“Are You on the Dark or the Light Side?” IMDb Interviews the Cast of Star Wars: THE ACOLYTE

[@HybridPodvid]

It seems to me like these people, in the video, believe the Light and the Dark side is like choosing a house in Harry Potter.

[@Bobdobbinks]

Oh yeah because you must answer an ice-breaker question completely seriously and without levity, so this is a true representation of what they believe(!)

[@anactualking]

Movieblob.

[@gibster9624]

There is no grey Jedi code. To be in the light represents balance and harmony. To be in the dark represents selfishness. You cant be balanced and unbalanced. Its like sports you are either getting better or worse and how you set your mindset makes all of the difference.

[@michaelchristy506]

As terrible as this interview is, your actually wrong, there IS a grey Jedi code, and it’s actually pretty good

[@michaelchristy506]

Furthermore, the Jedi, at least over millennia, became unbalanced themselves because the light side does have weaknesses in itself, such as arrogance and blindness to the reality of situations, thinking your doing something good when your not

[@fixipszikon6670]

@@michaelchristy506 There is no grey Jedi.

[@JohnA.-sp9vb]

​@@michaelchristy506Mace Windu is a good example.

[@bobskanal]

​​@@michaelchristy506 the arrogance isn't a trait of the light side, but it was a vice of many jedi. The order became timid and stopped striving for perfection. And originally due to Anakins actions the jedi order should be reformed: Everyone was death who knew the force, with the only exeption being Luke, who represented the full light, without arrogance... And then came Disney and destroyed everything.

[@joeymendez8526]

The hell is this “grey” “in the middle” “it’s cooler” This the same thing when kids say “if I had powers I’d be like homelander” You can’t be in the middle, middle mace windu wasn’t in the middle He trained to be in between the light and dark side but was still with the Jedi in the end and was even about to go against their code to kill palpatine Just know that the empire was based on the nazis

[@crygonegin7692]

If I had to choose I would be Harvey Weinstein’s former personal assistant with a rainbow lightsaber

[@Fedaygin]

So Mara Jade's & other Jedi's combined ? That would be quite flashy & blind Sith before they could strike 🙂 Good times soon when stream Beautiful The Acolyte S01E05 via D+ 🧘‍♂ Adventure into Galaxy Far, Far Away while enjoying the episode 🥳 As always it's done in dark room with "65 Led Telly & 5.1. wireless 🎧 Enjoy the episode & good week o/

[@nickw649]

People really do forget what the dark side represents And if you need a reminder just remember what the Germans did

[@tehjamerz]

What did they do? Oh right, tried to save us from the weimar...

[@em.5941]

that would be more the empire not the dark side itself

[@historicflame972]

As someone had pointed out, that's more the empire than the dark side The dark side is more taking the short route to the sun and crashing down burning, look at Darth Nihilus, was he was a hateful bigot? No, because he's not an imperial he represents the dark side at its peak in its rawest form, power of the strongest kind, but swirling and crashing down until it collapses in on itself like a black hole, barely able to hold a thought beyond recognizing a target, destroying it and moving onto the next one

[@peachypietro9980]

That's because SW is for kids, and George intended it to be an allegory. It's not the way life is. Life is subjective and not based upon this objective, metaphysical, rigid dichotomy.

[@historicflame972]

@@peachypietro9980 No matter how old you are, hedonism is bad

[@teslapilot5755]

How is IMDb rating this as 4/5, when 50% of the reviews are 1, and only 10% are 5, with the remaining spread across? IMDb is a rotten tomato!

[@Marc-gj9vx]

imdb has a rating on 10 so its 4/10 not 4/5 lol

[@PiratDunkelbart]

Wth are you talking about. It is at 3.4 out of 10. Thats pretty bad. They arent faking it.

[@Fedaygin]

Naah, but Rotten Tomatoes website is mostly followed by cretins 😒

[@pepelepew2690]

the cast is an absolute embarrassment to the star wars franchise

[@AK-qh6lr]

At least the sequels cast knew their movies sucked

[@SolverCyn-vx1kv]

​@@AK-qh6lryep, at least they have dignity

[@illyrian89]

I feel bad for Manny Jacinto. He seems like a good guy and down to earth. Sucks that when he finally got his second wind big break it's in this absolute dumpster fire

[@MelodicTurtleMetal]

Embarrassment to the USA, and honestly humanity.

[@dominickperson5851]

yeah the cast is really lame.. and dare i say gay... like disney i meaan doctor who i mean disney...

[@undersawpsans9253]

Did you know? Harrison Ford does not like Han Solo nor he can’t understand his character development, so this means that any cast member doesn’t need to understand there character or the story only the writer and director do

[@Fedaygin]

Indeed & good times with S01E05 on this week via D+ 🙂 Nice Adventure into Galaxy Far, Far Away through Beautiful The Acolyte 🧘‍♂

[@daut8131977]

Manny Jacinto not screaming "BORTLES!" feels like something is not right with the world.

[@SolverCyn-vx1kv]

Sure sith's are great , using the force (which is like God in this universe) as a fuel for their powers, absorbing the life force of people and planets, killing your fellow sith lords to be the ruler of them all, killing children, having slaves, and the best of all................ ¡¡¡ A frickin red light saber !!! Yaaaaaaaaay I hate this show and everyone in it

[@renesrelics]

Ive watched a lot of interviews. I dont understand all the hate for the caat. They're just actors. Harrison Ford doesn't a s*** about Star Wars, and yet we're expected to hold this cast to a way higher standard because???

[@defencebangladesh4068]

Shows you their characters.

[@soju81]

Interesting... if they were not allowed to have paper and digital copies of the scripts then how did they learn their lines?

[@Bobdobbinks]

They get the script for 30-45 minutes before they shoot a scene, they have one copy that's available mid-shoot between takes, all copies are shredded at the end of the shooting day.

[@coolcat23]

11:07 Who reads the scripts and thinks "This is really good"? The writing is abysmally bad.

[@zachzednik1804]

I’m an actor who likes to prep a lot with makeup. Only if they prepped like Henry Cavill when he read the books and played the games for the Witcher to understand the character when getting. Sorry makeup isn’t a form of prep in a praise worthy way because it’s something you’re going to have to do no matter what if you plan of playing the role.

[@Domonorus]

The Star Wars fan base is easily the most toxic fan base by 12 parsecs

[@zachzednik1804]

If you mean the new one yes. Many of the people who don’t like it anymore don’t like it for legitimately valid reasons. Like bad story writing and a lack of knowledge about the Star Wars universe. Sorry I forgot good fan bases have to like every product that comes out of that universe even if it completely destroys already existing characters and story that were established years. Fan bases aren’t hive minds and people should be able to dislike or like what they want. The acolyte isn’t Star Wars at all. It destroys every little thing with the prequels and makes the chosen one prophecy seem dumb. Makes darth plagieus look like someone who’s copying another group instead of actually dedicating his life to trying to find immortality. Like at no point are the sith meant to be good they are driven by pure selfishness. Yes you causes of sith changing to Jedi and vice versa but it used to be an uncommon thing and made sense when it was done. Darth revans one of my favorite characters and his reasoning for doing were valid because even then he realized the dark side of the force is purely evil. I mean in order to use the dark side of the force you have to give into hate and fear. Both emotions known for being pretty bad. Anakin killed the only person he loved because of his Anger. But yeah there dark and light aren’t definitively good or evil.

[@Domonorus]

@@zachzednik1804 Thanks for proving my point

[@loganbeaumont2490]

@@Domonorus what even is your point and how did zach prove it? almost everything he said was spot on

[@Domonorus]

@@loganbeaumont2490 My point is that while every fandom has high and low points, Star Wars fans have proven themselves have a limited yet ever changing idea of what Star Wars is and a cruel reaction to anything that doesn’t fit into their specific narrative. I really hated Last Jedi, Rise of Skywalker and Book of Boba but what I didn’t do is flood message boards with hate about how it’s “not Star Wars” I didn’t make multiple fake accounts to bully or threaten the actors or producers and I didn’t try to gatekeep the entire IP. I just dont watch them again. George Lucas created a huge galaxy of which we have only seen a tiny bit. The Acolyte has only added to the universe using things that were already apart of canon. Constructive criticism is fine, I have it too (the writing is definitely flat) but the hate stems from something else.

[@loganbeaumont2490]

@@Domonorus totally valid all around bro, I actually agree with you completely. I think as a fan it is important to go into new things with an open mind and judge the media on its own. With that being said, I really don’t like acolyte, but I have chosen to move on with my life because I have better things to do than cry online. Thanks for clarifying.

[@backdoorideas]

Your legacy is a lot smaller than a Star Wars video game or then Star Wars books and comics infinitely smaller like we will reject and be like that never happened and that ever existed on the Star Wars timeline again infinitely smaller

[@historicflame972]

Hey man, I love swtor, but lets please forget the books ever existed Drew wasn't having an off day writing Revan but BOY DID I WISH HE WAS

[@backdoorideas]

@@historicflame972 I mean they can’t be worse than this show, right

[@historicflame972]

@@backdoorideas Nothing is worse than the Revan novel

[@backdoorideas]

@@historicflame972 yeah I think the acolyte is worse like it has to be

[@historicflame972]

@@backdoorideas The Revan novel is 1000x worse because the guy who wrote it actually is capable of writing good stuff, he just chose to be spiteful that day

[@JAW242]

Dumbness beyond limits

[@fixipszikon6670]

Leslie Hadland is the worst thing ever happened to Star Wars after Kathleen Kennedy. This is not Star Wars, this is Disney Wars. "There are two worlds here. There's my world, which is the movies, and there's this other world that has been created, which I say is the parallel universe. That's a different world than my world. They try to make their universe as consistent with mine as possible, but obviously they get enthusiastic and want to go off in other directions." - Geoge Lucas Acolyte is a horrible show, a promising story completely butchered, bad dialogs, bad acting, totally contradicting the established Lucas Universe, and it's main goal to promote social agendas. This show deserves a zero.

[@AK-qh6lr]

That quote actually gives me hope for Star Wars being saved. Canon and EU are two separate worlds, so we can have the good parts of the Canon without ruining George's story

[@fixipszikon6670]

@@AK-qh6lr Star Wars can not be saved. DIsney owns it, and they have absolutely no intention to do the right thing. “I was the one who really knew what “Star Wars” was…who actually knew this world, because there’s a lot to it. The force, for example, nobody understood the force. When they started other ones after I sold the company, a lot of the ideas that were in [the original] sort of got lost." - Geoge Lucas May 24, 2024 We, the fandom can only create our own canon, and completely disregard disney, and treat it as an alternate shitty universe.

[@coprographia]

“The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate evil are not your own but those of the evil. The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.”

[@_rose747]

People really be mad in these comments😂😂 Who cares if their answers aren’t “textbook” light and darkside decisions. At the end of the day it’s all fiction and they can choose whatever they want. Somebody could be on the Darkside with a purple lightsaber and claim to be a Grey Jedi and it should be nobody’s business but theirs lmao. Yall mfs are weird😂

[@baronnuuke7821]

It would be perfectly fine if they were just randoms in the streets. But they are the cast and writer of a Star Wars show, and they just answer utter nonsense proving they have no idea wth they are talking about. In comparison, you can watch Natalie Portman's interview on her role in Star Wars, it's a clear difference between someone who actually read / watched the movies and some clowns who seems to not be aware of the movies they are working on

[@_rose747]

@@baronnuuke7821 I mean, I guess. But either way… it’s still just all fiction.

[@PrimeroJinJusuke]

@@_rose747Fiction that tell messages. Fiction that move people hearts, inspire them to be creators themselves or be better people. If fiction didn’t have any impact on people’s life, then people wouldn’t watch them or remember them fondly (or negatively). And Disney uses their IPs to tell messages too, but modern Disney fumbles at the execution and and actually forgot what the core of the original messages was.

[@_rose747]

@ Fair point. I can’t argue against that cause it’s true.

[@elijah.j3288]

The caption is a racist and ethical question.... if this was a job application your answer would criminate your identity or boast you towards wealthy individuals

[@MultiZernez]

these actors are onto nothing

[@milomateer6565]

This show is so bad 😂

[@SraMacaco]

A Jedi is not balanced, which is what contributed to their downfall. A Sith is not balanced, which is why there’s infighting when there are more than two. I don’t like Mace Windu, but I can’t deny that because he used both sides of the Force, he was more balanced than any of the other Jedi. Cal Kestis is even more balanced than the old school Jedi. And what helps him remain balanced and stay the good person he wants to be? Love, which was frowned on by the Jedi. “We’ll bring you back.”

[@pete6705]

This looks like the cast for some LGBTQ rom-com

[@Bobdobbinks]

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

[@bloedekuh]

Light or Dark side? More like the cringe side.

[@SolverCyn-vx1kv]

Yes

[@reckszkingzactivitiesrkat.4134]

Lesley Headland knows the DarkSide is the key to life in the Star Wars Mythos 🔥

[@robotzombie4754]

Omg shes a gemini,never trust a gemini

[@coprographia]

What’s it like, being racist against a birthday?

[@jordandurfee6228]

PHENOMENAL interview!! Everyone's answers were so thoughtful, which was just a reflection on how thoughtful the questions were! This seems like such a delightful cast and I am so excited for the further development of the show!!!!! Edit: I very much so enjoy the show and this interview and I am allowed that opinion without people being rude to me about it. Episode 5 had brilliant fight choreography and really big moments for the overall plot, which were shocking and brilliantly executed. So yes, I enjoy the show, and no I wasn't paid to write this comment, nor is a gun being held to my head. Why are y'all so threatened by the fact that someone enjoys something you don't? What possesses y'all to be so miserable that someone enjoying a show that was created for the sake of enjoyment makes you comment rude things? People are allowed their opinions without someone trying to minimize them. You don't see me bashing people for not enjoying the show, or for enjoying shows that I don't. Chill out, y'all, and move on. Stop lurking on the internet for the sake of rudeness.

[@crygonegin7692]

Did we watch the same video?

[@penske_material]

​@@crygonegin7692 he didn't really pay attention to it obviously 😂

[@MultiZernez]

paid comment right here

[@linkphan761]

Hi ChatGPT!

[@Fedaygin]

Well said Jordandurfee 🙂 Relax well when stream S01E05 on this week at D+ & Trip to Galaxy Far, Far Away 🥳 Remember to stream on a dark room & good audio playback to enjoy talented composer's soundtrack 🙂 I have "65 Led Telly & 5.1. wireless 🎧

[@Fedaygin]

Always Light side 🙂 For the Republic, for the Democracy 🙂 Restreaming S01E04 late this evening on a dark room. "65 Led Telly, 5.1 wireless headphones. Slowly drink Ginger Tea + munching couple warm sammies while streaming 🙂 I wish good adventure to Galaxy Far, Far Away via The Acolyte when stream via D+ 👍

[@Fedaygin]

Very nice. This is where the fun begins & as a non shill/simp viewer 🙂 4x years non stop D+ sub & it stays forever. I dig the aesthetics, wardrobe & new ship designs 😋 Some cast interviews are really good. ✅ Happy to stream The Acolyte via "65 Telly 🧘🏼

[@Shmanceypants]

Ok simp

[@AK-qh6lr]

I pity and envy you simultaneously Also, you use emojis like a scam bot

[@SolverCyn-vx1kv]

​@@AK-qh6lrbecause he is, i think

[@Fedaygin]

@@SolverCyn-vx1kv The whole bot word is overused on these days 😮‍💨

[@SolverCyn-vx1kv]

@@Fedaygin i mean, your lenguage was very unatural

[@dominickperson5851]

a damn dumpster fire would be more entertaining and true to its roots...