Star Wars The Acolyte

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LOL! Fair! I mean, her and Yord made credits! It adds to their body of work.

I agree. I don’t know the EU that well but there is something. It makes me wonder if the character suspected sooner?

See, this is what I like about looking at details. Yes, it leads to nit picking but it can also show these fun things. It can also lead to weird things.

Sol goes to the pilot seat after the power is restored and the first thing he does is go to hyperspace. Then the Jedi show up seconds later.

I like to analyze that, although too much. Did Sol set his course earlier or was it already set?

Did the ships see each other? Did the Jedi sense each other in passing? We know ships can be tracked in hyperspace and while it might require a big ship, or base, to track ships from far away, I would think any ship could see another when they are that close.

One thing I try to do, especially when I like something, is to explain it, at least to myself. Look at what I see, what was shown to me, and then assume it was intentional and think about what it means. I don’t know if Sol knows of Vernestra’s involvement in this or not. She could be much older, not being human, but if not, I would have thought Sol would have known of her pupil. I’m also not sure what Sol’s rank was sixteen years ago. Was Indara a master and in charge?

If Qimir was Vernestra’s pupil, it makes me think that some Jedi shouldn’t teach! lol - As with anything, I’m surprised they haven’t specialized in who teaches. I would assume some are better than others.

I do like the cortosis reference. Hmm, it was only first referenced in the book I, Jedi? I thought it was much earlier than that.

I did like the episode.

Thanks for the discussion!

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It said Unknown Planet but that was supposed to be the planet Luke was hiding on in the Last Jedi right?

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That was my thought. It seemed to focus on the terrain too much for us to not connect it somewhere.

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Again, there is EU speculation that is probably right.

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I assumed that as well… but… if we were supposed to know that as viewers, we would have seen porgs, not those…things we did see (Jimmy Durante mini-penguins?).

Im going to take it the same way as the trailer Force Awakens speculation that Rey’s scenes took place on Tattoine but it was just another desert planet… It looks like Ach-To, but will end up not being that planet.

This episode was fine… we’re near the end and way more important stuff should be happening at a quicker pace.

Also, anyone else put off by how Basyl has been ignored? He’s presumably sentient and is ignored worse than a hated pet. Like the multi-tool droid has been shown more affection and concern.

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I thought those little things with the trunks were baby versions of the animal Luke was milking but it has been a while since I watched The Last Jedi so those could have been completely different animals. I was also looking for porgs.

As far as the episode, this felt like half an episode. There has been a lot of that in this show.

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Ohhhh, I could buy that.

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I am on record really disliking the first set of episodes, but I thought the last two have been quite good. I think there’s a real sense of intrigue being developed, and I’m very interested in seeing the “Sith Power of Two” dynamic being built. Manny has done an ok job of making what could be a really scene-chewing, mustache-twirling one-dimension character have some depth. Bortles!

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According to starwars.com those tiny beasties on the rocky shore were called Skura. I am confident that it’s not Ach-To, as the seams of cortosis imply otherwise.

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So I guess like we have two desert planets that look identical but aren’t, we also have two vaguely Grecian rocky shore planets that look identical but aren’t (I know they weren’t filmed in Greece but that is what they look like to me). Next up we should have a snowy ice world that’s Not Hoth.

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We did… and then we were told it was actually salt.

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I have always found the whole trope of snowy or desert planet goofy. One suspects that most inhabitable planets will, like our sample of one, consist of some variety of ecosystems? Earth is a wet planet, being more oceans than land, but we have plenty of desert regions.

To imagine that whole planets will be inhabitable and only be ocean coastline or desert, and that there are not many examples of each in a huge widely inhabited galaxy, seems unimaginable to me.

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But contrary to that, Mars is mostly uniform dry desert. And if you’d visited Earth during an ice age, I suspect it would have been very much like Hoth. Conversely, during the Dinosaur era, it’s clear that a lot more of Earth was jungle-like than it is now.

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Mars not a currently inhabitable planet. And no the whole world was not ice during the Ice Age even if equatorial temperatures dropped as much as 10 degrees. “The Dinosaur Era” covers a wide period of time and I am no expert, but more jungle is still not homogeneously such!

Thanks for the link @Darren_Garrison. I had presumed I was not the only one mildly annoyed with the trope.

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Not during our current ice age, but in past ones, maybe.

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Which is interesting and the exception that proofs the rule. It is possible that for some relatively brief period of this planet’s existence it was Hoth like. Maybe. Mostly though our overwhelmingly wet planet has been a set of diverse biomes.

True most planets are going to be deserts and/or rocky ice balls with the ice not necessarily water. No biomes at all.

Anyway. If we accept the SW premise of single biome planets being the norm and earth’s diversity being the odd exception, then surely we should not be surprised that the is more than one that is desert, swamp, ocean coastline, clouds, and so on?

Lots of places for someone to stay when they don’t want to be found. Lots of romantic scenery places to seduce someone… to the dark side. Wearing the helmet, first taste is free, practice your ominous breathing though …

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I would not class Snowball Earth as “habitable” by any means. At least, not for human-like lifeforms.

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And neither was Hoth, really. But what is “habitable” depends a lot on what technology you bring. the SW universe has a long history of keeping people alive in space, and that tech level opens up a lot of marginal worlds to habitation.

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It clearly had native wildlife and humans could breathe the air. Whereas Snowball Earth had unicellular life only, and <10% O2.

That’s not what I meant by “habitable”. A planet where you need an oxygen mask just to go outside is not “habitable”.