You just can't keep a good shill down, and in this case its everyone's favourite shill publication Kotaku - STILL trying to defend the Acolyte, this time claiming fans have been "watching it wrong" this whole time.
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@katarhall3047Ай бұрын
I love the fact that they tried SO HARD to portray the Jedi as the bad guys, and it backfired miserably. They have no concept of what writing actually is.
@frocat5163Ай бұрын
They also have no concept of what actually constitutes a "bad guy." In their twisted minds, the only villains are people who disagree with them, or who hold them accountable for their actions.
@halycon404Ай бұрын
The part which makes me so angry is there's already an in universe argument for the Jedi being not the greatest people which actually makes at least a little narrative sense. How the Jedi handled some classes of problems contributed to the fall of Anakin and was alluded to in the original trilogy. They could have explored that. It's a part of the lore which hasn't gotten a lot of expansion on film or screen. The audience would be on board for the murky gray area of morality which gives rise to those issues. But no. Instead of moral ambiguity and interesting ideas for writing we get this.
@tehy123Ай бұрын
Honestly I think the initial promise of the show - Evil Jedis! Gayest Star wars ever! - has ended up coming to nothing just because of the total lack of writing ability. If you want to write a story about evil Jedis, you need to be able to write a story period. These writers cannot craft a coherent and consistent narrative, so you can't draw any conclusions from it either
@RU-qv3jlАй бұрын
They have no concept of morality.
@Ben1159aАй бұрын
No, they succeeded wildly in portraying the Jedi as the bad guys, They were portrayed as common criminals, breaking into the tower, armed, wiping out the coven and then lying about it to the Council. That is the main problem with this show, the Jedi aren't supposed to be bad guys, but the show portrays them as such, literally wiping out almost 50 years of Star Wars history portraying the Jedi as heroic simply because they want too. It's pitiful.
@TheWarmachine375Ай бұрын
Kotaku aren't clowns, they're the entire circus.
@newtpondskipperАй бұрын
Not to insult circus.
@user-xx6vy9ri8pАй бұрын
You mean she? Or is that more than one person?
@ericv00Ай бұрын
A bunch of freaks working for peanuts? Sounds about right.
@austin9568AuraMasterDXАй бұрын
Well they do have the hair for it
@MrBlueBurd0451Ай бұрын
@@user-xx6vy9ri8p She's just one employee in the entire farcical organization.
@matthewpople9639Ай бұрын
Jesus what a smug, self satisfied person in the intro
@theelder4797Ай бұрын
And that's the type who have the most control right now. 🤦
@BSB-xh2tyАй бұрын
When someone does that type of smug face, it shows that person has zero self-awareness.
@thomasfucilloАй бұрын
She’s a full Marxist, her entire twitter is just ranting about “reactionaries.” This is why your grandfathers persecuted Communists.
@buda3d2007Ай бұрын
The meme of the guy on the 10th place block pouring champagne on themselves celebrating comes to mind 😂, she is the main character
@stevenschnepp576Ай бұрын
Definitely the sort of person who's never suffered consequences for her actions. Just ignore her.
@talaris-ukАй бұрын
That quote at the beginning from Kotaku girl has already been proven false; the leaked Disney interview video says that there is a company mandate to exclude white men in upcoming projects.
@Al-ok6xmАй бұрын
DEI is basically excluding the most competent or the majority of the population.
@lel1103Ай бұрын
@@Al-ok6xm There are plenty of competent people who are black, or women or whoever that they're straight up not hiring. It seems like not hiring people based on merit is causing many companies to implode.
@EvilDoreshАй бұрын
@@lel1103 They seem to hire people mostly based on how much they agree with them
@Spacecadet690Ай бұрын
@@lel1103sure bud, where are they all?
@lel1103Ай бұрын
@@Spacecadet690 The tone isn't necessary, look for something obscure or less mainstream that happens to be made by a woman or black person or whoever without anyone calling attention to it. One of the co-creators of Blue Eye Samurai is an Asian woman for example. Fullmetal Alchemist? An Asian woman. Just as a couple examples.
@cristela4034Ай бұрын
Their argument is always the same: "audiences hate diversity". We don't hate diversity, we just hate crap. People didn't care about diversity or even noticed it when the stories were good, but the moment they called attention to it and made stories all about the gender or race of a character, people got annoyed for good reason cause the quality of the stories went downhill.
@JohnDoe-sr1ddАй бұрын
If audiences hate diversity, why is House of the Dragon so popular? Strong female leads, diverse cast, gay characters. Hmm, could it be they hired talented experienced people?
@firstnamelastname42069Ай бұрын
@@JohnDoe-sr1dd it's actually not really that popular. The show simply doesn't antagonize their audience
@cognitivedisability9864Ай бұрын
@@JohnDoe-sr1dd must be its not diverse enough. 😂
@powdercowboy90Ай бұрын
Well also it's because it's not "diverse" it's all just liberal left wing activism wearing the disguise of a story
@bobulationnationАй бұрын
I hate all types of crap, talking about diversity
@SirBlitzALotАй бұрын
Forced inclusivity isn't natural😂
@szeltovivarsydroxan9944Ай бұрын
Right? She might have missed that 99% of human existence was tribalism.
@leewright1Ай бұрын
Social engineering. It's complicated enough for nature to find it's homeostasis, but "certain people know better". Sounds familiar. Just because the radical left do their best to not show/use physical violence, doesn't mean they aren't.
@sirloin8745Ай бұрын
I’m a 40 year old white dude. I’m not included. 😪
@SirBlitzALotАй бұрын
@@sirloin8745 dude I'm 21
@peterkennedy3755Ай бұрын
It's the conundrum of trying to force behavior in others. From the very ones that don't want others to force their behavior. Should be the last thing that you support ..
@krunchie101Ай бұрын
It's insane that killing a lady turned demonic smoke monster then indirectly killing the other witches, who possessed a Jedi to kill his friends, somehow shows the Jedi as being bad guys...
@wimpymcsteel4458Ай бұрын
Especially after the Jedi Council expressly forbade them from taking the girls. Torbin was going against orders, acting on his own.
@SterileNeutrinoАй бұрын
Space Stalin would make the planet's whole biosphere glow because it's just irredeemably crazy down there.
@mikepatton8691Ай бұрын
Well Trinity unplugged them all while they were still inside The Matrix, so of course the witches died. Lol
@max_coastАй бұрын
100% ... wait, you mean turning into a smoke monster with fangs and evaporating a worried child is... a good thing? No wonder they think the dark side is friendly.
@TiGGowichАй бұрын
If you work in Hollywood that makes perfect sense
@lordjimbo2Ай бұрын
I said this after South Park missed the boat with Kennedy. This isn't incompetence. This is a new religion.
@TruffalotАй бұрын
@@NonhathanCan you expand on that? I don't know what you mean
@Al-ok6xmАй бұрын
Imposed by crazy billionaires.
@TheFantomsLairАй бұрын
This isn't new, these are Marxists ín control of the West for decades cause you tolerated them.
@liquidtruth7954Ай бұрын
@@Truffalot Idolatry
@XavierAway18 күн бұрын
Missed the boat? How so?
@coffeyalldayАй бұрын
When did all the progressive women decide to walk into their preferred salon and tell their hairdresser “Give me the Morgan Wallen”
@ChrisindapurplehouseАй бұрын
Don't you disrespect Morgan Wallen like that.
@some_random_guy_mk2Ай бұрын
😂
@GhostofFHBradleyАй бұрын
'Give me the lead singer from the Verve.'
@AszkalonOfVerraАй бұрын
*STRICT. BOYCOT.* of their Companies - FOREVER.
@AszkalonOfVerraАй бұрын
*GIVE* them the Budlight Treatment !!
@alphacauseАй бұрын
The Acolyte is what happens when moral relativism takes narrative form. There is no one to root for in the show, because the very idea of virtue is an unfamiliar concept for a team of writers and producers who are able to coast off their identity, as opposed to what they can contribute to the world.
@darktower0603Ай бұрын
Very well said!
@alphacauseАй бұрын
@@darktower0603 Thank you.
@cleanerben9636Ай бұрын
You can bash moral relativism all you like, but it's a fact. Morality is an abstract invention. Some morals are simply better than others.
@junburgett9767Ай бұрын
Well said. It is like this in every they do. The writers/producers have no concept of what it takes to be virtuous (and it is painfully obvious), yet they "think" their characters are. It's truly mind-boggling. I only watch (& laugh) at the reviews. I literally can't/won't watch a second of this awful (& I mean AWFUL) carrion of Disney stories/shows.
@christopherbelanger6612Ай бұрын
@@cleanerben9636 That's possibly true, but it makes for poor fiction when it takes a world popular for its black and white view of good and evil and changes it.
@GreatUSTreasureHuntАй бұрын
Calling it right now: the finale will answer no questions, and everyone will say "what the fuck was that?" Headlamp will then say: "See! It's a successful mystery! Everyone is asking what the fuck happened! That's why we need a season two."
@ODUBlueАй бұрын
I hate how likely that is
@tokiomiller9896Ай бұрын
Wtf was that, IS the finale
@regularguy726623 күн бұрын
And that's EXACTLY what happened.
@majacq1Ай бұрын
This attitude toward the Jedi, reminds me of the same mentality of Communist China, against the Buddhist monasteries and Tibet.
@Al-ok6xmАй бұрын
That's true. But the Tibetan monks were really exploiting the population. They were literally their serfs.
@gregthackray12 күн бұрын
Imo this attitude towards the Jedi is just a want to frame them as an oppressive institution lined up with the Senate. Like how the Church has been aligned with government + politics all these centuries to match their version of history. The whole thing is to portray the patriarchy as The Tibetan monks tried to asscend out of their bodies to reach enlightenment as if sex + the body are dirty or something + weren't that grounded with that aspect of themselves. Red is the colour of the root energy center + a chord to the center of the Earth, if you believe in that sort of thing, so they lost touch with the common people + the Red army basically wiped them out or took control of them as a spiritual lesson. Life can be a harsh teacher. Something these ill-usive women + all people who need an emergency to emerge-and-see will find out when their own behaviour comes around to bite 'em on the backside. Smug, cry for attention women like that Alyssa usually think they're been persecuted, have a meltdown + play the victim. Considering that they already play the victim, it'll be disturbing to see her fall from dis-grace. She's dissed enough, lol.
@fluxmuldar4 күн бұрын
Except that Buddhist monasteries and Buddhism in general have been preserved by the Chinese government, and the Tibetan fiefdom was exiled to India and the Tibetans freed from slavery. So not the same mentality at all.
@Doughboy123xАй бұрын
She truly is an example of "if I can't be the best, I sure as hell can be the worst."
@jekw23Ай бұрын
She can be best at being the worst
@TheNefastorАй бұрын
Except being the worst takes effort, and she's allergic to that.
@JohnDoe-wq5euАй бұрын
Nah, she’s not even the best at that. She’s just a pebble in peoples shoe, an annoying presence that you can’t wait to get rid of, but you know the minute you do sooner or later, you’ll just get another one. That’s the thing that really truly cuts me deeply is knowing even when we get rid of her, they’ll be another.
@Thx1138soberАй бұрын
I don't know what you expect from 14-year-old writers who live in adult bodies.
@parapoliticos52Ай бұрын
Is that a metaphor for Leslie's basement?
@patrioticcat5768Ай бұрын
@@parapoliticos52 more like her work office. Or "former" office.
@TheNefastorАй бұрын
Adult bodies ? None of them look like they went through puberty yet.
@bettysteve322716Ай бұрын
who have only ever read mills and boon softcore pron for women.
@denkerbosu3551Ай бұрын
@@TheNefastor well, we're on record saying they're unfuckable, so that really keeps their constant "pdf" accusations in doubt whenever they attack us for wanting attractive women in media.
@nickdirienzo2849Ай бұрын
I'd love to see this chick interact with the "urban disenfranchised minorities" that she thinks she speaks for without calling the cops...😂
@Herr_AffeАй бұрын
"The industry is diverse naturally. Nobody is making them be diverse." The SBIs of the world would disagree.
@n7sorcerer419Ай бұрын
Then they should *fight* her. PhYsIcAlLy.
@gamedude412Ай бұрын
Alyssa is the last vestige of the Buzzfeed Outrage click business model. The Less attention given to her the better. She craves attention and her takes are solely designed to get engagement. She best handle not with Breakdown her views and honestly engagement, She deserves total apathy.
@guyonyoutube501Ай бұрын
This is the answer. Unfortunately media works differently.
@StolenEyesXАй бұрын
Well said. Everything Mercante writes or says is to feed her own egotistical narcissism and she needs to be completely ignored.
@RikaloniusАй бұрын
I think Alyssa is Frosk in ugly glasses.
@stevenschnepp576Ай бұрын
This is the way. She's not even saying something outrageous. She's just parroting Reddit bullshit.
@davidgantenbein9362Ай бұрын
That’s why I would never go and read/watch her stuff after watching this video. I have no issue with supporting Drinker, but I definitely don’t want to support Kotaku. Imo outrage baiting will die, because most audience will just consume a video like this, without ever going to Kotaku themselves, because most of them will learn how dumb it is to click on Kotaku eventually.
@OlinserАй бұрын
What Baggage Claim is talking about is literally a classic Star Trek episode where Kirk gets split into 2 parts that are both technically Kirk but missing key pieces, and neither of them can function correctly alone, so they have to reunite. They did the concept better and cleaner in 50 minutes than these hacks have done in 4 hours.
@PeregrinTintenfishАй бұрын
Well, the whole story so far could have been made into a 40 minute episode.
@BiggieTrismegistusАй бұрын
_The Enemy Within_ is the episode. I've actually been watching episodes of the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine recently. I'd forgotten how nice it is to have well-written stories that take 45 minutes to tell.
@fonkymanАй бұрын
@@BiggieTrismegistus im watching voyager.. and every episode is better then this new SW sh*t... voyager is better than star wars... lol
@dougmorgan6819Ай бұрын
“When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.” “Only a master of evil, Dereck.” 😂
@peritoquastenberg4487Ай бұрын
"A young jedi betrayed and murdered your father. His name... Was Simon. "
@NecropheliacАй бұрын
If my company was financially failing as deeply as Kotaku is, we would have closed our doors years ago. Because of that, when some employee exhibits contempt for our customers/the general public, it forces my leadership team to terminate that persons relationship with the company. GO media is literally throwing investor money in a bonfire until the fire eventually turns to coals and embers and runs out of money to waste. It defies all explanation that such a high profile media enterprise can be managed so poorly.
@adamuadamu5081Ай бұрын
Ah, but you see, the fans and readers are not the customer.
@tankerd1847Ай бұрын
The explanation is that they are ideologically motivated.
@LivingInTheKaliYogurt29 күн бұрын
This is corporate communism. Profit is not the point. Ideological indoctrination is. And this isn't expected to be popular now. It is meant to be the only Version of these properties that will exist for the next generation once all the things created by those guilty of "wrongthink" is memoryholed.
@garybicknell2135Ай бұрын
Kotaku: "In defense of child grooming"
@Astroman10Ай бұрын
Kotaku just trying to stay relevant! I feel like the only thing Frosk 2.0 learned was how to stick around longer …
@RecklessFablesАй бұрын
I think they only really exist to give conservative media something to react to.
@ttabood7462Ай бұрын
That's what everyone needs to start calling her.
@aulvinduergard9952Ай бұрын
Frosk lasted 9.5 months after the rant. Who knows about Mercunti.
@Astroman10Ай бұрын
@@ttabood7462 the only issue with that is this one won’t be the reason a multi-million dollar project dies before it starts! Frosk will always have that over everyone else (except SBI)
@hybrid9mmАй бұрын
Shit only sticks around for so long eventually it drys and crumbles. Her career is tacky at best.
@tylerbrunton7696Ай бұрын
Force-sensitive twins growing up in totally different ways, only for their stories to intertwine because of the Jedi. Now where have I seen that before?
@Rusyn1910Ай бұрын
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say Episodes 4,5, and 6?
@HikingFeralАй бұрын
Making an entire characters personality - I am black / a woman / gay, and focusing on only that will guarantee the failure of the game / film / series. Audiences want to be entertained by complex stories that make sense, free from implanted messages with a strong focus on the quality and consistency of the worlds lore. If all Game studios / film studios / TV channels wrote that at the top of every script we would have good media.
@bettysteve322716Ай бұрын
they forgot the two important words for WHY we humans seek out entertainment *ESCAPING REALITY*
@tehrulefooАй бұрын
4:25 If the Witches were in fact just knocked out like Kotaku says, that means Mae has even more blood on her hands, because surely they all died when the fire she caused destroyed their fortress and the Jedi are even less culpable for the massacre of the coven.
@MrCrocketttАй бұрын
You mean the fire in the stone castle....😅
@davorzdralo8000Ай бұрын
@@MrCrocketttwell, it was the highly flammable kind of rock, you know?
@RezzatoniАй бұрын
If they were just knocked out, then she has no reason for revenge at all ...
@therealking6202Ай бұрын
But but but it was a rock burning electrical fire, duhhhh!!!!
@mike2687Ай бұрын
@@davorzdralo8000 that’s why I made our backyard fire pit out of pavers and surrounded it with wood for containment along with sand and dirt as kindling. We lost our house…
@TheWarmachine375Ай бұрын
Indara channeling her inner Trinity to disconnect the cult of witches from the Matrix and they fall down like puppets with strings cut off.
@parapoliticos52Ай бұрын
yes, my favourite moment too.
@krunchie101Ай бұрын
The power of MaNy!! Turned out to be incredibly useless as they all died after combining their powers to control 1 wookie...
@DaPoetRappАй бұрын
I foresee the acolyte getting the Willow treatment
@claymclaren5788Ай бұрын
we can hope, but I doubt it.
@n7sorcerer419Ай бұрын
They’ll probably double down and add red haired girl from Willow and Falcon and Winter Solider to the cast just to intentionally make it worse. Who cares if she’s already Enfys Nest? Not like the writers care about Star Wars lore anyway.
@joseantoniomillabrito2764Ай бұрын
It doesn't matter if the content makes no money... it's the propaganda costs disguised as a business. I've been tormenting my head all this time getting around why all content is so bad. They don't want to make any money. To them it's just paid propaganda.
@user-hf8qi5kl7sАй бұрын
This!
@AbsentMinded619Ай бұрын
Well in this case they had to give Weinstein’s assistant whatever she wanted to reward her silence about Disney’s culpability, so they probably saw it as a necessary cost anyway, and all the relativist propaganda was just a way to make the best of it. They never could have thought a script this bad would help them.
@Al-ok6xmАй бұрын
Bingo!
@djblackprincecdnАй бұрын
But shouldn't the goal of propaganda be to influence as many people as possible. If no one wants to watch this slop, how will they ever be converted?
@joseantoniomillabrito2764Ай бұрын
@@djblackprincecdn the propaganda and virtue signaling must be non stop. Brainwashing is a process.
@crowtein677Ай бұрын
After the prequels and clone wars, Jedi bad is not subversive anymore. Having the Jedi being paragons of good and living up to their ideals would be the most subversive plot and probably a really good story
@taddad2641Ай бұрын
what happens when an organization is so large and ponderous as the jedi order and are serving a increasingly corrupt power structure. the thing that kept the jedi from implding into a sith organization in all but name was Master Yoda, and there were plenty of genuinely brave and good intentioned jedi, from kit fisto, ayla secura, yoda himself of course, and so on. but the foundations were corroding away. many jedi were weak or incompetent and or corrupt, and normally not in 'taking bribes' way but ina templar esk zealot sorta way. not asking the questions they should ask when asked to interene in a matter.
@AbsentMinded619Ай бұрын
Yeah Kennedy has been “deconstructing” Star Wars like it’s a genius idea for over a decade. Sooner or later they’ll have to stop deconstructing and actually have an idea of their own, and they can’t do that.
@jaieregilmore971Ай бұрын
Worst part this show take place in the High republic so called era that Jedis at there best but we didn’t get none of that in the show,in fact I would argue the prequel Jedi weren’t that bad they were just flaw. I agree it be a fresh idea for the Jedi living up to their ideals because of I’m tired of Jedis losing faith it didn’t work with Luke skywalker and didn’t work with Obi Wan.
@adriangarcia2158Ай бұрын
@@jaieregilmore971 I always thought clone wars Jedi were PEAK. They were the only ones, other than Old republic jedi, who were in constant warfare. I would say, based on the jedi we saw in the acolyte, one knight from the prequels could take on 2-3 high republic jedi
@pattypiranha3132Ай бұрын
I'm a woman, and I've been a fan of primarily male targeted franchises my whole life, Star Wars, TMNT, Transformers, Batman, etc. I never needed them to cater to women. I liked them how they were, and all the changes made to be "inclusive" have just driven me away.
@PGHEngineerАй бұрын
Likewise I accept that The Devil Wears Prada, Notting Hill, Sleepless in Seattle and the Oceans movies were all aimed at women but as a guy I enjoy them just the way they are. Of course, they have quietly stopped making such movies for women. I presume it's all part of the genderless movie environment they are intent on creating.
@daysofapril266722 күн бұрын
Same! I never needed to feel “represented” by these properties.
@AnaOhKay5 күн бұрын
agree 100%
@meatpuppet5036Ай бұрын
The Jedi never say only their spirituality is valid, and anyone who has watched the franchise over the years would know that.
@justinbowers274929 күн бұрын
They never have to say it, they know it is
@ConstellasianАй бұрын
That video clip in the beginning showed a portion of the mindset of these types of people: crazy and misguided.
@waltski4375Ай бұрын
I tip my hat to you kind people for trying to save Star Wars (and Marvel, etc.). I for my part, have now learned to turn my back on the Sarlacc Pit that Disney has become and have mentally moved on to a new world.
@whenpigsfly8178Ай бұрын
I've discovered WH40k recently, so while it too is under a bit of a threat from DEI loves, it's definitely a great masculine alternative to Disney Star Wars.
@guardianofthetoasters2323Ай бұрын
@@whenpigsfly8178 best not get too attached to it. GW is so fucking stupid. Rich story and lore like star wars but they don't even get the chance to shine and get slammed by fucking amazon
@GIBBO4182Ай бұрын
Don’t worry, Kotaku won’t be around for much longer
@kaj7135Ай бұрын
**hits detonator button**
@MrReubenTishkoffАй бұрын
I thought they closed down a few weeks ago
@parapoliticos52Ай бұрын
A terrible thing that would be. Oh well..
@GIBBO4182Ай бұрын
@@MrReubenTishkoff Australian branch did
@mightyfineincredible2252Ай бұрын
@@MrReubenTishkoff Clueless
@123reivajАй бұрын
There was a time in that beloved "galaxy so far far away" when the characters were mostly a Wide Variety of alien species and a few humans who would do "something important". *Now* , since Disney took the reins, there are very few aliens on screen in exchange for a Big diversity of humans with ridiculous clothes and hairstyles, which do not match Star Wars and who do little or nothing for the plot.
@quailstudiosАй бұрын
It's pretty obvious that the creators of this show have a different view of morality than some people on this planet. Or should we say most people on this planet?
@DarkingtonАй бұрын
I never got the idea that the Jedi are some sort of oppressive religion. I'd have to imagine if you're overseeing the peace of an entire galaxy you have to have a level of tolerance to the uncountable number of different cultures and aliens you'd find across the galaxy.
@filmandfirearmsАй бұрын
Considering how every planet we've seen so far is completely multi species, it's safe to assume that the galaxy as a whole has moved well beyond any issues like that, so clearly there must be a degree of acceptance or else people would rebel. It's not as if they don't fight over other things, people fight constantly, but those conflicts are motivated by conflicting individual desires, not xenophobia
@aulvinduergard9952Ай бұрын
Exactly. The Jedi Council even told them to leave the witches alone. That's not something an oppressive religion does, especially not one with a galactic government's resources at their beck and call. It would have had the witches obliterated from orbit, not told the investigators to back down.
@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33ZАй бұрын
it was created by a white male so it must be an oppressive force.. get with it grrl
@TheLastKentuckyIrregular9524Ай бұрын
That's from Legends. And they sort of were. But it was less that they were a oppressive cult and more that they had tied their cult to the Republic. They acted as a sort of quasi-religious police for the Republic which led them to destroy multiple other groups including the Mandalorians.
@TheAuthorStudiosАй бұрын
Thing is the modern writers are phisically incapable of separating their real-world sociopolitical views from everything they do, and as such since they hate the mainstream religion IRL and convincend themsleves it's nothing but an opressive system made to control people and put down any different belief system, they MUST make the Jedi reflect that in their writing, becasue we all know the only purpose of art is to reflect and push your personal real-world sociopoligical ideologies and nothing more (which is what the 'all art is political' crew ACUTALLY believes funnily enough.)
@darrellcovello7917Ай бұрын
Still waiting for that "Frozen meets Kill Bill" thing to make sense
@paulianhodgsonАй бұрын
There's ummmm sisters and ahhh swords... and uhhhh men bad!
@MrBonified66Ай бұрын
It has the suspense and violence of Frozen, and the wholesome Disney family entertainment of Kill Bill.
@stevef3685Ай бұрын
I might actually watch that though
@PeregrinTintenfishАй бұрын
The Frozen element is that it is about sisters. The Kill Bill element is the quest for revenge. There are also DnD elements.
@Fred-gu6pkАй бұрын
Musical final episode. The surviving characters are all going to sing "Let it go" and everyone else has already done so
@garysmith9823Ай бұрын
Harvey's PA would see the Jedi as the villains.
@SleepyFenАй бұрын
The last time Kotaku was relevant, Mass Effect 3 hadn't been released yet. And it fucking shows.
@pumpernickelrye9736Ай бұрын
Mauler quickly phrasing the chant as "The power of one too many" perfectly sums up how this show became written like this.
@michielvincent3988Ай бұрын
Modern entertainment is like a bachelor party organised by your over-protective mother, up to and including the part where she resents you for no longer wanting to go to the party, because she's already put in so much effort after you specifically asked her not to.
@fiertoАй бұрын
The smug on her face says it all. Feeling like moral knights and looking down on everyone else.
@demian7567Ай бұрын
A few minutes ago, in a safe space five blocks away...
@JohnDoe-sr1ddАй бұрын
This show is evidence of what happens when you hire people by checklist instead of hiring according to actual talent and experience.
@lacolem1Ай бұрын
Instead of Sol not having a Padawan because he’s…not ready?…it could’ve been because he failed to intervene when his former Padawan was in trouble, and it cost them their life. Now, he’s unable to stand by and do nothing, even if he’s being a bit emotional and delusional with attachment. And Torbin could’ve been troubled by premonitions of a dark chasm that come true when he’s mindgraped and sees what the witches worship. Might be why he spent so much time meditating, as the chasm gets bigger over the years. There. Simple, quick and dirty fix. It puts fault on the Jedi for their actions, but it gives credible motivation.
@GideonRavenor712Ай бұрын
Exactly, and I wager it didn't take that long to come up with. Instead we have a nothing explanation behind why Sol doesn't have a Padawan yet, a Master-Apprentice relationship between Indara and Torbin that makes no sense for the situation we see (If it were Indara and Torbin alone, okay, but you're out on a world for over two months with two other Jedi who aren't your Master . . . this is not some academic lesson.), and they gave Torbin the most simplistic motivation that you can think of that doesn't even make sense with his actions towards the end (Likely because they didn't want to make it dark so as to not make the Witches look more evil, and because they needed SOME kind of motivation for why Torbin killed himself later so they make him be the inciting reason for going back for the girls instead of Sol at first.).
@PapaEmeritusIIАй бұрын
Really puts into context how dog shit these writers/activists are.
@axiss5840Ай бұрын
People have been able to point out fixes like this since Force Awakens and yet we STILL get nothing but trash. It just points further and further toward a money laundering theory imo
@MrBonified66Ай бұрын
Mercante looks like Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. "May I use the bathroom please?" "Of course Ruprecht" "Thank you".
@pure-blood17Ай бұрын
Nice,lol.
@parapoliticos52Ай бұрын
Funny, i thought of a roadkill rotten too.
@PuissantPeacockАй бұрын
I fell on the floor laughing when I first saw that scene. It's still hilarious to watch and absolutely looks like Mercante...without the glasses, of course.
@djblackprincecdnАй бұрын
Man, that's a dated reference and you're making me feel like an old man, old man.
@MrBonified66Ай бұрын
@@djblackprincecdn haha I bet I'm older :)
@Vaille32Ай бұрын
My cat took a greasy, rancid Acolyte in her litter box. It doesn’t stink as bad as this show, tho.
@renmcmanusАй бұрын
"The world is diverse." Yea. The 50% Asian world is diverse.
@AbsentMinded619Ай бұрын
That’s why they support shutting Asians out of universities.
@szeltovivarsydroxan9944Ай бұрын
Merecunty doing her best Dr. Ian Malcolm cosplay.
@fyrchmyrddin1937Ай бұрын
I don't remember the Dr. Malcom character was supposed to be *actually* mentally handicapped so much as smart but quirky.
@aulvinduergard9952Ай бұрын
@@fyrchmyrddin1937 He's been "re-imagined for modern audiences."
@AnautistictherapistАй бұрын
When the actors you hire aren’t having fun portraying the characters you’ve written, then there’s a huge problem. There’s NO enthusiasm for their parts whatsoever.
@adamlakeman7240Ай бұрын
Fetid Sarlacc Pit sounds like a good name for a band.
@AndragonLeaАй бұрын
Outfits like Kotaku are most of the reason why nobody trusts or respects gaming journalism to begin with. The jedi did almost everything right. The only mistakes that could be laid at their feet is that they dared interfere in cult business to REQUEST permission to test their children and to show up with more than one Jedi when it came time to pick up the one child that had tested positive and expressed a desire to go with the Jedi. Meanwhile the space witches demonized the Jedi as part of their educational practice, acted defensive when they showed up, lied to them about the presence of the children, then instructed the children to lie during the test, hid the children away when the time came for one of them to be handed over, assembled in an armed and belligerent mob when the Jedi showed up as expected, menaced them. During that fight a whole bunch of them team up to literally mind-control one of the Jedi to attack his friends. They couldn't have made the Jedi more in the right if they tried. Apparently all the Sith had to do to be the poor suppressed underdogs was to recruit only women and have them bump uglies at night. Instant recipe for justice. What they could have done was show the Padawan as the naive recruit and the other Jedi as the jaded, arrogant cop types. After millenia of Jedi supremacy they started taking rights and liberties that seem utterly out of bound (each of them established in response to some tragedy and valid for that specific situation, but being too broadly applied because the Jedi have been unchallenged for so long), have the Jedi apply those rights to a community that didn't opt into their oversight or agree to their stewardship over the Force and Force sensitive children and have that go terribly bad in a situation where all the signs pointed to crazy space witch Sith cult when, in reality, the signs were simply misleading or badly interpreted due to the defensive and confrontational attitude of the cult leader. A sort of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" kind of deal.
@antibull4869Ай бұрын
Lllootttaaaa parallels there between the Jedi and Israel in the Israel/Palestine conflict lol
@jculver1674Ай бұрын
It's a testament to how bad the writing is on this show that it was unclear to people whether all those witches were killed or knocked out. Something that straightforward wouldn't be the least bit vague if any real effort had been put into making this show.
@HemskelolАй бұрын
Witches VS Patriarchy 😂🤣🤡
@djblackprincecdnАй бұрын
The real irony is the entire show is supposed to show how women are better but the women in the coven get beat at every step. It really keeps showing the opposite of what they intend.
@jamesforbes5616Ай бұрын
The idea that the Jedi could sometimes be arrogant and morally questionable was at the heart of KOTOR. Its not 'new' or 'groundbreaking'. Just like the Cortosis they made smilo's helmet out of, all that was done in the Acolyte is rip ideas out of already established lore and sew them together to create a Frankenstien monster and then slap a 'Star Wars' sticker on it.
@dougmorgan6819Ай бұрын
“There are some who call me… Tim.”
@Werewolf.with.Internet.AccessАй бұрын
Tim, Kyle, Keith, and Ben are some of the most unintimidating male names I’ve ever heard
@ashgamble1168Ай бұрын
Tim the enchanter ??
@folee_edgeАй бұрын
Who knew that we would be LIVING the absurdity that Monte Python was using as comedy GOLD, my friend ❤
@Flesh_WizardАй бұрын
Tim Cann?
@Al-ok6xmАй бұрын
Darth Timothy.
@existentialselkath1264Ай бұрын
Many star wars stories have depicted the Jedis hubris and dogma as the cause of their downfalls. Some of the best stories tackle this, such as KotOR 2. The Acolyte does not cover this topic. It thinks it does, but it doesn't understand the Jedi or basic storytelling well enough to do so.
@Tony_409Ай бұрын
They did pride themselves of not knowing Star Wars lore
@Al-ok6xmАй бұрын
The hubris of some Jedis has always been depicted. Darth Vader was a Jedi. "Some" is the key word.
@jonjonr6Ай бұрын
If smug had a profile picture, it would be that thumbnail.
@Aelwyn666Ай бұрын
I've been a gamer for 40 years and I can proudly state I have never clicked on/read or watched anything created by Kotaku except for clips my favourite youtubers put in their videos. Everything is much clearer if you avoid mainstream media of any sort.
@YoboPlaysАй бұрын
They don't think they're making entertainment. They think they're having a (one-sided) conversation with the viewers, but we're not comprehending what they're saying
@Werewolf.with.Internet.AccessАй бұрын
So far what I’ve got is “Jedi bad, communist lesbian space witches good” I don’t agree with it, at all, but I THINK that’s what they’re TRYING to say….?
@PeregrinTintenfishАй бұрын
They don't know what they are doing. If they were just making propaganda it would be better because it would be consistent.
@conqc20Ай бұрын
So funny the "power of many" was defeated by Triinity. lol.
@specialk8888Ай бұрын
Kotaku really is the new Buzzfeed. Shallow, printing outright lies and mistruths and just the worst when it comes to journalism
@djblackprincecdnАй бұрын
Thats a very generous use of the word 'journalism'
@MichaelWitkowski-dq1nrАй бұрын
Never even heard of them until now. They can't be that important.
@dirkdisco2316Ай бұрын
Yodas' explanation of the Force in Empire will always be my cannon. Luminous beings are we...
@captyonah1378Ай бұрын
When you make a product your customer doesn’t want, blaming them for not consuming it is peak delusion.
@austinsmith5061Ай бұрын
Kotaku are just cheerleaders at this point for The Message, and see any criticism of substance to be an attack on their ideology rather than just actual reviews.
@todayontheinternet9576Ай бұрын
That guy in the orange glasses is high af.
@gijimbo1337Ай бұрын
Oh man this SO GOLDEN! "The power of one too many." That one's got me rolling! 🤣
@stephen232323ifyАй бұрын
The way Theory's window lines up with the backround characters arms is a nice touch lol.
@jonrobinson8005Ай бұрын
The Acolyte makes the Phantom Menace look like a master piece.😆
@lockyp204Ай бұрын
Please don’t compare it to any of the prequels
@Tacti_catАй бұрын
Phantom Menace is a good film, but man don't drag it down in comparison to this pile of absolute slop.
@user-z828Ай бұрын
Never compare the prequels or the original trilogy to this disaster of a show or thing .
@contentsdiffer5958Ай бұрын
@@user-z828 Never utter the original trilogy in the same breath as the prequels.
@joker-zw8wjАй бұрын
Phantom menace is gucking amazing this is just fucking shit don't ever compare to this shit
@yogimon241Ай бұрын
Raising my hand .. what's a Kotaku? .. is it something my exteminator can handle
@DainRiffgin89Ай бұрын
It is becoming more blatant every week that the Acolyte writers did not read each other’s scripts. The level of contradictions between episodes and from the beginning to end of the series is insane.
@cordatusscire344Ай бұрын
Torban being wided-eyed and seeing the jedi as heroic doesn't work though. Remember, they are trained from very early childhood specifically to clamp down on such emotional aspirations. Because. Ya know. Dark Side.
@justinbowers274929 күн бұрын
They aren’t trained to not have emotions, otherwise they couldn’t feel compassion, Jedi are trained to not let their emotions cloud their judgement and not to get overly attached to people because they will lead to the dark side.
@videovagrancy8526Ай бұрын
"The Acolyte is about the Jedi's hubris." If they had any understanding of the Jedi they would know that you cannot be a Jedi if you are blinded by hubris. These people don't know what they are doing.
@AdrianFahrenheitTepesАй бұрын
Okay, so how did the Jedi get to where they were in Episodes I-III? Wasn’t it because they couldn’t find The Sith for so long?
@TiGGowichАй бұрын
Honestly, Kotaku has been bankrupt for years... it's an organization entirely run by activists and only kept alive by people working for free and minimum wage
@RockerfellerRothchild177629 күн бұрын
Cia funds
@dronesclubhighjinksАй бұрын
Great chat! I especially value the insights from Baggage Claim. Wish she was on more often!
@JoeSyxpackАй бұрын
"Make me a sandwich" is an effective defensive maneuver against an aggressive dishwasher.
@JadtyАй бұрын
Holy based lol.
@compostsmurf5519Ай бұрын
Careful lads, some dishwashers lack humour and are likely to get stabby at such remarks 😂
@vespenegas261Ай бұрын
@@compostsmurf5519 They wouldn't know what part of a knife to hold on too
@JoeSyxpackАй бұрын
@@vespenegas261 Of course they do. How else would they cut the sandwich?
@skylx0812Ай бұрын
That thumbnail tho. Thats the face of the deviantART/Tumblr/Jr High-set's "Its Better To Be Hated Than Ignored" movement.
@christopher9152Ай бұрын
Great panel. Baggage Claim needs to be on here more for sure.
@odojangАй бұрын
If mother Anassya had only said right from the start ''Osha can go with you if she choses to, '' _nothing of this whole shit would have ever happened!_ They all died because they didn't post a memo on the fridge. This is textbook bad writing. And they wonder why we despise that crap.
@admiralseabass8993Ай бұрын
same thing happened with Poe and Holdo in TLJ. JUST TELL HIM YOUR PLAN
@odojangАй бұрын
@@admiralseabass8993 Bad writing in Star Wars for sure didn't start with the Acolyte. But clearly the Acolyte did no better than the worst of it.
@Booma4142Ай бұрын
None of the Jedi act like Jedi.
@NeptunewakesАй бұрын
Theory looks like his hand is on the desk during the whole video 😂
@tammyjones889429 күн бұрын
Great conversation with good ideas. I agree with Baggage Claim when she said 'what if the coven was in charge of a governing body? '
@AlMiGaАй бұрын
The Drinker shows that "diversity" can be done properly... Look at the man's panel! Cheers to you Drinker 🍻
@Arthur_King_of_the_BritonsАй бұрын
Did you have to pick that most puпchable face to appear in my recommended?
@tylergoodman3560Ай бұрын
Kotaku needs to worry about their own future right now. And we didn't watch it wrong, The Acolyte episode 7 doesn't make any sense. 💯🎉
@seanmckelvey6618Ай бұрын
To be brutally honest, I thought Kotaku went under ages ago, so when this article came out my first thought was just "they still exist?"
@aldunlop4622Ай бұрын
I thought the Jedi fell from grace because of a secret plan to kill them from behind. Maybe I watched the wrong movies.
@AdrianFahrenheitTepesАй бұрын
Because the Sith apparently killed themselves and they didn’t have Sith to fight for so long, although you have to keep in mind, while Yoda and Windu had some hesitation to accept that the Sith were back, they did make sure that they had evidence and confirmation about it.
@nigenАй бұрын
Darth Derek would be an AMAZING character for a prequel series. he's a sith that predates the rule of two era, and he's basically a smug smarmy dick that is full of himself and even the other sith hate him. like "oh god... NOT Derek!" and he creates trouble for protaganists and the sith alike, his ship was stolen from his master, he participates in smuggling, blows the profit on rediculous things, he jsut lives life to the fullest and uses the force to troll people AND get his way, the only time things ever get dark is when he DOES get serious....
@billylebullyhunter7366Ай бұрын
After yesterday I have no patience for these people
@PeregrinTintenfishАй бұрын
I don't think the coven was supposed to be depicted as pure good and the Jedis weren't supposed to be depicted as pure evil. However, they have botched it and made the Jedis more sympathetic than they intended and the coven less so. I think the narrative is meant to be about the Jedi being prejudiced, but not malicious. They didn't fully commit to that, but also they probably expected the audience to be more sympathetic to the witches. The witches were shown to be bigoted and dishonest as well as aggressive in Episode 3.
@Red-zh7vqАй бұрын
If Indara didn’t kill the witches, the roof caving in from the flammable rocks probably did
@MarkyMark845Ай бұрын
When I saw this article my first thought was "Oh I know Drinker is going to cover this so well"
@Will_ParkerАй бұрын
The point the prequels made was that the Jedi had become COMPLACENT, not evil. They were off course, not completely turned around.
@SeanJoyce-pg5xkАй бұрын
I can't unsee the fact that, one Tyrone joins the conversation, Theory's panel moves and it looks like he's got large arms and a drink, the whole time.
@dhendy27Ай бұрын
"I'm so happy that's it over" No my friend, it is just beginning
@LukasJampenАй бұрын
The power of many was worthless in the face of one.
@KingOfMumbles485...Ай бұрын
I thought Kotaku was shut down.
@AngryPug76Ай бұрын
12:18 Mae didn’t want revenge for the death of her mothers and the rest of the coven, just her sister. That’s why she decided to surrender. Couldn’t care less that her mom was stabbed to death in front of her. So the writers even screwed that up.
@justinrodriguez5957Ай бұрын
At this point, I'm convinced Mae is just mad Squid Game doesn't want her as a padawan. Hence her hesitation that shouldn't be there because she wants to kill him. Even though this itself wouldn't make sense because Mae didn't want to leave. I do agree, there is an interesting premise to be had here with the idea. However, these people were clearly not even close to beint qualified to do it. Even in the prequels there are clear issues with the Jedi and their mantra of essentially trying to be so stoic it'll cause any normal person to snap. Where Anakin was seeking how to handle the concept of loss, something he already doesn't handle too well, Yoda's advice was not exactly helpful. A typical person may have responded with "Shit, just enjoy the time you have left with the person." not "Welp, that's life better mentally prepare how to deal with it."