The Acolyte: The Failure of Many (A Rant)

I sincerely hope that this is the very last time I make a video on The Acolyte because putting this together was a CHORE. But let's look on the bright side...we have finally reached the end of the worst project that Disney Star Wars has put together and hopefully the ratings will speak for themselves about this abomination of a show.
Join me as we discuss the season and the finale in retrospect and all the ways in which The Acolyte was just so terrible.

[@dsmyify]

Seduction and Power being associated makes sense when the writer was personal assistant to ... a monster.

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

Or maybe it's the other way around, and that's the reason that she worked for him?

[@dsmyify]

@nyetzdyec3391 it is maybe the reason why she didn't inform authorities of what was happening. Maybe blackmailing the monsters associates was more profitable; how much did it cost to produce the Acolyte?

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

@@dsmyify Well, HW was at Lionsgate, IIRC. Definitely wasn't Dismal or LF. 180M$. So, I don't think it had anything to do with paying for her silence.

[@The_Word_Is_The_Way]

The Acolyte should be a case study on terrible writing, directing, and wasted budget for a TV show.

[@troffle]

Like "The Rings Of Power" doesn't already fulfill that?

[@The_Word_Is_The_Way]

@@troffle The Rings of Power actually got a second season. Both suck in my opinion but The Acolyte is a unique brand of terrible.

[@troffle]

@@The_Word_Is_The_Way I know it did. That was part of my point. RoP was such a unique brand of offensive and terrible, I watched the entire show only through KZbin critics; found a specifically non-Amazon bookstore to buy the Tolkien books, and read them as I never did as a kid because I was reading Foundation and Dune instead. And now I have a love for Tolkien that retroactively makes me hate RoP. As far The Acolyte... I haven't been able to tolerate *anything* Disney has put out. People keep saying how awesome "Andor" was; I saw the opening datestamp/planet title in the show and noped out because dating an episode with "BBY" is like stamping a coin with "BC". Man, seriously, I saw The Empire Strikes Back in cinemas with my brand new glasses. I only watched The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi via piracy; and couldn't bring myself to watch The Rise Of Skywalker even that way. Rogue One, Solo... all that crap didn't just leave me cold, it left me nauseous and occasionally furious. So by the time "The Acolyte" rolled around, it was just "oh yeah, still yet more crap so who cares" and I was able to just nitpick and laugh my way through that garbage... while weeping for the Extended Universe and begging Jar Jar for forgiveness. So I guess at some point I stopped measuring degrees of Disney suck and just lumped it all into the "who gives a faecal". Disney put out a Star Wars cookbook with "fried tip-yip", emulating some planet fowl cooked in a starship's engine exhaust. You know, consisting of particulate radioactive heavy metals? I wish Disney execs and modern fans would eat those, seriously. Don't get me started on the "Doctor Who" or "Star Trek" I loved since I was 7. In 1978. Juuuuust don't.

[@yourfeedYT]

What’s crazy is that Star Wars is so established that all you have to do with the writing is simply RESPECT THE LORE. Simple… you would think a billion dollar company would understand.

[@peterrippon3854]

"I NEVER BROKE THE LORE... I AM THE LORE!"

[@gregorysaugustine5236]

I think it is exactly because it's a billion dollars company. It makes the company's people disconnected from actual fans that love the franchise as it is. What those people are thinking is what that franchise can do for them and these days, it's not about making money, it's about spreading a message.

[@robertluna5737]

The fact that George Lucas had spec scripts ready for the next three movies in the franchise when he sold it to Disney just shows their incompetence. Why they decided to wreck a literal money-printing machine should be held up in history as an example of what not to do with a business model.

[@joshuamiller652]

*was so established I think that has been permanently ruined at this point

[@mar.prz10]

Overtime many fans are seeing the agenda for what it is: Pop culture hijacking to bring down the stability of the west. Sounds so woowoo but put everything together… It’s all about control of a few, not about what the large majority of people want. Star Wars has but become a tool, readily manipulated or readily expendable when it no longer serves them.

[@whoisyouranime]

Do you remember the movie, Batman starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson where the Joker and his gang ruined all the paintings, statues and artwork, thinking he's an artist, claiming he makes art until someone dies AKA a homicidal artist? That's what Leslye Headland and Kathleen Kennedy did. They took George Lucas's art and ruined it, claiming their art is as good as his and like Kim Basinger's character, Vicky Vale, we say, "You must be joking." Because that's what the Acolyte is, a big fat "Putting their face on a one dollar bill when they don't deserve it" joke.

[@AlbertusMagnus_44]

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[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

EXCELLENT WORK. NERDWORD SKIP THE ACOLYTE HOT 🔥 GARBAGE DISASTER

[@4616nva]

"Some people just like to see the world burn"

[@big_red01027]

"Gentlemen! Let's broaden our minds!"

[@VengeanceN7]

Well said 👏

[@Ramansdo3s]

NerdWord is one of my happiest recent discoveries on KZbin. I love the sensible, considered, and sometimes scathing analyses of an entertainment industry that is just plain failing. Keep up the good work. Disney and the rest will have to listen eventually. Long live sanity and meritocracy! Good show all round.

[@HyJyncks]

To be fair, the actor playing Qimir is infinitely better than Ezra Miller will ever be.

[@suzygirl1843]

He doesn't look like Ezra. He looks like Asian Robert Pattinson

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

Yeah... Disparu upgraded him to "Premium Ezra Miller".

[@4616nva]

Dunno erza is truly evil so would make a better Sith

[@manoz6194]

I think Qimir could have done with being in a better show. Same how I felt with Baylan in Ahsoka

[@suzygirl1843]

@@manoz6194 Can't have it both ways. The show is about Osha and Mae. Qimir originated from this show and is linked to them. You just want The Acolyte to be stand alone so you can ignore it, review bomb and decanonize it. Well, Disney is ahead of you racists and whenever they give us a show about a black girl lead, they will have STRONG supporting characters to help her. Kenobi series was basically launching Reva but they know how racist and misogynistic Star Wars fans are and decided to label it Kenobi

[@SaviorCross]

No accountability nor any consequences. Mae kills Jedi, Qmir kills Jedi, Osha kills Jedi,...and they did Sol sooo dirty....reflects the greater youth today, no consequence for bad behavior, change minds for no reason, and blame others for their own faults...Amandla is a bad actor...

[@ThespianPrince13]

Yeah was there any of this accountability stuff with books like Darth Bane and Darth Plagueis? It’s a Sith-centered story. What do you expect? The execution is terrible though. This show sucks.

[@stevecaldwell8740]

@@ThespianPrince13Sure but the tone of these acknowledged that they were evil; not misunderstood.

[@javierlopez9789]

​@@ThespianPrince13 so by your logic Anakin should have ended in ROTS with limbs, wife, children and not looking like a wrinkly old ballsac

[@ThespianPrince13]

@@stevecaldwell8740That’s the issue. I agree with that you said. The books made it clear they’re evil. A necessary evil for order and security. The show didn’t do any of this at all.

[@ThespianPrince13]

@@javierlopez9789 Not what I said. There’s definitely consequences to poor decisions. Darth Vader’s overconfidence led to his injuries. The same way the Jedi’s overconfidence let to Order 66.

[@salsaman]

The real villain of the show, of course, is Darth Basil, who would later go on to train his apprentice Darth Jar Jar.

[@koestler76]

This show literally HURT me on many levels. I am angry and awed by the level of stupidity, arrogance, bad taste and pure evil agenda that these so called creators are exhibiting. And there are people defending it. As Anakin would say "I HATE THEM"

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

I've enjoyed The Wokalyte... because the only way I've seen it, is it getting thoroughly roasted in reviews. Of course, I also knew it was going to bad... 99.99% chance. I also won't allow D+ in my house (except in reviews), so I didn't waste any money on it, either.

[@marchitn]

Qimir being possessed was clearly setting up season 2 to reveal that Oshas mother is acting as a guardian angel of some sort. Plageus being there was just shamelessly exploiting the legacy characters to elevate her own show. Were suppose to want to see "where this goes" and find out Qimirs backstory as an abused apprentice just to have him eventually die out of his love for Osha....despite the fact that the sith dont love. Why her sisters mind had to be wiped makes zero sense. This is some of the worst writing Ive ever seen and based on the budget cant but help think its just a money laundering op.

[@PassanCat]

This is show very important. It shows us that it does not matter how talented you are, you can only work in Hollywood if you follow their agenda.

[@djn6962]

I just don’t understand the character motivations changing all the time. Even the little beaver dude… first he attacks Mae and reveals she is an imposter to Sol, then sabotages the ship to help her escape? What!? Why!? Hahaha. He is also still a living witness to everything that happened and is allowing Sol to be framed. Biggest A**hole on the show…

[@thiefofa1073]

The worst is when Mae inside the escape ship about to fly into the ring asteroid field said to her droid: "Hang on Pip!" - the same droid she met only a day ago, the same droid she hardware-reset to "default factory settings" and wiped its memory...

[@Tinandel]

Honestly, the Acolyte makes perfect sense when you realize it's just a Harlequin Romance story written by women who equate Jedi to police and despise said police. It's really just that simple.

[@mxvega1097]

Wow, I had never heard the "villain romance" thing encapsulated like that before - that the hero will sacrifice you to save the world, but the villain will sacrifice the world to save you. Holy moly, such an intense concentration of delusion, narcissism and utterly detached moral compass! Which plays right into this show. Here's a short version of The Acolyte: A Morality Tale: Who wins? Bad guys, murderers, betrayers, evil, liars, turncoats, viz: Smilo and Osha in the sunset Who loses? Jedi, those who died, those doing their duty, good people, naive schlubs (Yord, Jecki etc), Mae, the truth Who is compromised? Vernestra, the Council, Yoda, Mae, undertaking or progressing a cover-up Yep, a show for kids that is. Set aside the beefcake, a show in which "no one is ever really evil" - as LH just reiterated in another astoundingly stupid interview - is just not for kids. I still don't know who this show is for.

[@champcpr]

Jedi used to be one man armies, literally reflecting blasters from all angles…but as you mentioned, a supposed master died by a single knife while saving another. Un FXXKING believable 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@marionmeyers]

Disney Star Wars is proof that the current stable of writers in Hollywood are completely incompetent. The actors are offensively bad, and directors are worse at acting like real directors. Its all awful and it has to be absolutely bleeding money. Because NOBODY will ever pay for such garbage. The only saving grace of it all is we get to watch it all happening. Knowing these people actually BELIEVE they are doing meaningful work.... Is hilarious.

[@impactsuit9871]

When disney announced it's subscription channel i thought it was OVER for Netflix, disney had marvel and star wars no one can compete with it. Then disney self sabotaged itself. Unbelievable.

[@jamiel6169]

The show was painful, spitefully written, incoherent. And the fact that the entire thing boils down to “blame Sol for everything” shows a complete disrespect for any characters that aren’t the twins or Qimir

[@gregmainer5416]

What else did you expect from a bunch of man-haters?

[@AlbertusMagnus_44]

The “Apocolyte” is exactly what its talentless makers intended it to be: a self insert vanity project designed to trash Star Wars, not become an extension of it. LH has clearly stated that she is Sith sympathetic and made this “show” to kill Jedi and elevate evil to “good.” She herself said Ep. 5 is her favorite and it’s easy to see why, with Jedi dropping left and right. The most graphic of these being Jeckie, a young woman Jedi, and I believe this is LH’s favorite moment, suggesting she is rather misogynistic herself. After all, she had no problem funneling young women who were more attractive and more talented than she is into HW’s “inner office.” The “Alcoholyte” was made as a subliminal expression of jealousy toward the people with actual talent, ability, and creativity who made Star Wars. Lastly, its complete failure financially is no impediment to a continuance of it, indeed it almost guarantees it in today’s “modern” Disney. Expect more. Unfortunately.

[@legiran9564]

The biggest offence of all. 180 MILLION DOLLARS.

[@victorcates9330]

I'm assuming given how long Osha was unconscious for that she probably has brain damage. Headland has given the jedi touches of nobility (self sacrifice, agreeing to punishment, adhering to a code), but it's lost in the mix. Between non-sensical stuff and swooning for Smilo (in a matter of hours), it's difficult for the audience to give her any benefit of the doubt. It doesn't sound like they've done the work to establish that Osha has lost her soul. And Mae agrees to a memory wipe seemingly to indulge her sister and Smilo (who is something akin to a serial killer). It doesn't sound like they tied Smilo to the Witch coven. Given that he oversees Mae on a murder spree, a cleaner motivation would be revenge. If he's enabling her to kill people who don't really deserve it to draw her in, then that's absolutely psychotic. Unless you think Charles Manson is a viable boytoy love interest, then it seems unhinged. To pursue the Rashomon link, I think Rashomon was an inspiration for 'The Virgin Spring' which was an inspiration for 'Last House on the left'. The Virgin Spring had a gravity to the act of revenge and allowed you to trust in the skill of Ingmar Bergman. Last House was probably meant to be a sleazy piece of B cinema. It was widely denounced as morally loathsome. The acolyte is currently nearer to the latter. It doesn't seem to aspire to having a deeper level of having something to say about inviting an audience along on a revenge spree. Ultimately, can you trust a filmmaker given their moral ambiguity included the mother turning into a smoke demon? If more of the character details made sense, then maybe you'd have confidence that it was going somewhere worth getting to.

[@KaiHouston-m6j]

You know, we finally found what Star Wars was missing...more nudity! Lol

[@suzygirl1843]

I would've liked Game of Thrones bath sequence from Qimir

[@KaiHouston-m6j]

@@suzygirl1843 No Sith Walk of shame? Lol

[@michaelbrashears8293]

This series is a truly bad "Hold my beer" moment. Thanks for another great video.

[@robertagren9360]

I can do it worse with only $100 millions, they should had hired me

[@johannesseyfried7933]

When Qimir wanted to erase Mae's memories, I honestly would have preferred if Mae and Osha just turned against him. "The Spaceship only has two seats? Good! We didn't plan to take you with us anyway."

[@Ajescent]

Correction: He is not discount Ezra Miller. He is way better than that pile of human waste.

[@jeremyallen5974]

Besides Sol HE was the only other somewhat decent character in this glorified bull dyke fanfiction

[@Osprey850]

I can't imagine binge watching four episodes of this show in one night. It was bad enough watching just one episode per week.

[@lordsinister707]

The show itself is trying so hard to Question the morality of the Jedi but fails miserably. It's like they're trying to say that if I break the Jedi down and make something new it will be better. The problem is that breaking something doesn't make it better rather than simply making it broken. Then to make matters worse, the writers go out of their way to try and fundamentally change characters in order to make their way of thinking work but it just comes off as incredibly jarring and nonsensical.

[@Bluepenguin28]

ty for the video, i'll never know how we get mandalorian season 1 from this company, i think miracles can happen even tho they are very very rare. i'll never accept acolyte as cannon never. the other disney star wars projects were bad but they never lowered my love for the Star Wars because i had hope that they can fix their mistakes and make an actual good movie after all the backlashes. Nope, they are just doubling down, attacking their fans, attacking youtubers who actually show them their mistakes etc etc, its not an entertainment product but a political mess at this point.

[@fatimafahad2493]

he's premium ezra miller now lol

[@FromChaosToOrder-iz9wb]

Andor was no prize either. Pretentiousness is no substitute for good entertainment.

[@luizpz]

Regret ohhh….this is not the end…is just the beginning of a long journey ahead a very painful journey ahead ….R.I.P old dear good movies and great TV shows…Remakes are on the horizon….until every thing is gone and every memory is destroyed….in the name of inclusion and diversity….

[@rickycox6111]

I thought Riannnn Johnson was bad. Headland told him to hold her beer. I'm 67 and this has to be the biggest piece of shit show I have ever seen. This is a new low for Star Wars folklore. No I can't even call it that it comes straight from the horse's ass literally. Kennedy continues on her path to destroy SW. If Dave and John went along with this shame on them. It's awful.😢

[@CMONCMON007]

Dave Filoni actually was Headlands advisor on this show. He is as much to blame for this betrayal of George Lucas' Legacy

[@Pomoscorzo]

As long as so many fans are convinced that Star Wars is about Good vs. Evil (embodied by certain persons on one side and the others on the other side) instead of what it actually is about - the light and the darkness all characters have inside themselves, the saga will never get the chance to renew itself and move on. I neither loved nor hated "The Acolyte". And I always listen to the points made by both sides. But this video is so willingly blind to what both The Acolyte and the sequels were telling that I have found a new channel to avoid, thank you.

[@drunkjediknight]

One of the things that made me laugh was in the last episode Sol, manages to deflect to incoming spinning lightsabers his not even looking at while pushing back Darth Teef. This punches holes all over the Acolyte defenders arguments on Indaras death being relevant. Many of us already knew Jedi Masters could deflect things they couldnt see using the force but a simple distraction became an undoing, but here Sol proves Jedi Masters can use the force on objects that are coming at them but not seen. I hate how many Consumer fans there are just sitting down eating this bowl of lukewarm cat shit and exclaiming "Best Star Wars ever!"

[@What_do_I_Think]

There should be a warning sign on the whole show: "This show endangers the mental health of your kids -- stay away" In my opinion, those thoughts that here are preached by the show also undermine the stability of any civilization, because any civilization is build upon some kind of understanding of Good and evil.

[@jeremyallen5974]

Tell THAT to Turning Red where Disney told kids "YOU know what's best for YOU. Your parents only hold you back with their 'rules'."

[@What_do_I_Think]

@@jeremyallen5974 For that reason, I call this coporation Disney no more, but Dismay. It is a disgrace to the name of the founder. I did not see that movie, but as much I can see, many new movies from this corporation come with dubious messaging. That is just what you will get, when you hire activists instead of talented people.

[@Shashu_the_little_Voidling]

"any civilization is build upon some kind of understanding of Good and evil" You must be some kind of christian or something?

[@justhangin2389]

The light saber battles and dialogue literally looked like Saber Guild cosplay performances.

[@sofaking1627]

Thank you for actually explaining why this show was so awful instead of just screaming "Woke" every three words.

[@sarahharris7457]

This was the best acolyte review I have ever seen😂 I laughed so hard at the Master Squid Games, Discount Wolverine and the Knight Dreadlocks🤣🤣

[@willwidrick8039]

Well said! Seems to me the main point was to make the Jedi look evil and the Sith look good. That’s kinda of problematic since the Jedi are actually the good guys. Smh 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@heisetube8233]

I truly believe Osha would've fell in love with that prisoner from ep 1 if he let her in the escape pod.

[@SaviorCross]

One of the funniest and lame scenes is when Qmir removes the helmet from Oshas head, its a weird edit, as though he pulled the helmet through her head...

[@andrewvillers6447]

Well, on behalf of the community that wants to see this kind of trash gone, I want to thank you for supporting this drivel by watching it, reviewing it, and giving it attention. You lot truly are doing the Lord’s work, and helping this garbage endure. For heaven’s sake though, seriously, what are you all doing? We know it’s garbage, we know it sucks, we know that Lucasfilm doesn’t care about continuity, canon, lore, or quality. Stop reviewing it and giving them your money, time, and attention. Your ranting about it is solving nothing.

[@mala6238]

Facts. Somehow, many people seem to just watch productions from the same big US studios and complain about it. Why not watch 1. Small/indy products 2. Foreign movies/shows 3. Good old stuff

[@nhlcbj]

The ultimate irony is between Rogue One and Andor the best parts of DSW have absolutely nothing to do with the Jedi, the force or any of that stuff. I watched the original trilogy for the first time in awhile recently and they still hold up and are great movies, but that’s all they are now. Unless they remaster the Rogue Squadron games I don’t care about Star Wars anymore and after s2 of Andor I’m tuning out. Ultimately the only recourse is to do what Obi-Wan said: let go.

[@ccchhhrrriiisss100]

Well said, NerdWord! The Acolyte wouldn't even be mediocre fan fiction in the Star Wars EU. It is everything that you said it is. It's divisive, preachy and boringly predictable social-politics in the form of an overpriced Star Wars TV show that lacks the acting, writing and production quality of a Star Wars TV show. It's like someone wanted to make a big budget yet highly-political and DEI version of THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL but under the pretense that is "impressive" because it is supposedly "feminist" and "subverts expectations" despite it showcasing terrible female talent and being exactly what most Star Wars fans feared it to be. It's like getting tickets to a Joe Biden or Kamala Harris speech while hoping for the best and expecting the worst....only to find out that it is even worse than the "worst" that we expected. Apart from the next season of The Mandalorian and Andor (or, maybe, Ahsoka), Star Wars is kind of dead to me now. I already know what to expect from STAR WARS going forward. It will be preachy melodrama with bad acting, questionable cast hires that we are somehow supposed to "celebrate" because they are "diverse" and predictable storytelling where the writers are so intent on being non-predictable that we see everything coming. Yes, STAR WARS is now a fading memory for me with a few moments of nostalgia. At this point, I am actually surprised for the few TV, game or movie productions in which STAR WARS doesn't have preachy melodrama with bad actors and terrible stories. At this point, the only thing that could have save STAR WARS would be for the Force ghost of Luke to tell a protagonist that the afterlife has taught him that everything he said to Rey and Company in THE LAST JEDI was wrong. Yet, given Kathleen Kennedy's well-publicized views, Disney's virtue signaling and Mark Hamill's weirdly pompous sociopolitical diatribes, that is unlikely to ever happen. So, we're just left with great memories of the original trilogy, mostly good memories and hopes for the prequels and some good memories from Andor, The Mandolorian and a few video games and cartoons. Rest in Peace, STAR WARS. It's a shame that rabid social activists posing as filmmakers patted themselves on their backs when they killed you.

[@normaldavid]

Anakin sacrificed the world to save padme, and look how that turned out.

[@phoebea]

The rule of thumb is to write what you know. I guess the writer knows nothing about human motivations, good characters, and compelling stories.

[@orboakin8074]

Glad I avoided this trash show. I refuse to even pirate or hate-watch it. I have been a Star Wars fan since childhood in Nigeria and I refuse to waste more time on disney star wars. I am done with toxic identity politics, garbage writing and antagonism towards fans. I will content myself with Lucas era shows and movies, like Clone Wars, and the EU books I am currently buying. And games like KOTOR and Fallen Order. There is a lot of good Star Wars out there, even before I was born, and I would rather enjoy that instead

[@matthewdane1875]

Oh and now the Sith are caring people. Holding hands with Osha at the end. Romantic isn’t it?

[@Nyet-Zdyes]

Throbbing...

[@monicaaboites5053]

Give the thanks to Reylo's because of them, not only we have awful romances like this, but now, they are hiring screenwriters who shiiping two characters who should never have been together at the first place.

[@javierlopez9789]

​@@monicaaboites5053 they should have sticked to legends and made the rey and kylo characters siblings.

[@tbabbittt]

Technology used to take the place of character in science fiction. Things had origins, purpose and attachment. Think Light Saber, melinium falcon, death star. Disney writes drama and wraps it in science fiction.

[@poetscotty]

I knew it by the end of the series both twins would be evil. Cherry on top they swapped places. Plus blaming the Jedi master would make the Republic trust theJedi less also the Jedi Council did nothing which make it worst.

[@ronisin710]

Hi. Your audio volume is too quiet compared to video clips. And I'm fairly confident saying Headland misuses the Force b/c she doesn't understand it, nor cares to. Star Wars is what she says it is. Thank you for your content !

[@benardpoernomo]

My main complaint about the show is the constant abrupt change of tones. Characters changed their mind on a whim. Characters said something & 5 mins later did something completely the opposite. The mismatch is disconcerting. I wonder if the writer is purposely doing so as a commentary for gen Z

[@edwinmaki6817]

There isn't much of a conversation to be had. It's just.... "star wars acolyte is terrible" and the only reasonable response is "yes, it truly is." The real conversation is about the poorly-behaved dog that keeps leaving these turds

[@DasLenny]

Small comment to Ep.3 & 7: in ep3 the witches know that Jedi are around and are moving away from the sttleement, while in ep.7 the Jedie more or less wander aimlessly around until they stumble over the witches... Other stupid stuff: In ep1 one ship is used to get to Osha, but two ships (jedi ship and prision transport) leave, etc Continuity is kinda problematic in the series...

[@mphoramathe1801]

5:31 Thank the Force that the space witches aren't Nightsisters! The Nightsisters were a well written, well thought out contribution to Star Wars that enriched the universe and respected the cannon... and they were better dancers

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

FWIW: I only saw the first three episodes of the show -- lucky me 🤭 -- but I have watched NUMEROUS reviews of all the other episodes. I also freely admit I have NO TALENT WHATSOEVER for reviewing TV shows & movies the way _NerdWord_ and so many others do so well here on KZbin. ALL THAT SAID, here {in no particular order} are PLOT HOLES which I IMMEDIATELY picked up on watching the three episodes I saw: (1) Osha extinguishes a fire in space. You cannot have a fire in space due to lack of oxygen. However, you COULD if whatever was burning was supplying both fuel AND an oxidizer to support combustion. But then it would be MUCH MORE DIFFICULT to extinguish a fire like that. (2) [This one is more a case of _they could have written the scene this way_ and it would make more sense.] Osha surviving the crash of the uncontrolled prison transport spaceship could have been explained by her overloading the ship's _inertia damping system_ to keep her and the ship in one piece throughout the crash. The STAKES could have been up by the fact doing so would almost certainly cause the spaceship to explode on its own, but she had to do it. Then after the crash the ship didn't explode, but most of the systems on the ship would FRY, meaning she would have to abandon the ship to avoid FREEZING. (3) Sol saves Osha from falling off a ledge by using The Force DIRECTLY ON HER. Later Sol tries to save both Osha and Mae from a collapsing bridge by using The Force TO SUPPORT THE COLLAPSING BRIDGE THEY ARE BOTH STANDING ON instead of just supporting both girls. (4) STONE AND CONCRETE DO NOT BURN. I know these are all GLARINGLY OBVIOUS, but the fact someone like ME would notice AND REMEMBER THEM after only one viewing of each episode is significant.

[@mk_wizard]

The Acolyte makes me sad because... it had all the ingredients necessary to be a good show. Maybe not the best, but at least fun. But the people behind it are not good writers and I am not saying that to be spiteful. I say it out of kindness: they aren't good at what they do. I still cannot figure out the plot, none of the big questions got answered and the ending gave the impression they didn't know what to do so they just slapped something together in a rush. This is passed the point of not respecting the lore. I'm left asking if the people even knew the basics. The cherry on top is that the one good characters that came out of it being Jedi Master Sol was cheated as a character because he underwent true character development, had a real struggle, a real story and was genuinely trying to do the right thing in a difficult situation yet... we're expected to believe he is in some way the bad guy? He was NOT. Who knows what kind of life the twins would have had being raised in a cult. The problem is, you can't reason with crazy cultists so their first reaction is to be hostile. Everything the Jedi did was self defense. The one bad thing they did was keep secrets and even then... Sol was planning to sit down with Osha and tell her the truth the right way. Sol was not in on keeping the secret to save face. He did it to not cause further trauma to a child who was too young to handle the truth. Point is... It was a case of a reverse Midas touch. They started with gold, but then turned it into rocks. And it's sad because Disney can do better, has done better and once employed better to do the writing.

[@troffle]

> what I do regret however is getting so far behind in watching The Acolyte that I had to binge watch episodes 4 through 7 in one night Dang. I would've regretted *needing* to watch The Acolyte in the first place. I mean, I did watch it, sure; and that's how I know it's an irretrievable stinker that brought some decent actors really way far down. And Amandla Stenberg too.

[@chaz9808]

They could have just adapted the EU books into scripts and hired the authors as consultants they would have pleased the original Star Wars fans and acquired new ones and just printed money. It’s a shame

[@dorian_aguayo]

I think just for spiteful sake, Disney will make a season 2. At this point they're not getting more subscribers for D+. They think engagement on their content is all they need 😊

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

_NerdWord,_ at about 04:57 in this video... *_"...but not before some seriously painful eye contact..."_* And a SERIOUSLY SINGULAR FACIAL EXPRESSION displayed throughout almost the entire series by the actress playing both roles...🙄

[@Nobody_else_but_me]

Trust me bro... No the correct way to say that is ...trust me (he/she/they/us/them/la la la......yeah...YASSS.....YASSS.....YASSS

[@oxhine]

This show left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm glad it's done and I hope it's not renewed. I never understood the motivation of the twins! It seemed to change from scene to scene so I could never lock on to how I was supposed to feel towards either girl. An impossible role for Amandla Stenberg to pull off! Vernestra is the worst and I don't understand how she had so much independent authority. Her autonomy was implausible, her leadership questionable and her decisions outrageous! Why did Bazil sabotage Sol's pursuit? Lee Jung-Jae was amazing throughout and I was appalled at his death and the maligning of his character by Vernestra. Qimir was well-acted by Manny Jacinto and intriguing as a character. Dafne Keen is always a pleasure to watch and was very likable as Jecki. The spaceship chase through the rings was a cool scene. The lightsaber duel was well-done as was the major battle in Episode 5. I enjoyed seeing a kyber crystal get corrupted in live-action. Always nice to see David Harewood even though he was playing just an obnoxious Senator rather than Plagueis! Having Darth Plagueis and Yoda show up was fun but extremely problematic. It should have been Tenebrous because Plagueis is too young at this point and Cortosis was Tenebrous' thing. Yoda is now a co-conspirator with Ki-Adi-Mundi in this cover-up. Headland's flagrant disregard for continuity was sloppy and disrespectful. Headland's overt hypocrisy in objectifying her handsome leading men was irritating. Headland's intent to tarnish the Jedi was a confusing failure! All the actions of the four Jedi in question were justified or misunderstood. The witches needlessly escalated the situation with their actions. Nothing to commit suicide over. Headland's appropriating the Vergence concept to outdo George and trump Anakin was supremely arrogant and never fully explained. Headland's skills as a storyteller leave much to be desired as this narrative was poorly-paced, nebulously-motivated, confusingly-explained and unsatisfying. This show needs to be swept under the rug and forgotten as bad fan-fic! What a multi-million dollar fiasco!

[@malmazing24]

Get ready for Skeleton Crew and The Acolyte Season 2.

[@monicaaboites5053]

Even though you don't share political views, you need to figure out that Lesyle Headland does not have any respect for George Lucas. Why a vast majority of people who call themselves "fans" believe that she has respect for George Lucas? When in all her interviews, she didn't stop to talking about how George Lucas was wrong in how developed Anakin, or the fact that it was misognystic go with George Lucas and asking him questions about his universe. Are not these clues about what Lesyle really think about George? I can't believe that just because she said that "Star Wars" saved her life, people decide believe in her.

[@davidnierzwick2775]

Great opening 💪😲👍

[@julius-stark]

I'm glad you watched it so we didn't have to. No way would I have the strength to sit through this garbage.

[@victorpradha9946]

The Acolyte was BAD not because of the female leads, not because of the minority principals, not because of the LGBTQ identification of the show's producer/director/head writer! For a showcase of HOW TO REIMAGINE a female focused narrative of a previously male centric story, reference FX/HULU's Shogun. This series kicked a$$ and had very strong female characters and excellent story telling and thematic elements of a strong feminist nature AND did NOT come with the hefty price tag of The Acolyte.

[@carsenhunt9471]

they managed to make the sequel trilogy look GOOD

[@chazzitz-wh4ly]

There are no characters in the show. They’re all just plot devices and exposition depositories.

[@derschnuff8819]

Qimir better erases the memory of the audience aswell....

[@Paul-nn9oj]

Expensive $180,000,000 fail

[@OfficialTaylormade1]

Think it’s safe to stop calling him discount Ezra.. he’s the upgrade 😂

[@nerdword07]

I guess that's true. He is better looking than him at any rate lol

[@suzygirl1843]

​​@nerdword07 Honey, chill out. You starting to sound like Pearlythings

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

*_"The Dark Side of The Force is Female."_* - Kathleen Kennedy _and_ Leslye Headland {probably}

[@Shashu_the_little_Voidling]

They'd be right tho. The dark, not specifically in star wars, but in real esotericism, has always been seen as the feminine principle.

[@PhilosopherKing161]

Ever since watching TFA, I’m basically I glad I didn’t watch anything after that. I gotta give you credit for watching most of woke Star Wars movies and shows just so you can give use your take on it 😅.

[@alejandrotorresriquelme8714]

We are 2 of us already. I just weep for what happened with this franchise

[@Jonderlei]

I knew this show would be absolute shit from the moment it was announced years ago just due to headlands involvement but my god its even worse than I ever expected from what ive seen. Ive watched all the D+ star wars show and by now I just feel im done with it but even before feeling that I knew to skip this one. The stuff im hearing about the finale is so fucking bad I can hardly believe it

[@Patterner]

the best thing about TA are the Nicknames

[@AppleFrogTomatoFace]

there is one good thing came out from this show. lots of youtuber making criticism of the show and making fun of it, and watching those youtube vids are really entertaining and there are so much to learn. i actually watched the show just to see how youtubers criticize it. and when i mean so much to learn is, since young age i wanted to make comics or write story, but not actually gonna spend lots of time and pursue it, but still heavily interested in it, so i learn a lot how not to write stories. lol i can admit if i made the show i would have done lot of same stupid mistakes… these show reminds me of when i was in high school, i wrote stories and was proud of it, but made lot of similar mistakes, and friends who read it pointed out the mistakes.

[@lacolem1]

Hey, let’s not insult daytime dramas too. Victor Newman could take on Smilo REN any day of the week too😂

[@marteld2108]

I gave this series an honest chance even until the last episode. Unfortunately this story arc was awful.

[@matthewdane1875]

Sol was just a horrible character. Horrible person. That’s what Jedi are now in this Disney Star Wars. Bad people. It’s funny, the twins only show love for each other the last 3 min they are together on screen. Where was all this love the whole series? It’s complete crap. Whole series complete crap.

[@crocodiledundee8685]

As a somewhat recent subscriber NerdWord, are you open to appearing on either Open Bar or FNT?

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

I have posted this comment multiple times in the past, but it bears repeating... *_THE LACKOLYTE..._* ...by _Leslye HeadBland._

[@chris424cm]

You know what's worse than you suffering through this terrible show? You giving disney plus money to do so.

[@charleshartley9597]

What bothers me is that there are some really interesting story ideas in this show, but it is so badly executed through dialogue, acting (really just singling out Stenberg here, whom Headland called "genius" lol), character development, pacing, editing, overall narrative arc and so on. Now, I blame LF management for some of this because it seems the showrunner was told to make it 8 episodes, and limit runtime to about 30 minutes. That said, a competent runner or script team would use that extra time to more fully develop these characters. Sadly that didn't happen, so we instead got this mess of a show. Anyway, great breakdown NW. Oh, one thing I will say, though, is I wish serious reviews such as yours would stop using the phrase "lesbian space witches" since it, in my view, horribly taints your legitimate critiques of the show and makes them political. Its become a buzzy catch-phrase, but it distracts from true commentary about the show and paints it like the "-ist and -phobes" other media paint critiques of the show as hateful. I don't care what sexual orientation this witch coven is, indeed, I did like the tender moment between the two Mothers. It shows their preference in a way that isn't stupidly and in your face, as in, these are two people in love, as well as being leaders in this group of religious outcasts; in short, its just one aspect of who they are. Unfortunately the writing in this show doesn't develop these two, or the coven for that matter, much past the surface level, but you can feel compassion for them. Does the show include an array of human diversity, yes, that's awesome! Including aliens, great! Other orientations, wonderful! Are they the main aspects of their characters, no, that's how include these groups and it not be the defining feature of their characters. Its fantastic! Sadly, other aspects of these characters are woefully lacking, as previously mentioned. Anyway, I'm rambling. Cheers and thanks for coming to my FredTalk.

[@matthewdane1875]

Sol lied the whole time. Now Venestra is telling the senate that Sol took his own life. That a lie! She didn’t know. She felt her old Padawans presence on Brendock. He could have been the reason sol died. That stupid tracker will tell them that Sol took Mae to bendock. And so Mae’s gone with Her old apprentice. And Mae already killed 2 Jedi. Her mind is wiped. But sol killed himsrlf. She’s lying also. Just a dumb written show

[@colbatguano3958]

NOT dreadlocks. Just braids.

[@hylianbatman3153]

Kinda tired of ppl saying Mando and Ando were "once good". They were never good. Just better than the trilogy. A polished turd is still a turd.

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

{Sorry for the multiple comments I have posted this morning. My only excuse is I am doing this BETWEEN waking up and my first cup of coffee...🤭}

[@shaynethomas8880]

WTF is "night dreadlocks"?

[@dr.medieval1131]

Disney Star Wars is not cannon and they have no power to make me feel other wise.

[@ricardoholmes6279]

Dread locs is also incorrect. They are just locs, nothing dreadful about them. You like to offend people from what I see, coming from someone with locs.

[@jeremyallen5974]

Small wonder why you're so rabidly defending the show, you're an exceptionally low watt bulb

[@lunarmodule6419]

It's a high school play - the writing is horrible

[@noob32153]

In my opinion the only good thing that came from this is Lee Jung-Jae acting and he stated he was a fan and it makes me sad that the writing was so bad that in my opinion is disrespectful to his acting and inner child. Now for the main actor no emotion and this show failed from the start cause they got a lgbtq member to push this lgbtq show now being lgbtq isn't bad but when the show pushes for it it loses its main plot a siths acolyte but no and I saw someone on Twitter say they loved the sexual tension between the student (osha or Mae who ever was good) and master gimir now if that's what keeps people attention then this isn't star wars its just p**n and for a Disney show it's just sad. Now in my opinion a siths acolyte show should have been more gore and evil but no we get some confused person just like the creator

[@noob32153]

Side note great video well done

[@Mojaveknight17]

It's over and probably

[@noone8418]

…but that wasn’t REAL manyism…

[@crazyfundad8241]

MORE UNATRACTIVE WOMAN...WOW

[@anxietist]

Doubt this effect's her relations with weinstein much, but one wonders just how much?

[@robbylebotha]

Hey please fix your volume next time. It’s barely audible and if you play it on a TV, it’s such a gamble because the ad comes in like a bomb. Otherwise thank you for your service. Sacrificing yourself so we don’t have to watch it.

[@maxhill9254]

noice, thx