At this point surviving seems like an understatement. I've gotten more entertainment out of the UA-cam commentary then the actual show. Hope your channel grows.
Thanks, I appreciate it! And, for sure! Every episode I had to take a lap, especially with 7 and 8. This video was very cathartic for my frustrations lol.
Sol gets blamed for murders of 2 Jedi masters even though he has, like, a bulletproof alibi of being in the Jedi temple with hundreds of witnesses. This bloody show.
@@marhawkman303that's not even the biggest plothole in the show. The entire incident happens because Sol and the padawan needed "proof" of the vergence. That's why they went back for the girls, right? Well...the problem is THEY ALREADY HAD PROOF! The blood samples they collected from them, remember? Why couldnt they send THAT to the jedi temple as proof of the girls being artificially created? Why did they need the girls if they had THAT?
@@KoolKeithProductions Well, that's the weird thing about their motives... why do the jedi even care about any of it? Also... if it's like 5 minutes to fly back to Coruscant... why are they sleeping in a tent?
@marhawkman303 Very true. My theory is that they felt the vergence would lead them to "The Chosen One". I know Disney wouldn't dare be THAT bold to try to sneak that in, but think about it. If Sol truly believed Osha (or somehow even both of them) were the ones who would bring balance to the Force, then it would explain his outrageous actions, and why the jedi cared so much to risk war with the witches. Hell, Qui Gon was ready to leave the Order when Anakin got rejected by the Council, so it would make sense. More sense than one of them just wanting to go home, really, really badly. In fact, l think that was the plan, but someone high up said "HELL NO", so they removed all mentions of The Chosen One, and that's why the Jedi actions make zero sense now.
Cortosis is a very rare metal which is why it couldn’t be mass produced. It also doesn’t make the best armour, it’s quite brittle. I think that’s why Jecki was able to break the helmet by bashing it.
Thank for the insight! I was watching episode five repeatedly, like an annoying amount of times. I was so lost as to why Qimir had just one gauntlet/bracelet and a toothy helmet if it looked like he had more material to fix it when it broke. Jekki did end up brute forcing it with the butt of her saber so, I can see any physical force becoming its weakness. Although I thought I read there was a character that was able to create a network all around their body. The force part is up in the air though.
@@thereforeiyam Yeah i read it was the Mandorlians that were able to weave it into their armour and weapons. I don’t think it was common knowledge that it was possible though, as the metal was so rare. The unknown planet had Cortosis veins in the rock, many people think it’s Bal’demnic from Legends.
i think the big problem with cortosis, in this instance, is that they never set it up in the show, which led to confusion. Like they keep saying that stuff in the EU doesn't matter (like cortosis, it was EU) and then when they bring it into cannon theyre like its already been explained. like what? They kinda explain it in what ep6? but thats doing the setup after the payoff. A way to do it better would be like maybe qimir gives mae a cortosis blade and it shorts something out thats not a lightsaber. it shows its ability and sets it up as something that takes out energy, like a lightsaber maybe? Then when shes up against a jedi and it goes through the lightsaber its that, oh shit leonardo pointing meme lol. it takes the jedi by surprise and thats how she gets the upper hand. then you can explain what it actually is and does afterwards. (woulda been a much better way to take out indara vs haha i actually had TWO knives lol)
@@thereforeiyam Also, that "unknown planet".. yeah... It's the only known planet to have minable quantities of Cortosis.... pretty easy to look up on the wiki.
I will say, they couldn't have inserted the name of the planet the two character were on to clarify the source of the material? I agree with @Ryan-Ji7jz Osha already has the idea that it's an unknown planet by just waking up in a new environment after being kidnapped. The showrunners make it seem like they wanted people to remain in the dark until a reveal they set up (to be a different planet than the one listed on wiki) or look it up on the Wiki page. Which, shouldn't be the main source of receiving information as the audience because the show is unwilling to explain. It should enhance it.
So according to Leslie, Sol warrants death for being presumptive/paternalistic with Osha, but Anisaya gets a pass for pushing witchery on her over protests, Horn-Mom gets away with physically abusing Mae and starting the fight with the Jedi unilaterally, & Mae herself never has to acknowledge let alone be called out on acting creepy and possessive over her sister to the point of straight-up being ready to kill Osha before letting her leave & make a life or identity outside of being just “my twin”.
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I figured the brief inserts on it were enough to make my point clear, didn't want to go to deep with it. Me personally, these actors don't need to be bashed for seizing an opportunity. Yes, it would be better if they were as passionate about the franchise, but it is what it is. Amandla, however, made herself a target with that one, can't blame people for having an opinion. Thanks for checking the video out!
@@thereforeiyam I watched a lot of videos about the making of Shogun and those actors admitted that they had no real idea of the resultant quality of their work. I don't know if any actor really does. I think they are best served leaving the audience to judge the value that the actor's work provides.
I could not agree more! This is what I personally feel commentary on media should still be. Criticism comes in different forms, but I don't think people should take it as far as they do in some cases. The work speaks for itself and Acolyte speaks volumes.
It never was unsafe. People in Hollywood are just insane and doesn't understand how people in the real world are. They think they are so high and mighty, believe they're needed to make "minorities" feel welcome in some communities as if it hasn't been the case already. They think that without them "minorities" wouldn't be able to enjoy Star Wars or other franchises. I'm writing "minorities" in quotes because it's relative. White people in China or most of Africa are also minorities. And I can say for a fact that non-white people did enjoy Star Wars and other franchises prior to Hollywood going into their crusade for so-called inclusivity. Anyways, cheers from France! 🍻
You guys are stellar! Thanks for much for finding me! That statement she made took me aback. I watched a commentary video on Amandla's...performance on Instagram where they inserted an article where she spoke about this. I wanted to steer clear away from bashing actors, but since Amandla invited it, it's fair game. She has been given everything under the sun in this production and has lucked out more than most will ever get in life. John Williams asked her to play violin for his composition for the show, her mom who's chief of multiple news sites boosted her show by doing an interview with her, the entire show is completely starring her, which is a hefty payday when you're playing two people. She's biracial, reportedly gay, and a woman. So, where on the level she is at, is she being oppressed? I would have held my nose up high and taken my check, Disney does not care all that much about you if you feel like you have to jump out your skin to protect yourself against.....online.....haters. With both your comments in consideration, is it just me or does it feel like EVERY Disney-owned project forces them to include that fact that Disney is "inclusive" on these press tours. Look back at a couple of interviews for the last couple of movies they've pumped out, I feel like all I ever hear is that, "Disney never had diversity before and lacked the spaces for minorities to be who they are." To an extent, maybe, if I'm playing devil's advocate with that point. But, being a nerd now is considered cool and something people take general interest in, so where are we getting this information from? Is that written in the contract of when these people sign on? Is that just a major selling point now rather than something people can use their collective two eyes to see on screen? Kathleen Kennedy will be the death of my sanity if this continues.
@@thereforeiyam Did you not hear about the campaign she had against her saying she was racist against white people? It was from a Hate U Give interview taken out of context (make white people cry). I understand where she’s coming from to a degree but the execution her response was terrible. That “dis” track was embarrassing and didn’t help anything. I understand it was linked to Juneteenth as well but it wasn’t a good look coming from such a privileged woman.
@WesesaAbioye YESSS I did hear some whispers through the grapevine, but no concrete timeline of when it happened, so I wasn't sure if she was holding a grudge or making a timely point on something. Her response was terrible if she wanted to be taken seriously, and on Juneteenth was like baiting anyone who wanted to fuel hate. I feel like her performance of "shucking" and "jiving" puts a bad look on us and made things worse for her. As if activism only comes performatively. Lol I talked about representation in another comment of yours, but she was not the best example to make those statements considering what I've read on her She realizes that her voice is not the strongest in vocalizing these issues. It's unfortunate to gatekeep, but there different levels to it she does not realize and she comes off as full of herself if she speaks on it.
I truly do and thank you so much! I'm eternally grateful you and so many others are able to see that. Like they say, first impressions are important and although it takes me some time to pump out content, I try my best to make it worthwhile each time. ✨✨
Yup, this one was pretty bad. Tried as hard as I could to give it a chance, but it was pretty clear by episode 4 what we were getting. Lightsaber fights were cool enough but still left something to be desired. I mean who else remembers during the prequel era when the fan films were trying there best to mimic a fraction of the awesomeness of those lightsaber duels. Nowadays it’s completely reversed! The fan made stuff has outpaced the official fight choreography by MILES. Plot/ Character development was all over the place and your right, the one non-English speaker managed to deliver the best performance. (I mean he’s a great actor of course, but for him to have just learned the language and be the most believable in said language speaks volumes.) And that weird Amandla Stenberg video… just why!?!? I’m just waiting for Andor to come back…
YESS! I wanted to add clips as a comparison, especially with fight scenes, but my video was already dense enough. The fan films have literally spoiled us and I honestly might see why people love to read legends and the books haha. I've been avoiding Ahsoka and other shows simply because I love the characters too much to ruin that image I have, but the prequels and Clone Wars series really set the gold standard. Lee Jung-Jae being the best was a surprise for me. Sure, Manny Jacinto did what he was suppose to do, but Lee literally went out of his way to try and make the best of his role. I don't know, it earns a different respect. At least, the other actors/actresses feel the same in this regard. Watching Ahsoka through clips I can tell they've really lost sight of what made Star Wars what it was. Even telling 50+ year old Hayden to slow down to keep up with the other actresses pace who are younger than him is WILD. The fans have always managed to outshine productions and even the creator respects this! Although, we have Star Wars Theory acting more like the creator than George Lucas even wants to be and I'm glad he's doing his part to help the community. I honestly don't blame him at all, I simply feel bad at how things have just carried on.
Yami, at about 00:44 in this video: _"You CAN'T possibly mess that up."_ *_"Unfortunately that sounds a little like famous last words."_* - 2OO1: A SPACE ODYSSEY [1968]
This is the most enjoyable Acolyte video I've seen so far, and a refreshing point-of-view / commentary: smart, easy to listen to, and a good sense of humor. Subscribed, and looking forward to more content.
I like your breakdown of it all. I think you made the best point when you talked about how much they care. The producers do not care because the presentation of the product would have come off so much better. Your review sticks to the facts and doesn’t try to blame things that have nothing to do with why the project was bad. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! I've always felt that if anyone is able to take away anything from my experience/criticism, regardless of liking or disliking the show, and feels that what I say is fair, I've done my job well. The project could have been so much better and elevated anyone that was in it to much better heights if they showed that they cared enough as a result.
The character motivations and morality of this show are so confused and self-centered. Characters just do whatever is necessary to get to the next scene. As for morality, Sol killing someone turning into a smoke demon is an unforgivable sin, yet Mae's multiple murders are just water under the bridge because she decided that OSHA suddenly matters more. Let's not even get into OSHA shacking up with a man who killed off everyone she knew about a day ago because she saw him naked. It's like the sort of thing you see in the fanfiction of a teenage girl .
There was a interview where Leslye reportedly stating that "some" of her fanfiction elements made their way into the series. So, it wouldn't be an unfair assessment. I can respect the grind of a fellow fanfic girl, but let that stuff stay on AO3 -- not all of them are winners lol. Don't bring that mess and say you're a true visionary, then get mad when people call you out for the teenage fanfic storytelling 😭
You'll be a changed person afterward, beware! I'm excited for the anime coming out. Thank you btw, I've been slowly building the collection. A huge reader in general when I have the time. Star Trek and Star Wars really are just sinking and we can't do anything but watch it drown while Disney props up other franchises. Marvel is 50/50 score. I hear Deadpool and Wolverine tipped the scales as of late.
Thor Skywalker explains as well everything wrong with it in great detail but I've gotta say you did so in a very entertaining way. This was my introduction to your channel and earns a sub
Welcome aboard! I'm glad I could provide some amusement. I've heard of that name before, I'll have to look him up. I'm sure I've crossed paths with him before. His channel seems like a good binge, something to aspire to for sure.
I'm glad I was hitting the same nail. I was almost worried, but there was so much I wrote in my notes on this. I do wish I mentioned Badger Boy Bazil being an undercover Sith. THAT killed me to not mention, completely flew over my head.
I'm really mad about being duped again. Ahsoka was Sabine changing places with Ezra. And Acolyte? It was Mae changing with Osha. Oh, how interesting! Well well!
Exactly! I had a lot of hope with Ahsoka. Grant, haven't watched it, but it's my favorite character with an OG character we've wanted to see on screen. Obi-wan left me SALTY and from what I hear, Ahsoka's not super great. But, Acolyte takes the cake in overall awfulness. We'll be waiting some time before they decide to do some corrective measures.
@@thereforeiyam There is one scene in Ahsoka with her jumping on the roof of her space ship... It's so damn ridiculous because the whole idea depends on the enemy X Wings flying along exactly one meter above her head - for her to actually reach them with her lightsaber. I mean, before Acolyte, I thought Obi Wan's chipmunks stapled on top of each other in one suit and Ahsoka's spaceship yoga would be the two lowest points for a longer time, but hey...
@@thereforeiyam From my experience, fans don't know what they want to see. In 10 years max people will realize that this show isn't terrible compared to what we've been getting for the last 20 years. This fandom has always needed time.
I think this only worked with the Prequels because of the remaining vision George Lucas wanted to leave fans with could be seen and in new media, the direction has always failed to match that heart and quality. Visually, we’re beyond our former years, but it’s seems to be swapped in place of consistent storytelling. I think the animated series (minus Rebels for me personally) perfectly holds both of these factors of visuals and a story worth telling. WITHOUT George’s notes/oversight/input, if we want to make that argument. The Sequel trilogy completely disregards his remaining wishes in its existence after he left, which are still a firm no in my end. But I still like specific concepts it introduces.
I don’t disregard anyone for liking or disliking the show, if I’m posing the question, I invite it. Different reasons will follow no matter what. But if you’re trying to void my argument as toxic or “misunderstood” of the franchise, it makes it seem like only your POV is the righteous path. Everything else be damned. I believe the fans are smart enough and have stated what they wanted over and over. There are clear paths ahead dictated by George, free for anyone to write around that, but when you go against it, people want to know why and believe it. The stories have not been believable to those people for a long time.
@@thereforeiyam I'm not saying my view is the only good one. A lot of your criticism was about things I could easily understand and didn't see them as bad writing (tho writing isn't the strongest aspect of this show). In my opinion nothing I've seen in the show deserves being called the worst in the franchise, and The Acolyte is probably the most Lucas-like Star Wars project made by Disney (with all of pros and cons of being similar to Lucas' work). But this is just my experience, and I understand that different people might see some aspects of the show as non-sensical and/or stupid. What I mean is fans tend to forget that Star Wars has always had average writing (with some exceptions), and its true charm comes from symbolism and worldbuilding. But when we get another averagely written Star Wars project, people start seeing its mediocrity as the end of Star Wars when it's actually just tuesday for the franchise. This has always happened and will happen with every new project that comes out. Then, in 10-15 years, people who grew up on The Acolyte will become more vocal and the fandom will appreciate its good aspects more, while remembering the mistakes it made, just like with episode 6, prequels, The Clone Wars, and, probably in a few years, the sequels.
definitely one of the more measured comments on the acolyte i've seen on yt, props and subbed. my personal gripe with all of this is, and i know it's all about the buzz, the pay check and quarterly figures go brrr, the ease with which "they" can write of any kind of criticism, warranted as it may be, by just pointing at the diversity chart and picking their favourite -ism or -phobia of the day. i mean, headland sits through two "interviews" a day, gives ever more confused sounding explanations for stupid things the acolyte did and not ONE calls her out for this. they are meant to be journalists, aren't they?
I appreciate it, I try to be as fair as I can with the balance of my own personal opinion on it. It's sooo annoying that that can be used as a shutdown. Again, they would be begging for feedback if they were an indie production company, just for someone to look at their way. But a big company that sells diversity as money to exchange, they couldn't care less and label you anything that doesn't agree with them. I will say, the actors/actresses can be absolved of this scrutiny, except when they want to be performative and join in on it. I have a hard time even listening and sitting through anyone's interviews, I hardly wish to become more invested in these celebrities lives than they wish the public to be. Plus, Disney is so tight about even the phrase" The Force" it doesn't surprise me that while Leslye tries to do these interviews to explain this nonsense, they keep her on a tight leash and she ends up blabbing about something else. And, considering what Ms, Stenberg mentioned about Journalists, they're all corrupt and liars, her words. Guess she forgot that her mom is tied to that career path as well. It's exhausting.
Currently watching it. I think the acolyte would benefit a lot from A. More conflict (one idea: make it a bit of a rip-off from the fugitive. Have tommy lee jones hunt osha while she is proofing her innocence while finding her sister again) B. Condense it into a movie of 2h (or maybe back to the good old 90 min). This series has barely anything happening, which is one of the reasons why it feels so dragged out - it literally is dragged out, with many setups leading nowhere just to pad time. There is not much plot. Not saying that it would be great then, but I think there would be more momentum to be engaged and make it more interesting to watch.
A MOVIE! Why didn't I even think about that? Yeah, you hit it right on the money on everything. I felt like a movie would be more handled with kid-gloves versus the TV series Disney keeps barfing out to keep up with metrics. I can ease up and say that the plot isn't inherently unsalvageable, but it's clear they took whatever they had and ran with it.
You would not believe how LONG my notes were on this show lol. Episode by Episode, I had like 20 different things and had to edit as much I could to get the important points I wanted to hit for this video while still poking some fun.
Feeling blessed to be your 420th sub. Also so refreshing to see a good criticism of this show that isn't all "pronouns n women bad". Can't wait to see more of ya stuff in the future!
It's been years of 420 jokes since I used to be known as Blaze on the space, missed out on a joke fulfilled lol. Thank you for looking me up! I never fully understood the critique people include on that bit, it's genuinely not as important as the other stuff you find and I see it as a mild nitpick. Plus, we're in space and aliens could literally be ANYTHING. Regardless of what either side of the social side feels, the galaxy isn't going to look or work like what we would think. That would be boring....
@@thereforeiyam God bless you for being one of the good ones honestly, gender and social constructs are literally the last thing that should matter, if at all. I'll definitely Blaze one for you later, bring it full circle. Oh and thanks for the lil 420th shout out on your most recent, appreciate it and appreciate you!
UA-cam decided to show your channel to people apparently, that's pretty cool. After watching this video I went back on your catalogue and watched some of your older content, and it's probably because the time in between your uploads isn't consistent that the algorithm doesn't help you. All that to say that I was surprised you barely had more than 200 subs. I hope your channel grows to the size it deserves in the near future. Anyways, to the subject at hand, The Acolyte: First thing, "After this woman set off her inner Dementor", I love it! It's really frustrating what they did to Sol. At first I gave the show a chance and enjoyed parts of it. Even more than the Kenobi and Fett shows since they didn't have Legacy Characters to butcher. Then they manage to make me care about Sol, only to butcher him in the last couple of episodes. He started as a Qui-Gon like open minded Jedi, who's the exemplary Jedi following the Will of the Force rather than the will of the corrupt senate (no such thing as the "Light Side" of the Force, there is The Force and its Will, and Dark Side users corrupt and bend the Force to their own Will for Evil means) which was the undoing of the whole Jedi order. In the end Sol became an absolute idiot. Not immediately warning the Order that there were Sith in the wild. Not explaining to Osha that he was trying to protect who he thought was her, seeing how she was seemingly disintegrating before his eyes. He just made a split-second decision due to the totality of circumstances surrounding him, it doesn't make him a bad person who deserves to die. The haircut things is really weird. Do they think this kind of hair grows braided like that on its own? Other frustrating things with Hollywood and how they perceive black people are the Killmonger haircut they throw around on anyone and them playing Rap or RnB whenever there are black characters in prominent roles. Even if it clashes with what we're watching as it happened with this show. One critique I hear often when it comes to poorly made shows or movies is the "if it's offscreen, it doesn't exist" even when it should be in plain view of the characters. Because the audience can't see Mae's forehead clearly, so does Sol. Which makes him look like a clueless idiot, and it's not considering he should've either felt the darkness within her or better, recognized she wasn't the pupil he taught for years with their bond missing within the Force. So... I didn't plan on writing a novel. It just kept coming as I was rewatching your video. I'm writing something, then you make a point I want to talk about and by the time I'm writing about said point, you make another point I want to talk about. And here we are. Imma stop here before it gets way out of hand. Cheers from France! 🍻
I wanted to take my time to respond this one because I have so much gratitude for your kindness and the fact that you took time out of your day to send this lol. The novels are great, so don't worry too much about it. I agree, The algorithm really tossed me into the big leagues, and not gonna lie, it's pretty intimidating haha. I mean, you're from France? I've hardly ever seen the outside of the US and I'm able to reach people all around in seconds. Definitely working on my filming and editing process, I see that issue too. Trying to strike a balance somewhere in my process, but I think taking anytime I have to film is essential. I'm an endless yapper and videos would be way too long, so I gotta write notes for these kinds of things. I always wonder if other reviewers do this or they just speak of the top of their head --- I'd like to get to that point if possible. Oh my gosh, the rap and Rnb comment is so true. It's like they couldn't help themselves at that point. I felt like the costumes and the hair could have been so much better. Again, where did the $180 million go? I completely agree, in spite of everything in this show, and the willful ignorance they show, Sol was truly the only gem in this. He had all the decent and good elements of Jedi before him, but they had him make dumb decisions and killed him off for a point poorly made that opposes that. Why not make this show entirely from a Sith point of view like Qimir, how he was enticed by the dark side? Maybe have a character working their way to break free from the Dark Side... *cough* Starkiller (I will die on this hill). Anyway, thanks again for the comment!
Yami, at about 01:05 in this video: _"...book lore..."_ But...BUT...I thought _Kathleen Kennedy_ said IN A VIDEO INTERVIEW that there was _no book lore_ to fall back on! 🙄🤦♂️
Why doesn't the first Jedi (Trinity) recognize her in the intro fight scene? She's a twin of a former Jedi, They even say that Trinity is the one that advised the jedi council to cut off her training, so she would instantly recognize her, or does covering your moth with a cloth stop Jedi masters from recognizing former students ?
It's like the MCU. Putting on a hat and a sunglasses instantly hides your identity and counts as undercover, when they literally have shapeshifting masks in the same continuity lol.
When I saw that thick neck woman as the head director I knew that acolyte was going to be bad, its like the heads of Disney don't feel good unless they piss off fans and ruin franchises. Only person that can save star wars now is Sam Witwer. Great video btw
Thanks! I love Sam Witwer and I will advocate for him whenever I can! He's just an enjoyable person within the Star Wars circuit and I've been waiting for a live-action Starkiller storyline for forever. Not saying being an excitable Star Fan is required, case in point, Harrison Ford. But, it's gotta be easier and a privilege to be able to work with someone who can engage with and even add their own take on things with the material.
The music video had my jaw dropped. Couldn’t believe it. She’s doing a whole lot for a company that’s not really for her like that. It’s just embarrassing.
@@thereforeiyam@thereforeiyam, supposedly, the video isn't about Star Wars or its fandom, but the release of it was way too coincidental to not be related.
@@thereforeiyam but regardless of the video, the show is incredibly bad and even the people who do like it seem to have the shared issue that the worst part of the show is the main character and the actress playing her.
I lost hope years ago and haven't seen any of the Disney Star Wars TV shows. Thanks for the nice video on the subject. After all the comments from certain people that the hate for the show is baseless and only coming from toxic men, it's nice to see some videos from women on the subject. Best wishes.
Thank you! I feel like criticism should stay criticism of the work and the main production/corporation. I will slam dunk on Kathleen Kennedy for days in the comments. Sometimes the criticism can also call for looking at the social/political aspect behind, but i don't think people should take it as far as they do. The "Working Jellyfish" is probably the best example of this that I feel like made a fair and balanced critique on these things. I'm glad more people feel a bit more comfortable with me speaking on it the way I do.
You're a black woman, for whom "this show was made," and this is what you have to say. You are of real diversity; that you can have this opinion when all you have to do is agree to "win" makes you a real winner. We need more people like you.
I appreciate it, I think! Not gonna lie, wasn't sure how to read this comment lol. I just think it's ridiculous to label something so negative because the like or dislike something. I've spoken at nauseum about diversity in the comments lol. Essentially, there's pros and cons. I do worry that some in the film/commentary community might limit me on media because they feel I can only speak on things targeted for me or people like me. Anything else and I might receive some backlash for it, if it's not the majority consensus. Had a rough experience with Dune and I'm scarred lol. But no matter what, I'm gonna be honest about my opinion.
Thank you for the support, I appreciate the love! I can't lie nor blame you, Manny is an absolute force in this production. Physically, in the fight scenes, he put everything he had and looked good while doing them. Gotta clap it up for him.
Yeah, i agree lol. I started to notice that watching it back, one of the transitions from my points to her music video, I was thinking "welp, that's gonna be interesting -- wonder if anyone else notices"
The show was rotten to the core. The writing is atrocious, and that's being generous. I like to watch stupid movies from time to time, to put them in the background while I do something. But even those need to make sense, but here the characters always acted according to what the script had them do. "now I need to be good, now I'm evil, now I surrender, now I beat everyone, now I can't with one padawan, now I want to delete this person, now I'm in love" character motivations? What's that? Great content, subbed 👍🏼
Thanks for the support! I appreciate it! I precisely agree. It’s just dumb decisions being made because the plot demands it to be so. Nothing else to it.
@@sirazazeloflowkey6424 First of all, I think it's a matter of taste, the show gives a lot to think about, and I think that analyzing it superficially is not the writer's fault but ours because now a show has to explain even the smallest detail.I like everything, from the diversity of the cast, their acting and of course the writing. My fav character is Sol, a person with a good heart but couldn't see his mistake until the end. The show leaves it up to interpretation whether witches are bad or not, but if it was just like a ceremony and that's it, it was Sol who thought the worst. It's certainly what happens with minority traditions, people judge without understanding the reason. Osha's character is a little confusing to me, but I can understand why she made her decisions. Of the two sisters, she has always been the one who wanted something more, so it didn't seem strange to me that she accepted Qimir, and if we talk about why she didn't take revenge for Jeckie, well, it's not her style. Even when she thought her sister k*lled her family, she didn't take revenge, she wanted to arrest her. Besides, Qimir hit the nail on the head, the Jedi were not his friends, he saw her for a couple of days and it was the Jedi who taught he to accept tragedies... Another thing is Venestra, her decision has to do directly with politics, she covered everything to save the reputation of the Jedi, I think it has to do with the fact that religion and government should not mix. I could go on but it's already too long haha I hope they make a second season cause I want to know more about the relationship between Plagues, the witches and Qimir...
@@luisa7253 Thank you for this response. Like seriously. You are the first person to genuinely share what they liked about the show in and open and honest fashion. So thank you for being cool and sharing. Your answer actually gives me an interesting insight. And hopefully this response of mine will give you one as well. You see, I actually agree with almost all of the things you said and the things you like are strangely enough things I also liked about the show. I in fact went into the show very hopeful and I saw and liked all those same things and yet, my final verdict is that I don't like this show. For me there is this similarity of what disappoints me about most of Disney Star Wars : It all looks and sounds promising, it presents genuinely interesting ideas, many characters are really cool in concept. Sol was also my favorite character and the lightsaber battles were really cool. But for me it is all spoiled and falls flat due to the execution, mostly in the pacing, writing and character progression/development. To me it feels like there was a great show here, but we just got the worst cut of it all or something. I dunno. I think this show deserved better writing and pacing, I feel like it wasted too much time it could have better used flashing out all the various characters and their development and changes. But again, thank you for sharing.
Hey! Just trying to spread the word. I needed to re-watch Firefly to remind myself of great television. So if you haven't seen it, give it a view everyone!
It's just such an interesting choice to do. Star Wars has been classified as a Space Western with Samurai elements, true. I think Leslye might have been a little too liberal with the "Samurai" part of this with these two characters.
They literally think they can make any piece of garbage and just show us Yoda. they threw away any goodwill years ago. Disney was handed a treasure map and said na we are good
The treasure map really hit me hard. The random detours they’ve decided to take within the storyline because didnt want to give George a payout from it, is truly the cost of one man’s dream being another man’s theme park.
I meant to write a pinned comment on it. I was like, “that doesn’t sound right.” I completely forgot. He cut off his hand, not tossed him. My goof on that one
Thank you for clearly expressing the frustration that I have with this show. So much potential completely wasted due to poor writing, medicocre production and bland acting (with a couple of exceptions).
Anytime and completely agree! It truly wasn't a hard concept to be done. I'm astounded how poorly they went with this when I was really hoping I was wrong. Some people might even look past the production issues, if you just tell a story worth telling.
I appreciated your insight into the show’s cinematography. I tend to approach these shows more from a writing perspective, and The Acolyte was poorly-plotted slop in that regard. On a side note, I recently finished Season 3 of the Bad Batch and quite enjoyed it, so someone at Disney is capable of producing decent Star Wars content.
that is what is jarring about this whole thing. SOMEONE or a group of individuals knows what they're doing and can bypass the Disney police, but WHERE are they hiding them at. I feel like they have them produce one cartoon a year and then stuff them in a broom closet for the rest of the time.
It's like as much as I want to dislike those characters, the writers have WILLFULLY given just enough good writing to their Sith characters to keep you intrigued, but always bad at the execution. Why they keep passing over my boy Starkiller will never make sense to me :(
You're all good! Didn't even dare to try and pronounce it in the video lol. I know it's from legends and they introduced into media, but boy did it confuse me.
I don't have a clear opinion about this show. Since its announcement, after watching Jodie Turner Smith accusing the original trilogy of being patriarchal, Leslie Headland speaking and other stuff, I expected The Acolyte to become nothing more than the ultimate source material for parodies. And indeed I am having s lot of fun watching content creators smashing and thrashing it.
The content for this has been amazing and my favorite content creators within the community have been having more fun with this than I've seen with anything else in past couple of years.
I prefer the prequels and clone wars, but the older books were dope AF too…the recent years have killed my love for the galaxy far far away though…into Warhammer I went 😅
9:15 THANK YOU FOR REITERATING THIS. While yes there was some corruption within the council and lots of Jedi had flaws, George Lucas clearly stated that the main motif/theme of Star Wars was the battle between good and evil. The Jedi were the good, Sith were the evil. A competent writer would be able to show how the morality and beliefs of the people in these groups can sometimes deviate to the other side, while still keeping the fact that the Jedi and Sith inherently represent GOOD and EVIL. Instead, this show just paints the jedi as corrupt assholes and the dark side as “misunderstood.” It’s the cringiest attempt at being edgy and different for the sake of being edgy and different. TL;DR - F*ck this show
It was genuinely INFURIATING to me that they were making it seem like the Jedi are evil out the gate while the Sith are a bunch of pretty boys looking for women to understand them. Good and Evil, as you said, has been a concept that George Lucas has echoed time and time again. I can still feel that anger bubbling up just thinking about it. How in any sense does it add up that they're in the REBIRTH ERA of the Jedi and in all-time peace, but all they do in their time is lie and do weirdly, unethical things that make them look like butt munches. They completely butchered this concept.
Again, I think we’re focusing too much on the title. It’s just a call to action to the people that may agree with my points, if you’re a stray, you’re welcome too! Now, you have more reason to reaffirm your decision.
@@thereforeiyam I understood your intent. I meant it as a joke, but, as you may have noticed, I'm as funny as C3-PO. LOL On a more positive note, I've added this video to my "Watch Later", so I'll be back.
Great video essay. You make excellent points, and highlight what are, to my mind, the most important ones, re: character arcs, narrative structure, storytelling, dialogue. I will say I appreciate that you avoided the "lesbian space witches" moniker because, even when its used by commentors that make legitimate points such as you make, it plays into the narrative Hollywood keeps trying to sell that all of us are "-ists and -phobes" which I certainly am not. The sexual orientarion of the witches is irrelevant. Does the fact they might be lesbian make for a nice insert, sure. In fact, the show does well here by not making their orientation the most important aspect of their "personality" as a group. Anyway, I'm getting off topic… Lastly, I don't mean this to sound pedantic, but I think it is so important to have young, black women talking about this and making these arguments, since you are supposed to be the "target" audience for these kinds of shows. I, a GenX white male, am not, it seems. Except that Lucasfilm (and Disney overall) maybe don't realize that us old nerds were progressive long before it became popular. We are not Boomers. So, I love to see representation in media. What I don't like is bad storytelling, anemic character arcs and motivations, poor narrative and dialogue. For that matter, the cinema-side of this show is also poor in terms of editing, blocking, etc. (a point which I think you mention). Another UA-camr "Snarky Jay" made a great video the other day which discusses the "message" push from Hollywood well: we have no problem with doing this, and in fact scifi and fantasy have been doing this pretty well over the years in termsnof representation. Granted, most was centered on race and gender since those were the bigger issues then, but they already did those things. For some reason Disney thought it needed to be done. I would argue they should just stop adapting fairy tales from European source material (which, to be fair they did with Aladdin and Moana). Anyway, I hope you get my point! Cheers! Oh, and subbed 😊
I completely agree. I absolutely love this comment. Probably one of my favs, but the all around support for this video has been almost overwhelming. Like, now I actually get when people say that lol. But I’m beyond grateful. I’ve always been on the fence on representation, obviously yes, but sometimes it’s used to disguise a greater issue and I have problems with that. I’ve never had problems with sci-fi or fantasy making strides in this. If it’s done well and not made as a selling point. One of the biggest reasons I made this video because we have--I hate to even phrase it like this-a lot of my white counterparts in the community making videos on this with those kinds of jokes in their criticism, and though their points are funny and easily explained. The media, fans, and show runners watching will not accept that. They get lumped into those toxic categories and disregarded from truths that can be found and are instantly turned off. The same point can be made on the opposite side of these views. I had that issue with my Dune video, which I guess wasn’t made for me, so people felt a specific type of way. We live in a world where everyone will take you at your word, analyze those actions behind it, and will slap a label on you instantly. You just have to be careful unless you fully accept it. As the target audience for the show, I think people will feel more comfortable acknowledging those critiques from a person like me without labeling people a -phobe or -cist of some type. I wanted to create a balance of fair criticism, keep the convo open to people that love and hate the show --regardless of how I feel, and still have fun with it at the end of the day without bashing the actors and their social standing. I hardly acknowledge Amandla till the very end and make a point of disagreeing with it then moving on. Again thanks for sticking around, can’t wait for you to see what I have in store.
Side note, I gotta lot of appreciation and respect for the Gen X audience. You guys had the best stuff when I was growing up, i gotta say. I thank my mom for that.
i mean, thing is, well i agree with you on the matter of other commentators, from the interviews i've seen from leslye headland the director and driving creative force of the acolyte, the queerness of the space witches is very much an intentional detail. leslye identifies as a queer woman/lesbian and like a lot of queer people she had a rough childhood after coming out and receiving rejection/hatred from her biological parents about her orientation, her family has a christian denomination religious background, pretty much all the hallmarks of the tragic/sad queer history especially for a woman of her age. in that sense I would aruge the queer nature of the space witches is very much a feature as opposed to a bug, if not essential to the perspective headland is trying to convey. its the injection of the queer experience/history into the heart of the story through literally just plopping a lesbian witches coven into the heart of the narrative [a popular fantasy of queer woman is the idea of the witches coven] only putting it into space this time. and that resonates into every other aspect of the story telling, the jedi being a weird mix of space cops and catholic gaslighters in the acolyte despite how much that flies in the face of previous storytelling within the universe, osha killing sol being this weirdly triumphant moment because its metaphorical for headland defeating the shadow of her parents/father, etc. etc. so yeah, i'd say queerness isn't just incidental to the acolyte its very much intentional. I think the problem though, is that 1] headland admits that she projects that queerness onto the sith quite intensely and is very heavily biased towards them *cough*causeshesaKOTORfanficauthor*cough* and in a series that trades itself based on how it colour coded the good guys and the bad guys for conveniences sake, its probably not a good idea to the long term health of the setting to completely undermine that very core tenant by saying the bad guys are actually the good guys (or at the very least, it needs a certain finesse and expertise at writing that the acolyte lacks) 2] shes just kinda bad at conveying the queer experience. like, its clear that her experience as a rich white lady who worked for harvy weinstein is very heavily interfering with whatever queer experience shes trying to convey here, so even before ya get the meddling hands of corporate hollywood involved its just kinda muddled and flawed from the get go in whatever shes trying to do.
My cue was 'cheap cosplay'... the first time I really noted an eyesore was in Attack of the Clones in the arena. The way these background Jedi stumble through the greenscreen in Halloween costumes swinging left and right is really... not great. Speaking of which, my pet peeve is that the Prequels establish that Uncle Owen's desert garb is now official Jedi attire: Everybody on Tattooine was wearing the same stuff because dust and desert, even the Sand People. But when Episode One introduces Obi Wan and Qui Gon it is established that they are wearing that stuff because old Old was wearing it too - not because he was sitting in the desert for 18 years, no apparently he was in uniform all the time. Some of these decisions are mindbogglingly stupid. 😬 Cheers!
The appearance just comes off a corny or crusty....there's never a happy place lol. I will say, if I had to choose, I would get Prequels outfits. The Acolyte outfits look like true Halloween Store costumes, SUPER bright and weird colors for no reason.
Also why the witches call each other that, the nightsisters are also witches but they call each other sisters, when mae says she wants to be a witch, its like jedi calling each other sorcerers or wizards
First Reva now Mae, Osha and Aniseya. Disney think about diversity first, character second. At least Cere Junda was decent in the Jedi games. Obviously it’s not a must, I love the originals and prequels regardless, but it would be nice have a decent female character who looks similar to me.
I'm seeing a lot of people bring up Obi-Wan and I'm honestly thinking about talking about that next. I love the video games minus one or two that were iffy. Not that I feel like I need representation either, but it's worse when they give us a bad rep with these kinds of characters. One of my red flags? Pushing diversity so far that they end up over-correcting what they want to effectively change by making it worse.
You might have taken my headline a little too personally, because I believe the video of my own opinion speaks for itself. You don't need a title to tell you you're allowed to like/love the show. Conversation is welcome.
I kind of hate that it is bad. Like i can see the ideas the writters were going for and i think i could have been interesting. Like yeah the politicians argument against the Jedi was valid, and the idea of a person killing a Jedi with hand to hand combat is really cool. But there was horrible execution
that's what's so frustrating. So many glimmers of nuance, but so many stupid choices. I think they need to understand that fans are not all just some brain rotted people that are only happy consuming the same things over and over. We want new storylines, NEW BLOOD. They still must respect the previous works and paths before it (should they try to mention it) by enhancing the principles --- not rewriting it, needlessly. It's like they don't know how to do that.
This god awful show lead me to your channel. I hope you keep up with the channel and some more consistent videos. Keep up the good work! Liked and Subscribed :)
I'm glad you ended up on my corner of the internet and plan on sticking around! Definitely working on creating a balance in my process for making these videos come out sooner. More to learn, for sure. It's a bit more demanding than I'd like, but it pays off. I'm happy making it the quality you guys deserve.
Also... the Movies are still Canon, right? The Clone wars and Rebels still portray the Jedi as heroes... how is this gonna play out? Also also... He uses the helmet to disable lightsabers... and NEVER DOES IT AGAIN
Yeah, no other time during his fight with Sol is he thinking....I should headbutt this. He seemed like he was trying to pull his lightsaber toward him, but I guess that was going to disable both? Funny how they're only depicted as heroes overall during times of war....but in the renaissance of the Jedi....they are the absolute worst. Movie are....somewhat canon. Whatever we can decipher that's left. I gotta brush up on my films. All I know is, Yoda is just more of a butt-munch and Anakin's creation is less special.
@@thereforeiyam he literally tried to head butt it during the end of the fight. that's how he lost. are watching or just hatting at this point cuz it pretty clear to me wat yall doing
@@godkingsosa6811 Nope, definitely watching the same thing. Just different point of views. Look up the clip of the fight. At around 2:39.... which is what you're talking about....he had the lightsaber so close to his face, the man couldn't just....lean in? Even goes further into holding Sols hand, without his own weapon getting in the way, JUST to put his lightsaber against it. I made a point to agree, but also play devil advocate at maybe Qimir was trying to headbutt it, but needed a better advantage to get closer to his blade without disabling his own. Listen, if you feel like the show checked off some boxes for you, you're free to make your own points and I'm happy to hear them. I will always have my own bias because we see things differently. But, I think you'll find that I don't bash anyone or support anyone bashing people that like the show. Anyone is free to say what they want about it, my response is optional.
This show is glorious, good? OH HELL NO! But it makes so many mistakes that youtubers LOVE it. It is free content. Yup people TALKING about the show is just better then the actual show. The writers of this show, are they beyond eating glue yet? The Acting... the ACTING... the. I give up! So many things are just bad. I wonder what happened with the $180M because I don't SEE the money!
I survived by not watching. I had to save myself by bailing at the Obi-Wan series. My friend wanted to watch the Ashoka series, so I watched with him, but otherwise I wouldn't have been able to stomach it (spoilers: it's horrible). Other than Andor and some of the Mandalorian, the only good Star Wars these days is animated Star Wars. For anyone new to the series, watch the Clone Wars series, all seven seasons, and the following animated series. You really can't go wrong with those.
Andor, Rebels, and Mandalorian I attempted to watch, I never really got into since it was such a different entity, that and Disney has burned me too many times. I'm open to trying it again though. Obi-Wan series was the biggest disappointment I've ever seen. The animated series they've produced clearly keeps the lights on, which I'm more than happy sticking with, they've been AMAZING.
@@thereforeiyam Yep the animated is the only new Star Wars worth watching. Rebels was overall a good series, not as good as Clone Wars, but it was decent. I'm assuming you've seen the Clone Wars series? If not, it's among the best Star Wars there is, period. Anakin from that series is actually a good character, unlike the prequel version.
Got the same old racist card bullshit when I tried to explain to a guy why I didn't like the series. "You just don't like black women in Star Wars" he claimed (I am white). I sent him your video. He blocked me😏
Humans fundamentally love to be right no matter what. Hearing anything outside of that requires that idea to be a little untrue, some aren’t willing to give that up. I’m glad I could help against that point, it’s used in such poor taste. There’s some people in the comments where we came out of the show different, and we have a conversation about it without this retort. The requirement to liking a show comes down to race for some people rather than a good storyline that makes people proud of that representation (regardless of the person). It blows my mind.
My new " Tubber " 👊🏼 Acting / Script / Fights ... miserable. May I say, Star Wars is more a Shogun type affair, not a Kung Fu one,.so that's off for a start. That's all that matters because aside from the evil behind the cameras, the production was as good as any other high-budge series product one would expect from Dis ... 🤢 ... Dis ... 🤢 ... Disney ( 😵💫 ) to.put out. I would like to k ow where $180,000,000 went ??? I'll bet ot mostly went on wages to support their " off screen ", sanctimonious amd destructive bs, in many areas of their lives, not just Star Wars wrecking. Thus, I don't pay ANYTHING to them, as I'm not going to support their " ways ". Blesses and great work 🙏
Thank you, I’m so grateful to have you! The comparison you made to the fighting style and feel of the show is exactly right. I really do wonder where it all that money went….cause it wasn’t in the show.
Darth Plagueis is one of the more infamous and powerful Siths told in Star Wars, this show was his first appearance. He is the only one known to craft and preserve life through the Force. Without a quick google and based on my general knowledge, he was the one that was Master to Palpatine, who eventually outshined and killed him to claim the power of his master for himself.
I loved it. Not as good as OT but better than 2/3 prequels and 1/3 sequels. Not as good as Andor but better than all other recent SW live action. Solid B+ or A- SW story. ❤
I gotta see what you mean, because I'm shocked as many people liked it. That's not bad, we just view it differently. Perhaps I'll review some other shows within the franchise, I've been skipping over Andor, Mandalorian, and Ahsoka out of fear.
Every company is in it now for the money that can be found in it. It's almost hard to say Disney in general when they have other decent productions and they are devouring other corporations in the process. They're everywhere, unfortunately, even in some good media. But, I never fully agreed with the argument of representation on screen. I would assume most of us have working eyes and if not, OVERALL common sense to see if a show has minorities in it to feel valued, why push it? This show is diversely bad with diverse people featuring in it. How is this good representation? It just seems ridiculous to me. It's like they have to make diversity a huge marketing factor, and I don't know about anybody else. I might be the minority in this, but I have to be told that everything is catered to my race specifically, I feel more isolated, called out for my differences among other people. Like, I'm being put above people versus equal to everyone around me.
I agree with the Sol bit. He was the best. The dialogue did him no favors, his dialect even got slower while he went on due to language barrier. He honestly deserves the respect if we can grant it. Jekki was appealing and I was interested to see a character progress from there. Both unfortunately get dusted for an ill-conceived plot.
Some might be looking for cohesion and competence where it doesn't exist. Modern SW is a series of "omgsokewlz" scenes hammered together to make a ride, hopefully one so fast that you spend your time squeeing and waving a toy/doll/placard at the screen and DO NOT THINK! Thought is bad, only appearances matter! Critique is bad, look a black/yellow/rainbow/whatever the hell green with stripes person is there and if you don't like it your evil. There really isn't much more to it that I can see? Sure some competent actor or actress may give their all or they can hit the right notes by instinct and copying a few times but this is just as shallow and venal a product as the creators. There is no LOVE in their making or the creators hearts and it shows. Whereas there seems to be a great deal in your videos, given the effort and honesty.
I don't know, they always have room for people like her. But, I also don't doubt she would make a video blasting "Hollywood had Blacklisted her" if she doesn't get roles. Especially if she's still onto The Hate U Give train....it was five years ago, girl. She seems great as a person, very kind, but the extreme activist stuff comes off like she's compensating for her heritage.
You're good at this and could become a more popular review channel, if that's a thing you want to do. I'll sub and see what else you get up to. It was odd to see the Sith guy be cool, calm, and collected, and the Jedi being over emotional. Total reversal.
I can't wait to keep you posted! Definitely the plan and trying to get my process for these videos down. I understand that all manner of absolutes lead to darker paths on either side, but I feel like the filp is so drastic, especially considering the time period this happens, it's not the best execution.
At this point surviving seems like an understatement. I've gotten more entertainment out of the UA-cam commentary then the actual show. Hope your channel grows.
Thanks, I appreciate it! And, for sure! Every episode I had to take a lap, especially with 7 and 8. This video was very cathartic for my frustrations lol.
Lee Jung Jae was just the best actor there, despite not knowing English prior gave a better performance than most of the main cast
For sure! I hope this doesn't bog down his career. Should help on that resume if he's been in productions with Disney.
To me, the Acolyte is a disturbing peek into to the confusing, dysfunctional inner worlds of the sociopaths that are Headland, Kennedy and Stenberg.
Sol gets blamed for murders of 2 Jedi masters even though he has, like, a bulletproof alibi of being in the Jedi temple with hundreds of witnesses. This bloody show.
i saw that when rewatching the clips. The goofs keep goofing and piling up in the meantime.
@@thereforeiyam Yeah any casual scrutiny will make Vernestra's story fall apart. There's multiple sources that contradict her.
@@marhawkman303that's not even the biggest plothole in the show. The entire incident happens because Sol and the padawan needed "proof" of the vergence. That's why they went back for the girls, right? Well...the problem is THEY ALREADY HAD PROOF! The blood samples they collected from them, remember? Why couldnt they send THAT to the jedi temple as proof of the girls being artificially created? Why did they need the girls if they had THAT?
@@KoolKeithProductions Well, that's the weird thing about their motives... why do the jedi even care about any of it? Also... if it's like 5 minutes to fly back to Coruscant... why are they sleeping in a tent?
@marhawkman303 Very true. My theory is that they felt the vergence would lead them to "The Chosen One". I know Disney wouldn't dare be THAT bold to try to sneak that in, but think about it. If Sol truly believed Osha (or somehow even both of them) were the ones who would bring balance to the Force, then it would explain his outrageous actions, and why the jedi cared so much to risk war with the witches. Hell, Qui Gon was ready to leave the Order when Anakin got rejected by the Council, so it would make sense. More sense than one of them just wanting to go home, really, really badly. In fact, l think that was the plan, but someone high up said "HELL NO", so they removed all mentions of The Chosen One, and that's why the Jedi actions make zero sense now.
Hope your channel explodes great content, great editing, diamond in the rough right here
It seems like you guys have brought me good fortune. It's been a helluva few days. Thank you!! :)
It's so absurd it hurts
I know it all too well. Knowing there is collective suffering helps though lol
Cortosis is a very rare metal which is why it couldn’t be mass produced. It also doesn’t make the best armour, it’s quite brittle. I think that’s why Jecki was able to break the helmet by bashing it.
Thank for the insight! I was watching episode five repeatedly, like an annoying amount of times. I was so lost as to why Qimir had just one gauntlet/bracelet and a toothy helmet if it looked like he had more material to fix it when it broke.
Jekki did end up brute forcing it with the butt of her saber so, I can see any physical force becoming its weakness. Although I thought I read there was a character that was able to create a network all around their body. The force part is up in the air though.
@@thereforeiyam Yeah i read it was the Mandorlians that were able to weave it into their armour and weapons. I don’t think it was common knowledge that it was possible though, as the metal was so rare. The unknown planet had Cortosis veins in the rock, many people think it’s Bal’demnic from Legends.
i think the big problem with cortosis, in this instance, is that they never set it up in the show, which led to confusion. Like they keep saying that stuff in the EU doesn't matter (like cortosis, it was EU) and then when they bring it into cannon theyre like its already been explained. like what? They kinda explain it in what ep6? but thats doing the setup after the payoff.
A way to do it better would be like maybe qimir gives mae a cortosis blade and it shorts something out thats not a lightsaber. it shows its ability and sets it up as something that takes out energy, like a lightsaber maybe? Then when shes up against a jedi and it goes through the lightsaber its that, oh shit leonardo pointing meme lol. it takes the jedi by surprise and thats how she gets the upper hand. then you can explain what it actually is and does afterwards. (woulda been a much better way to take out indara vs haha i actually had TWO knives lol)
@@thereforeiyam Also, that "unknown planet".. yeah... It's the only known planet to have minable quantities of Cortosis.... pretty easy to look up on the wiki.
I will say, they couldn't have inserted the name of the planet the two character were on to clarify the source of the material? I agree with @Ryan-Ji7jz
Osha already has the idea that it's an unknown planet by just waking up in a new environment after being kidnapped.
The showrunners make it seem like they wanted people to remain in the dark until a reveal they set up (to be a different planet than the one listed on wiki) or look it up on the Wiki page. Which, shouldn't be the main source of receiving information as the audience because the show is unwilling to explain. It should enhance it.
So according to Leslie, Sol warrants death for being presumptive/paternalistic with Osha, but Anisaya gets a pass for pushing witchery on her over protests, Horn-Mom gets away with physically abusing Mae and starting the fight with the Jedi unilaterally, & Mae herself never has to acknowledge let alone be called out on acting creepy and possessive over her sister to the point of straight-up being ready to kill Osha before letting her leave & make a life or identity outside of being just “my twin”.
Great, cogent commentary. No yelling about the social content. Just a focus on the technical stuff. Good job! And it was funny!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I figured the brief inserts on it were enough to make my point clear, didn't want to go to deep with it. Me personally, these actors don't need to be bashed for seizing an opportunity. Yes, it would be better if they were as passionate about the franchise, but it is what it is. Amandla, however, made herself a target with that one, can't blame people for having an opinion. Thanks for checking the video out!
@@thereforeiyam I watched a lot of videos about the making of Shogun and those actors admitted that they had no real idea of the resultant quality of their work. I don't know if any actor really does. I think they are best served leaving the audience to judge the value that the actor's work provides.
I could not agree more! This is what I personally feel commentary on media should still be. Criticism comes in different forms, but I don't think people should take it as far as they do in some cases. The work speaks for itself and Acolyte speaks volumes.
Just discovered you. Great to see SW isn’t unsafe for “Black nerds” as Amandla Stenberg claimed. 🙄
It never was unsafe.
People in Hollywood are just insane and doesn't understand how people in the real world are.
They think they are so high and mighty, believe they're needed to make "minorities" feel welcome in some communities as if it hasn't been the case already. They think that without them "minorities" wouldn't be able to enjoy Star Wars or other franchises.
I'm writing "minorities" in quotes because it's relative. White people in China or most of Africa are also minorities.
And I can say for a fact that non-white people did enjoy Star Wars and other franchises prior to Hollywood going into their crusade for so-called inclusivity.
Anyways, cheers from France! 🍻
You guys are stellar! Thanks for much for finding me!
That statement she made took me aback. I watched a commentary video on Amandla's...performance on Instagram where they inserted an article where she spoke about this. I wanted to steer clear away from bashing actors, but since Amandla invited it, it's fair game.
She has been given everything under the sun in this production and has lucked out more than most will ever get in life. John Williams asked her to play violin for his composition for the show, her mom who's chief of multiple news sites boosted her show by doing an interview with her, the entire show is completely starring her, which is a hefty payday when you're playing two people. She's biracial, reportedly gay, and a woman. So, where on the level she is at, is she being oppressed? I would have held my nose up high and taken my check, Disney does not care all that much about you if you feel like you have to jump out your skin to protect yourself against.....online.....haters.
With both your comments in consideration, is it just me or does it feel like EVERY Disney-owned project forces them to include that fact that Disney is "inclusive" on these press tours. Look back at a couple of interviews for the last couple of movies they've pumped out, I feel like all I ever hear is that, "Disney never had diversity before and lacked the spaces for minorities to be who they are." To an extent, maybe, if I'm playing devil's advocate with that point. But, being a nerd now is considered cool and something people take general interest in, so where are we getting this information from?
Is that written in the contract of when these people sign on? Is that just a major selling point now rather than something people can use their collective two eyes to see on screen? Kathleen Kennedy will be the death of my sanity if this continues.
@@thereforeiyam she already killed mine
@@thereforeiyam Did you not hear about the campaign she had against her saying she was racist against white people? It was from a Hate U Give interview taken out of context (make white people cry). I understand where she’s coming from to a degree but the execution her response was terrible. That “dis” track was embarrassing and didn’t help anything. I understand it was linked to Juneteenth as well but it wasn’t a good look coming from such a privileged woman.
@WesesaAbioye YESSS I did hear some whispers through the grapevine, but no concrete timeline of when it happened, so I wasn't sure if she was holding a grudge or making a timely point on something. Her response was terrible if she wanted to be taken seriously, and on Juneteenth was like baiting anyone who wanted to fuel hate. I feel like her performance of "shucking" and "jiving" puts a bad look on us and made things worse for her. As if activism only comes performatively.
Lol I talked about representation in another comment of yours, but she was not the best example to make those statements considering what I've read on her She realizes that her voice is not the strongest in vocalizing these issues. It's unfortunate to gatekeep, but there different levels to it she does not realize and she comes off as full of herself if she speaks on it.
Awesome! I was in as soon as you called The Acolyte a "Star Wars wet sneeze." Ha! I'm dying!
The biggest "Ah-choo" I've ever seen haha
@@thereforeiyam isn't that the name of a planet?
Subbed. it´s clear you enjoy doing this and make an effort to give us your best. thanks.
I truly do and thank you so much! I'm eternally grateful you and so many others are able to see that. Like they say, first impressions are important and although it takes me some time to pump out content, I try my best to make it worthwhile each time. ✨✨
Yup, this one was pretty bad. Tried as hard as I could to give it a chance, but it was pretty clear by episode 4 what we were getting. Lightsaber fights were cool enough but still left something to be desired. I mean who else remembers during the prequel era when the fan films were trying there best to mimic a fraction of the awesomeness of those lightsaber duels. Nowadays it’s completely reversed! The fan made stuff has outpaced the official fight choreography by MILES. Plot/ Character development was all over the place and your right, the one non-English speaker managed to deliver the best performance. (I mean he’s a great actor of course, but for him to have just learned the language and be the most believable in said language speaks volumes.) And that weird Amandla Stenberg video… just why!?!?
I’m just waiting for Andor to come back…
YESS! I wanted to add clips as a comparison, especially with fight scenes, but my video was already dense enough. The fan films have literally spoiled us and I honestly might see why people love to read legends and the books haha.
I've been avoiding Ahsoka and other shows simply because I love the characters too much to ruin that image I have, but the prequels and Clone Wars series really set the gold standard.
Lee Jung-Jae being the best was a surprise for me. Sure, Manny Jacinto did what he was suppose to do, but Lee literally went out of his way to try and make the best of his role. I don't know, it earns a different respect. At least, the other actors/actresses feel the same in this regard.
Watching Ahsoka through clips I can tell they've really lost sight of what made Star Wars what it was. Even telling 50+ year old Hayden to slow down to keep up with the other actresses pace who are younger than him is WILD. The fans have always managed to outshine productions and even the creator respects this! Although, we have Star Wars Theory acting more like the creator than George Lucas even wants to be and I'm glad he's doing his part to help the community. I honestly don't blame him at all, I simply feel bad at how things have just carried on.
As for Amandla Stenberg, my girl should have just taken the check like everyone else. She didn't even have to do all that 😆
How do we survive acolyte?
"That's the neat part, we don't"
Felt like I was being waterboarded this entire season.
Yami, at about 00:44 in this video:
_"You CAN'T possibly mess that up."_
*_"Unfortunately that sounds a little like famous last words."_*
- 2OO1: A SPACE ODYSSEY [1968]
Brand new - subbed after the vid’s intro. Hilarious and I’m sold.
Proceed. Lmao
I shall! You have my many thanks. 🫡
Legit, the best breakdown of the Acolyte I’ve seen!
Dawww, thank you so much! 😭😭
This is the most enjoyable Acolyte video I've seen so far, and a refreshing point-of-view / commentary: smart, easy to listen to, and a good sense of humor. Subscribed, and looking forward to more content.
Thank you for sticking around and the praise! Welcome to the club. 😊
Love your humour!! Favourite review I've seen out here.
Gah! Thank you, that is high praise! Sometimes we forget to find some laughter, I'm glad I could share my own with you guys. 😁
I like your breakdown of it all. I think you made the best point when you talked about how much they care. The producers do not care because the presentation of the product would have come off so much better. Your review sticks to the facts and doesn’t try to blame things that have nothing to do with why the project was bad. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much! I've always felt that if anyone is able to take away anything from my experience/criticism, regardless of liking or disliking the show, and feels that what I say is fair, I've done my job well. The project could have been so much better and elevated anyone that was in it to much better heights if they showed that they cared enough as a result.
The character motivations and morality of this show are so confused and self-centered. Characters just do whatever is necessary to get to the next scene. As for morality, Sol killing someone turning into a smoke demon is an unforgivable sin, yet Mae's multiple murders are just water under the bridge because she decided that OSHA suddenly matters more. Let's not even get into OSHA shacking up with a man who killed off everyone she knew about a day ago because she saw him naked.
It's like the sort of thing you see in the fanfiction of a teenage girl .
There was a interview where Leslye reportedly stating that "some" of her fanfiction elements made their way into the series. So, it wouldn't be an unfair assessment. I can respect the grind of a fellow fanfic girl, but let that stuff stay on AO3 -- not all of them are winners lol.
Don't bring that mess and say you're a true visionary, then get mad when people call you out for the teenage fanfic storytelling 😭
The line about russian nesting dolls got me weak haha. Good stuff.
Thank you!
Yeah this show was confusing from beginning to end.
Felt like I had to turn my brain off to make it make sense.
Berserk Deluxe spotted! Just started it as my first manga. I'm giving up on Star Trek and Star Wars. Great video btw!
You'll be a changed person afterward, beware! I'm excited for the anime coming out. Thank you btw, I've been slowly building the collection. A huge reader in general when I have the time. Star Trek and Star Wars really are just sinking and we can't do anything but watch it drown while Disney props up other franchises. Marvel is 50/50 score. I hear Deadpool and Wolverine tipped the scales as of late.
Thor Skywalker explains as well everything wrong with it in great detail but I've gotta say you did so in a very entertaining way. This was my introduction to your channel and earns a sub
Welcome aboard! I'm glad I could provide some amusement. I've heard of that name before, I'll have to look him up. I'm sure I've crossed paths with him before. His channel seems like a good binge, something to aspire to for sure.
Great content. Subscribed.
I'm enterally grateful to have earned it! Welcome to the Gremlin Cove lol
Great summary, well put! 🧡💛🧡
thank you!
Wow, nicely done. About sums it up. All great points.
Appreciate the praise! Glad you enjoyed it.
You had me at your intro slam of The Acolyte. I appreciate someone with taste. Subbed.👍
I appreciate it! This show was a particular thorn in my side, had to see if anyone else felt the same.
Thereforeiyam, "Order 66 never hurt anybody." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just shared on my X / Twitter
I love your review. you covered stuff a lot of other people missed that bothered me as well.
I'm glad I was hitting the same nail. I was almost worried, but there was so much I wrote in my notes on this. I do wish I mentioned Badger Boy Bazil being an undercover Sith. THAT killed me to not mention, completely flew over my head.
Nice work! Subscribed
glad to have you here!
I'm really mad about being duped again. Ahsoka was Sabine changing places with Ezra. And Acolyte? It was Mae changing with Osha. Oh, how interesting! Well well!
Exactly! I had a lot of hope with Ahsoka. Grant, haven't watched it, but it's my favorite character with an OG character we've wanted to see on screen. Obi-wan left me SALTY and from what I hear, Ahsoka's not super great.
But, Acolyte takes the cake in overall awfulness. We'll be waiting some time before they decide to do some corrective measures.
@@thereforeiyam There is one scene in Ahsoka with her jumping on the roof of her space ship... It's so damn ridiculous because the whole idea depends on the enemy X Wings flying along exactly one meter above her head - for her to actually reach them with her lightsaber. I mean, before Acolyte, I thought Obi Wan's chipmunks stapled on top of each other in one suit and Ahsoka's spaceship yoga would be the two lowest points for a longer time, but hey...
The best part of the Acolyte is that I discovered this Chanel!
Gosh, I appreciate you looking over the channel and checking out the video! ✨
This video will be a nice addition to my "misunderstanding Star Wars" collection, this fandom never disappoints
Star Wars fans, producing better live action content with HD camcorder than the company with billions of dollars since 2012 🫡
@@thereforeiyam From my experience, fans don't know what they want to see. In 10 years max people will realize that this show isn't terrible compared to what we've been getting for the last 20 years. This fandom has always needed time.
I think this only worked with the Prequels because of the remaining vision George Lucas wanted to leave fans with could be seen and in new media, the direction has always failed to match that heart and quality.
Visually, we’re beyond our former years, but it’s seems to be swapped in place of consistent storytelling.
I think the animated series (minus Rebels for me personally) perfectly holds both of these factors of visuals and a story worth telling. WITHOUT George’s notes/oversight/input, if we want to make that argument.
The Sequel trilogy completely disregards his remaining wishes in its existence after he left, which are still a firm no in my end. But I still like specific concepts it introduces.
I don’t disregard anyone for liking or disliking the show, if I’m posing the question, I invite it.
Different reasons will follow no matter what. But if you’re trying to void my argument as toxic or “misunderstood” of the franchise, it makes it seem like only your POV is the righteous path. Everything else be damned.
I believe the fans are smart enough and have stated what they wanted over and over. There are clear paths ahead dictated by George, free for anyone to write around that, but when you go against it, people want to know why and believe it. The stories have not been believable to those people for a long time.
@@thereforeiyam I'm not saying my view is the only good one. A lot of your criticism was about things I could easily understand and didn't see them as bad writing (tho writing isn't the strongest aspect of this show). In my opinion nothing I've seen in the show deserves being called the worst in the franchise, and The Acolyte is probably the most Lucas-like Star Wars project made by Disney (with all of pros and cons of being similar to Lucas' work). But this is just my experience, and I understand that different people might see some aspects of the show as non-sensical and/or stupid.
What I mean is fans tend to forget that Star Wars has always had average writing (with some exceptions), and its true charm comes from symbolism and worldbuilding. But when we get another averagely written Star Wars project, people start seeing its mediocrity as the end of Star Wars when it's actually just tuesday for the franchise.
This has always happened and will happen with every new project that comes out. Then, in 10-15 years, people who grew up on The Acolyte will become more vocal and the fandom will appreciate its good aspects more, while remembering the mistakes it made, just like with episode 6, prequels, The Clone Wars, and, probably in a few years, the sequels.
definitely one of the more measured comments on the acolyte i've seen on yt, props and subbed. my personal gripe with all of this is, and i know it's all about the buzz, the pay check and quarterly figures go brrr, the ease with which "they" can write of any kind of criticism, warranted as it may be, by just pointing at the diversity chart and picking their favourite -ism or -phobia of the day. i mean, headland sits through two "interviews" a day, gives ever more confused sounding explanations for stupid things the acolyte did and not ONE calls her out for this. they are meant to be journalists, aren't they?
I appreciate it, I try to be as fair as I can with the balance of my own personal opinion on it.
It's sooo annoying that that can be used as a shutdown. Again, they would be begging for feedback if they were an indie production company, just for someone to look at their way. But a big company that sells diversity as money to exchange, they couldn't care less and label you anything that doesn't agree with them. I will say, the actors/actresses can be absolved of this scrutiny, except when they want to be performative and join in on it.
I have a hard time even listening and sitting through anyone's interviews, I hardly wish to become more invested in these celebrities lives than they wish the public to be. Plus, Disney is so tight about even the phrase" The Force" it doesn't surprise me that while Leslye tries to do these interviews to explain this nonsense, they keep her on a tight leash and she ends up blabbing about something else.
And, considering what Ms, Stenberg mentioned about Journalists, they're all corrupt and liars, her words. Guess she forgot that her mom is tied to that career path as well. It's exhausting.
Currently watching it. I think the acolyte would benefit a lot from
A. More conflict (one idea: make it a bit of a rip-off from the fugitive. Have tommy lee jones hunt osha while she is proofing her innocence while finding her sister again)
B. Condense it into a movie of 2h (or maybe back to the good old 90 min). This series has barely anything happening, which is one of the reasons why it feels so dragged out - it literally is dragged out, with many setups leading nowhere just to pad time. There is not much plot.
Not saying that it would be great then, but I think there would be more momentum to be engaged and make it more interesting to watch.
A MOVIE! Why didn't I even think about that? Yeah, you hit it right on the money on everything. I felt like a movie would be more handled with kid-gloves versus the TV series Disney keeps barfing out to keep up with metrics. I can ease up and say that the plot isn't inherently unsalvageable, but it's clear they took whatever they had and ran with it.
Great video! You hit every point. I appreciate how you verbalized every point I was thinking about. 🎉
You would not believe how LONG my notes were on this show lol. Episode by Episode, I had like 20 different things and had to edit as much I could to get the important points I wanted to hit for this video while still poking some fun.
Feeling blessed to be your 420th sub. Also so refreshing to see a good criticism of this show that isn't all "pronouns n women bad". Can't wait to see more of ya stuff in the future!
It's been years of 420 jokes since I used to be known as Blaze on the space, missed out on a joke fulfilled lol. Thank you for looking me up! I never fully understood the critique people include on that bit, it's genuinely not as important as the other stuff you find and I see it as a mild nitpick. Plus, we're in space and aliens could literally be ANYTHING.
Regardless of what either side of the social side feels, the galaxy isn't going to look or work like what we would think. That would be boring....
@@thereforeiyam God bless you for being one of the good ones honestly, gender and social constructs are literally the last thing that should matter, if at all. I'll definitely Blaze one for you later, bring it full circle. Oh and thanks for the lil 420th shout out on your most recent, appreciate it and appreciate you!
Oh you are going places. Take my subscribe.
Dawww...thank you 😭🥹
UA-cam decided to show your channel to people apparently, that's pretty cool.
After watching this video I went back on your catalogue and watched some of your older content, and it's probably because the time in between your uploads isn't consistent that the algorithm doesn't help you.
All that to say that I was surprised you barely had more than 200 subs.
I hope your channel grows to the size it deserves in the near future.
Anyways, to the subject at hand, The Acolyte:
First thing, "After this woman set off her inner Dementor", I love it!
It's really frustrating what they did to Sol.
At first I gave the show a chance and enjoyed parts of it. Even more than the Kenobi and Fett shows since they didn't have Legacy Characters to butcher.
Then they manage to make me care about Sol, only to butcher him in the last couple of episodes.
He started as a Qui-Gon like open minded Jedi, who's the exemplary Jedi following the Will of the Force rather than the will of the corrupt senate (no such thing as the "Light Side" of the Force, there is The Force and its Will, and Dark Side users corrupt and bend the Force to their own Will for Evil means) which was the undoing of the whole Jedi order.
In the end Sol became an absolute idiot. Not immediately warning the Order that there were Sith in the wild. Not explaining to Osha that he was trying to protect who he thought was her, seeing how she was seemingly disintegrating before his eyes. He just made a split-second decision due to the totality of circumstances surrounding him, it doesn't make him a bad person who deserves to die.
The haircut things is really weird. Do they think this kind of hair grows braided like that on its own?
Other frustrating things with Hollywood and how they perceive black people are the Killmonger haircut they throw around on anyone and them playing Rap or RnB whenever there are black characters in prominent roles. Even if it clashes with what we're watching as it happened with this show.
One critique I hear often when it comes to poorly made shows or movies is the "if it's offscreen, it doesn't exist" even when it should be in plain view of the characters.
Because the audience can't see Mae's forehead clearly, so does Sol. Which makes him look like a clueless idiot, and it's not considering he should've either felt the darkness within her or better, recognized she wasn't the pupil he taught for years with their bond missing within the Force.
So... I didn't plan on writing a novel. It just kept coming as I was rewatching your video. I'm writing something, then you make a point I want to talk about and by the time I'm writing about said point, you make another point I want to talk about. And here we are.
Imma stop here before it gets way out of hand.
Cheers from France! 🍻
I wanted to take my time to respond this one because I have so much gratitude for your kindness and the fact that you took time out of your day to send this lol.
The novels are great, so don't worry too much about it. I agree, The algorithm really tossed me into the big leagues, and not gonna lie, it's pretty intimidating haha. I mean, you're from France? I've hardly ever seen the outside of the US and I'm able to reach people all around in seconds.
Definitely working on my filming and editing process, I see that issue too. Trying to strike a balance somewhere in my process, but I think taking anytime I have to film is essential. I'm an endless yapper and videos would be way too long, so I gotta write notes for these kinds of things. I always wonder if other reviewers do this or they just speak of the top of their head --- I'd like to get to that point if possible.
Oh my gosh, the rap and Rnb comment is so true. It's like they couldn't help themselves at that point. I felt like the costumes and the hair could have been so much better. Again, where did the $180 million go?
I completely agree, in spite of everything in this show, and the willful ignorance they show, Sol was truly the only gem in this. He had all the decent and good elements of Jedi before him, but they had him make dumb decisions and killed him off for a point poorly made that opposes that. Why not make this show entirely from a Sith point of view like Qimir, how he was enticed by the dark side? Maybe have a character working their way to break free from the Dark Side... *cough* Starkiller (I will die on this hill).
Anyway, thanks again for the comment!
You hit every nail on the head. This show was terrible
Agreed 🫡
Spot on review. I'm subscribed.
Thank you and welcome!!
Yami, at about 01:05 in this video: _"...book lore..."_
But...BUT...I thought _Kathleen Kennedy_ said IN A VIDEO INTERVIEW that there was _no book lore_ to fall back on!
🙄🤦♂️
Mama lies. At least not on purpose lol. Kennedy doesn’t even know half the things going on in her production company.
Why doesn't the first Jedi (Trinity) recognize her in the intro fight scene? She's a twin of a former Jedi, They even say that Trinity is the one that advised the jedi council to cut off her training, so she would instantly recognize her, or does covering your moth with a cloth stop Jedi masters from recognizing former students ?
It's like the MCU. Putting on a hat and a sunglasses instantly hides your identity and counts as undercover, when they literally have shapeshifting masks in the same continuity lol.
When I saw that thick neck woman as the head director I knew that acolyte was going to be bad, its like the heads of Disney don't feel good unless they piss off fans and ruin franchises. Only person that can save star wars now is Sam Witwer. Great video btw
Thanks! I love Sam Witwer and I will advocate for him whenever I can! He's just an enjoyable person within the Star Wars circuit and I've been waiting for a live-action Starkiller storyline for forever. Not saying being an excitable Star Fan is required, case in point, Harrison Ford. But, it's gotta be easier and a privilege to be able to work with someone who can engage with and even add their own take on things with the material.
Perfectly put. I agree with all of your sentiments, and I loved how you dropped in clips of Amandla's super cringy music video.
The music video had my jaw dropped. Couldn’t believe it. She’s doing a whole lot for a company that’s not really for her like that. It’s just embarrassing.
@@thereforeiyam@thereforeiyam, supposedly, the video isn't about Star Wars or its fandom, but the release of it was way too coincidental to not be related.
@@thereforeiyam but regardless of the video, the show is incredibly bad and even the people who do like it seem to have the shared issue that the worst part of the show is the main character and the actress playing her.
@@TSDreamCreative Once again, a divided fandom always finds a way to rally behind a common cause.
I lost hope years ago and haven't seen any of the Disney Star Wars TV shows. Thanks for the nice video on the subject. After all the comments from certain people that the hate for the show is baseless and only coming from toxic men, it's nice to see some videos from women on the subject. Best wishes.
Thank you! I feel like criticism should stay criticism of the work and the main production/corporation. I will slam dunk on Kathleen Kennedy for days in the comments.
Sometimes the criticism can also call for looking at the social/political aspect behind, but i don't think people should take it as far as they do. The "Working Jellyfish" is probably the best example of this that I feel like made a fair and balanced critique on these things.
I'm glad more people feel a bit more comfortable with me speaking on it the way I do.
Great vid! Keep 'em coming!
Appreciate it and you've got it!
Thanks for the video.
You are welcome!
Nice review! The spice cream thing is...kind of messed up but far from the only thing wrong with the series.
Agreed! Especially coming off of Dune's definition of spice, I was like, "WE'RE MAKING ICE CREAMS OUT OF THAT NOW?"
By watching it through Charlie Hopkinson’s channel, where you get sick commentary from Obi, Qui, and Anakin
I'll have to take a look at that, very curious.
Dang, can’t believe I found you when you’re in the hundreds of subs
I know, I'm surprised there's so many of you guys here! Welcome to my designated corner of the internet. 😶🌫
You're a black woman, for whom "this show was made," and this is what you have to say.
You are of real diversity; that you can have this opinion when all you have to do is agree to "win" makes you a real winner.
We need more people like you.
I appreciate it, I think! Not gonna lie, wasn't sure how to read this comment lol. I just think it's ridiculous to label something so negative because the like or dislike something. I've spoken at nauseum about diversity in the comments lol. Essentially, there's pros and cons.
I do worry that some in the film/commentary community might limit me on media because they feel I can only speak on things targeted for me or people like me. Anything else and I might receive some backlash for it, if it's not the majority consensus. Had a rough experience with Dune and I'm scarred lol. But no matter what, I'm gonna be honest about my opinion.
@@thereforeiyam you said everything you did respectively
I look forward to hearing more of your content
The only thing I got from this show is that I now have a crush on Manny Jacinto 😂 Also just subbed! I love to see fellow black girl nerds thriving ❤
Thank you for the support, I appreciate the love! I can't lie nor blame you, Manny is an absolute force in this production. Physically, in the fight scenes, he put everything he had and looked good while doing them. Gotta clap it up for him.
YT is showing simultaneously on one screen you and Osha, it's amazing to realize how similar you look and move. Btw, she is very good looking
21' if the review
Yeah, i agree lol. I started to notice that watching it back, one of the transitions from my points to her music video, I was thinking "welp, that's gonna be interesting -- wonder if anyone else notices"
The show was rotten to the core. The writing is atrocious, and that's being generous. I like to watch stupid movies from time to time, to put them in the background while I do something. But even those need to make sense, but here the characters always acted according to what the script had them do. "now I need to be good, now I'm evil, now I surrender, now I beat everyone, now I can't with one padawan, now I want to delete this person, now I'm in love" character motivations? What's that?
Great content, subbed 👍🏼
Thanks for the support! I appreciate it! I precisely agree. It’s just dumb decisions being made because the plot demands it to be so. Nothing else to it.
Your pov is different than mine lol I really liked the show.
That's intriguing to me. Honest curious question : What did you like about this show?
I second this, I heard two or three points in the comments, but nothing I didn't already consider to be salvageable in the show.
@@sirazazeloflowkey6424 First of all, I think it's a matter of taste, the show gives a lot to think about, and I think that analyzing it superficially is not the writer's fault but ours because now a show has to explain even the smallest detail.I like everything, from the diversity of the cast, their acting and of course the writing.
My fav character is Sol, a person with a good heart but couldn't see his mistake until the end. The show leaves it up to interpretation whether witches are bad or not, but if it was just like a ceremony and that's it, it was Sol who thought the worst. It's certainly what happens with minority traditions, people judge without understanding the reason.
Osha's character is a little confusing to me, but I can understand why she made her decisions. Of the two sisters, she has always been the one who wanted something more, so it didn't seem strange to me that she accepted Qimir, and if we talk about why she didn't take revenge for Jeckie, well, it's not her style. Even when she thought her sister k*lled her family, she didn't take revenge, she wanted to arrest her. Besides, Qimir hit the nail on the head, the Jedi were not his friends, he saw her for a couple of days and it was the Jedi who taught he to accept tragedies...
Another thing is Venestra, her decision has to do directly with politics, she covered everything to save the reputation of the Jedi, I think it has to do with the fact that religion and government should not mix.
I could go on but it's already too long haha
I hope they make a second season cause I want to know more about the relationship between Plagues, the witches and Qimir...
@@luisa7253 Thank you for this response. Like seriously. You are the first person to genuinely share what they liked about the show in and open and honest fashion. So thank you for being cool and sharing.
Your answer actually gives me an interesting insight. And hopefully this response of mine will give you one as well. You see, I actually agree with almost all of the things you said and the things you like are strangely enough things I also liked about the show. I in fact went into the show very hopeful and I saw and liked all those same things and yet, my final verdict is that I don't like this show.
For me there is this similarity of what disappoints me about most of Disney Star Wars : It all looks and sounds promising, it presents genuinely interesting ideas, many characters are really cool in concept. Sol was also my favorite character and the lightsaber battles were really cool. But for me it is all spoiled and falls flat due to the execution, mostly in the pacing, writing and character progression/development. To me it feels like there was a great show here, but we just got the worst cut of it all or something. I dunno. I think this show deserved better writing and pacing, I feel like it wasted too much time it could have better used flashing out all the various characters and their development and changes. But again, thank you for sharing.
I get my news from the Pitch Meeting channel😮❤❤
I was just thinking of checking it out, it's been popping up in my feed since I've uploaded this.
Damn...i no experience writing stories. So i can definitely get a job at disney. Nice to know i have something to fallback on.
Job security is important nowadays 👍
Hey! Just trying to spread the word. I needed to re-watch Firefly to remind myself of great television. So if you haven't seen it, give it a view everyone!
I'll give it a go
For an “inclusive” show, the two Asians having a Crouching Tiger-style fight is very suspicious lol
It's just such an interesting choice to do. Star Wars has been classified as a Space Western with Samurai elements, true. I think Leslye might have been a little too liberal with the "Samurai" part of this with these two characters.
They literally think they can make any piece of garbage and just show us Yoda. they threw away any goodwill years ago. Disney was handed a treasure map and said na we are good
The treasure map really hit me hard. The random detours they’ve decided to take within the storyline because didnt want to give George a payout from it, is truly the cost of one man’s dream being another man’s theme park.
Darth Sidious cast Mace Windu threw a window, not Anakin.
I meant to write a pinned comment on it. I was like, “that doesn’t sound right.” I completely forgot. He cut off his hand, not tossed him. My goof on that one
@@thereforeiyam That's ok.
Thank you for clearly expressing the frustration that I have with this show. So much potential completely wasted due to poor writing, medicocre production and bland acting (with a couple of exceptions).
Anytime and completely agree! It truly wasn't a hard concept to be done. I'm astounded how poorly they went with this when I was really hoping I was wrong. Some people might even look past the production issues, if you just tell a story worth telling.
I appreciated your insight into the show’s cinematography. I tend to approach these shows more from a writing perspective, and The Acolyte was poorly-plotted slop in that regard.
On a side note, I recently finished Season 3 of the Bad Batch and quite enjoyed it, so someone at Disney is capable of producing decent Star Wars content.
that is what is jarring about this whole thing. SOMEONE or a group of individuals knows what they're doing and can bypass the Disney police, but WHERE are they hiding them at. I feel like they have them produce one cartoon a year and then stuff them in a broom closet for the rest of the time.
Kylo and Qimir are the only things you want to remember from Disney Star Wars, It's like giving an Oscar to Ken in a Barbie 😐
It's like as much as I want to dislike those characters, the writers have WILLFULLY given just enough good writing to their Sith characters to keep you intrigued, but always bad at the execution. Why they keep passing over my boy Starkiller will never make sense to me :(
@@thereforeiyam yeah Galen meeting ahsoka could have been huge, especially since they use the same fight style.
Cortosis didn’t come from this show. (I don’t know if I spelled it right.)
You're all good! Didn't even dare to try and pronounce it in the video lol. I know it's from legends and they introduced into media, but boy did it confuse me.
Well said, agreed.
thank you! :)
I haven't actually seen either show, but it seems like The Acolyte is the She-Hulk of Star Wars.
The perfect description for it all, but more destructive to the canon than we realize.
I don't have a clear opinion about this show. Since its announcement, after watching Jodie Turner Smith accusing the original trilogy of being patriarchal, Leslie Headland speaking and other stuff, I expected The Acolyte to become nothing more than the ultimate source material for parodies. And indeed I am having s lot of fun watching content creators smashing and thrashing it.
The content for this has been amazing and my favorite content creators within the community have been having more fun with this than I've seen with anything else in past couple of years.
I prefer the prequels and clone wars, but the older books were dope AF too…the recent years have killed my love for the galaxy far far away though…into Warhammer I went 😅
Hey, Henry Cavil's number is supposed to be up for those, so we shall see. I'm honestly thinking about getting into the books.
9:15 THANK YOU FOR REITERATING THIS. While yes there was some corruption within the council and lots of Jedi had flaws, George Lucas clearly stated that the main motif/theme of Star Wars was the battle between good and evil. The Jedi were the good, Sith were the evil. A competent writer would be able to show how the morality and beliefs of the people in these groups can sometimes deviate to the other side, while still keeping the fact that the Jedi and Sith inherently represent GOOD and EVIL. Instead, this show just paints the jedi as corrupt assholes and the dark side as “misunderstood.” It’s the cringiest attempt at being edgy and different for the sake of being edgy and different.
TL;DR - F*ck this show
It was genuinely INFURIATING to me that they were making it seem like the Jedi are evil out the gate while the Sith are a bunch of pretty boys looking for women to understand them. Good and Evil, as you said, has been a concept that George Lucas has echoed time and time again. I can still feel that anger bubbling up just thinking about it. How in any sense does it add up that they're in the REBIRTH ERA of the Jedi and in all-time peace, but all they do in their time is lie and do weirdly, unethical things that make them look like butt munches. They completely butchered this concept.
Bold of you to assume "we" survived The Acolyte together. I've not watched anything Disney Star Wars or Marvel since 2022.
Again, I think we’re focusing too much on the title. It’s just a call to action to the people that may agree with my points, if you’re a stray, you’re welcome too! Now, you have more reason to reaffirm your decision.
@@thereforeiyam I understood your intent. I meant it as a joke, but, as you may have noticed, I'm as funny as C3-PO. LOL
On a more positive note, I've added this video to my "Watch Later", so I'll be back.
Great video essay. You make excellent points, and highlight what are, to my mind, the most important ones, re: character arcs, narrative structure, storytelling, dialogue.
I will say I appreciate that you avoided the "lesbian space witches" moniker because, even when its used by commentors that make legitimate points such as you make, it plays into the narrative Hollywood keeps trying to sell that all of us are "-ists and -phobes" which I certainly am not. The sexual orientarion of the witches is irrelevant. Does the fact they might be lesbian make for a nice insert, sure. In fact, the show does well here by not making their orientation the most important aspect of their "personality" as a group. Anyway, I'm getting off topic…
Lastly, I don't mean this to sound pedantic, but I think it is so important to have young, black women talking about this and making these arguments, since you are supposed to be the "target" audience for these kinds of shows. I, a GenX white male, am not, it seems. Except that Lucasfilm (and Disney overall) maybe don't realize that us old nerds were progressive long before it became popular. We are not Boomers. So, I love to see representation in media. What I don't like is bad storytelling, anemic character arcs and motivations, poor narrative and dialogue. For that matter, the cinema-side of this show is also poor in terms of editing, blocking, etc. (a point which I think you mention). Another UA-camr "Snarky Jay" made a great video the other day which discusses the "message" push from Hollywood well: we have no problem with doing this, and in fact scifi and fantasy have been doing this pretty well over the years in termsnof representation. Granted, most was centered on race and gender since those were the bigger issues then, but they already did those things. For some reason Disney thought it needed to be done. I would argue they should just stop adapting fairy tales from European source material (which, to be fair they did with Aladdin and Moana). Anyway, I hope you get my point!
Cheers! Oh, and subbed 😊
I completely agree. I absolutely love this comment. Probably one of my favs, but the all around support for this video has been almost overwhelming. Like, now I actually get when people say that lol. But I’m beyond grateful.
I’ve always been on the fence on representation, obviously yes, but sometimes it’s used to disguise a greater issue and I have problems with that. I’ve never had problems with sci-fi or fantasy making strides in this. If it’s done well and not made as a selling point.
One of the biggest reasons I made this video because we have--I hate to even phrase it like this-a lot of my white counterparts in the community making videos on this with those kinds of jokes in their criticism, and though their points are funny and easily explained. The media, fans, and show runners watching will not accept that. They get lumped into those toxic categories and disregarded from truths that can be found and are instantly turned off. The same point can be made on the opposite side of these views.
I had that issue with my Dune video, which I guess wasn’t made for me, so people felt a specific type of way.
We live in a world where everyone will take you at your word, analyze those actions behind it, and will slap a label on you instantly. You just have to be careful unless you fully accept it. As the target audience for the show, I think people will feel more comfortable acknowledging those critiques from a person like me without labeling people a -phobe or -cist of some type.
I wanted to create a balance of fair criticism, keep the convo open to people that love and hate the show --regardless of how I feel, and still have fun with it at the end of the day without bashing the actors and their social standing. I hardly acknowledge Amandla till the very end and make a point of disagreeing with it then moving on.
Again thanks for sticking around, can’t wait for you to see what I have in store.
Side note, I gotta lot of appreciation and respect for the Gen X audience. You guys had the best stuff when I was growing up, i gotta say. I thank my mom for that.
i mean, thing is, well i agree with you on the matter of other commentators, from the interviews i've seen from leslye headland the director and driving creative force of the acolyte, the queerness of the space witches is very much an intentional detail. leslye identifies as a queer woman/lesbian and like a lot of queer people she had a rough childhood after coming out and receiving rejection/hatred from her biological parents about her orientation, her family has a christian denomination religious background, pretty much all the hallmarks of the tragic/sad queer history especially for a woman of her age.
in that sense I would aruge the queer nature of the space witches is very much a feature as opposed to a bug, if not essential to the perspective headland is trying to convey. its the injection of the queer experience/history into the heart of the story through literally just plopping a lesbian witches coven into the heart of the narrative [a popular fantasy of queer woman is the idea of the witches coven] only putting it into space this time. and that resonates into every other aspect of the story telling, the jedi being a weird mix of space cops and catholic gaslighters in the acolyte despite how much that flies in the face of previous storytelling within the universe, osha killing sol being this weirdly triumphant moment because its metaphorical for headland defeating the shadow of her parents/father, etc. etc. so yeah, i'd say queerness isn't just incidental to the acolyte its very much intentional.
I think the problem though, is that
1] headland admits that she projects that queerness onto the sith quite intensely and is very heavily biased towards them *cough*causeshesaKOTORfanficauthor*cough* and in a series that trades itself based on how it colour coded the good guys and the bad guys for conveniences sake, its probably not a good idea to the long term health of the setting to completely undermine that very core tenant by saying the bad guys are actually the good guys (or at the very least, it needs a certain finesse and expertise at writing that the acolyte lacks)
2] shes just kinda bad at conveying the queer experience. like, its clear that her experience as a rich white lady who worked for harvy weinstein is very heavily interfering with whatever queer experience shes trying to convey here, so even before ya get the meddling hands of corporate hollywood involved its just kinda muddled and flawed from the get go in whatever shes trying to do.
Thanks for a great review and I agree with you on all of it.
So bad writing and story and everything.
Unforgivable.
I appreciate you checking the video out!
My cue was 'cheap cosplay'... the first time I really noted an eyesore was in Attack of the Clones in the arena. The way these background Jedi stumble through the greenscreen in Halloween costumes swinging left and right is really... not great.
Speaking of which, my pet peeve is that the Prequels establish that Uncle Owen's desert garb is now official Jedi attire: Everybody on Tattooine was wearing the same stuff because dust and desert, even the Sand People.
But when Episode One introduces Obi Wan and Qui Gon it is established that they are wearing that stuff because old Old was wearing it too - not because he was sitting in the desert for 18 years, no apparently he was in uniform all the time.
Some of these decisions are mindbogglingly stupid. 😬
Cheers!
The appearance just comes off a corny or crusty....there's never a happy place lol. I will say, if I had to choose, I would get Prequels outfits. The Acolyte outfits look like true Halloween Store costumes, SUPER bright and weird colors for no reason.
Also why the witches call each other that, the nightsisters are also witches but they call each other sisters, when mae says she wants to be a witch, its like jedi calling each other sorcerers or wizards
No idea. But, I'm sure season two is gonna get more in-depth....yay
First Reva now Mae, Osha and Aniseya. Disney think about diversity first, character second. At least Cere Junda was decent in the Jedi games. Obviously it’s not a must, I love the originals and prequels regardless, but it would be nice have a decent female character who looks similar to me.
I'm seeing a lot of people bring up Obi-Wan and I'm honestly thinking about talking about that next. I love the video games minus one or two that were iffy. Not that I feel like I need representation either, but it's worse when they give us a bad rep with these kinds of characters.
One of my red flags? Pushing diversity so far that they end up over-correcting what they want to effectively change by making it worse.
You are soooo right about all that. And very smart. And kinda hot too! Cheers
You have my many thanks ✨
*How DID I Survive STAR WARS: THE ACOLYTE
Please speak on your own behalf.
You might have taken my headline a little too personally, because I believe the video of my own opinion speaks for itself. You don't need a title to tell you you're allowed to like/love the show. Conversation is welcome.
I kind of hate that it is bad. Like i can see the ideas the writters were going for and i think i could have been interesting. Like yeah the politicians argument against the Jedi was valid, and the idea of a person killing a Jedi with hand to hand combat is really cool. But there was horrible execution
that's what's so frustrating. So many glimmers of nuance, but so many stupid choices. I think they need to understand that fans are not all just some brain rotted people that are only happy consuming the same things over and over.
We want new storylines, NEW BLOOD. They still must respect the previous works and paths before it (should they try to mention it) by enhancing the principles --- not rewriting it, needlessly. It's like they don't know how to do that.
This god awful show lead me to your channel. I hope you keep up with the channel and some more consistent videos. Keep up the good work! Liked and Subscribed :)
I'm glad you ended up on my corner of the internet and plan on sticking around! Definitely working on creating a balance in my process for making these videos come out sooner. More to learn, for sure. It's a bit more demanding than I'd like, but it pays off. I'm happy making it the quality you guys deserve.
Also... the Movies are still Canon, right? The Clone wars and Rebels still portray the Jedi as heroes... how is this gonna play out?
Also also... He uses the helmet to disable lightsabers... and NEVER DOES IT AGAIN
Yeah, no other time during his fight with Sol is he thinking....I should headbutt this. He seemed like he was trying to pull his lightsaber toward him, but I guess that was going to disable both?
Funny how they're only depicted as heroes overall during times of war....but in the renaissance of the Jedi....they are the absolute worst.
Movie are....somewhat canon. Whatever we can decipher that's left. I gotta brush up on my films. All I know is, Yoda is just more of a butt-munch and Anakin's creation is less special.
@@thereforeiyam he literally tried to head butt it during the end of the fight. that's how he lost. are watching or just hatting at this point cuz it pretty clear to me wat yall doing
@@godkingsosa6811 Nope, definitely watching the same thing. Just different point of views.
Look up the clip of the fight. At around 2:39.... which is what you're talking about....he had the lightsaber so close to his face, the man couldn't just....lean in? Even goes further into holding Sols hand, without his own weapon getting in the way, JUST to put his lightsaber against it.
I made a point to agree, but also play devil advocate at maybe Qimir was trying to headbutt it, but needed a better advantage to get closer to his blade without disabling his own.
Listen, if you feel like the show checked off some boxes for you, you're free to make your own points and I'm happy to hear them. I will always have my own bias because we see things differently. But, I think you'll find that I don't bash anyone or support anyone bashing people that like the show. Anyone is free to say what they want about it, my response is optional.
You had me at George Lucas.
In the way he had us all. I look at old bloopers just to be reminded of what it was like when he was happy with what he made.
This show is glorious, good? OH HELL NO! But it makes so many mistakes that youtubers LOVE it. It is free content.
Yup people TALKING about the show is just better then the actual show. The writers of this show, are they beyond eating glue yet? The Acting... the ACTING... the. I give up! So many things are just bad.
I wonder what happened with the $180M because I don't SEE the money!
EATING GLUE IS KILLING ME 😂😂
I survived by not watching. I had to save myself by bailing at the Obi-Wan series. My friend wanted to watch the Ashoka series, so I watched with him, but otherwise I wouldn't have been able to stomach it (spoilers: it's horrible). Other than Andor and some of the Mandalorian, the only good Star Wars these days is animated Star Wars. For anyone new to the series, watch the Clone Wars series, all seven seasons, and the following animated series. You really can't go wrong with those.
Andor, Rebels, and Mandalorian I attempted to watch, I never really got into since it was such a different entity, that and Disney has burned me too many times. I'm open to trying it again though. Obi-Wan series was the biggest disappointment I've ever seen. The animated series they've produced clearly keeps the lights on, which I'm more than happy sticking with, they've been AMAZING.
@@thereforeiyam Yep the animated is the only new Star Wars worth watching. Rebels was overall a good series, not as good as Clone Wars, but it was decent.
I'm assuming you've seen the Clone Wars series? If not, it's among the best Star Wars there is, period. Anakin from that series is actually a good character, unlike the prequel version.
Hopefully this nightmare of a show doesn't get a second season like what Headlamp said
I was tired through season 1 to the point of illness, I will rise back from it's clutches for a round 2 if that happens.
I don’t like that it says “season 1” review in the intro -.- Let’s not manifest another one 😂
I’m really hoping not either BUT if it happens because of Disney dealings, I’ll be sharing my misery free of charge. 🫡
Got the same old racist card bullshit when I tried to explain to a guy why I didn't like the series. "You just don't like black women in Star Wars" he claimed (I am white). I sent him your video. He blocked me😏
Humans fundamentally love to be right no matter what. Hearing anything outside of that requires that idea to be a little untrue, some aren’t willing to give that up.
I’m glad I could help against that point, it’s used in such poor taste. There’s some people in the comments where we came out of the show different, and we have a conversation about it without this retort.
The requirement to liking a show comes down to race for some people rather than a good storyline that makes people proud of that representation (regardless of the person). It blows my mind.
Subscribed. Oh, this is about the Acolyte? Unsubscribed....fine, I'll stay subscribed.
My new " Tubber " 👊🏼
Acting / Script / Fights ... miserable. May I say, Star Wars is more a Shogun type affair, not a Kung Fu one,.so that's off for a start.
That's all that matters because aside from the evil behind the cameras, the production was as good as any other high-budge series product one would expect from Dis ... 🤢 ... Dis ... 🤢 ... Disney ( 😵💫 ) to.put out. I would like to k ow where $180,000,000 went ??? I'll bet ot mostly went on wages to support their " off screen ", sanctimonious amd destructive bs, in many areas of their lives, not just Star Wars wrecking.
Thus, I don't pay ANYTHING to them, as I'm not going to support their " ways ".
Blesses and great work 🙏
Thank you, I’m so grateful to have you! The comparison you made to the fighting style and feel of the show is exactly right.
I really do wonder where it all that money went….cause it wasn’t in the show.
I don't think it's very misunderstood. and who is darth playjuis
Darth Plagueis is one of the more infamous and powerful Siths told in Star Wars, this show was his first appearance. He is the only one known to craft and preserve life through the Force. Without a quick google and based on my general knowledge, he was the one that was Master to Palpatine, who eventually outshined and killed him to claim the power of his master for himself.
I loved it. Not as good as OT but better than 2/3 prequels and 1/3 sequels. Not as good as Andor but better than all other recent SW live action. Solid B+ or A- SW story. ❤
I gotta see what you mean, because I'm shocked as many people liked it. That's not bad, we just view it differently. Perhaps I'll review some other shows within the franchise, I've been skipping over Andor, Mandalorian, and Ahsoka out of fear.
At this rate I have lost faith in Disney. When has Disney ever cared about representation?
Every company is in it now for the money that can be found in it. It's almost hard to say Disney in general when they have other decent productions and they are devouring other corporations in the process. They're everywhere, unfortunately, even in some good media.
But, I never fully agreed with the argument of representation on screen. I would assume most of us have working eyes and if not, OVERALL common sense to see if a show has minorities in it to feel valued, why push it? This show is diversely bad with diverse people featuring in it. How is this good representation? It just seems ridiculous to me.
It's like they have to make diversity a huge marketing factor, and I don't know about anybody else. I might be the minority in this, but I have to be told that everything is catered to my race specifically, I feel more isolated, called out for my differences among other people. Like, I'm being put above people versus equal to everyone around me.
@@thereforeiyam seriously it feels like Disney is doing the bare minimum!
Great review. The closest to my own opinions about this show that I've watched so far. I too found Jecki to be the only bright spot of this show.
I lied Sol, at least I appreciate Lee Jung-jae’s devotion
I agree with the Sol bit. He was the best. The dialogue did him no favors, his dialect even got slower while he went on due to language barrier. He honestly deserves the respect if we can grant it.
Jekki was appealing and I was interested to see a character progress from there. Both unfortunately get dusted for an ill-conceived plot.
Some might be looking for cohesion and competence where it doesn't exist. Modern SW is a series of "omgsokewlz" scenes hammered together to make a ride, hopefully one so fast that you spend your time squeeing and waving a toy/doll/placard at the screen and DO NOT THINK! Thought is bad, only appearances matter! Critique is bad, look a black/yellow/rainbow/whatever the hell green with stripes person is there and if you don't like it your evil.
There really isn't much more to it that I can see? Sure some competent actor or actress may give their all or they can hit the right notes by instinct and copying a few times but this is just as shallow and venal a product as the creators.
There is no LOVE in their making or the creators hearts and it shows. Whereas there seems to be a great deal in your videos, given the effort and honesty.
Amandla is not going to get another high profile lead role.
I don't know, they always have room for people like her. But, I also don't doubt she would make a video blasting "Hollywood had Blacklisted her" if she doesn't get roles. Especially if she's still onto The Hate U Give train....it was five years ago, girl. She seems great as a person, very kind, but the extreme activist stuff comes off like she's compensating for her heritage.
By not watching it
You're good at this and could become a more popular review channel, if that's a thing you want to do. I'll sub and see what else you get up to.
It was odd to see the Sith guy be cool, calm, and collected, and the Jedi being over emotional. Total reversal.
I can't wait to keep you posted! Definitely the plan and trying to get my process for these videos down.
I understand that all manner of absolutes lead to darker paths on either side, but I feel like the filp is so drastic, especially considering the time period this happens, it's not the best execution.