@@GenerationTech- _Many_ people will see the video title, not watch the video, and will think: see, even that GenerationTech guy says this show is Woke garbage!1!1!1 Your clickbait isn't helping.
@@cacogenicist On the flipside, it might help serve it to more people prone to clicking on the ragebait he's talking about and maybe break their angry echo chamber up a bit. No doubt what you're saying will happen too, but idk which one will happen more than the other so I can't really say it's necessarily a net negative
Qimir has a background in smuggling and trading also is said to be a collector of unique ancient artifacts! He probably built that helmet from ancient pieces collected over time and welded it together like Kylo tens helmet
My current theory is that he is using an old antique helmet and one gauntlet. Which is why it fell apart so easily after being smacked and why it looks like an incomplete set.
@@Peter_The_Great cortosis is also not know for its durability either. it is relatively frail. it defeats plasma weapons by dsetroying their magnetic field.
Using a cortosis helm this early is like a energy shield in world War 1 and the ww2 and ww3 its just never mentioned again its inconsistent and that's what's frustrating.
@@redphenix5679not very common, The Old Republic era had better tech than the high republic, the clone wars, galactic civil war and new republic eras. Cortosis is mainly used by bounty hunters
Agrred; The biggest mistake was one of the Jedi not saying, "His armor is Cortosis" or one of them asking about how he's able to do this and him mocking them about how cortosis properties and how its good for killing Jedi.
@@EwanLim depends on the altitude! If you can see sunlight, then for the most part it’s expensive. The more you descend towards the planet core, the cheaper it gets.
This is probably the smartest clickbait title I've ever seen. It attracts the people who hatewatch and complain about everything to click and find out why they're wrong.
I appreciate your understanding of the lore when it comes to addressing things like this. I also appreciate that you can be nuanced with your takes, as you said it’s something only bigger channels can do but I’m sure glad you do it
@@LordDarthHarryand then these same people will turn around and say “we need george lucas back” almost worshipping him when you know that he wouldn’t agree with a single thing they say
Right there with you, Tech. Some of the hate on the Acolyte is just ridiculous. The show is fine. It's not perfect. It has some flaws, which should be addressed, but overall, it's fine. It's a step above Book of Boba Fett, and leagues above Kenobi. Hell, I'd say its better than Mando season 3 (or at least, the season when it includes the final episode). The amount of people making uneducated accusations is honestly nauseating. Thanks for remaining calm and measured, and staying out of the bantha poodoo.
I just want say thank you for your balance point of view and I always love your deep dive into lore and tech in the Star Wars universe..We will stay strong in these dark times..May the force be with you my friend
As long as it isn't whole buildings and doors made out of it. I was playing in a Star Wars game and we ran across a blast door made of the stuff that was intended to seal out Force users from the secret information within, so we tried to cut around the door, only to find out that the whole outside of the bunker was made out of it. A bit over the top, to say the least, considering that this would have been tons of the stuff, but it was made during a time when it was possible to mine that amount of it with droid mining we found out later. The solution for entry was doing a co-operative "open sardine can" check using the Force to just bend a corner of the door open so a small person could go inside and open it some more. A lightsaber might be a universal key for almost anything, but so is telekinesis, if you pull hard enough.
I agree with you wholeheartedly 0:43 And again 1:04 Just finished the entire video! Your knowledge and research is incredibly thorough and accurate. Much respect to you and your channel!
First time I saw cortosis was in the Obi-Wan game for original Xbox that was set around the Phantom Menace, there were these criminal syndicate guys that had full cortosis armor and weapons and iirc you had to mostly use the force to get through their defenses
Your knowledge of the lore and balanced reviews are the reason I (and seems like many, many others) keep coming back to hear what you have to say, even with click bait lol
Love how it seems like the best metal one can use, but then we get an actual good reason as to why it isn’t seen all over the place. It also allows for some very cool moments when it does show up too.
When is glanced at the title of this episode, my heart dropped and thought, “so this is how democracy dies…”. Very relieved you remain an even-hearted and thoughtful critic of Star Wars. And loved the Asian mom reference; I lived that one.
cortosis shorting out the lightsabers is fine by me. tech vs tech. But can you explain the Magneto anti-mind trick/probe part of the helmet? that's the part that made me roll my eyes. Any object interfering with the force just does not make sense at all to me. and he was powerful enough to disguise his thoughts and emotions without the helmet in the potions shop, then what is even the point? He 1v8s jedi but he fears the jedi mind trick that only works on weak people anyway? I'm just so confused by it's existence entirely here.
I interpreted that as him either making fun of or just straight out lying to the Jedi about the helmet. They'd already seen and been confused watching it short out their lightsabers so they knew they were dealing with something they didn't know about. Qimir could probably have told them it allows him to teleport to Coruscant and they would have hesitated trying to figure out if that's true or not, giving him another advantage in their fight.
Grifters are ruining everything. I respect your opinion and that’s why I’ve been following you for years. You make good points. Backed up with why you feel that way. Don’t give into the culture war. You critique, you don’t just bitch
Allen great job explaining all of this information. I Enjoy all your videos. If I had the choice between cortoais and beskar. Beskar every time. Thanks again!
I've heard of this material watching YT channels, but until this episode I just thought it was a variation of Beskar, a light saber resistant armor. Thank you for explaining the difference in detail what this episode of the Acolyte did in showing us.
A bumper sticker I saw on a beatup truck in a tiny mining tow... """ If it's not grown or drilled it's MINED """ Of course, the order and capitalization on that is arbitrary. I'm a "grown" sort of fellow myself, but respect the miners ;)
I've been looking at channels before clicking on videos for a while and have added so many obviously worthless channels to my Don't Recommend list. So many channels seem to be solely dedicated to spamming only negative content. If I can't find a fair number of positive videos, I really don't see the point. Life is too short to waste on nothing but hate.
I was super excited to see Cortosis be canonized. It reminds me of the bit in Legacy when Roan Fel uses his Imperial Knight gauntlet to turn off his opponent's saber. The Imperial Knights were so cool.
Everyone seems so bent out of shape by his helmet shorting out sabers but as long as it had some cortosis that's exactly what would have happened letting them restart their weapons. So many said it didn't make sense but it's canon and one of the few things I thought made sense in the show.
I actually really liked the idea of adding Cortosis into Canon lore, I actually enjoyed this episode (except the shitty fight dialogue) and I don’t really like the ‘sith’ as a character, but besides that episode 5 gets a thumbs up from me
I haven't heard any bad talk about the armor, just the crap quality of the show. G&G was singing praises of SmiloRen's actor. Grsmted that was mostly it but valid criticisms were said.
Do any of these rage fans even do their research on deep star wars lore before making themselves look dumb? When I saw those light sabers being deactivated from his armor it didn’t take me long to realize how. Cortosis! A metal that shorts out light sabers. Pretty cool to see that material get introduced in the new canon.
Cortosis sounds like a material better suited to plating as coating rather than being used as a standalone material. Alternatively if it can maintain it's properties in an alloy,it would be more practical.
I think introducing the cortosis metal into the show is a cool thing, as it also appeared in the canon Thrawn: Alliances novel that rendered Anakin’s lightsaber useless. The only thing I take issue with is that all it took was an elbow blow to break the helmet in half. I think they could have come up with a better way for the unmasking.
Besides shorting out lightsaber blades, Cortosis is also known to be very brittle, which makes it hard to work with and not very useful for other applications. It breaking that easily is also lore accurate. It also explains why the helmet already has so many repaired cracks in it.
@@MyLibertyTV Thanks! I'm not a lore expert but I still consider myself fairly knowledgeable as I watch the movies and shows (animated & live-action) and I've read at least a modest amount of the books and comics, but that was a detail about cortosis that I didn't know and that aspect of it was bothering me. So from a certain perspective, I can understand how less knowledgeable fans would be confused by or even put off by the mechanics of Qiril's helmet and bracers due to not understanding the proper context of the scene and the mechanics of his armor.
im sorry alan but i dont see how this show is 5/10 “average” just because people complained about something stupid like a metal that was already canon doesnt mean that everything else the show has done wrong can also be invalidated in a similar way. dialogue is clunky and contradictory. characters also are contradictory and in my and others opinions the characters emotions and how they react to what happens in the show makes no sense and the biggest example of this is the sisters constantly changing nonsensical relationship. very cool cinematic fight and using cortosis as a helmet was an awesome surprise but i dont see how you can focus on that and not notice all the other bs that this show spits out which makes a 19% on rotten tomatoes not as unfair of a rating as you tried to make it seem. everybody should rate things as they believe they should be rated and in my opinion a show you have to defend this much and constantly try to explain things that happen in the show because the show itself cant even properly convey whats going on makes me think of the show as clearly “below average” even on the disney star wars scale
i've unsubscribed from a few channels that seem to be generating the most disingenuous clickbait concerning the acolyte and here you are making at least five videos about or closely relevant to each episode. i definitely prefer your approach. i don't think anyone would call it a perfect series, but its not cop rock.
honestly this for me was the best episode so far (it's a low bar). 1. they killed the cringe Jedi 2. there was minimal dialogue outside of fights. I expect the next episode to be 120% exposition
We just have to wait for the revelation if there is one later in these series. But thanks for your knowledge of Cortosis. SWTOR players are at an advantage, cortosis and phrik are materials when you craft armour in this game, and also even beskar, even if they call it "mandalorian iron". The question ramains, who is the acolyte, and who is the master, even if there are more of them. Sith are by no means the only force tradition that use the dark side. Whoever was it that found that Jedi Kryptonite. We will perhaps get this info.
I don't hate The Acolyte because it supposedly breaks the Lore i hate it because of its crappy writing as someone who has loved Star wars my whole life it pains me to see what Disney has turned it into.
I do believe the metal Qimir's helmet and vambrace is made of is Cortosis, a metal that has a high energy absorption rate and is able to withstand the blow of and even short out lightsabers.
This is low-key a great fight scene, but the reason why so many fans have a distastefulness with it. It’s because of a lot of things within this series that doesn’t make any sense that is a contradiction to the law and it’s trying to create an override the original war. I thought it was pretty cool learning about this type of metal that reacts like Bhaskar but goes one step further deactivating lightsabers temporarily. I would also love to create a new Lord that states only Jedi knights or Jedi masters or even Jedi Padawan’s of the highest level could pour their force energy into their light saber crystal therefore keeping an activated.
I dont have a problem with cortosis being introduced, but i have a oroblem with him headbutting the lightsaber. The helmet clearly isnt completely durable to lightsaber, so headbutting a lightsaber would be kinda dumb for such a smart character.
I just think that the sith could have used the cortosis better at the start and then show the jedi start avoiding hitting the cortosis. But the sith literally could have blocked so many strikes with his bracer rather than his blade and gotten an instant kill on the jedi. Unless there is some cooldown on the cortosis working. Then have the jedi catch on and thats where you get the better fights. They did it okay, definitely better than the sequels lightsaber fights, but it could have been better with some minor changes. Oh well, I am happy to see some more legends be added to disney cannon, heres to hoping they add more of the cool stuff, like the rakata, the vong, ect.
I was watching this with my kid and he knew exactly what it was that caused the lightsabers to fizzle out. Meanwhile I didn't have a clue (though I didn't get all bent about it - just made me curious).
I hate the grifters and I'm so tired of the negativity. You can spot them pretty easily at least because over the past few years they've kept going "Star Wars is ruined and I'm done watching!" and then they keep watching to farm rage bait clicks.
there are things that can shut or disrupt a lightsaber, cortosis weave i believe. But it had a different look. the lightsaber combat was horrible, headbutting a lightsaber, negative. resisting a lightsaber is possible, beskar armor and think metal. oh. i just heard you say it when i was typing.
No it isn't. Fan fiction is written by fans. This is Star Wars non-fan-who-who-don't-give-a-fuck‐about-Star-Wars-fiction. But otherwise you are correct
Honestly I think its cool that they reintroduced Cortosis, its the only thing that made sense as to why the jedis sabers did that, cool touch for Qimirs armor, that being said some of the writing like Maes 180 back from her previous 180 sucks, or honestly, when Qimir had Mae in a chokehold why he didn't just off her like he so easily did the rest of the people when he was talking about "everyone has to die", like get on with it already. I just wanna see how this will then impact the whole Ki Adi Mundi "there haven't been any sith in a millennia" comment still. I will say this episode was better than episodes 3-4 but I still think theres quite a few flaws to the story that hopefully will get ironed out, still not a great show imo though, but I can't make that ultimate decision until the end of the series.
Personally, I am so sick and tired of the invalid hatred this show is receiving currently. Is the show perfect? No! far from it. Are there valid criticisms to be had? Yes, of course! writing, dialogue, acting, set design, discourse irl, etc. But does the show break canon or is it irredeemable in its entirety? Not at all! I for one love the fight scene choreography. It is some of the best we had since the prequels. Now, with regard to the supposed “canon breaking” this show is accused of doing, allow me to debunk some of the accusations I’ve seen or heard. 1. “The procreation of the twins contradicts and waters down Anakin Skywalker’s importance.” - Anakin was chosen by and born of the force in order to bring it back to centre, back to balance. Meanwhile, Mae and Osha were the result of dark witch Magick, which is a form of force manipulation. Two completely different contexts and circumstances! 2. “Ki Adi Mundi was not born yet, so how could have he possibly been present at the Jedi meeting.” - In legends he wasn’t born yet. His legends birth was 93 bby. In canon, his birthdate was unknown, which allowed Disney some breathing room. Thus allowing them to swap his birthday to sometime before 132 bby. 3. “Ki Adi Mundi knew of the Sith’s return and told no one.” - That is factually incorrect. He knew of Mae’s existence, but literally nothing else aside from she’s some throwing knife wielding Jedi killer on a revenge quest, whose master is completely unknown to her. As we now know, she was affiliated with an actual Sith Lord, but as far as Ki Adi is aware, she is just some rogue assassin that is possibly trained by a former Jedi or some rival force cult. Keep in mind this wouldn’t be the first time something resembling this has to occurred in canon or in the High Republic specifically. Recall back to the Nihil’s leader. 4. “Qimir exposing himself as a Sith contradicts TPM.” - This would be true only if the galaxy of large learned of the Sith’s reemergence. However, most of the witnesses have already been disposed of, and there are still 3 more episodes for him to kill off the others. 5. “The thread goes against the established lore of the force.” - I’ll agree, to an extent it does. However, we must be mindful that there are literally dozens of religions who had their own interpretations of the force in Star Wars. All of which had vastly different views of how the force worked and how it should be harnessed. Just because the witch’s interpretation doesn’t entirely match that of the Jedi or Sith does not mean they’re lore breaking. It simply means they are unaware or ignorant of all aspects of the force. Either way, they are wrong, and the show itself is not trying to rewrite the force, only show that there are varying perspectives of the same exact phenomenon.
@@MeF0r3v3r Fair enough. I should clarify that I’ve simply had enough of the invalid hatred levied against this show. Much of the negative discourse surrounding the Acolyte is extremely and blatantly disingenuous. Particularly the criticism regarding lore continuity, that I had addressed in my previous comment. As I said, there are certainly valid criticisms to be had, but not in this instance. It’s quite frankly absurd how supposed fans who claim to know the lore like the back of their hand, lack the reading comprehension and background knowledge to even begin debunking elements of the series. It is just as ignorant as the one actor who mistakenly claimed Anakin blew up the Death Star. If we as a fandom want change to occur, we can’t lower ourselves to the activist’s levels.
@@CTXVII you do understand that the current social media culture that which is woke will flow onto real life society and vice versa so in due time most of the things that are established are going to be corrupted by the woke people and that is the war we are fighting and not this specific woke show. You do understand that if we let these corruption of established franchises keep happening then that kind of mentality will seep onto the real life society and with that, history will be irrelevant and young minds corrupted by progressive wokeness and with all this degeneration and corruption, we will have Rome 2.0 Just look at the games now, being infested with wokeness and activist just like this star wars show and that is the war we are fighting... you do understand that there is a culture war happening right now? The one side is trying to change it with progressive propaganda bullshit and the other side just wants to stop that from happening!
Cortosis is supposed to deactivate lightsabers when it comes in contact with it I don't consider this breaking lore. But the sith using a healing technique on osha is definitely a breaking of lore same sing when mae disguises herself as osha and master sol doesn't notice a thing kind of breaks lore because there has only been a few sith in history that were capable of blocking the detection of their dark side power from Jedi masters
I won’t lie when I saw those two Jedi knights had their lightsabers disabled. My mind went to Cortosis. Because I remember reading the Darth Vader comics where the Jedi use a cortosis blade to try to disarm Vader. But I will say it’s cool to see that metal return to canon and see it being use to actually disable a Jedi’s lightsaber so easily.
@@GenerationTech I can only thank my dad for getting hooked into the franchise but also UA-camrs like you sir expanding my knowledge on it lol. Though thank you! You too a true Star Wars fan and keep up the great work!
@@GenerationTech Movie Battles 2 decided to implement B2 battle droids that can have cortosis plating. It's hilariously effective vs jedi, especially with how a single slap from a B2 superbattle droid can knock anyone down except for a wookiee. So imagine this, you're storming down theed palace hallway, trying to dislodge enemy snipers to let your team advance. You notice an SBD firing down your line like the machinegun on 2 legs it is. You go in to kill it and... your lightsaber dies. You get bitchslapped and shot to pieces. Well, either that or a nearby stormie runs over and beats you up as you are flipping back onto your feet (it takes ~1 seconds - enough to punch a jedi to death with enough stormies). Also yes, you got jedi storming theed palace that's defended by SBDs and stormtroopers. It's an awesome game.
First off for q quick second i thought he was using the kyber disengagement trick that ahsoka knows but a mlre quick and aggressive use Then i realised it was when he used the armour to turn them off
Some people hate God of War 4 & 5 because Kratos is no longer an angry young killing machine seeking power or vengeance. They cannot digest character development or a good story. Hate to see such people's non-constructive and dumb hate getting such a loud voice.
"Cortosis has origins in Star Wars Legends. It first appeared in Michael A. Stackpole's I, Jedi, which was published in 1998. However, in an interview with /Film, Stackpole credited prolific Star Wars writer Timothy Zahn with creating the metal." For anyone complaining, cortosis isnt a disney invention. At all. Neither is violating the rule of two.
I loved I Jedi, and cortosis is classic, but how is violating the rule of two not something that disney started? Before George Lucas sold the rights I never saw anything that violated the rule of two, in the extended universe there has always been many dark side force users, but they weren't actually sith. So it didn't break the rule of two, and sure there have been sith after Bane that didn't abide by the rule of two, but they were just disobeying the rule of two not deleting it from history.
@@BeanCasserole-wg7wu Palatine was actively recruiting a second apprentice while he already had an apprentice multiple times on the OG and Prequel trilogy. The Inquisitors are very clearly an even bigger violation of the rule of two as they're an entire team of dark side force users trained in the sith who first appeared in Clone Wars under Lucas.
@@BeanCasserole-wg7wu Darth Bane and Zannah were violating the rule of 2 like 20 minutes after they wrote it Darth Bane wrote a bunch of rules and IMMEDIATELY treated it as a checklist of stuff to do
IMDb EP 5 rating two hours before release already had 100+ one star reviews. The nerd rage and troll bots are ridiculous. Glad you keep it even keeled and not falling into the grifter mentality
My gf and I loved that cortosis was introduced, when the first light saber was shorted out i blurted "oh shit that's gotta be cortosis!" And went on about how i read about it in comicbooks lol
I know right? This show is my no means perfect and there are some very cringe worthy moments but the amount of hate this show is getting is ridiculous. I saw a graphic on Star Wars Meg that the 4 episodes had allready been reviewed 25,000 times! Thats more than all of Mando Season 2! its being review bombed and a lot of people don't like the producers/directors so they set out to find every single thing wrong with the show. Then the LORE geeks lose their mind because something might go against lore when not everything has been explained. Episode 3 Kid Amundi andany of the Jedi council never mentioned the word SITH! So lore wasnt really broken was it? They thought it must of been a Jedi who trained her. Anyways, maybe everyone is going to die and the secret sith or whatever he is doesnt make it to the outisde world. Another thing..its NOT THAT DEEP. I agree that Kid Mundi being in it is weak sauce but I can get over it with these awesome ass fight scenes! The sith was BRUTAL in killing the Jedi! Best live action scenes since Clone Wars! I would love to see a movie version of the sacking of mandalore or the Sith Wars with the Jedi. Anyways...I give the series a B so far. Diversity is goo...Lesbian Force users of color? Sure...why Not? Next week we get a wookie with a light saber! Sign me up!
Cortosis fiber/plate has been around for decades in lore. The Imperial remnant assassins used it so often that Luke Skywalker had to specifically tune his lightsaber to be able to cut it.
Yeah. Most of the other Star Wars channels nowadays are getting more negative by the day. Generation Tech is the Star Wars channel that, in my opinion, is the most positive out of all the other Star Wars channels.
@@orckingi1208 I appreciate how he gives the content a chance. He's able to talk about the filming process and the story. But separately. So each get a true review.
That scene sadly has major issues that detract from that. For instance why are all trees falling in the same direction away from the combatants when the cut would indicate they'd fall towards them or why is the remaining stump glowingly hot but not burning as if they were metal. It was the epitome of the show as a whole, style and no substance.
I actually had no idea that Cortosis had been decanonized until now. The Darth Bane trilogy has been one of my favourite Star Wars stories for a long long time, and the titular character basically grew up in a cortosis mine. His skin was yellowed and his hair fallen out from the terrible conditions while the physically demanding job of hefting what were essentially jackhammers to the walls to mine the stuff made him massive and well muscled.
I've watched a lot of "top ten materials that can block lightsabers" videos over the years, so I immediately recognized the material depicted here, even if I didn't remember what it was called off the top of my head. I also remember reading old Legends novels back in the day that took place in the era the sequel trilogy does now (The Legacy of the Force series is still in my opinion what the sequel trilogy should have been), and in one scene when some young Jedi are engaged by Mandalorian mercenaries, they're all stunned by the fact that their lightsabers just bounce right off their beskaar. The narration even saying "The revelation of 'My lightsaber doesn't work' is a very naked feeling for any Jedi." It really emphasized just how over-reliant the Jedi had become on their lightsabers to do basically everything. They weren't just weapons, they were the ultimate handyman tool that could cut through anything. So when you've carried one of those most of your life and go into battle with it only for it to be immediately rendered useless...yeah it's no wonder those Jedi redshirts were totally dumbfounded and easily dispatched by Darth Dudebro Biceps. Though I am glad that in the new canon Cortosis is EXTREMELY rare, expensive and hard to refine and work with because let's be honest, it's OP as heck. Only the most skilled and masterful of Jedi killers should be able to use it effectively, otherwise everyone would be using it.
Qimir's usage of cortosis reminds me of the Imperial Knights in the Legacy comics. They used cortosis gauntlets to give them an edge over other lightsaber-wielding opponents. Apparently, Qimir used the same strategy.
@@MyLibertyTV Sadly, if I recall correctly, cortosis is expensive to mine, which makes it equally expensive to get a hold off. The Sith would not get a hold of it in large quantities without considerable wealth.
Some of these lore UA-camrs are to blame with people getting confused with canon and legends, a lot of them will talk about something and mix both in one video, that why I like the Lore Master channel so much bc he make it clear in his titles if the video is canon or legends
Messed up? All the EU novels went to Lucasfilm to be checked for continuity. Nothing was published with a green light. Disney just threw all canon in the garbage, declared that anything *they* produced would now be considered canon, then they fished out little ideas from the EU and scattered them around. Four decades of the work of creative people keeping Star Wars alive tossed aside like trash in order to make a Disney cash cow that has *lost* money. How can Star Wars *lose* money?
@@lunakingsley.7247which is the point he made in the video about 20 seconds in lmao. So if you see a UA-cam title, click on the video, and immediately start commenting your opinion, you just want to make the most amount of noise and it’s obvious. Even if you jumped to defend the show, that’s sad.
@@concernedpigeon3219 or we so much bullshit that it's hard to tell when one isn't or is just another rage bait person screaming woke or something along those lines.
"WE WANT STUFF FROM LEGENDS" "NOT THIS ONE AND NOT LIKE THIS!" xD yea. why i dont watch critiques and just watch it myself. worst i wasted half an hour a week.
„FAKE FANS MAKING BAD INACCURATE SHOW!!!!! CORTOSIS, MORE LIKE WOKE CUCKTARDTOSIS!!!!! I CANT BELIEVE KATHLEEN KENNEDY WOULD PERSECUTE US TRUE FANS BY INCLUDING SUCH CLEARLY LORE-BREAKING MATERIAL IN STAR WARS!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😤“
the cortosis is not the point, the point is that it's too op, he could literally just turn off everyone's weapon and kill them in one hit. so why bother playing paddy cake with the Jedis?
@@kadegetslaid634 Some people (I seriously hope most of em are just children) really think Disney is some kind of cartoon villain with a convoluted multidecade conspiracy to destroy Star Wars in order to destroy joy or some stupid shit like that instead of a company run by out of touch execs who fuck up every now and then in their quest for money.
@LordDarthHarry I have genginely seen people think Disney drove zach Snyder's daughter to suicide so he would leave justice leauge, some people want to make up wild fantasies instead of accepting Disney will do whatever makes money 💀 it's actually hilarious
It’s funny that the people who are the most critical about Disney taking the legends stuff and putting it out of the canon, and still don’t know that this metal exists in the canon from the legends expanded universe. This is not a new concept or a new and executives did not make it to hurt your feelings.
I have ignored hate bait videos for a long time so the algorithm has mostly stopped putting them in my feed. But Acolyte videos somehow got around that, still ignored them though.
Did anyone else notice there were times when you couldn’t hear the lightsabers humming unless it was being moved? When Jord was talking to osha you can’t hear the sabre humming.
Personally I think the only true "grifter" out there (with more than 100,000 subs) who hates or complains about everything Disney SW is Robot Head. He even hated The Mandalorian seasons 1 & 2.
Sooo, nobody is complaining about cortosis breaking cannon, Alan made a vid about something that specifically doesnt break cannon because most of the other stuff in the show does break cannon. A true sith would never reveal themselves like that, not without killing all witnesses. I dont like this show ive tried to give it a chance ive watched every episode and the cortosis helmet was the most logical/cannon thing in the whole show so far
So basically. The Fans are pissy that Disney doesn't use Legends as canon. Then lose their damn minds the second Disney uses Legends material to make it canon. Oddly enough, I'm not surprised.
I’m beginning to think Disney actually knows more about Star wars than its fans. Star Wars fans really don’t know what they are talking about most of the time and are just hopping on the hate train along with everyone else. So damn annoying
Cortosis was also in the KoToR games. It was their justification for how vibroblades could block lightsabers.
Oh. good, I did spell that right.
It's also in the TTRPG games to help to keep normal grunt players from dying in one shot from a saber.
Their reasoning for it not disability sabers was that it was an alloy using a weave
@@historicflame972 You're one of the few to point that out, as it was not ore.
@@prince_nocturneGlad you never had to debate the cortsis slug vs if lightsaber deflects it debate.
Generation tech: “The acolyte breaks the lore Again”
Generation tech 1 minute later: yeah so I lied.
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@@GenerationTech- _Many_ people will see the video title, not watch the video, and will think: see, even that GenerationTech guy says this show is Woke garbage!1!1!1
Your clickbait isn't helping.
Well, he did include that upside-down smiley at the end of the title. So,...
@@cacogenicist... you must not have noticed the smiley.
@@cacogenicist On the flipside, it might help serve it to more people prone to clicking on the ragebait he's talking about and maybe break their angry echo chamber up a bit. No doubt what you're saying will happen too, but idk which one will happen more than the other so I can't really say it's necessarily a net negative
A mask that can. Block lightsaber strikes is kinda cool it makes me like that sith mask even more
He also had a Cortosis gauntlet on his left wrist that he was using.
Qimir has a background in smuggling and trading also is said to be a collector of unique ancient artifacts! He probably built that helmet from ancient pieces collected over time and welded it together like Kylo tens helmet
My current theory is that he is using an old antique helmet and one gauntlet.
Which is why it fell apart so easily after being smacked and why it looks like an incomplete set.
@@Peter_The_Great cortosis is also not know for its durability either. it is relatively frail. it defeats plasma weapons by dsetroying their magnetic field.
@@taddad2641 an excellent point.
Most fans of Star Wars aren't aware of the properties of Cortosis Metal when it comes into contact with Lightsabers Blades
Agreed
Using a cortosis helm this early is like a energy shield in world War 1 and the ww2 and ww3 its just never mentioned again its inconsistent and that's what's frustrating.
@@redphenix5679 The Sith were familiar with cortosis during the old republic era.
@@redphenix5679not very common, The Old Republic era had better tech than the high republic, the clone wars, galactic civil war and new republic eras.
Cortosis is mainly used by bounty hunters
Agrred; The biggest mistake was one of the Jedi not saying, "His armor is Cortosis" or one of them asking about how he's able to do this and him mocking them about how cortosis properties and how its good for killing Jedi.
Alan is back to his Coruscant penthouse after vacationing at the Naboo forest resort 😊
Lol
isn't rent super high on Coruscant?
@@EwanLim depends on the altitude! If you can see sunlight, then for the most part it’s expensive.
The more you descend towards the planet core, the cheaper it gets.
Rip to the Yorde horde
Yord is Yord!
He died like he lived: a chump
Palpatine: "Ironic"
Hella RIP…he was growing on me for sure… oi
Was hoping for yord to die on a better note, but it happens 😅🤷
@@GenerationTechYord will always be Jedi Master Kronk to me.
May he never press the wrong level again.
smart moves to take advantage negative headlines to get good message across that series doing very well as this late
This is probably the smartest clickbait title I've ever seen. It attracts the people who hatewatch and complain about everything to click and find out why they're wrong.
I appreciate your understanding of the lore when it comes to addressing things like this. I also appreciate that you can be nuanced with your takes, as you said it’s something only bigger channels can do but I’m sure glad you do it
Star Wars rage is the new thing. All the cool kids are doing it. Except they aren’t cool. Or kids.
lol
Seriously it's so tiring, I honestly wish starwars wasn't so popular
It's not even a new thing either lol. Probably a contributing factor in why Lucas decided to sell the franchise.
@@LordDarthHarryand then these same people will turn around and say “we need george lucas back” almost worshipping him when you know that he wouldn’t agree with a single thing they say
Right there with you, Tech. Some of the hate on the Acolyte is just ridiculous.
The show is fine. It's not perfect. It has some flaws, which should be addressed, but overall, it's fine. It's a step above Book of Boba Fett, and leagues above Kenobi. Hell, I'd say its better than Mando season 3 (or at least, the season when it includes the final episode).
The amount of people making uneducated accusations is honestly nauseating.
Thanks for remaining calm and measured, and staying out of the bantha poodoo.
I just want say thank you for your balance point of view and I always love your deep dive into lore and tech in the Star Wars universe..We will stay strong in these dark times..May the force be with you my friend
As long as it isn't whole buildings and doors made out of it. I was playing in a Star Wars game and we ran across a blast door made of the stuff that was intended to seal out Force users from the secret information within, so we tried to cut around the door, only to find out that the whole outside of the bunker was made out of it. A bit over the top, to say the least, considering that this would have been tons of the stuff, but it was made during a time when it was possible to mine that amount of it with droid mining we found out later.
The solution for entry was doing a co-operative "open sardine can" check using the Force to just bend a corner of the door open so a small person could go inside and open it some more. A lightsaber might be a universal key for almost anything, but so is telekinesis, if you pull hard enough.
I agree with you wholeheartedly 0:43
And again 1:04
Just finished the entire video! Your knowledge and research is incredibly thorough and accurate. Much respect to you and your channel!
Love your new apartment the view out your window is awesome
First time I saw cortosis was in the Obi-Wan game for original Xbox that was set around the Phantom Menace, there were these criminal syndicate guys that had full cortosis armor and weapons and iirc you had to mostly use the force to get through their defenses
Your knowledge of the lore and balanced reviews are the reason I (and seems like many, many others) keep coming back to hear what you have to say, even with click bait lol
Love how it seems like the best metal one can use, but then we get an actual good reason as to why it isn’t seen all over the place. It also allows for some very cool moments when it does show up too.
When is glanced at the title of this episode, my heart dropped and thought, “so this is how democracy dies…”. Very relieved you remain an even-hearted and thoughtful critic of Star Wars. And loved the Asian mom reference; I lived that one.
cortosis shorting out the lightsabers is fine by me. tech vs tech. But can you explain the Magneto anti-mind trick/probe part of the helmet? that's the part that made me roll my eyes. Any object interfering with the force just does not make sense at all to me. and he was powerful enough to disguise his thoughts and emotions without the helmet in the potions shop, then what is even the point? He 1v8s jedi but he fears the jedi mind trick that only works on weak people anyway? I'm just so confused by it's existence entirely here.
I was thinking that since the force was an energy field made and in all living things the cortosis is also highly resistant as well.
KOTOR/KOTOR 2 has implants and armour that interfere with the force. The entire concept of Yuuzhan Vong is objects interfering with the force.
My head canon is that it's easier to read someone's emotions when you can actually see their face and hear their real voice.
I interpreted that as him either making fun of or just straight out lying to the Jedi about the helmet. They'd already seen and been confused watching it short out their lightsabers so they knew they were dealing with something they didn't know about. Qimir could probably have told them it allows him to teleport to Coruscant and they would have hesitated trying to figure out if that's true or not, giving him another advantage in their fight.
The Sith can infuse objects with Force energy, this is how they build Holocrons.
took me half the video to notice dawg is in Coruscant
Always appreciate your content, thanks for not playing into all the rage bait in the fandom
You deserve a LOT more subs bro. *A LOT MORE*
Grifters are ruining everything. I respect your opinion and that’s why I’ve been following you for years. You make good points. Backed up with why you feel that way. Don’t give into the culture war. You critique, you don’t just bitch
Allen great job explaining all of this information. I Enjoy all your videos. If I had the choice between cortoais and beskar. Beskar every time. Thanks again!
I've heard of this material watching YT channels, but until this episode I just thought it was a variation of Beskar, a light saber resistant armor. Thank you for explaining the difference in detail what this episode of the Acolyte did in showing us.
Ironically, as someone who still hasn't watched the Acolyte yet, seeing cortosis in live action just makes me want to watch this series more!
I see Alan is in Alderaan as seen in the background.
A bumper sticker I saw on a beatup truck in a tiny mining tow...
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If it's not grown or drilled
it's MINED
"""
Of course, the order and capitalization on that is arbitrary. I'm a "grown" sort of fellow myself, but respect the miners ;)
I've been looking at channels before clicking on videos for a while and have added so many obviously worthless channels to my Don't Recommend list.
So many channels seem to be solely dedicated to spamming only negative content. If I can't find a fair number of positive videos, I really don't see the point. Life is too short to waste on nothing but hate.
I was super excited to see Cortosis be canonized. It reminds me of the bit in Legacy when Roan Fel uses his Imperial Knight gauntlet to turn off his opponent's saber. The Imperial Knights were so cool.
Everyone seems so bent out of shape by his helmet shorting out sabers but as long as it had some cortosis that's exactly what would have happened letting them restart their weapons. So many said it didn't make sense but it's canon and one of the few things I thought made sense in the show.
Im still confused as to why Yellow sabres are being used outside the Jedi temple like thats normal.
I was a bit surprise to see Cortosis in the episode. I'll give them credit on that.
I actually really liked the idea of adding Cortosis into Canon lore, I actually enjoyed this episode (except the shitty fight dialogue) and I don’t really like the ‘sith’ as a character, but besides that episode 5 gets a thumbs up from me
Also to mention Cortosis was in Jedi Knight 2
I haven't heard any bad talk about the armor, just the crap quality of the show. G&G was singing praises of SmiloRen's actor. Grsmted that was mostly it but valid criticisms were said.
Do any of these rage fans even do their research on deep star wars lore before making themselves look dumb? When I saw those light sabers being deactivated from his armor it didn’t take me long to realize how. Cortosis! A metal that shorts out light sabers. Pretty cool to see that material get introduced in the new canon.
“Beat the dark side into that boy”. Funny and accurate!
Cortosis sounds like a material better suited to plating as coating rather than being used as a standalone material. Alternatively if it can maintain it's properties in an alloy,it would be more practical.
I think introducing the cortosis metal into the show is a cool thing, as it also appeared in the canon Thrawn: Alliances novel that rendered Anakin’s lightsaber useless. The only thing I take issue with is that all it took was an elbow blow to break the helmet in half. I think they could have come up with a better way for the unmasking.
Besides shorting out lightsaber blades, Cortosis is also known to be very brittle, which makes it hard to work with and not very useful for other applications. It breaking that easily is also lore accurate. It also explains why the helmet already has so many repaired cracks in it.
@@MyLibertyTV Thanks! I'm not a lore expert but I still consider myself fairly knowledgeable as I watch the movies and shows (animated & live-action) and I've read at least a modest amount of the books and comics, but that was a detail about cortosis that I didn't know and that aspect of it was bothering me. So from a certain perspective, I can understand how less knowledgeable fans would be confused by or even put off by the mechanics of Qiril's helmet and bracers due to not understanding the proper context of the scene and the mechanics of his armor.
Small not but it was cool that you shouted out real world miners. Im not one, but that job is tough and as you said thankless
Rogue One and Andor are favs of mine too since Rogue One is my favorite Star Wars movie. That would get me in trouble.
im sorry alan but i dont see how this show is 5/10 “average” just because people complained about something stupid like a metal that was already canon doesnt mean that everything else the show has done wrong can also be invalidated in a similar way. dialogue is clunky and contradictory. characters also are contradictory and in my and others opinions the characters emotions and how they react to what happens in the show makes no sense and the biggest example of this is the sisters constantly changing nonsensical relationship. very cool cinematic fight and using cortosis as a helmet was an awesome surprise but i dont see how you can focus on that and not notice all the other bs that this show spits out which makes a 19% on rotten tomatoes not as unfair of a rating as you tried to make it seem. everybody should rate things as they believe they should be rated and in my opinion a show you have to defend this much and constantly try to explain things that happen in the show because the show itself cant even properly convey whats going on makes me think of the show as clearly “below average” even on the disney star wars scale
And this is one of the main reasons I haven't watched the acolyte yet and I love the Star Wars show's especially the bad batch which is my favorite
i've unsubscribed from a few channels that seem to be generating the most disingenuous clickbait concerning the acolyte and here you are making at least five videos about or closely relevant to each episode. i definitely prefer your approach. i don't think anyone would call it a perfect series, but its not cop rock.
honestly this for me was the best episode so far (it's a low bar). 1. they killed the cringe Jedi 2. there was minimal dialogue outside of fights. I expect the next episode to be 120% exposition
Is it just me or does Alan sounds a bit angry in this video 😂😂
hes sick of the other fans bashing him hahahaha
I feel like they intentionally presented lore accurate Cortosis armor with zero explanation just to troll people.
We just have to wait for the revelation if there is one later in these series. But thanks for your knowledge of Cortosis. SWTOR players are at an advantage, cortosis and phrik are materials when you craft armour in this game, and also even beskar, even if they call it "mandalorian iron". The question ramains, who is the acolyte, and who is the master, even if there are more of them. Sith are by no means the only force tradition that use the dark side. Whoever was it that found that Jedi Kryptonite. We will perhaps get this info.
Bro, they should just have a checked by Alan PhD Star Wars stamp in the entry reel then we know it's legit
I don't hate The Acolyte because it supposedly breaks the Lore i hate it because of its crappy writing as someone who has loved Star wars my whole life it pains me to see what Disney has turned it into.
And here I hoped most of the lightsaber disrupting materials were gone for good...
3:25 😁🤫
I do believe the metal Qimir's helmet and vambrace is made of is Cortosis, a metal that has a high energy absorption rate and is able to withstand the blow of and even short out lightsabers.
This is literally said in the video.
This is low-key a great fight scene, but the reason why so many fans have a distastefulness with it. It’s because of a lot of things within this series that doesn’t make any sense that is a contradiction to the law and it’s trying to create an override the original war. I thought it was pretty cool learning about this type of metal that reacts like Bhaskar but goes one step further deactivating lightsabers temporarily. I would also love to create a new Lord that states only Jedi knights or Jedi masters or even Jedi Padawan’s of the highest level could pour their force energy into their light saber crystal therefore keeping an activated.
The acolyte feels very much like the prequels, bad dialogue and rough direction BUT really fun world building that can be explained later on
So I've heard of cortisis before, but didn't know it shorted out light sabers.
I dont have a problem with cortosis being introduced, but i have a oroblem with him headbutting the lightsaber. The helmet clearly isnt completely durable to lightsaber, so headbutting a lightsaber would be kinda dumb for such a smart character.
I just think that the sith could have used the cortosis better at the start and then show the jedi start avoiding hitting the cortosis. But the sith literally could have blocked so many strikes with his bracer rather than his blade and gotten an instant kill on the jedi. Unless there is some cooldown on the cortosis working. Then have the jedi catch on and thats where you get the better fights. They did it okay, definitely better than the sequels lightsaber fights, but it could have been better with some minor changes. Oh well, I am happy to see some more legends be added to disney cannon, heres to hoping they add more of the cool stuff, like the rakata, the vong, ect.
I was watching this with my kid and he knew exactly what it was that caused the lightsabers to fizzle out. Meanwhile I didn't have a clue (though I didn't get all bent about it - just made me curious).
I hate the grifters and I'm so tired of the negativity. You can spot them pretty easily at least because over the past few years they've kept going "Star Wars is ruined and I'm done watching!" and then they keep watching to farm rage bait clicks.
I really enjoyed watching everything involved with qimir, the sith in ep 5!
i like the addition of cortosis to canon. or new canon. or whatever you want to call it.
there are things that can shut or disrupt a lightsaber, cortosis weave i believe. But it had a different look. the lightsaber combat was horrible, headbutting a lightsaber, negative. resisting a lightsaber is possible, beskar armor and think metal. oh. i just heard you say it when i was typing.
I honestly enjoy watching it
The Acolyte is a terrible show. This show is pure fanfiction
That's not true. At least star wars fanfiction is sometimes actually good
At least the fanfiction show actually knows basic lore.
I know you havent seen a single episode
@@donnym3415🔥🔥
No it isn't. Fan fiction is written by fans. This is Star Wars non-fan-who-who-don't-give-a-fuck‐about-Star-Wars-fiction. But otherwise you are correct
Honestly I think its cool that they reintroduced Cortosis, its the only thing that made sense as to why the jedis sabers did that, cool touch for Qimirs armor, that being said some of the writing like Maes 180 back from her previous 180 sucks, or honestly, when Qimir had Mae in a chokehold why he didn't just off her like he so easily did the rest of the people when he was talking about "everyone has to die", like get on with it already. I just wanna see how this will then impact the whole Ki Adi Mundi "there haven't been any sith in a millennia" comment still. I will say this episode was better than episodes 3-4 but I still think theres quite a few flaws to the story that hopefully will get ironed out, still not a great show imo though, but I can't make that ultimate decision until the end of the series.
The cortosis metal is kind of a deep cut I wonder how tf they decided to put that in the show and not get other simple lore right
Personally, I am so sick and tired of the invalid hatred this show is receiving currently. Is the show perfect? No! far from it. Are there valid criticisms to be had? Yes, of course! writing, dialogue, acting, set design, discourse irl, etc. But does the show break canon or is it irredeemable in its entirety? Not at all! I for one love the fight scene choreography. It is some of the best we had since the prequels. Now, with regard to the supposed “canon breaking” this show is accused of doing, allow me to debunk some of the accusations I’ve seen or heard.
1. “The procreation of the twins contradicts and waters down Anakin Skywalker’s importance.” - Anakin was chosen by and born of the force in order to bring it back to centre, back to balance. Meanwhile, Mae and Osha were the result of dark witch Magick, which is a form of force manipulation. Two completely different contexts and circumstances!
2. “Ki Adi Mundi was not born yet, so how could have he possibly been present at the Jedi meeting.” - In legends he wasn’t born yet. His legends birth was 93 bby. In canon, his birthdate was unknown, which allowed Disney some breathing room. Thus allowing them to swap his birthday to sometime before 132 bby.
3. “Ki Adi Mundi knew of the Sith’s return and told no one.” - That is factually incorrect. He knew of Mae’s existence, but literally nothing else aside from she’s some throwing knife wielding Jedi killer on a revenge quest, whose master is completely unknown to her. As we now know, she was affiliated with an actual Sith Lord, but as far as Ki Adi is aware, she is just some rogue assassin that is possibly trained by a former Jedi or some rival force cult. Keep in mind this wouldn’t be the first time something resembling this has to occurred in canon or in the High Republic specifically. Recall back to the Nihil’s leader.
4. “Qimir exposing himself as a Sith contradicts TPM.” - This would be true only if the galaxy of large learned of the Sith’s reemergence. However, most of the witnesses have already been disposed of, and there are still 3 more episodes for him to kill off the others.
5. “The thread goes against the established lore of the force.” - I’ll agree, to an extent it does. However, we must be mindful that there are literally dozens of religions who had their own interpretations of the force in Star Wars. All of which had vastly different views of how the force worked and how it should be harnessed. Just because the witch’s interpretation doesn’t entirely match that of the Jedi or Sith does not mean they’re lore breaking. It simply means they are unaware or ignorant of all aspects of the force. Either way, they are wrong, and the show itself is not trying to rewrite the force, only show that there are varying perspectives of the same exact phenomenon.
This is just a space drama boss babe chick film.
That's all. And if you want that, sure but the majority of people don't want that and are frustrated.
@@MeF0r3v3r Fair enough. I should clarify that I’ve simply had enough of the invalid hatred levied against this show. Much of the negative discourse surrounding the Acolyte is extremely and blatantly disingenuous. Particularly the criticism regarding lore continuity, that I had addressed in my previous comment. As I said, there are certainly valid criticisms to be had, but not in this instance. It’s quite frankly absurd how supposed fans who claim to know the lore like the back of their hand, lack the reading comprehension and background knowledge to even begin debunking elements of the series. It is just as ignorant as the one actor who mistakenly claimed Anakin blew up the Death Star. If we as a fandom want change to occur, we can’t lower ourselves to the activist’s levels.
@@CTXVII you do understand that the current social media culture that which is woke will flow onto real life society and vice versa so in due time most of the things that are established are going to be corrupted by the woke people and that is the war we are fighting and not this specific woke show.
You do understand that if we let these corruption of established franchises keep happening then that kind of mentality will seep onto the real life society and with that, history will be irrelevant and young minds corrupted by progressive wokeness and with all this degeneration and corruption, we will have Rome 2.0
Just look at the games now, being infested with wokeness and activist just like this star wars show and that is the war we are fighting...
you do understand that there is a culture war happening right now?
The one side is trying to change it with progressive propaganda bullshit and the other side just wants to stop that from happening!
Cortosis is supposed to deactivate lightsabers when it comes in contact with it I don't consider this breaking lore. But the sith using a healing technique on osha is definitely a breaking of lore same sing when mae disguises herself as osha and master sol doesn't notice a thing kind of breaks lore because there has only been a few sith in history that were capable of blocking the detection of their dark side power from Jedi masters
Disney doesn’t even know cortois exists. lol they just wrote in the story “a metal that blocks lightsabers”
It's very clearly cortosis
You might be badass, but are you disarming Jedi by headbutting their lightsaber level badass?
I love the fighters that aren’t afraid to throw hands
@@nahlataha1744 or throwing head in this case 🤣
@@etazeta674 bad phrasing...
@@ironheadgaming6270 is it? 😈
No bad... just ass
I won’t lie when I saw those two Jedi knights had their lightsabers disabled. My mind went to Cortosis. Because I remember reading the Darth Vader comics where the Jedi use a cortosis blade to try to disarm Vader. But I will say it’s cool to see that metal return to canon and see it being use to actually disable a Jedi’s lightsaber so easily.
that's because you are a star wars fan my dude!
@@GenerationTech I can only thank my dad for getting hooked into the franchise but also UA-camrs like you sir expanding my knowledge on it lol. Though thank you! You too a true Star Wars fan and keep up the great work!
@@GenerationTech Movie Battles 2 decided to implement B2 battle droids that can have cortosis plating. It's hilariously effective vs jedi, especially with how a single slap from a B2 superbattle droid can knock anyone down except for a wookiee. So imagine this, you're storming down theed palace hallway, trying to dislodge enemy snipers to let your team advance. You notice an SBD firing down your line like the machinegun on 2 legs it is. You go in to kill it and... your lightsaber dies.
You get bitchslapped and shot to pieces.
Well, either that or a nearby stormie runs over and beats you up as you are flipping back onto your feet (it takes ~1 seconds - enough to punch a jedi to death with enough stormies).
Also yes, you got jedi storming theed palace that's defended by SBDs and stormtroopers.
It's an awesome game.
First off for q quick second i thought he was using the kyber disengagement trick that ahsoka knows but a mlre quick and aggressive use
Then i realised it was when he used the armour to turn them off
Yay, someone who actually did their research! I’m not alone!
Alan: "My normal calm had been compromised."
“I was something beyond furious.”
"You wouldn't have been wrong to describe me as livid."
Some people hate God of War 4 & 5 because Kratos is no longer an angry young killing machine seeking power or vengeance. They cannot digest character development or a good story. Hate to see such people's non-constructive and dumb hate getting such a loud voice.
* *Smilo Ren's mask gets knocked off* *
Smilo Ren: Hello there friends, welcome back to another episode of Generation Tech, my name is Alan
Ok, now I want to draw Alan as the Sith
@@dstovell"Dew it!"
@@CaptainTaggart "Drew it!"
They do kinda look alike, and we all know how Alan feels about the Jedi. 🤣
"Cortosis has origins in Star Wars Legends. It first appeared in Michael A. Stackpole's I, Jedi, which was published in 1998. However, in an interview with /Film, Stackpole credited prolific Star Wars writer Timothy Zahn with creating the metal." For anyone complaining, cortosis isnt a disney invention. At all. Neither is violating the rule of two.
Kryptonite is totally awesome dude
I loved I Jedi, and cortosis is classic, but how is violating the rule of two not something that disney started? Before George Lucas sold the rights I never saw anything that violated the rule of two, in the extended universe there has always been many dark side force users, but they weren't actually sith. So it didn't break the rule of two, and sure there have been sith after Bane that didn't abide by the rule of two, but they were just disobeying the rule of two not deleting it from history.
@@BeanCasserole-wg7wu Palatine was actively recruiting a second apprentice while he already had an apprentice multiple times on the OG and Prequel trilogy. The Inquisitors are very clearly an even bigger violation of the rule of two as they're an entire team of dark side force users trained in the sith who first appeared in Clone Wars under Lucas.
People saying the rule of 2 blah blah you can't have more than 2!! Disney broke it.. no they didn't haha
@@BeanCasserole-wg7wu Darth Bane and Zannah were violating the rule of 2 like 20 minutes after they wrote it
Darth Bane wrote a bunch of rules and IMMEDIATELY treated it as a checklist of stuff to do
IMDb EP 5 rating two hours before release already had 100+ one star reviews. The nerd rage and troll bots are ridiculous. Glad you keep it even keeled and not falling into the grifter mentality
My gf and I loved that cortosis was introduced, when the first light saber was shorted out i blurted "oh shit that's gotta be cortosis!" And went on about how i read about it in comicbooks lol
I know right? This show is my no means perfect and there are some very cringe worthy moments but the amount of hate this show is getting is ridiculous. I saw a graphic on Star Wars Meg that the 4 episodes had allready been reviewed 25,000 times! Thats more than all of Mando Season 2! its being review bombed and a lot of people don't like the producers/directors so they set out to find every single thing wrong with the show. Then the LORE geeks lose their mind because something might go against lore when not everything has been explained. Episode 3 Kid Amundi andany of the Jedi council never mentioned the word SITH! So lore wasnt really broken was it? They thought it must of been a Jedi who trained her. Anyways, maybe everyone is going to die and the secret sith or whatever he is doesnt make it to the outisde world. Another thing..its NOT THAT DEEP. I agree that Kid Mundi being in it is weak sauce but I can get over it with these awesome ass fight scenes! The sith was BRUTAL in killing the Jedi! Best live action scenes since Clone Wars! I would love to see a movie version of the sacking of mandalore or the Sith Wars with the Jedi. Anyways...I give the series a B so far. Diversity is goo...Lesbian Force users of color? Sure...why Not? Next week we get a wookie with a light saber! Sign me up!
I did the same thing 😁😁
That the Sith lord guy is the same guy as the fake Buddhist in the good place has blown my mind.
I loved him in TGP. I would love to see him as a sith in something that isn't garbage. Too bad he's wasted in this crap.
What a twist!
What blew my mind was how big his arms are. Dude's got turbolaser batteries for biceps.
He's a really great actor.
@@Lusciouslysorryjust watch the acolyte then
Cortosis fiber/plate has been around for decades in lore. The Imperial remnant assassins used it so often that Luke Skywalker had to specifically tune his lightsaber to be able to cut it.
This is the channel where I come for balanced reviews and discussions about Star Wars content.
Yeah. Most of the other Star Wars channels nowadays are getting more negative by the day. Generation Tech is the Star Wars channel that, in my opinion, is the most positive out of all the other Star Wars channels.
@@orckingi1208 I appreciate how he gives the content a chance.
He's able to talk about the filming process and the story. But separately. So each get a true review.
Meaning, people you agree with.
From a retard who didn't even know about cortosis? Ok... Sure
@@ericp1139 sometimes. A well thought point is preferred to just an argument.
Even one I disagree with.
Everyone is talking Cortosis and sleeping on the fact we finally got to see Vader's classic saber throw in action???
That scene sadly has major issues that detract from that. For instance why are all trees falling in the same direction away from the combatants when the cut would indicate they'd fall towards them or why is the remaining stump glowingly hot but not burning as if they were metal. It was the epitome of the show as a whole, style and no substance.
I actually had no idea that Cortosis had been decanonized until now. The Darth Bane trilogy has been one of my favourite Star Wars stories for a long long time, and the titular character basically grew up in a cortosis mine. His skin was yellowed and his hair fallen out from the terrible conditions while the physically demanding job of hefting what were essentially jackhammers to the walls to mine the stuff made him massive and well muscled.
Cortosis is in the 2nd disney thrawn trilogy, the book is thrawn alliance
I've watched a lot of "top ten materials that can block lightsabers" videos over the years, so I immediately recognized the material depicted here, even if I didn't remember what it was called off the top of my head.
I also remember reading old Legends novels back in the day that took place in the era the sequel trilogy does now (The Legacy of the Force series is still in my opinion what the sequel trilogy should have been), and in one scene when some young Jedi are engaged by Mandalorian mercenaries, they're all stunned by the fact that their lightsabers just bounce right off their beskaar. The narration even saying "The revelation of 'My lightsaber doesn't work' is a very naked feeling for any Jedi." It really emphasized just how over-reliant the Jedi had become on their lightsabers to do basically everything. They weren't just weapons, they were the ultimate handyman tool that could cut through anything. So when you've carried one of those most of your life and go into battle with it only for it to be immediately rendered useless...yeah it's no wonder those Jedi redshirts were totally dumbfounded and easily dispatched by Darth Dudebro Biceps.
Though I am glad that in the new canon Cortosis is EXTREMELY rare, expensive and hard to refine and work with because let's be honest, it's OP as heck. Only the most skilled and masterful of Jedi killers should be able to use it effectively, otherwise everyone would be using it.
This episode was the first decent one in my opinion if it continues to get better I’ll watch it.
Qimir's usage of cortosis reminds me of the Imperial Knights in the Legacy comics. They used cortosis gauntlets to give them an edge over other lightsaber-wielding opponents. Apparently, Qimir used the same strategy.
You will be one of the great ones.
@@AndreVeaseyJr Thank you.
This would be knowledge passed down to all Sith.
@@MyLibertyTV Sadly, if I recall correctly, cortosis is expensive to mine, which makes it equally expensive to get a hold off. The Sith would not get a hold of it in large quantities without considerable wealth.
Imperial Knights mentioned woo.
Some of these lore UA-camrs are to blame with people getting confused with canon and legends, a lot of them will talk about something and mix both in one video, that why I like the Lore Master channel so much bc he make it clear in his titles if the video is canon or legends
The thing is, it shouldn't matter what disney says is legends. We already saw what they tried to make canon
@@the_scarecrow3143 bro forgot how messed up legends actually was when it came to canon but ok
@@the_scarecrow3143I will not allow the deletion of Luuke and Luuuke from "fans" bitching about how much better Legends was.
Messed up? All the EU novels went to Lucasfilm to be checked for continuity. Nothing was published with a green light.
Disney just threw all canon in the garbage, declared that anything *they* produced would now be considered canon, then they fished out little ideas from the EU and scattered them around.
Four decades of the work of creative people keeping Star Wars alive tossed aside like trash in order to make a Disney cash cow that has *lost* money.
How can Star Wars *lose* money?
@@the_scarecrow3143hey remember when legends brought fucking orcs into Star Wars?
Think again
7 people commenting 1 minute after the video drops. They haven’t even had the time to watch the it
@@Clone-jz4zf that's because most are tired of people claiming something broke canon when it doesn't
@@lunakingsley.7247which is the point he made in the video about 20 seconds in lmao. So if you see a UA-cam title, click on the video, and immediately start commenting your opinion, you just want to make the most amount of noise and it’s obvious. Even if you jumped to defend the show, that’s sad.
@@concernedpigeon3219 or we so much bullshit that it's hard to tell when one isn't or is just another rage bait person screaming woke or something along those lines.
Because this channel is full of headcanon bs
@@dancingvalkyrie Theeeeeee don't watch 🤡
The plebs complaining about cortosis of all things really revealed themselves this time.
"WE WANT STUFF FROM LEGENDS" "NOT THIS ONE AND NOT LIKE THIS!" xD yea. why i dont watch critiques and just watch it myself. worst i wasted half an hour a week.
„FAKE FANS MAKING BAD INACCURATE SHOW!!!!! CORTOSIS, MORE LIKE WOKE CUCKTARDTOSIS!!!!! I CANT BELIEVE KATHLEEN KENNEDY WOULD PERSECUTE US TRUE FANS BY INCLUDING SUCH CLEARLY LORE-BREAKING MATERIAL IN STAR WARS!!!!!! 😡😡😡😡😡😤“
Whos complained?
I hate this show for the writing but i liked that part
the cortosis is not the point, the point is that it's too op, he could literally just turn off everyone's weapon and kill them in one hit. so why bother playing paddy cake with the Jedis?
At this point people just want it to fail becuase of politcal reasons
Whereas Disney itself wants Star Wars to fail for monopolistic reasons.
@@NathanielHellersteinthey obviously don't want it to fail if they wanted the money, that comment makes zero sense
Or it's just terrible writing
@@kadegetslaid634 Some people (I seriously hope most of em are just children) really think Disney is some kind of cartoon villain with a convoluted multidecade conspiracy to destroy Star Wars in order to destroy joy or some stupid shit like that instead of a company run by out of touch execs who fuck up every now and then in their quest for money.
@LordDarthHarry I have genginely seen people think Disney drove zach Snyder's daughter to suicide so he would leave justice leauge, some people want to make up wild fantasies instead of accepting Disney will do whatever makes money 💀 it's actually hilarious
It’s funny that the people who are the most critical about Disney taking the legends stuff and putting it out of the canon, and still don’t know that this metal exists in the canon from the legends expanded universe. This is not a new concept or a new and executives did not make it to hurt your feelings.
I have ignored hate bait videos for a long time so the algorithm has mostly stopped putting them in my feed. But Acolyte videos somehow got around that, still ignored them though.
Did anyone else notice there were times when you couldn’t hear the lightsabers humming unless it was being moved? When Jord was talking to osha you can’t hear the sabre humming.
I thinknits more of a creative decision. The constant hum in a longer scene could become distracting and annoying
@@captainfach hmm. Possibly
Personally I think the only true "grifter" out there (with more than 100,000 subs) who hates or complains about everything Disney SW is Robot Head. He even hated The Mandalorian seasons 1 & 2.
I love watching these videos without even watching the show. I’m more loyal to Alan than I am Star Wars. More consistent quality I guess, keep it up!
@jeffdrew7027 except him constantly getting things wrong. For example, this isn't a new thing and doesn't break canon. It doesn't even crack it.
Watch the vid first 😂
@@lunakingsley.7247dude did you actually watch the video?
Sooo, nobody is complaining about cortosis breaking cannon, Alan made a vid about something that specifically doesnt break cannon because most of the other stuff in the show does break cannon. A true sith would never reveal themselves like that, not without killing all witnesses. I dont like this show ive tried to give it a chance ive watched every episode and the cortosis helmet was the most logical/cannon thing in the whole show so far
@stevesmith42066 except everything you have mentioned happened in the old eu too. So no it doesn't break canon.
I love the background design you have that is showing the galactic capital
So basically. The Fans are pissy that Disney doesn't use Legends as canon.
Then lose their damn minds the second Disney uses Legends material to make it canon.
Oddly enough, I'm not surprised.
I’m beginning to think Disney actually knows more about Star wars than its fans. Star Wars fans really don’t know what they are talking about most of the time and are just hopping on the hate train along with everyone else. So damn annoying
Lightsaber headbutts are my new favourite duelling move