The Acolyte Was a Piece of S***

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

"The ability to speak does not make you intelligent." - Qui-Gon Jinn

[@domm6812]

Sums up Leslye Headland

[@swamp1138]

"We must secure the existence of our people" - R2D2

[@dankgankster4100]

"I'm a pOwErFuL lEaDeR.. yaaass YAAASS"

[@joshuahenderson3444]

Thats Lesley Headland for ya

[@Logically_Fallacious]

@@domm6812 If you try to listen to her ramble on in any interview she comes off incoherent, inconsistent and bizarre... it reminds me of patients on various psych cocktails including anti-psychotics, anti-depressants and benzos... with an adderall chaser. Then again, late at night, when I got those bf called for their gfs acting weird, it could just be her using weed spiked with PCP... Headland Eggs reminds me of those rambling women in my ambulance on my overnights.

[@christaylor7079]

Obi Wan gave me cancer and Acolyte finished me off. This comment was written from beyond the grave

[@lJ0blixen]

Hi O from the great beyond, hopefully in the next few years I shall join you, thankfully my medical issues are killing me and I was stupid enough to watch these crap shows, otherwise I would have been dead too.. Thank you for the laughter today

[@yaboiportch]

I can see this message, so you presumably didn't go to Heaven. That sucks bro.

[@christaylor7079]

@@yaboiportch of courses there’s KZbin access in Hell. Where do you think it came from originally?

[@Maybeabandaid9]

F's in the chat for Chris.

[@keiseanb1]

Rest easy brother 😞🙏

[@mmm-sm8gv]

I don't care what they teach you in school, Anakin blew up the Death Star.

[@ymca4547]

It's a reflection of myself.

[@gamervet4760]

It happened over 100 million years. Think about it.

[@ronald220964]

They had it coming . They blew up planet. Nobody remembers that .

[@deadworldinfamy]

@@ymca4547A critical drinker fan I presume?

[@ymca4547]

@@deadworldinfamy yes, and Despot of Antrim.

[@josemanueldetemmer4495]

Imagine being 11 yo , playing with your stormtroopers, pretending the desk is the enemy's base, hearing in your head all the noises of The blasters, the explosions and the epic music. Imagine your mother comes into your room and wants to play with you, and she starts moving a ship like a Santa's sleigh, and making weird noises with her mouth. That's how I feel when Kathleen Kennedy and her coven of talentless acolytes put their hands on Star Wars

[@mx9226]

Hey at least the former scenario has the advantages of being charming and cute. The latter is just our unfortunate reality that makes me want to bang my head against a wall so I can see actual stars.

[@christophermercaldi8616]

We nerds got bullied for liking stuff like Star Wars back in the days then the bullies want to join in and created their own version of the stuff we like, then bully us again for not having the same shitty taste as them 😂

[@josemanueldetemmer4495]

@@christophermercaldi8616 That's so true

[@thesaviorofsouls5210]

That...actually kinda hurt my inner childs feelings. So i guess you nailed it haha

[@uglybad4]

In that scenario at least your mom is doing it to spend time with you and show you she cares, even if her understanding of the material is undeveloped or misguided. The Acolyte is just malicious to the core and it hates you lol

[@BruvahSulaiman]

When you are morally bankrupt, it's difficult to write characters who aren't just as morally bankrupt.

[@belegur8108]

gues the saying "You can only write characters as intelligent as yourself" also applies to morality...

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Strangling your adoptive father is "cathartic", lol it's so bizarre and freaky, in the end I just laughed

[@j-mc5201]

Ohhh yes that’s right LESLIE set up R*** Dates for Harvey

[@sfkeepay]

I don’t get it. Yeah, the writing was terrible. But who’s morally bankrupt?

[@histguy101]

It's gotta be more than that. Morally bankrupt directors and writers have written great, great movies. Since we're calling them that, I won't name them

[@RRTNZ]

It's a great tragedy of our age that Star Wars, an epic myth that resonates with everyone, wound up in the hands of people who not only don't understand it, but giggle with girlish glee as they strip away the very things that made it great. Truly pearls before swine. Cheers Cynic.

[@mojo_joju]

Hey, a fellow Kiwi!

[@RRTNZ]

@mojo_joju Well, not really, although I've lived in New Zealand for nearly 30 years. A great place to live.

[@visualcoco]

"Frozen meets Kill Bill" was NEVER a good pitch, LOL

[@Disinterested1]

worst part it flew!!! wtf!

[@dontbeorbeevil]

I am really confused by what she said there because it felt like she just cruises through random movies and ideas doing this show.

[@IsaiahWayne2104]

@@visualcoco That sums it up. 🗡❄

[@Kyle-sr6jm]

When you understand that Headland saw Frozen as an incestuous lesbian love story "Frozen meets Kill Bill" makes sense.

[@victorcates9330]

It's a weird pitch. Maybe babbling enthusiastically and stringing together different existing properties can baffle an executive. But given the cited budget, it needs to be a pitch SOOOOO good that you can hand the reins of a multi billion dollar franchise over to someone who is - in genre terms - an absolute newbie, and then not add oversight. For instance, telling them, we'll give you X million for a writing process and you see the rest when we see a finished script. Unless Headland was able to hire people who were super green (or who were her friends), it seems weird that there was no grizzled veteran on hand looking around, frowning, thinking "This seems.... messy." Maybe the accountant is standing in the corner looking confused and thinking "Why is the acting so bad? Why would you hire Carrie Anne Moss and barely use her? If I speak up I'll probably get fired." If the budget is remotely accurate, then 180 million dollars isn't something where you can say "I guess that kind of got away from us". THe pitch is the initial filtering process. But you have dozens of additionally checks and points at which you can add quality controls.

[@ThrobbGoblin]

Imagine how much different this could've been if it were created by people that didn't hate the fanbase with a burning passion.

[@tgiacin435]

I had hopes it would be decent, but it turned out I put my hopes in the wrong show. If you want a series about space witches, watch dune prophecy. That actually had an engaging story and felt like what the acolyte could’ve been

[@GIBBO4182]

Never forget that on average an EPISODE of this show cost more to make than Godzilla Minus One

[@OsloTime]

😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 They may as well have used an industrial shredder or burned the money. What a waste!

[@RobertVistal-jp2cw]

They went for quality instead of quantity, but the quality went all to the visuals instead of the writing

[@Logically_Fallacious]

Godzilla Minus One real male portrayal still was woke. It had a man that supported another man's son and wife with no benefit for himself. Perfect presentation of another beta male. Nothing in life is free, except in cinema I guess.

[@GIBBO4182]

@@Logically_Fallacious has nothing to do the with the point about the budget, but I suppose you’ve got it off your chest now 👍

[@josspa93]

@@GIBBO4182he must’ve hurt his back reaching for that 😂

[@a_lost_one]

Friendly reminder that Occupational Safety and Health Administration walks off, hand-in-hand, with the person who unalived all her friends after choking TO DEATH the only father figure in her life who wanted nothing but her safety and well-being.

[@domm6812]

Yea. The morality of this show is just utterly f*cked. There is no complication or greyness. That kind of writing would take more intelligence than Leslye Headland has. She is genuinely too stupid to see that her characters aren't complex ....they're just awful.

[@Nartanek]

BuT He WaS mIsOgNiSt BeCaUsE hE aCcEpTeD hIs FaTe AnD dEnIeD hEr ThE cHoIcE Or something, i'm not fluent enough in retarded.

[@deviousdelibird]

Who says romance is dead?! ❤ 🙄 This show's ridiculous.

[@MarvinPowell1]

I loved how The Little Platoon's video where he literally called her Occupational Safety and Health Administration every single time for the entire hour+ long video.

[@albatross4920]

Stunning and brave female character .. I guess 🙄😒🤷🏾‍♂️

[@daniell1483]

The script inconsistency was monstrous. As morally bankrupt as it can get.

[@TexanWarEagle]

Disagree. This show was a great commercial for an extended writers strike.

[@jacquelineking5783]

It certainly makes A.I. writing scripts seem like a side grade at worst.

[@MemoristCed]

It's "And Then" writing at its most blatant.

[@belegur8108]

i still think, Disney has those 80 something monkeys in a basement hitting on old typewriters for decades and for the last 10 years they use those "scripts"...

[@sniperboom1202]

​@@belegur8108 that's far too harsh on the monkeys...... That would have used those scripts to catch the poo they would fling at Kathleen Kennedy. The poo is what Disney used.

[@karrimgyver]

@belegur8108 nah the far left sjw woke culture sh!t is to blame. that is to say, humans. old people atleast could make a better star wars content. In the end, we let those green haired idiots do what ever they wanted and now we have this world we live in. Nobody else to blame but ourselves.

[@a_lost_one]

Sol stopped a demonic smoke creature from 'returning a child to the Force.' My boy Sol did nothing wrong. NOTHING! 😠

[@SwordOfThruthfulness]

The fact that Darth headlamp considered fatherly love "benign sexism" says a lot about this show and her

[@intrepidfool]

Correct. The writers wanted a plot line but didn’t understand how to get there. Lacking a moral compass, they also couldn’t understand how the decisions being thrust upon Sol were incongruous with his character. The whole story is beyond a mess.

[@MarvinPowell1]

I'm going to keep pointing out how the woke and diverse Star Wars staff, named the one Korean guy on the show "Seoul." That's like if they introduced another black character to the show and named them "Wakanda."

[@deviousdelibird]

Haahtag Disney Star Wars lacks Sol

[@BrandonScott-mi5pz]

EXCELLENT WORK. THE MOVIE CYNIC 😂😂😂😂🎉😂😂😂 SHE-HULK TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TERRIBLE AND THE ACOLYTE WAY WORST

[@IsaiahWayne2104]

This isn't Star Wars, anymore. This is *Mary Sue*

[@pittland44]

Mary Sue Wars, perhaps?

[@alexneff]

No her name is may ... 😂

[@Hugh_Jannis]

The Power of MANY Sue

[@alejandrasanchez3022]

no, this is wattpad

[@TristanClarke]

no, this is a badly written show. Tell me how this show would've been improved with a male character?

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

"The power of one! The power of two! The power of maaaaaaaaanyyyy..." 💩

[@Tortuga2223a]

THE POWWER WITHIIIIIN!! YEAAAH!

[@crystalshaw8744]

​@@Tortuga2223a😂😂😂

[@LemmingOHW]

This's when you not can count to three.

[@MichMood72]

@@LemmingOHWvalve?!?!

[@Dapperdanny]

My head canon is that everything after episode 6 is Obi-Wan having a bad trip off death sticks on tattooine.

[@chriscuts7029]

Star Wars ended in 05 with ROTS in my head canon. Nothing exists after. Everyone lived happily ever after episode 6.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

“The perpetual loading screen Amandla Stenberg” 😂

[@TheShahkulu]

Crazy to think the only time her performance was good, was in Hunger Games - when she was a child. You'd think she'd have perfected her craft with the years but somehow she managed to go backwards 😂

[@bananatiergod]

@@TheShahkulu She was really good in Bodies Bodies Bodies tho

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

@@TheShahkulu I didn’t see the hunger games and I had never heard of her before. I don’t know how acting talent can become worse over time. Maybe not enough practice or indifference? She did not have to audition for the role, after all, because Leslye wrote the entire series based on Amandla playing the lead role. This is creepy ah. They are both LGBTQ women, L was HW’s assistant, and L has all the power in this (lord, I hope it is only professional) relationship. If a straight married man wrote a show for a relatively unknown young female actress, what do you think the reaction would be? Exactly. Double that if it were a white man and a mixed race or POC actress.

[@triciacarr5019]

@@dronesclubhighjinksExactly. She didn’t audition for the role! Nobody could determine that, although she might have acting talent (I remain skeptical), she could not in any way portray THIS character. I still think it’s ANY character, but hey.

[@dronesclubhighjinks]

​@@triciacarr5019 the whole “The Acolyte” was built on a rotten foundation of Leslye’s fantasies/revenge against people who oppressed her young lgbtq self growing up (her perception of it anyway) + her hand-picking quite an unknown actress to play TWO lead characters. Did Amandla have the realistic option to say no thanks and keep her career intact? + Being fair to Leslye, what is her previous experience? Why is anybody giving inexperienced people the power of a show runner? It is basically setting them up for failure. This also applies to She hulk, Rings of power, Velma, and IIRC the Witcher and Ms. Marvel. It’s very difficult to try to understand what Hollywood executives are thinking. Part of it might be obsession with their legacy. There is a former network executive who just made a video about Hollywood egos and legacies. The channel name is “call me Chato.” Iirc it’s less than 10 minutes long. I always enjoy hearing his perspective on film and TV criticism as he has an entire life experience in the industry, which none of the other KZbinrs have. Have a lovely weekend! 🙏😎🌊🐬🩵

[@rickbase833]

"Positive corruption arc......." LOL. There was nothing positive about The Acolyte. It ended on a sour note where the lone interesting character was choked out by a girl boss. Then his character was assassinated post mortem by the green girl boss to hide.......her shame for creating Smylo Ren......I guess?

[@MemoristCed]

"Positive corruption" sounds like dog-washing talk (you know the word and I ain't getting shadowbanned over it).

[@supereststinger]

Isn’t Positive and Corruption opposite words?

[@MemoristCed]

@@supereststinger It's like "political correctness" or "social justice". The former is the opposite of factual correctness, and the latter is the negation of real justice. This is how they talk.

[@majorgear1021]

Shame or she is with the dark side and keeping the Jedi….in the dark.

[@Cybele1986]

@@MemoristCed positive corruption is either a tragedy or a revenge story. It doesn’t end well. Corruption is not supposed to end well unless you’re a terrible, terrible person.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

I swear Smilos only direction was “read all of your lines like your auditioning for an edgy smut audio book”

[@adhirg]

did you listen to Disney’s closed captioning (audio descriptions)? it *was* basically an edgy smut book LOL.

[@iamthewizardwhoknocks2845]

_Throbbing_

[@jacquelineking5783]

The audible captions are the best part of this show. It is hilarious.

[@adhirg]

“her predatory gaze fixed upon him as she crouched behind the rock”

[@matane2465]

His acting was just as bad as hers.

[@yaboiportch]

A bad Star Wars show isn't a new phenomenon at this point, but at no point did I question the moral compass of Jon Favraeu, Dave Filoni, Deborah Chow, or Robert Rodriguez, no matter how awful their shows were. Not so much with Leslie Headland. The Acolyte is a strange new breed.

[@jacquelineking5783]

As she was Harvey's personal assistant I never questioned her morality or to be exact her lack there of.

[@Apollo_Sierra]

​@@jacquelineking5783His assistant for 1 year, 1 year, you don't tell a temp what evil you're up to.

[@jeffreyval9665]

Favreau and Filoni are extremely overrated. They're just as bad as everyone else.

[@arthurballs9632]

​@@jeffreyval9665the Mandalorian S1&2 are undoubtedly the most financially successful TV series ever made. S1 had an immediate global impact on pop culture and enticed 100m people to subscribe to D+ in 12 months when Disney forecasted it would take 5yrs to reach 60-90m. The theme tune was everywhere. The clever so & sos even saved Disney the hundreds of millions they planned to market the launch of D+ by keeping the most merchandisable character in SW history a secret. Baby Yoda became the most popular Google search of 2019 despite the year being 84% over when episode 1 was broadcast. But it started to go wrong in S2 with the Kennedy mandated inclusion of Ahsoka, Boba and Bo Katan. And the show was destroyed in S3. It's remarkable how Kennedy can turn gold into lead.

[@harlemkid144]

Mando and andor great shows. Obi had one or two great episodes. Everything else was ass

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

Nothing important happened in this show except for Mae making excuses for Osha and Osha killing Jedi.

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

"Attack me with all of your strength" was pretty much *THE* lamest, most tone-deaf, banal, childish line I think I've ever heard from what was supposed to be some tough chick character. :/ And then... omg... that STUPID, inane, poorly filmed, poorly envisioned "fight scene" where he's basically asleep and she's kicking and stabbing the proverbial wind. Wow. I mean, that was so incredibly lame, I'd rather watch "The Room" whilst sitting on a bed of razor blades.

[@JoeyP946]

I think you forget the magic lesbian space witch ceremony.

[@lifeishard3725]

They need to find people who actually care for Star Wars. Instead they find people who don't give a shit and care little about Star wars. But, why make good shows and movies when instead you can just blame the fans.

[@domm6812]

These crazies love starwars .....they love the fact that it's an established, loved brand and franchise that they can use to push their ideology and messaging without having to come up with anything new to start from scratch with. They've killed starwars, skinned the corpse and are wearing that skin like a suit, hoping you won't notice, and that you'll just absorb their insane ideology because STAR WARS

[@MemoristCed]

​@@domm6812 They love it like a narcissist loves anything: only insofar as it conforms to their own expectations. And if it doesn't conform willingly, they will break until it does.

[@rickbase833]

@@lifeishard3725 Not while the Coffee Bringer is still President at LFL.

[@Dru2037]

​@@domm6812 what was the ideology or message that upset you?

[@ThePsychoAnon]

No, they don’t “not care” they actively hate it. They see an established ip with cool themes and good winning and in their bitterness and evil they desire to destroy it. That’s how demonic these creatures are.

[@borislaans9343]

Its weird that harvey weinstein's personal assistant can just make a 200 million show and apparently everyone is fine with it. To the point of never mentioning it.

[@daviddiggens8841]

People mention it all the time, just like you did just now. The problem is Hollywood hypocrisy not caring who does what so long as their politics are on brand. Democrats can eat babies and no one cares Republicans get cancelled if they try to save them It's getting pretty damned annoying at this point

[@ThePsychoAnon]

It was a reward for keeping quiet. Hollywood is pure evil.

[@dankgankster4100]

This is the hell we deserve for making fun of The Phantom Menace and Attack of The Clones. IM SORRY, GEORGE

[@bencarlson4300]

That’s pretty true, actually, this literally would not have happened without the fans essentially bullying George into selling.

[@kawaiibats2822]

Technically true loi

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Stop it, comparing the smell of the trash leads to nowhere. This bubble mentality is what makes Star Wars such a awful IP quality wise

[@dankgankster4100]

@@RRRRRRRRR33 Star Wars under lucas: profitable, beloved Star Wars under mickey: not profitable, not beloved Your math doesn’t add up

[@Balouthegreat]

Part of me was thinking the exact same thing. Sure the prequel trilogy had its flaws but it’s the fucking Godfather compared to this garbage.

[@hughheavens3753]

Nothing will change until KK is gone. Talk about a golden parachute.

[@redrave404]

The woman in 71 years old, its not about the money she's not going to live long enough to spend, it's about ego and spite.

[@Stealth86651]

Why do all these directors and people in charge look so weird? It's like Disney went to Walmart and grabbed whatever random people they could find.

[@User-s9r7x]

Their entire life & personality is built on their sexuality so they’re ill very very ill

[@ivandankob7112]

The writers, the crew, the janitors, the set, the food, everything has to be DEI friendly!!1

[@923crono]

They literally hired the assistant of one of the most vile humans to exist. Kathleen Kennedy is absolute garbage.

[@morrisklunder519]

It wasn't random, they had a checklist when they entered the store.

[@Dru2037]

​@@ivandankob7112 you weird incels need to upgrade your racist jokes.

[@Valhallan]

35:10 "Planet Lesbian" LMAO!!! 😂😂😂 10 pts for Gryffindor right there

[@ZenMonkeyGod]

My brother is the ultimate Disney Star Wars apologist, he will try and see the good in ANYTHING. This show was the first time he absolutely had no way to praise it. The Acolyte broke my brother! Congrats, Disney!

[@gumpycognac4505]

This shit makes me happy af tbh.

[@thedevilneveraskstwice7027]

The greatest teacher, failure is.

[@Asphixy]

Good

[@kennyg16d]

It’s just hubris. They stand on the shoulders of giants and take over an ip lovingly crafted for decades and say “I can do it better.” They tell the story they want to tell even when it doesn’t fit within the universe because they don’t have the ability to create their own universe

[@Charlie-n2f8r]

Well said bud

[@wildboris1]

Cope harder😂😂😂

[@Charlie-n2f8r]

@@wildboris1 ok Karen. Go do the dishes now.

[@wildboris1]

@@Charlie-n2f8r your show was made by trash liberals and got canceled because it was trash. 🤷‍♂️ Cope harder

[@WillFredward7167]

By standing on the shoulders of giants, they can take a steaming dump on the faces of the giants

[@intrepidfool]

The showrunner watched Arcane and thought it was awesome. Then tried to make something similar in the Star Wars universe. Just without understanding: complexity, paychology, storytelling, motivation, plot, nuance, morality, dialogue, pacing, or conflict. It is breathtaking how terrible the showrunner and writers are. An awesome display of ineptitude. Truly inspirational.

[@MrBubblecake]

This has nothing to do with Arcane which is based on a video game lol

[@dusky6280]

@@MrBubblecake whooosh

[@Dr.Metalblood]

"What she we name our daughter?" "What about Amanda?" "Nah, that's too normal. Let's add an extra letter in there somewhere, just to be dicks."

[@MemoristCed]

It's actually a Zulu word meaning "strength"; it's used as a rallying cry for South Africans protesting their government, and it's a common forename in that country. Curiously, it's also used whenever two people make an agreement, contract, or wager, like shaking hands and saying "It's a deal". Her parents, however, bestowed it on her because they wanted to virtue-signal their opposition to apartheid (which already didn't exist anymore when she was born).

[@misanthropicservitorofmars2116]

“Stenberg” And she wants take down white people? Hmmmmmmm

[@neliaferreira9983]

What is the name?

[@BooserBoi]

​@@neliaferreira9983 Amandla. There is an L before the last A.

[@jamespadgett8660]

@@MemoristCed South Africa was exponentially better off under white leadership.

[@jaivettasheem1314]

So dude help kill a jedi master, yet not arrested. I notice a pattern of bad guys get no punishment in this show that is the definition of a backwards world.

[@ilfirinms]

You're completely wrong! He got warning!

[@jaivettasheem1314]

@@ilfirinms why he get a warning and not thrown in jail thats my point i am making.

[@StationaryBeggar]

Kinda like being the personal assistant to a notorious predator for several years and instead of catching charges for crimes you were definitely complicit in when he went down you get to make shows and movies. Just how life works out some times I guess. 😂

[@jaivettasheem1314]

@@StationaryBeggar i get that but that just bad writing since the green woman know it all happen.

[@thibaldus3]

Metoo was a feminist coup, not anything to do with justice. ​@@StationaryBeggar

[@MrSatampra]

The Acolyte is about how difficult it is to tell right from wrong when you are a morally bankrupt person.

[@lJ0blixen]

Old flippen lady here and finally loving being able to say everything I think, call me crazy, idgaf..lol I watch every one of your reviews, I will watch this one through, you bring common sense and laughter, Ty for that To all those in the comments, I hope you’re doing okay

[@swamp1138]

TL;DR

[@ItsMilkTime]

⁠@swamp1138 That’s like a paragraph, if that’s too long to read then I honestly feel bad for you

[@badcatsgetdissolved4506]

@@swamp1138lmao u cant read 4 sentences ADHD ass

[@jonathancruz7848]

She shouldn’t be aloud anywhere near Star Wars EVER again .

[@MemoristCed]

She shouldn't even be quiet anywhere near Star Wars. She should just be gone from it.

[@andyhi247vids]

Amandla’s constant blank stare leads me to believe she is literally just acting in her head in every scene, and the directors couldn’t even bring her to emote any more than she is capable of.

[@vsznry]

I had to pause and rewatch that 90s training clip. That "A jedi.." line was a pull from Arya Stark's "A girl..." stuff for Many-Faced God arc.

[@bulbasaurbrutal5137]

The Yord actor explains in an interview that Leslye's inspiration for his character was as a matter of fact her friend's role play character in a Star Wars first person shooter game that she then proceeded to steal without asking permission. That should tell you a lot about how come the quality of the show is like it is - we're looking at someone spending 180 million of somebody elses money to film their Star Wars role play experiences.

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

I felt sorry for Gi-Hun. 😢

[@MarvinPowell1]

Don't be. He got paid, knows English now, and was the one positive thing out of this entire series.

[@VashStarwind]

Say it with me: "THERE IS ONLY 6 STARWARS MOVIES!!!!"

[@JoakimOtamaa]

For some, it's only 3 and most HC, only the first one, just called Star Wars back in the day.

[@xsikal]

3 and a half, with the half being the second half of Rogue One.

[@VashStarwind]

@@JoakimOtamaa Oh i fully agree, the first 3 are DEF the best ones, but at least the next 3 were made by Lucas still. And you know.... watchable lol

[@716_ハディくん]

​@@VashStarwindfacts way more watchable than disney one

[@lugo144]

What about clone wars and Rebels?

[@johnlea3597]

Thank you for suffering through this crap so we don’t have to.

[@Coramelimane]

What happened to the lightsaber is a new thing called "bleeding" which is an attempt to explain why Sith sabers are red and not because the crystals are synthetic. Basically the sith forces dark side energy into the crystal to change it's composition from whatever color it was ro red. But it's such a taxing ordeal, that it nearly killed Darth fucking Vader. And Osha was able to do it effortlessly.

[@jacquelineking5783]

Meh the concept was stupid and it deserves no respect either way.

[@Altairbn]

@@jacquelineking5783I don’t understand how it’s stupid? It makes sense for the sith to take all of the hate, anger, and drive for power and force in into their crystals. Considering a lot of the lore with them and how they attempt to control the force I think it’s fitting when done right like with vaders comic

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

Star Wars the Acolyte is the She-Hulk of Star Wars.

[@drakocarrion]

The 4.8 million views number is incredibly deceptive too. They released the first TWO episodes at the same time. Meaning those "premiere episode" numbers actually need to be divided in half to get the real viewing figure for each episode.

[@rafaelcastro2591]

Amandlas face when she was force choking Sol makes me cringe SO hard. Ive seen rocks with more range of emotions than her.

[@belegur8108]

hell, even K-2SO in Rogue One had more facial expression

[@jaieregilmore971]

The director doesn’t understand the Jedi and Sith at all.

[@RoySATX]

The Writer/Director doesn't understand herself. This is why she made the Acolyte more like a demented, self-loathing therapy session rather than an extension to a loved science fiction franchise. The farce runs deep in that one.

[@hqueso]

@@RoySATX You hit on what I think the biggest problem with recent Disney handling of these IPs. The works that made them beloved were universal. Everyone could relate to them in some way. I may relate to it differently than you, and for different reasons. We could apply it to our experiences in meaningful ways, and then be united in our appreciation for that. What Headland has done here is make it so personally applicable to just her specific experience that if you do not share that exact experience, it is meaningless and doesn't connect. Making a small, intimate story that expresses the creator to the audience is fine for a personal project or art film. It's terrible as the tentpole series for a new era of stories in a broadly universal IP.

[@SonOfTheOne111]

Funny how a writer can write literally anything, but even though Lesbie wanted to make Sol the bad guy, she couldn’t even figure out how to do it! 😂

[@MemoristCed]

In her own mind, she did. You see, she decided he was the bad guy, so you're expected to see him through that lens even if you've been given no reason to do so. Even the most benevolent acts are to be seen as insidious and bad faith, so that even when he does exactly what she wants without resistance, he's STILL wrong and evil. That's how bigots work.

[@Luke-cj7gz]

It is akin to money laundering at this point. Lesley and her friends milking it for all it's worth.

[@aced4fun]

"In fact the best line delivery in the whole show is spoken by a guy who doesn't even speak English as his primary language." -The Movie Cynic ([Reviewing] Star Wars: The Acolyte) Perfectly summarizes this show's acting.

[@toolatetothestory]

You remember the fight between Obi-Wan and Anakin before Anakin got fried? Where Anakin was already CLEARLY on the dark side, but his lightsaber was still blue? Because colour changing is not how lightsabers work? And because the acting, while memed on at the time, actually clearly conveyed that? The insanity and rage that actually sells "Oh yeah, he has gone off the deep end"

[@leorodriguez9344]

That was the worst shit I have ever seen in my life, and the fact that people are defending this is insanity to me. Truthfully this is just something I could have never imagine 😭

[@hopegalaxy]

At this point, Andor season 2 is the last Star Wars project we have left worth anticipating for.

[@JoakimOtamaa]

I've lost all interest back in 2015.

[@osets2117]

​@@JoakimOtamaano you haven't or else you wouldn't be here

[@JoakimOtamaa]

@@osets2117 Well I don't watch these shows, I still love Star Wars, not Disney SW, totally different. Seeing people shitting on DSW is just funny, same thing with Star Trek, Dr. Who, Rings of Power etc and I don't watch any of those either.

[@osets2117]

@@JoakimOtamaa you're not wrong lol, I didn't watch any of acolyte just little platoons videos on it. It was a fun time watching him absolutely lambast it

[@mazkeraid4039]

Andor had foolish moments too, like the holocrons problem like how in the galaxy did the Empire not seek for it?!

[@cmasterson]

My wife love the actress but she said “I will not watch that dog shit” lmao 🤣

[@JoakimOtamaa]

But why she loves her? She's terrible actress

[@ritun4656]

Maybe she liked her from the Hunger Games?? 😅

[@cmasterson]

@@ritun4656 yes that’s the only movie she likes her from. My wife said she was in something else and was good. But swear I showed her a clip of the show and my wife said “I’m not watching that shit move your phone” lol 😂. She does the same with politics.

[@ritun4656]

@@cmasterson Hahahahah. Honestly same 😂

[@dankgankster4100]

Calling her an actress is very generous but not necessarily accurate

[@wilfredoamaro4547]

Wasn’t ready for “fists meets ass” 😂😂😂

[@mitchell5566]

You forgot to mention that Anakin blew up the Deathstar 🤦

[@theelder4797]

Surprised he didn't say, "TWICE!!!"

[@vjbd2757]

The combined production budget of The Acolyte and She-Hulk is more than $400 million. Definitely money well-spent eh?

[@JoakimOtamaa]

Laundering, mate. Laundering.

[@jacquelineking5783]

Probably the same people who shit on Musk for buying Twitter instead of feeding the world with the money spent. Sure 180 million isn't Musk buying Twitter money but it definitely could have opened a food bank or two. For the record indifferent to Musk but the reactions he brings out in people is funny to me.

[@drzek13]

i didn't even realize this was released an hour ago but good stuff man and we treated a lot of old movies harshly because look at the shit show we have now

[@chesssse6607]

I love how your series compliation video is still shorter than episodes review by Platoon

[@hupekyser]

The dead horse that keeps on getting beaten

[@questionmarks4431]

"He deserves to die because of her behavior that she can control" you are wrong here, she absolutely could have controlled herself and chose to abuse that guy.

[@sharkfilet]

fire on stone...fire in space...some folks at disney don't know how fire works which is probably why star wars has none creatively

[@rogue047]

Thank you for watching the show and detailing the doubtlessly arduous and torturous experience it must have been. I wouldn't have had it in me to watch it myself lmfao.

[@butters1273]

I needed you to do this video, my life depended on it.

[@UnSatedHate]

To say Star Wars hasn't had any good dialogue in the last 25 years would imply you haven't watched Andor.

[@dankgankster4100]

@@UnSatedHate nobody did. Because nobody gives a fuck about andor. We’re here for the cool shit of star wars (force, lightsabers, sith, jedi, etc.) there is literally nothing even remotely interesting about the concept of him getting his own show. And it’s not canon so never gonna watch it

[@DynamicDurge]

Jeez relax man lmao. People watched Andor and the show was a good one. It wasnt flashy or campy, but it presented a good representation of what the empire wouldve been like

[@QuaversYT]

⁠@@dankgankster4100Yeah no, as cool as lightsabers, Jedi, Sith and any type of force related thing is. Star Wars isn’t just that. It is a whole world of intelligent beings and interesting people. And a lot of history is still there during the Empire’s reign. So it’s you who doesn’t want it not everyone.

[@dankgankster4100]

@@QuaversYT nobody saw it. Because nobody cares

[@gabbycotto4024]

According to Leslie, Sol deserves death for being presumptive/paternalistic with Osha, but Anissa gets a pass for pushing witchery on her over protests, Horn-Mom never has it acknowledged she physically abused Mae & started a fight with the Jedi unilaterally, and Mae herself never has to admit or be called out on being creepy and possessive of her sister to the point of trying to kill OSHA over her wanting to live her own life and develop an identity beyond just being “Mae’s twin”.

[@alexneff]

When she told darth teeth that she had a tempest in her i cried

[@hqueso]

Darth Teeth. Ha! I get the feeling that helmet was designed by someone who was wayyyyyy too into creepypasta in the middle school years. That helmet looks like it belongs to Jeff the Killer's previously unrevealed best friend "Todd the Dufus".

[@alexneff]

@hqueso it's the mask that fed the gas during the russian sleep experiment

[@mr.nimbus537]

The acolyte is the aussie breakdancer of modern media.

[@hugobranca]

This is by far the funniest Acolyte review so far. May some thread be with you.

[@Dovah21]

46:16 Stenberg portrays "shock; betrayal-fueled rage" by making herself look like one of the puppets from Dark Crystal. Peak acting.

[@GoaEnjoyer]

Leslye looks like steve from Minecraft

[@Palindrome3945]

Middle aged bitter women trying to be physically intimidating is so embarrassing it's actually funny.

[@c.w.k.n.5117]

Disney just wants to destroy the idea of a Jedi being cool. It's been their goal for a while now.

[@alexreznov45]

And... It's cancelled after one season.

[@Jigrup]

A clear example of an idiot plot. Where it only ever moved forward due to people being unbelievably stupid.

[@hqueso]

It's that horrific union of bad tropes: Idiot Plot means Unnecessary Miscommunication. Throw on top of it that the Jedi are a straw man antagonist ("The Jedi are in the wrong, if you allow me to make them do things that the Jedi would never do otherwise"). and it's closing in on Bad-Writing-Bingo right out of the gate.

[@darqjade]

"The Acolyte" is rat poison for the mind". They should put that on the poster for this mess

[@benkeller6027]

Blaming Anakin for the destruction of both Death Stars only highlights how the actors have no idea of the IP they are employed to act in.

[@suvechhabose7586]

How Leslie heyland wrote a character of Sol . How humanly he was made , how much effort he gave to Make Osha do the right thing failed because Sith was hot 🥵 (Pretend this is a valid reason) 😂😂😂😂

[@NoleMercy]

All I needed was the clip of the "power of one, power of two, power of manyyyy" and I hung up all hope for this IP forever.

[@circle1552]

Thank fuck there’s no season 2 They’ve confirmed it

[@Novastar.SaberCombat]

The "A$$olyte" was an INCREDIBLE example of precisely what not to do when approaching storytelling. Lack of dramatic structure, no legitimate character arcs, weak or non-existent thematic underpinnings, cheesy "world-building" that really ignored what GL had already long established, and basically zero literary/cinematic techniques being employed. But that's how it goes when people PRETEND that they magically understand proper storytelling. And the results are obvious.

[@lufsolitaire5351]

Every time you say osha I keep thinking she’s about to write somebody up for a workplace safety violation. Like “erm does that lightsaber have a proper hand guard to protect from burns?” “The conditions at Kuat Drive Yards is atrocious, you’ll be hearing from the senate on this one.”

[@RoySATX]

I suspect the experience on-set was much as you describe.

[@Altairbn]

I remember watching a video and one comment was like “it’s genuinely impressive how they took the concept of a space lesbian cult in a sci fi series and made everyone hate it”

[@liamphibia]

THE POWER OF ONE! THE POWER OF TWO! THE POWER OF CANCELLATION!

[@jeremypage3370]

A budget comparison; Dune 2= 190 million. Acolyte=180 million. Considering the average episode length of this "series", there is not a substantial difference in the run time between the 2 properties. Look at the difference between them. How is this possible? DSW really shit the bed on this show. And it has nothing to do with social agendas, etc. It simply a poorly written, acted, directed series.

[@meangenec1]

Easy to explain. Money laundring...

[@AmericanAdvancement]

Or Disney cannot make tv since they budget it like a movie

[@Thamometer]

After the whole of season one, I think "killing Jedi without weapon" is referring to the Jedi ideology as a whole, and not individual Jedi. As you have pointed out, Mae was able to kill a Jedi with a bladed weapon.

[@gangaffiliation2300]

"An expensive Disney turd disguised as a Star Wars project" - perfect summary of the crapolyte

[@wadwiswell]

I am sorry, the unarmed comment, it is true that the Jedi never attack someone who is un-armed, but unless some work is put in, a force user is never considered un-armed normally as the force in the hands of a darkside user is a weapon they will use, and in a light side user, is a tool they will fight with, so it is even dumber.

[@belegur8108]

i think the "message" Headland and the "creative writers" wanted to carry missed the mark. All i take from this show... if 2 little girls are raised by an all women cult, they ALL turn out as stone cold killers.... Also Vaenestra blaiming all Jedi deaths on Sol doesn't fly for even a second... there are witnesses of who killed Trinity and The Last Airbender and is the death of Harry Henderson even confirmed? i mean the show only lets Mae and Darth Alienhelmet know, that the Wookie is dead... no-one else checked on him on screen... oh, one afterthought about Leslie Headland: She was the personal assistant of Harvey Weinstein for years... so either she was in the known and covered for his behavior and crimes, or she was so incompetent, to not notice... So what is it lesley... are you covering for a criminal or are you incompetent? Neither would be my first pick to give a Star Wars show... nor the 8 billionth...

[@adampezo4637]

I swear Ashley from the Boys was inspired by Lesland. I can't unsee it now

[@underscore____4060]

48:14 There actually is *not* an explanation for that! The reason that bad guys have red sabers is because they take a normal kyber crystal and basically torture the semi-sentient rock until it capitulates to their will. Later generation Sith famously do this with kyber from lightsabers that are owned by jedi that they've killed and bend these tiny collections of the force to their will in a process known as bleeding. It is an intentional act that takes time and effort, not something that can be done like... *that*

[@trite4654]

In the new Disney canonical Star wars comic, Darth Vader himself really struggles to make his bleed. But teenage space witch who's hardly a Jedi can do it in an instant because she's got so much angst you guys. Fyi, that Darth Vader comic is actually pretty good. Bleeding the crystal is so hard that Anakin gets a vision where he realizes everything he did and goes to confront the emperor as a Jedi again

[@ramstrong1961]

That was last week, this week it's Borderlands...stay tuned for next week Hollywood drama!

[@southpawhammer8644]

I hope Disney kept churning out stinkers, this is far better entertainment. I honestly don't think many people want star wars to make a come back under Disney. More fun to watch it burn

[@SpammytheHedgehog]

The Phantom Menace was more entertaining than this.

[@domm6812]

NOW THIS IS POD RACING!

[@JoakimOtamaa]

Anything Disney is below the prequels. I think Ep2 is worse than Ep1, even with Sir Christopher Lee and Windu having more screen time. The Anakin/Padmé stuff is just too terrible.

[@mazkeraid4039]

@@JoakimOtamaa Go read the novels, it had some differences that we did not see in the films.

[@nephicus339]

Here's how I knew The Acolyte was the worst show made to date. My cousin loved it. He was also very confused why Leia was so upset when Han died. He wasn't aware of the original trilogy even existing. He thought Episode 1 was the first Star Wars movie. We don't talk anymore.

[@fmc291]

I’m really starting to believe that modern day Hollywood production don’t use Storyboards.

[@casadepistola]

"The failure of one..." "The failure of two..." "The failure of Disneeeey..."

[@CptSauce]

"The power of bullshiiiiiit" - the Acolyte. And the acting is an absolute abomination. That Amandla actress was/is the worst thing in acting I've ever seen.

[@IronDragon-2143]

I genuinely feel sorry for the Korean actor Lee Jung-jae, who plays Sol. I actually liked his character, and I could tell he was really trying.

[@ShaneT5S]

39:02 is still the second worst scene of the series. She messed up with one of the Jedi's brain scrambling, she said the Jedi as a whole will destroy themselves and insulted them for coming back and trying to take Osha, she turned into a literal demon looking thing, and then when the Jedi acted in self defence she was like "lol I wasn't actually gonna do anything"

[@hqueso]

How the scene should have gone: Mom: "I was going to send Osha with you..." (or whatever the exact words were) Sol: Holy crap! Why the f didn't you lead with that?!!!!!" Mom: "Then this would be a very dull single episode special..." (dies)

[@devinbrown9375]

So, tiny note, the helmet shutting off the lightsabers IS actually a pretty cool deep cut. It's made of cortosis, a material from Legends that was not only lightsaber proof, but would actually deactivate them when the blade came in contact with it. There isn’t much to defend with this show, but I do like seeing cool old Legends things pop up.