A Critique Of The Acolyte - The Desecration Of Sol

[@Scar_117]

I feel so sorry for the actor. Dude learned English just for this part and the series ended up being one of the worst pieces of professional media put to screen.

[@PrincessFionaYT]

Calling this disgrace of fan fiction “professional” is a compliment it does not deserved.

[@sovereigndeleon]

@@PrincessFionaYT Professional meaning there's money behind it. $180 million down the drain.

[@sab3redg333]

He honestly was acting circles around the rest of his cast in a language he just learned. Man was too talented for this project

[@PrincessFionaYT]

@@sovereigndeleon I know. I would prefer to call it commercialized fanfic. And there is a big chance they spent much more than 180mil. That’s just the budget. When did Disney ever stay in budget? The rumors out during production were telling of cost overruns close to 300 million. We will know when they file UK taxes.

[@Keram-io8hv]

Hope they paid him well at least

[@IronDragon-2143]

I genuinely feel sorry for Lee Jung-jae. He tried really hard with what happened to be the worst script ever written.

[@hopegalaxy]

The fact he went from Squid Game to this is something we'll never stop getting over.

[@IronDragon-2143]

@hopegalaxy I don't think it'll entirely ruin his career. Sir Christopher Lee stared in several terrible movies, too, and you know what his response was? "All actors must be in bad films from time to time. The trick is to not be bad in them."

[@darkvortex2410]

It hurts more that in a lot of the behind the scenes stuff he was excited and seemed to be having fun. I remember this particular quote from him, "i got to play a part in Star Wars". The guy was just happy to be in Star Wars yet he was the best character in the whole show.

[@blahblahgdp]

I hope he gets back into star wars once its held by better people

[@billusher2265]

It’s so bizarre how the new creators at Disney regularly took jabs at George for how he did female characters, yet Disney Star Wars writers had Rey develop feelings for Kylo, a angry mass murderer, and now Osha for Qimir, who is portrayed as manipulative and who ended the lives of her friends right in front of her, and both of these are portrayed as understandable and positive developments…?

[@eduardomartin8510]

@billusher2265 Easy to explain. Most members in charge of these projects are w(om3n. Now go read w(0m3n "romance" novels and the topics they carry. There's your answer. Also philia Hybristo is almost exclusively their thing (swap that name).

[@stellviahohenheim]

For people who lacks morals everything she does is probably normal to them

[@jaieregilmore971]

Disney Star Wars writers are terrible in writing romance that it comes off as fan fiction what is there obsession shipping those with a mass murdering maniac? Are they trying to be like Twilight. George Lucas did his female characters better in his movie.

[@wannabehistorian371]

It’s ironic how they’re the ones using misogynistic tropes. This isn’t even a “ThIS iS wOkE!!1!” criticism, this is an actual misogynistic BS trope being pushed, twice. I know some other women like this stuff as a guilty pleasure and they can do them, but as a woman myself I think we definitely don’t need more of these.

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

The fact that they make both of their female lead falling in love with a mass murder psychopath is just hilariously bad. Not even Anakin is this down bad

[@Perhapsawiseman]

Disney owes this man a massive apology.

[@officialnoria]

Lets support his work outside Star Wars

[@1237barca]

He is a white adjacent male. He should happy to be in something this diverse and qweer. Squid man was just a bunch of koreans

[@billusher2265]

The difference in acting ability is crazy, Sol’s actor is giving it his all while Osha / Mae’s actress has the same blank look no matter what happens.

[@haku8135]

She couldn't even muster an expression when she's KILLING him! What do you expect honestly when she can't even spell Amanda correctly.

[@Eggontoast-o6m]

⁠@@haku8135I didn’t like her dogshit performance but dunno why you’re clowning her name as if she got a choice in that.

[@hellothere2464]

the thing is she’s a genuinely good actor, like i’ve seen her other work and i’ve liked her performances a lot. makes me think that it’s the direction and writing that’s doing her wrong because osha/mae are barely even given enough personality and motivation for her to latch onto tbh.

[@SpecterVonBaren]

She has ONE scene in the first episode where she shows a different expression when she's talking with Yord and it was actually pretty good.... then it seems like she was exhausted from that for the rest of the shoot and just never emotes ever again.

[@TempusestIocundum]

​@@hellothere2464 her..?

[@KoongYe]

이정재(Lee Jung-jae) is a well-respected actor in my country known for his acting. He is really good at showing the inner struggles of a character. I was worried when he was announced to be casted for The Acolyte and my fear came true. I wouldn't say his acting was bad in The Acolyte, but the script he was given was far beyond salvaging with any kind of acting. When he said "I love you" at the end to one of the girls, a part of my soul died from cringe and I suspect his died as well.

[@kaylahensley1581]

He was honestly the best part of this dumpster fire. I would have liked a well written Criminal Minds type series about Sol and a team of Jedi pursuing Sith apprentice Manny Jacinto as he commits crimes across the galaxy that lead back to a corrupt Jedi Venestra.

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

The power of one failure will lead to the power of two failures that will result in the power of many more failures to come.

[@studio96films65]

I like the actor’s accent. Sounds wise and mysterious sadly he was wasted in a terrible western show. He definitely has the look of a Jedi master.

[@gabbycotto4024]

So according to Leslie, Sol warrants death for being presumptive/paternalistic with Osha, but Anisaya gets a pass for pushing witchery on her over protests, Horn-Mom gets away with physically abusing Mae and starting the fight with the Jedi unilaterally, & Mae herself never has to acknowledge let alone be called out on acting creepy and possessive over her sister to the point of straight-up being ready to kill Osha before letting her leave & make a life or identity outside of being just “my twin”.

[@Hazamandeous]

Its like every toxic trait combined in one tv show hahaha

[@haku8135]

Ahhh, but have you considered the fact, that you are a racist? See? This show is amazing, you can't even argue. Checkmate.

[@othertalk3313]

These writers having double standards isn't much of a surprise. Leslye Headland has daddy issues and Sol is the stand in for her father. Osha is Leslye's own self-insert character and Mae represents, you guessed it, Leslye's "estranged" sister. And finally, she sees The Jedi as collectively representing religion - Christianity in particular - which explains why Leslye (and her self-insert character) choose to align themselves in opposition to it. All of this personal baggage seemingly made her oblivious to how certain things would come across to the audience. And I'm not guessing or making any of that up... she literally says all of that in interviews. The surprising (and hilarious) part is that she couldn't come up with a way to turn Sol's character into the evil old white male she clearly wrote him as originally. She's working for Disney after all, and therefore a main character such as Sol must be more... inclusive. Besides, they had already used up the entire quota of one white male character allowed to exist at any given time (only when Osha successfully guilt trips him in to taking his own life with poison due to feelings of guilt for things he's not actually responsible for... only then can another take his place as The One White Male in the universe, and oh boy... they somehow made the next one even more of a pushover than the emo bubble boy. 😏) But even though I think she's a bad person and she would've produced a garbage show even if Disney didn't mandate the exclusion of anyone who looks like her family members, I do feel just a little bit of sympathy for Leslye. She created this whole world around a story that's deeply personal to her (after Kathleen Kennedy specifically told her to make it personal), and despite that she and her sister had to be represented by a couple of obnoxious, fatherless black girls living with a literal cult of physically and emotionally abusive, and objectively evil lesbian monsters who don't need no man to create life because The Force Is Female™. "When you have the type of father Sol is, there’s an inability to recognize that paternalism as insular. Osha has to destroy her father to keep moving." - Leslye Headland "Of course I’m going to lean toward the other side, the dark side, the otherness. That system has its own societal expectations, but I’m more comfortable there than when I was trying to live up to what you wanted for me." - Leslye Headland

[@Phoenix0F8]

Basically the closest the Acolyte comes to having a compelling arc is that we get to watch this doomed hero struggle hopelessly to do the right thing with full knowledge from the start that he will fail. Not due to the plans or skills of his enemies, who he repeatedly outsmarts and outduels- but due to the will of the writers, who in this context are essentially evil gods. There's something to that- this idea that the hero will try to do the right thing even when the situation is truly and utterly hopeless, when the highest power in this world has turned itself against you from the start. There's a similar bit with John Walker in Falcon & the Winter Soldier, though the writers didn't do him nearly as dirty as they did Sol. Hearing Mrs Headland try to explain why it's actually a good thing that he died, and him telling her "It's OK" as she choked him to death was a smothering attempt to "Rob Osha of her agency" ... the woman is legitimately sick in her head.

[@Wolffman109]

#WeWalkWithWalker

[@silverscorpio24]

"Benign sexism" is one of the most confusing phrases I've heard to date.

[@Alpha23TV]

Goes to show that a twisted mind can make *anything* bad. It’s basically a father caring about the well-being of his daughter. So for Leslie that = bad 🫨

[@aleksandragieralt7370]

Yeah and after Disney is partially responsible for popularizing the "sad dad" trope with Mando and Grogu (and, to a lesser extent, the king from Frozen and Augustin from "Encanto") . . . I remember when "the right" was up in arms about these dad characters being "too feminist" because they basically replaced the love interest (often the dad had to save his daughter from "Mr. Wrong," which was a subversion of the repressive father figure who forbids his daughter's marriage (ie Aurora's dad, Triton and the Sultan)). I'm surprised it's come to this, as even last year the caring father was lauded by "the left" as a deconstruction of masculinity . . .

[@Wolffman109]

Is that an oxymoron, doublethink, or just contradictory? These definitions get so confusing.

[@kylefrank638]

I never see anyone bring up how Aniseya's dollar store Force ability, to become intangible and disintegrate people, doesn't actually let her become intangible. Like she's turning into a smoke thing, but Sol just stabs her anyway. In the meta sense... the hell was the point of the smoke effect EXCEPT to make Sol look even more justified in assuming Aniseya is clearly hostile? Even if he doesn't have time to understand that she's killing Mae... he understands scary smoke person (whose spouse is *already threatening him* and a padawan) is likely a bad thing! He is completely vindicated, using his lightsaber here.

[@riftvallance2087]

Good point, stabbing smoke should have the same effect as stabbing smoke

[@DeclanCorey]

Man, I feel so bad for Lee Jung-jae. Learned a whole language for a show that didn’t deserve a fraction of his talent.

[@lolz1rewzgwer]

"You did it again Disney, you did it again, F u 😠" I didn't expect this, and I wasn't disappointed :)

[@nont18411]

How they treated Sol (and Batman in Suicide Squad game and Joel in TLOU2) is like watching the red wedding then by the end of the story, we are supposed to root for Walder Frey just because he’s a protagonist.

[@jeremyallen5974]

Dude, Batman is the villain of his own story. Stop acting like he's some deep, well thought out hero when he's nothing but an emotionally unstable putz who is more concerned with the ego boost he gets when the bad guys get handcuffed than he is with the consequences of leaving them to a system that slaps em on the wrist and feeds them back out onto the streets

[@FGenthusiast0052]

​@@jeremyallen5974villain? Ego boost? Your Batman's headcanon truly is something else. Batman's whole premise, is doing what the corrupt system of Gotham isn't doing, which is giving this people a chance for change, but almost all entities have failed over and over to Gotham, with a few exceptions (Gordon & Harvey Dent until his turn into a supervillain) Arkham Batman literally stopped FOUR TIMES insane events to happen to Gotham, and soon after, to the rest of the world, keeping insane psychopaths from destroying the city... And you call him the "villain"? Because, wow... It is so morally correct from the one that is shooting Batman in the head who LITERALLY murdered a bus full of children, and has no remorse about doing terrible acts... And despite all that, Batman kept trying to give this people a chance to be processed by the system and recover... And he's the villain? You have to be joking. And if so, refrain from jokes.

[@jeremyallen5974]

@@FGenthusiast0052 I'm not reading that word vomit, fanboy. If Bats hadn't been such a colossal pussy the entirety of the Arkham series wouldn't have happened because him killing Joker would show them that he wasn't fucking around anymore

[@grandarkfang_1482]

​@@jeremyallen5974this n166a is being paid by either Penguin, Hugo Strange, or Ras Al Ghul. I'll let yall figure out which.

[@jeremyallen5974]

@@FGenthusiast0052 Why is he letting his villains live if THAT'S WHAT THE JUSTICE SYSTEM DOES? God's sake, man, use your brain

[@TheQuickSilver101]

This was a brutal breakdown of a series that deserved every bit of the criticism it's received. Thanks for this. It's good to see a new video from you, sir!

[@matthewberby8200]

The Little Platoon season finale review is the most brutal breakdown. Not one scrap is left on the bone.

[@tranquilthoughts7233]

Yes, sol trying to hold up the bridge instead of just holding the children is stupid. But the children just continuing to stand on this unstable bridge that almost collapsed on them already might be even more stupid. If they just had run up the bridge instead of stupidly gawking at each other sol might've even been able to hold the bridges long enough up to save both. The whole sequence is broken beyond repair.

[@moonshine588]

I'm gonna defend our boy. Yes, he held up the bridge. He gave the girls time to take a few steps back. He didn't know they were just gonna tell their names back and forth like Pokémon.

[@jedibrooks7235]

Mae , osha mae osha , mae! Osha! Splat* such a stupid scene

[@adventurianist2580]

The only likeable character in the goddamned show. And they treated him almost as miserably as the legacy characters, only he didn't even get to BECOME a legacy character...

[@Narwhal4242]

The people who wrote this aren't just incompetent. They're evil. They live in an upside-down land where anyone who shows good qualities is bad and they put these horrible self-inserts of themselves as the heroes because they're so detached from reality they think they can make us cheer for them. They're wrong. Luke Skywalker is good (the real Luke Skywalker, not that spineless loser who tried to kill his own nephew because he had a bad dream, and what a middle finger to the fans that was!). Superman is good. Batman and Aragorn and Beowulf and Galahad and Roland are good and so is every other hero from over a thousand years of western culture (and quite a few from other cultures too, if only these halfwits would put their money where their mouths are and actually learn about them), whereas everything Hollywood and modern entertainment want to show us is foul.

[@robynmarler1951]

🎖

[@gullyfeather4330]

Eh, i reckon you're over generalizing. Andor had plenty of genuinely heroic characters. So do many modern movies. And plenty of 'heroes' from the past were actually pretty terrible, for ex Cortez, Columbus, Charlemagne, Richard the Lionheart

[@mazkeraid4039]

​@gullyfeather4330 Except that Andor and cohorts are a bunch of losers who dies out at the end of Rogue One anyway. Kyle Katarn are waaaay better than these bland, bonefied knockoffs. TCW's Saw Gererra in Rogue One is a good example.

[@gullyfeather4330]

@@mazkeraid4039 i dunno, dying for a good cause seems pretty heroic to me, I'm not sure how that reflects badly on them

[@mazkeraid4039]

@gullyfeather4330 It's not heroic. It's just that it had no originality. Stealing plans from Death Star, Kyle Katarn and Co had done it first.

[@mascan7905]

My only guess why Sol never explains why he killed the girls' mother is that the smoke monster effect was a last-minute addition and the actors (and probably the writers) had no idea what actually happened in that scene. It's incredibly lazy writing, but it makes more sense than any other theory I've heard.

[@swampinthesunset3678]

The fact that it's leslye headland's wife condemning sol and thus wiping her hands clean from her complicitness is a new level of irony yet unheard of I swear.

[@Hazamandeous]

Between Gina Carano, John Boyega, and now Lee Jung-jae, Disney out here ruining all the “minority” characters. Its actually a masterclass in how to deconstruct the characters a lot fans would love to see more and expanded upon.

[@thebemstar7636]

And they still claiming themselves to be the people of color

[@liamphibia]

And they call us "racists."

[@CptAvenger]

Thank you for the Cliffs Note version of this absolute disaster of a so-called "Star Wars" series. I noticed myself yelling aloud "oh f*ck off" in frustration to each utterly stupid +/- non-sensical character event, decision, etc. as demonstrated at 15:50.

[@CaptainKillroy]

"An Enpire of Dust". That is what you can sum up Disney's hold on everything they have up to this point. Everything they once grasped so tightly now disintegrated infront of them.

[@AMore429]

Seoul = sol. I’m sure the writers thought they were so clever with that 😅

[@PipJim80]

Can someone please talk about how Osher all of a sudden has the ability to force choke a Jedi master to death?

[@riftvallance2087]

I'm assuming Sol let himself get killed.

[@PipJim80]

@@riftvallance2087 she was only ever a padewan though and hadn’t used the force in 10 years. In Kenobi, obi wan who was a Jedi master hadn’t used the force in 10 years and struggled

[@riftvallance2087]

@@PipJim80 Knowing the show sol probably choked himself out , letting her think she did it

[@PipJim80]

@@riftvallance2087 hahaha you nailed it!

[@ManLikeChesh]

​@@PipJim80Dark side, quimir said in the previous episode that only the light fades without usage. The dark side power is always the same based on your negative emotions. Still dumb, but they at least did explain that.

[@CreatorofSecks]

He had such potential as a jedi and the writers squandered him.

[@era_of_sarah]

How did Mae go from wanting to kill Osha if Osha didn’t do what Mae wanted (staying with the coven) to sacrificing her memory and identity to save Osha? I guess we’ll never know because the dumb af writers would never spend their time on anything other than their “Jedi bad” narrative.

[@riftvallance2087]

It's way more subversive then just jedi are actually bad, it's good is actually bad.

[@tranquilthoughts7233]

you forgot the dozen or so abrupt 180 switches in motivation and goal in between...

[@riftvallance2087]

@@era_of_sarah holy moly they deleted my comment on goodness. Guess we know where yt falls on the issue

[@era_of_sarah]

@@tranquilthoughts7233oh they definitely had that. No real storyline to follow though other than “Jedi bad” while they tell a story where the primary Jedi (Sol) isn’t even bad. Incoherent at best

[@ManLikeChesh]

This show doesnt know what a character arc is, theyre more liek character jumps lmao

[@apaolomusic]

I want Disney to give $250,000,000 to the creators of Andor and have them create a Sol show where he is the main protagonist. That's the only apology I'm accepting.

[@mazkeraid4039]

You are such a sucker for Andor that is still Kennedyfilm's Star Wars.

[@apaolomusic]

@@mazkeraid4039 I don’t care if it was released under Kathleen. It’s a good show, I’m not gonna say food tastes bad just because it’s shaped like my least favorite shape.

[@mazkeraid4039]

@apaolomusic You should drop Disney+ altogether, and get this, it is exactly the same as it was in Rogue One with the prison scene, it's not revolutionary, it's safe, it is dull, and it lacked imagination. Take Star Wars out of it, and it's a passable spy thriller. Tony Gilroy is not joking that there would be minimal aliens, and he defends Kathleen Kennedy for that sort of deal, so he's no different from others. I liked Jedi Fallen Order as it is because that had more memorable cast than these nameless chumps at Andor, and you don't see me praise it to high end, and I say that it pales in comparison to what came before.

[@jameshess8495]

Andor was great

[@valkyrie6735]

Sol deserved so much better. He did nothing wrong and was the most likable character in that pile of shit we call show.

[@fayescarlet]

Sol was the only good character on that "show", and how they treated him was such a disgrace. The character, and the actor, deserved so much better.

[@CalebePriester]

This asian dude is a great actor. He carried this first season. Too bad they did him dirt.

[@Butterfly-ql4pg]

I've seen people try to defend the morally questionable actions in this show as part of its "nuance," but to that, I say, WHAT NUANCE?!! Do you know how incredibly brain-dead you have to be to watch Sol have what seems to be an understandable reaction to a cult...sorry, I mean, "coven" leader threatening her daughter and then fall for the writers' gaslighting that Mae and Osha wanting him dead is perfectly understandable?!

[@grandarkfang_1482]

They have successfully defiled every part of the mainline Star Wars canon. All that's left is KOTOR. Get ready, everyone.

[@justanotherchannelonyoutub126]

It’s really fitting that his name is Sol, because it means that Disney effectively killed the soul of Star Wars. The Acolyte basically killed Star Wars for good

[@voidlesskitten9286]

Tbh I think the show could have done great with Sol as the main character investigating a string of murders (perhaps to make it less obvious its connected Mae has gone after another Jedi or two). And dont have the reveal of Mae surviving until later. Sol believes that Osha is innocent but all the evidence seems to prove otherwise, its not until another murder happens wjth her in custody that the characters and the audience know that she is innocent and someone else is using her identity to do this. An actually have Mae BE a terrifying threat. And make the Jedi consistent damn, it would be scarier and I'd care more if there wasn't some weird "justification" the writers trued to shoehorn in to make us root for the twins.

[@youwayo]

It’s funny. Apparently shills and critics call people who don’t like the Acolyte, “racists” and yet people who don’t like the show even admit that Sol was one of few decent part of this travesty

[@TheManofThings777]

He was genuinely really good in the show. If he'd been the protagonist of the story, and Mae and Osha were just the antagonists or side characters, it still wouldn't have saved the show because Sol is unfortunately very stupid, but it would have helped make the show more bearable. Side note: Can it even be called a "murder mystery" if the show all but tells the audience what happened 3 episodes in? The only "mystery" is why Mae is going around killing people, but even then, by episode 3 we have most of what we need to figure that out too.

[@Raven-626-]

Now to be fair, the show Columbo starts every episode with showing the audience precisely how the murder happens and you spend the rest of the episode waiting for the characters to catch on, and it's still wonderful to watch. Except you know, in Columbo the writers also understand the concept that when bad people do bad things, it is not good if they get away with it, so the entire point of each episode is to build up to a moment where the good guy figures out and exposes the murderer.

[@onewaveview]

This man is too talented for this show ❤

[@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999]

bros really felt the need to add a jedi with dreadlocks, and it really doesn't help that they use the generic 'killmonger' look

[@庫倫亞利克]

I am literally Pavlov-conditioned into feeling a sense of nausea and dread whenever I see a dreadlocked black woman in fiction.

[@toodleboots]

Am I missing something or is it not the laziest thing in the world to call the Korean jedi 'Seoul'

[@robynmarler1951]

😂

[@yayakone676]

I want a Japanese character name Master Hokkaido

[@TheSouloftheDragon]

Remove the useless twins and focus on Sol chasing after Qimir, it could be halfway decent.

[@chinnidiwakar]

Cant have that, girl needed anyway possible 😂

[@kaylahensley1581]

YESSSSSSSSS. I would have loved that.

[@youwayo]

Idk why but when I read your comment. I was thinking of something like Sonic and Shadow.

[@aadidandekar07]

It's like disney doesn't want money. Great Channel btw. best explanations. love ya boi

[@DarthDevorin]

Qimir should've been the acolyte, with Sol as his foil.

[@kaylahensley1581]

THIS

[@BehuraStudio]

I actually wouldn’t mind Jeckie putting up a fight vs Qimir since Obi Wan lasted a fair bit vs Maul when he was a Padawan… BUTTTT the fact they showed her still training with sticks a few days ago just ruins it 🤦

[@conmanay4563]

Exactly my thoughts. Lee Jung Jae learned English, and was a true fan who wanted so bad to be in Star Wars. He took the time to watch older movies to base his character on Qui Gon. He gave an incredible performance with this garbage script, yet got disrespected, murdered, then thrown under the bus by the directors wife

[@juliogodoy8989]

Justice for sol he was an actual compelling character

[@BeeLockinYorDoor]

Im not trying to glaze too much here, but I seriously appreciate your unique perspectives and insights on efap, and the scene comparison videos always cover something I never thought about. Keep doing what your doing.

[@foresta-2684]

This video was surprisingly good. Well done !

[@AmeliaBodilia]

“A story as wasteful as Mando, as broken as Boba Fett, as painful as Kenobi and as boring as Ahsoka…”- Jedi Brooks 😂

[@liamphibia]

Accurate

[@Greatshadowfighter]

Such a great video. Hope you could do more videos I really like them. You are one of my favorite KZbinrs.

[@jedibrooks7235]

Thank you that means a lot. Had to take the last 6 months off to get work life in order but i hope i can pump them out more consistently soon

[@Greatshadowfighter]

@@jedibrooks7235 It’s really no problem if need more time for videos, I mean I watch all of them and literally every single one is great, but still nice to hear that might make more videos consistently.

[@reemerger]

"The miserable vegetable" 😄

[@matthewberby8200]

The name Osha is said out loud numerous times in the series. It starts more like Ocean than Oshkosh.

[@SWANSWAN-nc7ds]

The cult that raised Osha are evil they tampered with the dark side of force if anyone with half a brain watched star wars know that they are pure evil and bring nothing but suffering look at Anakin and Darth Maul they both living in constant pain when joining the dark side. Sol should have tell Osha the people that raised her were a bunch of force dark side worshiping monsters . And Osha is by far is one most mess up moral character that I have ever seen in Star wars, she just joining up with the guy that murder all of her close friends because she sees his abs. The whole thing with Anakin murdering Younglings feel more justify than this

[@bleankdallas2924]

Thank you for uploading again. Always look forward to your work

[@JBGreen-ux5pm]

Thank you for another great video, Jedi Brooks.

[@t3tsuyaguy1]

Apparently, according to Disney, central to being a strong woman is being completely powerless in the face of abs.

[@manithierry-mieg3704]

But seriously though, what made sol's actor think a disney star wars production would be anything other than awful?

[@othertalk3313]

5:20 - It's funny how the "Hold your tongue or I'll cut it out for you" line was delivered by a character who actually sounds like she has no tongue. Maybe there's a reason for that mush mouth line delivery that makes sense within the story, but still... come on... they could just as easily have given that tongue-cutting jab to someone who doesn't sound as if they're speaking from their own personal experience. 😏

[@erikbihari3625]

God, now remembered That scene from transformers earthspark, where one bot(nightshade) said they/them are the preferred referring terms, and optimus apologised!

[@PrincessFionaYT]

The lunatics are literally running the asylum over at Lucasfilm. And the Twitter bots are pushing for a second season. Madness.

[@bgcvetan]

If anything this proves the jedi code and council were in the right.

[@OsloTime]

You're back! 👏 🎵 Welcome back, welcome back, welcome baaack 🎵 LOL! 😂 Haven't watched yet but excited to see you post! I've been watching some of the lives you've been on with Mauler and I kept thinking, we need to see what Jedi Brooks thinks on a video on his channel lol. Hope you're doing well! 👍

[@youwayo]

Typical Disney Star Wars. Killing off the interesting characters while keeping the ones we dont care about.

[@haku8135]

Mae's whole thing is using STEEL knives. They had her chop off her hair with a LIGHTSABER purely for the visual of someone cutting their hair with a lightsaber. Which is a stupid visual, but that's ALL entertainment is now. Visuals. They just throw slop on screen, pump 180 million dollars into it, and expect people to treat it like fine dining. And they FUCKING DO. Cause it's RED. Standards have fallen SO low. It's honestly refreshing how many people are realizing the 5 star meal they're gazing at is just paint.

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

I hate the 'bleeding the crystals' bullshit. The idea that sith used synthetic crystals bc they didn't have access to the real thing made far more sense. Screw disney.

[@GabrielPiardi]

Tbh while i do prefer legends way over canon, it does fit with the sith to, just like they twist the force for their on benefit using anger and hate, that they would would also twist the crystal too

[@John-fk2ky]

@@GabrielPiardi Except it doesn’t even line up with Disney’s previous established canon. Darth Vader bleeds his crystal in a comic, and there’s a ton of lightning and pyrotechnics, and the whole room gets fried. Osha just being able to change the color in one scene with absolutely nothing interesting happening (no, simple CGI isn’t interesting) is ridiculous.

[@GabrielPiardi]

@@John-fk2ky Oh i was just talking about the concept of bleeding the crystal, not about how its done on the acolyte

[@Mad_scientist_ha_ha_ha]

It makes way more sense than the sith just "choosing" to use red crystals Sure Disney star wars sucks but bleeding the crystals makes way more sense to explain why the bad guys only use red lightsabers

[@mazkeraid4039]

​@Mad_scientist_ha_ha_ha It's too derivative of Harry Potter, and no, that is not how the crystal works.

[@Acguarnica]

It's not disgraceful, it's EXACTLY what is planned. How many shows have become such a wreck -it's deliberate and this is how reality is. There are so many being thrown under the bus and people do not realize it.

[@sinistra7450]

Planned for what? Sounds like a tinfoil-hat conspiracy.

[@AJ-HawksToxicFinger]

Stoked to see you drop some new content, even if it's covering this evil coven of witches....I am referring to the coven over at Lucasfilm creating all this morally devoid garbage. I saw you in the Critical Drinker After Hours chat the other day, really enjoyed your comments.

[@Boricua_User146]

The failure of one! The failure of two! The failure of manyyyyyyyy!

[@matthewberby8200]

Love that

[@sinistra7450]

🥱🥱😴😴

[@natk205]

You know you can make Anakin murdering younglings more justifiable when Osha exists. Her morals are by far the worst out of any Star Wars character, and this show proves it.

[@jeremyallen5974]

Anakin was in a shitty spot, you can't really blame him given how his devotion to the Light was met with ridicule and disrespect by people who claimed to be 'Jedi Masters'

[@sinistra7450]

@@jeremyallen5974 Ehh... Many have been in numerous "shitty spots" in their lives, yet they don't turn into cold-blooded murderers. Yes, the Jedi failed Anakin, but you can't excuse such a heinous act with it. Dude was an adult, hence responsible for his deeds.

[@ScarletknightScyro88]

Jedi Knight Sol was the best part of the series and he was treated like dirt.

[@traxxorznn1429]

i cant recall anyone blaming the actors. they have done an incredible job considering what was given to them..

[@robynmarler1951]

Stupid showrunner cast that girl years ago and built the whole concept around her and her face. Stupid stupid stupid. I've just watched Kingdom and it reminded me what great entertainment should feel like. This is like watching woodlice in a matchbox.

[@rippingbag]

I hope Sol at least gets a cool name in future Star Wars “content”. Like Sol The Jedi Butcher. Or Sol The Jedi Slayer. Something awesome, since I don’t think we will get a season 2 and this ending will be what future Jedi and the Republic know of this man.

[@ManLikeChesh]

Sols character was amazing, the actor was insanely good. The show overall was shite, but Sol made it watchable for me at least. If he survived id probably even watch a s2, but as it stands it can fuck off 😂

[@sinistra7450]

I hope there will be a show about Sol in the future. His character (and the actor himself) deserves it.

[@MayoMan-sf3yp]

He’s back

[@ts25679]

The past doesn't matter...unless it does, but I decide when it does...so long as I'm perceived in a positive light

[@dozyproductionss]

Good to hear from you man.

[@gavingreenhorn]

This is a show about white and asian men being sorry about existing, because this is what an ideal world looks like in the authors' heads.

[@themphantom9138]

This.....has to be the most Depressing Character Story I have ever seen This is like making The Villain Win and the Good Guys be Screwed Over because they have no Guts to tell the full truth, or worse, be shut down every time they attempt to speak Moral of the Story: "Grow a Pair and Speak your Mind, All of It without keeping hints unsaid"

[@bishalchetri4381]

Sol was literally the only character I rooted for in the entire show. Qimir was a interesting antagonist indeed ,but you are right the writers nerfed them like crazy, Sol was made the the scapegoat of the plot by the writers,when what I actually felt was he was the only dude who made sense, I couldn't at all sympathize with Mae and Osha as they always came as character who are cold with no compassion. I wanted to see more of SOL in future installments but the last episode's climax was an abomination, They literally killed off the best part of the show, Osha turns out be a bigger jackass then Mae.

[@aleksandragieralt7370]

In that outift I did not even recognize its the same actor who played San Ji Kan (I probably mispelled that, I'm sorry)! He and Carry Anne Moss (also probably misspelled :() were done dirty by this show . . .

[@kostantza1]

I for one am questioning neither the writers' sanity nor their morality. I'm denying their existence.

[@ShishouDzukiZaManako]

i have conflicted info on him learning english; some spots say he is just saying the phonetics and did not learn the language..... which idk if that is more impressive or no; hard call.

[@Teddy-zr8yv]

It's a pleasure to have you back, it's a shame it's under these circumstances... but ryan george's review is great

[@josiahryan4655]

I knew Jedi Brooks wouldn't stay away from the Acolyte

[@SaviorCross]

Thank you for this video. They did Sol and Lee Jung-jae so dirty, its unforgivable. They should have let us have a glimpse of Sols potential dark side that Qmir hinted at when Sol had him locked up by having Sol start to peel off Qmirs face before the twin screamed for him to stop.

[@joaoruxa]

00:23 that shit still makes hella uncomfortable

[@MumRah]

Dude, I felt like it's been forever since your last video

[@Colinkrauss1]

7:05 Wish my actions could inexplicably cover up this much responsibility… *life crumbling to pieces* “I got a speeding ticket. It destroyed everything.”

[@MisterPjamas]

Wow.. the acting is.. just.. wow..

[@AtamskArchadian]

The very, very stupid decision to bring Force healing into the stories shows how little they really understand Star Wars. If the technique had been around that long and developed to that extent then it nullifies Anakin’s entire arc. It makes his betrayal pointless and meaningless. If Jedi had this power he would have never had any dark side influence on his life. He could’ve saved his mom, Padme, heck Obi-Wan could have saved Qui-Gon. Force healing is a power that should have been something that was acquired after a great deal of trial and tribulation, thus giving it the weight and gravitas such a power and its meaning to the story represents. There have been hints in the Star Wars story that it’s possible to do it, it’s even been hinted that someone powerful enough in the Force could become immortal, but instead of building up towards stuff so monumental, they undercut everything by doing that.

[@NickGDaniels]

New Jedi Brooks video dropped? Cancel everything fellas

[@Tigerdude10000]

As stuipid as Jedi Master Sol is, he still carried the show.

[@balanc-joy9187]

18:30 What I'm getting from this show, the "justification" for this that is supposed to make their actions not their fault (that is, the witches and Mae are innocent victims and the Jedi were the bad guys) at all boils down to "You did something we didn't like/interfered with us, so we retaliated/did something in response to it, so it's _your_ fault for bothering us in the first place". Obviously, that's terrible because just because someone causes problems for you or does something you don't like, does not mean that literally _anything and everything you do_ in "retaliation" is justified. That idea totally ignores context and nuance (no surprises there). Just because the Jedi happened on them and _asked_ them to maybe do something different than what they had been doing when it came to Mae and Osha, does not mean the witches were justified in immediately getting hostile and assuming the worst with no real proof that the Jedi were going to _take_ the kids by force or were out to get them in some way, Mae starting the fire, or that the Witch mother's turning into a smoke demon to make herself and Mae "one with the Force" is justified (I mean, that one outright makes absolutely zero sense no matter what angle you come at it with) or that Sol reacting to _that_ and killing her (when the Witches had acted VERY negatively and already shown dark intentions and actions from what Sol and the other Jedi had seen and experienced, like mind-violating Torbin) makes everything HIS fault. I know, I'm basically laying out the obvious, but still, it blows my mind that the writers of this drek thought that anyone with more than one brain-cell would buy this trash. What's funny is, this sort of "standard of morality" reminds me of another similar idea. Except, that "standard" was being used by a blatantly narcisstic and deranged antagonist who was shown to be VERY much in the wrong. Monokuma from _Danganronpa_ . Their standard was essentially that the students, who are trapped in the school and can only "graduate" if they kill each other are the ones to blame for all the deaths, because they could just stay in the school forever instead of try to leave. This ignores that Monokuma is the one _keeping_ them in their and enforcing these rules in the first place, that no matter how well provided for they are they're still trapped and nobody likes being in a cage, that the students blatantly do NOT want to kill each other and take no pleasure in everything happening, and worse that Monokuma keeps _pushing_ them to kill one another through various means by giving them extra motivations when they understandably refuse to from the start. It reminds me of The Acolyte's general conflict shown here because with the Witches and Mae, _they_ escalated the situation for no real reason to try and _make_ the Jedi leave when the Jedi didn't to my recollection show any serious intention of doing anything harmful or enforcing anything on them, and did a number of dark things that at the very _least_ are hostile if not outright harmful and don't make them look like peaceful or trustworthy people at all, then the two mother-witches _actually_ do something that _directly_ endangers or hurts Mae (the horn-mother hitting her and basically screaming at her to cause a fire to kill Osha for...no apparent reason, and the other one turning into a smoke demon and trying to kill Mae right in front of Sol) and Sol reacts to it when he and Torbin and the other Jedi rush over to get the girls or at least ask for them again (and Osha _was_ going to go with them all along). Yet somehow, the _Jedi_ are the bad guys? The worst they did, that doesn't _also_ apply to the Witches themselves (like terrible communication, both sides and basically _everyone in the mini-series_ do that) the Jedi...acted hastily at one or two points and showed up somewhere they initially were not wanted, but otherwise were just reacting to the _Witches_ blatantly aggressive actions in response to that. Making the Jedi, especially Sol, out to be the villains makes NO sense taking everything together. With both Monokuma and the Witches and Mae, THEY escalated to its darkest points, whereas the protagonists of both works only responded to things getting that bad in the first place. Admittedly Monokuma did _literally_ mastermind the whole thing whereas the Witches did not, so it isn't exactly the same, but the Witches pretty much did things that were _disproportionate_ to the situation over and over again and unnecessarily hostile yet apparently the _Jedi_ only doing what they thought was best out of genuine ignorance in dangerous situations that again, the Witches set up in the first place, makes them the bad guys. It's a totally unjust judgement. The Witches and Mae get no blame despite actively choosing to do worse things while the Jedi barely did anything that wasn't at worst understandable mistakes or at best totally justified responses to the Witches acting like psychos for no apparent reason, but they get ALL the blame.

[@SAIIIURAI]

Thank you man! Thank you!One of the best breakdowns and criticism of this cursed show i have ever seen! (The chucky vomiting edit was perfection! Lol)

[@davidswarckof8025]

Loyalty to Disney, Loyalty to the Brand, Loyalty is Salavation

[@jihunshin4864]

Watch the Korean War movie Operation Chromite instead.

[@bluknight99]

So, they named Lee Jung-jae's character Sol. The Korean guy's character is named Sol. And it's pronounced like the same way as the South Korean capital of Seoul. If the actor was instead an Irish guy, would they name his character Du'Blyn?

[@sinistra7450]

Sol means 'sun' in Latin and Spanish.