So BAD it BROKE me! What the HELL was THAT!! Acolyte episode 5 Review - Star Wars
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"Disney screwed up so bad that South park had to make a serious documentary."
PUT ANOTHER GAY, DIVERSE WOMAN IN IT!!! MAKE IT MORE F@&$ING LAME!!!
I like how the show tries to imply that letting a man get eaten alive by alien bugs is better than just killing him. Executing a murderer/war criminal -> wrong, letting him get eaten by Giant Moth monsters -> good. We know he lives at the end but the fact that the 'good' guys thought that was right/proper is funny.
It's even worse than that. It's not letting him get eaten by bugs but causing him to get eaten by bugs. They just tried to kill him with extra cruelty, not to mention lose of life of the bug as he defends himself.
More Cruel. More Death. Less Humane: The jedi way!
It really seems to be a problem with modern writing. It happened in Doctor Who as well when Jodies doctor agrued with a trump stand in that shooting the giant spiders was unjustifiable because even if they were killing people they are just doing what animals do so we should just lock them in a room to starve to death instead. And in the same season, sealed the main villian in a stasis, that is in his own words, is for his victims to "suffer for eternity" rather than have one of the companions shooting him to avenge his wife because guns are bad.
The people that write this are clueless or immoral.
I personally think this is potentially good writing. If we as the audience find issues with what the “good guys” do, then it points towards how they are possibly hypocrites. It’s like how the Jedi in the prequels were really incompetent and arrogant, underestimating Palpatine until it was way too late. The “good guys” aren’t always moral in their actions. I haven’t watched the acolyte yet tho as I’m waiting for the episodes to come out and binge.
@@darrenkimberly2648One was intentional this isn't
@@darrenkimberly2648 That's a fair point, if the story acknowledges it as a flaw with a character or raises it as a difference in opinion between two characters, allowing the audience to have that discussion with themselves/others, but not so much if it just blanket declares it the better option without agruing the opposing side or giving justification for why it is the better option. Which is unfortunitely what happened in the examples i gave and seems to have happened in this show aswell (granted we have not seen the whole show, maybe the next episode will have them discuss what happened in this one and have the ethics of what they did to smilo ren be apart of that). A UA-camr by the name of Jay Exci did a season breakdown of doctor who and they did a good good explaning this, it's like an 5 hour long video lol but it's in the timestamp labeled "the doctor is always right" if you want a better idea of what i'm talking about.
It's not about good and evil, it's about power, and who is allowed to wield it..... bugs are an oppressed group (remember the leftist take on hell divers) so of course it is okay when they do it.
Monday: Padawan practicing with sticks.
Tuesday: Same padawan dual wielding against a Sith, doing a better job than 10 Jedi Knights.
shit is insane...she was literally a better fighter than anyone else lol
@@takuidthe acolyte writer's are whack 😂
why even sticks? where are the training sabers? getting used to a stick will not be helpful when you regularly fight with a weapon that has only weight in the grip
Disney SW is garbage but Elite fighters use 16 oz gloves to hit pads days before they fight with smaller gloves to hit real people trying to hit them back.
It’s called drilling. It’s normal in all martial arts to drill with gear you won’t use in a fight to help refine technique.
At least they showed her training.
The prob with Disney SW is crap story telling, malicious disregard of source material and destruction of legacy characters. Sure it might have been over the top but a padwans holding their own in a duel is not what’s wrong with SW.
@@fl4shblade There are some merits for training with wooden stand ins. For instance you minimize the risk of injury (even if the training sabres aren't lethal to counteract that point), they help with mindfullness of the blade, as swinging around something with weight is better for memorizing the moveset than with just the hilt for force feedback. If the individual moves shown would've been more dynamic instead of a kendo warm up ordered on wish didn't help the scene at all.
When Smilo was helmetless Sol didn't read his mind anyway...just asked him like 20 questions.
What was there to read? He's a sith, he wants jedi to die and to use his powers freely for... something. I'm surprised he even bothered with the helmet.
@@Alknix How very convenient it was, that Sol didn't read his mind in episode 3. Only asked questions. Also very convenient that they didn't take him into custody right away, for helping killing a jedi. Great writing, what can I say.
@@Hitman-cq2yw Ah, but he was a goofy sniveling sidekick back then - they get a free pass to escape until the very end when they get their comeuppance. This is why he was so dangerous - he mastered not just the Force but the Tropes as well!
Smile Ren knows how to hide his power level. Unfortunately, they killed the mystery and thus subsequent episodes have no draw.
Isn't that helmet thing like with Magneto and Dr. Xavier?! So Mickey lend it from the X Men and gave it to Star Wars?!
I still cannot believe they named a character Osha, but then it occurs to me that people like Disney probably never deal with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) because they do not care about that kind of thing.
It's because they just used 'Osha Mae' beauty products as inspiration and didn't think beyond that. So I guess if a man had done the same they'd be 'Anheuser' and 'Busch'.
They named the twins after a soap company. Osha Mae
@@deathsdoor07 I think that's even worse.
They are named after the two children flanking Baphomet. The witches in the flashback episode's ceremony invoke their full names, during the creepy yet hilarious ritual. Those names are just the short version. These Hollywood types are cultists, and the lesbian-witch stuff is a literal self insert. Look it up if you think I'm making crazy-talk. Look at the statues in New York, look at powerful figures like Fauchi throwing up signs of the old gods like Baphomet in public. These people are mocking us, and hiding in plain sight, as is their creed.
The more you know 🤔
So if the Jedi had arrested him for murdering the pharmacist or giving Mae the poison they'd have discovered his ID long ago.
You cannot arrest a goofy sniveling sidekick in the 2nd episode! They get away to maybe get their comeuppance in the very end. This is why the sith was so dangerous! He mastered the power of the Trope!
Yes, but the Jedi had read the script and knew dumbass Headlund didn't want them to find out yet. That's also why they didn't use the Force to (attempt to) read his mind. The Plot Armour is about a mile thick with this one.
These JEDI are a joke. Pathetic, well the writing is.
Yeah. So when something stupid happens. He's needed for the plot later. Which is what gave him away that early. You lock onto stupid writing and start asking. Why would a bad writer do this... OOOOH. He's helmet dude. Watch the defense for this. Oh, well you all complained when Rain Johnson subverted your expectations. Now I made it the obvious person in the room. You're just bad fans. Both instances are stupid. We don't want stupid. We want proper logical mysteries and story progression. Not Finn being turned into a joke. Or discount Ezra Miller not being arrested.
Watch it. The shills are going to explain this away that he used a mind trick on the fat Jedi to make sure he wouldn't get arrested.
So the Acolyte is in fact a Lovecraftian entity. Watching it brings utter madness.
I was SCREAMING at the screen, I had to stop myself after a while coz I didn’t want my neighbours gettin worried 😂
Much like Lovecraft Country, the writers decided to adapt the racism but not the more interesting bits.
You lose sanity points with every episode
@@nicolaspeigne1429 Well it is actually intelligence points that you lose. It feels like sanity. But the show is trying to dumb you down to the creators level.
IA! IA! CTHULHU FHTGAN!!!
Wow, I can’t believe the villain was Halbrand all along. I did not see that plot twist coming.
Halbrand was a better actor. Smylo Renn is just a plank.
One thing you missed is the whole giant bug thing. It's honestly bizarre - first Yord goes through the forest with his lightsaber on (for some reason), and bugs don't attack. Then Osha shines her flashlight up, and they see the bugs, but the bugs don't attack. Then, I guess, she leads them back to the fight, where several people swing lightsabers without the bugs reacting, then she PINS THE FLASHLIGHT ON SITH'S back, and the guy who's just been flinging jedi left and right ineffectually tries to reach it, like it's fucking Looney Toons, and then the bugs suddenly attack him, and instead of just slicing them he lets them grab him and carry him away.
He can toss a good dozen trained Jedi knights and at least one Master but he can't push away a couple big bugs.
He’s a good guy, he doesn’t want to hurt animals like those despicable Jedi who kill them without a second thought
He loves nature 🤔
Apparently force push/grab doesn't work on things stuck to your back.
@@jacollins2010 He could've sliced it off with his lightsaber or just fell on his back and crushed it with his weight.
Anti force material would go both ways. It may block his thoughts from being read but it would also block his ability to use the force to react to the future. It would make him fight like a normal person, in theory.
True
Everyone knows a tin foil hat only works one way.
That's not how the force works.this comment section is star wars: dunning Kruger edition jfc
Qui-Gon & Obi-wan vs Maul is how you do a one person fighting multiple people at one time.
Exactly, there are some differences between fight scene and slaughter scene
Girlboss Padawan meets Sith master: "Nah, I'd win."
Yes. And they even manage power scale because it’s more dangerous when Qui-gon gets separated and has to battle Maul alone.
Excellent choreography and stakes simply shown through skill.
What made this fight great was Maul stayed on the back foot until he separated Qui-Gon from Obi-wan, then he became more aggressive in his attacks. He realized that he was not going to win a two vs one head on.
Best fighting scene, in my opinion.
Well that was hilarious.
- Good twin wakes up in a forest, trips and lands next to a body she somehow didn't see before
- Suddenly she hears a HUGE loud battle that's right next to her that she didn't hear at all just couple seconds ago?
- Bad guy abandons jedis he's trying to kill just to chase the Good Twin and tries to hill her (even tho he spared her in the last episode). Only to... spare her again at the end of the episode?
- Bad guy tries to kill the Bad Twin but instead of killing her he has a long monologue where he uses her as a hostage for no reason at all
- Good Twin runs away leaving the bad guy and the black jedi behind. Suddenly Sol (or whatever his name is) and the black jedi appears... in front of her? How does that work? Are they using portals now? Also what was Sol doing there? Did he run away from the big battle?
- Bad twin that tried to surrender in the last episode now tries to murder jedi girl when she's trying to arrest her? Is everyone bi-polar in this show?
- Good twin stops Sol from killing the bad guy just to... try and murder him with bugs?
- Bad twin was stunned for like 15 seconds lmao
- Bad twin leaves Good twin (that she just tried to save couple minutes ago) on the ground knowing the bad guy is still there and he wants to kill her sister
- People keep punching the bad guy in his metal helmet
- Helmet that blocks lightsabres suddenly just brakes in half?
- Why other siths never used that magical metal that turns off lightsabers?
On top of that, the acting simply was terrible...
All accurate except Jacinto is a solid actor
Yeah, that escalated quickly. Brick killed a guy with a trident.
"Helmet that blocks lightsabres suddenly just brakes in half?"
Cortosis can short out lightsabres but physically it's very brittle and fragile.
"Why other siths never used that magical metal that turns off lightsabers?"
Because it's extremely rare and expensive.
@@Wright805 No matter how rare it is, it would still be used by some powerful and rich sith lord but we never seen that before in movies. And if it's so rare and hard to find, how did some nobody sith who hides for most of his life got his hands on it? Enough of it to build a helmet? If he could do it, why Vader or Palp never tried finding it? They literally had all the money and resources in the galaxy.
Why not cover their armor with a thin layer of it? Why mot make bullets out of it? A bullet covered with this material would kill literally ANY jedi in the galaxy, it's extremely op. And don't say it's too brittle... if you can make a helmet, dagger or a sword (from the lore you quoting here), it would be strong enough to make a bullet.
The choreography of the fights themselves was actually pretty bad, even horrendous within the context of what they themselves established and in the context of the Star Wars movies and previous established lore.
When Smylo grabbed Mae as a human shield and Sol disarmed himself, I shouted, "That's Mae, not Osha, you idiot!"
Think if this were in the Clone Wars. If Dooku did that to Ventress, Anakin and even Obiwan would be quipping about it at her expense. She trusted Dukoo so...
The Jedi will make anyone a master those days.
@@chazzitz-wh4ly But the poor chosen one can't be on the council because drama lol
On the bright side the bar is no longer a tripping hazard it is underground
To this point the devil is at risk of tripping on it. And it can still go deeper lol
It's poisoning the groundwater.
@@LucasR.O
He's clotheslined himself way more than once on the bar
Then explain how I tripped on my morning jog & torn open my pants & knees? That damn bar got me...washing out/off my knees I don't think will feel good....
It's in hell dude
The Sol jedi unarmed rule makes no sense here. We literally see the sith guy bare handed snap yord guys neck and he has the force with his hands and can deactivate lightsabers with his arms. How is he unarmed. People try to compare this with anakin on mustafar and dooku in revenge of the sith. But thing is anakin and dooku had no hands in those scenes. 😂
It's just dumb setup/writing in Acolyte. There was nothing in that moment that made me feel he should be spared, or given any room to maneuver.
Obi wan rightfully thought Anakin was going to die on Mustafar. Whereas Dooku had no hands, he was basically incapacitated and could have easily been arrested.
Dooku only lost that fight because his lightsaber had erectile disfunction.
Isn't any dangerous animal, like the wampa in ESB, technically unarmed?
Got a point. However, Jedi usually doesn't go for the killing blow. They usually do all that to subdue the opponent. That's what Shii-Cho is mainly for, too. If they leaned more into killing the man out of anger, that would've been better.
Exactly! Do a little trimming on those limbs first and it's all fine.
Smilo Ren isn’t testing May… he’s testing the audiences patience
Casual watchers have some patience. Fans like Shad have long since run out, and they've been running on fumes for a long time now.
So wait, Mae went from wanting to kill jedi, to wanting to surrender, and now she's back on her revenge kick again?
Even the writers don't fucking know.
Mae stated explicitly her loyalty was to Osha, to the point she was willing to turn herself into the Jedi and betray a Sith "lord", I personally think he's the student, not the master, there's NO way the horny lesbemum is dead. However, she then immediately impersonates Osha (that'd NEVER work) and leaves this sister she's SO loyal to to be murdered by either bugs or Smylo Ren. She has NO reason to believe nothing would just eat Osha while she's unconscious, and if Smylo survives, she has no reason to believe he'd let Osha LIVE. The Jedi's entire job was to capture Mae, and they just leave who they think is Mae unconscious but alive on the forest floor for literally no reason.
The writers don't have a clue.
That is because Mae is a raging Drama Queen who just says shit and play games to get attention.
But she never really means it.
Remember that this show is written by cat ladies.
Terrible lazy writing at it's finest....
Poorly ran D&D campaign with player characters forgetting their motivations.
When you need Jedi Knights but you get JeDEI hires
J.ustice (social)
E.quity
D.iversity
I.nclusion Knights
Cortosis in the EU, was a naturally brittle material. While it would short out a lightsaber, the saber could over time, cut through it, and blunt force would easily shatter it. Luke and Mara were able to use their sabers to cut through a stone wall that had veins of Cortosis threaded through it. It took time, but it was doable.
If it's brittle, it would do nothing to stop a lightsaber period.
The EU is retarded too, it's not automatically perfect. This material just doesn't make sense regardless. This "Oh but it's also brittle" is just a retarded workaround so it's not just Beskar+ because it'd be unbreakable AND turn off lightsabers, which makes no sense. You can't "short" a lightsaber by hitting the BLADE, that doesn't make any kind of sense.
Making it conditionally rare is also just bad writing, it's like "Oh it's SO incredibly rare, but also we'll pull out entire armor pieces and stuff made out of it."
Also also if it can be easily destroyed by just hitting it with a rock, then it's FUCKING WORTHLESS because it's not effective ARMOR.
This material is nonsense in and out of the EU.
Exactly. So good to see someone who actually knows things.
Veins are not the same as the actual fully produced material. There is no justification for the stupid way they used the helmet or what he had on his arm. It was beyond stupid.
@rpgadventurer32 Oh, I'm not even gonna try to justify anything in the acolyte. If anything I'm pointing out how they were too lazy to even follow the basic lore.
Didn’t think I’d see a reference to that book! I don’t remember what it’s called but I loved it
Cortosis only briefly shorts the lightsaber. It's an off/on situation. Even so, Cortosis itself is exceedingly rare, and in actual lore, the Jedi actually have legal rights to all lightsaber crystal and Cortosis mines throughout the Republic. They still managed to make it lame, somehow.
Lol it's Disney.
Lame is in the name.
Not to mention that it’s also a pretty brittle metal, so once it fulfills its purpose as armor, it’s unlikely it will function as suitable armor afterwards
Vibroblades are made with a cortosis weave. The cortosis weave allows the vibroblade to be used against a lightsabre without it being cut in half, never seen anything about it being able to short out a lightsabre. This is lore from KoToR, never seen cortosis mentioned otherwise.
@@Notsure520 I've seen a few, namely the Darth Bane novel. He was a cortosis miner. I think I saw a couple other references. But I'm having a hard time remembering where exactly.
@@Notsure520 there was a comic in which some Jedi were hunting Vader, or maybe visa versa, and one of the Jedi had a cortosis dagger which did exactly what it does here, shorts out lightsaber blades for a short time, Vader then proceeds to take it from the Jedi Assassin and kills like five other Jedi with it so it's definitely a thing that has been mentioned before but they definitely still made it lame.
So I guess the power of many didn’t work against the bad guy?
That comment just is perfect
That thumbnail said it all. When shad turns into A balrog game over.
Get better soon guys.
or Tyranth a Super Saiyan.
Balrog Mode activate
52:45 Forget reading her mind - what about her freaking FOREHEAD tatoo! She isn't afraid to expose herself by accidentally swinging her hair? And Sol doesn't think to check her forehead just in case?
YES!!! THATS WAS THE FIRST THING I WAS THINKING!!
I was like WTF!!
If they were smart they would have had her take the lightsaber and burn that mark then she could just say she was attacked and wounded!
But No!!
Also, I bet they will not find out its Mae by her tattoo, but by the dumb little robot that the Beaver thing just happened to find.
That thing will try talking to Mae or she will need to fix it and can't, and that will be the thing that tips them off!
So Damn Stupid!!
Yuuuup
She can't even hide it with her hair. Hair does not form an impenetrable wall, especially when it's BRAIDED. You would absolutely be able to see her large force brand through her fucking dreadlocks.
Which makes it even more stupid Trinity Jedi didn't see her obvious brand and go "Oh shit Mae's alive. Jedi Temple, Osha's twin sister Mae is alive, she's a force assassin now." Cause she knows who both of them are, and even if whoever's listening to her doesn't know what she means, they'd ask Sol when Osha is identified like "Who's Mae? What did Trinity Jedi mean?" and he'd go "Oh shit, Osha's innocent we need to find young oldman and wookie jedi!"
He's not the master. He's the apprentice. He's trying to find his own apprentice to overthrow his master. His actual master will be one of the mothers. Enter the conflict within Mae/Osha when faced with her mother. So dumb.
Calling it now, he is a young Darth Sidious and the Asian dude is Darth Plagueis.
@@Dragonk116 Yeah, I got to the force healing part and I hate it that I realised the potential of what they could be doing here. I hate it, and don't want to think about it. If they had written it all better, sequels and all, I might have even loved every piece of it. But while I don't care anymore, the next episodes will be revealed one way or another, which makes it hard to avoid it. So we shall see.
@@Dragonk116 what sucks is that would be awesome in the right hands.
The crappiest thing about "helmet protecting thoughts" is that he is so powerful that he masked himself previously with no problem, nobody even sensed him and now he is concerned about mind reading?!!!??
i think you dont understand what he means by that.when you dont know who is in front on you you cant use anything against your ennemy.once he reveal himself your may find the weak point of this ennemy because you know him.the hemlet himself do not protect him like magneto.
@@wassal yeah but it must be beskar because it sure as fuck deflected a lightsabre like it was nothing. Beside it was always implied that you can't mind read a force user because they just tend to be that incontrol of their faculties. Maybe you get vague feelings or emotions but not much else. So all this talk about the helmet in the show is just woo woo fluff that meant to sound cool but means fuck all to anything important
@@wassal Cause they don't know the lore. Once you've connected on an emotional level, the force torments you if you are doing bad thing, that's why it corrupts you to stay on the dark side and push for more power.
The helmet is cortosis, not beskar and them introducing it is really stupid
@@yagamifire7861 yeah oddly enough was it mentioned in the show? Asking because if it doesnt appear on screen its not cannon according to some " critics/fans". I think it the show is pretty underwhelming at best and thinks it's much more ground breaking and smart than it has any right to be.
He's obviously Darth Plaegious. It's his origin story of how he learned about the circle of life from his master, the witch mother of the twins who we learn about next episode
I deeply hope not but something tells me you’re gonna be correct
if this is true, we are truly lost
Ah yes because no way Plageius could learn something on his own without the help of a powerful woman 😂
@@KaneMeadowsGaming indeed, how could he? :P
@CatSixty6 It's just comical at this point lol
The EU will never die ✊️
A bunch of Masters, Knights, Padawan, and ASSASSINS, 7.5 Forms of Lightsaber Combat, Poisons, Martial Arts, the Force, and Weapons
Trees everywhere for tactical use in a low visibility environment where Lightsabers SHOULD be hindered by the bug's swarming
NONE of them used consistently and ZERO Tactical Decisions made, just run in and flail about or hand-to-hand one at a time
Sol legit drew back the LIGHTSABER to behead Smilo like a single-edged weapon, RIGHT PASSED HIS HEAD, stopping for monologue😂
Don't forget to scream with rage and lose control when you fight; because you've spent your life training for this, and have been taught to master your emotions to the point where you live a celibate life, estranged from your family, so you can stay calm.
Only 2 things make it sensible: 1: Qimir was playing mind games with Sol 2: Sol feared getting taken over by the Dark Side
I can excuse anything that has to do with lightsabers being weilded like swords (the beheading part). Star wars has been consistent in portraying lightsabers that way, so while it's dumb, it's just as dumb in every other installment. Everything else you said is true tho.
The writers don't think we are as stupid as them, they think we are more stupid than them. It's so blatant in the interview where they laugh because its the gayest star wars.
Imagine regurgitating bullshit you heard online that's not actually true.
Here is what I learned in life, stupid people don’t know they’re stupid. Arrogant stupid people believe they are more intelligent than everyone else. smart people know what they don’t know and make efforts to learn.
_"The choreography is horrible"_
Yes, that was exactly my reaction when the red guard sprang into action to defend Snoke. Instead of some feared, well trained best of the best, they all went into crazy dance moves which were never going to be anything but ineffective and stupid.
It’s because daisy ridley couldn’t master the choreography
I am just amazed at how they had to write the Jedi as too dumb to live. If they are supposed to be police, make them police. If they are trained to operate in an army, use tactics. Gang up on a single target. Disarm, hold limbs, bind, throw them up in the air, etc. Anakin is trained enough in Episode 2 that he can fight a trained assassin and act as bodyguard.
If someone's using the force, with a lightsaber and armor, assume they are prepared to kill, and will not play nice.
The insufferable way they managed lightsaber-breaking material, he's got all of the plot armor. He can now appear in the middle of coruscant and kill every jedi in the building.
They literally let Palpatine, hookup, and Sifo scheme right in there faces, the Jedi have been dumb.
Sife dias didnt even know of the plan, he was a fucking victim!
And the jedi didnt know about the plan BECAUSE SITHS HAD BEEN INACTIVE FOR 1000 YEARS AS THEY WORKED IN THE SHADOWS.
also that is beyond flase, obi wan investigated, yoda himself investigated it was just that their foes were smarter and covered their tracks rather well or used the situation to their advantage, its a WHOOOOOLE different thing and context, learn to contextualize
@michelecastellotti9172 qui gon fucking told them, and they still didn't believe it. If jedi are supposed to he able to tell twins apart telepathically, then they should most definitely feel a dark side force user, especially after a jedi master told them he fucking saw one!!
@michelecastellotti9172 they didn't have to know about a "PLAN", when Qui Gon clear day said he saw a sith.
@@jroo272011they expressed doubt due to Sith having been gone for a thousand years, but promised to look into it properly. And then events moved too fast for them to uncover everything before Naboo.
From that point they knew it was a Sith but Palps was able to cover his tracks well enough to hide what he was up to.
I will die on the hill that the Jedi didn’t fall or fail. They were trapped and overwhelmed in a perfect checkmate that they could never escape.
Okay but Shad as a mix between a Super Sayan and a Ghost Rider on the thumbnail was quite hilarious XD
You know things are getting Far Beyond Atrocious when he goes way past just the angry bright red eyes!
Looks like the Jedi went to the Assassin's Creed school of combat: one at a time while the others do nothing.
I see Shad embraced the frenzied flame.
Ah don t you know its honourable to go one at a time? Lol
The problem is the producers, writers and actors don't understand anything about storytelling, mythology, character development, plot, versimilitude or.. well.. anything.
Leslye Headland looks at her Osha Mae soap and thinks: "I should name my main characters Osha and Mae."
Those are the short names for the two children flanking Baphomet. The flashback episode calls them by their full satanist names during the ritual. This is self insert and Hollywood cultists hiding in plain sight.
That witch doesn't use soap
Thank you for noticing the tree thing!!! I actually laughed out loud at this scene, they forgot physics existed LOL, the trees weren't even overhanging the way they fell or anything, it was so messed up
Mad they started at the bottom and worked their way down
there is bottoms all the way down
I saw the episode with Nerdrotic. The moment Sol decides to show mercy to the JEDI KILLER AND VILLAIN, I was like...
"Of course. This is a Disney show..."
I hate Disney Star Wars...
Sol will prob be both Qimir and the sister's father, somehow. Doubt the horned mother actually carried them.
It's like they forget that Luke spared Vader bc he was his father and didn't want to give in to the hate behind the killing, and Obi-Wan and Yoda's explicit directions were actually to kill off Vader. Mace Windu swung on the unarmed Palpatine. Jedi absolutely can kill unarmed opponents if they're big enough threats (like Force users often are) or if it's "in the moment" of battle.
My SIX year old son said to me, "this isnt Star Wars Daddy, I dont like it"... Nor do I son, I dont like it either...
There is a lot of occult stuff in this and very questionable moral themes..... I wouldn't let me 6 year old watch this.
@@viperstriker4728 Underrated point
@@viperstriker4728lmao…
@@viperstriker4728you probably think Pokémon are demonic
@@mattmurphy7030 Pokemon contains Shinto stuff. Personally I am a Christian and not a Shintoist, but I wouldn't have an issue letting my kids play Pokemon.
But Pokemon doesn't contain occult stuff. The occult is not something I mess with.
The fights were soooo stupid. A master bested by a lame dagger misdirection in ep 1. Now a wooden sword trained padawan gives it to what is supposed to be a mega powerful Sith who killed multiple Jedi by himself. Riiiight. Wtf. At least that annoying character is dead now. Agree with you guys. Utterly dumb shite all over the place.
That force push at the end of the last episode made it absolutely ridiculous. It’s like all these force users have no connection to the force and can’t tell if someone else does. Nowhere in any movie, book, or game has anyone been able to rag-doll another skilled user let alone 1/2 a dozen of them at once.
Smylo is a more powerful Jedi and fighter than Maul, Sidious, Dooku, Yoda, Vader, Skywalker…. So stupid
This is exactly what drove me crazy
The dude would have to be more powerful than Bane or Exar or Palps...then never does it again
I mean... Dooku did it more than once, to Anakin in Episide 2 with his lightning, and Obi Wan in 3 with a choke, then throw. Im not defending this show in the slightest, but just... yeah... bit of a stickler for details. Some of the games and books have similar feats... nothing as atrocious as this by any means
Also Obi Wan got force pushed by Maul
@@Jeartozer those examples are also recognized as wonky or are all with someone off guard. These were Jedi charging an enemy Force-user
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To be fair to the show (as much as I am lothe to) they were also caught off guard, expecting Mae and not a Sith Lord (who canonically shouldnt exist). Granted their guard should have been up more, and they shouldnt have been the ones rushing him, but still yeah. Could have been done much better for sure.
The MMO The Old Republic cinematics have some of the greatest Light saber fights ever committed to film. Better story telling too 😂
It's like they cared about Star Wars and wanted it to be the baddest mofo in any universe. Loved Old Republic. So epic. Played the eff out of it.
If it is cortosis (which is probably not) the material is toxic to the touch and is extremely rare in lore. Which is why droids mostly are equipped with it, there are characters that use it but they make modifications to prevent them from poisoning themselves.
cortosis is a big thing in the Thrawn: Alliances novell, and a smaller role in the A New Dawn novell both part of the current cannon.
.cortosis being poisonous is only mentioned in legends content.
It's space Asbestos
@@edwinsuijkerbuijk5106”legends” is a made up Disney word. It’s called the EU and it’s canon
In the immortal words of Paul Blart: "Nobody wins with a headbutt"
Or it turns out that OSHA was the real evil twin that killed the 'mothers', and mai 'takes the blame'
It’s possible but that’s equally boring.
Their a cult of lesbian witches.... is killing them actually evil?
Nothing could top the trenchcoat scene in Kenobi...but i admit that master Squid Game SPARING Smilo comes really close
Don't forget the 8 year old Leia somehow outrunning 3 fully grown adult men... it's a wonder Disney didn't just input Benny Hill music in that scene it was so stupid
you're right Shad - every action after Sol spares Smilo is his fault - BUT - Sol let him go when he clearly participated in the poisoning AND likely killed the apothecary - so ALL the deaths are his fault.
Good point actually and he never bothered to read his mind back then? As some commenters pointed out, rightfully...
So the Acolyte pulled a Ruin Johnson and introduced material that fundamentally breaks the internal consistency of the setting?
I'm shocked, shocked! Well, not that shocked.
It's not really introducing much more reintroducing cortosis which in legends does a feedback in lightsaber with a certain circuit in it and and like beskar it's pretty rare, flakes easily, and is not used much else other than to stop lightsabera
No. Cortosis has been part of Star wars for like 30 years
If they was such technology that could block light sabers 100 years ago, imagine what kind of anti Jedi tech now
@@lucianoDoni1 Nope. Cortosis was always rare and by the time of the Prequels it was even rarer.
@@lucianoDoni1 the trick with cortosis is it wasn't useful for anything other than to stop lightsabers until refined for armor otherwise it was very fragile. Plus it is very bad at taking baster shots
So Mae is going to pretend to be Osha...
if only there was someway to tell the twins apart like as if one has a magical swirl on her forehead and the other doesn't...
Maybe that's the plot twist. Her hair has covered her forehead most of the show. They might reveal that Mae was the unmarked one the whole time
OK: the 'reveal' of the 'bad guy' here is IDENTICAL to how the 'Lord of the Rings' Galadriel as a super sword fighter, on a raft with a 'weak male who is a smith' who turns out to be Sauron. This TV show was created by females who never watched Star Wars but you can BET they did watch the Galadriel TV movies! They imitated that totally on EVERY LEVEL.
Keep in mind, Mae stated explicitly to Asian Ezra that the Jedi WOULD NOT imprison her, for TELLING THEM who she knew, specifically she says WHO I know, so presumably she'd just tell them where she meets up with her master who they already know she doesn't know his identity.
So she's convinced TELLING them about this guy they already know about, will pardon her after MURDERING 2 JEDI MASTERS! Among other shit.
However, when a bunch of Jedi are attacked BY the person she was going to tell them about, she DOESN'T think helping to fight AGAINST this guy, would do ANYTHING for her being pardoned. Instead, what she does, is fight AGAINST the Jedi!! Who for SOME REASON are trying to ARREST her when there's a FUCKING SITH CHOPPING THROUGH THEM! Priorities!!
Also, Asian Ezra says he needs the helmet to block mind reading, which means Jedi can just automatically read even a SITH'S mind and I guess they can't resist it!? SO WHY DIDN'T THEY MIND READ ASIAN EZRA WHEN THEY CAUGHT HIM AT THE APOTHECARY'S!? THEY COULD HAVE SOLVED ALL OF THIS IF THEY JUST DID THEIR BLOODY JOBS CORRECTLY!!
"it's game changing, if this exists in the universe every scum or villain will be having it on their hand to easily incapacitate with it"
How again is "every scum and villain" supposed to get equipment from a very rare and difficult to process material? The same reason why not everyone uses cortosis is also why not everyone has a full, pure, beskar armor that completly covers their body
edit. they also confirmed smilo ren uses cortosis in the official episode guide
Think about this: Which is more likely, that the Jedi are evil and brainwashed their apprentice or that the Sith is evil and brainwashed his apprentice? And which is more likely in *this show?*
They appear to be using a magic 8 ball to write the script, so they are equally likely.
Funny enough the witchs did the same thing while being portrayed as victime lol.
@@gabrielgendron4745 That is pretty consistent with the writer's own world view, in all fairness. It's honestly hilarious just how little self-awareness they have, having the lesbian space witches unironically complain and accuse the Jedi of wanting to basically groom children... while they are grooming children and forcefully (or Threadfully... ba dum tss) indoctrinating them into their own lesbian space witch cult... and they honestly cannot see the hypocrisy
I'm so glad people like you and Tyranth exist to watch this for me and entertain me with the roast. I haven't financially supported Star Wars since TFA and it's going to stay that way. Good work fellas.
Giving shows to random idiots because they are in the right place at the right time instead of hiring fans of the franchise, is just... insanity. Disney does not learn.
Kinda funny how when they did the teaser for ep 5 going on about finally lightsaber fighting the first thing that came to mind was, "Well, I guess that's gonna be just a bunch of Jedi getting slaughtered and embarrassed!" But yeah, yet another reason I tuned out ages ago and just completely turned off any concern for what they are trying to pretend is canon.
thank you for pointing out the tree thing, no one else I have watched has and it drove me crazy the first time I saw it, they could have even shown quim force pushing them the other way but no, they just defy gravity and fall up over the back of the cut
So for those unfamiliar with cortosis, in the EU it did have a few things to balance it. Of course Disney will never bother trying to explain or even use any of these.
It was an ultra rare crystal which can be refined into sheets and layered into armor. The issue with it is that first off it’s VERY difficult to find, to my knowledge the only piece of layered armor with it that we’ve seen is Vader’s aventail (and that was more to justify why Luke doesn’t accidentally chop his arm off when he landed a clean hit in their duel on Bespin.)
The other issue it has is that…well it’s a crystal. You can break it with a hammer or something very easily. It’s good against lightsabers and basically nothing else. Layering it into armor also meant that the armor’s durability was somewhat compromised.
One of the Saga Edition rulebooks (I think the KotOR one) also established all the known sources were depleted during the era lightsaber users were relatively common. It's not explicit, but it's logical to conclude nobody bothered looking for/starting mining for more after the Sith disappear after the battle of Russan (1000 BBY) and most remaining sources were forgotten about during the Dark Age of the Republic (pre-Russan when the Republic and FTL communication was limited to the Core)
I thought the bar couldn't get any lower than Episode 4. This proved me wrong. I wait in abject terror for episodes 6 to 8...
The editing, pacing, dialogue, non-common sensical actions, plot-threading etc, it fails on every level. Despite some people defending it by saying the fighting and the 2 Asian actors acting was good - when you put icing and strawberries on a pile of crap, it's still a pile of crap.
That Obi series is a foreshadow the future Lucas Film production
leslie hedlund makes the writers of Obi wan and Boba Fett look like Martin Scorsese.
@@RevanR TBH we could see the signs all the way back since The Last Jedi, but yeah the way they handled the production, story and treatment of Mando Season 3, the Book of Boba Fett left us with no surprise when Ashoka came out.
The ONLY bright side (of the train wreck) was ANDOR, and because that wasn't received well at all by majority fans, I now blame the taste of generic fans (50% them, 50% Kathleen Kennedy) for signalling to Disney we want more droll crap like The Acolyte.
@thiefofa1073 the last jedi? There were clear signs in force awakens. People were deluding themselves because no damage had been done to star wars yet
@@thiefofa1073 I think personally it begins with Boba Fett series, since their production is quite sloppy al around. But the Force Awakening should be treated as patients zero
Tyranth just looks like He’s being punished having to talk about this disaster of a franchise.
Oz looks different
Low-rent Ezra Miller is actually a pretty good actor. As for the rest of show...no comment.
No he isn't for he is giving away a lot of hints that he is Darth Smiley to the point where it is embarrassing.
@@JustTooDamnHonest The writing/directing is pure shite. His performance is quite good. Unfortunately, he hasn't got much to work with.
@@JustTooDamnHonest Low rent as in he doesn't have a host of sexual assault and grooming charges? That doesn't feel like he should be rated lower? Unless you yourself enjoy those too?
@@Zayphar If the writing is trash then the actor's performance is going to be trash as well. It is not that hard to understand for that is basic knowledge when it comes to filmmaking or showrunning.
@@sambennett8852 You do know I was making a joke when I'm calling him Erza Miller's body double because he resembles him right?
Plus I'm not rating anyone for in the end the Asslyte is pure trash of the lowest level and that is how it will be remembered and not even the shill media is going to save it for if there are truly more of them then why is the score for the audience lower then the Holiday Special?(that was a rhetorical question by thew way).
In the EU, pure cortosis still lost mass to the lightsaber when it forced a lightsaber to shut off. it’s a major plot point in the Hand of Thrawn duology where a pair of saber users are able to force their way through a vein of it with days of effort. That would explain not using it repeatedly, since sabers will eventually go through the armor. The problem with that is they never explains or show it wearing away and removed everything that would establish that detail from canon.
If the writers had intelligence: Jedi deliberately turns off lightsaber. Acts like it’s short circuited. Ignites it to stab Smilo when he goes in for a strike, thinking they’re disarmed.
*bigthink*
A Jedi Master and a Sith Lord fell for the Parent Trap 😂 I just can’t
The introduction of cortosis(or whatever it is) reminds me of the introduction of Force Healing in Rise of Skywalker. My reaction was, "Ok. This was done in the Legends EU, but it wasn't done like that, and this way it's too powerful." Namely, the healing wasn't "insta-heal fatal wound" it was "go into sleep-like trance that lasts hours or days to heal fatal wound" (except in the video games because "video game mechanic"). Cortosis could resist/short out a lightsaber but, if I remember correctly, the saber could be reignited near-immediately and the saber did actually cut partway through the armor. So, cortosis armor would give you an advantage, but not a game changing one except for the first time you use it because of the element of surprise.
Yes! Exactly!
So if a Sith kills your whole squad of Jedi AND your padawan you're supposed to kill them out of what? Love?
No. Just kind of detach yourself. Kind of like Cal Kestis killed the Ninth Sister.
Mae did it again!!!! Held her sister and told her to choose her instead of the Jedi but when Osha refused, she force pushed her (killing her???) then took her place. WTF
Cortosis was introduced in Zahn's books, but there people ever only encountered walls made of it. Lightsabers could cut through a little bit before before shorting. Zahn also made a point of mentioning that it's pretty brittle material and would make poor armor. I suppose you could make a composite armor that could tank a few lightsaber hits, but something that could be relied on repeatedly.
Hire people based on DEI rather than talent and this is what you get.
I think we need a fight scene autopsy for this one
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Okay, on the issue of the “mystery” in this show.
1. There was no real investment to the mystery. Who Smilo Ren’s / Darth Teeth’s secret identity turned out to be was never really going to have a major impact on the plot or characters. The reveal of Darth Vader being Luke’s father had MASSIVE impact in the OT because it fundamentally altered the course Luke would take and the plot beats that would follow as a result.
In the Acolyte, we understand very little of what the character motivations are, and therefore, no “plot twist” is going to significantly impact our understanding of how it changes the dynamics of the story. People guessed that Smilo Ren might be Mae and Osha’s mother because she had a major connection to them and it seemed to be the most significant way to impact the story going forward, but even this was going to be very shallow if true, as we had very little understanding of Osha and Mae’s true connection to this character, who herself had very little development.
2. Notice how with this mystery, people were mostly theorizing NOT based on the clues within the show itself, but based on the meta surrounding it.
People were asking, “what are the writers going to do?” because there was no confidence in the mystery being competently written. People said that the apothecary guy might be Smilo Ren, but it seemed so blatantly obvious that it felt like a deliberate misdirect, like a Scooby Doo episode where there is a ghost with an axe and one of the suspects is a woodcutter who carries an axe all the time. People were split between, “well, all the clues blatantly seem to indicate apothecary guy, BUT are we even sure the writer’s are competent enough for the reveal to make any sense?”
All in all, the impact of this reveal can be summarized with the iconic quote:
“Oh no! Anyway…”
Jedi don't attack the unarmed... Yeah right.
Luke kills a rancor chokes two patorian guards tries to kill Palpatine but was stopped by Vader. Luke LITERALLY disarms Vader yet spares him. Old Ben Obiwan disarms a guy in the cantina (sorry alien name escapes me) Luke and Wedge destroy death star 1 with COUNTLESS lives on board. Luke throwing handgranades in ATATs to kill people inside. Anakin kills Sand people... Last time I checked this was "STAR" "WARS" not PASSIVE AGRESSIVE PLAYTIME
Also he's not unarmed his hands are lethal weapons lol. He snaps a guys neck. This show is so bad
@@rayvonvelez3129 oh I know. I couldn't help the pun. You're referring to Vader right? I have the dark horse vader comics
@@skits_3d824 😂 that's cool. Yeah dark comics were alright
@@rayvonvelez3129 Master Sol should have handcuffed him (like what Jecki did to Mae) since he's still a threat.
If the helmet blocks the Force how can he USE the Force when wearing it?
At the very least if it blocks mind reading, then it should block his own mind reading which would play a part in the Sabre fights.
The bar for star wars is getting so low I think the devil is playing limbo with it...
I remember a headbutt in a movie and the person says “nobody wins in a headbutt”
My favourite part is when Zipperface calls that super saiyan padawan an 'it'. Thats because we never heard her pronouns, so accidentally calling it a 'her' is worse than calling it an it. They were asked to be as humanizing as possible?
I assumed he was being racist and thinks of her as a lesser species, like an animal. So he doesn't even care to acknowledge her with something that would make her seem sentient or humanizing.
Cortosis does short out lightsabers for a few seconds, but it's incredibly rare and brittle so it's supposed to be a kinda one use item. And the Sith did have a big desire to secretly acquire cortosis, but again Disney has no idea how any of this works.
Watching the Acolyte all I have thought about is "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter"
I like how Tyranth is looking as if he tries not to puke in the very beginning of the video.
Dam. I knew this was going to be bad, but the second I saw that thumbnail, I realized “oh dear, he became a BARLOG. This episode was this bad…”
That would actually be a fun episode to watch, where Knights Watch do a full Star Wars Tier list. If Nathan could sit in as a guest for that, it would be awesome.
Smylo Ren can _Force-push_ several Jedi AT ONCE, but he is then overwhelmed by a bunch of giant bugs...🙄
@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman true, very good point...
They really have no idea of power scaling and consistency
And a single tween padawan who was shown just doing basic training a few episodes ago. Seriously Disney, your Youth Fetishization is starting to become super creepy at this point
Cortosis/Beskar/Phrik/Anti-Lightsaber metals don't block force powers, they never have. The only thing that does that is a lizard from the EU called the Ysalamiri which projected a bubble of force-neutral space. Thrawn for example was known to keep some as pets to use against Jedi. The problem is, if Smilo had one of these or had lined the mask with it's blood or something to reproduce the effect, he shouldn't have been able to use the force himself. I think they got force mind-reading mixed up with legilimency from Harry Potter which specifically needs eye contact. There are ways around force mind-reading, Revan's Sith agents were particularly good at this (ala Atton Rand) but that's more misdirection than negation.
The Sheeple are eating this episode up it is kind of crazy how far flash with no substance can get you.
Yep.
@@cjmk5923 damn, harsh but most likely not wrong. Have a like.
I can't believe so many people have overlooked the obvious. darth ezra millar IS the mom. she transitioned with dark sith powers after her family was killed.
lol. That would be insane. I almost want them to do that now, just for the videos.
Shapeshifting good point
Shapeshifting good point
The best thing about the Acolyte, is the content fuel it provides!
They pulled a Halbrand. "Bet you didn't guess he was the bad guy all along!"
Except everybody already had guessed the "twist".🙄
This entire show is like witnessing a car crash you can't look away from.
More like a 500 pound slob on a bicycle simultaneously crapping himself and crashing into a brick wall…
Cortosis is extremely rare and if someone or an organization were to find it they would have to turn it over to the Jedi Council , Disney Jedi act like they have never even heard or seen it before .
Thank you for suffering through it in our stead.
In a comic, someone uses a cortosis blade against Darth Vader to short circuit his lightsaber. Vader then immediatly snaps her neck with only his hands.
If episode 3 is a false memory - that really only works if you frame it as Osha telling us the story.. they didn't do that. So if there's literally no 'narrator' you can't have an unreliable one as an explanation for presenting falsehoods in the narrative.
In the final battle between Luke and Vader, Vader figured out that Luke was thinking about his sister. Force mind reading has always been a thing, to some extent or another.
I’ve been waiting for this video since I saw your rant online. 😂
Remember...
Leslye Headland said this show is a reflection of the relationship between herself and her sister, and she is the evil one. Basically anything that Mae does, is what Leslye has done to her sister.
nope old ben used his powers with luke to save c3p0 and r2d2 they had helmets on then when he tricked them to let him go? So this is new i think!
I immediately assumed it was cortosis when the lightsabers turned off. And in their defense cortosis weave was known for being brittle so it checks out that it would break from some pommel strikes.
Exactly.
You're so sincere in your feelings about fantasy and swordplay. You're like a dragcar with infinite fuel. Just getting it. I like the honesty.
And now for something positive for Shad and friends: got my hoodie ordered a few days ago! Looking forward to this fall when it arrives in September (USA).
Given the lack of consistency and the track record of Disney Star Wars I wouldn't be surprised if X-23 Padawan somehow survives and comes back in one of the later episodes.