Why The Acolyte is complete GARBAGE | Video Essay
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- In this Disney Star Wars Video Essay, we are once again taking a look at The Acolyte. It's no mystery that this show has been the center of attention online recently. As the episodes continue to drop I continue to get more and more dumbfounded with how poor this show is. We get to the bottom of why this show is one of the most poorly written pieces of Star Wars media ever created.
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The Acolyte (2024)
Ahsoka (2023)
The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
The Last Jedi (2017)
The Force Awakens (2015)
Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022)
The Mandalorian (2020)
Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
1:17 - Content
6:23 - Writing
14:33 - Budget
17:28 - Outro - Krátké a kreslené filmy
We've gotten to the point where reviews of a show are more entertaining than the shows themselves. Disney have truly outdone themselves
Soooo true.
When making fun of Disney is better than watching Disney Lol
They’re even blaming the reviews, done by independent guys in their small home office/studio, for their $180m show failing! 😂
I haven't watched the show I've just watched reviews because honestly they've been quite entertaining. Probably more worth my time than the show itself is.
Then they 'blame fans' after putting out crap content as if that works in any universe.
Where did the money go? The only explanation that makes sense is that the show is actually a money laundering scheme.
I think they actually went into space (where no one can hear your screams).
Somebody has a new house in Malibu, new wardrobe, new cars and maybe a new private jet.
Leslie said a lot of the show is based on her High School fanfiction.
I can believe that as the plot and dialogue come off like they are the unedited first draft of someone's high school fan flick.
She never published that so-called fan fiction, she said it was before the Internet (late '90s). I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't exist, and she is going off other people's FF.
Pretty sure she took her binder that had the fanfic in it and they just took it without changing it at all. This show was clearly made by someone with no understanding of Star Wars, characters or anything concerning story. If this is supposed to be peak Jedi’s, why is one force user able to kill a dozen Jedi with little to no effort? Why not just use 2 Jedi and some troopers or something like that?
Even High School fanfiction can be more engaging, immersive and relatable than this absolute abomination piece of thrash. Not only the creator's perspective is out of norm, the entire piece of thrash is completely a mess and confused that it literally make the villains the protagonist.
Wait, wait, she actually *said* that?!
Like, I've heard the jokes about the show's story and writing, saying it's like bad fanfiction, but it is actually her fanfic??
Sweet lord. I… I have some stories I wrote as a teen that could be interesting (although probably very derivative if I'm being honest), but never in "over a millenia" would I base anything off the dialogue or story arcs I wrote then, not without major reworking. And never without at least one or two other writers to keep any goofiness in check. And for as long as this was in production, I cannot believe this is the narrative arc and episodic scripts that got approved.
Oh, that's right, there were a bunch of reshoots. What did this show look like before reworking and reshooting if this is the "final" product?
TBH I read Fanfictions of 13 year olds with more depth :,D
Remember when a TV series like "24" or "Star Trek" would release 24 episodes every year, at 43 minutes long each. That's more view time in one season than a streaming series today will give you for 3 seasons over the course of 5 years. (Madalorian, etc.)
@Govna2104Which is an indictment of today's shows.
Writing is hard, you know. These new age weaklings don't wanna put in the hard work to build up a rich storyline. I miss the good old shows...
@Govna2104Yeah, that's worse! 🙆♂️😂
While i completely agree, and want more series to just put out more content.
The need to put out 24-27 episodes is how we got Beverly Crusher's space harlequin romance episode
@@kow1129 Hey, I liked that episode!
This show had writers? You mean it's NOT Headland's 180 million faux therapy session? Could have fooled me.
She wrote most of the episodes I believe all of them with help from another lesbo I think.
@@slymongoose420either way, the writer(S) being lesbian doesn't have anything to do with the show's criticism, and it shouldn't.
90 million went to the AI that wrote this trash.
@@TheRustyTalksPodcastwell…Headland herself made it about almost every female character being a lesbian….so.
the thousand monkeys working on a thousand typewriters quit during the writers strike and were replaced by a talking mule. (Hedlund)
It’s mainly the writing, acting, and just cheap looking at times
EXACTLY
I have seen $100 per episode low budget South African sitcoms with faaaaaaar better acting.
The writing of this show should be taught in film school in how not to write a show. The writing is insanely bad and I simply wrote comments on how they could fix it. ( I am not a writer but I wrote stories for fun) So disappointing!
Tbh if you look at Obi-wan and mando its the same.. Soo many shots just looks cheap and you can clearly see its on a set..
So pretty much everything you see and hear on screen 😂
When did Hollywood/disney get so lazy? I'm not talking about just what they write but a 27 minute short film for an 8 episode season? this is a joke! I just finished my SCP related film this year with almost no budget, and it runs nearly 40 minutes!
Where can I watch your movie?
When? Ask the people who paid for everything they shat out.
it's really not that they got lazy, they started trying to make more money by pandering to a loud portion of audiences on Twitter/X/BlueSky/FB and for some reason, none of the losses they've been having as a result of it, throwing their money down the drain on SEVERAL Marvel and Star Wars products alike the past few years have seemed to persuade investors that "Huh, maybe this isn't a good call afterall"
Where can I watch your piece of shirt movie?
When AI got used to rewrite a female 'Captain America the First Avenger' and we got captain marvel.
They literally have the sane exact back story, just without brie Larson character being sickly and weak, so that's gonna be my guess.
When the writing, acting & production is this bad, there’s a lot to say about it.
It works out at roughly $900,000 per minute of this absolute garbage!!
The total budget is 180 Million for the first season. It turns out to be 22.5M per episode lol.
@@augustortizWAIT REALLY?!
So a marked financial improvement on the Marvel films? While "shocking", the metric doesn't say much. The last Thor came out to 2.1M/min (double that with distribution)
@@bomberhood7234 yuup, it is insane
This show is boring bad which is worse than hilariously bad. If it was atleast hilariously bad we could have fun tearing it apart, but nope it’s just boring and doesn’t deserve all of this attention. It should be forgotten like Disneys trilogy.
It’s truly shocking how much worse Coruscant looks in the Acolyte compared to the prequel trilogy. It looks like they are cutting corners to save money.
In the prequels, they often show wide shots of the Jedi temple at sunset or at night to make the shot look extra dramatic and impressive. And the background is loaded with details. It looks like the capital world of an entire galaxy. In the Acolyte, they show the Jedi temple at day with that hazy background to obscure the details. There’s not nearly as many buildings and there’s 1% of the air traffic as shown in the prequels.
I also binge watched Kenobi over the weekend and it’s hard to believe Acolyte had twice the budget as that show.
Money laundering? Nobody can't say Lesley hasn't learned anything from Harvey. 😂 I wouldlove to know who else at Disney/Lucasfilm ist filling His or her pockets.
Something's going on. You never know with Iger and Kennedy, two megalomaniacs whose #1 priorities are themselves.
I’m glad you called out that guy for holding his nose while jumping in the pool😂😂 when he was on screen, I literally said out loud “how tf is this guy a Jedi? He looks like he’s allergic to grass”
i think the shorter episodes are the highlight of this series so far. The less of it we have to endure the better.
Making fun of Disney Star Wars is way more fun than watching it now.
The Acolyte is absolute trash! It makes me mad that Disney continues to ruin Star Wars
Star Wars is a dead brand.
Disney didn’t ruin Star Wars. Star Wars ruined Star Wars.. stop blaming Disney
@@01calvin02huh ??
@@primal1233 why get mad? The last Star Wars related thing I watched was Rogue One, which was actually good. The second of the trilogy ended it for me. The writing was so bad an non sensical.
@@01calvin02 you don't know what you're talking about
i feel like the costumes are so overlooked as to why the show lacks any conviction or care , they're going from ice planets to forest planets and dress the exact same for both and their clothes have no wear on them
I never thought about that but that’s actually common in Star Wars oddly enough
@@DaNewWaveLee not really. Look at the OT. The costumes were different from Tatooine to Hoth to Bespin to the forest moon of Endor. Now, if you are talking about the Jedi specifically then yeah, the dress code is strong with them 😂 the only difference we see really is either classic robes or battle armour and that is contingent on if there are any wars going on.
Everything they wear looks BRAND NEW it’s just lazy
I bet they have great cast fashion shows though. You know they do. You KNOW that's how unserious they take it.
Most shows nowadays in the fantasy genre wardrobe have that not live in look to them problem
15:22 Jesus. The cost breakdown really puts it in perspective.
I think you nailed it: Money laundering.
It's very like the shawskank redemption you know that bit where he crawls trough a sewer full of shit exept there's no ending and it goes on for eternity
I don’t know if this is literally word-for-word true, but I remember hearing this about Disney writers:
They know that their audience isn’t really watching. The older people probably just have something on for the hell of it, and the young people are probably on TikTok 50% of the time anyway. Therefore, the story needs to be simultaneously simple enough to be understood when only half watched, and flashy and dramatic enough to draw the ADHD-riddled viewer’s attention for the brief moments that actually do require some investment.
That’s why the dialogue is usually half assed, the costumes kinda suck, and characters are only really half-motivated. Only has to make like 25-50% of sense.
It makes sense, but it doesn't forgive it. They're doing it for corporate reasons, yet what they're doing is diluting their product which is going to hurt return investment in the long-run, not to mention cut subscriptions and return viewership.
Last night I rewatched "The Phantom Menace" and it was so refreshing. Especially compared to anything we see nowadays. The Acolyte comes off so cheap & tacky.. It's not just the terrible writing & terrible acting. The whole thing is a complete self centered power trip.. It's horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Like it's filmed in a single green screen room.. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show.
It's so far from Legitimate Star wars movies that it feels as if this whole thing is a big parody.. A very expensive parody..
These people have proven they are only capable of writing narcissistic stories that self insert themselves and their own beliefs into anything they do. Even if they get to make something from a pre-existing beloved story, they cannot help themselves. They seem to be incapable of creating artistic creations that stray away from their own personal perspective, instead of showing they can lean heavily into escapism and pure storytelling.. They have proven time and time again that they are not capable of doing anything even remotely close to that.. (which is weird because that should be one of the most important attributes that a director or a developer or an actor has in order to be successful at their job....?)
How is there no one that will fire these people who openly hate the fans, hate the consumers who made their success in the first place.. These people who actively act like aggressive victims while also being a million times richer than anyone else. Yes they are the victims.. Poor them.. How can they afford to exist.. Compared to "The Acolyte" If you go back & watch "X-Men the Animated series" It was so well crafted. The story of the struggles of mutants having to deal with humanity was such a universally relatable storyline. Media back then was not afraid to face difficult topics head on. They found really unique ways to abstractly teach people life lessons. They touched on difficult situations & found intelligent ways to convey certain stories. Even when I was all grown up & rewatched it, it really felt like the story is crafted so well & executed at such a high level that anyone is capable of relating to it in someway or another. It's stuff like that, that we are deeply lacking nowadays. So much so that literal kid's cartoons from the 90's told deeper and more mature stories than most media nowadays.
Stuff used to take pride in who can find the most creative ways to convey certain things. Who can give the audience certain feelings without overly explaining it.
It used to not matter what kind of character, creature, species they were. What matters is that they found ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that can connect us on a deeper level.
This stuff we are seeing across the board when it comes to video games or different kinds of media really seems like we are seeing a horrible outcome of a awful trend where people keep getting positions, who in no way deserve those positions. It doesn't seem these people are hired based off of their talent or skill..? We are seeing very expensive shows, games, movies, with such terrible writing. Awful world design, character development, poor aesthetics. So much right now just feels overall creatively bankrupt and I really hope we all snap the f*ck out of it and get back to making better things. Better games better shows better movies
Funnily enough, I rewatched The Force Awakens last night and that was a breath of fresh air too (the only film in the sequels that I felt was actually solidly good). Personally, I like the Acolyte as a show in itself because I'm engaged with the story and characters, but you're the first to articulate exactly what I feel about how the show is filmed and the set design. Sometimes you can painfully tell that something is a set, and I think it's because of how they filmed it. The other films felt like you were in this huge towering world. Though I will say, I do like the show's use lighting. Combine that with the fight choreography and costume design, and it does feel like genuine creativity and passion. And the acting is good.
The sequels had bad writing bad nowhere near as bad as this. They had good potential for characters in those movies too. You can't even see that with any of the characters in here cept maybe Qimir. @@whe832kso10
I rewatch both and I agree!
It sucks that there are people who could make amazing science fiction shows that blow people's minds for probably 1 or 2 million dollars an episode, and certainly for 4 or 5, and yet it is Harvey Weinstein's Ra** Facilitator with like one or two production credits on a couple of shitty sitcoms getting around 23 million an episode to make something on par with Robyn Hood or Batwoman.
Robyn in the Hood was hilarious but of course for all the wrong reasons, like The Room. I had a lot of fun watching others make fun of it. It's full of black stereotypes and cringe, but it was made by a black guy :)))) The police chase the band of robbers in to the hood, get their drones out that gets destroyed in two minutes and say: Aight, we outta here. No backup, no nothing, they leave and don't return 😂 And that's just the first episode.
@@rageagaintstheNWO Oh yeah. I had a blast watching coverage of it.
I honestly can't get my head around episodes with such a short runtime and yet containing so much dead air time. Scenes that do absolutely nothing, even the scenes that have ONE job are executed poorly. Great writing does multiple things within scenes; character work, world building, exposition, relationship dynamics, storytelling, plot implications. The Acolyte doesn't even try. The writers don't know how. Amateur hour.
what annoyed me so much was how Osha and Yord leave "CIViLiAn TO THa Ship". and she's like we need to go back!!! and then turn off the light shite bc the creatures are attracted to light.. YEAH YA'LL established THAT IN EPISODE 4. and then they end up going back when she's like "he will kill them all". no shit shirlock you saw those jedi die. UGH. sorry for my own nonsensical writing but damn... damn. and most of the episodes are less than 30 minutes minus the recap and credits and nothing really happens. i dont hate all of the show, but i very very much dislike most.
My thoughts exactly
You’re wrong. To save money, Kennedy brought in a preschool class to write the dialogue for this series. No professional adults would come up with this nonsense.
Like with a lot of these shows, this seems like even more of an editing problem than a writing problem.
Damn! My dog just left a huge pile of acolyte on the carpet!
I beg to differ. Your dog did it probably better.
the shit is better than acolyte
@13:40 DUDE! I'm SO glad you point this out. The fact that this "guy" is supposed to be a powerful Jedi Master is hilarious, and it was honestly a big deal to me, kind of the "last straw" in how we're supposed to suspend our disbelief. "Holds his nose as he jumps in the pool" is such a perfect explanation on why this character is laughable.
isn‘t he a padawan? he certainly looks like one.
@@luthrilcharryk9865 Whatever it is, it's the furthest thing from "warrior" you can imagine.
@@luthrilcharryk9865 Point being, have you ever heard a Jedi with a lisp like that?!? 🤣🤣🤣 Even the female Jedi are more masculine than he is. I mean, FFS, come on Leslye.
I hope that Disney gets exposed for its money laundering practices cause there is no way......no way that all that budget was spent on the show.
Kickbacks to the execs at the top?
its all ESG, DEI, union, HR money.
@@lostvayne9146 actually the studio is registered in the UK and their tax is subsidised buy the gov or well the tax payers no dought they're saying it cost that much for the tax break so sadly I'm paying for this without watching
Studios are allowed to take money from the budgets of movies and shows and use them for other stuff.
@@callumholland8932At least you're helping to fund the totally awesome current Dr. Who. So that makes up for it, right?
@@hideousruin exactly lol I'm so progressive :)
Why did Disney not use identical twins for young Mae and OSHA?
Does Disney think they all look the same?
They did. The young versions of Osha and Mae were played by real life twins Lauren and Leah Brady.
It's so far from George's original ideas and concepts.
Good and evil were clearly defined. What Disney tries to pass off as SW has so much ambiguity. Not the mention the unnecessary nudity...
EXACTLY!
It was the quintessential good vs evil battle…why would they change that?
personally i found the "clearly defined good vs evil" trope to be boring. not as boring as disney starwars but i just look back on some of my favorite star wars media.
knights of the old republic 1&2
the clone wars tv show
the force unleashed
these portions of star wars media did ambiguity correctly. sith and other characters were written to be morally complex with mature themes and audiences in mind. the good vs evil trope wasnt so defined. in my oppinion this is what made for great starwars. george never moved beyond simplified 1970's writing style good vs evil storytelling and disney just treats starwars like its marvel with a different coat of paint.
Right and SW and Marvel are not compatible l.@jimster1111
The Jedi were pompous dogmatic aholes in the prequels are you all dumb as shit? Lol
I have seen so much footage of that main actress and she has only one facial expression.
You’re wrong, she has 2 facial expressions. Eyes open and eyes closed.
This show fucking sucks. It is so hard for people like me to be Star Wars fans because these people spit in the face of fans and shits all over the lore and true Star Wars. Also incredible that a masterpiece like Oppenheimer didn’t even cost HALF the fucking budget of this show
Just put everything from Doucheney out of your mind (maybe keep "Rogue One," if you like it) and kick back and watch the OT. They paid $4 billion to own the rights, but they can't tell us what is or isn't canon. ANH will make it all better! 🙂
Yeah that’s true
You didn`t mention another reason this show is trash... the unforgivably atrocious acting. It gives planks of wood a bad name.
It's funny how acting sucks when the writing sucks
Manny Jacinto and the Squid Game guy do a pretty decent job. They both clearly believe they're in a better show than they really are.
The irony that the best two actors and characters of this female-centric, girl power show are actually dudes - Manny as Qimir and Lee as Sol...lol. (I'll also give props to Dafne - Jecki)
@@makeyourmark00Did the showrunner actually say that the show is meant to be a "girl power" show, or is that what people are calling it? It just feels like a normal show with a normal female lead.
Bad acting is typically a sign of a bad director. There is some decent acting here, particularly from the star power. But for the younger actors, yeah bad writing, editing, and direction are not going to do any favors. That's why it has the Disney channel vibes.
Cal Kestis and the games that he's in are literally the only Disney's Star Wars that I can stomach. And even they have their issues, but I still have the motivation to experience those stories more than once.
Disney has only pushed me further into Legends the longer that this goes on. I almost wouldn't be surprised if they get royalties from content they had no hand in. I can't imagine it any other way.
Disney killed the appeal of all of this. It only makes the old stuff even better in retrospect.
My running theory is the only people actually enjoy this show just have bad taste. I asked in one comment section if they actually liked this show do they watch CW shows, and was only proven right. "Some of the shows on CW are amazing!" Lmao yeah ok sure
"This dude holds his nose when he jumps in the pool" made me spit my coffee. Brilliant!
I'm waiting for the Acolyte to get the Kenobi treatment. Somebody splicing all the episodes together, trimming the shitty moments, salvaging the decent enough moments and making a decent fan edit
But what is there to leave in though 🤔
Congratulations Disney for making the worst TV show in history.
Nah.
That's witcher blood origin. Comparing to that dog$h!t acolyte is a masterpiece.
I do understand the reasons, the dissatisfaction though, but all in all I personally still kind of enjoyed it.
Remember Andor? Pepridge farm remembers.
Andor was such an odd sheep... Everything the other Disney Star Wars shows lacked was in Andor. Stakes, nuance, philosophy/politics, brilliant directing and scenery, action, character development... And somehow, this was a one-off because everything that's been produced since is as bad as what was produced before. Crazy weird.
That Forrest looked so plastic and fake
not more than the show itself
lol 180 million dollars in the trash 😂
The money goes to their pockets. Disney is running a racket
The whip scence cost 50 million
@@farrel13sw All went on the makeup for Headlands wife
@@rageagaintstheNWO It’s still a waste of money
I had no idea these episodes had sub 30 min runtimes. That is hilarious. Truly, truly hilarious. Fuck this show.
And some of it is recaps
So you haven’t even watched it then?
@@kanecross no....and if you're trying to use that as a gotcha save it. The show looks like shit from go and the show runner is a liberal loser lunatic.
Finally seeing others also mention the sets. When watching almost any scene it feels and looks claustrophobic. The characters also sometimes feel like they are not a part of the scene for me, like a terrible green screen. It feels unnatural.
“The power of one, power of two, power of many!” It’s a shame that cult can’t count past 2. Their education system is a failure just like Disney lol 😂
SpongeBob did it better anyway. THE POWER WITHIN! Yeah!
Man, that was so hilariously bad 😂😂LOL
@@chasehedges6775 Oh that’s a perfect meme! Lol 😂
@@Steel-101💯💯. It’s a great quote too.
The power of one million, the power of two million, the power of laaaaaaaaundering
Taken away by bugs, who are attracted to LIGHT, is a rip-off of the tiny bats in “Pitch Black” on the “Unknown Planet!”
I highly doubt it's the run times. The writing is so bad, that it would be better off as an hour long episode... and still get 13% user ratings. These people don't know how to write a good story. They are writing really really really bad fan fiction. I've seen bad fan fiction, believe me this is bad. The original Mary Sue fan fiction is better than Acolyte, and that's saying something.
Mediocrity is the curse of Disney, they couldn’t fix it if they tried. Least Figie still has a vision for the MCU and they’re slowing down to do it right, SW is a bloated corpse just scrap it all and start over from scratch
Unfortunately the good things with Marvel happened in spite of Feige, not because of him. Captain Marvel was the first movie in which he had creative control after the board in charge of the MCU was disbanded by Iger in the process of getting rid of Perlmutter.
Everything aside from No Way Home (made by Sony) since then has been Feige’s vision, including his and Victoria Alonso’s heavy interference with Endgame which forced a complete rewrite that reduced Thor and Hulk’s strengths in order to make Captain Marvel the hero. Luckily the Russo Brothers fought back and threatened to leave so they compromised a bit. But you can definitely tell watching it that the people who made Infinity War were not allowed to finish the story the way they wanted
@@christaylor7079 Thor's being weaken because by the end of his third movie he had it all but lost it all so he went on a depress slump makes since. But with Hulk and Banner they just forgot about how the Hulk is his own person and not just Banner's anger. I have no problem Marvel showing up and destroying Thanos' fleet did they really have to show it in a way that said only she could do it? Couldn't they have made that scene like she was the calvary coming destroying Thanos' fleet right as they were about to fire on the Avenger's army?
MCU is over. They've stopped making relatable heroes or anything people will care about.
"Sitcom length"
When they give you 18ish minutes episode of Young Sheldon witch have also recap, intro and credits included in those miserably 18 minutes, you must ask for what they are paying people !
The budget quality of each episode feels like maybe 5 million at most, not the reported 20 million to make each episode. The money is going somewhere else, probably going to inflated exec salaries or overpaid vendors. It does not appear to be shown evident in the half hour episode. Simple sets on the land views, and the aerial views of shorelines could be captured on the latest DJI drone flyby which would not cost much to do.
Probably gone to sensitivity or DEI training and estrogen pills for the two white guys. Until someone who participated in producing this rubbish speaks out, we may never know.
I don’t believe that writer for a second. These 25 min episodes are the best they can do. This is all they’ve got
These are not talented people
Smh I still can't believe I prefer Bobafet over this lol😂
The director has some serious delusions of grandeur. I just can't 😂💀
I really feel bad for Lee Jung-Jae. The man was brilliant in Squid Game and this is what he gets to work on after learning how to speak English for a role?
I bet he can make a comeback with Squid Game Season 2 but still.
Money laundry? My brother in Christ I bet these star writers are the best paid in the world.
Disney could have gotten just about any one to write for them, with just about any budget, and tons of dedicated fans, and in the end 90% of what they made is mediocre or worse, half the fans hate them, and they oversaw the first box office bomb and transitioning a theatrical series to low budget tv shows. Just amazing incompetence and wasted opportunity.
What I hate most about the show is a wasted opportunity. I wanted this show to be good.
If only they were low budget…
Even if they had a good script, Kathleen Kennedy would've made it lame and ghey.
How would you call $180 million budget a low budget series? Disney would be better off stacking 100 million dollars in a giant pile, running the Star Wars title card and playing the Imperial March while they set the money on fire and film it. It would cost them less and probably get less hate from the fan base.
Hopefully dune 2 came as a wakeup call for them
holding your nose when you jump into the pool as an insult is crazy. I love it 🤣🤣🤣
How is that even an insult?
@@gabecollins5585 that’s the way in which he used it to describe one of the characters. Do you hold your nose when you jump into the pool?
@@Jus-Too-Smoove No I don’t but I don’t see how thats an insult or whatever he meant. I just wanted some context.
@@gabecollins5585 Because as a Jedi they could have / should have cast someone with some athleticism and physical grace to acknowledge the painful long training required, rather they cast someone who would fit as an understudy for Napoleon Dynamite. This isn't accidental, it's a deliberate attempt to undermine the classic heroic figure--asking the audience to aspire not to be the one jumping skillfully from 90ft high-diving board, but holding their nose as the plop into the shallow end of the pool.
we have been watching star wars forever. with my family, we still ended up enjoying the new shows and movies. The acolyte is the first show where we all agreed it was really bad. I think that alone shows something
I gave up on the show after episode 3, because I could not stand the writing and stupid character decisions. As someone who enjoys High Republic novels(where better writing and stakes thrive) this show negates whats happening in their own canon. In the very first episode they say it has been 100 years of peace. FALSE!! 100 years ago the jedi and the galaxy were fighting the Nihil. Curently listening to the audiobook Star Wars: Temptation of the Force of Phase 3 High Republic era and the war is still going on. F*ck The Acolyte and Dave Filoni too. They don't give a shit about their own canon books.
Why doesn’t the evil twin have a goatee and moustache? Massive fail.
RIP STAR WARS 1977-1983. If you were there, you were there. Standing in lines, cheers in the audience, the toys, the buzz, the rumors of more movies. RIP.
The Acolyte is trying to tell a story? Could have fooled me.
Disney cost cutting. Look at most of their other shows. It’s like the writers have all sat in different rooms and written their own version to just paste
I stopped watching this show after episode 5 and only stay up to date not for the hatred but for the comedy. That's one area this show has not disappointed in.
I watched episode 3 alone and that was enough. I can tell its bad writing.
@@JustinVillemure watch episode 5. It's pretty cool. The rest is almost unreachable
@@privard89 Naw I have better taste and standards to even give Disney my time. I enjoy the reviews here on YT. I get enough of the Acolyte and I actually enjoy it via the reviewers dissecting its horrible writing.
Stranger isnt that good a character. Complete joke for first half. He should have been arrested for helping murder jedi and poison mixing, etc. He wasnt hiding himself. He says helmet blocked his thoughts being read, yet the jedi dont mind read or feel his emotions earlier when hes bumbling helper version. His way to turn Osha is ridiculous. He just murdered everyone in front of her. All he says is the jedi are bad too. There's no real character here. He was good in the fight episode and some nice lines after killing the apprentice girl and yord and with Sol, but thats not a character. Just some decent one liners. He's just as shit a character as everyone else. Everything is half baked.
Only episodes 1 and 5 are good. 2 is okay. 3, 4 and 6 are bad, especially the third one.
3- duzi ! I was like wtf did I just watch. Power of many was worse than a Macbeth inspired play I improved in grade 12 because I was away for the holidays and couldn’t rehearse with my friends. Whom
All waited for me to improv because they lazy !
Agreed. Imagine Qimir who can blow away a bunch of Jedi with a wave of hand can't even remove a tiny light stuck to his back. In fact, Ep 6 is more like James Bond than SW...
i’ve watched 1 episode of xena warrior princess, and it contains more plot, emotion and facial expression than 6 episodes of acolyte!
Mentioning Qimir, given that him and Sol's actors are the real stand outs of the show, makes me think it would've been better just to focus on him and his personal vendetta against the Jedi (specifically Venestra, who seems to be the most likely culprit for his scar). Mae is just flip flopping too much to be compelling, and Osha seems to have the memory of goldfish (like falling in love with the guy who not even a day ago killed some of her friends right in front of her), so Amandla is out. Plus I feel it would tighten things up much more to have the focus only be between Sol and Venestra vs Qimir and not deal with the Space Lesbian Witches (and their Thread Spawn). But that would involve Lucasfilm even having competent writers, so that's a nope.
Apparently the lure of some Qimir qock is enough to make Osha forget her dead friends.
You like the Stranger's design? ..yeah, i do too, its awesome, and thats because not even that is original.. they stole the design wholesale from ELFEN LIED..
I'm happy that at least now people from other countries know how it feels to watch a Dutch film or tv show. It's basically this almost every single time for the past decades. No logic. No consistency.
There's literally a horror film with the premise of a group of young people getting stuck in a mine because above ground someone switches off the power for the elevator. Halfway through the film: a character feels like going back up, walks to the elevator AND SWITCHED IT ON.... and isn't even surprised to see it works again.....
That's just one example from one film.
When the dumb beaver saved a serial killer from the show's last remaining protagonist 🙃
This show is such Shyte, the writing is so far below amateur level, the acting so bad, the plot is so horrendous, the directing is so absolutely atrocious that if one derives any kind of entertainment value from this steaming dog pile then I seriously question your intelligence.
I cancelled my Disney subscription after episode 3. My sub got me as far as episode 5 before it ran out. Im done funding disney. Im done funding this garbage
am i the only one too that noticed my subscription is now more $$? like it used to be 9.99 and now it's 16. and no i don't have hulu or ESPN.
Pirate them.
There's a reason traditional dramas last around 45 minutes each. I don't miss 22 episode shows at that length but the length needs to be at that. Disney need to realise this.
Of course if the show is garbage it probably would be even worse 😅
I miss shows with longer seasons. Maybe not 22 but 15 would be nice.
“Writing that makes Book of Boba Fett look like Shawshank Redemption” has me rolling🤣
The demonization of the Jedi is why I boycott this show.
Wtf you talking about
@@Mogorman87The Jedi in the Acolyte are even dumber than in the prequels. At least George wasn't intentionally doing that. Disney is.
@@RickShaw-gm3ft well it’s what they had to go on. In the prequels they were pompous arrogant dogmatic fools. So surely 150 years before that they’ll be even worse. People freaking out that the Jedi are made to look real bad now. I remember being 12 watching the phantom menace thinking the Jedi were a bunch of pricks and fools lol. And Man o man. The children 😂🙈 why. Such a bad idea. Need to get them when they are young! Indoctrination. So therefor years later after the fact. Yeah it makes sense to say the Jedi were a bunch of dogmatic fools.
@@Mogorman87 The Jedis portrayed in the Acolyte are uncaring, complacent, doubtful from the Senate... Those are maverick ronins, not an order of warrior monks at peace for 1000 years as described in every material until now.
@@44ThaNatos44 That's just straight up not true.... there has been a lot of content suggesting the Jedi aren't inherently good just because they are against the guys with red light sabers and wear monk robes....its one of the reasons Anakin was so easy to manipulate, because Palpatine just toyed with the very real problems in the order....
At least in ep3 the singing witches were fun to watch lol. Ep6? NOTHING happened. Boooring. Osha is an non-hero - she does nothing...
I think the biggest issue with this series, is the premise. Like no one in the star wars fanbase (especially not those that dive deep into the EU) think high republic era when you mention a Sith Acolyte. The old republic era is the first to come to mind, then the imperial era, and then the post Endor era. Simply put, the whole premise of this show just doesn't work in an era where the Sith are in the shadows slowly laying the grounds to turn the republic into an empire, gathering power and resources, attempting to find ways to cheat death in vain on the side, and finding ways to weaken the Jedi or tie them closer to the republic.
And if you're wondering why Disney would put this show in their high republic era, well your suspicions are correct just like how the galaxy's edge look of this series is already a giveaway. It's to try and sell their below average book series they made on this era that is also just mindless content and not something they were passionate or serious about in terms of exploring what that era would really be like.
There are so so SO many things this show does wrong with basic 101 level story telling.
How does Sol discover "Osha" is actually Mae? Well it's never really explicitly shown. Was it because he noticed Osha is suddenly kissing a unique tattoo on her arm? No. Is it because the tracker guy that isn't capable of communicating with Sol? Possibly? Is it because of the MASSIVE tattoo on Maes forehead? No because it's somehow conveniently always covered perfectly when he's around. Is it because Sol could detect it in the force? I mean, that's possible, but not likely. So HOW ON EARTH DID HE FIGURE IT OUT. "Well, you see it's a mystery series so we don't actually have to explain it."
No, no you actually have to give some clues, and then let characters use those clues IN THE STORY to figure things out. That's a mystery series. What you're doing is a series of contrivances that the AUDIENCE is using to piece together a horribly paced story.
never EVER watch these shows legally. Just download them Illegaly! Better quality and the makers aren't getting any money for these woke shit shows
Ok.. Good choice
"Woke" isn't the issue. There are amazing shows with diverse casts, including HotD. The problem here is bad writing, budget misallocation.
That show was done with IA. The lack of life and soul is clear
I like how you focused on the length of the episodes and tied it into the character decisions. I feel like not a lot of people are focusing on how fixable the issues could've been with more explanation, and it's something I focused on in my video as well
Andor is the best Star Wars we’ve had since Rogue One.
If the name isn't Andor, it wouldn't be complete garbage.
The difference is that Andor was a good/well-written,well shot and well acted show
@@chasehedges6775 You don't say. If only everything else can share Andor's glory. And then I won't have to justify my liking to anything else that isn't Andor and have my opinion influenced by all the hate videos of other shows.
I'm glad I didn't give up on Andor. It was well worth the trip.
@@marcmarc1967 If only I felt the same as everyone else.
Andor was pretty good but damn near boring half the time
The budget is huge because they need to pay off former HW personal assistant.
"writing that makes Book of Boba Fett look like Shawshank Redemption" lol that is a bold statement considering BOBF had the worst writing I've ever seen from a thousand monkeys working at a thousand typewriters. I sat through that shit I'm not sitting through Acolyte so I'll take your word. And we've seen what talented writers can do with ANDOR and to an extent the first two seasons of Mando. (although in clearer hindsight those two seasons have dropped a bit on my rating)
2 things. The women running this show thought it was okay to have a victim of kidnapping be attracted to her murderous kidnapper. The male characters in this show are being used as eye candy, most of them are secretly evil, and the ones that aren’t die instantly. And she claims she doesn’t have a hidden agenda, holy cow.
Sincere question for the fans. Why do you keep watching? Hope?
Remember back when we thought Lucas was ruining Star Wars? Me neither.
I can't believe this is a 180 million dollar series. Somebody got rich here somewhere...
Imagine editing out all the intros/end credits…. And just splicing the show together as a movie… it would be hilarious
*HATE-WATCHING*
Most people talking about The Acolyte are *hate-watching.* The Critical Drinker recommended DarkHour who made an entertaining video called The Acolyte is Mental Abuse! Made some hilarious points.
I will admit The Acolyte, The Boys Season 4, and House of the Dragon Season 2 have all been a little disappointing so far. I won't need to point out all the flaws from The Acolyte which gets regurgitated a hundred times a week by the hate-watchers. A lot of it makes zero sense. When Sol is ready to explain what happened in Brendok, he's always interrupted by something. Amandla Stenberg was the wrong choice to be the leads. Nobody cares about Mae and Osha because nobody really knows what they want in life.
Although not as bad as The Acolyte, The Boys S4 has been the most disappointing season for that series. The last two episodes gave us flying sheep and then Batman and Spider-Man bondage scenes dealing with fart jokes, a butthole, and cake. Sister Sage becomes dumb after a bullet in the head
They're only going for shock value instead of substance. No clue how to end this series. Only Ep. 2 and 4 are the standouts but the rest has been mostly underwhelming. How many more dick jokes do we need?
House of the Dragon has been the most consistently good among those three and I will tune in later tonight to watch The Battle at Rook's Rest between Aegon on Sunfyre & Aemond on Vhagar battling Rhaenys on Meleys, but I'm hearing from leakers that there are some changes similar to what they did with Blood & Cheese. And I'm aware George R.R. Martin was not thrilled about those changes for B&C. Aemond is supposed to do something different than what's written in Blood & Fire.
In House of the Dragon S2, what's up with characters always sneaking somewhere undetected every week? Hoodie Daemon, Blood and Cheese, Arryk Cargyll, and then Rhaenyra disguised as a septa? Nobody seems to be guarding any of these places! While DarkHour made some hilarious points about how The Acolyte has zero regard for time and space. How the dead bodies did not decompose. How it was so easy for Vernestra's group to find them while the first group needed a tracker.
You know what I rewatched last night or at least certain scenes from it? Andor. The entire heist scene in The Eye is simply awesome. Remember these names: Obviously, Tony Gilroy (Rogue One and Andor creator). Directed Rix Road. Tony should take over for Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau. His brother, Dan Gilroy, who wrote The Eye. And Toby Haynes, who wrote One Way Out. Toby will write three more episodes for S2.
If House of the Dragon continues to disappoint with changes that doesn't need to happen, I will put Andor above it. HBO writers are already ruining my boy, Daemon. We got the PG-13 version of Blood & Cheese and it probably pissed off GRRM which is why he praised Ep. 2 more than Ep. 1. Then it looks like The Boys which I absolutely loved since Season 1, is getting worse like the last season of LOST, The Walking Dead, and Game of Thrones. Running out of ideas.
One complaint about The Acolyte are 32-42 minute long episodes. Nothing seems to get done. They happen to be short episodes but it can still feel like a slog with some of the most boring dialogue and then apathy for the characters. Ep. 4 and 5 were only 32 minutes while Ep. 6 was 37 minutes and resolved nothing. While Andor had episodes ranging from 29-54 minutes and we got 12 episodes. Andor used all that time to flesh out the characters and story better. Andor's entire run time was nearly 8 hours. The Acolyte will be closer to Mando at 4.5 hours.
I think my favorite thing I saw this year was Ted 🧸. HOT D S2 has been slightly underwhelming with some questionable changes. The Boys S4 has no real direction. Once Homelander dies, which needs to be done because he's unredeemable, will end the show. We know S5 will be their last season, so these recent episodes feel like filler/padding until we get to when Homelander is killed. I predict Frenchie dies because what's with all this remorse stuff? He hasn't been appealing since S1. While a majority of the cast aren't all likable. Homelander is the best part but he's the one who needs to die to end the series.
The Acolyte is probably the worst thing to ever come out for SW. Identity politics without an identity. DarkHour pointed how Ep. 4 or 6 should've given us more info. Instead, Ep. 4 gave us no action or meaningful info. Ep. 5 gave us mostly action but hardly any new info about the big mystery except Smilo Ren/Darth of Dental Puns' identity. Then Ep. 6 gave us no action or any meaningful info again. It has bait and switched the viewers by killing Trinity within the first 5 minutes and deleting a scene of Kelnecca fighting for his life. The questions from Brendok are still being asked three episodes later. This all leads to apathy from the viewers. By the time they answer what really happened in Brendok in Ep. 7, most of us stopped caring or watching.
Andor Season 2 can't come soon enough. The Handsome Menace can't save this trainwreck of a series called The Acolyte. Ahsoka S1 was all about the characters swapping galaxies. While The Acolyte is all about nothing.
Character Rankings
1. Qimir / The Stranger
2. Sol
3. Jecki
4. Aniseya
5. Yord
6. Bazil
7. Pip
8. Osha
9. Kelnacca
10. Torbin
11. Vernestra
12. Koril
13. Mae
I forgot about WilyKat (boy twin) and WilyKit (girl twin) from 1980s' ThunderCats and Jecki does look like them. I kept comparing her to a young Cheetara but she does looks like those ThunderKittens.
The Acolyte is Mental Abuse! (by DarkHour)
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The hate-watching from most of these CZcamsrs who run rage bait channels continues on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. How much more comedy and funny memes do they have for us?
Couldn’t read your diatribe after the boys complaints. Fascinating, have you even watched the boys up till now? Shocking humour has been their thing since like day one bro. Translucent getting blown to pieces from a bomb up his ass, the deep fucking octopus homelander breast feeding etc. As Jimmy Said in South park ,I mean come on.
You're on point with everything. Content is poor, writing is comically bad, budget has vanished and somehow those responsible seem to think they should get away with it... What sealed the deal for me was seeing the Acolyte subreddit going full on GoT s8 mode : defending week after week every bad decisions, deflecting any criticism because "we've just got to give it time", witnessing the show deriving strongly from the source material and accepting it just for the sake of originality, and above all, making theories bigger and bigger every time just so that it makes sense while the show had primary school level depth of writing. The Sith reveal was the icing on the cake, it could have been such a big twist, linking the show to the OG universe, reddeeming a bit all of its other flaws... but no, it wasn't set up properly, it was just the obvious character who had no purpose otherwise, it wasn't motivated by anything, the reveal wasn't even needed and the character failed to justify it... It was as bad as everyone thought it would be.
„Holds his nose when he jumps into the pool“ made lol 😂
The discourse surrounding this show is exhausting. It's nothing special, but not as bad as everyone is saying. I think it would have been better as a full season binge. The short episodes are hurting it a lot.
It is bad. It’s horrific writing from start to finish. If you know anything about storytelling you know every beat, every scene and every dialogue or character serves a larger narrative purpose. To which this show has none. Oh except the moth thing. That was terribly done however. This show is not quality in any measure. Its 180mil clearly laundered lol
I agree. The negativity is overblown, just let them finish. It's entertaining as it is and the actors and crew worked hard for this. People just don't know how to accept anything new, this is a thirsty Star Wars and it ain't bad at all.
@@lyndonarana9408 no its warranted. 180 million and its got the quality of a low experience group. Disney dropping in quality is just something you accept? That’s fine but it shows you are desperate for anything entertainment instead of quality entertainment.
I also been wondering why the animated series has better writing. But at this point too much hate towards this show is already annoying, just let them cook. If it's bad I'll join the mob, but hey it's not a bad thing to enjoy mediocre shows. It's entertaining enough, the hate is just too much.
@@lyndonarana9408 Right. You admit its mediocre and accept bad writing. Whereas people like me who are writers will look at this and be absolutely appalled. I pitched a series to Disney and it was rejected because simply put: I am a white straight male and they want specific quotas writing for them and specific ideas in their stories instead of characters, themes and meaningful narratives... Enjoy your lame entertainment. I am enjoying the reviews of this beyond mediocre show.
Women shouldn't be front runners to write and direct properties that are successful due to its male audience. Who tf is this for?
I like this show but......I think I don't anymore
$180 million? Star Wars dudes are robbing Disney blind.
Agreed
Andor. That is all.
My fav moment of dialogue so far is:
"gulp".
Brilliant.
Just want to say those House of the Dragon episodes are also inflated since at the end of the episode there’s a Making-of segment explaining the episode. Usually adding 7-9 minutes of run time.
I literally said out loud to my roommate who was watching w me about how I was confused when mae started fighting jeckie, I was like “didn’t she JUST say she was going to turn herself in?” but my roommate wasn’t super responsive so I thought ///I/// was being annoying and over analyzing. so, to hear someone else had the same thoughts keep soo validating.
also, in the beginning while it still maintained the “was osha actually the one who killed the jedi” mystery, I JOKINGLY said “oh, I bet she had an evil twin”. but I meant that as a joke bc I could not think of a way for it to make sense that osha had a twin, everyone knows she had a twin (dead or not) and no one talked about it in any capacity for so long. like the jedi discussing the murder with sol didn’t think to just ponder about “do you remember mae? I mean she’s dead, but this is weird, huh?” after sol was so adamant that osha wasn’t a killer.
like, osha actually having an evil twin felt almost comical when it was revealed. I truly thought they were setting up something cooler, which is why I made the joke in the first place. bc the twin thing is just so simple and dumb lmao. I mean, it didn’t have to be if they set it up better. idk.
but this is just me spewing thoughts .
16:46 Coruscant looks like an empty map in a video game that hasn’t fully loaded.