THE ACOLYTE: FINALE......The End
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THE ACOLYTE Comes to an end, and thus this odyssey of scotch, & pain. Here are my final thoughts on this piece of overpriced cinematic destruction.
#TheAcolyteFinale
Lee Jung-Jae learned English just for this role and still delivered a more emotional and engaging performance than most of the English speaking cast. He’s going to be fine.
Best part of the show and definitely the best performance. He was probably the only reason I watched a few episodes of this Acolyte
Give him an advil for carrying that show on his back
Thought Manny Jacinto came out pretty well
What's sad is that I could see Lee be a Jedi under George Lucas's original work. Wasted talent
@@Boghopper9999 Manny was the highlight for me. I kinda wished the whole show was about him instead.
"Nothing was badass. Just bad or ass." Quote of the year.
Really 🎉
Yeah, that phrase will stick with me.
Yup easily a highlight.
He's incorrect! It was worse than bad or ass, it was pathetic and a final nail for the prequel fans and overall for shaming Geoge Lucas legacy!
lol.. was gonna comment the same.. what a line..
I love JJ, and this quote is one of the many reasons why, "Here's a better hook for a second season: have a good first season."
I actually thought it was good if not just as good as Any Other Star Wars IP
@@pqowi9098 happy for you but I absolutely despise everything about it.
@@realriorex why?
@@pqowi9098 terrible writing, poorly designed characters, lack of a coherrent plot, poor choreography, weak set design, failed alignment to established lore and world, I could go on. Jeremy covers it well. Watch his reviews.
That quote made me laugh out loud, it was so good and so correct.
(I can't address the person's comment asking why the show is bad, I'll just write something rivaling war and peace in length)
Have you heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? He was on the Acolyte... That's the tragedy
Punishment, cruel and unusual, it was
No one deserves a punishment this bad, if palpatine was the one who killed him he was actually putting him out of his misery.
😂😂😂
I have seen this comment on so many videos and it's always funny every time.
@jonathansalazar4630 I'm actually hoping there's a season 2, and we get to see Osha get surgery to become Palpatine. Just change her gender to male and her skin color white, and she can be a young Palpatine, then she gets rid of qimir, goes to Naboo and becomes a Senator, and kills Plagueis.
The saddest thing about this is seeing Jeremy replace his Star Wars cape to a black suit and booze in less than a decade
I still remember Star Wars Theory crying like a baby over Luke in Mando season 2, and now look how far THAT channel has fallen
Holy cow, when you put it that way that's like the general attitude towards the franchise summed up in one man's series of videos.
@@alexanderforbes1452 Yep! And how I feel these days about the franchise, compared to years ago. I’m not nearly as much of a butt-hurt hater as some ‘fans’ though.
@@alexp601 I also remember him applauding and crying over The Rise of Skywalker. I stopped watching him after that.
Because you're not a fan
You're just a tourist
@alexp601
“Here’s a hook for a second season, have a good first season.” 😂
I actually thought it was good if not just as good as Any Other Star Wars IP
I thought he was going to say cancel it, because that's the only thing to do with this series!
@@lucinae8512 why?
Let's remember that Rings of power was renewed for a second season.
@@pqowi9098 And that's the problem
Fun Fact: Each episode of Acolyte had a bigger budget than Godzilla Minus One. And combined, the entire first season of Acolyte had a budget 12 times the size Godzilla Minus One had.
That is some sad shit right there
Holy crap! MINUS ONE was amazing!
Just... How?? Where did all that money go? Inflation??
@@IzzysaiProof you don't need a huge budget to get a good movie.
@@dimitri4457 Personally I'm willing to bet that it was either from the writers having massive egos, or the actors just needed huge compensation for being in something so awfully put together.
The most interesting arc in the acolyte has been Jeremy’s alcoholism, he’s the REAL critical drinker now 🥃
Don't compare Jeremy to that loser
@@bottombarrelbudgetfilms1854real
@@bottombarrelbudgetfilms1854 i predict Drinker-simps incoming
Lol😂😂😂
@@bottombarrelbudgetfilms1854
Respectfully disagree, he's very precise with his criticisms and is willing to acknowledge the good and the bad of the product. Look at his review of Blue Eyed Samurai for proof of that.
One of the things that strikes me about this show is that everyone is so thoroughly miserable. there is no optimism, no brightness, no hope. Just bitterness, animosity and depression. It would be nice to see people who are actually happy living in this galaxy far far away.
The Prequel Trilogy is kind of like that, no? Lucas tried to make Padme seem like hope, but her dating Anakin made so little sense, we were rooting for her to ditch him already. That's how I felt watching it in the cinema back then, idk
It's like coming out of the toilet after a bad case of diarrhea: you're pissed off you had to go through that, relieved it's over, and too tired to care.
@LateSleeper and afraid there might be a part 2
@@Bigotsandwich1995somehow the shit return
That's why I skipped the diarrhea and decided to hear about others diarrhea experience. After all, having the diarrhea ensures you get more diarrhea going forward. Self inflicted diarrhea.
Dont know about you guys. I enjoyed the show. From the eyes of the youtubers who shat on it.
I care for the master of the greatest antagonist portrayed in the cinema, Darth Sidious. Ladies and gentlemen I present you the tragedy of Darth Palgues the Wise, stealer of ideas from a poor, hardworking cult of women! A final nail in the coffin for all the fans especially the prequel era lovers! The show was spectacular bad, the more you think about all the episodes, interactions, motive you will discovered another plot hole, inconsistencies, etc!
So you are telling me Anakin slaughtered "Not just the men, but the women, and the children" and his lightsaber kyber crystal didn't "bleed" and just stayed solid blue?
Lightsaber crystal bleed not a thing pre disney. but who cares disney lore is not canon as far as true fans are concerned
She touched the crystal, that is why it bled. Read the comic, it shows how Vader gets his red lightsaber.
@@Methyllbut it brings up a good point. that Anakin wasn’t wrong lol
@@Scyrenuscame to share this
In old lore, it wasn't just your actions, but forcing your will into the crystal to make it bleed. Like pouring all your hate and misery into it rather than just slicing and dicing. Stole it from Legends AGAIN, but not consistent or makes much sense... AGAIN. =[
I love how they created all these cliffhangers expecting a season 2. Yeahhh, about that.
This series did absolutely not warrant a Plagueis cameo.
@AmBobbyMudda This series didn't warrant a cast.
@@romanclark3274 you are correct sir
Didn't warrant existence.
I honestly cannot keep track of what the hell is going on. This show feels like the mad hatter yelling "CHANGE PLACES" every 7 minutes. This twin was evil, now this one is evil, but they were both good all along, but now this one is evil, but the jedi are evil, but the sith is good so really the good twin is now evil which is actually good.
Huh?
Also everybodies force abilities and power levels constantly shift.
Can't be bothered to type out the 5 million examples. Just one. In the last episode Sol beats Qimir, then Osha turns up and force chokes him to death? How does she have that ability? You can't force choke a powerful jedi unless you are way more powerful. That has never happened in the whole of live action Star Wars. Qimir didn't force choke Sol. He just lost to him. Just 1-2 days earlier he killed a whole squad of jedi and Osha had literally zero force powers. What??????
The camera work and directing on this one was especially horrid.
Cringe
Well put
Their moral compass is as confusing as the show runner's sexuality
“Why was that ever a thing?” Basically sums up everything in this entire show. What a clusterfuck.
"Here a better hook for a second season. Have a good first season.".
Perfect quote right here.
"And if you failed to do that, a second season shouldn't even be made!"
11:30
For anyone angry about the high production cost of The Acolyte, let me further show just how bad it is:
I compared seasons 1 of The Acolyte with a show that's close in production cost, House of the Dragon season 1.
Acolyte:
- 8 episodes
- 33m30s average episode length (excluding intros and credits)
- 4h22m total show length (excluding intros and credits)
- $180mil production cost; $22.5mil per episode; $40mil per hour of show (based on 4.5h of show)
HoTD:
- 10 episodes
- 58m42s average episode length (excludin intros and credits)
- 9h47m total show length (excluding intros and credits)
- $200mil production cost; $20mil per episode; $20mil per hour of show (based on 10h of show)
Despite The Acolyte being just 10% less the cost of HoTD:
- HoTD has 2 more episodes
- HoTD's episodes are on average about 25 minutes longer
- HoTD has about 5 hours and 15 minutes more of actual show length (excluding intros and credits)
- HoTD's cost per episode is cheaper by $2.5 million
- HoTD's cost per hour (based on show length) is a whole $20 million half less
Compare Andor's production costs.
man, that's insane. This sure shows how Disney like to spend its money..
Its HBO . Big old legendary directors release their films in it . 😅 Disney+ = Acolyte.. old cartoons , not so serious fiction & romcoms
And HOTD is enjoyable
I am not surprised at all by this.
When you use DEI hires, you need twice as much staff that each get equal pay, buit also each performing only one fifth as much quality work.
So you end up with less than half the results anyway.
We didn't know what was going on,
The writers didn't know what was going on.
The actors didn't know what was going on,
The director and show runners didn't know what was going on,
The Studio didn't know what was going on.
180 million dollars down the drain/ Laundering.
Good riddance...it was sour while it lasted.
Headlamp has secrets on disney execs. Thats where the laundering went
I didn’t believe it before but Star Wars being a money laundering front seems 1000% more likely now thanks to this show
That's it you are completely right
Too bad it shall get a second season. Even the Galaxy far away won't know what is going on.
Can’t wait for season 2. Show was great
I love that he also can't get the twins right. I have up and just said "the good one" and "the bad one". But describing this episode it's now "the good one who is now bad" and "the bad one, who isn't the good one turned bad". This show blew it so hard
Because of... reasons.
That reasoning to leave the other one behind is so stoopid.
The guy who played Sol is gonna be fine. He turned in an excellent performance, even the folks who don't like The Acolyte thought he was cool, and the critical receiption has been overall very good. Nobody is going to blame him for this.
And he has Squid Games season 2
I’m in this group & you’re absolutely correct. He was the lone bright spot of this show.
Mate, he's one of the biggest names in South Korea lol, I doubt he's worried even if Hollywood doesn't call him back. He's incredible in Chief of Staff if you're looking for top quality TV show. (basically Korea's version of House of Cards)
He was awful.
I really hope they don’t he went above and beyond for this role.
Nice seeing Headland writing what she knows about. A creepy man with power hiding in the shadows, spying on young women.
LOL
top tier comment
my problem with the crystal bleed was that it didn't happen to Anakin after he slaughtered like 200 people in a temple, but it happens to her when she gets sad
It’s explained that his resisted being bled in the comics because of his conflict between the remaining good and the dark side (and I think it also needs to be exposed to be bled, as sol’s hilt was broken and all the other examples are taken out of their sabers too. Anakin never took his out and so when he bled one it was stolen from a jedi he killed)
Though it implies osha is suddenly very much on the dark side and very strongly motivated toward the dark to the point she doesn’t even have to bleed it on purpose, which makes 0 sense. Their constant flip flopping flimsy motivations were maybe the worst part of this show
They showed anakin's crystal bleed and kelnacca's death, in the best way, they knew how. Off screen. They probably thought to themselves, what stars wars fan would want to see that?
@@tigerlancer anakin's (vader's new) crystal bled very much on 'screen' in a comic actually, concept just didn't exist back when rots came out. Vader's was famously the first time they showed bleeding lmao
@@k--musicyeah, where no one will see it, 30 years later, as an afterthought. In the least popular medium, nobody buys. I guess technically, that's supposed to be canon.
@@tigerlancer there was no bleeding 30 years ago lmao and why would they make a whole movie about vader making his lightsaber red you think that would sell? Vader 2017 was very well received as it was, so the fact you didn't know about it personally doesn't really mean much. IDK another medium that would make more sense, bc 'how do they make red lightsabers' is honestly a mundane and pretty boring question anyway. Just a random piece of lore, whether it's bleeding or synthetics.
Darth Plagueis before his tragedy. Another irony in his chapter.
him looking like a creep is the tragedy
Makes you wonder how many legends have Yoda heard and figured out that's not what happend.
The real tragedy is being part of this show
@@Markvanleerdam why?
@@Markvanleerdam Him peeping out of a cave in the middle of an episode of this series is criminal. If they ever brought him into a live-action film/series, I expected it to be done in a much cooler way.
If that was Darth Plagueis then we all know where his suffering came from lol, if Palpatine was the one who killed him, he was actually putting him out of his misery of being in The Acolyte.
I hope they never put Ian McDiarmid in Season 2.
@@jamesbellefeuille2926 Agreed, just let the man retire the character with dignity.
The Acolyte leads to anger, anger leads to suffering. The Farce is strong in this one. 'This shite, end it must' - Yoda.
I think the show forget Mei knew all along that Sol killed their mother. Because even though she meets and chats with Osha twice and talks about the jedi, she doesnt mention the mother killing. Not until the end after the audience knows.
They also said that Yorde didn’t know Osha had a sister, but a few eps later he tells her how, growing up, Mae was all Osha would talk about 🤷
@@alexp601 It's amazing that the actor didn't realize his dialog contradicted itself. I can see, unfortunately, different writers getting their wires crossed on this because they are lazy and don't communicate across episodes, but how does that Yord actor not realize his dialog is saying two different things about a very important aspect of the show?
@@jeffreyroedel9804 That same actor also said in an interview that Anakin blew up the Death Star, so… we shouldn’t have too much faith in him 😂
@jeffreyroedel9804 what if he just didn't care 😂
@@TwiStedReality1313 LOL I have no words then.
"Nothing else in here was badass, everything was just bad, or ass." I'm SO going to use that in multiple situations for the rest of my life.
"Here's a better hook for a second season: have a good first season." The BEST QUOTE ever said in a REVIEW!. 😎
Angry Joe pretty much predicted the ending of this show 100%
He’s a smart guy. Always has been. A bit annoying at times but he is always close to being correct.
I can't wait for his reaction later tonight.
To bad the beaver wasn't Darth Plagus
Can you point rhis video? I'm curious to where he said that
@@40KWill I would've given this whole show a 10/10 🤣
Every single "character" decision really does boil down to "I read the script and I know this needs to happen".
Truly a Pitch Meeting moment
Exactly. Nothing more or less to say. Well said.
@@timfahey7127
"But it makes no sense!"
-Do you want to be unemployed?
Why the hell did the one sister stand there and be ok to have her mind wiped? lol
@@mikerosoft1009 Funny enough, she's the one who's been getting trained all these years. She could at least run away and try to put up a fight. But, she literally lets it happen because the showrunners talked to her and told her they needed her to let it happen.
"THE ACOLYTE: FINALE...... The End"
True words cannot be said now that it's officially *cancelled.*
The actress playing osha is just terrible. All of these emotional impacts and she just has this blank stare on. She's so mad that she's gonna force choke sol but she looks like she's trying to remember if she left her stove on.
Im sure her physical attractiveness appealing to Lesley had nothing to do with it.
The former PA of a well known you-know-what would never do that,would she? 🤔
She did give a second facial expression this episode. It was as close to acting as she's gotten. Mrs. Green Bean still had only one.
She of course played the race card as soon as the criticisms were levied. If she doesn't want to be criticized, maybe do a better job? People will assume she was a diversity casting, and they'd be right to do so.
Sol's actor was also a diversity casting, but he could clearly ACT.
Pretty rich as the actress is super smug and snarky in interviews, like she's some untouchable savant of acting.
So prequel level acting.
This series was what happens when someone hears Anakin shout "From my point of view, the jedi are evil!" and think "Oh yeah, he's totally right."
Someone with the brain of a teenager
😅😅😅
Or when your boss was the infamous Harvey Weinstein and you were his personal assistant
@@TimeBomb014Xit takes an accomplice of a groomer to write a narrative where the protagonist has been groomed to a more “rationale” dark side.
Did this show just accidently justify the empire and order 66? This show just accidentally just justified the Star Wars equivalent of the holocaust
I'm still giggling at Darth ThirstTrap 😂🤭🤣
If you had told me 20 years ago that someday I’d be more interested in Jeremey Jahns’s drinking habits than Star Wars, I would have said, “Who’s Jeremy Jahns?” But here we are.
I would recomend Lagavulin 16 heartily. Spenny, but incredible.
Rich Evans ?
@@jonbaxter2254psssst try balblair it's pretty good 😅
Nice
Osha's turn to the darkside was so sudden, it gave me whiplash. . .
Well yeah, that guy murdered her only friends but she got to see his dong so in a show all about the power of lesbian space witches, the power of the penis cannot be denied apparently. They really had no idea what they were doing.
Don't forget, force choke was the first power we saw Luke use in Jedi. He uses it to subdue two Gammorean Guards.
Also in Cartoon Network's The Clone Wars (2-D cartoon), After General Greivious is getting away with Senator Palpatine and is in fighting stance, Mace Windu crushes his fist together and you see Grievious' inner-biological parts collapse.
That's why in Revenge of the Sith he's constantly gasping for air and coughing.
Again, Luke and Anakin are not great examples. Anakin was seduced before he started using Dark side powers. Luke was destined to not be a pure Jedi. He eventually became a user of both dark and light powers, not believing that the Force was purely dark or light but a combination of both.
It was a visual parallel to show how Luke is more like his father and liable to fall like his father did, but notice he didn't kill them.
Force choking shouldn't be just a Dark Side power, because one of the best ways to stop bad guys is putting them into choke holds. Cutting off air and blood temporally, especially from far away, would be one of the best ways for galactic peacekeepers to subdue bad guys.
Like how if they could control force lighting well enough, they could use it like a taser.
Honestly, Jedi need to carry blasters if nothing else then for the stun-setting.
I was just about to bring that up.
@@MegaKnight2012 there are more force powers than just choke. We just rarely see anything other than. Jedi powers are meant to more passive in nature. Nothing that would cause fear, anger, or hate.
3:50 Jeremy, tell your friends, jedi can totally force choke. Luke Skywalker choked those pigface guards in Jabba's palace.
Oh yeah, that's pretty obvious lol. I always took it as a personal vow to not be as cruel as the Sith like Jeremy thought.
To be fair, he didn't officially become a Jedi until later in the film when he refuses to finish Vader off and join Sidious. That's the point when he declares he's become a Jedi, like his father before him. But he sort of force crushed those droids in Mandalorian...
Anakin also did it a couple of times as a Jedi in The Clone Wars series
Actually, according to the lore he used a different ability (force shock I think). It was made a different ability because they didn't want Luke to be using one that was seen as an evil power.
"Nothing was badass, It was just bad or ass" I laughed way to hard at this lmao
I remember fans who didn’t want to hate the show were fighting for the lives in the comments & on Twitter, trying to make sense of how the fire spread through the whole stone fortress, predicting that it could not have been Mae’s lamp alone & that someone must’ve sabotaged the compound to create an explosion. Fans were desperate to make sense out of this awful story. But it turns out that there is no twist, the writers are just that ret*rded. 😂 It’s so sad that fan theories were 100X better than the actual plot. I also read a theory before episode 3 about the twins actually being one person & schizophrenic because Mae & Osha hadn’t been shown in the same room yet & the one scene that included them both was oddly shot so fans thought that was the clue & that Osha was force projecting as Mae while she was imprisoned. 😂 “There MUST be something good here,” fans thought. “There’s NO WAY the show is actually this sh*t.” And it turns out…it was! No twists, it’s just sh*t.
I’ve read so many threads of people defending xyz and it’s mind boggling, with the closing argument often being “you don’t get it because you need it served on a silver spoon for it to make sense and you should read between the lines”
Hard to think they aren’t just bots that have taken peoples FB accounts hostage using ChatGPT. 😂
Your Disney comparison using an art gallery with Joker and his goons example was spot on.
"Here's a better hook for a 2nd season, have a good 1st season." Damn 😂💯
I know there's some toxicity surrounding the discussion around Lucasfilm's leadership, but there isn't any justification at this point for not doing some major house cleaning.
I (among 96% of the population) didn't actually watch the show but instead relied on Jeremy's reviews to keep us updated on this dumpster fire. Thank you Jeremy for sparing the majority of the population from a evil worse then the sith itself. I salute you 🫡
I streamed it on a completely legal site. So I didn’t have to give Disney the viewership they wanted and I could still talk about iy
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I watched it. Seeing plageuis was the final nail in the coffin for me to not watch season 2. I don't want them touching him
@@cheezuschrist While, same, little known fact is that pirating stats are still taken into account for most streaming services, and hell, most companies that generate media.
Granted, it's not as granular and concise info when compared to what they get when using their services, but they still get their hands on it and count it. Which is important to not discuss things you pirate online so the algorithm doesn't pick it up if you truly dislike.
And for clarity sake, not trying to be condescending. Just letting you know in the future so when hate-watching you don't, accidentally, still end up supporting the Thing you're hate-watching.
i might watch ep 5 for the fight scene
The Joker destroying all of that art and painting it in his own image is the perfect analogy for what's happening to all of these classic IPs.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't think any of the talentless people ruining the great works that were made before have any interest in watching Batman '89 to get the reference.
Time to forget the series ever existed
Leslye Headland should never be allowed in a writers room ever again
She shouldn't be allowed to do ANYTHING again.
Luke force-choked two Gamorrean guards when he showed up at Jabba's.
I’m pretty sure he just knocked them out. He didn’t kill them.
Just left a variation of that observation-but you beat me to it! The only difference was those were non-lethal moves!
Novelization states it was a higher tier of mind trick. Force choke seems to require more time to choke someone out too, and Luke waved his hand instead of focusing on the choke like we'd normally see.
@@UnifiedEntity He has his hand as if he chokes them and the guards stumble back while clutching their neck, I 100% interpreted this as Luke choking the 2 guards
Luke also wasn't a Jedi yet , Yoda made that pretty clear later on
I just was not surprised to find out Leslye Headland involved with nepotism, giving her wife Rebecca Henderson the job of green Jedi
Jedi Survior: shows Dagan reliving immense trauma and taking apart his lightsaber so he can bleed the crystal, great scene
Acolyte: After effects gradient go brrrrr
This show actually made me stop procrastinating and pick up Jedi Survivor so I could experience a good Star Wars story again 🤣
@@TravisCooney-u7s its a really great game, especially if you liked fallen order
but what do you have to do to get a purple one? and how do I get a turquoise LS?
@@benzaiten933 Find an actual purple kyber crystal. This 'lightsaber bleed' is pure Disney fucking bullshit.
@@benzaiten933I may be corrected, but in order to get a certain color, it's based on your personality and force alignment. Mace windu did dabble in the dark side.
These review episodes should have their own Playlist
I made a public playlist for his Acolyte reviews. You can copy it if you want.
Jeremy in 2015, star wars blankie cape donned: "STAR WARS, NOTHIN BUT STAR WARS, DUN DUN DUN DUNNNN"
Jeremy in 2024, dressed for a funeral, more than a bottle of whiskey deep: "what's the name of the planet? Grandoc?"
Why did Sol not get angry at the tracker for causing his ship to malfunction? Like, what?
that was sucha random moment, what was that bro, the biggest question of the series
One of the many, many, many, idiotic parts of the show
forgot about that! no explanation at all why he did it
Who are YOU to question the incredible writing of this masterpiece?
@@YourCreepyUncle.we’re all playing checkers with monopoly pieces. Leslye is clearly playing 4D chess
Sol beats a hardened Sith Lord who’s got Jedi bodies on his record, but can’t defend himself from a Padawan’s force choke.
Actually, it made sense. It really was like he was swallowing his own poison.
Maybe he's into kink
@@Tomsfoolery no. it definitely does not make any sense. why do you think we don't just see "Choke Wars"? because force choke is easy to block for another force user.
He let her. He said "it's okay"
My thought on it is that even though he could, he didn't want to. He struggled with the guilt of it for years hoping to find solace in the teachings of the Jedi, but found none, (Just like Osha). I'm sure in his mind if anyone had a right to punish him for his crime it would be her, and part of him was relieved to finally be rid of the guilt. It was the one time in the show he was honest with himself about how he was feeling, something the Jedi never allowed him to be.
I'm always amused when people think force choke is a Sith exclusive. Because Luke uses force choke on the guard at Jaba's palace.
I have to ask:
Up until now, the Dark Side was thematically allegorical for the "easy way to power", the path of least resistance that would inevitably have long-term consequences you didn't want, but worked out in the short term.
This show ends with the protagonist embracing the Dark Side, killing a man who did nothing wrong, and walking into the sunset with the guy who kidnapped her and killed all her friends... AND PRESENTS THAT AS A GOOD ENDING. (wonderful message, btw. This show is unironically pro-Stockholm Syndrome)
How does this show, having a message like "actually, the Dark Side is great", not completely break the theme of all of Star Wars?
Also, if the Dark Side has nothing to do with morals or good and evil and is literally just a tool like any other, why would anyone bother with the Light Side? The Dark Side is, objectively, more powerful, according to this show, anyway. There is, in Acolyte canon, no reason to care about the Light Side at all, or balance at all.
But, I guess therein lies the problem. This show is just a very immature, very unintelligent take on the nature of good and evil, which is what the Light and Dark sides stand for, regardless of what this show says.
Progressive Liberalism in a nutshell.
I really didn’t perceive the ending like that. Having villainous characters shed their ambiguity and become full-on evil is actually a really compelling idea that I wish media did more of. Reminds me of Shigaraki from MHA and what Rian Johnson wanted to do with Kylo Ren in TLJ (before JJ reversed it with his lame redemption).
Did you watch the same show? Sol did a lot wrong? He literally kill all the witches or killed their mum and kinda led to the whole mess? He was toxic force projector onto others but Sol absolutely did do bad stuff
@@Henbot Did YOU watch the same show??? The witches all died when Trinity snapped them out of the wookie's mind. And, he killed Osha's mom BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO KILL MAE. He did 0 wrong.
@@gavo7911 I'm not against stories with evil protagonists. Blood Meridian is one of my favorite books. But, if you're going to do that kind of narrative, I think you need to have a good grasp on morality to begin with, and also make sure you don't glorify evil (unless your target audience is actual teenage edgelords). I do not think the showrunners for this show can tell good from evil. Again, Stockholm Syndrome is treated as erotic and hot in this show. That last part isn't my opinion, LESLIE HERSELF SAID THAT WAS THE POINT, TO SHOW QIMIR LITERALLY SEDUCING THE GIRL WHOSE FRIENDS HE JUST MURDERED INTO A RELATIONSHIP.
I wouldn't be surprised if the Darth Plagueis moment was filmed two weeks ago and edited into this episode in a weak attempt to get people to stop hating on the show. Literally came out of nowhere, had no build up, and no payoff.
I guess the planet had some special magic thing that allowed the witches to create life, it attracted them to live there, etc.. and Plagueis was the one who altered the planet somehow
Only way osha could choke out Sol is because he let her. Period. But the emotions jumping back and forth is just ridiculous. Fuck Disney
I don't know, jedi/sith being emotional wrecks is pretty on brand.
That Breaking Bad comparison was spot on and mind opening. 80 million...where did the ~200mil go in this show?
bribery
SOL HAS AN ALABI FOR THE FIRST TWO MURDERS ... that would make the coverup impossible.
(1) When Indara was murdered by Mae, Sol was at the jedi headquarters training young children. And, since the jedi went to arrest Osha, there would be a record of the bartender's witness statement.
Plus, Trinity called in the incident -- saying that she was being attacked by "an unknown force user." Therefore, there is a clear record of the timeline, making it very easy for a jedi to prove that Sol couldn't have been there.
(2) When Torbin was quasi-murdered, Sol was talking with other jedi who lived at that temple. They also tracked Mae down and fought her in public. So, there are jedi as witnesses (and, presumably, some kind of record of the incident).
ALSO, YODA WOULD BE ABLE TO SENSE THAT THE GREEN LADY IS CLEARLY LYING.
Bonus: Episode 8 strongly implies that Mother Aniseya was killed because she was "too powerful." When, actually, she was killed in self-defense -- because she turned into a smoke demon and started vaporizing a child.
There is no place here for common sense.
Sol is a lolicon
Nah, they'll claim that Seoul killed the Jedi because he was covering up for Osha.
The problem is, this scene is intended to whitewash the murders to the Republic Council. It's not going to get past the Jedi as they're supposed to be Jedi.
Not in this show, but it simply has failure points unless they also delete evidence and witnesses. Flight Logs. security footage. Things that Leslye Headland knows all about deleting evidence and hotel records, laundering money and clothing, et al.
Just like Yoda or Ki-Adi Mundi can't be in the show, because they would know there's sith again.
Problem is Vernestra/Nepotism hire... is a Super-Detective. She has even worse face-acting than OSHA. She can see everything that happened.
So of course, the writers have to stop her from ever going outside or visiting a murder scene.
OH NO MY CONVENIENT SKILL TO SEE MURDER AND CRIMES IN THE PAST! What could happen.
She also knows that the witches died because they attacked the Jedi. And kept it secret.
The Jedi somehow have to work with the absurd evidence that they're perfect twins, despite Vernestra's convenient knowledge of the history and deaths of everyone, including the context of where people were in the time and location.
And she would also know that OSHA and Mae are two people. And she knows that Qimir killed the Jedi in the mask he's wearing.
Except, Sol died. And Mae lost her memory.
How did this happen ? They saw a video tape lying on the ground that had the words "Leslye Headland Casting Couch Tape 115."
Thank you for taking one(or two alongside Critical Drinker) for the team watching Acolyte.
I love how the Kyber crystal in a light sabre can change colors depending on a person's mood like an old school mood ring.
Iirc its a bit deeper than that. More like you're murdering the quasi-sapient magic crystal with dark-force which, through timeywhimey magical shenanigans, makes the crystal stronger and cuts better.
(or something along those lines, been a while since I dived into legends.)
@amaplicab12345678912 But it's too easy here. Darth Vader fails multiple times to bleed the crystal, and she can do it with a change of mood.
In the name of a lot of people, I want to thank you Jeremy for making these for this show. I wanted to know this shitshow ended but I couldnt stomach to past after episode 3. You are the real hero here.
How do you stop internet piracy. Make The Acolyte!!!
The minute I saw they wrote the Jedi to be cops, I knew they were going to be the villains. It was inevitable.
DEFUND THE JEDI 🙄
Yeah...the writers aren't subtle at all. Or clever. Or good writers.
i zoned out halfway through your *summary* bro I can't imagine actually subjecting myself to this. you're a champ J, thanks for all you do man
My father and I had a running gag that Basil was a Sith lord. We laughed so hard when he betrayed Sol
My father and I had a running gag about wanting Basil to die from a blaster shot that came from the sky
People seem to forget that luke was walking around force choking people at the beginning of the rotj
Came in to say the same thing. Thank you!
Yea only some of video games really made it so only Sith could use certain powers and Jedi could use others. Think it's supposed to be like anyone strong in the force can use any power they want, but Jedi tend to not usually use the lethal ones just due to their values, meanwhile Sith don't really care about healing anyone but themselves. Though, who cares what's canon at this point. Disney Starwars is a joke.
@@nokturnallex2160 which I am pretty sure was just for video game rpg stuff.
Luke isn't a traditional jedi, and he didn't have a master to tell him "Force Choke bad." It was more "I don't feel like force pushing people to knock them unconscious, I want to try something new."
And he was dressed all in black, like a Sith
The best and most consistent character in the show is the obviously evil Sith who murders several people on screen and convinces a traumatised young woman (a close friend to at least one of his murder victims) to kill the nearest thing she has to a father in cold blood.........
Let that sink in.
Also Jeremy, I echo you on the Jedi Order. Yes 1000 years of having won essentially had made them a little complacent, and they let themselves get forced into a situation that compromised their ideals when that blindsided them. But the Order was a good thing. They were the heroes of the story. They didn't fall due to hubris or flaws. They flawed because the bad guy was able to squeak a win.
And then in RoTJ Luke won..... by BEING A FREAKING JEDI!
The whole point of the prequels is to show the Jedi flaws and hubris. Like that’s literally the point of them. The Jedi are too ingrained with the politics of the time. What world would a Jedi just let slaves be slave? A Jedi would do everything in their power to free all slaves, not just one because they want him to be a Jedi, but they can’t because it’s outside the jedi jurisdiction essentially. The Jedi are literally told by count Dooku that the Sith Lord is the leader of the senate in attack of the clones and yet Palpatine is still hidden. There are 7 jedi masters in a room with Palpatine at any given time, literally a Sith master, and they can’t even sense him. That is the definition of hubris. And in the acolyte we see more of the beginning of them getting to that point. They are fundamentally good but fundamentally flawed at the same time because they are beginning to have that senate oversight and be brought farther under the wing of galactic politics.
@@bjmanzeycorrect - but do they ever compromise their integrity in their hubris?
They feel they need to be subservient to the government - which is what gets them into trouble fighting a war, and its the reason they can't go around freeing slaves.
In the high republic, they are more independent, but they have even more integrity.
In this show - they are painted as having the same level of integrity as the sith. And that is a fundamental misunderstanding of Lucas mythology
@@writingref yeah you literally said yourself that their integrity is compromised because a Jedi would never allow slavery to exist if they were true Jedi. But they have to because as you said they are subservient to a government and not the will of the force. You can’t tell me that four Jedi who made very critical errors by not listening to the council and such are the definition of the Jedi order. Everything we’ve seen of the four masters shows that they are heavily compromised and not what the Jedi stand for. But also they aren’t an example of what the order actually is as they go against the wishes of the council. You can’t tell me in a thousand generations that the actions of 4 Jedi, I guess 5 if you include Vern could possibly show that the entirety of the Jedi have the integrity of the Sith.
Knight Templar Jedi who go around purging Dark Side witches absolutely feels like something that could happen in-universe (and would make the Imperial Inquisition feel karmic in hindsight). Calling the Jedi the "good guys" sight unseen is reductive, they're enforcers of a status quo that allows slavery and their religion calls for the destruction of anything even resembling the Dark Side. A young witch orphaned by these Jedi who now seeks revenge is a compelling character hook for an anti-hero. The problem (beyond the show fumbling everything it touches) is that killing Jedi is only fun in a video game (such as Star Wars Unleashed), so at minimum the Acolyte was made for the wrong medium...
I mean, isn't it quite a big point in the PT that the Jedi, while good, were getting slightly arrogant and affected by hubris? In thinking they could easily take on the training of Anakin, not realizing the danger at any point. Their removing children from parents early, and forbidding any attachment later on, also seemed unhealthy.
Back then I thought it was pretty brave, to portray the Jedi as flawed like that. The PT movies are bad, but that has to do with the execution, not the overall story. Which came from Lucas, so I consider it canon.
"...we need to talk."
"GREAT deception, I sense. Think me blind, do you? BLAMELESS, Sol is! Take over the investigation, I shall - a Jedi, YOU are NOT."
"Where is the money?" Thank you Jeremy for watching what we couldn't.
Master Rwoh: " I need to make this cover up of a murder that wasn't a murder that didn't need to be covered up.. by covering it up and deceiving the senate.."
brilliant.. what a smart plot twist that TOTALLY makes sense for the Jedi.
Love the joker in an art gallery metaphor!
Jeremy reading his ads was more entertaining than any episode of the acolyte
Jeremy that offscreen nipple bit was absolute genius
No episode title or description cracked me uppppp lol "Episode 8: Watch the episode now!"
Thank you Jeremy for taking The Acolyte bullet for us.
I’m glad Jeremy watches the garage so I don’t have to. It’s great that I’ve found a critic that I agree with 99% of the time.
Bruh
I hate watching my garage aswell... never know what will try to slip in
You agree with his opinions about a show you’ve never watched…lol ok bud
@@D3viant517I know that shit tastes bad without tasting it as well. The show smells bad and I saw it come out of an asshole.
@@D3viant517
Well, this show is so bad from just watching clips on UA-cam, like the witch scene, that there's no reason to watch it. You can just tell it's bad. Like Velma.
It's cancelled now
Finally, true justice has been served.
Side note: Anakin forced choked a bunch of people in The Clone Wars when he was still a Jedi and Luke possibly force choked two Gamorrean guard in Return of the Jedi - that one is up for debate.
I think in the canon comics about Maul and Vader there was a thing about the no weapon thing.
The Sith dont find or make their crystals in canon. They need to kill a Jedi, take his lightsaber and then bleed the crystal red.
So this is an extrention. Not only kill without a lightsaber, kill without a weapon.
Bleeding the crystals with hatred to turn them red is a cool idea. I think it would be cool is your average Sith just couldn't properly use a regular lightsaber without doing that. Think Mando swinging around the Darksaber.
I mean if the show could explain in any way shape or form what is going on that would be great though.
@@neodigremo its just a plasmablade, why wouldn't they be able to use it? they have the same pre-cog shit that allows any force user to predict bolts and where their opponents are swinging/shooting.
@@keithfilibeck2390 It's to do with the Kyber Crystal. For a lightsaber to work it needs Kyber (and getting your crystal is a big ceremony). The special thing about these crystals is they respond to the force and it enhances how the weapon works. This is admittedly newer canon, as the older EU stuff just had them be a laser sword. But the mysticism around the weapon now is something I like.
What this means though is that the force interaction bit you need to truly use a lightsaber is absent in a Sith, or worse the blade fights against you. I mean Mando again could not use the Darksaber right due to his state of mind. In current lore a regular Kyber crystal will react badly to the dark side in it's user.
Tl:DR - Lightsaber crystals are force sensitive too, and using the dark side around them does bad juju.
@@neodigremo well its not absent in them once they bleed the crystal.
@@neodigremo The crystal in Anakin's blue lightsaber sure didn't give him any problems as he killed Sand People, took Windu's arm, killed younglings, and fought Obi-Wan.
I watch each one of your review of the Acolyte and I don't feel like I missed out on anything at all. In fact I think this way was way more entertaining ^^
You know it’s completely chalked when a legends fan who’s favourite novel was the Darth Plagueis book sees a canon Darth Plagueis and feels absolutely nothing. (At least I think that was him)
It was and of course he was wasted like everything else in the show
It’s all just wasted potential. Would’ve been so much better if there was a Damask Holdings reference or something small. Better than him watching from a cave Gollum-esque
The show did the impossible. It included yoda and plagueis while making nobody care about either of them.
@@codymiller5027 The show was just a money laundry scheme
Star Wars sucks. Don't watch it. Move on. Go outside. Get a life.
"That'll teach you to talk shit about my religion at work" absolutely killed me.
Leslye- “Osha is evil now”
Writers - “Okay, so what outside forces and events are we going to write to make her start t-“
Leslye - “OSHA IS EVIL NOW”
Mind wipes existed already, but were extremely difficult to do. Revan had his mind wiped, but it took the whole Jedi Council iirc.
Revan 😂😂😂 dang that motor really was one of the best games
I'm shocked this video was not sponsored by johnnie walker after the past episodes 🤣
LOL, you are the only one who makes the sponsor section of the video better than other's whole video on movie reviews! I hope you get picked up in a full movie soon!
He got picked up in Madame Web as a villain.
Why did Anakin’s lightsaber never turn red? He sure did a lot of killing in ROTS.
The moral of the story is:
1. The philosophical ideals of the Jedi Order apparently wasn't a thing in the High Republic. The Jedi are just enforcers capable of using the Force.
2. Being bad is cool! It's all about self-validation and "Being all you can be" these days.
If being bad is cool, then I guess being a n@zi is cool. The show runners absolutely were fucking stupid.
10:04 "So, she's revealing the cover up by doing another cover up."
Are Leslie and her wife telling us more than they meant to, about the 'Me too' movement?
Its insulting how they just randomely inserted Plagueis looking like a creep for 2 secs and the back of Yoda's head, as if he doesnt already know wtf is going on. What a dumb tv series.
And people applaud this stupid scene. It sums up the whole Disney era. We're really living in a nightmare timeline.
Sneaky bastard Plageuis is
Imagine hearing that Plagueis would be shown in a Star Wars show ten years ago.
And remember how it feels now.
That was actually General Grievous and a time traveling Grogu
It’s fucking dogshit that needs to be retconned
Jeremy I wanna personally apologize to you and your liver on the behalf of the entire comment section. You both should not have had to suffer through this but you did for us.
I wanna say, on behalf of a former Star Wars fan, thank you for watching this for me and taking the time explaining it in a way that's infinitely more fun than actually watching modern Star Wars.
You putting the breaking bad reference really puts into perspective how much money the acolyte just threw away. Disney is fundamentally flawed and corrupt. Truly the current day entertainment empire.
This review is the only thing I'm grateful to the acolyte for.
Since no season 2 to kick around, i'm saving this video to my archive.
“What’s the title?…… oh episode 8? Weird”
Literally me last night realizing how bad it was going to be before it started
Episode 8's title is "The Acolyte"
It’a so cute that the writers think they’re going to get season 2
It's Disney, so they will. They loove to burn money.
It's Disney
If Velma, one of the most globally hated shows of all times, got a season 2, this one will for sure... 🤷🏼♂️
It should be a season 2 it’s more stuff to be told who gaf for all you people complaining saying yall don’t want it don’t watch simple !! But yall not go ruin shit for everybody else
If the few people that still care for SW don't watch, there's no S2. It's a profits thing@@thatstress1
The local cable company has now dropped “The Acolyte” from its Disney+ advertising including only “Shogun” & “The Bear” as “now streaming!”
I think your brother forgot that Luke force choked guards in Return of the Jedi. He didn't kill them but he definitely choked em
I was looking for this comment!
@@docrob2236 Same!