The Acolye: Mediocre to the End

The Acolye: Mediocre to the End
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Art and Animation by Just Some Guy
Original trailer concept: FMA Brotherhood & Black Summoner
Music: "Enkon Hakuchuumu" by Sakagami Souichi - Copyright (C) 2015 Trial & Error/Sakagami Souichi All rights reserved.
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[@keithpennock]

“It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.” - Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5)

[@ranchoth]

"Fanfic writers rarely if ever dream up an OC superior to themselves. Most OCs have the manners and morals of a spoiled child." -Robert Heinlein (slightly paraphrased)

[@JWard-sp7wt]

Leyslie and Kathleen thought mae and Osha being the same person split into two was better than the reveal that Vader is Luke's father. I'm not even kidding. They actually said it.

[@80sMoviesRule1]

So they have no humility at all?!?! Yeah sounds about right🤷🏻‍♂️

[@sadface7457]

There has to be setup and payoff for it to be a reveal

[@Peterski]

@@sadface7457 yeah, and people have to, you know, give a shit ;)

[@JWard-sp7wt]

@@sadface7457 I didn't even know it was a twist

[@sadface7457]

​@Peterski They should introduce the Vergence in episode on and started with episode 7

[@Trazynn]

This show didn't deserve Lee Jung-jae, and he particularly didn't deserve this show.

[@sadface7457]

I dislike all the scenes without him. I literally fast forward them.

[@jdstudios1912]

And carrie, I feel so bad for both of them because when you watch the cast interviews some of them are just outright morons who need to shut their mouth.

[@sadface7457]

The worst was cutting between an emotional scene with him and Mae the difference in acting made me feel like I was watching a digital composite of two different movies.

[@lordsinister707]

My two cents, he took this role so he could get paid to learn English

[@sadface7457]

​@lordsinister707 You have allot of casting directors overlook you unless you have a few American credits

[@Killakwabo]

Ironically they made the Jedi more justified in why they should be more emotionally detached

[@SparklySnow103]

“Mediocre” is a term that is far too generous for this atrocity.

[@Mgauge]

Seriously. This show failed at basic concepts a rookie writer would know not to make. It's so broken that it would have to be dismantled back to its core idea and rebuilt to fix. It's worse than the sequels, but doesn't have the excuse of having multiple directors rewriting it multiple times.

[@Jimmie2429]

Mediocre? You’re being way too kind.

[@MechShark]

Yea... this may be the worst show produced in the history of TV, especially when weighting by budget and legacy IP (lmao).

[@mrpurple11]

​@@MechShark just by budget alone it's a laughable tragedy

[@moseszero3281]

I had called the Rings of Power, dollar for dollar, the worst show ever made. But at LEAST in ROP the characters had SOME motivation. ALL the 'GOOD' guys in ROP might have been horrible narcissists but at LEAST they didn't glorify murdering your adoptive father because your mom turned into a demonhost. ROP characters didn't say they were gonna turn themselves into the jedi to be with their sister then IMMEDIATELY proceed to fight, knock out, strip then abandon their UNCONSCIOUS sister in a forest full of man eating bugs. ROP characters didn't have a fake AZZ emotional scene then mind wipe their sister FOR NO REASON then run off with their new SITH Soy Boy. Technically this show is a nuclear waste fire but ethically is a nightmare. But its no surprise, considering the source.

[@slimbombur7922]

This show wish it reached mediocre level.

[@Vilgax00]

I swear Velma atleast give some laugh in there due to do how bad it is.

[@mrdeeds72]

"His name might as well be Hawk Tuah because that all he does. Spit on that thang... " 🤣

[@conradaster3764]

Dude seriously, thank you for watching this for me...SERIOUSLY.

[@Phantomgreen29]

That's what I've been saying for awhile, JSG and other KZbinrs are doing us a huge favor being the canary in the coal mine for us, and unlike Disney he's earned my trust on when it'll be worth coming back to watch. JSG is doing the work of angels and saints, preserving the mind and souls of people everywhere.

[@jdstudios1912]

​@@Phantomgreen29honestly mate, I don't think we'll ever see star wars bounce back. When Disney copyright runs out and it enters public domain that's when star wars might have a chance. Assuming anyone remembers it by then.

[@Phantomgreen29]

@@jdstudios1912 Very possible indeed, if that's the case then so be it. I won't be trying to keep it afloat for the sake of my childhood love of it.

[@mrpurple11]

​@@Phantomgreen29that's a healthy option. Not force yourself to expectations or frustrations just because someone wants to bait you with nostalgia.

[@jasonnewbery]

Yup i didn’t watxh a single episode. Just followed youtubers and watched their videos on this dumpster fire

[@SoldierSpiderx]

I like how she hates Sol for killing her mom, but yet falls in love with Qimir in 5 mins after killing her friends and Christopher Lee (Count Dooku) said the worst era of Hollywood was when they were making movies/shows for themselves...

[@LaRanaFel1z]

Fck this romance. Fck the "enemies to lovers" trope. I'll take a "lovers squarrel" or a "childhood friend romance", or even a "manic pixie dream girl" over this crap any day.

[@Rogue-a-Pogue]

Does Osha even know _which_ mom was killed? Not that I'm saying it would matter which mom died, but the idea that she went into a murderous rage strong enough to force choke someone and bleed a kyber crystal and not have a clear idea of exactly _who_ she lost would be surreal.

[@irena4545]

Also, Luke Skywalker is supposedly a total failure for one knee-jerk moment without even killing anyone, whereas she slowly murders Sol with full awareness of what she is doing, and we're supposed to, what, you go, girl?!

[@user-ub3tn7er1k]

WHY did she fall in love with Qimir? But by then I was used to every decision the characters made being arbitrarily motivated. Oh why not fall in love with Qimir. Why not do whatever. The show needs you to do it, that's why.

[@SoldierSpiderx]

@@user-ub3tn7er1k lmao fact

[@masamune2984]

Anytime you are at work, at your job you are underpaid for, and feel like you are just complaining, remember: people were paid millions of dollars to make this show. The world DOES suck.

[@blackdragoncyrus]

"Mediocre" implies that it's even approaching good.

[@matthewbateman6487]

lore aside, the lightsaber changing colors is sort of silly..... like, Anakin kills a hundred younglings and is dead-set on killing his own master, with full yellow eyes, screaming "I hate you" but his blue lightsaber remains blue.... makes no sense.

[@irena4545]

Exactly. If anything should have changed, it was her eyes - and shouldn't Mae have Sith eyes, by the way? and Qimir? But then we couldn't have this _awesome_ swap, right?

[@Willowy13]

Just like they did with "I am Iron Man", they copied it from a much more significant moment. When Ben destroys Vader helmet, for a moment it is blue. Then, it changes to red when Vader says that he killed Anakin Skywalker instead of Obi Wan.

[@mu2960]

Red rocket! Red rocket!

[@SammaclauseGamgee]

I have a feeling the writers never looked up what lightsabers are made of, or how they're made....things SW fans would already know, obviously.

[@RotaAbyssian]

I don't necessarily hate the idea that you CAN "bleed" kyber crystals to make them Sith Red. I DO hate the new mood ring Lightsabers. The idea that your crystal would change color with your alignment in the force past the point of initial attunement is dumb, and ruined the importance of Lightsaber color theory.

[@BlueDog241]

The failure of One! The failure of Two! The failure of Manyyyyyyyyy!

[@Marveryn]

i got a small chuckle just not thinking that all the witches combine to fight the jedi but it only took one to kill them all. So much for the power of many.

[@fabs3159]

I know where the show is going: They will make Darth Plegueis TRY to copy the witches ability to create life, hence being the second force user /sith to manipulate life and the witches the first, hence re-writing lore to once again put women at the forefront.

[@JWard-sp7wt]

I think plegueis has been manipulating everyone, even the witches to make the twins. That's the only way I can make sense of it but even that's stupid because plegueis is supposed to have failed. Also he's supposed to be like 15 at this time, according to lore.

[@fabs3159]

@JWard-sp7wt exactly my point. He will fail where they succeeded. Force is Female my friend.

[@fabs3159]

Seems correct and this show is therefore implying that the witches succeeded where he failed I suppose.

[@Peterski]

@@JWard-sp7wt Maybe it's Dad Plagueis, not Darth Plagueis. Darth Plagueis is Plagueis Jr ;-)

[@sneaksyranger]

Plagueis: "Say it with me, Palpatine...the power of one, the power of two, the power of maaaannnnyyyyyy..."

[@Micahtron2000]

I'm sure Osha's lightsaber turning from blue to red is just so they can market a color-changing lightsaber toy later on!

[@MadsFeierskov]

Rainbow lightsabers are next

[@nagirondart]

But that wasn't Osha's saber, was it? It was Sol's, she shouldn't have a connection to the kyber crystal, right?

[@sharpshooterjames8891]

@@nagirondartstop sounding like an actual fan who actually pays attention to the lore, yo -ist-iphobe-igot

[@SiriuslyBlack7]

They already have it.

[@irena4545]

@@nagirondart Also, shouldn't one, I don't know, actually _kill_ someone with that saber to make the crystal bleed? Anyway, it seems we're getting things in halves: MaRey Soo got rage fits without falling to the Dark Side, Ablandla falls to the Dark Side without exhibiting rage. Curiouser and curiouser....

[@Hammerhead547]

That story sounds like something an 8 year old working off the "...and then" principal of story writing.

[@jdstudios1912]

I genuinely believe an 8 year old could do a better job because at least they can grasp that sith are baddies and jedi are goodies.

[@pedrojustice]

Axe Cop has a better writting than that

[@graymatter6810]

😂 this was my exact thought.

[@Osprey850]

I liked how mind-wiped Mae has no memories after the age of 8, yet doesn't remember having a sister. If she remembers everything up until age 8, why doesn't she remember Osha? It's not like she was too young to remember, since her whole motivation in the show was getting revenge for what she lost at the age of 8.

[@ridbanner1407]

Logic ? LOGIC ? We don’t use that in this show.

[@silmarien1383]

Imagine a different time when Master Squid Game could have been a Jedi Master in a good Star Wars show…

[@StuckTrippin]

He's the only one I feel bad for. He's a great actor, but this show is career baggage.

[@subjectnivleis7572]

In an alternate timeline when no one crapped on the prequels for no reason

[@hoppa_2184]

@@subjectnivleis7572 To be fair, the Prequels were flawed and I loved them, growing up with them. They had great ideas that were poorly executed in parts. Honestly, I wish competent writers would remake them with George Lucas and turn them into the incredible gems they deserve to be. And with Jar Jar rewritten and as one of the important side characters, because I love that goofball.

[@subjectnivleis7572]

@@hoppa_2184 you know what else is flawed literally every film ever made there is no such thing as a perfect film and for the poor people that think so I got a bridge in Baltimore to sell them . I also find it sad no one understood the point of jar jar as on the surface he's comic relief but many of scenes he is in a either vaudeville acts or an omagge to Charlie chapmen

[@hoppa_2184]

@@subjectnivleis7572 You are objectively wrong. Airtight writing exists. This justification sounds like you are trying to excuse very poor writing. There are perfect movies and there are great movies. Some movies have more flaws and are worse, some movies have less flaws and are better. A writer's job is to try to write a great story with no flaws. That is the goal. It is not an easy goal, but it is not impossible either. And of course one flaw in an otherwise great movie does not necessarily make a movie terrible. Different flaws weigh differently and how bad or good a movie is depends on those factors.

[@cypher10]

You're not going to mention that they pinned the it all n Sol, even though he was in the Jedi temple when the first murder occurred, and there was a witness.

[@durantes]

So glad i stopped watching Star Wars when i did. This mental pesticide is horrid.

[@georgechapman9688]

I had to Watch TLJ to get to that point :(

[@jdstudios1912]

​@@georgechapman9688 it's okay my friend, we all made that mistake. I swore to myself I'd judge Disney after the sequels had all come out. I had to suffer through the rise of Skywalker.

[@user-ub3tn7er1k]

mental pesticide ha ha that's good. better writing than the acolyte's whole season

[@SonOfEarthLtd]

Remember when Leslye Headland gave that interview where she admitted that she had no filmmaking ability or skill? Exhibit A: for Acolyte

[@KelShu]

Not only was it scummy of Vernestra to throw Sol under the bus and blame him for all of the murders, it also doesn’t add up. There were witnesses to Indara’s assassination and Torbin ending his own life; the only one that he wouldn’t have an alibi for would be Kelnacca, but by doing that you have to blame him for the deaths of the other Jedi too. Absolutely terrible.

[@jdstudios1912]

My friend your thinking about this all wrong. Don't ask questions. That's the key to almost enjoying Disney star wars. That and you need a lobotomy to bear watching that crap

[@Narukamiiii]

Remember Mundi and the other jedi literally watching a video of Mae 😭, this isn't just bad writing, this is a fucking joke

[@user-ub3tn7er1k]

Venestra will have all the witnesses in the cantina murdered and also all the Jedi who witnessed Torbin's suicide. Why not go whole hog with the idea that the Jedi are corrupt scum?

[@user-mh7ie7iz9t]

I reall enjoyed the moment when Darth Thirstius removed years worth of memory from (Allegedly) Extremely Powerful Force User with a simple wave of his hand. And yet, it took collective effort of a few jedi masters to do the same (well, sort of) to Darth Revan.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Because The Force is now effectively magic and a way to write themselves out of situations.

[@Hanoua2]

Girl: Oh no ! We're stuck in this room ! What are we going to do ? Jedi: **wave hands and they're teleported outside** Girl: well... That's just happened **Crowd laughing**

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@Hanoua2 *cue Seinfeld stinger*

[@FiliusFidelis]

One thing, nitpicking I know.. but why the heck did they keep insisting the Jedi were "stationed" on Brendok, they were there on a research expedition, nothing more. It is not like they were setting up a Jedi Outpost.

[@newtpondskipper]

Using that makes it sound more militant. Have to make the jedi less monk and more soldier.

[@WarrenFahyAuthor]

Why is Hollywood so afraid of PAYING REAL WRITERS?!

[@80sMoviesRule1]

I’d like to point out that mind bending was for the weak minded. No Jedi or Sith is weak minded. The Wookiee or even Torbin should have a innate defense against it. This show is fanfic pretending to not be.

[@jdstudios1912]

Fanfic is made by fans. Fans have at the least seen the original six films so the fan fiction is typically more consistent with star wars than this crap. This is a poor feminist power fantasy that fails to even be feminist.

[@Hedgewisekat]

@@jdstudios1912 you're working on an ancient definition of fanfic - large amounts of what you'll find on AO3 is poor female power fantasy written by women forever stuck in their early teens (and that's including the m/m slash).

[@thatHARVguy]

@@jdstudios1912 Yup, Disney SW is hate fiction.

[@zephodb]

Disney Star Wars is Fanfiction pretending not to be, just because they bought it doesn't change the fact. >.

[@jdstudios1912]

​@@Hedgewisekat damn. Star wars really is past saving.

[@HoundMonkey]

12:50 they made Sol imprint on a child like he was a creepy Twilight werewolf...

[@Apocalyptico100]

After Obi-Wan, all hope was lost.

[@exia7777]

Weird that u had hope in the first place

[@Peterski]

Except Andor. Andor is actually great. The rest is piss poor.

[@jdstudios1912]

​@@exia7777 it's not like we want to see Disney star wars fail. All we want is good star wars.

[@MadsFeierskov]

After The Force Awakens...

[@Apocalyptico100]

​@@exia7777Yeah, silly me for having hope for Disney Star Wars.

[@thrashjf83]

The whole lightsaber mood ring is such a giant plot hole it makes no damn sense at all. Any jedi that starts to fall should show it in their lightsaber. I get the concept, it makes some sense as Mace Wendu used Vapod which is an aggressive saber form that dances on the edge of the dark side, and red plus blue is purple. The problem is then Mace Wendu should have had the Jedi equivalent of internal affairs up his butt 24/7. It means when Anakin started to fall that his saber should have turned colors. No one thinks about that though, they just go "This is a cool idea." It's not, it's stupid.

[@sadface7457]

It's cool the light Saber can change its illogical that this can happen all at once. Usually you have tourchure the light sabre until it bleeds. Its like dark meditation with it. They must done this because Amandla couldn't convey falling to the darkside though acting alone.

[@sword_of_dusk]

It's the kyber crystal that is specifically affected, not the saber itself, but yeah, it is a bit strange that it happened unintentionally. Of course, it was really only done as a sort of visual light switch to show the audience that Osha had gone dark . . . as if her killing Sol with a goddamn Force Choke wasn't gonna be enough of a sign.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@sadface7457That and that's Disney canon. Red lightsabers were originally artificial kyber crystals, emphasizing the conflict between the Natural and the Unnatural in the heart of the conflict between the Jedi and the Sith.

[@Mord12gp]

@@sadface7457 The only time I've seen this done well is in the Star Wars Anime collaboration shorts: The Ninth Jedi. In that one of the characters dad's MADE the lightsabers in such away that they would change colors. The point is that those lightsabers were unique and they weren't trying to say this was normal for light sabers. If I recall the episode properly. I also remember it being that the reason the Sith had red light sabers was because they used a synthetic kyber crystal. And that was a fine explanation. There's no reason to make thing super edgy "Oh you have have evilize the crystal" A lightsaber is a sword, it don't need to be that deep.

[@irena4545]

@@sadface7457 Ablandla looked as if her coffe maker stopped working, not like someone who had just found out that her surrogate father figure killed her mother.

[@JWard-sp7wt]

R.I.P. Star Wars⚰️⚰️

[@jdstudios1912]

1977-2013

[@whitemagus2000]

Calling the Acolyte mediocre is the most high praise I've heard from anyone who actually watched it.

[@patrickdees5256]

They tried so hard to make the Darksiders actually be the good guys, but it fails so hard

[@DrVon-Doom]

This show was a fever dream

[@DrVon-Doom]

Acolyte is the friends we made along the way

[@Peterski]

More like a fever nightmare

[@MrTobi013]

​@@Peterskior dying from scarlet fever without having the chance to dream....

[@jdstudios1912]

​​@@DrVon-Doomnah that's the one piece, the acolyte is what you get when you try making a show after getting a lobotomy

[@robbylebotha]

I'm here to tell you that it wasn't. It exists. And it will be some poor children's introduction to star wars and they will think the original star wars is the crappy one that doesn't make sense.

[@vonVile]

Picklehead is a Sith. All her actions are not what a Jedi would do. The reason she claimed Sol killed everybody was to protect her apprentice. Why as a Jedi would she give a rat's ass he became Sith? Every Jedi knows by now that she already failed as a Master training him. There's nothing to hide unless she is also Sith.

[@SammaclauseGamgee]

Yoda didn't even accuse Obi Wan of being responsible for what Anakin did. Sometimes, your Padawan is a dick and falls to the dark side. Unless the Jedi are engaging in politics, it shouldn't affect the master all that much. Edit: shouldn't affect their "image" or reputation. Obviously, a good master is pretty upset when it happens and wonders what they could have done better. It's a response anyone might have to what is objectively a terrible thing for everyone involved....because good and evil do exist in Star Wars and it's not a good thing when someone turns evil.

[@iamme4494]

I’m satisfied with the video content the Acolyte produced

[@fabs3159]

Yes and JSG is the most unbiased opinion of all of them and I can tell he really tried to like the show, but to no avail. The grand winner is definitely youtube.

[@gwquinn8398]

Video content as in the visuals? They were decent, but the actual story was a weakness.

[@zephodb]

@@gwquinn8398 I believe the OP meant 'youtube video content', as in everybody talking about it... not the show itsself. >.>

[@Banedraven]

So she’s now a 24yr old force sensitive prodigy whose linked to a dark side twin of herself with a history of going dark side herself & a longer history of killing people…. but she thinks shes an 8yr old. I have a feeling this show was less about Star Wars & more about something bad that happened to headlamp & her sister when they were 8 😂🤷🏿‍♂️

[@thac0twenty377]

same said as much. at least that they had a falling out and she hoped her sister would see this abd reach out

[@moseszero3281]

The rogue psyker turned into a demon host and the highly trained sanctioned psyker reacted properly.

[@doomsday2703]

Funny how you brought up Fallen Order. That game DID show criticisms of the Jedi Order with Second Sister having understandable reasons why she hated Cere, but it was the exception. Not the rule. Something Cere had to reconcile with her at the end of the story. You can call out the Jedi for imperfections without making them all look corrupt.

[@KoshoShinogi]

While it's no defense of the show, the Jedi were not blameless for what happened on Brendock. They're on a supposedly uninhabited planet. Sol comes across a couple of girls who are soon after joined by an adult woman. Does he approach them and say, _"Hello there. My name is Sol. I'm with the Jedi order and we're here surveying this planet. Pleasure to meet you."_ as a normal person would? No, he instead hides behind a tree, follows them home, and when he can't get into their facility legitimately, scales a mountain and proceeds to sneak around their home spying on them. Later four Jedi show up who have hacked the elevator. In other words, another break in. Then Sol and Torbin scale the mountain and enter their home without consent for a third time. Who's to blame for what happens while the Jedi are in the compound is clearer, but the situation arose in the first place through shady behavior on the part of the Jedi which the witch coven felt threatened by.

[@billjacobs521]

Okay, but he saw the kids using the Force, which set off some alarm bells. He is aware of the Night Sisters so he feared he had stumbled across an evil cult brainwashing children. After all, horny lesbian mom was being very strict and angry in that scene. So he goes to check on them, and sees chief lesbian throw the kids to the ground during a Force training exercise, which in this alternate timeline, is illegal (apparently you can't train kids in the Force if you're not the Jedi, according to Trinity). So, since the Jedi are now just galactic police, they go in to do a welfare check, and the witches act like idiots, but the Jedi let that go. Sol goes to get Torbin when he later runs off, but then has a Force vision of the kids dying, and the elevator isn't working, so breaking in is the only way to enter. Basically, the Jedi were worried about kids being in an evil cult, and it turns out they were right, so I'm saying that, yes, they are blameless--if criminals engage in crime, which attracts the attention of the police, then they cannot blame the cops when the criminals start a shootout which they lose.

[@user-ub3tn7er1k]

Yeah, the way they wrote the Jedi is passible only if "discovering the vergeance" is super important, like the galaxy will explode otherwise!!! Or maybe just that planet will explode. The witches won't answer the doorbell so the Jedi have to break in to warn them to evacuate the planet, they take it the wrong way, and it all goes south from there. There, I just randomly typed away and came up with a solution to one big plot hole. Why can't so-called professional writers put as much effort into their garbage to fix its problems? The script was nothing but problems. I don't think I've ever seen writing this bad and I've seen some really bad writing. Being both a Star Trek and Star Wars fan will do that. To cap it all off...the vergeance thing was never mentioned again so I guess it wasn't very important anyway.

[@L337M4573RK]

Leslye Headland actually admitted that Osha and Mae's Father-Mother turned into a black smoke creature in order to turn herself AND Mae "into the Force". Basically, Jedi Master Sol stopped her from committing the combined act of FILICIDE AND SUICIDE.

[@ranchoth]

Kinda figures...that seems like exactly the kind of motivation you'd see for one of those "show the hero as unforgivably morally compromised and guilt-wracked over something at worst tangentially their fault, so the ultra-cool, edgy, cackling manchild of a villain can orchestrate an elaborate, vicious, high collateral damage revenge plan against them" plots I've been seeing more and more of in genre entertainment these days.

[@L337M4573RK]

@@ranchoth Long story short, Satan's main goal in this world is to confuse humankind into falsely believing that goodness is "evil" and evil is "good".

[@irena4545]

And what was the point of "turning herself into the Force"? I don't see how it would have addressed the situation at hand...

[@L337M4573RK]

@@irena4545 You're right; it didn't address anything, and she did it at the most inappropriate time. Tensions were already running high, two characters were about to fight in front of her, Mae had set FIRE to their STONE "sanctuary" while trying to kill her sister, and Mae had also shown up at the most inappropriate time. It's terrible writing, and there's no justification to commit the combined act of FILICIDE and SUICIDE at any point (really). Sol acted on instinct, and he clearly did so to save Mae from filicide. Did he really deserve death by Force choke? Of course not! Did Osha kill Sol based on nothing more than her irrational, unreasonable, illogical, easily manipulated feelings and emotions? Well...does a bear sh*t in the woods?

[@irena4545]

@@L337M4573RK Osha's behaviour makes no sense, no sense at all. Alright, she just learned how her mother died - fine, so where is "why didn't you tell me", "how could you", "I trusted you" and all the other NORMAL reactions? Sol wasn't some menacing stranger, he was her Jedi Master, a parental figure, and no-one, NO-ONE murders their parental figure in a couple of minutes after they learn something terrible about them. No-one unless they are a total psycho, so is this what our assessment of Osha is supposed to be? And she wants to train as a Sith because...? Like, "oh, seems I'm bad now, so I need to train with the baddies"? And walks away with a dude she barely knows while abandoning her lost and found twin because...? Atrocious writing!

[@jim-bob3093]

The witch taking over Torvins mind legit reads so much like SA. He crying, shes touching him without and clearly consent. What else can it be read as?

[@ianmacdiarmid1249]

Well, the showrunner was Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant...

[@jim-bob3093]

@@ianmacdiarmid1249 exactly what i was thinking

[@M_K-Bomb]

It's funny how Disney says we are all just haters and JSG over here is straight up saying what others are saying, 'I want to like Star Wars.'

[@rockencook]

Big Corporations gobbing up big IPs and then trying to profit by making sequels and prequels. Who could have guessed there would be a lack of inspired story telling and creativity.

[@JonSnow-YThandle]

It's almost like the Showrunner does not really grasp the concept of right and wrong. 😂 Its more like "when in doubt... Flip a coin"

[@bf-696]

"How did the Acolyte end?" With a whimper.

[@rocklazvon6456]

My nephew was asking some of these exact same questions. He's 11. He can see the plot holes. I'm proud of him and dissapointed in writers that write plot holes an 11 year old can see.

[@JohnBailey]

The Acolyte: Why... For Reasons Us: Okay Disney: Right isn't that cool Us: ... What are you high on. Us: please watch a good movie outside of Disney

[@sadface7457]

I described the acotyle to a friend as every episode feels like half an episode. Until the end where you feel like you got half a show. They killed off the one character you liked. They basically kill at the characters they introduce in the first few episodes.

[@jkvam]

7:07: Keeping this meme alive when it should now be dead is like Plagueis’ quest for immortality.

[@councilmanbanks6528]

Disney if you want to give us any unnecessary spinoffs, give Sol a Spin off and give it the Andor treatment. I don’t care how you do it, prequel with Jecki because Osha is terrible, or bring him back from the dead (and don’t act like you don’t do that with every other character.) Lee Jung-Jae deserves so much more. And with Disney’s love of Diversity give us this Asian Led Star Wars Story.

[@jdstudios1912]

Somehow sol returned....

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@jdstudios1912Well, everyone else somehow returns so why not?

[@thedeadpoolwhochuckles.6852]

Osha only being half a person, only half assed choked him. He's fine. Especially after a 40yr old mace windu finds him

[@zephodb]

...I don't trust Disney with it. ^^; That's the problem.

[@PrincessFionaYT]

Remember this wasn’t a show. Headland was fired after going 100 million over budget. This was cobbled together at the last hour from 3 reshoots after Disney + lost so much money they couldn’t afford to shelve it. That’s why it is so ridiculous that this is presented as some masterpiece, a purposeful work of art. It’s an incoherent superglued jigsaw puzzle made from a random set of pieces long after the puzzle maker was fired for financial malfeasance

[@80sMoviesRule1]

She was fired?

[@rickbase833]

I have not heard of this before. If she was fired.....why is she so prominent during the shows run?

[@GuiltlessGear]

gonna need a BIG fat citation on this one, buddy

[@jdstudios1912]

​​@@GuiltlessGear it was a rumour started by the worst star wars KZbinr out there, mike zeroh who as we all know has never reported a fact in his life. What actually happened was disney getting sued for a breach of contract when an employee chose this project over sugar in Apple TV but never got paid for her time.

[@masamune2984]

@@jdstudios1912The only abomination worse than horrifically awful shows like the Acolyte by the current Lucasfilm trashfire…Mike Zeroh…

[@alexisguillen8400]

I'm just happy I finally know what Anakin Blows Up The Death Star was talking about with there being no good and evil in Star Wars, just people with different beliefs. Man was just foreshadowing thee twins switching sides.

[@Mark_o_Helm]

The Jedi are not perfect nor evil. They are people, monks with enormous power who try to control their emotions like the council man said and it doesn't always work.😊

[@billjacobs521]

It's mostly worked for thousands of years--fairly good track record.

[@pacershark452]

It AMUSES me that hedland thinks that by throwing a bunch of cameos and mysteries in the last episode she thinks that will help her get a season 2. She's problaby right.

[@rgda3rd]

I've been watching your videos for a while now...i actually felt a sense of relief for you when you said you hadn't seen the book of boba fett. I'm glad you didn't have to suffer that.

[@Djkold]

At least we didn't get "Sol never told you what happened to your mother" "He told me enough, he told me you killed her" "No, I am your mother"

[@kenknowlton3085]

I'm sincerely sad that the Acolyte comes to an end. The reviews are 10× better than the show. Was eagerly waiting for JSG's take, each week. Will be going through withdrawals this time next week.

[@ridbanner1407]

100 times better

[@rockman7503]

Fair take sir. Aggressively medicore fan fiction

[@justghost8713]

"Anakin Skywalker blew up the Death Star". Meanwhile "Somehow Palpatine has returned"🤣

[@mileslugo6430]

It's cutting off the Jedi's nose in spite of your face and getting angry when you still somehow cut off your own nose.

[@gagatube]

It's "your nose" and "to spite your face" and yes, in the lightsaber haircut scene, that probably would have happened...

[@MarvinXOnline]

That's it. Sticking with the cartoons from now on

[@O4C209]

You can accept this show a little bit if you stop believing they are showing the Jedi are the bad guys. Instead, this is a show about the bad guys. That's all.

[@Peterski]

The funny thing is they apparently think they're showing the Jedi as bad guys, but no. Incompetent, yes, but bad guys? Not really. Except the green lady. She's pretty much a bad guy, given the cover up she's trying to do.

[@davfree9732]

Actually... I just find the show offensive. I can put up with the lack of Star Wars knowledge and divest myself from the Star Wars aspect but... This wasn't even good TV. I grew up with Star Trek and for over a decade they pumped that out and convinced people of the verisimilitude of the setting and characters.... But this was a jumbled AI like script with no talent or direction happening behind the camera. I think of Joss Whedon's Buffy, Angel and Firefly. How he made 2 Avengers movies and how he was always honing his craft to be a better producer, director and script writer... And then I think of LH phoning in this travesty... After reshoots..! And I'm honestly angry that this is what they think their audience will accept.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@davfree9732Comparing this to Deep Space 9, especially episodes like ‘In the pale moonlight’, is like comparing night and day.

[@user-ub3tn7er1k]

It's a show where every character is either stupid, immoral or insane. Because they need to be, to make the dumb plot go.

[@JasonBitting95]

Watching paint dry > my bloody stool > Book of Boba > Kenobi > Acolyte

[@spiritofthewolf15x]

Even the tourists are angry about the ending, that speaks volumes.

[@Wolfsong3398]

The one review that i was waiting to see and hear. You didn't disappoint and everything you say is valid and on point

[@lupolinar]

"It's so dumb, it's brilliant!" "NO! It's just dumb."

[@Beginnerss]

One of the coolest things in "Legends" was how to make a light saber crystal red. And they just ... made it one of these damn mood rings/bracelets....

[@gagatube]

Headland: "I'm a fan of Star Wars!" Translation: "I'm a fan of the money you can make from Star Wars!"

[@razaalak]

'Mediocre'. This is some serious mental gymnastics right here ngl

[@flowsilver-valhallagc]

About lightsabers, from a non-fan, feel free to answer. Isn't a lightsaber's color depending on the stone/material used while making it? I thought the color just changing was dumb.

[@SasamiTM]

Yes and no, in the old lore the Jedi used natural crystals with different colors and sith used synthetic red crystals because they could handle more power but Disney retconed that part of sith training was killing a jedi, taking their saber crystal and filling it with dark side power to “bleed” it red

[@flowsilver-valhallagc]

@@SasamiTM Ah ok. I honestly can't remember where I got that from. Either the old movies or the one MMO I tried a long time ago. 😆

[@Peterski]

Yes and no. The "bleeding" of the kyber crystal is actually in the lore - that's how the Sith turn their sabers red. But it doesn't work like in the show, it's much more intense. It doesn't just change colour while you're killing somebody in anger.

[@sadface7457]

​@@PeterskiThey obviously needed visual representation of the fall the darkside because the acting and plot couldn't convey that.

[@jdstudios1912]

I'm the EU that's true. In Disney nothing matters or is consistent so don't expect anything.

[@loneloc01]

What I Learned From The Acolyte: The Sith are just the friends we make along the way.

[@ridhaibnmuhammad6157]

Lee Jung has been humiliated, played a .pdf file, and I do not think he knows it

[@GeeTrieste]

I think I figured it out, what was fundamentally wrong with the storyline of the Acolyte. The story is like an essay, where words within sentences makes sense ONLY within the nearest 7 words. If you go more than 7 words away from any word, and try to read it, it makes no sense at all.

[@user-ub3tn7er1k]

The Acolyte is a sequence of cool scenes. Look, a lightsaber fight! Look, a fire breaks out! etc. The characters do whatever is needed to get from one cool scene to the next, even if that requires them to be morons, be evil, or flat out insane.

[@paleface171]

What if this whole show was just an indirect hint to what happened to those victims on that island? Young and innocent people are in a cult, who abuse members, then an outsider who wants to help the victims of the cult is instead blamed the crime, while the victims are silenced and covered up by the people who do deserve the worst.

[@LordHollow]

No, no, she was gonna let Osha go, so she is completely innocent of any and all wrongdoing!

[@anetao3308]

its like she aint backing down until she got slap back to reality lol right 😂and then say i was gonna say can we figure this out peacefully 😂

[@SammaclauseGamgee]

Like how sparing Luke made that chick in Obi-Wan suddenly a good guy despite all the murder. 😂

[@GodOfPlague]

Your last line summed up my feelings completely. I want to like star wars. Disney is telling me why I cant

[@SammaclauseGamgee]

It's actually become embarrassing for me to admit I'm a Star Wars fan, unless I qualify I was born in the 90's, grew up with it, and haven't liked anything Disney has done in the past 10 years, at least.

[@ridbanner1407]

This entire show was basically the ultimate male fantasy. You return your woman back to where she was created and you swap her for another identical one that behaves a bit better. That is the basic plot when you shave it right down.

[@JustiasFitzgerald]

Long live Kar Vastor. Shatterpoint is timeless. Best Star Wars novel of all-time. Disney could never.

[@WhiskyCardinalWes]

The rewrites and reshoots are painfully obvious. Every time May and Osha change their mind is a rewrite/reshot scene. A good example of this is when May and Tagalong are going to kill the Wookie and May all of a sudden decided to turn herself in. That being said, I have no explanation for why the tracking rat started pulling wires out in the last episode; just bad writing.

[@andreeacrisan8233]

Mae was forced to choking the butterfly thing since episode one… Mae was the one to receive the witches ascension, she was supposed to be “training” or be informed about the dark force for some time (16 years passed since she had her home destroyed…) while Osha made friends and had adventures and most definitely felt and reciprocated Sol’s care for her … and for them to just switch places out of nowhere (even though we expected it) was disappointing to see 0 effort of logic put in this story line

[@masamune2984]

Can someone explain the “Hard Walls” joke to me that JSG keeps using?

[@MenrvaS]

Moral of the story : DEI Jedi Girlbosses are good at throwing people, especially men, under the bus to cover their mistakes and make things worse. High Power, no responsibility, zero consequence. 😅

[@GreenDinoRanger]

I feel really bad for Lee Jung-jae. He put in so much more effort than every other actor in this disaster and the show spits on his character at the end. One of the worst parts is seeing the goldfish that inhabit the Acolyte subreddit eating up all the shit they were served and defending the borderline retarded plot and characters. "The witches weren't bad. They were misunderstood." "Sol was a deeply flawed character and he couldn't see those flaws, and that's why he died."

[@philipdawes2661]

"ok.....ok.....ok....." - damning by understatement :)

[@ThreeSixXero]

I think the bit with Mae not thinking to use the Force to kill is kind of a stunted point, because I personally think it shouldn't have been that easy to kill a Jedi Master with the Force with what we know about how effective the Force is on Force users. Mae couldn't do anything to Torbin when he was just floating there doing whatever he was doing, and you would think someone trained to use the Force is also resistant to it to some extent, let alone a Master. On the other hand, Osha basically got a free kill out of Sol, because Sol let it happen, but somehow Smilo thinks that's the way to do it? Just hope you have an emotional connection to a Master that renders them unable to really fight back and kill them for free with the Force? I understand the idea of using the Force offensively and it being your weapon/ally/whatever, but literally the only reason Osha was able to kill Sol with the Force in that scenario was because he let it happen. In any of the other cases where Smilo wanted Mae to kill the other Masters (minus Torbin, since I guess his PTSD made him suicidal), the Force choke alone wouldn't have been the play because they would have just done something to stop it. This is especially fucked up, because she was expected to eventually fight Sol, who was also holding his own at worst and blatantly winning at best against Smilo himself, and Indara was killed by a cheap shot (which, honestly, I don't think is even reasonable in of itself).

[@ArchangelExile]

12:37 Wtf? Are you saying that Qimir looks like a teenaged boy? The actor is 37 years old.

[@RallasterAsuremen]

He means when Qimir was younger as a padawan (before the shows start).

[@learning2727]

Maybe I am going crazy, but I think the end to the whole "kill a Jedi without a weapon" was finished in a pretty cool way (considering the show...oh boy, I can only assume it was an accident). Unfortunately they damaged the idea so badly in those middle episodes that no one even seems to care. But it's a clean ending. Somehow.

[@shadeaquaticbreeder2914]

0:41 if dude was the Padawan to the green chick then should not put the entire first part of the show to not make sense? Because Saul and them would have had to have known who he was when he gave the poison to May to kill Tobin. They couldn't even be bothered to not make that glaring loophole

[@jeebuschristos8423]

9:11 Uhmmm... did the writers forget that the mine was carved out of rock? Why are all the walls charred and cracked as if they were actually made of wood?

[@MrTobi013]

It never occurred to these headlamps that Sol had every right to kill Anasea...on account 1. He saw her to turn into a smoke demon and went to attack and absorb Mae 2. No one knew this woman could do such a thing, because there was no reason for her to thanks to them not having any enemies to prove what she was doing was safe! 3. Not one witch stepped forward to proclaim Sol and Mae were safe from Anasea's smokey form, but stood back and watch as a man who doesn't know their customs and powers become terrified at the sight of a smoke demon attacking a child! Mae holds no accountability for locking her entire clan inside a freaking fortress, set it on fire and proudly proclaim no one could get in or out. Osha and Sol's relationship needed more time to develop since from the moment they met, it's been like what, three days? If they met in the past, a little more showing could've been nice and having Osha claiming she use to be a part of the Order, while never showing any evidence of this was more of an excuse for these balls of lint to give her all the force powers she needs to be "powerful" without proof of training. And don't get me started on Yoda suddenly becoming an accomplice to the half assed cover up!!

[@raziael]

Oh my GAWD - your content makes me crack up every time! The Senator's new name - f$$king brick of gold!!!

[@Axvil]

It will all make sense in Season 2!

[@RowBærTœ]

I knew that the story was the end badly but holy crap. What the hell were they smoking?

[@MundaneThingsBackwards]

Mediocre? That's high praise given the level of effort put into the writing...and directing...and casting...and performances...and lore. Basically everything. 😅

[@AZURAKAZ]

I'm the biggest softy ever, super low t, but when they did the tearful goodbye...nothin'.

[@TF2CrunchyFrog]

Osha is a perfect example of a Mary-Sue: Everything revolves around her, everyone is obsessed with her. The writers pretend Osha is always right even when she is wrong. She is "special". And anyone who opposes her is a villain, and is a villain _because_ he opposes her (and is often turned into a strawman).

[@DisGruntledPeon-be7iq]

As I have said in another review elsewhere. I am going back to watching old Toxic Avenger movies as a pallet cleanser. I am going to drink my brain-cells away now just for having watched KZbin reviews of this garbage. Thank you for the sacrifice and work to save me the other half of my brain.

[@kylekillgannon]

The best part of this show was that it made Star Wars canon to the Alan Wake universe by introducing the character of Warlin Door.

[@himayamata]

I wrote fanfics. I can tell this show is a fanfic with no research about the franchise.

[@mannycornejo9410]

I have a theory as to why the show ended with the sister having her mind wiped by the sith. You see in legends material if a sith were to take on more than one apprentice eventually apprentices would have to meet each other and fight to the death on who would continue beimg the sith lord apprentice. I highly doubt that disney would do that later on in the story