There were 1-2 mistakes where I left out a clip in the edit relating to my remarks -- sorry my legends. I was trying to get this one out for you guys ASAP! Also -- I said it's a 2/10 and 14% is generous. Yes, this was a slip-up / mistake. I left it in the edit because it's funny when I'm dumb sometimes and I figured it would get some free comments. Lmao. Not that deep. Anyways, enjoy the video, leave a like, & bang that subscribe button if you love me 3000 :) - Mr. Stark
So to be clear, while I dropped out after Ep 2, I will point out what the training sequence is "supposed" to be. As a traditional kung fu practitioner, does modern combat sports and studied old school Japanese weapons-based martial arts as well, and a Star Wars fan of course, this is supposed to be about showing part of the training drills of Jedi, going off of Lucas borrowing from Samurai film and to some extent kung fu film stuff, where we seem the solo training drills to learn and refine basic mechanics, footwork ect in things like Drunken Master, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Last Samurai ect. In Chinese and Japanese martial arts, we have many short and long solo weapons routines that people train (though I would say they look more entertaining than this), but also paired routines. In modern HEMA (European weapons arts), that often have similar things like this as well, so someone can practice movements on their own and later apply to prearranged partner drills, and sparring. It looks like that is what they were doing, like in Ashoka and some others films. I suppose I sound like I am defending the quality of the sequence, but I more pointing out what the writers and choreographers thought this was supposed to be, as opposed to what it was supposed to be. Too often I feel like they try to make-up just some movements as opposed to borrowing from actual traditional sword/fencing routines that look more exciting. More importantly your reaction to this is what indicates the problem with the sequence. I was in between on what I consider the quality of the scene with Sabine, but she should not great, being more amateur and High Republic era Jedi solo routines should look pretty awesome and the sequence should just capture you so you are not even thinking about why is there. It is kinda weird that I feel like Sabine's drills make more sense then this one did. If the audience is having to think about the why it is there, the choreography of the sequence is obviously not entertaining. I have often been bothered by a lot of Hollywood created solo weapons routines, as they are often done so neither a actual martial artist nor audience member finds they interesting or purposeful.
@@zhaozilong99 This training sequence, no matter how you spin it, was dead awful and came off terribly on screen for most of us, lmao. Appreciate the long comment though my friend. Cheers!
The episodes writer said on Twitter that the reason the wookie Jedi had to die off screen was because of budget reasons. It’s getting NO ATTENTION, and I have tried sharing it with all creators I can think of but nobody is seeing it. They had a $180 MILLION budget, there’s no Fn’ way
I mean I think you should, I've heard the same infact in one comment section someone actually tried to tell me they burned through 22.5 mil of budget on alien makeup, robes and shooting on location, for 28 minutes of an episode! make it make sense 😂
I honestly think it's because they lack the ability, not through lack of money (that was just a happy coincidence) they can barely choreograph human like fights, do you really believe they have the talent to make an even half decent fight scene with a wookie?
All that money per episode and they decide to re-use Kylo Ren's helmet and with some shower hose stuck on the front. The sniffer beaver, just there to sell toys.
Godzilla Minus One was 125 minutes long and cost $15 million dollars. This episode was 23 minutes and $23 millions dollars. Just wanted to point that out in case anyone was wondering if this was also a colossal waste of money as well as a colossal waste of time. This entire series is malfeasance on a scale heretofore unseen.
Probably. Putting in the show exactly that one person who was commenting on how long the sith was extinct in the prequels, must be trolling🤷♀️ can't believe this just happening right front of us.
@@Nickyblicky-n5x yeah, so is he a traitor now? Or how will they explain what he said in TPM? 🤷♀️ And Yoda? He didn't know about it or did he lie too?God, I hate Disney 😭😂
@@Nickyblicky-n5xhe wouldn’t this is the most brain dead writing it’s like they read all the lore and then just said fuck continuity put a chick in it and make it gay.
There are distinct “styles” of lightsaber technique which is why count Duku stances were always so different than the rest of the boys, so it makes sense that they would memorize kata as part of that training. But yeah they could have actually built upon that lore and taught the audience about that so they didn’t have to read about it in an Encyclopedia while shopping at Costco.
I'm still trying to figure out why OSHA's fucking handheld multitool is a droid and not just a multi tool. IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING BEING A DROID! CAN'T FUCKING MOVE!!!!!
Well technically in old cannon Palpatine did survive, if you count as a vengeful force ghost that eventually came back but had to keep hoping between clone bodies because they would rapidly decay, before Luke or something gave him the ticket to the Sith afterlife where a plethora of spirits of slain and passed Jedi Masters keep him in said Sith afterlife via a never ending battle
Dear Disney, FOR THE LOVE OF DISNEY, please STOP releasing more episodes of The Acolyte creating more damage to the Star Wars brand and to your own company. STOP the insanity, halt all streaming of The Acolyte, press the "DELETE" button on this entire series and FIRE Kathleenn Kennedy/Leslye Headland!!!
Nah I think the acolyte is a step in the right direction because they are letting go of the main franchise which is great but if the shows are this bad then it’s not worth it at all
The worst trend we are seeing again and again is people who in no way DESERVE their position, keep getting these positions. They are hired in no way based off of talent or skill.. There's no way a show that is this expensive, with this famous of a subject, should have this bad of writing & have this bad of world design, world building. I mean these set designs, aesthetics, overall look & feel of the world & it's visuals as a whole. It's all so surface level. It looks cheap & tacky. On top of everything people have already said, I also think the camera work in this is awful. This show genuinely feels like adults role playing as kids are getting to shot this.. It really feels like it's deliberately going against everything that is Star Wars. It feels deliberately disrespectful to the lore and has no respect to the source material. Are they deathly allergic to having male characters? Are they allergic to quality storytelling, world building, character development.. This is awful! It really seems like whoever is making these doesn't realize Star Wars used to be a really well made world full of diversity. It didn't matter what kind of character, creature, species you were, they found great ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that connect us all on a deeper level. Things used to take pride in finding creative ways to convey things. To give the audience feelings without overly explaining it. I really miss that. If you go back and watch "X-Men the animated series" It is so well crafted. The story of mutants was so universally relatable. Media back then found ways to abstractly teach me life lessons, touched on difficult situations, found intelligent ways to tell stories. Even when I watched it all grown up it really felt like the story is so well crafted and executed that anyone is able to relate to it in someway or another. It's stuff like that that we are so 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.
They don’t care about any of the nuts and bolts a craft of screenwriting or writing for TV. It’s as if their white or other privilege means they don’t have to follow the traditions or necessary beats of good or even just competent storytelling. It’s outrageous. It’s as if they’re too good to ever read let alone follow any advice from a screenwriting guide book.
You have put far to much effort into your analysis... It's called failing upwards... and it is the only reward people of the participation trophy era understand! They are not 'adults role playing as children'... they are adult-children role playing as adult-adults... you can see this by watching children plan and present there own original 'home-made plays'. You watch as an adult, you acknowledge all the flaws, and yet you still clap for them making the effort. When adults do it, you do not! And, as children they react as you would expect, by throwing a tantrum and demanding the respect they got when they were physically young enough to be rewarded for nothing more then effort.... "But 🥺, BuUtT 😢, I was promised a trophy... even if I lose 😭!!!!" 😤😠🤬
31:20 10 bucks say’s it’s something like “The way you kill a Jedi without a weapon is by breaking there spirit” though that may be to clever or substantial for the show to deliver on effectively
What?!? $23 Million for this, this ... this THING!? For under 30 minutes of show of mostly people walking and just finding the Wookie killed off-screen? I can't understand that. This isn't just burning money. Can a literal fire actually burn that amount of physical cash in such a short time? I don't think so. That would also be more fun to watch. I can't wait to see what their next report looks like on August 14th. This isn't a business anymore. My prediction, a massive stock tank. And deserved. The power of maaaaaanyyyyy.
Someone fill me in why at the 8:00 minute mark they are walking across a perfectly (man?) made bridge by someone for no apparent reason that leads to a forest where no one would otherwise dare to go.
I think this says a lot about coddled Hollywood writers. Little practical sense, and they just assume there’ll be a well made bridge and infrastructure wherever they go.
I thought i was tripping when the ep. ended and I saw 1/4 of the unused time-bar still remaining on the screen...smh Glad you made a point to mention this freaking sitcom length episode.
Did you know in a recent post one of the head writers literally said that they had budgetary issues, this is indicative of the fact that the writers are either liars, or embezzling money, this is also indicative of the fact that Bob Iger cannot keep track of his own funds, or employee's, which is finally indicative of the fact that Disney is doomed if it doesn't have a massive shift in management.
Moving containers out of the ship to put shit in their backpacks made no sense and bothered me until somehow they had a piece of clothe with the wookiees scent on it for the tracker
After that bug was Disturbed it was curious of what Disturbed it and probably would have flown away. But because Sol couldn't keep his saber in his pants, it was attracted to the light ...and then met its demise.
I love how all the characters are quick to switch up after telling the audience they won’t do this, or accuse another character of that, then they’re just like “okay I change my mind instantly just for the plot”
@@xChikyx Get a tax payer funded student loan, attend way to many university classes on how to use your native language, most importantly have the correct and immutable external characteristics (or just claim that you do believably enough).
I don't subscribe to Rotten Tomatoes, but I would just to leave a review on this unwatchable series. I thought they had already done enough damage with Boba Fett or Obi Wan, but here we went above and beyond. It's like watching an episode of Space Balls. I can't save anything from this series. It's embarrassing how they had such a large budget and managed to pull off something like this. If I signed up for Rotten Tomatoes someone would say I did it on purpose because I'm a toxic fan.
Thank you for critiquing this show for it's writing, it has been very difficult to find critique that didn't rely on me having political alignments. I just want to hear about why I am having a difficult time enjoying this show, I don't care if anyone is gay, a person of colour or whatever use if pronouns in or around the show. In fact I like when media has those aspects but THIS show is not terrible for those things, imo, it's terrible for the writing. Again, great video.
It like... A New Hope; seeing Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru smoldering, and then saying 'Cut!' The Empire Strikes Back; "Luke...I _AM_ your Father.", 'Cut!' The Return of the Jedi; "The Shields Still UP!!!!", 'Cut!' Did no one tell them that in Star Wars the cliffhanger is not the 'first moment of tension' (because that kills the audiences level of tension and engagement), but the moment you realize the repercussions when the tension is resolved. I realize these people have no writing experience, was no one with more around to give them basic advice?!?!
How are you gonna kill the wookie jedi off-screen? A fight scene with him could have given you something positive about this episode. Instead, it killed the only thing i had an interest in still
Do you honestly think they have the talent to choreograph a wookie lightsaber duel? Guaranteed they they tried but knew it would just add fuel to the fire.
See, a wookie fighting a lightsaber duel leaves little opportunity for the dialogue necessary to prove you can bring home the Bechdel Test trophy...again.
According to a Q&A Hedland didn’t have the money for the fight and felt it distracted from the walking and talking. I’m not even joking. A million dollars a minute and they couldn’t afford the fight everyone obviously wanted most.
Im convinced that this show was actually 5 or 6 episodes originally, and Disney said "aw hell naw, we need atleast eight episodes". Would explain why each episode only has 30 minutes of actual content, with TONS of filler. Which episode 4 is mostly just filler.
No way!!!! Is that the twist?? The obvious guy that’s helping Mae is the obvious bad guy behind the mask?? Wow such great writing, m night shyamalan step aside, there’s a new twist sheriff in town. 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️
some of the critics are shilling, but rotten tomatoes shills harder. just look at some of the reviews they consider fresh : "middle of the road for star wars", "has potential", "not good not bad" - anything that isn't explicitly negative counts as a win in their book.
I appreciate these reviews, Stark. I haven't touched a Star Wars property since The Force Awakens. I knew then that Star Wars was headed towards a slow and painful death. It fucking sucks being right sometimes.
Jedi makes contorted faces at the edge of the jungle letting out a small but powerful shudder. "What is it?" Jedi takes a labored breath turns to companion......."I farted."
Lesley headlamps wife says something like "how did you not know the poor child survived, poor child ! shes killed 2 Jedi and threatened to murder her sister while burning her home down BUT shes a poor child. and the head witch said the thread is not a weapon , so if evil twin kills master sol with the thread ! is that deal fulfilled and sith lord is mamma witch ?
@25:03 - I am dying laughing over here because LOTR (Two Towers) is exactly what came to mind when I saw this scene as well. Nor was it the first time this show felt like an assembly of recreated scenes ftom other films like the Matrix (Episode #1 - Carrie Ann Moss reprises her role as Trinity); The Color Purple (Mae and Osha play Patty-Cake under the Tree of Life from Avatar
Bounty hunters wont set foot in these forests. I hired two and two weeks ago, before your flashback, and the Wookie chased them away. So I know what I'm talking about.
39:56 So... eight Jedi are attacking one person without even talking or saying anything. Ok... "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."
I dont understand why they still use sticks in thi- Do they not have Training sabers?? Those arent lethal, they're for students before they get their crystal!
What's the Acolyte about? It's great! There's talking, walking, talking, Star Wars cosplaying, talking, spaceships, talking, magic, talking, scenery, more talking, and a smiley Sith. I can't wait for the next episode!
Really puts into perspective who actually did the work on Russian Doll (awesome show) like that one coworker who contributed nothing to the project yet insisted on having their name attached.
So they look at Mae, and they determine she MUST have a master, she MUST have been trained, and the way they determine this because there is NO evidence of Smilo Ren outside of us the "audience" seeing "him", is that Mae is SKILLED in using the force and fighting. So...... Basically they're confirming that Rey should NOT have been able to just do all the crazy shit she did with no training. You can see the entire house of cards, realizing it has been built on a landslide.
worst part of the flying Sith is "they fly now" doesn't even apply because leslye, being the genius she is, set the show in the past...so it'd be more apropos to say "They flew then?" even tho no other Jedi or Sith would use this ability in the future...if only Sidious had it maybe that'd give a rational reason to how he survived
Its been 4 episodes and i have yet to see mei kill one single person, oh whats that? She threw a knife at trinity? Well dis she finish her off? No she just left? A butter knife killed a jedi master? Ive seen a girl get stabbed threw the liver with a lightsaber and be back on her feet after a power nap so dont tell me shes dead,the second guy commited suicide so that doesnt count he could have easily just stab himself woth his lightsaber but oh right those dont kill people so maybe poison is the only way to kill a jedi? That and holes in your plot armor.
Way back in the early 2000s, my friend borrowed his dads's camcorder; and we got everyone together to make a starwars movie. It's maybe 10 minutes long, and it ends with Darth Vader beating the Jedi with a bow and arrow, and then randomly dying because someone farted and his mask couldn't filter it out. Our production quality was what you'd expect for a bunch of elementary school kids; but we spent at least 20 minutes writing a script. I'm guessing our script probably made more sense than this shit.
Mundi= Sith. Still alive. Will FINALLY reveal his Darth side in the Rey movie. Only thing that will make sense. He's gotta kill EVERYONE off on this show. That way he can keep denying the Sith existing so he can get that counsel seat. Then use all the powers in that big ass head too force hide Palts from the rest of the Jedi.
Sister Coral Reef killed everyone. She set up the Jedi. OR, the Jedi were ordered by a ypung Ki-Adi-Mundi to delete the dark force users. One or the other. Smylo Ren is nobody. Black lady hand. Not tall. Cant be Koral. Cant be Star Anisaya. Mae is on a death quest, then just on a dime says, "Nevermindsies. Im tottally flipping with no reason. Osha is framed for Kal-Nakka's death. Quimir found a helmet and saber in the Sith temple (Brendok). The master is Plageus. The Quimir is a DJ from Jacksonville. Blah. This episode could have fed sooooo many hungry, but Lesby Headno needs to make her own therapy session
I wouldn't have come across this channel (through this video), if it weren't for this delicious train crash called The Acolyte. You're amazing: witty AND objective. I know this channel's gonna get huge in the future! Keep up the good work!
The fellowship of the Thread - best scene so far! And how could they not fllow that raccoon? Even that former padawan let us know that she can sense life by using the force by now. That had only been few minutes before.
There was a clone wars episode where three younglings were being hunted Predator style by by a gang of Trandocian lizard people. One of the padawans was the same race as Ki Adi Mundi. This basically tells us his race has a similar life cycle and length of life as humans.
2:00 I have no complaints about the training, to be honest. Practicing katas is training, and the trainees moves are impressively crisp. Its clearly form 3 without outright shoving it in the audience's face, and its clear that they are well trained. One of the few good bits of the episode.
Listen to the dialogue it’s so generic and doesn’t even relate to what they are practicing in a meaningful way. Glad you enjoyed but for most of us it was corny and wasted
@@Stark-CinemaFair. I like the practice choreography, I think it speaks to how skilled the Jedi are and it characterizes them better than a sparring match would. But the dialogue is bad, yes. It doesn't match the padawans' actions at all; it's a lesson they are already proving they don't need to learn. And the later inclusion of the actual line "No one could have survived that" is worth so many negative points it made me genuinely angry.
None of those Jedi wanted to question Sol on what happened? Green bean brought up that she’s targeting the Jedi that were stationed on her planet but they don’t question the guy who was there? Also last episode we learned that the witch planet wasn’t apart of the republic so why were the Jedi stationed there anyway
The logistics here make no sense, as is custom with the Acolyte. Mae and Totally-Not-Smilo know where they're headed and thus presumably land closer to the target, have a head start and seem to actually try to move swiftly through the forest, but the Jedi still arrive at the same place a minute later when they're taking the scenic route at a slower pace.
I cannot believe the Rotten Tomatoes score of 14%, but 14% ??!? No way it wasn't 16%, MAYBE even 17% favorable. What have we become?? May the thread be with you.
There were 1-2 mistakes where I left out a clip in the edit relating to my remarks -- sorry my legends. I was trying to get this one out for you guys ASAP! Also -- I said it's a 2/10 and 14% is generous. Yes, this was a slip-up / mistake. I left it in the edit because it's funny when I'm dumb sometimes and I figured it would get some free comments. Lmao. Not that deep.
Anyways, enjoy the video, leave a like, & bang that subscribe button if you love me 3000 :)
- Mr. Stark
So to be clear, while I dropped out after Ep 2, I will point out what the training sequence is "supposed" to be. As a traditional kung fu practitioner, does modern combat sports and studied old school Japanese weapons-based martial arts as well, and a Star Wars fan of course, this is supposed to be about showing part of the training drills of Jedi, going off of Lucas borrowing from Samurai film and to some extent kung fu film stuff, where we seem the solo training drills to learn and refine basic mechanics, footwork ect in things like Drunken Master, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Last Samurai ect. In Chinese and Japanese martial arts, we have many short and long solo weapons routines that people train (though I would say they look more entertaining than this), but also paired routines. In modern HEMA (European weapons arts), that often have similar things like this as well, so someone can practice movements on their own and later apply to prearranged partner drills, and sparring. It looks like that is what they were doing, like in Ashoka and some others films.
I suppose I sound like I am defending the quality of the sequence, but I more pointing out what the writers and choreographers thought this was supposed to be, as opposed to what it was supposed to be. Too often I feel like they try to make-up just some movements as opposed to borrowing from actual traditional sword/fencing routines that look more exciting. More importantly your reaction to this is what indicates the problem with the sequence. I was in between on what I consider the quality of the scene with Sabine, but she should not great, being more amateur and High Republic era Jedi solo routines should look pretty awesome and the sequence should just capture you so you are not even thinking about why is there. It is kinda weird that I feel like Sabine's drills make more sense then this one did.
If the audience is having to think about the why it is there, the choreography of the sequence is obviously not entertaining. I have often been bothered by a lot of Hollywood created solo weapons routines, as they are often done so neither a actual martial artist nor audience member finds they interesting or purposeful.
@@zhaozilong99 This training sequence, no matter how you spin it, was dead awful and came off terribly on screen for most of us, lmao. Appreciate the long comment though my friend. Cheers!
@zhaozilong99 excellent description of what the training sequence should have looked like. Thank you. :)
Yeah, leaving that out is almost as bad as breaking cannon of a beloved franchise and then having Wookiepedia cover up your mess. Almost.
Wasnt necessarily a slip up. Noone said your 2/10 wasnt (too) generous. Both statements can be true :)
The episodes writer said on Twitter that the reason the wookie Jedi had to die off screen was because of budget reasons. It’s getting NO ATTENTION, and I have tried sharing it with all creators I can think of but nobody is seeing it.
They had a $180 MILLION budget, there’s no Fn’ way
WHATTTTTTTTTTT!???
Maybe I gotta expose this tomorrow
I mean I think you should, I've heard the same infact in one comment section someone actually tried to tell me they burned through 22.5 mil of budget on alien makeup, robes and shooting on location, for 28 minutes of an episode! make it make sense 😂
Should’ve went back to cosmetic costumes 😒
I honestly think it's because they lack the ability, not through lack of money (that was just a happy coincidence) they can barely choreograph human like fights, do you really believe they have the talent to make an even half decent fight scene with a wookie?
We have a new Star Wars meme: Somehow Mundi is already here
And forgot to tell the council about another Sith lol.
Somehow Mundi Forgot
This show makes me agree with Order 66.
And middle aged already 😂
In an 8 episode series, there's no room for filler
It's all filler.
Unless you're a hack writer with only 3 hours of material 😂
Big fact.
That's if we are discussing an actual series and not propaganda tools
180 million budget bruh.
All that money per episode and they decide to re-use Kylo Ren's helmet and with some shower hose stuck on the front. The sniffer beaver, just there to sell toys.
Really?? you're fixated on a helmet. that looks nothing like Kylo's... that was a cool entrance and start to a show down.
@@6gunn13The Helmet design is literally the only cool part of the entire show.
@@Byronic19134 Really, you focused on a helmet.. and not the entrance and how this bad guy. took everyone out with ease.
Godzilla Minus One was 125 minutes long and cost $15 million dollars. This episode was 23 minutes and $23 millions dollars. Just wanted to point that out in case anyone was wondering if this was also a colossal waste of money as well as a colossal waste of time. This entire series is malfeasance on a scale heretofore unseen.
You speak truth,
Theres gotta be money laundering involved dude aint no way
Where can we see a breakdown of how much each episode cost?
@@PonyFoot123bro, I always said that’s what Steven segal was doing. That or tax write offs
@@DoodleNugget9 google it I’m sure it will come up
I’m fully convinced they added Mundi as a f*#k you to all of us
Probably. Putting in the show exactly that one person who was commenting on how long the sith was extinct in the prequels, must be trolling🤷♀️ can't believe this just happening right front of us.
@@galaktikuszselatinmy thing is why would kiadi mundi of all masters lie about something like that
@@Nickyblicky-n5x yeah, so is he a traitor now? Or how will they explain what he said in TPM? 🤷♀️ And Yoda? He didn't know about it or did he lie too?God, I hate Disney 😭😂
It appears the sequels and this drivel are trolls.
@@Nickyblicky-n5xhe wouldn’t this is the most brain dead writing it’s like they read all the lore and then just said fuck continuity put a chick in it and make it gay.
This episode should have been all about the wookie making stir fry to celebrate life day.
Don't say that too loud, if Disney hears they might think remaking the holiday special might be a good idea.
That Padawan training scene is so stupid. The master just spouts vague nonsense without teaching them anything. It's so lazy.
There are distinct “styles” of lightsaber technique which is why count Duku stances were always so different than the rest of the boys, so it makes sense that they would memorize kata as part of that training.
But yeah they could have actually built upon that lore and taught the audience about that so they didn’t have to read about it in an Encyclopedia while shopping at Costco.
How could that episode cost 24 million. All they did was walk around different places. Nothing happened. Even killing the spider took no effort.
Money laun****ing
I'm still trying to figure out why OSHA's fucking handheld multitool is a droid and not just a multi tool.
IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING BEING A DROID!
CAN'T FUCKING MOVE!!!!!
Juneteenth tax
Tax breaks. Same reason Bat Girl never saw the light of day. Claim a loss, pay less tax.
They spent all their money on a luxury resort in the Philippines duh
It’s hilarious how everyone was hyping up this episode but in reality it was just them hyping up the cliff hanger ending lol
Well technically in old cannon Palpatine did survive, if you count as a vengeful force ghost that eventually came back but had to keep hoping between clone bodies because they would rapidly decay, before Luke or something gave him the ticket to the Sith afterlife where a plethora of spirits of slain and passed Jedi Masters keep him in said Sith afterlife via a never ending battle
Dear Disney, FOR THE LOVE OF DISNEY, please STOP releasing more episodes of The Acolyte creating more damage to the Star Wars brand and to your own company. STOP the insanity, halt all streaming of The Acolyte, press the "DELETE" button on this entire series and FIRE Kathleenn Kennedy/Leslye Headland!!!
Nah I think the acolyte is a step in the right direction because they are letting go of the main franchise which is great but if the shows are this bad then it’s not worth it at all
Someone should follow the money, I smell a rat and some laundering.
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Children express to an island
CCP
Seriously theyres 0 reason they cut the wookie fight scene……
Maintaining a wookie man bun costs a lot of money
The fact that you’re staying throughout all this madness is brave of you. Instant sub! I love your recaps.
Who gets a streaming service with ads? At that point just don’t get the streaming service
They didn’t always have ads, and tbh it’s not worth paying for the adless tier
After watching this series I want to know where the other $179 Million went
Jeff Spicoli spent it all, hiring Van Halen to play at his birthday party.
probably went to pay off Harvey Weinstein's victims
Wish they gave me some of it bc i would smoke it
Maybe the last episode is like 3 hours long
I just realized Osha/Mae’s actor was Rue in the Hunger Games
How far she has fallen
The sisters talking to each other is going to be really weird, I feel it .
Right out of The Parent Trap.
Shot reverse shot.
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The worst trend we are seeing again and again is people who in no way DESERVE their position, keep getting these positions. They are hired in no way based off of talent or skill.. There's no way a show that is this expensive, with this famous of a subject, should have this bad of writing & have this bad of world design, world building. I mean these set designs, aesthetics, overall look & feel of the world & it's visuals as a whole. It's all so surface level. It looks cheap & tacky. On top of everything people have already said, I also think the camera work in this is awful. This show genuinely feels like adults role playing as kids are getting to shot this..
It really feels like it's deliberately going against everything that is Star Wars. It feels deliberately disrespectful to the lore and has no respect to the source material. Are they deathly allergic to having male characters? Are they allergic to quality storytelling, world building, character development.. This is awful! It really seems like whoever is making these doesn't realize Star Wars used to be a really well made world full of diversity. It didn't matter what kind of character, creature, species you were, they found great ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that connect us all on a deeper level.
Things used to take pride in finding creative ways to convey things. To give the audience feelings without overly explaining it. I really miss that. If you go back and watch "X-Men the animated series" It is so well crafted. The story of mutants was so universally relatable. Media back then found ways to abstractly teach me life lessons, touched on difficult situations, found intelligent ways to tell stories. Even when I watched it all grown up it really felt like the story is so well crafted and executed that anyone is able to relate to it in someway or another. It's stuff like that that we are so 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.
They don’t care about any of the nuts and bolts a craft of screenwriting or writing for TV. It’s as if their white or other privilege means they don’t have to follow the traditions or necessary beats of good or even just competent storytelling. It’s outrageous. It’s as if they’re too good to ever read let alone follow any advice from a screenwriting guide book.
You have put far to much effort into your analysis...
It's called failing upwards... and it is the only reward people of the participation trophy era understand!
They are not 'adults role playing as children'... they are adult-children role playing as adult-adults... you can see this by watching children plan and present there own original 'home-made plays'. You watch as an adult, you acknowledge all the flaws, and yet you still clap for them making the effort. When adults do it, you do not! And, as children they react as you would expect, by throwing a tantrum and demanding the respect they got when they were physically young enough to be rewarded for nothing more then effort....
"But 🥺, BuUtT 😢, I was promised a trophy... even if I lose 😭!!!!" 😤😠🤬
The casting couch is stronger with these scissor sisters than it ever was with men.
Well look at it like this! The good news is, we’re half way through the series… the bad news is, we’re only half way through the series.
31:20 10 bucks say’s it’s something like “The way you kill a Jedi without a weapon is by breaking there spirit” though that may be to clever or substantial for the show to deliver on effectively
corny is what it is... a very underused word these days
Cornier than Oprah’s shit after the 4th of July.
Just like Eminem 😂
Everybody boutta go crazy when they find out that Mae isn’t even a real person
What?!? $23 Million for this, this ... this THING!? For under 30 minutes of show of mostly people walking and just finding the Wookie killed off-screen? I can't understand that. This isn't just burning money. Can a literal fire actually burn that amount of physical cash in such a short time? I don't think so. That would also be more fun to watch. I can't wait to see what their next report looks like on August 14th. This isn't a business anymore. My prediction, a massive stock tank. And deserved. The power of maaaaaanyyyyy.
"It's not about the money... It's about sending _the message."_
interplanetary space travel, hovering cars and cycles, literal laser swords, and the jedi use a mole rat as a tracking device
Someone fill me in why at the 8:00 minute mark they are walking across a perfectly (man?) made bridge by someone for no apparent reason that leads to a forest where no one would otherwise dare to go.
I think this says a lot about coddled Hollywood writers. Little practical sense, and they just assume there’ll be a well made bridge and infrastructure wherever they go.
"GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE WITH YOUR COMMON SENSE!" - the writer's room probably
wookie-lightsabre.. the smell of burnt hair would be traumatic
It's pronounced "WOK-EE."
I thought i was tripping when the ep. ended and I saw 1/4 of the unused time-bar still remaining on the screen...smh
Glad you made a point to mention this freaking sitcom length episode.
Who wants to bet episode 5 starts with a flashback and NOT a lightsaber fight?
I don't care. It will be boring.
Exactly the anti-climax we should all expect to subvert our expectations!
No way! I bet 10 dollars
I legit said the same thing to my girlfriend at the end of episode 4
If not a flash back. It's going to open up and the only jedi still alive are sol, jeaki, and yord.
Who else wants the Sith Lord to be jar jar. At this point that would be dope
Did you know in a recent post one of the head writers literally said that they had budgetary issues, this is indicative of the fact that the writers are either liars, or embezzling money, this is also indicative of the fact that Bob Iger cannot keep track of his own funds, or employee's, which is finally indicative of the fact that Disney is doomed if it doesn't have a massive shift in management.
Moving containers out of the ship to put shit in their backpacks made no sense and bothered me until somehow they had a piece of clothe with the wookiees scent on it for the tracker
That’s not even the same group. The pods were the Mae and qimire and the clothe was the Jedi.
After that bug was Disturbed it was curious of what Disturbed it and probably would have flown away. But because Sol couldn't keep his saber in his pants, it was attracted to the light ...and then met its demise.
I love how all the characters are quick to switch up after telling the audience they won’t do this, or accuse another character of that, then they’re just like “okay I change my mind instantly just for the plot”
This is the best review I've seen all day and I've watched like 10 of these 🙌🏻
LET'S GO MY LEGEND
Repeated exposition = the writers assuming the audience is as stupid as them
This is just bad story writing
i wanna know how these writers get their jobs. I wanna participate and provide something better
@@xChikyx Get a tax payer funded student loan, attend way to many university classes on how to use your native language, most importantly have the correct and immutable external characteristics (or just claim that you do believably enough).
I don't subscribe to Rotten Tomatoes, but I would just to leave a review on this unwatchable series. I thought they had already done enough damage with Boba Fett or Obi Wan, but here we went above and beyond. It's like watching an episode of Space Balls. I can't save anything from this series. It's embarrassing how they had such a large budget and managed to pull off something like this. If I signed up for Rotten Tomatoes someone would say I did it on purpose because I'm a toxic fan.
forensic accountants should be hired by Disney, as so far the cost of this trash doesn't add up.
The in house team says it's all good....
I love the show but you made me have such a good time watching this video,you’re hilarious man,great stuff.Amazing video.
“Master squidgame!!”lmao 😂
Tbh I have fun with the show for the wrong reasons but this is the best comment from someone who actually likes it so thanks 😂
Where did the budget for this episode go?
Thank you for critiquing this show for it's writing, it has been very difficult to find critique that didn't rely on me having political alignments.
I just want to hear about why I am having a difficult time enjoying this show, I don't care if anyone is gay, a person of colour or whatever use if pronouns in or around the show.
In fact I like when media has those aspects but THIS show is not terrible for those things, imo, it's terrible for the writing.
Again, great video.
The money blown on this episode would have paid my rent for 1,597 years
It like...
A New Hope; seeing Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru smoldering, and then saying 'Cut!'
The Empire Strikes Back; "Luke...I _AM_ your Father.", 'Cut!'
The Return of the Jedi; "The Shields Still UP!!!!", 'Cut!'
Did no one tell them that in Star Wars the cliffhanger is not the 'first moment of tension' (because that kills the audiences level of tension and engagement), but the moment you realize the repercussions when the tension is resolved. I realize these people have no writing experience, was no one with more around to give them basic advice?!?!
How are you gonna kill the wookie jedi off-screen? A fight scene with him could have given you something positive about this episode. Instead, it killed the only thing i had an interest in still
What were they supposed to cut? The walking and talking or the talking and walking?
Do you honestly think they have the talent to choreograph a wookie lightsaber duel? Guaranteed they they tried but knew it would just add fuel to the fire.
See, a wookie fighting a lightsaber duel leaves little opportunity for the dialogue necessary to prove you can bring home the Bechdel Test trophy...again.
According to a Q&A Hedland didn’t have the money for the fight and felt it distracted from the walking and talking. I’m not even joking. A million dollars a minute and they couldn’t afford the fight everyone obviously wanted most.
I heard the reason they kill him off screen is because they don’t have the budget to show the fight💀
Im convinced that this show was actually 5 or 6 episodes originally, and Disney said "aw hell naw, we need atleast eight episodes". Would explain why each episode only has 30 minutes of actual content, with TONS of filler. Which episode 4 is mostly just filler.
Isn’t Kashyyyk the Home World of the Wookies?
Harry and the Henderson, Harry reused as a Wookie by just adding more hair in the face
Exactly and a man bun😂
No way!!!! Is that the twist?? The obvious guy that’s helping Mae is the obvious bad guy behind the mask?? Wow such great writing, m night shyamalan step aside, there’s a new twist sheriff in town. 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 🤦♂️
I just want a mini series dedicated to droids
some of the critics are shilling, but rotten tomatoes shills harder. just look at some of the reviews they consider fresh : "middle of the road for star wars", "has potential", "not good not bad" - anything that isn't explicitly negative counts as a win in their book.
I'm just confused how convincing a Jedi to end himself is still considered as "using a weapon".
I appreciate these reviews, Stark. I haven't touched a Star Wars property since The Force Awakens. I knew then that Star Wars was headed towards a slow and painful death. It fucking sucks being right sometimes.
Jedi makes contorted faces at the edge of the jungle letting out a small but powerful shudder. "What is it?" Jedi takes a labored breath turns to companion......."I farted."
Your sigh's were an amazing part of this review - they were great - thank you
Thank you 😂
Lesley headlamps wife says something like "how did you not know the poor child survived, poor child ! shes killed 2 Jedi and threatened to murder her sister while burning her home down BUT shes a poor child. and the head witch said the thread is not a weapon , so if evil twin kills master sol with the thread ! is that deal fulfilled and sith lord is mamma witch ?
Dying... omg... most entertaining review I've seen so far, thank you for this :'D Liked and subbed!
Disney shows are 80% filler and 20% lore…
So we didn't even get to really see the wookie jedi alive, another trailer tease just like Jedi Master Trinity.
He will be in a flashback fight scene don’t worry
Did I miss a CGI space battle or a new large scale LED screen. Thought not.
God damnit, my boy shrek doesn’t deserve this disrespect.
Finally I can find out what happened in the episode. Thank you for your continued service.
@25:03 - I am dying laughing over here because LOTR (Two Towers) is exactly what came to mind when I saw this scene as well. Nor was it the first time this show felt like an assembly of recreated scenes ftom other films like the Matrix (Episode #1 - Carrie Ann Moss reprises her role as Trinity); The Color Purple (Mae and Osha play Patty-Cake under the Tree of Life from Avatar
34:59 "I'm sweatin balls in the middle of this goddamn wookie jungle." Slap that on a shitty t-shirt and you got yourself some merch I would buy.
The Acolyte...
Lady Shrek needs acting lessons asap.
_How dare you question nepotism!!!!!_
“We just don’t give a shit” totally felt that sentence and nothing truer has been said
... Also, when did he go "to find the wookie, as yesterday they were on the other planet, and they didn;t know where the wookie was"
Bounty hunters wont set foot in these forests. I hired two and two weeks ago, before your flashback, and the Wookie chased them away. So I know what I'm talking about.
39:56 So... eight Jedi are attacking one person without even talking or saying anything. Ok... "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack."
I think “Red Lightsaber = Attack”
3:20 I remember they had little droids shooting lasers at them to deflect
I dont understand why they still use sticks in thi- Do they not have Training sabers?? Those arent lethal, they're for students before they get their crystal!
Just use normal sabres. If you get run through, pop to see the nurse and you're better in a day!
What's the Acolyte about?
It's great! There's talking, walking, talking, Star Wars cosplaying, talking, spaceships, talking, magic, talking, scenery, more talking, and a smiley Sith. I can't wait for the next episode!
Guy who sounds like Carth Onasi reviews The Acolyte. I've subscribed. XD
Really puts into perspective who actually did the work on Russian Doll (awesome show) like that one coworker who contributed nothing to the project yet insisted on having their name attached.
So they look at Mae, and they determine she MUST have a master, she MUST have been trained, and the way they determine this because there is NO evidence of Smilo Ren outside of us the "audience" seeing "him", is that Mae is SKILLED in using the force and fighting.
So...... Basically they're confirming that Rey should NOT have been able to just do all the crazy shit she did with no training.
You can see the entire house of cards, realizing it has been built on a landslide.
worst part of the flying Sith is "they fly now" doesn't even apply because leslye, being the genius she is, set the show in the past...so it'd be more apropos to say "They flew then?" even tho no other Jedi or Sith would use this ability in the future...if only Sidious had it maybe that'd give a rational reason to how he survived
Its been 4 episodes and i have yet to see mei kill one single person, oh whats that? She threw a knife at trinity? Well dis she finish her off? No she just left? A butter knife killed a jedi master? Ive seen a girl get stabbed threw the liver with a lightsaber and be back on her feet after a power nap so dont tell me shes dead,the second guy commited suicide so that doesnt count he could have easily just stab himself woth his lightsaber but oh right those dont kill people so maybe poison is the only way to kill a jedi? That and holes in your plot armor.
"I'm staying for you guys"
o7s in the chat boys
Shitty comic book bad guy floats to the floor "Wanna know how I got these welds?"
Way back in the early 2000s, my friend borrowed his dads's camcorder; and we got everyone together to make a starwars movie. It's maybe 10 minutes long, and it ends with Darth Vader beating the Jedi with a bow and arrow, and then randomly dying because someone farted and his mask couldn't filter it out.
Our production quality was what you'd expect for a bunch of elementary school kids; but we spent at least 20 minutes writing a script. I'm guessing our script probably made more sense than this shit.
Mundi= Sith.
Still alive.
Will FINALLY reveal his Darth side in the Rey movie.
Only thing that will make sense.
He's gotta kill EVERYONE off on this show. That way he can keep denying the Sith existing so he can get that counsel seat. Then use all the powers in that big ass head too force hide Palts from the rest of the Jedi.
That..... would almost make me watch the show lol..... almost.
They would ruin the rule 2 also.
@mentallyripped5274 Why stop now?
He could be a Sith adjacent.
@@dandreray1602 as far as I’m concerned, if the EU isn’t canon, neither is this show.
Since the force runs in families it would have been really easy and believable to just say it was Mundi grandfather or great grandfather.😂
Walmart kouti followed by yea no shit Sherlock had me dying
Lady Shrek kills me 😂
Sister Coral Reef killed everyone. She set up the Jedi. OR, the Jedi were ordered by a ypung Ki-Adi-Mundi to delete the dark force users. One or the other. Smylo Ren is nobody. Black lady hand. Not tall. Cant be Koral. Cant be Star Anisaya. Mae is on a death quest, then just on a dime says, "Nevermindsies. Im tottally flipping with no reason. Osha is framed for Kal-Nakka's death. Quimir found a helmet and saber in the Sith temple (Brendok). The master is Plageus. The Quimir is a DJ from Jacksonville. Blah. This episode could have fed sooooo many hungry, but Lesby Headno needs to make her own therapy session
“Lesby Headno”
I wouldn't have come across this channel (through this video), if it weren't for this delicious train crash called The Acolyte. You're amazing: witty AND objective. I know this channel's gonna get huge in the future! Keep up the good work!
Holy moly thanks for the love here
The fellowship of the Thread - best scene so far! And how could they not fllow that raccoon? Even that former padawan let us know that she can sense life by using the force by now. That had only been few minutes before.
There was a clone wars episode where three younglings were being hunted Predator style by by a gang of Trandocian lizard people. One of the padawans was the same race as Ki Adi Mundi. This basically tells us his race has a similar life cycle and length of life as humans.
The Sith is one of Osha's parents. I believe it to be the leader of the coven. It's the way she looked at OSHA when she floated.
They float! They ALL float!
2:00 I have no complaints about the training, to be honest. Practicing katas is training, and the trainees moves are impressively crisp. Its clearly form 3 without outright shoving it in the audience's face, and its clear that they are well trained. One of the few good bits of the episode.
Listen to the dialogue it’s so generic and doesn’t even relate to what they are practicing in a meaningful way. Glad you enjoyed but for most of us it was corny and wasted
@@Stark-CinemaFair. I like the practice choreography, I think it speaks to how skilled the Jedi are and it characterizes them better than a sparring match would. But the dialogue is bad, yes. It doesn't match the padawans' actions at all; it's a lesson they are already proving they don't need to learn.
And the later inclusion of the actual line "No one could have survived that" is worth so many negative points it made me genuinely angry.
None of those Jedi wanted to question Sol on what happened? Green bean brought up that she’s targeting the Jedi that were stationed on her planet but they don’t question the guy who was there?
Also last episode we learned that the witch planet wasn’t apart of the republic so why were the Jedi stationed there anyway
Jedi temple has one room. This makes sense though as Coruscant has a population totaling less than Ki Adi's Mundi's lifespan.
“Fangorn Forest- what madness drove them into there?”
-Gimli, LOTR TTT
Edit: subscribed! You’re hilarious 😂
Stark. I’ve been waiting for this since last Wednesday. You’re the best
Bro's been waiting a week for something that came out yesterday 💀
@@shinyhunterchris I think he means like he can't wait for each week's new episode breakdown
@@StonyStark Oh wait yeah you're right I'm kinda dumb
It's obviously a woman in the villains costume. I'm hoping it Lesly when the mask comes off
I have never been a fan of those martial arts when people fight with the air and act like they are accomplishing something. Same thing here.
The logistics here make no sense, as is custom with the Acolyte. Mae and Totally-Not-Smilo know where they're headed and thus presumably land closer to the target, have a head start and seem to actually try to move swiftly through the forest, but the Jedi still arrive at the same place a minute later when they're taking the scenic route at a slower pace.
I cannot believe the Rotten Tomatoes score of 14%, but 14% ??!? No way it wasn't 16%, MAYBE even 17% favorable. What have we become?? May the thread be with you.
Darth maul surived being cut in half but im not sure what Palpatine fell into
I love the Acolyte, especially when Darth Wataryu reveals himself.
Me too!