And that sums up my critique of all things Star Wars and Marvel… (and Star Trek and DC even more):
Why are a bunch of random online nerds better than the showrunners?
And MUCH better than whoever writes the dialog for most SciFi (Acolyte is much less sucky than some, and that’s good enough for me).
Aside: I just gave up on a SciFi series (after half an episode) because every conversation sounded like it was written by a middle school drama club: “Hello, Romane, what brings you to my newly-opened craft shop?” “I’m fine, Mrs. Dubois, and so happy to have time between school and Drama Club to visit your shop. Have you seen your daughter Seline today?” “Yes, I have.” “And would you know where she is right now?” “Oh, did you want to speak to her before Drama Club?” “Yes, I would.”
(I really tried to watch Parallels, just because I’m a sucker for “friends getting sucked into parallel dimensions”… but I couldn’t)
Well getting less optimistic. Not horrible but not living up to the potential?
There are many possible ways these characters and their connections to each other could have been developed in very interesting ways. There are themes of moral ambiguity that could have developed. I had hopes. They do not seem be executing those potentials though.
It is quite a whiplash to go from Mae as the adult we first meet and the child who locks her sister in room and sets it on fire, to this episode’s Mae who with very little build up declares how it’s all changed now that she knows OSHA is alive and she will surrender giving up all the information she has.
More a bad kid’s cartoon level of characterization and growth than a higher budget live action aimed at adults as much as kids.
The putative Sith Lord looks like a fifth grader in a Halloween costume.
I’m not ruling out that there will be interesting twists that make it a good show. My hopes for that to happen though are getting low.
What annoys me is the idea that it would be hard for a force-user to kill someone (even a Jedi) without a weapon. Do a force choke. A force neck-snap. Force heart crush. Force aneurysm. If anything, it is silly to need a weapon in the first place.
Becase they’re not. It’s the easiest effin’ thing to Monday morning quarterback shows and movies. Overall…fan versions suck. And I say this as someone who thinks their version of the GOT series finale is a million times better than what we got…but objectively, fans aren’t any better.
That seems more like an issue with the setting not this show? Why do the jedi need lightsabers at all. We know you can literally stop a laser bolt in mid air with the force.
Also, have we seen Mae exhibit any sustained force power like that? Holding a bug in place or quick force pushes seem to be it.
I had Darth Jar Jar vibes regarding Qimir from the beginning, but now it almost seems too heavily hinted at. I hope we get to see Sol’s promised tell-all sometime soon…
I took the blaster Osha missed Mae with was just such a kind of stun gun—it had the same swirly blue effect as the one they got Leia with, which is very clearly distinct from the zappy blaster bolts used for deadly weapons.
As soon as Sol said “I’ll tell you everything [later]” I figured he was gonna be unable to tell anyone anything, possibly forever but at least not until muuuuuuch later.
So I had a funny thought I think you all will appreciate…
The main actress of The Acolyte has ‘dropped a track’ to respond to all the online vitriol she has received. Now first of all…i think that’s just one more narcissistic layer to people today. “Me me me. Look at me. People need to see themselves in me. We are the first we are changing the world”…blah blah blah.
But that’s not the funny thing. I was sitting here thinking,
“Oh yeah! I remember when William Shatner dropped a track to respond to all his haters…FFS what’s wrong with kids today…I…ohhhh…wait.”
This week, I noticed in the last scene when he was looming over Mae, he has almost the same physique. The Master is slightly taller, if you compare it to earlier scenes where Mae and Qimir are standing close to each other, but it’s not a lot of difference. Standing up straight, a bigger bootheel, and an added inch or so from the helmet would account for at least that much difference.
My issue with this being the same Jedi who later sits on the Jedi Council is that he specifically says in the prequel trilogy that the Sith have been extinct for nearly a millennium, yet he encounters a Sith Lord about a hundred years prior to his saying that.
I suppose he could mean that he believes that they’re extinct, and that this person is no “true” Sith Lord (like the “no true Scotsman” fallacy), but that doesn’t even really make much sense, either.
So I wonder how they’re going to address this issue.
yeah…this as a “fan” argument doesn’t make sense. He ain’t seen shit so complaining about it as some sort of lore break is premature. We don’t know if this is a Sith…so again, people (not necessarily saying you personally are) trying to make this a “gotcha, see this show sucks” is,grasping at straws.
It’s a problem with a show that gets attacked so vociferously driven by the anti-woke crowd: there’s very little space for those of us who think it’s … okay? Ish?
I almost feel like I have to like lots it just to offset the trolls who hate it preemptively.
FWIW I am not well enough versed to have any concern about how it fits with lore and canon; I just want to see a story that pulls me in with themes, characters, and relationships that interest me. Bonus if it also has the occasional funny bit too and real tension here and there is a must. As a pro-social good, and as marketing tool, diverse non-stereotypical representation is good, but that can only be the cherry on top of an exciting story sundae.
That’s how I feel about the show…it’s… mediocre…but most stuff regardless of franchise is mediocre. What we’re seeing is the absense of “good faith”. And I’ll use the Ki-Adi-Mundi example because it typifies exactly what the issue is.
The assumption that the show got it wrong…rather than “oh what does this mean, knowing what we know.”
I like but don’t love the show. I think it has 2.5 good episodes, and episode 4 moved me from “the fights are cool, but I’m not super invested in the plot” to being invested in the plot.
I think my only complaint is that I’m too jaded for it. I think there are some 14 year olds who will have their mind blown when Mae’s flashback episode reveals that she didn’t burn down the temple, the jedi were somehow involved in the witches’ deaths, and Mae has a reason for hating the Jedi that’s more valid than “They took Osha away”, but they’ve foreshadowed it heavily enough that I am not worried about my predictions being wrong, so it won’t be terribly impactful on me.