The Acolyte: Propaganda at its Finest
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Raise your hands: how many of you forgot that The Acolyte was happening? I know I did and now I would like to go back to that time of blissful ignorance.
The Acolyte directed by Leslye Headland is set to release in June, nearly four years after it was first announced and we get our first taste of why this project has been under wraps. It's not very good.
Join me in this video as we break the trailer and its director down and discuss Star Wars in general.
Modern female "heroes" share the same motivation once reserved solely for the villains. An overwhelming lust for power. Total and complete power.
The difference is that the writers are so busy doing self inserts that they also justify everything the hero thinks by making everyone around them more cruel or stupid.
POWER!! INFINITE POWER!!!!!
A woman who wants to feel powerful only does so because she is a weak minded and miserly person. Seriously, met so many who are obsessed with being powerful and it's a huge red flag. Healthy men and women do not view their confidence and self-esteem through that lens. Only weak people lust for power.
It's funny how the writers want us to root for the heroes that are obsessed for power and being rude to everyone around them, but wants us to despise the villains who does EXACTLY like what the heroes wants
Yeah, it’s really nuts. These people are truly Orwellian. They don’t want a world whose stories celebrate heroes that fight for truth and justice and morals and virtue… but in which the “heroes” simply fight for dominance over others.
"This isn't about good or bad, this is about power. And who is allowed to use it." What are they taking about? Sith literally just want power for dominance, they don't care who uses it. They just want it for themselves.
It’s the usual pseudo social science crap in movie form.
The character who says that is, according to Wikipedia, "the leader of a coven of Force witches," so I'm not sure that she's Sith. It sounds like she's similar to the witch in Ahsoka. Also, I recall from plot rumors something about the witches believing that only women should wield the Force, so that could be what she's referring to.
Brought to you by Harvey Weinstein's accomplice. A vile, evil person who sympathizes with villains.
Sith arent "allowed" power, they take it regardless of what is "allowed"
Well, they believe that white supremacy exists at its peak right now - they're brainwashed
I will be entertained by youtubers mocking this show.
But not wanting to be wrong if given the chance.
For now. I bet Disney will attempt to suppress reviews and UA-camrs who express negative opinions about their shows.
They messed up the 3 films but they have been much better now. This looks good I don't get the hate it seems you had a woman sith in the clone wars.
Why are people making a fuss about women, it just seems people are being toxic for no reason. i think we live in an era where people just love to compline.
Yes, let's listen to a bunch of youtubers bitch and moan about anything that will get them views. God forbid you should make up your own damn mind...
love your optimistic attitude your expectations must be very low, they have set up a pattern so this will be nothing new but more of the same.
This is not propaganda at its finest, but at its worst. It's not subtle, disguised, intelligent, or effective.
Yeah it's not even good propaganda lmao. About as subtle as a WWE drama.
exactly. good propaganda make you to agree and supoort what is promoted.
when the listener reject the propaganda, it is a terrible propaganda.
It's so blatant because it signals to their fellow allies.
It's "Slopaganda", to steal a catchphrase from The China Show
Andor was propaganda at its finest. Anti-fascist propaganda for sure, but propaganda nonetheless.
This isn't about good or bad, this is about bankruptcy and how fast Disney can achieve it.
They will never go bankrupt. Their ultimate backers have more cash than they could ever spend. If they were interested in money we wouldn't even be having this conversation because we'd all be eagerly awaiting our twelfth ultra-succesful and satisfying star wars film that we all love. Money has nothing to do with this.
@@dinkmartini3236Then why Blackrock started firing people? I say keep fighting and they will go down eventually.
@@dinkmartini3236 eh, you have a point about how much their backers have, but eventually their backers do need to see returns, or else they (surely?) would withdraw their backing, leaving Disney up the creek without a paddle....
As far as I'm concerned, Disney can't go bankrupt soon enough.
@@grahamdeitner5507 Agreed. 👍
total mask off "this isnt about good or bad this is about power" spoken like a true sociopath
Which Leslye Headland certainly is
Honestly, that sounds like something the Sith would say. Would be an interesting twist if the movie was about following Sith force users. I think we all know that's not the path their taking though.
Voldemort literally said that
@@JO-db7cm it's a show, not a movie. And a lot of it is about Sith, but it's going to be trash
@@Siile_ it's going to be about the most shallow, vapid "Sith" ever. They will ruin the Sith.
There's not a chance in hell I'll watch this or anything Disney.
Same
Excuse making on your ends.
@@achaudhari101 Cringe
Disney has made some decent stuff tbh, bad batch, cow season 7, man do seasons 1 and 2, tales of the Jedi, and some of kenobi. But this looks like absolute shit.
What kind of a fucking tosser does this?
Ted Bundy was out numbered by the police... I guess she would consider him the underdog.
😂
The police is also the enforcement arm of the establishment.
From a more excellent series: "Just because someone is an underdog doesn't mean he's a good guy."
They couldn't fathom such idea in Sequels, where First Order were supposed to be the underdogs, but I guess they learned it in Mandalorian with Remnants, but yet again forgot it.
The left haven't figure that out yet, which is why they knee-jerk support the Palestinians and despise the Jews. The Jews committed the unforgivable in leftism--they were too successful.
Cant help but notice every time they put someone in charge who publicly cant stop talking about themselves and how queer they are, the product is terrible. Maybe they shoulda hired people who are talented or care about the IP instead of checking boxes . FEMALE check GAY check NARCISSISTIC check. I know it goes much deeper than this but christ its exhausting
They are deflecting away from the mediocrity of their products with the mediocrity of their ideals.🤣🤣
Harvey Weinstein's Personal Assistant - CHECK!
I feel sorry for the average woman and gay person that gets a bad reputation from this garbage. It's like us white guys being associated with the Klu Klux Klan.
I bet you anything that women and gay people are not cool with what's been going on with these nutcases.
I’m actually so over it I literally started watching a bunch of anime. completely ignoring it anything that Hollywood is putting out their zero point watching it bro.
@@revan5293 Same. Because of all of this I discovered K Dramas, and they aren't bad at all.
I never tried anime, you have me curious about it. There's a ton of it on Netflix.
Prophetically, Forest Gump described this movie and its creator-writer, Leslye Headland: "Stupid is as stupid does." But it is significant that the Jedi Master tells the younglings to close their eyes. Headland knows quite a bit about how that can work, for that is what she did when she served as Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant. Of course, this is also where she learned that power took precedence over good and evil. She was Weinstein's attentive padawan.
I was contrasting the last 10 years of movie heroines to the LOTR scene with Eowyn vs the Witch King. She's totally overmatched and visibly terrified, but determined anyway. We admire her courage but wonder how she can possibly survive this, let alone prevail. Contrast this to the lastest crop of invincible girl bosses who are never seriously threatened and never show any kind of emotion for the audience to even care about them. The New Heroine embodies every aspect of toxic masculinity, yet we're told we're supposed to admire her. The movie shows us an unlikeable person who's impossible to relate to, but tells us she's a paragon of virtue we're supposed to relate to.
Good points, although we seem to admire all these male heroes that embody toxic masculinity. How much do people love Tony Stark even though toxic masculinity is his entire personality lol
They're trying to make female leads strong by making them have the same traits as male heroes. Mon Mothma in Andor was an incredible lead - written as powerful and vulnerable.
Is stark toxic? Ok at the beggining yea, he is a weapon selling playboy. But trought the course of the series (which ends at the endgame btw) he becomes a proper role model with familly and who sacrifices himself for the good of entire universe. Its not bad (even more its really good) to see a character go trought development.@@matthewbrears2129
I'll be honest, when I saw the trailer, all I felt was apathy. Not anger, not joy, not pity, not hope, just apathy.
And good god, I have no faith in Harvey Weinstein's assistant.
The High republic, era of the rock named Geode and the ship named Vessel.
Just like Kreia said, apathy is the death of things.
Apathy is worse than hate.
@@yassinefarah2423for once Kreia was right
Fr I don’t even have enough feeling left to laugh at this series
The bad fight choreography in all of Disney star wars is the saddest thing for me. Even if the plot is bad if the fights were fun that'd be something. This girl insisting on attacking with a knife (which doesn't even appear to be a vibroblade) and martial arts is ridiculous.
She is trying to assassinate Jedi, no reason to be shy about using a saber at that point. Maul assassinated with a saber in the canon timeline before he fought on Tatooine.
Not every Acolyte uses a lightsaber, genius. Don’t make up complaints out of not understanding the lore.
@@achaudhari101 his point still stands though, attacking a jedi with a knife is...an odd weapon choice to say the least. Compared to what it takes for actual jedi killers and profissional bounty hunters to kill a jedi.
@@achaudhari101 So far in canon every jedi and sith from other eras earns a saber. If she is ear ing one I suppose that works but even Inquisitors were given sabers.
I can only recall Savage not being given one when he was first operating under Dooku.
Even Kylo, a dark Jedi, had a saber.
Edit: My complaint is also that unless the dagger has a cortosis-weave or beskar she is using a weapon she can't even parry with. I'd rather use a electrostaff or stun baton at that point.
Kung fu is not what I'd go with.
@@Cappuccino_Rabbit How is it an odd weapon of choice when we have seen knives in SW media before? I mean one of the SWTOR Trailers had one of the commanders try to use a knife against Darth Malagus and no one complained back then. Hell, one of the ROTS concept arts showed Padme brandishing a knife against Anakin. How come its only weird and unusual when Star Wars under Disney does something different whereas the EU gets a pass on the more unusual things? That's not being objective in a smart way, that's just being uneducated about the lore.
@@AzayBae Jedi have done kung fu before. Are you trying to say that if a Jedi or Sith don't have a lightsaber, they are defenseless and weak?
Does Leslye remember the names of all the women whom she helped Harvey grape?
you bet she does! i wonder why these "journalists" don't ask her the hard questions.
It’s the only reason she is still employed. She knows names, area, and how deep the dark hole of corruption Hollywood goes.
Grape?
@@ezrawilson6986 Without the "g".
In a Galaxy, Far, Far Gone...
I wish that galaxy was far far away.
ive been upset about Disney Star Wars and actually had some great laughs at their herendous work but after seein the Acolyte trailer and interviews im actuallly Sad AF now, it finally hit me its gone and never coming back, i finally lost the last ounce of hope and its gutted me
By “Leslye” Hedland’s logic, a lone serial killer is outnumbered, therefore an underdog, therefore good?
Underdog doesn’t mean good automatically, and yea, from his perspective, he would be the protagonist of his story. You’ve never watched breaking bad?
The protagonist doesn’t need to be good though and the point of Breaking Bad was the Walter White wasn’t good, certainly not towards the end.
This is something that needed to be covered in school but never was: basic morals without the political garbage. Of course, political garbage is always attached with a heaping spoon of narcissism to twist the kids. No matter who's in charge this seems to happen.
You can add the Star Wars universe to the graveyard where The Witcher and The Rings of Power lie buried and forgotten.
and Marvel, can't forget Marvel.
It’s still such a shame of what they did to the Witcher and now it’s horrible what they’re doing to Star Wars. It’s upsetting
Whoops, how could I forget! Lol!
Yep, writers today just don't have an original idea. They use other peoples brilliance and rob it to suit their agenda.
Star Trek and Doctor who too
If Joseph Campbell came back, he'd never stop throwing-up.
The Hero With A Thousand Facelifts.
Just look at the showrunner she openly called fans that didnt like the sequels "toxic."
The pipeline of:
"If you don't like it, don't watch it bigot!!!1!!1"
To: "Nobody watched our movie because they're all bigots waaaughh!!!1!1!11"
Is painfully common
@@Cardinal_claw exactly and that statement will come in a few months when this tanks.
To be fait, many Star Wars are toxic.
@@vertigo2894 who gets to defines when something is an opinion and when it is toxic?
@@purefoldnz3070 Come on mate, you know what toxic is. It isn't complaining, complaining is fine as Star Wars is basically horrible now. There are many very prejudiced fans out there. They are not the majority but they are very loud.
Super Hero Fatigue, I bet there will be a Star Wars fatigue. Maybe we just have a agenda fatigue.
What
*_"This isn't about good or bad ticket sales. This is about THE MESSAGE."_*
*---Disney (to fans of their Intellectual Properties, wondering if/when Disney will "learn its lesson")*
And then they will cry and scream when noone watches or cares about their ,,message"
Question.. As Harvey's personal secretary, why didn't Lesley get staffed overt he coals in media for enabling him? Similar to how Affleck and Tarantino were.
My theory is that she knows an awful lot of secrets about a lot of powerful/ famous folks.
She must have a certain island's like list hidden somewhere.
A Star Wars show for people who don't like Star Wars, written by people who don't like Star Wars. 🤦♂
For an audience that has mostly checked out from Star Wars.
* for people that doesnt exist expect in those cultist minds
Stepping into morally grey areas without clear cut good vs evil existed in the Star Wars franchise for a long time and was the foundation of the success of the Old Republic games of expanded Star Wars. However it takes good writing skills to pull it off, bad writers and directors are more likely just to flip good/evil around, while congratulating themselves on how they subverted expectations.
Thank you! Someone finally said it! These kids behave like it hasn’t been done before.
it is never going to die out or go away till the money flow stops fully. I've long since canceled my Disney plus. I've given up on starwars content. I'll enjoy the expanded universe for all the good and bad that is as well as the first six films.
The Thrawn trilogy starting with "Heir to the Empire" nicely continues the Star Wars saga beyond Episode VI. 😊
I love how they never learn, truly remarkable
Learning from mistakes is hard, apparently, especially for Modern Disney
If you were working on this, it must have been an odd experience. Did they call their casting person and say "we need a room full of kids for one scene. Make sure none of them are white males". Or did they get a normal diverse group and stick the white boys under masks? Are their camera people in that room thinking "well, that's a coincidence". Unless EVERYONE is onboard with the agenda, doesn't someone think "what are we doing?". Or is disney running an empire of fear where everyone is too afraid to question their higher ups or leak about their weird process? If someone is sending memos "oh, segregate the younglings.", how does that not register as kinda messed up. When disney hires reaches past 100 filmmakers with genre experience to hire a diverse arthouse director for a project (think 'the Eternals'), how does that fly even as a commercial decision?
Or... is it that they're aware of their mistakes...
But just don't care?
Woke slaves are trained to never learn and have any self awareness.
@@OtterloopB Someone is financing all these BS, how can a company run with so many failures projects?
They know it's a flop. The day after the trailer released they were releasing other filler content to push it off their main page. I'd bet there are legal reasons for them moving forward with the release. Maybe they'll get sued if they don't. Maybe even if it sucks they'll make money somehow. Hollywood is weird that way - contracts and investor agreements.
Star wars was great,
But that was a long long time ago.
In a galaxy far away...
RIP Star Wars
1977 - 1983
She’s also the first blind writer in the Star Wars universe!
She didn’t see any Weinstein sexual assaults. Brilliant.
Writer: Hey, so I know we were given instructions not to read or watch anything Star Wars related when coming up for the story of this Star Wars show. However, I kind of got bored and decided to rewatch The Phantom Menace and found a canon issue with what we’re writing and with something that was said in that movie...
Kathleen Kennedy: But did we meet the DEI quota?
Writer: Hmmm, I don’t know, you’ll have to ask the casting team about that. Anyway, we may have to change the direction we’re taking with this show’s story...
Kathleen Kennedy: Look, whatever the problem is, make it a female, make her black, and make her gay!
Writer: ...................................................
But what is a the problem of having a black female, I do not get all the right wing hate.
@@jameswatson5807 There's nothing wrong with it...if you actually build the characters and worlds and give them motivation. Just having a character meet all the diversity requirements simply to check boxes is the problem.
The same goes for the actors/directors/writers who are handed these positions with no qualifications. Acolyte director herself admitted she doesn't even know what she's doing and knows nothing about the Star Wars property. Then how on earth did she get the job?
And of course, no DEI copy/paste character would be complete without massive plot armor and being completely overpowered, unless she's fighting another diverse woman, of course. There is absolutely no way you haven't noticed that literally EVERY single movie/series Disney has released the last several years has the same exact generic "girlbosses" who never lose a fight or face any adversity whatsoever.
The U.S. is majority Caucasian, and the demographic of anything comic/sci-fi/video game related is overwhelmingly male, and yet there's almost nobody to be found in these movies that reflects that demographic.
It'd be like watching a Chinese film and not seeing a single Chinese male in the movie. It would be a little odd, wouldn't it?
@@brandonowen9881 Star wars is global it is huge in Japan and south Korea, mando the lead is a white male, andor the lead is white male.
Jedi Fallen Order white male lead, Jedi survivor white male lead lots of games with white male leads.
The demographic of gaming is not overwhelmingly male, that changed in the Xbox/PS3 era 54% of gamers are men 48% are women.
@@brandonowen9881 That is odd because I read the Acolyte director is a fan.
@@jameswatson5807these guys are just dumb. They want to hate because they think there are too many woman and PoC on the screen. Like, I get it, you can be sceptical about another Disney SW show but trailer wasn't that bad at all.
Star Wars is dead until people can make their own movies once A.I. art produces convincing video
Not dead.
AI is a new hope
@@floydfanboy2948 That's brain damage.
Change the medium and dive into the Expanded Universe of Star Wars.
I recommend the Thrawn trilogy starting with "Heir to the Empire" if you wish to know what comes after Episode VI.
@@seraphinberktold7087 the thrawn trilogy was the only good expanded serious, the rest was just a mess, especially when it came to the Solo children. The Yuzon Vong had potential but they fumbled it
I would NOT want to be a fly on the wall in a writing room at Disney, because I am convinced that my brain would never recover from sheer level of cringe that is undoubtedly circulating in them
And ammount of CP being watched and serving as pleasure for those pdfs
There is a quote that suits Leslye Headland so eloquently. It goes like this, "The ability to speak does not make you intelligent." Qui-Gon said that, and I think he knows a little bit more about Star Wars than she does.
They keep writing to affect the audience, they should be writing to affect the story
What's a story? Asking for a Disney executive.
I’m so excited for this audio-visual medium to have lines where the characters tell us each other’s traits rather than show us and recap the plot every other scene.
"This isn't about making a good or bad movie. It's about power...and subverting Western society's culture, morality, and values." There, I fixed it for their writers.
The UA-cam entertainment provided by this continuous flow of garbage really makes up for it though. Lucasfilm isn't ready for how bad this will perform, both on Disney+ and on store shelves.
I appreciate your opinion as Hollywood tries their best to self destruct. The more voices speaking against this nonsense the better.
This is propaganda at its worst. Most "Propaganda" is suppose to be subtle and make you think to their side maybe right.
Most modern writers, atleast for TV shows can't write subtly anymore. I don't think most modern writers for Disney have not been to any form of "writing classes"
The first thing that take me out of the setting in any Star Wars product is the costumes that have clearly never being worn before.
Stars Wars worked because it looked lived in. Now its crease free and clean with to many folds and layers to actually move around in.
Stop over complicating clothes. Just think how long it takes them to get dressed, which I'm 100% sure they cant do on their own.
The line about power is very eye opening from the writers. When you think about all the bad faith politics going on in this time it becomes very obvious that none of it is about what they say, but about power. It’s not about anything other than usurping the perceived oppressors and becoming the oppressor in it’s place.
Is it telling that I'm looking forward to UA-cam channels mocking it, than I am the actual show? 😂
This is how the conversation in the writing room went.
"Put a chick in it and make her gay and lame"
End of meeting.
If you are interested in an earlier form of the Sith, I suggest looking into the Old Republic Era. The time is many, many years years before the movie and its own direction, in the extended universe. Before Disney's acquisition, the old republic is a time of high tensions and battle between the Jedi and a much larger, not Rule of two, Sith force (a poor desceiption but highly recommend). MILES better than the high republic, which was created more recently post Disney acquisition. There is no war in the high republic, just some pirates and during an era that ruins the prequels and sequel movies. And the poor reception of the books, that could not break half a million on any book set during the high republic should be evident that this time is not interesting to people.
5:10 "Remember the days of heroism...."
Oh, the current "far woke" writers and directors have not forgotten heroism. They're all in favour of heroically doing the right thing.
What has changed now, is that they see THEMSELVES as the heroes. They see the unhappy audience as the villains (and they're quick to say so).
They see each script as a light-saber, a weapon that they wield, slashing at the forces of patriarchy and inequity.
They see poor box-office returns as the inevitable wounds of combat. Not to be heeded. A hero doesn't stop fighting when injured.
This is going to be The Marvels for Star Wars
6:35 Her voice deeper than mine. 🤨🤦🏾♂️
As a 50 yr old lifelong white male SW fan, I'm sad that the rest of my life will probably not include any more Star Wars that I can enjoy. It's all just trash now.
My wife is the Star Wars fan in our house. I showed her this trailer, she said “it looks okay…I just don’t want to be disappointed again”…
You will be ……You will be …
Female heroes in 2024: No control over themselves, power at all costs and for themselves, no matter how many bad stuff they have to do get it, it's not important.
If it doesn't tell you the mindset of the director, I don't know what will.
I dunno, last year's fruit cake is pretty scary....
Pulling up Galadriel, who's something like 4000 years old at that point in Rings of Power, and is an elven warrior lord, and who ends up becoming one of the most powerful elves ever... and comparing her to a random girlboss who's probably 20 years old, is a bit disingenuous.
I stopped watching the actual episodes of Disney Star Wars shows during the Book of Boba Fett, now I just watch reviews on them to see if they ever get better.
“Close your eyes. What do you see?”
Disney forcing wokeness and inclusiveness with poorly-written "strong" girlboss tale down our throat
This is a well-reasoned and excellent analysis. Thank you.
Wow that hedlund seems like a real case
she learned from the BEST (worse) Harvey Weinstein!
I notice how euphoric these people always seem.
I imagine having your ideology backed by hundreds of millions of dollars must be the ultimate affirmation that makes you feel transcendent.
Where is the "COOL!" in this trailer? No cool characters, no cool planets, no cool fights, no cool lines, no cool ships....NOTHING!
the Cool thing is the propaganda. well at least in their tiny minds...
I am curious how Headland who pimped for Harvey got her position in Lucas? Now that would make an interesting bio pic.
Wait THAT is the main villain? she looks like every highschooler from my school
This is not Star Wars .Its over .
Hi Nerdword! As a creative writer for fun myself, my theory is that there is a team of writers within the Disney walls, but they are creatively handcuffed, forced to tell the stories and make the characters their overlord, dictator like bosses want and can only live with it. That is appalling to this writer, because writers tell their best stories with no demands or conditions from otherwise. I am sure that the writers in Disney only need to be let off the leash to write great stories that become box office hits and right the sinking ship that is Hollywood, but nope, producers and executives who can’t write worth a darn hold them at gunpoint and insist to keep churning out garbage, completely oblivious to how this exact scenario is why Hollywood is sinking like the Titanic. If I were a writer in this scenario, I would walk out
No matter what horrible Star Wars content D*sney may churn out, it doesn't excuse the fact that the original 6 movies still exist. Those films can still be passed onto future generations while stuff like the Acolyte remains forgotten.
It’s beautiful how well these social issues are described in scripture. God has always known us so well.
Men have stopped taking care of the weak, women desire power, and everyone full speeds ahead to satisfy thier sinful desires. Look where we are.
The trailer was so boring that I literally caught myself thinking several times “oh wait- I’m supposed to be watching a trailer- what’s going on? Better rewind a bit.” If a trailer can’t hold one’s attention, there’s NO HOPE for the show. But that’s the only way it’s going to further The Message - if someone puts it on and forgets it’s playing, then maybe it could make impact as subliminal indoctrination.
yup, completely forgot this existed
I haven’t seen the trailer. Just catching your take on it on my timeline. Very insightful. I will take your word for it 🤙🏾
Thank heavens Disney is finally making an "empowering" Girl Boss movie. They've never done that before.
The problem with all entertainment media today is everyone lacks one core ingredient
Passion
From the actors delivering damp squibb lines
To the writers writing the hollow crap
To the directors allowing such bland meandering dialogue and concepts in their own productions
To even the studios allowing this drab lifeless husk of a shell to be made with their money
It all lacks passion and everyone is just their for the paycheck
And that is why these once great iconic franchises are dead now
Cause the passionn is gone
And so is the talent
But thats a different reason
Thanks for another great video. Keep them coming.
I agree with you. Los Angeles is the most beautiful city in the world.
There was some hope with the force awakens because as george lucas said with the prequels he wanted things to "rhyme" anakin blows up the droid control ship,luke blows up the death star,anakin loses his hand in a duel with dooku,luke loses his hand in a duel with vader,so when you saw a young scavenger girl on a desert planet it "rhymed" but all hope was lost the second i saw the preview of luke tossing his/anakins saber over his shoulder like it was nothing i knew they were going to destroy everything.
Short answer:
Most of them undoubtedly think the same, and the ones that don't are afraid to speak out for fear of having the door shut in their face and locked being quietly blacklisted from any future Hollywood jobs.
Edit: Also we can't discount corporate interference in the creative process, forcing writers to write within an IP / genre they would otherwise never choose to engage with
2:14 I actually think she is "The Acolyte" of the show, i think she is trained by that Japanese guy who plays that Jedi Master, i'm guessing the show will open in a flashback, i read there's like this band of witches type characters in this show, and if you look at how that actress is dressed there, she has this Bandit/witch/assassin type look to her. I read that her and that other actress Dafne Keen play Sisters, so i'm guessing the show will open up where Dafne Keen's character is the sister who gets taken by the Japanese guy, picked up on the account she's force sensitive; while this assassin looking woman, she's the sister that get's left behind.
This is where i think showrunner Leslie Headland will push this whole "Propaganda" in her Acolyte show, where the Jedi Order will be seen as Bad because that Jedi master too this woman's sister to be trained as a child. Years later, both sisters are grown up, one's become a Jedi, she meets up with her old master, played by that Japanese guy (sorry i just don't know the names of any of these actors cause i've never seen them in anything before, i heard that Japanese guy was in squid-game but have never seen that too, i know i'm boring, i'm mainly just into Starwars).
So this sister who grew up with these Bandit-like witch coven, she's all traumatised by being left behind and split up from her twin sister, so she seeks revenge and gets trained by some Sith to become their "Acolyte". She's trained to be this "Strong Female" badass in the arts, and that's who we basically see in the trailer, going out and killing Jedi. She is the Assassin character seen fighting Trinity from the Matrix, who i also think was there with the Japanese Jedi master dude in the opening flashback, when they both came to take the young girl, Dafnee Keen's character.
The main thing i think many starwars fans are wary and concerned about is how exactly Leslie Headland will screw around with established LORE. Leslie Headland has said in interviews that she and her story group writers "borrowed from the EU". So think basically what they've done is they just poached *Darth Plagueis* from his own EU novel (of the same name), written by Author James Luceno. In that now - Non-Canon novel, Darth Plagueis teaches his young apprentice a young Shiev Palpatine in the darkside of the Force, while operating in the shadows and no one ever knowing the truth about Darth Plagueis being a Sith Lord. Some Jedi do find out his true identity and the novel does a good job of showing how he was able to never let those Jedi get the truth out (basically they were killed).
This is exactly what i believe Leslie Headland has stole for her Acolyte show, i even believe Plagueis will appear as THE *Sith* in question, a Thanos level CGI villain, who is basically manipulating things from behind the scenes, from afar; abducting some Jedi and tempting them over to the darkside, possibly turning them into "Dark Jedi" making them question the very Jedi Order during this time, 100 years out from the prequel trilogy. This is where the whole Propaganda will kick in, and the show will starting posing the questions asking - "is it really the Jedi Order who are no different from the Sith?"
From here, that Japanese dude goes out investigating these deaths of a number of Jedi, he teams up with his own padawan, played by Defne Keen (i know and recognize her because she played a pretty good X-23 from the movie logan, remember that). Eventually the two will come across this black woman who is the assassin, and twin sister of Dafne Keen's Jedi character. I also think Leslie Headland will Character Assassinate Yoda in her series, because Yoda would undoubtedly be around somewhere during this time, and so Leslie will make him into some complacent Grandmaster, who actually learns the truth, about the Sith's return, in the form of Darth Plageuis, and Yoda learns about a number of Jedi who Plagueis turned to the darkside and/or trained to be his Acolytes, assassins to hunt down other Jedi.
Instead of confronting Plagueis head on with all his order, Leslie and her Lucasfilm Story-group will "subvert" and make it where Yoda chooses to bury this truth, and cover it all up. That's pretty much gonna be the final scene you see at the end of the trailer; it will lead to somekind of showdown, where a number of Jedi are killed, doing battle with Plagueis Acolytes; resulting in practically all of them killing eachother in one big battle.
Yoda (obviously) survives, so does Plagueis who retreats back into the shadows and is never found or heard of again; where he ofcourse eventually goes on to train Palpatine to become "Darth Sidious" when we get to Episode One The Phantom Menace. The clues to all of these things are pretty much in the Acolyte trailer if you piece it all together, also the fact Disney are re-releasing the starwars prequels this May for one time only; and each movie will show a "Sneak Peak" of The Acolyte too, i think is one big clue this is what it all is and Plagueis will make his big, live-action debut.
Critics will wet themselves over it, normies will clap like trained seals, and the new (albeit smaller) hardcore fanbase will worship it. Disney knows they've lost a chunk of the audience they don't care about losing, anyway.
Excellent! New subscriber because of this review. Totally tired of seeing Hollywood's propaganda and proud of UA-cam content providers calling all of this out.
I just want a full fledged Sith movie that knows that he is the villain but doesn’t care at all. He just goes around Mucking everything up because he wants to be stronger or he is in full belief of the sith way.
As with all Disney products, the reviews are more entertaining than the shows.
Here’s what I assume is likely to happen next: Acolyte releases, “agenda” slowly releases, fan pushback ramps up intensely, the Gina Carano trial takes place a week later, fan pushback reaches massive new heights and pulls in non-star wars fans and investors, momentum maintains and peaks near the US election, Disney stock reaches a 5+ year low, then an aggressive move by Peltz ensues and a new board takes over, they “clean house” and things finally subside as the cultural pendulum begins to swing the other way and logic and rationality begin to return.
"If you're going to make a show about the high republic, then you better put a chick in it, and make her gay" - Kathleen Kennedy probably
I’d rather not think about it but since we can get to talk about it online let’s quote Anakin Skywalker “this is where the fun begins”😂
Well, Disney finally will destroy the 1 part of StarWars they haven't put their greedy hands on yet... RIP Prequel lure...
Remember, the USSR continued with its ideology-based economy until it collapsed. Critics stating the most obvious truths were dealt with via persecution and imprisonment. Extremists don't stop what they are doing or change course.
I thought these were clips from Rings of Power at first, then there really were clips of Rings of Power.
They saw captain marvel and said we can lean into that nightmare more
Haven’t watched any sw since I walked out of episode 8. I’ve honestly been much happier without the propaganda. It’s very liberating.
Nothing worth reading has ever been written by committee.
Lesley Headband has managed to spell her first name wrongly! Great start.
Leslye?
Freaks now get power these days I guess.
like a lot of people my age group (Gen X) we LOVED Star Wars. we would do scenes from the movies on the playgrounds. that was a time when EVERYONE was welcome. well now I don't feel so welcome anymore cause some sycophants have taken over a franchise that used to speak to everyone.
I just don’t understand how people like Leslie get into these positions… there SO many other qualified directors who have proven themselves. She’s what like “directed” 3 tv episodes? Now she’s overseeing a massive sci-fi project with vfx, fight scenes, ect. Why not get some of the directors from The Expanse or something? It makes literally zero sense at all.
A show titled The Acolyte from Weinstein’s PA. I see absolutely no self insert there at all.
Hollywood has abandoned the idea of writing stories that appeal to the masses. These days they just want to push tired, trite ideas into the DEI echo chamber.
Star Wars is for babies. It died when Dune 2 released.
"The force is female!"
STAR WARS died with RETURN OF THE JEDI, which was childish, repetitive and bad. Let's just admit it: Most of us aren't STAR WARS fans, we're STAR WARS THE ORIGINAL and EMPIRE fans.
HOT TAKE: The only good thing to involve The High Republic is Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, where the primary antagonist is a disillusioned Jedi from that time period and the boss fight with him is a glorious homage to the fight with Count Dooku from Attack of the Clones (aka. My favourite SW film).
I am of the opinion that the _fans_ are what killed Star Wars, not Disney and not Kathleen Kennedy, but the latter sure are helping speed up the process with crap like this!
Excellent commentary. Thank you.
Maybe Disney should stop, take a knee, drink some water and perhaps smoke a cigarette while contemplating how shows like Gunsmoke stayed on TV for over 20 years...
I love reading the comments on ALL these videos and seeing we’re all in agreement here.
Well, yeah because you all like your echo chamber. Even if you're all wrong here.
@@artyom-ovsepyan oh yes, ALL of us are wrong lol. Face it- Disney has ruined just about all their properties with their propaganda drivel
“This is about power and who’s allowed to use it” no sweetheart, Lucas made Jedi to be altruistic and self-sacrificing, while Sith with selfish, passionate, and ruled by the desire for personal gain. Disney Star Wars has hollowed out the IP and turned it into a bland prop for overplayed feminism.