The Acolyte Is F***ing Awful (Review)

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[@peter486]

you dont think black l@sbo witches in space is bad?, how is this starwars in any shape or form? where is ANYTGING starwars in this ffing mess? this hole show is ment for -90 IQ. I COULDENT TAKE more than 19 min before i said F this. i dont care what Disney does they can burn it all down. i couldent care less,

[@TheAntiBigwsly]

Wow you're the guy who said "Egypt has to step up and let the palestinians have refuge" WTF

[@DeweyTheDuck]

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[@SepRoyle]

It is a fan right to not like what you make film if they don't make it right

[@jacobwiles547]

Thank you for watching and reviewing this show!

[@Unclecrispyguy]

The fact that Kathleen Kennedy still has a job is astonishing to me. Everything she touches fails.

[@jimmythedrum446]

It's all on purpose, it's propaganda now, not entertainment

[@Unclecrispyguy]

@@jimmythedrum446 it must be right? Because what other reason would a big corporation ever willingly lose so much money?

[@filonautic4999]

@@jimmythedrum446 Exactly.

[@SequentiallyCompact]

It's a creditor's DEI trap. The more they rely on credit due to previous failures (and therefore lack of money) the more of their assets the creditor will inevitably own.

[@Nytellem]

Only Bob Iger can fire her right?

[@iheartlofi]

I don’t care what they told you in school. Anakin Skywalker blew up the Death Star.

[@Reprobus3]

Did your Grandma tell you that?!

[@khaiwong728]

No it was Luke Skywalker that blew up the Death Star.

[@SoulReaper977]

Now this is pod racing

[@Reprobus3]

@@khaiwong728 You've obviously missed the joke

[@maximelius]

And he was black 🤣

[@dalemanolas5994]

Every episode of The Acolyte cost almost double what Godzilla Minus One cost to make.

[@danielgrimes1413]

Well Damn

[@ManicSplicer]

Every episode of every SW TV show costed more 🤣

[@Some_Scott]

Perspective.

[@nickdevillers2453]

Just watched Godzilla M1. SO GOOD.

[@ShadowHolmes]

Wow 😂😂😂

[@koudyhoShorty]

- "Sir we need to write off 1 billion tax loss this year." - "Make another Star Wars show then."

[@TheoJay615]

They put HARVEY WIENSTIEN'S ASSISTANT IN CHARGE and expected that we would all just forget the nasty little truths in the room.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

I can't understand how she wasn't tarred and feathered at the start of the # metoo rage - or at least canceled. She must have a lot of dirt on very important people. She certainly didn't get the job of showrunner due to her storytelling abilities or her love of Star Wars.

[@froggybug]

@@dronesclubhighjinks She was his assistant l, so she has ALLLLL the teas.

[@orbieobvious1318]

They kill off the only real actor in this show the first 10 mins lol

[@yomommaokay5617]

Seriously, it pissed me off so bad. I was like WTF this is so stupid.

[@SharreIWright]

Actress Carrie Anne Moss is a woman hence she's an actress Don't get all woke on us now 😁

[@wound1up976]

Lol facts

[@Sliph2o]

She was smart to die off early and get that pay check lol

[@rg2628]

With a freaking knife not a Saber smh so gay and woke

[@Ixodes492]

Why do you think the writers would be better without producer interference? Maybe they are just terrible on their own. I don’t see where the writers have earned the benefit of the doubt.

[@Vossenator]

Kathleen Kennedy is known to be a very meddling and controlling producer that loves to interject her own ideas into the content. The problem is she's not very good at it and lacks creativity and vision. Example: when Kathleen was George Lucas secretary, she was taking notes while Lucas and Steven Spielberg were discussing ideas for a movie. One of them said: "And in the end, he gets the girl." Kathleen chimed in: "How about instead of he gets the girl, he gets the dog?" Both Lucas and Spielberg were probably like: "Dafuq?!" If that was her as a secretary, I'd imagine her as the producer of Lucasfilm doing the same thing in creative/idea brainstorming discussions.

[@Jdn__0001]

Because there has been hundred upon hundreds of examples of terrible movies that could’ve been better, but were ruined by producer interference.

[@choreomaniac]

In this case, it is very likely that the producers hired the wrong writers so nothing could salvage this.

[@rovhalt6650]

@@Jdn__0001 It was made by Harvery Weinstein's lesbian feminist man hating potato headed assistent. What else do you need to know. Then of course that's not saying she was alone in this horrendous production. It was a team effort. It's been a team effort since the beginning.

[@jacobtaylor508]

Disneys management has been hiring shitty writers ever since they took over the Star Wars IP. A lot of that has to do with great writers refusing to work with them because they know the higher-ups at Disney are going to greatly interfere with their work. The fact the only live-action show that hired veteran and award-winning writers such as Andor is an example of what happens when Disney execs don’t interfere and hire great writers.

[@freezasama5802]

The fact George spent years establishing what is good and evil and Disney just trashes that goes to show how bad this show is

[@kiyanhakim384]

I mean yeah even legends who sought to explain the sith always made sure to have them be outside of our moral compass and fully evil. No one doubted darth Marr was ever evil. He was just a legend who cared about his genocidal empire more than himself... and he was probably the nicest sith you got babahaja

[@freezasama5802]

@@kiyanhakim384 it's also a scary agenda when you combine black and white then there's no more justice cause evil becomes justified so this whole show is a cynical destructive mess that needs to be put down

[@tavo7465]

​ @kiyanhakim384 People forget how much George ruined the series prior to Disney.

[@ModernWelfare_]

@@tavo7465Nope, you’re coping.

[@tavo7465]

@@ModernWelfare_ The first time that George had the budget and total control of his projects was when he filmed the prequels (Mostly because he got the funding from Hasbro, the toy company). I know it's hard to remember but the prequels were universally hated and for good reason. Bad storytelling, bad plot, terrible acting and don't even get me started on the mydichlorians. George had a lot of help filming and writing the original trilogy and it was made obvious when he absolutely bombed when writing and directing the prequels. except for the Darth Maul fight scene. That was a highlight in the series.

[@BlazingOwnager]

"There's nothing wrong with CW writing but.." Citation needed

[@thejessegrant]

Ahahaha

[@Some_Scott]

Source: Ruby Rose

[@G-Mastah-Fash]

OBJECTION!

[@idestroyheresy1635]

Supernatural. It's a C tier show at best but I'll die defending it.

[@BlazingOwnager]

@@idestroyheresy1635 Too bad it only ran for 5 seasons!

[@BigDaddyJinx]

"If they had more time" Dude. This show was FOUR YEARS in the making. FOUR YEARS. How much more time did they need?

[@genebaker511]

Watching KZbin channels ripping apart Disney Star Wars is more entertaining.

[@robhulson]

And I’m getting to the point I’m not even very entertained by that. I’m just fatigued by everything Star Wars.

[@Risyn1]

KZbin "reviewers" trashing on star wars is as worn out as these new Disney shows themselves

[@genebaker511]

@@Risyn1 Shilling for Disney garbage is more worn out, even for the shills themselves.

[@sarah42e]

And they will keep doing it even if they like the product, since they profit on trashing it.

[@aynrandfan7454]

But how can it suck they put a chick in it and made it gay 😂😂😂😂

[@mentoloshurka]

Me: You can't murder Star Wars more than this! Kathleen Kennedy: Hold my soy latte!

[@maxmazzotti6651]

Bud Light*

[@Vossenator]

​@@maxmazzotti6651 nah, Kathleen is definitely a soy latte type.

[@Blodhelm]

@@Vossenator She won't drink the Bud Light, she'll just buy it to support trans something something.

[@ChimpingBulldog]

She's taken stronger waters overseeing this sh!te. Jack on the rocks.

[@rtablada]

I'm pretty sure it was Chai Latte.

[@WheresMyFish]

Horrible directing and brain dead writing. The villain creates her own problems and blames everyone else for her self-inflicted problems. The most predictable “twist”. Wow, an evil twin, how original.

[@MWH12085]

"Attack me." "No." "Attack me." "Go away."

[@brianmsahin]

Lol. 😂😂😂😂

[@Hawkmoon26933]

Riveting

[@FābrïKKofficial]

I can’t believe I even decided to humour myself and watch the first episode. This scene just annoyed the living crap out of me. Since when are jedis kung fu experts?😂

[@yeetboii_8]

@@FābrïKKofficial because a jedi isn't supposed to pull their lightsaber immediately, it's a last resort. unfortunately, for everyone that's seen the movies, they think that because the jedi just swing their lightsabers all the time when in dangerous situations, that that's what they're supposed to do. listen, i'm not woke but them knowing how to defend themselves without needing a weapon is cool.

[@Ric_Roar]

"Watch me." "No." "Watch me." "Go away."

[@noneyabizz8337]

It's Disney star wars, of course it sucks. Mandalorian had promise, Disney couldn't help themselves though.

[@ukrainefighter2456]

the only good disney star wars is andor the rest are straight up GARBAGE.

[@critica77y77]

Rebels is just okay and it's still the best Disney Star Wars show. Everything released since then has been a failure.

[@billylocke9633]

That really is a great way of describing it. That show had so much potential good. I think we all felt there was a chance for this franchise to get back on its feet when Luke showed up… we were all so very, very wrong.

[@diamondheadify-v5i]

​@@ukrainefighter2456andor's only fault is that it's way too similar to Earth. Most main characters are humans, ak-47 blasters, bricks & screws... I know that became a meme but SWT kinda got a point.

[@jonfreeman9682]

But this is girl boss done right. Give it a chance.

[@edmanr2010]

When media creators label those who dislike their content as ‘bigots,’ it will alienate potential viewers. Publicly slandering people for not consuming certain media is not the most effective approach to gaining an audience.

[@gsmollin2]

Excellent point. I have decided not to watch because I don’t want to be a bigot.

[@NefariousKoel]

It's a natural part of the ideology ruling over so much media. It's how they learned to argue while being indoctrinated. If someone counters one of their narratives, or doesn't praise same, they resort to the usual derogatory epithets instead of addressing the subject. Standard operating procedure.

[@davidmoore5004]

They can do that because none of their support is coming from us the fans, It's coming from their DEI overlords who want them to desperately push propaganda.

[@ModernWelfare_]

They don’t care, they get enough money from black rock to pump this shit out, they don’t even need to turn a profit.

[@edgaraf9411]

Don't act like many fans aren't bigoted and many of you guys are way harsher on projects when it was women or minorities in it. Acting like there was a tradeoff when in reality its just Hollywood decline

[@almo9060]

My review of The Acolyte: In Cartman's voice: Dafuq is this!?

[@djenime7296]

Them: "You're not a real Star Wars fan." Also them: "Remember that time when Anakin destroyed the Death Star?"

[@insertnamehere5809]

The Acolyte sucks? That's like saying that water is wet!

[@magicalpj]

Funny comment, but water, in fact, is not wet 🤓

[@JWProductions2023]

Water is wet

[@magicalpj]

@@JWProductions2023 It literally isn't. Things that have water on them are wet. Water itself is not wet. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a very exciting party to attend where, I assure you, I am to be the guest of honor. 🤓🤓🤓

[@JWProductions2023]

@@magicalpj how does it become wet is the water that touches the object isn't. Your math isnt mathing

[@fireboy7775]

@@JWProductions2023water makes stuff wet it’s not itself wet

[@enixez]

this disney version of star wars was never for us. Star Wars died when George sold it to disney

[@AromaBlue]

The problem is not the "not enough creative control" the problem is they hire based on race, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation and gender, not TALENT. They don't care about creativity, just diversity. And you CAN judge the actors. Remember the time when great actor performances surpassed a bad script? The actors are hired on the same basis: not talent, diversity. THAT is the problem that kills quality: politics, discrimination, sexism and racism rolled into one.

[@Prof16440]

Attack me with all your strength... wtf kinda line is that?!! How am i supposed to take this assassin seriously with such terrible writing?

[@X333Dylan333X]

I mean you could say the same with how are we supposed to take Anakin seriously with “I don’t like sand” or any of his dialogue from episode 2

[@theradicalginger3060]

So ones not allowed to challenge a Jedi and their twisted self of sense ideals..? Get over it

[@Rodeo-SW]

​@@X333Dylan333Xthat's a dogwater justification

[@X333Dylan333X]

@@Rodeo-SW to each their own, again I think a lot of you guys have hated this before it came out and you use any tiny minor thing to justify hating this show as a whole, me and my friends have enjoyed this show so far but continue to be upset for no good reason 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@theradicalginger3060]

@@Eaglelioncourt well your right but my point is to have an actual criticism and elaborate more instead of just ehhh I dont like line ehhhh why does the line not make any sense why would it upset an actual fan does any of this people whom have been commenting know anything about the books or legends or the old republic in general? I'm gonna go out on a branch and say probably not and would be more than happy to rush google something to try n throw it around maybe Disneys acolyte isn't handling the old republic the absolute best I can understand and get that but at least we're finally getting stuff that goes further back than just the prequels and sequels

[@FireinTheBowl]

It's amazing that Disney keeps doubling down on this nonsense

[@fallowthebigyellowtruck5533]

My 6 year old said “Wait… you can’t have fire in space!!

[@jbeattie02]

You can't have sound either, but George Lucas explained long ago it's not supposed to be star trek where everything makes sense in our universe, its supposed to be entertainment

[@ModernWelfare_]

@@jbeattie02Both of you are dumb.

[@jeffreyyoung6714]

@@jbeattie02that makes everything boring though. If there are no ground rules it ends up being like the MCU… oh wait

[@jbeattie02]

@jeffreyyoung6714 maybe watch a documentary or a historical movie then. Star wars is science fiction not science fact.

[@gabeitchh]

Stfu like? Star wars ain't real unlike your childhood it can acc be something fake not real and entertaining

[@Hyperguyver2]

My wife forced me to watch these first 2 episodes then asked what I thought afterwards. All I said was "I want a divorce."

[@mgtowbrony5387]

DIVORCE is strong in this one 😉

[@kicknowledgesmith8608]

She used the force and you are using divorce lol

[@Esclipsea]

​?​@@kicknowledgesmith8608😂

[@DirtySerb]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@LazyGryphon]

"I hate you." "I know."

[@jerrydominguez1862]

Thankyou, your sacrifice is acknowledged🤣

[@thejessegrant]

Ahahah thanks for your support

[@sp1ashy345]

someone get this gentleman a drink 🍺

[@shpaghettishpaghetti6219]

Thank you

[@ShadowHolmes]

​@@thejessegrantyou smart thank you for everything you Said I need to Hear that.

[@adamcomiskey9465]

"not knowing who the characters are" is how original starwars started....the crawl, two spaceships, cut inside to a couple of robots....other than the crawl, theres no exposition, its straight into the action...

[@Rocksinger88]

REMEMBER...THIS IS NOT REAL STAR WARS

[@FP194]

Nothing Disney is real Star Wars The only exception would be Rogue One

[@Rocksinger88]

@@FP194 correct 👍

[@trenify3377]

And Andor, although it feels like they are distancing from it.

[@mania4270]

This show is amazing. Y'all just don't like the characters because they ain't white

[@__thebadger]

No. This is star wars. Star wars is dead. Accept it.

[@magicbiped]

The creator of the show said in an interview that she went out of her way to hire people that don't know anything about Star Wars. Her whole plan for this show was to negate Lucas' Star Wars and expand on the last jedi's style and world. She has said these things. Disney is just hiring based on the gender, color and orientation "pokedex" where instead of hiring the best people for the job, they want to hire one of everyone regardless of experience or background...

[@gabeitchh]

Yes it's called giving chances :\

[@sarahwilson7558]

And didn’t she cast her wife who isn’t even an actor

[@magicbiped]

@gabeitchh I'm not saying people shouldn't be given chances. What I'm saying is that true diversity, when it comes to the workplace, means whoever is best to work on a project, regardless of color, creed or gender, needs to be hired. And I'm not even saying "don't ever try anything new!" But what Kathleen Kenedy keeps doing is hiring women, who's entire personality is hating straight white men, and letting them make shows where they sprinkle and or shove it into the shows they're making. And then it's just preaching instead of entertaining. That's why she's been fighting tooth and nail with Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau, because she has admitted to wanting to tear down everything about George Lucas' stories.

[@kenistheticzero3612]

My biggest issue with Disney + is they keep making us wait to see all the episodes, just release the short 8 episode 30 minute episodes series all at once lol.

[@wrymehexin3885]

Well none of this is canon so I’m at ease

[@thejessegrant]

Ahahaha

[@SquareBoxHead]

Cope harder

[@cancerconnoisseur]

Yes, unfortunately it is canon.

[@Resterminador]

All the disney star wars is not canon, its so shit, boring, uninspired, this new product that disney brings its looking the prequels look like masterpieces

[@cancerconnoisseur]

@Resterminador Sadly how good something is does not determine if it's canon or not.

[@LaraA55]

Jesse, I just finished watching it as well, right now. I kept saying to myself, what in the hell did I watch? It didn't look or feel like Star Wars. The writing was so bad . The acting was awful. I found that Yord and Jecki to be so annoying and we get a shirtless top moment...My god. The music was so bad too and I felt like I watched a Kung Fu movie soundtrack. And the Jedi robes looked awful. It also came across as a bad version of Star Trek.

[@thejessegrant]

100% felt more like a Star Trek rip off than Star Wars ahaha

[@LaraA55]

@@thejessegrant Indeed, Jesse

[@mania4270]

Nah this show was amazing, had good action, nice character depth, and it looked and felt more like star wars than some of the star wars prequels.

[@dlrbrian]

@@LaraA55 Here's a bright idea. Dont watch it and give them money. Everyone on Earth knew this show is going to be terrible, yet you wasted your time and money on it. Thats more pathetic than a shill faking that they like this shit.

[@liwojenkins]

@@mania4270 I will take the opinion of dozens of reviewers and hundreds of commenters over some rando. Cope, cope harder, I feel the butthurt within you!

[@theexperimentasd904]

The worst young jedi actor in the franchise history whose name i did not care to remember watching a fight like 7 meters away through future tech binoculars was the dumbest saddest thing i have ever seen .

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

Star Wars should just stop.

[@EsteemedReptile]

It's literally never been good.

[@dantheblade24able]

Was good upto season 2 mando and ashoka. Solo wasn't needed was a waste of money. Bob deserved better. Acolyte can die.

[@theradicalginger3060]

No the crappy toxic fans such as you and just about everyone whom commented on this video need to stop

[@notimportant1659]

​@@theradicalginger3060Are you real?

[@dvls2945]

@@theradicalginger3060 no, the crappy, toxic and politically dependant companies like Disney and their pawns like you need to stop

[@brutussmithers6341]

LUKE!!! What are your pronouns! …NOOOOOOO!

[@DarthVader1273]

Thank you for suffering through this torture for our sake, Jesse. You’re an absolute warrior.

[@TrickyDicky938]

Leslye Headland has talked in previous interviews about the fact she blagged previous jobs, saying that she knew what she was doing when actually she didn't. Guess what? She still doesn't.

[@PuissantPeacock]

Alright, stop me if you've heard this one... An "Acolyte" walks into a bar, walks right up to a master Jedi, and says, "Attack me with all your strength." Sounds like the beginning of a joke, right? Unfortunately, the storytelling doesn't improve from there. Initially, I was intrigued by the mystery surrounding the Sith Lord, but by the time episode two ended, I had lost all interest. The character development, their backgrounds, and motivations are all subpar, lacking the quality of John Favreau or Dave Filoni's work. Once again, Disney's Star Wars dives headfirst into a mess of poorly made shows. It's clear the producers are trying to mimic Lucas's style and the storytelling of Favreau and Filoni, but they fall far short of skilled, experienced, and talented storytelling. I'm frustrated by the poor decisions made by Disney executives, who have distorted George Lucas's vision. Disney, you won't get any more of my money for your trash, politics, indoctrinations, or misleading narratives. Maybe, just maybe, when Kennedy finally leaves, Star Wars will have a chance at revival. This is a classic case of confirmation bias in action!

[@xians.d.dorsey6735]

"Attack me with all your strength..."? Is that the best line a jedi killing assassin can come up with? That entire scene could have been executed without anyone uttering a word, and that would have set up a far more compelling plot (that would have crashed that much harder after they did start talking).

[@a_fine_edition2746]

I mean it’s kinda funny that they have the other characters sitting around the Jedi laugh at the assassin. I imagine that it was intended as them laughing at the idea of her challenging a Jedi Knight, but in reality it just sounds like they’re laughing at how corny and dumb her line is.

[@cowetascore8476]

Alec Guinness stands up and says, "This isn't the Star Wars you're looking for."

[@wound1up976]

😂😂😂😂😂 no dialog woulda been a flex

[@arconisthewolf4430]

Imagine a captain rex solo movie,oh wait they won't because its a man.

[@Calladim]

It's in production right now. It follows his transition from male to non binary. The last episode shows the picking of pronouns.

[@gabeitchh]

What are you yapping about? We have Kenobi, andor, the mandalorian, book of boba . So what? That if they make a project with women it's bad?! Masochistic much?

[@arconisthewolf4430]

@@gabeitchh I was making a joke about disney and crappy girlboss movies

[@alexmartin3143]

Who cares about Rex? Clone Wars has been done to death and the clones suck anyway…

[@ivantorojczewko8755]

@@gabeitchh only Andor have real male lead the rest were poster guys who were supposed to have minor role, Kenobi should be called Reva, Mandalorian was advertisement for the baby yoda(and they say that legends was full of nonsense xd), and book of Boba should take place after ep3 to show how Boba trained under Cad, and how he bocame emperor servant

[@alainorozco8032]

I thought the choreography was cheap. The crouching tiger hidden dragon fight at the beginning felt out of place. The fire in space, screams, “I don’t know Star Wars, I don’t know what I’m doing.”

[@gabeitchh]

Uh? You try doing one and a fire in space?! Have you seen the intro to almost every star wars movie?! FIRE when they shoot at theships

[@freddyr8318]

Fire as indicator for a laser blast and a Camp fire in space is hard to compare.

[@Taxisch]

@@freddyr8318 Star Wars got fire in almost every movie. You cant hear sound either in space. Still it wasnt a problem for anyone, at any time in the franchises history.

[@lynngatrell7965]

MORE production time? They announced they were making it, like, four years ago! Whether you sit on the toilet for one minute or 15 minutes, you're still just making shit, which is all Disney is capable of these days.

[@tacticalrover6428]

I actually liked it. Particularly the portrayal of the Jedi. As for the Anakin blunder, that guy is an actor, not a writer. He doesn’t have to be a fan of the movie to play the role

[@froggybug]

He also should not talk. He doesn’t have rudimentary knowledge of SW lore…that’s like not knowing Anakin was Luke & Leia’s father. Or that Chewie is a wookie.

[@vegasdutch]

The main character Amanda whatever looks like she belongs in a high school musical, not Star Wars. My word what a joke.

[@nielsbal3385]

Annoying narcissistic character.

[@Bob-jf3bn]

Now you've cursed us with Star Wars the Musical. Written by Kathleen Kennedy.

[@skabrask8938]

Headland has dirt on someone high up to have the power to destroy a billion dollar franchise with 180 million dollars

[@ModernWelfare_]

It’s not even like that brother, look into DEI and Blackrock. That’s why these shows are allowed to fail and make no money and piss people off. It’s literal psychological warfare, divide and conquer.

[@WolfmanArt]

For the pain you went thru, you deserve a bigger following

[@thejessegrant]

Bahaha one day

[@markc6714]

Time? They had 4 years and didn't even give the actors a basic background on who blew up the de#ths star....

[@DigitalChivalry]

I watched both episodes, twice. I wanted to like them, I really truly did want to like them. I don't. I was bored, and I disagree on the score.

[@jq8913]

I remember reading that Tobey Macguire did like 150+ takes in Spiderman just doing that one scene where he catches MJ in the cafeteria and also catches her lunch tray and all the food. Taking that type of time to perfect each scene is whats missing. Its like they fly through scenes and are fine with the first take. Makes me wonder how much money theyre just pocketing from Disney based on the budgets we see.

[@Neil.02]

In other news, Mars is red.

[@eddiemcalinden2773]

Mars is reddish appearing from the outside, looking at the surface it's more of a butterscotch colour and as for water, wet is actually a causality of coming into contact with it water in itself is not wet

[@BlacKnightRising]

@@eddiemcalinden2773 yep, just walked out of the shower completely dry! fancy that

[@eddiemcalinden2773]

@BlacKnightRising Strange, did the water in the shower not cause you to become the result of coming into contact with it, which would be wet?

[@eddiemcalinden2773]

@@BlacKnightRising Google is water wet buddy, I'll wait 😊

[@landondaniell5404]

The sky is blue as well

[@Blodhelm]

We're in a world where Star Wars characters show no emotion and characters raised on Vulcan in Star Trek cry every other scene and won't shut up about their feelings.

[@ModernWelfare_]

lol, Star Trek from what I’ve seen got even more destroyed than Star Wars, super sad considering the new trilogy of movies with Chris Pine was actually pretty good.

[@jamesrippy1161]

“Show runner Leslie Headland former assistant of Harvey Weinstein” was all I needed to hear to have zero interest in this show

[@marcuspitts2482]

"The Crapolyte". Now, it just needs to be flushed!

[@GalaxyOfBoltz]

If you think this is bad, you should just wait until episode three comes out that’s gonna be more controversial than the last Jedi by a mile

[@markc6714]

KK, I'm loud and proud a toxic male 😊

[@REIN474]

Your sacrifice will not be forgotten, dear sir. We sincerely appreciate your effort.

[@jeremyallen5974]

"NoBoDy HaTeS sTaR wArS mOrE tHaN sTaR wArS fAnS!" - The Shills, like clockwork

[@atomicviking2497]

If the characters all look bored, how must the audience feel?

[@antimatta8714]

It falls flat because it's a hollow project made by hollow people. Box ticking and virtue signalling is the real backbone of this story, not great writing and likable characters. Hence it's failure. If you gave the same amount of money to somebody that actually knows what they are doing, you'd obviously get a much higher quality show/film. Disney Star Wars is just terrible, especially in comparison to the original films.

[@prestonakin6618]

Her little "attack me with all your strength " pose is reason 5 million this series is PURE GARBAGE , period

[@ModernWelfare_]

That was the most cringe shit I’ve ever heard and I watched the last Jedi.

[@prestonakin6618]

@@ModernWelfare_ rofl

[@Rko11148]

At Star Wars celebration you get people like Hayden, Ewan, Ian etc up on stage and the crowd goes crazy, let’s see Leslie headland and these actors get put up on stage and see how they get received, that will tell you all you need to know about these Disney shows, they’d get bood out of the building

"Unskilled lesbian's in space" the sub title of Acolyte.

[@MSgt5J071]

This is what I don't get: Kathleen Kennedy worked with Steven Spielberg for years. He spent months in pre-production working on the script and developed storyboards that included virtually every camera shot. He fgured out which cameras to use, which lenses to use, camera placement, lighting, and a host of other factors BEFORE a single frame of film was shot. This took a long time, but the end result was films being shot within the projected number of days, and in many cases principal photography was finished ahead of schedule. Did KK learn NOTHING from Spielberg? If anything, she should know at least something about keeping production costs down...and maybe a thing or two about what makes a good story and relatable characters.

[@NefariousKoel]

Kennedy rose through the ranks, early on, via Hollywood nepotism. There is an old interview or two with Spielberg in which he lambasts her abilities regarding movie making. Said she would blurt out ridiculous ideas in creative meetings for his films and would get shut down all the time by the rest. Also stated she was a terrible secretary (original job before marrying Hollywood bigwig).. 😄

[@dr.cheetahshow7277]

People will never be satisfied 🙄 I actually like the show so far as of episode 2 I’ll admit some of the ways they fight are quite mid but the story has been good It’s just started people, let’s wait until the story progresses further to hate

[@fidelmercado2621]

I agree. Hating Disney has become a pastime for some folks. This show hasn't been that bad (yet.)

[@josipmarasovic2436]

Show is ok but few scens made me scream on screen. Like when they found jedi who grank poison, wtf lady it gona look if they find u alone with dead jedi like wtf. And spaceship crash like what are the odds its not going to dust on impact. In rest of starwars even animated series they would navigate ship to land somehow normal. This was a joke. Feeling is most of them are stupid as fuck. I first watched it before too see what people say. Show is ok at best

[@martynpope8218]

"The Apostate" more like

[@danielchavez8264]

I don’t think giving them more time would fix it. It was in production since 2022

[@ModernWelfare_]

Yeah that’s insane to me. 😂

[@mattcollins3591]

Why do these grifters act surprised anymore? It’s pretty fucking obvious Disney is only doing this to cause a reaction out of people like this.

[@entobie]

I don't agree with your review totally, it's Disney's ownership of the Star wars franchise that has been completely ruined, fans thought when they purchased it with their financial backing an entertaining history, made us feel that they could take Star wars to a whole new level, but none of that happened not in any of the movies shows or any of it, only the Mandalorian had our attention for a short 2 seasons.

[@ZeroOmega-vg8nq]

how to fix this show- shut it down because it was doomed from the beginning with the people involved.

[@J.B.1982]

Let's be honest though, I have no interest in watching a coven of average looking women do cosplay Starwars. The production and script would have to be overwhelmingly good because I'm not getting my basic geek needs met. If the escapism isn't good I have no interest. It's not complicated.

[@YeetmanSkeetman]

I’m pretty confident that it’s not the producers hindering the content. Sure, there’s some of that, but the content and performances are so bad in these shows all around - they’re Disney shows, and they remind me of classic Disney show acting, but with better makeup. They don’t hire great actors for their most important roles. They don’t hire solid sci-fi writers. It’s when they do so those things that their writers and actors get hamstrung. They have to sanitize everything for the Disney brand, so they can’t go full in on the Star Wars name. People get run through with lightsabers and walk away fine because it’s Disney, marketed to kids.

[@phoenix5054]

This is Star Wars now. Move on people. They will never capture the magic they once had. Don’t think it’s ever gonna be any better.

[@greensun5998]

Disney have had Star Wars for 12 years and have not been able to tell a Star Wars story.

[@wound1up976]

LOL this. This right here 😅

[@jessequeen4550]

Andor was amazing, but I think it’s a fluke at this point

[@kekqq]

Let's send a knight and a padawan to arrest someone who killed a Master...

[@CheesySalmon]

Maul has killed Qui Gon and other Jedi yet in the finale of S7 Obi wan and Anakin sends Ahsoka to stop him. Stop acting like this is something new that they’ve done.

[@jamesMdlk]

it’s almost like she didn’t kill the master and that her former master knew it wasn’t her 😮

[@jamesMdlk]

1:44 ‘the acolyte is objectively bad’ if that’s not the very most biased thing i’ve ever heard, then i don’t know what is. a LOT of people have enjoyed this show so far, that’s a fact, what an awful video.

[@X333Dylan333X]

You could literally say that about any episodes of the clone wars like having Anakin and Ashoka in any situation… you’re knit picking so hard my guy

[@diamondheadify-v5i]

​@@CheesySalmon stop defending bad writing just because it had been done before. Dave Filoni is not the "savior of Star Wars" people think he is. Ahsoka is his beloved OC, of course he would face her off against Maul, regardless if it makes any sense.

[@jonathankorus9649]

I love this guy's optimism. He thought giving a true and fair analysis of only the cinematic qualities would stop people from calling him a bigot 😂. Bless your heart buddy, we need more optimists like you

[@markkenny2001]

I went to see The Garfield Movie (2024), it was very good and happy 20th anniversary to Garfield: The Movie (2004).

[@thejessegrant]

I loved the OG Garfield movie! That’s my childhood right there ahaha

[@FreighttrainDaniel1225]

More respect for the source material than the acolyte

[@gam7482]

No more time or money for Disney's craps

[@user-yo8ww9rk2p]

Not even Carrie Ann Moss could save the horrid script and acting.

[@adfusion416]

im going to watch old star wars movies

[@nocatlover]

after 35 minutes i just want to watch the Mell Brooks movie Spaceballs because that is 100% more Starwars than this crap that Disney made

[@leegibson5469]

Woke turns everything into shit for one simple reason. Can you imagine the egg shells you have to walk on just to get anything done? What you write. What you say. What you do. All of it is being scrutinized down to the atom. You will not be able to write anything good or entertaining in that environment. Nothing.

[@perlman7376]

Thank you. You nailed it.

[@Toliman.]

I disagree with the Fix/Solution. The problem you're probably picking up on is, 8x 1 hour episodes is a lot of time to fill. And if they don't have a fine-tuned script, you start to notice things take too long to happen. There's no action and events get dragged on for too long. The reason is simply that filling an hour of TV is difficult to achieve if you do not plan out the entire script and have a big picture goal and lore/backstory to fill in time. i.e. Look at a typical movie. It has a beginning/middle/end section, split 90-120 minutes into smaller stories, Acts. Now, take that 20-30 minute Act, and turn it into 50 to 60 minutes... easy, right ? If you have 2 movies, that's 6 episodes. etc. Not really. If you don't have enough story, character or exciting material for 3 entire movies, you have to waste time with dialogue and emotional moments because you were intending a Movie-Like 6 minute scene... but you have to spend 20 minutes because the Acts can't be changed. If movies were easy to make, everyone would make them. So now we have to go to the restaurant. Wait to be seated. Sit. Watch the Chef wash their hands, start chopping, cooking, etc. We can't just jump into the world and be served, now we have to wait for the plate to be cooked and served, watching it all happen. To spend 20 seconds on a 10 second scene to build emotion and pathos. You start to count tiles on the floor, and a quiet scene becomes a lonely scene. It's the same problem as Ahsoka, that things take too long to happen. The reason is basically that each episode is almost treated as an act in a movie ... Which only works if they had started out with a script with 300+ pages of content. A movie is 3-4 acts, each act is 20-30 minutes. A TV season is 12 to 24 episodes, 23/47 minutes without 7/14 minutes of ads. 1 Season of TV is equivalent to 3 movies, but it's also equivalent to 12+ acts of 30 minutes each. To make 24 episodes, you need a strong overall connection of each episode to a gameplan or season arc story. here's the problem of dividing 6-9 hours unequally. You have to either build up each 20-30 minute section into an hour of content as an Act, or you develop the episode arc so that it has the same kind of A/B/C plot and character events so that each episode mixes 2 different 20-30 minute Acts. If each episode has a connective thread, then you can build parallel stories that merge the A/B characters to meet in the middle. The A story heads to the bank, the B story is inside the bank. You can then have them merge at the end where the action is. If the original script was for a 2-3 hour movie, you have a severe problem. Ahsoka seems like a TV movie that was extended far beyond the normal capacity because the A story of Ahsoka is padded out, and the B story of the Sith is also padded out. Because Filoni didn't have a lot of backstory / lore to fill in the gaps, there's a lot of boredom because the A/B story isn't that gripping enough to wait for the characters to do something. You then start to notice the slow action, the slow delaying moments, the injection of things that don't line up with the plot. 20 minutes of scenes stapled in to explain backstory, while skipping complex things that should be seen to be understood. If they had built the season as a 3-movie structure, a trilogy ... then perhaps there's some ability to cut / slice the movie into a cohesive flow that keeps the action and dialogue together. You basically weave Movie 2 and movie 1 into the first half, then mix Movie 2 and 3 into the later half. This basically allows for the 3 act structure, but also the episodes to have the A/B layers and feel much more complex. Now, what if instead of a 3-movie design, you have 2 Movies. Now you're in a bit of trouble, because the A/B stories aren't enough to cover 8 hours. It's even worse if you have 1 movie's worth of story Arcs to split over 8 hours. This isn't pacing, this is just bad management that does not understand TV production or it's intensity. A Movie is shot with a page of script for each minute, with a 3 act structure. The plot forms around the acts, scenes and A story/ B story / C story. Typically following the protag/antagonist points of view, but also a side-story or flashback to reveal the next act or scene. In this way, you keep the pace and attention of the audience to build the relationship of action and pathos, et al. You start to care for the characters and understand them before you put them in another Act, and a new set of objectives in the new Act. So each Act in a movie, is 20-30 minutes to cover a location or character, introduce the problem, then move into the action. If you make 8 hours of D+ as a movie, that's supposed to be 12-20 acts of 20 minutes to 40 minutes each. Now you have action at the beginning, middle, end of each episode, or some episodes with 4 acts and some episodes with 2, sic. Disney+, doesn't quite have that luxury in making an Act 1 episode. It has to stretch a movie format story (because the writers don't understand episodes), from the 3 act structure into a 6/9/12 act structure instead. Which either means splitting each episode into an act, which would make WAY MORE sense in hindsight, but it also means something else. If you don't put the main characters in the first episode, the audience doesn't know who the characters are. Everyone has to be sandwiched into the introductory episode for their 5 minutes. And so, the First Episode has to start the A/B/C/D plotlines and weaving multiple stories from Act 2 and Act 1 together so there's a connective line by Episode 3 when the story finally starts. When you create 23 minutes for TV, you need to "bottle up" each episode to just cover the basics and the audience does the work to decompress and put pieces together. This is why people 'binge' 3 episodes, but they can't easily binge 5 or 8 episodes as easily. Each Episode of TV, is built on this notional compression of events. A movie is also based on this compression, i.e. Act 1, 2, 3, and 4 are 20-30 minutes long. Pacing introduces each page of script as 1 minute of film, roughly, so 100 pages - 100 minutes. Shooting scripts are built like this for estimating budget and footage, development, etc. If you don't have a "tight" script with everything planned out, you go way over budget and need to pad out scenes to fill the time in. Hence "Ahsoka" being both fast and dull. But that's also 24 x 23 minute TV episodes, almost 9 hours. But in that contrast, Each D+ show is 3 regular episodes of high-intensity, high-budget Movie quality TV to fill, minus the "last episode" and intro/outro credits. The normal 3 act movie of 30-40 minutes per act, is woven into 20 acts in a CW show, because they want to tell an A Story and B Story and C story with the ensemble of characters. To do this, you need to know the integrity of the A/B/C and D story is doing, and the D story is what happens outside of the characters, what the villains are doing, etc. A Season Arc is then split up into 5 or 6 segments, typically over a long-span, i.e. 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20, 21-24 as if it was a Giant Movie to reveal that arc over time.

[@fidelmercado2621]

I actually thought the first 2 episodes weren't that bad.

[@KYOSHIHUE]

glad i'm not the only one that actually didn't dislike the show so far.

[@trashgamer3318]

They’ve been putting Star Wars in chat gtp for the past 2 years and just praying it would make something good

[@cerostheepic8803]

Thank you for this, I am glad I don't need to watch it!

[@shidokasagi5406]

who would have thought that a show made for a “modern audience” promoting an agenda would turn out to be absolute crap. definitely not me~

[@chasehedges6775]

THIS😂😂

[@drdassler]

They're always so sure the fans only like white men but are determined to not give them any anyway. 😄

[@micah5918]

And what agenda is that?

[@shidokasagi5406]

@@micah5918 they use pronouns in show, do i need tell more?

[@micah5918]

@@shidokasagi5406 pronouns oh the tragedy how dare they include a diverse cast for a diverse galaxy.

[@lothcat01]

you've literally watched only two episodes, very harsh review for an overall good show. You're right about the production time.

[@jeH12...]

I'm not someone who's ever been super critical of movies. I have some I don't like like Eternals from Marvel and I understand why people have the opinions they do...I just simply enjoy anything that gets me excited. The acolyte to me was an interesting and good beginning to what they're trying to show us. That's just me tho. And again, I do understand why people don't want it or don't like it.

[@leaixenavier]

Ofc the script is ass in some ways and I think the actors are very medium but overall this is a lot more fun to watch than ahsoka to me

[@markpaterson2053]

I'd like to thank you, but I just made the same sacrifice myself...I don't wanna talk about it, need to keep my mind stimulated to heal from the...hm, experience, if I can even call it that; more of a non event.

[@hames6768]

Ah yes… the people that call detractors to this “modern” Star Wars bigots have a LONG track record of accepting objective criticism… They will still call you a bigot. And they should have had NO creative control of this show.

[@RaphyLive]

so Disney makes every black character have the same hairstyle - Dreads. Why ?

[@ModernWelfare_]

Disney? The company that used to be insanely racist? No way they would stereotype.

[@curtwalker11]

I think this is more bullet proof. 1 A Jedi Master gets killed by use of a telegraphed feint. Please let there be a plot twist. Darth Trinitus anyone? 2 A Jedi Knight that jumps at shadows and overreacts to nearly every situation he's put in. 3 A star ship mechanic can escape a prison cell, but can't fix the autopilot on a starship. Neither can her droid, so, she gives up?! 4 A main character survives crashing into a planet at terminal velocity from orbit..........because she can't just fix the autopilot. That's some needlessly thick plot armor. 5 Why are we getting so pumped up to fight someone that isn't paying any noticeable attention at all? Why did we recycle lines delivered to someone that isn't even paying any noticeable attention? 6 I won't fight you or have a conversation, but if you come back with poison, I will kill myself at your request?

[@horrorstew3577]

I tortured myself too outta morbid curiosity 😂 .... This show wasn't just woke, it was dull, predictable and lacked anything close to entertaining. Karen, girl boss cringe in Space

[@artdogg50]

I agree it was dull. I almost fell asleep on it and came close to just turning it off. I managed to make it through the first 2 episodes, but have no desire to continue watching it.

[@shanemiles2077]

No one can act besides Trinity. The fight choreography was excellent but out of place. The story is just more Disney go here do this then that. Why couldn’t Sol just scream to Osha in cave before she almost dramatically fell. Oh yeah so the force can be used for everything.

[@michaeldavis2001]

Dude. What are you talking about? This show has allegedly taken YEARS to make! Why do you think it would have been improved by more time. Leslye Headland, previously Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant. a proud lesbian who cast her wife in the show, is the show-runner. What 'studio interference' are you talking about? Lucasfilm let her make EXACTLY the sh*t-show that she wanted to make. The show is crap, just like everything else that Disney makes these days. They don't need you conjuring excuses for them.

[@DoctorFixMaster]

Acolyte breakdown: Woke Disney chokes again, this time creating a black female Jedi killer with two "moms" who is on a rampage to kill all whitey Jedi. I've seen enough.

[@Mr_Woodsmoke]

*Anakin blew it up and Chewbacca wasn't nothing but a dog*

[@chocolatebar6785]

tbh i feel like it was more bad dialogue and lack of smaller details like body language than bad writing story wise its promising and is an improvement compared to smth like the sequels