexless weirdos that abduct children? The entire lore George showed us in the prequels is awful. I wish it was all still in my imagination.
@@d_boneswish1296Glad to see someone else say this. Grew up on the original trilogy, I still think the prequel lore a huge misdirection. I even think the concept of how we took a line about the “clone wars” and made a whole thing about it not great.
The word "Jedi" is a truncation of Lucas' original name for them, which was "Jedi-Bendu" a deliberate inversion of "Bene-Gesserit" in one of the many Dune allusions/inspirations.
The term for the samurai film genre is "chanbara".
But yeah, the Jedi as embodied in old man Obi-Wan were clearly meant to evoke displaced, legendary samurai of yore. It's one of the many Kurosawa influences present in that first film.
@MrSkeltal268 oh man, the things that went wrong in the prequels is endless my friend. Virgin birth "chosen one" prophecy? Why? That idea stinks George. Why couldn't Annakin just be some hot shot young pilot who happens upon a Jedi, and they realize he's force sensitive and take him under his wing for more advanced training? He was an orphan and doesn't know his family. I don't know, anything else would have probably been better than what we got.
@@Hydrogue In regard to samurai films, what the OP might be getting at is the term for "period drama" in Japanese is "jidaigeki," which in Japan usually refers to samurai-releated films due to what Japanese period dramas tend to cover.
Idk about the veracity of that word relating to Jedi tho
I will never ever get tired of RLM cutting to random Star Wars theme park actors dancing to pop culture music to emphasize how much of a marketable, product pushing sh*tshow this franchise has been over the years.
DROP IT
But it’s not about the show?
@@WallyWachell no perceivable difference
I mean, when it hasn't been like that?
You can't unsee Darth Vader dancing to gangnam style
It’s 2024 and Redlettermedia is still explaining why the original Ghostbusters was better. I wouldn’t want it any other way.
They get a bottle of Crystal Head vodka delivered to the back entrance every time they plug a movie from the 80s.
Mike needs more
REMEMBER THE REBEL BAASEEEEE??????
@@unclephillymyaREMEMBER WHEN ELNOR USED THE SWORD!?!????1!????
Where was Scientist Man?
REMEMBER WHEN SOMEONE SAID REMEMBER THE REBEL BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE
"Force using lesbian space witches has been a thing since the novel 30 years ago." Rich Evan 2024
Wow you have ears. Good for you. You're not as interesting as you think you are.
"If theres a lighsber in it. It's Star Wars corn." Mike
@@notveryniceatall Oh look, a leftist with his bitchy insult! Everyone clap for the clown!
Jokes aside I feel like Rich was way off base this video. He stuck by the "they hate women" argument. Which if true, how does Rogue one go on to make over a billion in box office revenue while holding user reviews near 90% on Rotten Tomatoes?
@@JJAB91 Exactly, meanwhile Solo completely and utterly flopped despite it having male leads. I don't disagree with RLM much but feel like they were a bit off on a few things here.
If I went up to Mike and Rich during their suffering arc while watching Picard seasons 1 and 2 and told them "there are people starving around the world" in response to their hours long bashing, Mike would've snapped my neck with his bare hands within ten seconds.
Isn't it something how 'aloof' and 'better than all' they can be when it isn't THEIR franchise. Strange that. - Shadow banned
I remember them trying to pretend it was good.
Just like they did with the first star wars sequel.
The Acolyte merely adopted cringe. Will Wheaton was born in it, molded by it.
I love how bad they make Wil Wheaton look through their editing of the Picard Reviews😅
Will Wheaton is Cringe made human
Will Wheaton writing several paragraphs about how Larry David attacking Elmo traumatized him is the funniest thing I've ever seen.
Will Wheaties 🥣
Yeah, it's the editing that makes him look bad. @@drobinson-uo7ic
Mike: "Hello, Rich. I brought you here today because I hate you..."
Like it's a Saw trap.
@@topgun2580 Except everyone keeps going to Jigsaw for help 😂
Mike, after listening to Rich's opinion on the nature of media's interpretation of film and television criticism:
"mhmm... I think lesbian woman is redundant"
You can just tell that Mike loves trying to derail Rich's train of thought and Rich finds it hilarious too
The problem is that they are focused on politics and diversity instead of making a good show. If the best person for the role is an XYZ then put them in. Don't put an ABC in the role to score points with one side or the other.
The problem is conservatives are still gonna freak the fuck out if the best person for the job genuinely happens to be a black lesbian woman.
Who says they arent the best for the role though? The show just blows, shut up about DEI gd.
@@rocketGimbal What's wrong with what I said?
"We don't get post-apocalyptic fiction anymore" he says, weeks after Fallout became THE THING.
That's more of an outlier, not indicative of a massive ongoing trend or cultural fixation.
It's just not as commonplace as it used to be. In days gone by you'd have a constant bubbling output of quick fiction about the post-apocalypse. Then the rate began to slow down and most of the apocalypses became zombie-centric, which people steadily grew tired of.
@@HydrogueAgreed. Besides, the original concept for fallout is based in the 90s, and as a tribute to wasteland, who was created by… A boomer! (Brian Fargo) so Mikes argument still holds. Its current popularity is interesting to watch as the elements that made it popular years and years ago seem to bend and change with who is becoming interested in the property - a lot of younger people seem drawn toward the sillier and fun aspects of fallout today vs the somber slightly sarcastic tone of Fallout 1, let’s say.
And they just recently released a video specifically because Rich really enjoyed Furiosa.
The power of Rich.... The power of Mike... The power of AAAAAAIIIIIIIIDDDDSSSS
Remember, the AIDS will be with you, always.
YAAAS YAAAAAAAS
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@daintywalrus4226 I wish I could say that at an interview and the interviewer would get the reference and hire me on the spot. I wish.
you win. You just...... you win.
"Everyone was yelling about lesbian space witches, and I was like, 'maybe I'll watch this.'"
~Mike Stolklasa, 2024
We're they bimbo lesbians?
Most relatable thing Mike has said in years.
Unironically, people wouldn't complain about a brand new comedy about lesbian space witches. At least not the same people.
I didn’t like Star Wars until the Lesbian race was introduced.
So does this raise or decrease the chances for a Mass Effect show? Cause I still remember certain media outlets losing their minds over the Asari.
There's this weird cultural phenomenon where pushing political narratives drowns out legitimate criticism. It's part of the ongoing process of the internet making stupid stupider.
I feel like at this point the real star wars fans just wants star wars to die.
I don’t want to get my hopes up.
I do.
Correct
It's been dead for a while; the body just hasn't been buried yet.
Star Wars would have been better off if Disney bought it and then just sat on it. Now, it just needs to go away for about a decade.
"There is no diversity in Squid Game" absolutely bodied me, made even better by Rich's reaction.
Watched a Bollywood flick the other day, and not a single African in the entire movie. Unbelievable. Where is the diversity, where is the representation?
unfortunately Mike was wrong because the Rich People in the box seats.
Plus the literal subplot of racism@GoetiaTV
Lots of hollywod representation, I mean no white dude in sight and it is all in korean 😮
Wait until you see most countries' Olympics teams!
God bless Nanu for letting Rich watch literally everything starting from the age of 3.
Rich is something of a chronological oddity...born three years before everything!
Rich is like the force......
@@unclephillymya And Mike is his Palpatine using him to do abilities some consider to be unnatural😏
I think he said Nana not Nanuet
I doth be of kindred spirit. My earliest film memory is Nightmare on Elm Street at the age of 3- thanks to my older siblings. I wouldn't change a dang thing
I think the issue is they're so focused on representation, nobody is focused on story, characters writing etc
That is it in a nutshell. Disney/Kennedy is so focused on DEI/ESG they hire politically aligned writers (and diversity hires) instead of focusing first and foremost on a good story by good writers.
The Jedi being wrong was the entire thrust of Luke’s motivation in Last Jedi
Yeah but instead of actually exploring that or offering an alternative more hippy like way of vibing wirth the force he was just kind of a little bitch about it. That entire movie offers up the idea of letting the past die and doing something different and then just devolves back into the same thing by the end and nothing actually happens. They didn’t have the balls to offer an alternative philosophy.
Correct. And that movie was awful.
In the old Droids cartoon, R2 goes to a whorehouse full of R2 units. That’s a real episode.
lol, holy crap, please tell me you mis-spelled 'warehouse'.
*clank, clank, clank, clank*
i don't even know how people would F an R2 unit but by god i'm willing to try it
@@os10v311 I think Rich Evans knows.
@@GjVj we all know what he was there for
My main takeaway from this is that I am excited to see the re:View of Farscape
Best sci fi series ever imo.
Farscape is awesome!
I'm so excited, fucking love Farscape
Fartscape
More like Farcescape mehehehahahahahaaaaaaaaa 💩 🍻 😵
Two guys just talkin’ about the Star Wars without screaming hyperbole getting a look in? Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh bliss. Don’t ever change, guys.
Hyperbole such as... Pretending it's otherwise impossible or unlikely for two men to be able to discuss star wars without screaming hyperbole at each other?
Reminder that we're where we are now with Star Wars because of Mr. Plinkett. Let that sink in.
I was going to spend the night drinking myself to sleep but at last I can watch two elderly men complain about a show I haven’t watched while drinking myself to sleep instead
Don't worry brother. We're drinking with you.
Same. Cheers, everyone!
My man!
Same
Go get yourself a pizza roll, you’ll feel better
I've never watched an episode of The Acolyte but I will sit here and watch a 90 minute review of it.
This guys could do an hour video reviewing a phone book and I will watch it... multiple times
Thats like when they review their Start Traks! Never seen it but i'll watch the review!
In my house we never watch *anything* they talk about, but we watch everything RLM uploads.
I always watch their Star Wars reviews because it's the only way I can suffer through watching modern Star Wars.
And you don't even get that. I skipped like 40 Minutes through the video and they don't seem to really wanna talk about the show.
Anthony Daniels is straight and has been married to Christine Savage since 1999.
Correct, he is not gay, he's just froufrou.
I remember when I was in 1st grade in the early 90s, my teacher told us that who you voted for was so private that you told no one. "Mommies and daddies" didn't even tell each other who they voted for, that's how private it was. I wish that were true.
"When I was a children, I liked watching people killing each other," - Rich Evans, 2024
A wise man once said, ”Don't Ask Questions, Just Consume Product and Then Get Excited for Next Products.”
"Ask questions, but then just consume product anyway and performatively wonder why they're still making more."
Even wiser man said "Don't nitpick new shows with complaints you forgive the originals for and claim to be "just asking questions".
If new star wars sucked so bad the haters would not need to buy thousands of credits on GPT to post fake 1 score reviews.
Star Wars didn't change, you all did, and that is OK. Watch rebel moon or something for all we care, this anger at stuff you claim you no longer like or care about is kind of pathetic and tiresome those of us who just like Star Wars.
"Everyone who dislikes something I like is a hater" - A childs guide to understanding criticism
@@MatisaroYou don't like Star wars.
@@Matisarothe problem is, no one is watching the new stuff anymore. It’s bad on its own merit, not because people don’t like it.
I don’t understand how they were able to write a show like Andor, where u have a lesbian relationship that doesn’t feel forced, you have great diversity in the cast, a great leading woman and a compelling political drama but are now just shitting the bed with everything else, I hope Andor S2 will be good, I really hope
That’s literally the only thing left from new Star Wars that I care about after they fucked the Mandalorian
Andor had way too much substance and relevance, I'm sure they'll fix that in s2
The woke don't count unassuming, casual, background diversity as "Diversity", because it doesn't draw attention to itself as an explicitly political act, and which could be easily dismissed as accidental. In their liturgy, they call it "centering the marginalised".
I wonder if that’s intentional. They make season 1 *really really good* so you’re hooked, and then the next season is still good but not as much but you keep watching because you know how good it COULD be, meanwhile the studio has cut the show’s budget each season to save a little money 18:23 and it gets worse and worse but you keep watching and hoping it’ll get good again… nah. I’m probably just cynical.
It won’t be. I’m sure Andor was only good because the higher ups gave the showrunners free reign. “Cassian Andor? Who gives a shit about him? Do whatever the fuck you want!” Now that they know people will be watching Andor S2, you know the higher ups will have their grubby little fingers all over it.
Mike Stoklosa: "I didn't see anything overtly political." Immediately proceeds to pull out notes and read off overtly political bullet points. Don't know if that's supposed to be a joke or not. I'll bet that's where the downvotes are coming from.
They were talking about the discourse for the first hour, not the show really (they joke about it at 56ish mins). The discourse is political, and disproportionately so to the actual product of the show.
“See the show people are calling the Star trek discovery of Star Wars”
Whispering and crying?
@@StarTrekDoor That's the description of new Dr Who, isn't it?
@@MyMagnificentOctopus Might be both hehe 😄
It’s funny you and the replies commented before watching the video because it’s literally about how annoying you lot are lol
@@NeroSparda99don't worry, they're laughing at you too
8:30 There is indeed a reason why George Lucas set Star Wars "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away...." and not in the Middle East in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
Great point, it is a major help for escapism. I think that is why I find the lore from the EU so interesting, much more Alien involvement. Yoda and Chewie are still the only Aliens we really know.
Reminds me of some of my favorite youtubers very valid complaint that Dr Who - a story where you can go *anywhere* in time and space - have gone from aliens and alien planets and hundreds of years in the past and future, to recently having an episode where Jodie Whitaker told Rosa Parks to go to the back of the bus. Like how did we get here?
"The politics are coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere."
Listening to Wil Wheaton talk is the most nauseating experience imaginable. SWAT teams should use loudspeaker recordings of him to deal with barricaded suspects.
Man, there's people starving around the world.
Rich: *hearty cackling*
Guess Mike would like to talk about Disney's demons.....
You know they support and secretly fund child genital mutilation in Florida? How about sexual assault on women... they hired Lesley Headland, Harvey Weinstein personal assistant. Are you anti-Islam? Disney used staff of a concentration camp in their movie Mulan...... you know... set the topic of the Acolyte criticism off on the right foot.
Mike's attempted moral argument falls apart when you show him a video of an elderly person dying and he just starts laughing uncontrollably.
Mike Has the power of one, Jay has the power of two, and Rich is the power of Mannnnnnyyyy!!!
Wrong. Rich has the power of AAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDS.
Gayest star wars yet. No doubt
People like you only know the series through memes 😂
It's really sad tbh
@@2dextreem as a virus, AIDS reproduces itself throughout the body, so it can be considered 'many'
Rich is all the Jedi or whatever
Omg I just dropped my phone to laugh at that jedibetus pic and broke my screen protector
Cutting Rich's rant off with the Star Wars musical number is peak comedy
Wil Wheaton is a way more annoying character than Wesley ever was.
He is incredibly pretentious and way more annoying than Wesley.
Damn. It's true. But I guess the guy has to grift somehow.
The brown nosing done in that interview was next level shit fam.
And yet Beverely doubled down and magically popped out another one.
If they made another season... they could have gotten rid of 2 arcs no one ever wanted by breaking Riker's clone from whatever Cardasian prison they left him in. Then he could either have saved and adopted Picard's latest "I have a son???" Or killed him... either way.
@@hakaigonzalez7253 I guess he has to make it seem like he's doing such important work. I stopped watching the ready room interviews long before I stopped watching Discovery.
Bullies in the '80s: "Star Wars nerds are gay!"
The people making Star Wars in the 2020s: "Star Wars nerds are gay!"
and they were both right. lets go gay people!
Both statements are derogatory 💩
Then he adds "Nerds aren't all gay, there are also nerds who are awful people." That's current year hollywood.
@@russianoverkill3715 Yes, let them. It's better for us if they don't.
@@russianoverkill3715gay people can have babies
I know it's not the point of the youtube thumbnail montage but, "Jediabetes", is a solid joke
Hopefully, irony plays a part in this comment
What was the point of that montage? The video's stance on that discourse seems just a little under researched IMO.
@@ioncewasmikey my favorite part was when they showed that star wars guy and then homeless and starving people right after
@MrRayRockstar Yeah, they could have done the exact same thing with footage of themselves reviewing Nu Trek. The irony is the clip they used of SWT was edited that way by himself. Pretty sure the music & effects are straight from his video. They just added the footage you mentioned. Theory gets hate from all sides- he was mocked for being emotional about Star Wars in a positive way & now he's being mocked for being negative about it. I'm sure the big corporation you're defending had nothing to do with him hemorrhaging subscribers just as he was about to overtake the official Star Wars channel's sub count though.
I'm not a Star Wars fan but they mentioned Knight of the Old Republic and I only have passing knowledge of that game but what blows my mind about it is at a glance it looks like standard Star Wars but it's supposed to be so far into the past and like... How has the technology in universe just been so stagnant that everything looks the same?
The biggest crime of these Star Wars show is how little happens. Its supposed to be a space adventure, but they spend so much time walking around expositing. It feels more like a run through than a finished script.
You only get lesbian rage rituals in the forest now. Pray they don’t start singing at you.
Umm did we not watch the Prequels?
@@vlogily8043atleast there was stuff going on, people dying and stuff.
@@russianoverkill3715 rewatch The Phantom Menace - it's Exposition: The Motion Picture
Most big budgeted streaming shows are like this now. The format is, a good action packed first episode setting things up, 4-5 episodes of exposition and slow plot progression, and a decent final episode that set up things for the next season.
At first I was laughing when Mike once said "Prepare to have constant Star Wars for the next 30-40 years of your life". But now I am crying...
Its like herpes or shingles. It might go dormant for a time, maybe you can even take a treatment to keep it suppressed for a while, but it'll inevitably flare up from time to time for the rest of your life.
I think some nerd pissed off some coffee girl in like Ohio and she struck Star Wars down.
@@Subject_Keter Ohio exists?!
They're compromised
The last last last last last last last last jedi
"Star Wars is officially dead!"
Oh. *checks watch
Is it 1999 already?
It's a little disingenuous to say Star Wars Theory has his priorities wrong compared to starving kids in Africa without mentioning that the lead actress for the show put out a highly produced music video lamenting how she's oppressed while she's worth $3 million.
Its disingenuous to announce you watch SWT and expect that we're going to respect your opinion
Damn dude almost started to care
No matter how many times I read this it just translates to, "rich white people enjoy the lap of luxury in ivory towers, complaining about how bad they are treated, while peasants serfs and peons squabble in poverty"
@@Croakinyou're watching hour long RLM videos while kids in Africa are starving. Get a grip
@@Croakin He didn't state an opinion. He attempted a persuasive argument.
They are not letting Mr. Plinket review Star Wars anymore, but they still have him write the descriptions.
I miss Plinkett reviews…
Crazy how the Plinkett reviews are 10 hours of nitpicking the prequels and here they are today telling you you're a loser for nitpicking Acolyte.
@@moneenerd I think they're telling you you're a loser for still caring about this after the Disney trilogy
The wil Wheaton Stacey abrams section is so gruelling
The should let him do an oscar awards show and one of the "gags" is every single audoence member goes on stage to slap him in the face.
It felt like it went on for about 3 hours.
He's insufferable
It's beyond putrid. How do people watch that crap?
That was painful, and left me wondering who the hell is Stacey Abrams?
"It's just a beep boop bop bop robot!" Made me spit take fr LMAO
The Courtship of Princess Leia is pretty wacky. At the beginning Leia is considering a political marriage to a leader of an entirely new galactic faction made up for the book, the Hapes Consortium. Han Solo basically kidnaps her and they end up on Dathomir. Luke is there too looking for a holocron or something. They all get tangled up in a plot/conflict involving the matriarchal rancor-riding Force-wielding witches and an Imperial Remnant warlord.
So utterly random that this was the ONE book Rich read. Out of so very many, how'd he select this one?
I miss the mid 90s, when Star Wars was just 3 movies I loved and a bunch of books I never read.
And some great video games.
I actually truly enjoy the prequels.
@@CryptoscammersbewareNo accounting for taste I suppose.
@@Cryptoscammersbeware Prequels were no fun at all. Too much sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Same here. And then all of the people who suddenly were die hard fans since childhood, who used to make fun of me for liking Star Wars, once the prequels started coming out.
Like I knew people who read the books and stuff. I just couldn’t get into them.
It doesnt matter what theyre talking about it always comes back to ghostbusters
That response did tell the corpos that outrage would sell
Ghostbusters and Star Trek.
Ghostbusters (2016) was the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand event that launched us into our current-year hellscape
RLM see themselves as a real world version of the Ghostbusters crew. Justifiably so.
@@Lobstro I can think of something more important that happened in 2016
I honestly would have been happy if Star Wars never came back. If it ended with Return of the Jedi and that was it
Rich is right: Farscape had incredible characters and writing. I miss the days of getting shows like that.
That stacy abrams bit was so embarrassing.
I had to skip through it, too much cringe for me.
@Shockwave1985 Can we get anyone better to shill something lame? Doubtful!
I haven’t cringe so hard since Kristian Harloff went off for not be inviting to Galaxy’s Edge
Exceptionally embarrassing.
I'm not American, I have never heard of this person, but she seems to be Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks all rolled into one messianic hero. Will she bring balance to the force ?
This is cruel and inhumane, nobody should be forced to listen to the opinions of Will Wheaton.
/I'm sorry I thought this was a America. What happened to the 8th Amendment?
"Shut up Wesley!"
Opinions.... lol. The script he's been given.
General Prime Directive Order 1
Leave it to Mike to make a Star Wars review so that he can talk about Star Trek lol
I believe Rich is referring to The Courtship of Princess Leia. One of my favorite books. This is where we part ways, Sir Rich Evans.
“The 45 minute preamble is over”
-Rich Evans (56 minutes in)
In the very first Mad Magazine parody they joked that Threepio was gay.
Written by openly gay Dick De Bartolo.
It's a pretty obvious joke since he's effeminate
@@ShiksaWithChutzpah1got to use his F-card, made r2 say "I'm stuck with a f____-bot!"
What?! "Woke" isn't NEW?!?! Well then, why bother. Pfffft
They joke about tallying the white characters, but that's exactly what the showrunners did.
As a non-American, I had no idea who Stacey Abrahams even was. She seems nice; but the appeal of her appearing as a character for overseas markets is a bit limited. It would have been nice if the show would have told us anything about her. Instead of wearing her as a shiny badge, while doing narratively nothing to present or reflect her issues.
Somehow, Rich Evans has returned
Yeah it’s called money.
@@arbiter8246more like stunning miracles in the field of medicine
He flies now.
@@jeremy____5747 he flies now?
What happened to Rich?
Star Wars and the Wheel of the Worst. Two torture devices for the modern age that they will never, EVER, escape.
This must've been a hard video for Rich, as a deeply closted gay man. I commend his courage and bravery.
"I've been rewatching Farscape," oh THAT'S why Rich Evans is dressed like John Crichton
Which is funny because he still looks like Rigel dressed as John Chricton
I'm still suprised that the Smiling Friends show had enough money to hire these two exclusive super actors
Reminder: RedLetterMedia helped ruined Star Wars..
What is even more magical that red lettermedia uses a voice actor from smiling friends as a camera operator!
you could probably buy Mike for a bottle of red.
Remember when the purple hair lady flew a spaceship through another spaceship? I thought that was pretty cool.
To clarify, the spaceship part was cool. I’m pretty indifferent to the purple hair aspect
Didn’t quite care for the goblin casino, but hey, at the end of the day a lady flew a spaceship through another bigger spaceship. Win some lose some
@@andyjames114 as a resident of las vegas the goblin casino was a little *too* real for me.
"Pull the string." -Martin Landau and Lesbian Space Witches
I can't believe Mike didnt know what OSHA stood for, kinda explains the devastating health consequences that working in that warehouse for poor Rich
Reminder: RedLetterMedia helped ruined Star Wars./
Does anyone else hate how no matter how much the Star Wars universe "expands", there are no stakes and everything stays the same? Who even are Luke and Vader when there's 20 other jedi and sith during New Hope that we're now supposed to care about?
@@redadamearthwell, it certainly helped they all practically died and any who didn’t were so far into hiding they may as well have been. Disney just keeps highlighting them. Plus, it was Disney who made inquisitors.
20 other jedi??? They almost have 20 other SKYWALKERS when you count by actors
Things haven't stayed the same though, people are more likely to survive a lightsaber wound now.
@@edwardrichtofen8530 Disney did not make inquisitors lol Sith Inquisitors were a thing long before Disney got involved. Disney just removed the "sith" part
@@JoeKerr1492 George Lucas had it so the sith had like 20 sith inquisitors?
They criticize other channels for creating clickbait thumbnails for their videos, but look at the thumbnail for their video. It's exactly the same!
You know when celebrities say that they spotted a fan approaching and reflexively cross the street to avoid an incredibly awkward and uncomfortable interaction; Wil Wheaton is always that fan.
All of the clips with Wil Wheaton feel like a nerd crew bit.
That’s funny because he’s only mentioning very basic leftist messaging, which really makes you the big angry nerd
@@sheildingepicnessit has nothing to do with politics. It’s just cringe. Chill out baby
@@sheildingepicness He's trying waaaaay too hard
I audibly said "Shut up Wesley!" during those bits lol
@@sheildingepicness There is nothing leftist about corporate DEI. They've even started dropping the E, in emails at my company they've started just calling it DI, Diversity and Inclusion. Why drop the equity part? Because equity means paying people decent wages, giving women maternity leave and making sure employees can have a healthy work-life balance. It doesn't cost a single damn cent to be diverse and inclusive and everybody knows it. Talking about having 50% women in executive positions means fucking nothing when the regular women don't get proper healthcare, and that's all this corporate wokeness is, a grift, giving the illusion of caring that dumb morons on the internet can latch onto so they think that that company is "one of the good ones".
Mike cannot hold back the Plinkett voice anymore.
No longer a character. Mike is Plinkett now.
His final form
Plinkett is his destiny
He was always Plinkett at his core.
Somehow Plinkett returned.
Changing Ki Adi Mundis birthday would have bothered me before „the last jedi“ but after that movie i just don‘t give a fuck anymore.
Someone should tell mike to stop reading buzzfeed
This reminds me of that Star Trek episode where Data O’Brien and Troi get taken over by evil entities on a moon but Riker doesn’t get taken over because of pain from a broken arm. Just like the pain of the Disney Sequels kept me from even trying to watch the Acolyte.
They had trans and non binary characters in Star Trek. The binary aliens who use computer code to speak. The trill could become man or woman. I mean come on.
@@Tsar-Czaratleast it was in Star Trek from the beginning.
@@Tsar-Czar It's called SciFICTION. In reality, humans come in either male or female and changing the sex is impossible and no amount of gaslighting and brainwashing is gonna change that.
Who's Data O'brien?. Commas matter!.
Who is “Data O’Brien?” 🍀
Those Will Wheaton clips made me physically ill.
My somewhat desperate head canon is that he gets very, very, very well paid for that gig.
@@jerome1lmOf course he does. He's a corporate tool.
@@jerome1lm well paid for his pedigree
That's like the entire aftershow, those clips are just representative of the entire experience.
It’s honestly quite hilarious that they still think any nerds ever liked Wil Wheaton. They keep hiring the guy!
It's funny to me how so much of the post prequels star wars is talking about "ooooh maybe the jedi don't know what they are doing" which isn't some edgy deconstruction of star wars, it's just a response to how crap the writing is in the prequels.
Disney has been violating everything that the original fans hoped for for years, but to present it in retrospect as clickbait and a culture war is quite daring in my eyes.
This is the weirdest followup to Popeye I've ever seen
Surprisingly, Popeye segues nicely into lesbian space witches.
Popcolyte is the next Barbenheimer
I know, right? All the other follow-ups to Popeye were so much better!