The Acolyte - Episode 1 - I’ve Got a Bad Feeling About This…

The Acolyte has kicked off on Disney Plus. The first episode is NOT the worst abuse Disney has inflicted on the franchise, but its best ideas are undermined by sheer incompetence, while all evidence suggests this could be the show that finally kills off Star Wars as a serious franchise.
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[@nunyabiznes7446]

"A jedi only draws their lightsaber if they're prepared to kill." Every jedi ever when confronted with a dark environment: "Time for murder"

[@bcmm1880]

The younglings in episode 2 seeing Yoda

[@skuffd_guy]

I show you, Luke aboard the Falcon, training. Who's next? Han? Leia? Chewie? Actually, no, Chewie was already jabaited out of death in "episode" 9.

[@blackscorpionstinger]

“Oh this is their way 1 hundred million years ago”

[@haku8135]

That doesn't even work for like "If a fight starts a Jedi ONLY draws their lightsaber if prepared to KILL!" Literally the first conflict we see including a lightsaber is Obi Wan, THE Jedi Master, ignites his saber and cuts off a guy's hand, nobody dies. It doesn't even work in THIS SHOW, because Trinity ignites HER lightsaber to block the throwing knives, then she immediately puts it away! Now the writers are retarded, but if they weren't, they could just have Trinity force grip Black Assassin and pin her against a wall, and voila, she ignited her lightsaber in a fight and nobody died. For fuck's sake, Anakin is FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE, cuts off Dooku's arms, and then after killing him he says that was NOT the Jedi way, he should not have killed Dooku according to Jedi code. It's pretty standard practice for Jedi to disable over kill whenever it's safe to do so. Even if you really stretch it to "A Jedi doesn't ignite their lightsaber while in battle with someone unless they accept that it's possible they'll have no choice but to kill said opponent." In that case, the line is retarded for a WHOLE other reason, and I won't demean your intelligence by explaining why that's stupid. On top of that, Trinity puts her lightsaber AWAY after that line, so what the actual fuck!?

[@davexsixtyfour1246]

I think that was a Samurai thing about fully drawing your blade when you were prepared to kill

[@therealPingTing]

What a strange time we live in. If I had told my 6-year-old me, that one day, I will enjoy it more to listen to people criticizing Star Wars, than watching the thing itself, he would think I had totally lost my mind.

[@nunchuckfilms]

I am waiting for the next 5 hours of Mauler

[@daddyrabbit835]

I watched the first one at a drive thru in 1977, I shit you not. I was 7 and it changed my life / expanded my imagination . What a kick in the junk this is. This woke thing ruins everything.

[@GreatUSTreasureHunt]

"Wanna watch a 35-minute Star Wars show?" "Not a chance in hell." "How about an hour and a half Little Platoon dis video of that same show?" "Hit the Play button."

[@thor3279]

IKR!!!!???? and everytime he says "Occupational Health and Safety Administration" it gets cumulatively funnier. a dedicated tireless and thorough commitment to craft :)

[@qwqwqwqw99]

I now have extensive knowledge about shows I'd rather die than watch. Thanks Platoon.

[@thatsruffdog]

True! I already watched 3 or 4 reviews but Star Wars Theory said “listen to what everyone has to say on both sides.” And I took that to heart. Unfortunately, there aren’t a lot of people who can say anything that they like about this show but why not watch anyone who’s willing to say anything about it? Even if it’s an hour long.

[@victoriuswashington8901]

Preach. 😂 right along with critical drinker and rest of the OGs 😂

[@What_do_I_Think]

Yea, in my youth I had fun watching tv shows. Today I have more fun watching commenting videos about tv shows than watching those shows themselves.

[@jaded5957]

Disney are literally trolling the fans at this point. What a bizarre way to run/ruin a billion-dollar company.

[@-taz-]

That was always their goal, to destroy whatever gives regular people hope and inspiration. Yuri Bezmenov - How To Demoralize a Nation.

[@thomasjefferson2676]

Have you seen the hordes of morons and their families that give Disney thousands of dollars a day each at their parks they could not care less about the things we love.

[@Sarcasmses]

Disney is an _80_ Billion dollars a year company, they aren't going to be ruined by Gay Star Wars. They will be fine.

[@KomarBrolan]

It does seem that this series and the fandom assassination linked to it is a deliberate provocation. Essentially saying this is the way it is, the way it is going to be in the future, so shut up now.

[@InternetStudiesGuy]

I feel weird about defending a multi billion dollar company, but I think they just put these spiteful, talentless women in charge because the boomers that actually run the company were told that they need to put women in charge of things because women are much better at everything. And now, the boomers are looking at what the spiteful women are doing but they can't fire them because they promised more "Women in charge" to their shareholders. If they tried, they'd get metood into oblivion. At this point you have to let this keep going until everyone realizes that "Women in charge" means "Everything is destroyed" and society as a whole finally decides that women should be prevented by law from "being in charge", or to vote, or to have any rights really, and have only one societal job that they've not been doing and must be forced to do again.

[@Randomcorpse]

Carrie-Ann Moss as a jedi is a such a strong selling point and Disney is like: "I have the goose that lays the golden eggs! Who wants to eat roast goose?"

[@Lampoluke]

They bought a goose that lays golden eggs and immediately set her on fire before she could lay an egg.

[@Violaphobia]

Basically how they’ve treated the entire franchise. I have think if they bought the rights and done nothing with it, their SW hotel would probably still be in business

[@jcore0981]

"Don't trust your eyes. They deceive you." "I WATCHED her die." Brilliant 10/10

[@TheNoonish]

Wait until this guy, who says not to trust your eyes, is foiled by someone throwing dust in his face so he can't see.

[@bradleyscottt1773]

They felt that, " A Jedi doesn't draw her weapon unless she intends to kill, needs a torch, or wants to look cool." Was just too clunky.

[@TheNoonish]

Or hears a loud noise.

[@sprinkle61]

or wants to let a child play with it - Episode 3

[@Violaphobia]

They wrote this… in an episode where a Sith lights up his saber to intimidate to fourth wall 🤦‍♂️

[@matthewcollins4773]

The Little Platoon lives in a dream; a dream he thinks we all share. A dream that writing can be competent, thoughtful, and worth our time. But the Acolyte... the Acolyte kills the dream. *Ignites sabre*

[@Enigma75614]

That’s actually so fire. This needs to be pinned.

[@Arko777777]

"If you attack a script with an argument, you will fail. Video essays and logical breakdown of the events are no threat to it!" - Smilo Ren.

[@jeggsonvohees2201]

As does Godzilla X Kong.

[@rangerone8813]

Had a similar thought, but in my version zipperface was really Headland saying “The fans live in a dream … the Acolyte will kill the dream.”

[@buzzfeedteal4775]

Saber

[@briandain8432]

I want to say that a Little Platoon reads the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has got to happen now. His voice is PERFECT.

[@Trapsarentgay133]

Space is big

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Somebody fetch my agent!

[@thesardoniccomedian9546]

Would be a great project.

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

Good point. It would be ideal. Make it so…somebody.

[@anthonykeane4984]

I'd buy that

[@TheFABIOCOOL]

He really said "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" for half an hour, I CANT, this shit's too funny

[@Mqmn]

You an interesting creature bro

[@countof3everybodyOD]

That type of commitment to the bit is exceedingly rare and quite commendable

[@RichiRichi]

This is the best part from these new Disney Star Wars series...How The Little Platoon is demolishing them.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

It’s fun to do! I’d still rather have a great Star Wars show, but we’ll make do.

[@RichiRichi]

True.🤔

[@steveswm7742]

It's dead. It's dead, Jim.

[@kaelkirkby9191]

They're dead Dave, everybody's dead Dave.

[@starkiller1289]

Aunt Rudy everybody's dead.

[@f1jones544]

Damnit Jim, I'm a lesbian, not a competent screenwriter!

[@thesardoniccomedian9546]

@kaelkirkby9191 Thank you!! An under-rated classic and far better than anything they could hope to make today.

[@zahrans]

@@kaelkirkby9191 End the stream, Dave! End the stream.

[@davecolumbo]

Also amazing that Sol is introduced teaching younglings you cant always trust your eyes, but also seems to firmly assume Mae is dead because he 'watched her die"

[@PrimerCinePodcast]

I was also so frustrated about how superficial his lines about the force are in that class scene. Painfully lazy

[@GideonRavenor712]

Or that some ninja-sand blast trick to obscure vision would do anything to hinder a Jedi's ability to stop you because they do not need eyes to notice another Force Sensitive.

[@TheNoonish]

And in episode two, he's confounded because May throws up a big cloud of dust and he can't see her. Apparently this guy really does trust his eyes.

[@verindictus3639]

If the showrunners were at all decent storytellers, it could be a setup for a Jedi Master having to relearn wisdom he's taken for granted, but I think I've already put more thought into this than all of the showrunners combined.

[@smallcd]

"Mae is dead. I saw her die." "Mae is alive." "I believe you." $180 million budget, folks.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

The only *slight* defense of that line is that I think his lingering, troubled look after the ship dialogue is supposed to convey he’s relating a story he doesn’t quite believe in, or maybe knows to be false. But as presented, yeah, it looks and sounds incredibly dumb.

[@brockdavid]

“It’s gonna be Mae….!” Haha!

[@moresnacksplease526]

You forgot, "Hey you seem chill for an alleged murderer. Would you like to lead the Jedi?"

[@ppsarrakis]

@@TheLittlePlatoon they tried to be meta and break the soap opera trope but stumbled upon the way.

[@hans-petereisele7949]

@@TheLittlePlatoon One could argue that this scene is the reason for Squid Game's "close your eyes; your eyes can deceive you" scene with the younglings, to then go on stating that he himself "saw Mae die", to then apply his own teachings and not rule out he his eyes deceived him. But of course, the script is so bad that it doesn't properly connect its own scenes, and evidently no one told the editor (who was on meds anyway, given the "pacing" of the whole thing).

[@PelemusMcSoy]

"Nerds are gay!" "But some nerds aren't gay and they feel threatened by it!" Gosh, isn't this the same group of people that say any marginalized group feels threatened by something that isn't them?

[@sarahb.7175]

I'm an asexual nerd. I feel excluded and erased. I demand restitution.

[@dunno.__.]

as a lesbian, i have no fucking clue what any of what she said even ment so ig we are shit out of luck

[@dunno.__.]

@@sarahb.7175 SAME LMAO

[@GothLady1987]

OG S.W. nerds: "we do not claim them."

[@Synthetic94]

69th like

[@Walter-fc3uq]

DM: you meet in a tavern Rouge: I start fighting the paladin's drinking buddies.

[@JohnDoe-vm5rb]

How is makeup fighting people, is it a mimic?

[@Hepburner]

@@JohnDoe-vm5rb Very good :)

[@jroggs85]

​@@JohnDoe-vm5rbHe probably walked into the bar and immediately saw red.

[@autobotstarscream765]

DM: "You find a poor starving helpless little orphan girl crying in the street." Wizard: "I cast Thunder Spell!"⚡️

[@itswilbur3747]

Disney on acquiring Marvel and Star Wars. "We've bought these geese that lay Golden Eggs... I wonder what the meat tastes like?"🤔

[@RacingSnails64]

That's a really good analogy actually.

[@alleycatcannabis]

Perfect analogy

[@no.1spidey-fan182]

No joke....you should seriously trademark this🙏. Perfect analogy for getting way too big for your britches and no it all attitudes

[@nathanjora7627]

More like « I wonder what the beak tastes like »

[@joeblount7156]

Just got to the section where you say you can't imagine what it would be like to watch this with no fore-knowledge going in: Not knowing anything about this show before going in, I assumed that Osha was the assassin when we met her. And then when she had her PTSD moment in the space campfire, I wondered if we were doing a sort of sleeper agent thing where it *was* her but she had no memory of it (which would also explain why she denied the charge after) Then I was utterly flabbergasted that we were actually, in the year of our lord 2024, unironically pulling "It wasn't me, it was my evil twin".

[@lintzy398]

“Beginning of the end?” The most rhetorical of rhetorical questions there ever was 😂

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I’m probably going to get annoyed and change it, but it’s the only thing that came to mind after working on this for 12 straight hours and getting to bed at 8am. Proof Disney Star Wars just kills creativity.

[@Arko777777]

​@@TheLittlePlatoonRest well LP. I was exhausted just taking notes on the 1st episode. So much tism, I'm glad you "attacked the script with all your strenght" ;)

[@jeggsonvohees2201]

​@@TheLittlePlatoonGood thing you're a night owl.

[@lintzy398]

@TheLittlePlatoon Let me respond by quoting you: “that’s what the whiskey is for-to shag the unshaggable, and to watch the unwatchable.” Or, in this case, to muster up the creativity needed to review the unreviewable. You should put your own quotes on a shot glass or something. I’d be the first in line to buy some. Keep up the great work 👍

[@TheDarq0n]

imagine hiring your own wife to play on your own show, instead of giving us Yoda

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I for one am very glad they forgot about Yoda. It’s either that or she *is* Yoda and just aged horribly.

[@badghosttv]

@@TheLittlePlatoon Yoda would be a made into a weak little stupid man, who would always be wrong because strong powerful females are right, it would of made a great dumpster fire for sure, almost wish they did it, but even these idiots know when too far is too far

[@Arko777777]

Her wife looks like Yoda's mother-in-law

[@MegaSpideyman]

​@@TheLittlePlatoon😂

[@Subzerobyrd]

Im glad they didn’t use Yoda it would’ve just hurt his character

[@AnaFolkenstal]

Using the force as a defense and not to attack someone is like the creed in Karate: You learn to fight and to defend yourself, but your NEVER attack first. You still fight if you have to, but you're not the aggressor. These writers don't know anything.

[@iivin4233]

There's also the aspect of just being practical. Someone is smashing people into bar furniture. They clearly have superhuman protagonist strength. Even Father Brown would have the obligation to deck the assailant in the shnoz. You know, if Father Brown were also a powerful space wizard who swore to protect the galaxy.

[@elizabethlevesque6978]

@@iivin4233I’d watch Fr. Brown as a powerful space wizard, protecting the galaxy

[@barrybend7189]

She's still weaker than the farmer with a Shotgun from Dragonball.

[@jocelantonettetenoc5996]

Isn't there an episode of SpongeBob that CLEARLY shows why karate is a defense mechanism and not sort of aggressive behavior/revenge factor? Squidward trained karate for under the pretence of self defense but actually for beating up his so called stalker and got punished for it. That episode is way better than well, Disney ever written about force self defense or anything in general.

[@thecod2345]

What’s even more stupid is I don’t think they understand the implications of being able to use the force as a grab. The main weakness of grabs is their range, something the force negates, additionally the force is capable of far more physical power than any muscle, meaning you can twist the arm of someone with a lightsaber and essentially bloodbend them. This is exactly why it was implied in the original 6 movies that either force users were immune to being pulled like that or it wasn’t an application that was used or possible. It fundamentally invalidates any form of combat between Jedi or Sith if you can effectively utilize holds and grabs at a range.

[@VermillionLotus96]

I love that the KOTOR clips you play are always the most compelling pieces of Star Wars content in the video.

[@SPACE_BOOOOOST]

SWTOR's 'Sacrifice' cinematic delivers a vastly superior twin force users story in 4 minutes without the twins having to say a single word. 180 million my ass, this is a money laundering scheme.

[@markwhiteside7618]

Yeah it's likely it cost 2 mil, then a few mil for paying the cast then the rest is spread between going into lesley's pocket and paying her wife lol

[@sixter4157]

I had completely forgotten about that trailer. The hundreds of happy hours I spent in that game. Good memories with good people.

[@alltheworldsastage.]

Where do u think the nazi and nasa are going to do with all that money. Create a fake ww3 scenario then create a stage alien attack

[@duncanlutz3698]

Say what you will about SWTOR... but GYAT DAYUM the trailers were straight fire. Every last one. Each scene is packed with so much little detail that all adds up to a masterclass in visual storytelling. BRB, going to go watch through them again and weep, for the minds behind those short trailers will never be allowed to make a single movie, trilogy, or show.

[@MatteBlack99]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@batmanstrike8287]

About the whole "a jedi only uses a lightsaber to kill" thing. Theyre clearly forgetting about practical applications of a lightsaber, like Qui-Gon using it to cut through a door. A lightsaber is more than just a weapon

[@hughallison4639]

You can't forget something you didn't already know.......

[@SavedByFaith9981]

Qui-gon in the books used to tell obi wan all the time that his saber is a tool more than a weapon. A symbol more than a weapon. But people who don’t know the series will never go and read it. Headlamp herself even says that she lied her way to the top and then went to say “it’s fine all men get to the top this way!”

[@Whatever-mq7vy]

The running gag "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" is just great.

[@diamondinmyeye6160]

It's so silly that I chuckled every time.

[@DarthWamp]

@@diamondinmyeye6160 Same, lol

[@robg1151]

Somehow it never got old lol

[@propichovac7818]

+1

[@keyrtan]

George called Star Wars a soap opera. So let’s hire a successful soap opera crew and set it in sci-fi. Jobs done, good show.

[@iivin4233]

Is that where the crew for this show came from, or is that your suggestion?

[@keyrtan]

@@iivin4233a suggestion, soap operas are usually wildly successful compared to Disney anything much less Star Wars

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

​@@keyrtanDisney is the most successful media company in the history of the known universe

[@brandonfitzgerald1547]

soap operas are not actually good television either though. maybe im just missing some sarcasm here

[@1shogunate696]

@@shinobi-no-buenowas

[@Zephyr503]

The Korean Jedi is named Seoul. That's rather on the nose, Disney. Ueda 上田 is in Japan; it is indeed pretty far from Coruscant. Darth Jigsaw: "A Jedi cannot be killed with weapons, except kunai, poison, and cutting remarks about his fatness."

[@GaudiaCertaminisGaming]

He’s not fat, he’s smuggling a small girl in there.

[@GH-ub7qz]

Pyong Yang, Uijeongbu, and Pyeoongtaek were already taken

[@oXRaptorzXo]

His name is Sol, I believe it translates to Sun.

[@GH-ub7qz]

@@oXRaptorzXo lol...i thought CPT obvious only did commercials these days...lol

[@arghanothername]

The lard side is pathway to many abilities your cardiologist considers unhealthy.

[@proff_musa]

I bailed 15 minutes into the first 40 minute episode to come watch 3 hours of Platoon tearing it apart.

[@josephsalmonte4995]

You're a male who STILL went to watch a product made by those who hate you & have insulted you for years? What a fucking simp!

[@Ramsey276one]

Smart move

[@Jordan-nr7vr]

to be fair a full 18min of that is him repeating "occupational health and safety administration" 😂

[@koLdZ1]

As it should be

[@moresnacksplease526]

You can still pick it up in the next episode. Good Twin knows the Jedi from before. There ya go, you're all caught up!

[@hexPixelStarships]

Master Trinity: I cannot use my lightsaber unless I've decided to kill. Obiwan in a bar at Coruscant: Hold my deathstick.

[@justforever96]

That's not exactly what she said. She said _prepared_ to kill. That's not the same as _intent_ to kill. Basically it means that if you aren't ready to actually end a life _if necessary_ , don't take it out at all. Stolen from gun culture, where it is a totally true statement. First because you should never draw a gun unless it's a life threatening situation, second because if you aren't prepared to actually use it, you risk having them disarm you and use it against you. If you aren't prepared to end a life, then find some other means to defend yourself. None of that means you absolutely must kill if you draw it, it's not a kukri that needs to taste blood if drawn (a myth anyway). It doesn't even preclude drawing it just because the situation is potentially threatening, not if you are _prepared_ to use it if a threat materializes. It's kind of silly though, because why would a trained Jedi not be prepared to use their weapon if necessary? They aren't silly middle aged lawyers well bought a .380 thinking they will just point it and scare the bad guys away but aren't ready to actually shoot anyone.

[@warcheef]

I thought Leslye Headland reminded me of someone but I couldn't figure out who until it suddenly hit me - holy shit, it's like that corporate assistant character from "The Boys" (Ashley Barrett) leaped off the screen and became a director! She talks like her, she acts like her, she lies and virtue signals like her, she even kind of looks like her, and she is Weinstein's former personal assistant too?! What the hell, this is way too funny.

[@jamesday1295]

Yes. Someone else. I've been watching Gen V today, and I can't unsee it.

[@DeetotheDubs]

I never would have made that connection; I feel at least some inkling of sympathy for Ashley being in a crap job for fear of what a powerful man might... oh. Good call.

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

Ho. Lee. Phuck. That’s it, you put it in words She gives “I’m not strong enough to commit evil, but I’m damn sure gonna help it” vibes

[@VelvetYeti]

Does that make Kathleen Kennedy, Homelander??

[@Werewolf.with.Internet.Access]

@@VelvetYeti Bahahaha she wishes

[@Shino2288]

Don't forget... the total budget for The Acolyte can produce 15 Godzilla Minus One.

[@GH-ub7qz]

or fix huge swaths of urban decay...or rural decay

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

Not under Disney it couldn't, not in 100 attempts.

[@underthepale]

This is the metric we should use from now on.

[@ilfirinms]

It's plain and simple money laundering. Amazon is doing it too with Rings Of Power.

[@Jasper_Silva]

So 14 Godzilla?

[@xel1673]

If they wanted to try to maintain the mystery of Mae and Osha and really throw into question Osha's mental state, they could have had Osha struggling with trauma and mental health. She could have been deeply traumatized from whatever happened in her past. Sol could have brought her to train as a Jedi and use his "mind-easing" ability he uses on the crazy guy to help calm Osha as a child. However, Osha's struggles are too much to overcome for her and Sol, and the Jedi deem it too risky to continue her path as a padawan. So Sol helps her out, finding her a place to stay and study for a normal career. As well as help her with her mental health, kind of making it that Sol is as close to her as a family member. However, Osha suddenly vanishes one day from the education facility that he left her at and he isn't able to reestablish contact. In the future, Osha has gone off to be independent and travel the galaxy. So a bit of a transient lifestyle, acting as a jack-of-all-trades (master of nothing), living from paycheck to paycheck and exploring, perhaps trying to find herself and achieve personal peace. However, her her mental health continues to trouble her. At times she is challenged by hallucinations and blackouts, as well as flashbacks that trouble her sleep and even during the day when she lets her mind wander/weaken. So it all leaves the audience finding Osha to be rather suspicious and question her words and actions. The dreamstate of Osha meeting Mae and hearing her sister is alive could, once again, be unreliable and make the audience wonder if its true, or Osha is imagining it. Or if Osha has a split-personality that thinks she is her actually dead twin sister. It's at least something to maintain the mystery for a while longer. Plus it would give Osha more character and more of a character arc as she sorts through her past to find the peace of mind she wants. But that would be work and requiring of someone with imagination. All these people who are writing this show have are concepts they liked in other shows/movies and no clue how to flesh them out and integrate them into a narrative. They get ideas and then drop them later because they took no effort to think about them or question if they should even be in the story at all.

[@PersonallyPerhaps]

Dam that’s a thought good

[@ivanthemadvandal8435]

So they think that she killed a Jedi Master so they sent a relatively new Jedi Knight and Padawan to arrest her, then put her on a driod prison ship, BRILLIANT, WHAT COULD GO WRONG.

[@billjacobs521]

Yup. And does that knight not have his own apprentice? Why would you send off a Padawan without their master but another knight? There's just no effort here.

[@neodigremo]

@@billjacobs521 I am pretty sure she is meant to be his Padawan

[@sprinkle61]

A droid ship with all of one guard, and full of other prisoners looking to escape.

[@jasongunnell1885]

“There is no good or evil, there is only power….” My god the Sith have taken Disney.

[@DEATH-THE-GOAT]

It's the third wave of feminism - steal every position of power

[@normalaggain]

“There is no good or evil” 2 seconds later “this show is all about … the balance of good and evil” I’m not convinced squid game guy was the only one who has recently learned English

[@Adrian-yi8fl]

I can think of no more terrifying philosophy than one which believes there is no such thing as good or evil.

[@Vladislav888]

Moral relativism is fun. Younglings had it coming anyway.

[@DangerZone200]

yeah im not force sensitive and even i can see there is great evil thats gonna be caused by that guy in the future

[@givmi_more_w9251]

They used 'the border between good and evil is blurry' (which it is often) and took it ad absurdum.

[@Soapy-chan]

depends on what you mean by good and evil.

[@TheRealJabbergeist]

"Welcome to the jedi temple, let me introduce everybody. This is our Korean jedi, Master Seoul. Then we have our Russian jedi, Master Moscow, our American jedi, Master Washington DC, and our Mexican jedi, Master Mexico City."

[@ArgentWolf95]

and our British Master Jedi: London!

[@TonyMidyett]

Wait....you want all Jedi to be American?

[@ArgentWolf95]

@@TonyMidyett Seoul is the capital city of South Korea, they named the Korean actor's character the capital city of his country. So we are making a joke because this is hilariously out of touch and a bit racist. Korean actor: learns English to be in Star Wars: okay what is my character's name? Leslie: Seoul.

[@SweatyNuts801]

Most of the budget probably went straight to Lesley’s bank account. Just imagine what dirty little secrets she knows, having worked for Weinstein.

[@sortedevaras]

She also hired her wife to be the bald green Jedi master.

[@DangerZone200]

what are the odds that the lesbo beats her bald green alien wife, i say its high

[@guilhermehank4938]

Imagine how many dirty secrets she has about most of Hollywood. She probably has a dead man's Switch to release everything in case she becomes "Sewer sidal"

[@ian8477]

After this, screw it, I'd just have confessed those dirty little secrets and ruined everyone complicit in them, including her.

[@juicestand3615]

@@sortedevaras🤮

[@arnebosma1404]

After hearing the boys talk about it on open bar, and a video from Drinker and a video from Disparu and I think something from Mauler?.. it's great to see you can still talk about this for an hour and a half. I'm gonna enjoy every second of it. Probably twice.

[@BunkerAnon]

Mon Mothma wasn't present much in the OT but carried massive weight and was clearly respected as a leader of the Rebel Alliance. Never did she sneer or belittle anyone. She projected strength and unity. Good luck with any of them doing that nowadays.

[@alan133]

Mon Mothma is pretty competent and doesnt come across as preachy for WAMAN POWAH in Andor.

[@BunkerAnon]

@@alan133 very true. She's very tactful and uses her culture to bolster her position to strengthen the growing rebellion.

[@mottrex]

I simply loved her character and the way it was written but then it's a show of quality and even for once we see behind the curtains of the Empire.

[@PsychotoasterProd]

58:52 - Naw, Green Woman is not using the force to open doors. Much like how I do, she's only pretending as she approaches the door sensor that opens the door for her.

[@beircheartaghaistin2332]

If chairs can turn into robots that auto-pilot ships, where was that in the Sequel Trilogy? Holdo died for nothing 😂

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

HOLY SHIT YOU’RE RIGHT! Ah, and I thought that scene couldn’t get dumber.

[@billjacobs521]

They just sort of forgot how to build those.

[@Vladislav888]

@@TheLittlePlatoon >I thought that scene couldn’t get dumber You of little faith. TLJ is a bottomless well in ineptitude.

[@CrimsonUltrafox]

Well then she wouldn't get her strong and powerful girlboss moment and get to murder hundreds of thousands of men and women.

[@rawhead3752]

Watching Disney Star Wars is like watching the extended deathrattle of your beloved childhood pet.

[@NocandNC]

Just when I was lamenting that I wouldn’t have anything have anything to enjoy today… Little Platoon to the rescue!!

[@elizabethlevesque6978]

Idk if it was the lighting in the clip, her makeup, hair or everything. But Grace Randolph looked mildly unhinged in that clip. Like, she’s losing it more and more over time

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

I think her appearance is just catching up with the rest of her.

[@NefariousKoel]

Her voice and facial expressions have long implied some sort of crazy to me.

[@DongleVerse]

That thousand yard stare that seems hollow and devoid of the fake emotion she was portraying?yeah I saw that.

[@elizabethlevesque6978]

@@DongleVerse yup

[@ElecManEXE]

She looks like a Batman villain at this point. Giant floating hair, melodramatic expressions, crazy eyes. She's one dip into a vat of clown acid away from smacking bird-based superheroes with a crowbar

[@sortedevaras]

Big ups R2D2 for finally transitioning and then becoming a lesbian. Stunning and brave.

[@jdove6883]

And I'm astonished because I didn't know R2D2 has sex to begin with.

[@RR-ds4sd]

He's saving to buy a tongue 😛.

[@Lampoluke]

I guess that's why she doesn't put the dick/lockpick into the port/vagina

[@PersonallyPerhaps]

I was surprised I always thought R2D2 was a dude.

[@spig3547]

The Sith are literally evil, that's the issue the light and the dark, it's literally known, the idiot. Also Luke saved BILLIONS by destroying the death star, he's up massively net.

[@craigjewel4539]

It is known.

[@30noir]

Excuse ME. It was Anakin who blew up the death star. Don't you listen to these talented people bringing star wars to life?

[@TheMaulam12345]

@@30noir FUCK ME

[@spig3547]

@@30noir anakin did not blow up the death star it was Luke.

[@30noir]

@@spig3547 You haven't been watching the interviews.

[@jesustyronechrist2330]

I am 100% certain there is some weird corruption/nepotism going on with Disney's hiring department on writers. I dunno where they pick them up, but I am pretty sure they are not picked for their skills or portfolio quality...

[@PraxesArdenn]

You mean when they handed a multi billion dollar franchise to a writer/director who had a resume consisting of a movie his parents paid for, an okay-but-forgettable time travel movie and a couple good episodes of Breaking Bad - that wasn't because he was the best in the business with a burning passion for the franchise?

[@nathancollins1715]

Hollywood in general has a nepotism problem, and it's only getting worse with the rise of DEI. As we've seen in every other major industry, DEI hires actively seek out other potential DEI hires while discriminating against those they perceive as not "woke" enough (ie not in alignment with their political and cultural beliefs) and yes, they usually know each other beforehand. The issue is that these people, by definition, prioritize DEI over every single other metric, including good storytelling, casting, and creative direction. A good story takes focus and effort, and you won't get those things out of DEI hires because they fundamentally don't care about the story. They care about diversity, and will sacrifice anything and everything to maximize diversity (which, if you haven't noticed, is just code for inserting as many black, brown, and queer people into your project with no regard for reflecting real world demographics or even the demographics of the fiction.)

[@RealityCheck6969]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration feels disrespected that a Disney character was associated with them. We will take legal action! :D

[@CujoHyer]

You know, it is funny. In 1999 my friends and I made a text based online Star Wars game that had a hyperspace system in it. You could ping it with a command that would tell you how long it would take to travel from Star System to star system, at a specified hyperdrive speed multiplier. So a standard x1 hyperdrive would take longer to go to a different star system than say the Millennium Falcon that had a x.5 hyperdrive. It isn't even on LucasFilm's radar to do such a thing for their writing teams... because these people actively hate Star Wars. They hate that there are 'rules' and they refuse to follow them. Nothing they do is for Star Wars. It is all to stroke off their own egos. It's sick.

[@TheNoonish]

Rules are cool! They provide limitations, and those limitations are just instant drama. "We've got to reach Chandrila before the Dread Fleet arrives!" but Chandrila is 4 days away at your ship's best speed. Once you establish rules, you have instant scenarios you can work into your story. I've recently been explaining how hyperspace worked in the old EU, where hyperspace fields were disrupted by gravity wells, which led to the creation of Interdictor Cruisers. That bit of world-building just instantly creates a ton of scenarios to build drama around-the rebels need to escape, but there's an interdictor cruiser! They have to jump before the gravity generators power up. "Oh, no! We're too late! Our only hope is to destroy the cruiser, but it's protected by 3 Star Destroyers!" Disney fucking hates rules because it would mean someone has to be accountable to maintaining a unified ruleset across all their projects, and accountability is tyranny. "Just stay up late and eat all the ice cream you want, the only reason your parents stopped you is because they're so bigoted."

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Something similar happened in Star Trek. In the old TV shows and movies it was understood that space is *big* and that it takes time to travel anywhere. In NuTrek everyone is always where they need to be instantly without any sense of a passage of time.

[@September6955]

'In my world...' That says enough about her.

[@WickedScott]

I wish George Lucas hadn't said it's not about spaceships. There was an element of gear porn from his love of California hotrod culture. To dismiss that is to take out an important ingredient. One that Leslie Headland certainly doesn't share.

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Yeah, Lucas has… interesting takes. But I do think he’s broadly right on this aspect. There’s plenty of gear porn franchises that don’t hold a candle to Star Wars.

[@WickedScott]

@@TheLittlePlatoon True. I get what he was saying, I just wish he wouldn't dismiss it but that's the film student in George.

[@moresnacksplease526]

I genuinely hope he has a notebook somewhere set to publish upon his death that spells out "This is what Star Wars is about", since "Star Wars was always gay" but also "Star Wars was always racist/misogynist", so apparently SW can mean whatever the person leveraging it wants it to; like the US Constitution, or the Bible.

[@BetaRayBill32]

​@@moresnacksplease526 If you collected all of George's comments about Star Wars since 1977 I think you'd have a contradictory word salad. Now, if you could hook him up to a lie detector, that would be interesting.

[@PraxesArdenn]

​@BetaRayBill32 Yup. People like to quote George all the time to justify things, but sometimes I hear or see George Lucas quotes that make me struggle to believe that he fully understands his own creation. Which is not a ridiculous assertion, movies are a collaborative effort, especially the original trilogy. Just look at how the more recent edits to original trilogy trash certain scenes. The scene where Vader is watching the emperor kill Luke in ROTJ - that was a masterful piece of filmmaking where the score and the editing manage to make close up shots of a man in a rubber suit with a mask actually communicate the emotional conflict without ever seeing his face. Masterful. And George went back and added the shitty No! NOOOOOO! from the prequels to it. He's a very creative man who made a great thing, but he's not infallible.

[@gringles]

Somebody please clip that part with the youngling with the shrimp eyes, musing about shutting their eyes forever. That was gold.

[@Feanor1988bis]

He would've been a more compelling main character for a revenge story.

[@newtpondskipper]

Next season. ​@@Feanor1988bis

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

The best thing about THE classic good vs evil story of modern times is that there ISN'T any good or evil?

[@RogerS1978]

Just minor evil passing itself as good

[@user-zq6sz2cr6g]

A bad feeling? It's more a sensation of impending doom.

[@iivin4233]

Sir, that sensation is called memory.

[@charlesinman6595]

I would say the feeling is more like: spending a week in a blackout wave of drunk on rum with coconut, waking up with a sudden and monumental attack of diarrhea, running for the bathroom as your sphincter holds on with all its elasticity and just as you're reaching for the door, you have a full body sneeze...that feeling in the brief second between the sneeze and you forever ruin those pants, is what I'd say the feeling is like.

[@falxblade1352]

Who killed the last pillar?

[@paulmurgatroyd6372]

It's not just a bad feeling, it's an aneurism.

[@vespenegas261]

The prophecised Big Gay is finaly here

[@A77ick]

58:39 every kid at a supermarket with automatic doors does this . She was just continuing the adult playtime.

[@daniellclary]

I dunno, I find it funny how I always said Star Wars is not OSHA approved, due to the lack of railings, and dangerous architecture. And now they have a character called OSHA.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

12:47 “The… Heh, I can’t say that…” *Oh, Little Platoon. Do we need to wipe your memory core again?*

[@84C4]

"Darth to Luke". So he thinks Darth is a name, not a title? This guy can't help but put both feet in his mouth every time it opens.

[@SlayerO013]

...while simultaneously cramming his head up his own ass...twice...with no pullout. How? "The dark side of the force Is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural." The light side too though. My 3 moms told me there is no good or evil in Star Wars, only power tools. Something like that anyway. 😂

[@rylanasher4756]

It is as embarrassing as it is cringe... but only to people who aren't sociopaths and invested in the downfall of the StatWars franchise.

[@billjacobs521]

He's literally never seen Star Wars, at least while sober.

[@quidproque76]

crodie what? many people have called him darth it’s a nickname? you got some rainbow disney shit on your chin

[@quidproque76]

i take back what i said im slow

[@davidphilips4736]

There are no twins. OSHA = May. It’s going to be a Fight Club knock off.

[@c0d3warrior]

Would actually be in theme of copying other movies, they already dragged Matrix and Star Wars into this mess. Better put a bottle of champagne in the fridge to celebrate just in case you are right.

[@GideonRavenor712]

That would be the only twist they could pull, and as warrior said be another derivative they're stealing from a better film . . . but unfortunately multiple tells have already proven that is not likely the case: -Sol has already confirmed there were two twins who did exist, and when he fights Mae it's obvious he knows it's not the same person. -The Poisoner makes reference to both, and not in the Durden way where when you look back on it the other characters' dialogue repeatedly didn't acknowledge a second person -The time sequence for the second assassination makes NO sense unless we're simultaneously assuming MULTIPLE characters are hallucinations at that point or the entire thing is an unreliable narration that will be revealed later. (It already doesn't make sense how Mae got in the second time, managed to talk the guy into poisoning himself and get out before Osha gets in who was being shadowed by Yort the whole time just to conveniently beat out the rest of the characters who SOMEHOW take longer to get to the Master's chambers than Mae or Osha did even when Sol sensed something was up.) The entire thing would need to be an unreliable narration to such a degree that we can't even trust multiple characters existing, not just Osha or Mae. I really don't think they're that smart.

[@davidphilips4736]

@@GideonRavenor712 When has the fact that they have already rendered an idea nonsensical or impossible ever stopped these people? 😂

[@GideonRavenor712]

@@davidphilips4736 I mean, it's always a possibility with that, I suppose. But that would also mean making the character be genuinely evil, if mentally conflicted, which we know they won't do because of the IdPol of the character.

[@wezletbullock7424]

“You can’t just have your characters say how they feel! That makes me feel angry!” -Devil from Futurama

[@spartanhawk7637]

The part about “lasers and steel cannot kill Jedi” is stupid on multiple levels, not the least of which is because it has literally been listed MULTIPLE TIMES what the best methods of killing Jedi are. As HK-47 says in KOTOR, explosives, poisons, traps, sniper shots, generally fighting without thinking ahead, or simply putting their friends in danger in such a way that leaves them open to attack. You cannot use lasers and generally fighting them head on is suicide. If I’m being incredibly nice to the writer, I might say they’re attempting to show this with the poison and the knife, but good god they’re absolute idiots about it.

[@matane2465]

KOTOR. That's Legends. It doesn't exist in this continuity.

[@ivanthemadvandal8435]

"You cannot use lasers" Jango Fett has entered the chat

[@darklord3127]

​@matane2465 At this point, Legends has more of a consistent story that makes sense than whatever this is supposed to be.

[@chrismarshall6956]

Apparently the sith Lord is just stupid and has no clue

[@billjacobs521]

I think it's supposed to be some deep metaphorical comment, but without any actual substance to back it up, meaning it is, at best, pretentious yap, if not an outright plothole.

[@matthewcollins4773]

I like how your "Disney defender dismissing haters " voice is close to your Grand Inquisitor voice. 😂

[@qwertyg3666]

Anyone else feel like Leslye Headland's face looks as though it has been hit extraordinarily hard with a frying pan?

[@AliceBowie]

It looks like used a shrink-ray on her face, while making her head bigger.

[@GH-ub7qz]

just run of the mill bad genetics

[@Tom_Katsu_pz]

Very slight M.O.D.O.K. from Quantumania vibes

[@whos-the-stiff]

She was hit repeatedly in the face over the course of 4 years by her former boss' large stomach !

[@alexmuenster2102]

>>hit extraordinarily hard with a frying pan

[@seanledden4397]

Your comment on how Disney pulled out all of it's self-defeating publicity tricks for Acolyte reminds me of a comment from James Lindsey. He asserts that woke activists have no interest in governing with competence. What they are hooked on is provocation. For gaining attention and power by accusing society of prejudice is really the only thing they know how to do.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Their idea of governing is to recreate the world they criticize but with them in power. A couple of years ago Marvel massively changed the status quo of the X-Men franchise by having *all* the mutants move to an island called Krakoa and create their won soverign nation. The head writer had planned to move the story on from there but the "diverse" group of writers decided they wanted to show what their kind of ideal society would look like and focus on the "healing" of the characters. Every mutant pretty much immediately turned into a mutant supremacist and the government of Krakoa started doing things that were very morally dubious _at best._ That told me that these "progressive" writers didn't actually understand their own stated beliefs.

[@eallaterza]

As an Italian, reading that line 35:56 just killed me: bro literally got away with using the "f-word" like that, I love you!

[@OceanbornAngel]

Isn't that adorable that Lesley Hedland's green skinned wife opens doors like I open the automatic doors at the grocery store.

[@TheNoonish]

She's not actually a Jedi she just likes to wave her hand at the doors and pretend. It's going to be the actual twist for the season, and nobody realized she's been faking it for decades.

[@ReegalP]

As far as the budget is concerned, I don't understand how they choose to throw money at the problem and somehow utterly fail in solving it.

[@HyperMoeMan]

Let's all thank Leslye Headland for showing all of us that nepotism is alive and well, by casting her wife in a leading role.

[@trolojolo6178]

I love how he refers to the characters with names the actors are known from other series or movies. Like trinity, squid game or health administration 😂. It helps to follow this so f* convoluted and boring storyline with characters nobody cares or would even bother to remember the names. Thank you for being so considerate to us normies.

[@johnnyblade1557]

Wasn't sure we'd get an Acolyte video from Platoon for a while but glad that it's here.

[@yourlocalbryan6079]

26:48 Slug Throwers, Flamethrowers, and uhh . . Naval Canons. I think those would work rather well.

[@linchpin29967]

It's a amazing that we are at the point where the Holiday special keeps moving up in the rankings because of the pure shit that Disney just keeps pumping out of its orifice.

[@newtpondskipper]

A half hour of meaningless wookie yelling now has more meaning to the fans than an entire season of Disney product.

[@DoodsUnited]

Disney wishes they could write something as engaging and heart warming as Bea Arthur's Cantina scene.

[@perpub]

The actor, whatever his name is, said Anakin blew up the Death Star. That's not true, Luke blew it up. He doesn't know the story.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

He's said it multiple times too. Apparently nobody knows enough to correct him.

[@Thornspyre81]

Evil doesn't exist, only fan racism, bigotry and misogyny apparently.

[@DrKumkar]

Wouldn’t the ship like turn into a fucking meteor when entering the atmosphere and just completely explode into a million pieces? Like wtf!

[@kylekatarn5964]

Fantasy setting or not, re-entry into an atmosphere at any kind of aggressive angle like that would result in a piece of equipment burning up. Look what happened to the Columbia when it re-entered with a slightly compromised heat shield coming in at normal re-entry speed. Burnt up in seconds.

[@CastFromHitPoints]

​​@@kylekatarn5964Yeah, but SW is a sci-fantasy setting with FTL starships, so this can be explained away. That's what the Disney fans will say, ignoring the Invisible Hand burning (and breaking in half) during a bad re-entry at the start of RotS.

[@oXRaptorzXo]

@@kylekatarn5964I don’t think this is valid in Star wars

[@billjacobs521]

@@oXRaptorzXo We really don't know. I can absolutely believe they could make ships capable of withstanding far more heat than re-entry would cause. But on the other hand, I could believe that they never bother to do with large ships because they're not meant to enter atmosphere. It's not been established.

[@oXRaptorzXo]

@@billjacobs521 It’s been established. And with much larger ships. In CW S7 finale a Venator is crashing down and it doesn’t burn up. Additionally, this prison ship is pretty small and it makes sense it wouldn’t burn up. We’ve never seen any ships burn in atmosphere so I don’t see a reason to believe there would be one now.

[@dooshkin8552]

if you murder someone who is good, you are evil

[@RogerS1978]

Not all the time, could be fighting for different good causes that are antithetical.

[@mrreyes5004]

Crazy to think that in circa. 1999 - 2005, live movie audiences were _pissed_ at the Prequel trilogy because it "ruined" Star Wars, or that it "broke the world/lore", or that its characters weren't up to snuff. Just imagine bringing one of those initial die-hard Prequel critics through time and showing them the heap of garbage that is The Acolyte. Even accounting for the obvious culture shock across generations and whatnot, that might just count as "cruel and unusual punishment." Folks really didn't know how good they had it, man.

[@benjaminattwell1430]

It’s very interesting that in the “Star Wars is gay” interview Amandla and Hedland/reporter are using two different versions of the word “gay.” Amandla’s version is the American youth culture term meaning: lame, cringe, or silly. Which is frankly the opinion of most women if we’re being honest. Amandla cracked the code of why Star Wars struggles with general female audiences no matter how hard Disney has tried. Aside from the occasional manic pixie nerd girl, it’s often been no dice with the ladies.

[@suburbanbanshee]

Plenty of women like Star Wars, as long as Star Wars features lots of handsome, manly men, and lots of swashbuckling fighter pilot men, and... okay, they do like good female characters too. But honestly, a strong cute male lead or three -- that's what makes most women and girls like Star Wars. All women know this. KK doesn't want to admit it.

[@benjaminattwell1430]

I 💯 agree! In fact that’s a major reason many women are drawn to IPs like these.

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

​@@suburbanbansheeThat's what I don't get: everyone should already know what you're saying. Women liked Marvel movies because they had buff handsome men doing manly and heroic stuff. It's the old "men want to be him and women want to be with him" thing. They decided to junk all that and focus on "powerful women". It's quite telling that they always bring up the "power" of the female characters too. In stories the power isn't the important thing; it's how that power is used that really matters. We're supposed to like these women for just being powerful instead of what they do and that can make the strong female characters come off as psychopaths.

[@armouredgideon949]

Shoutout to HK 47 A legend, and the main reason 'meatbag' is still a common part of my vocabulary

[@just_blumpin_off]

The only thing that was realistic about this show was Amandla Stenberg hanging on to a pole hoping to survive… there will be tons of crumpled singles and glittery body powder in her future fore sure

[@stevena.7022]

It really feels like the writers had a NO Mansplaining! rule in effect. I can imagine space fire. Thanks to the ISS experiments on firefighting in zero G we have tape on it. It doesn't look anything like that (It does look awesome btw: low blue and liquid like. clinging not flickering, like rubber cement) Even if it was a high pressure o2 leak, the spark would need to occur before it is exposed to vacuum . The tank would just explode or snuff. Not burn orange in a flickering breeze. Yes the sound in space thing bothers me too. POV inside a ship is one thing but not in the dead of space, some examples are better than others. Yet this was always a choice aimed at improving the viewer experience. (Loved the Holdo Manuever sound design. btw ) The campfire didn't help the immersion at all. I thought she was JUST having a traumatic flashback and it wasn't real... but no. I don't at all get the apologist - "you accept space magic so why nit pick this?'' or 'SW had dumb physics before so dumb physics now should be no problem.'' I say It's more important to get things right in fantasy settings not less. Too many ''ASKS'' kills immersion and I'm suspending disbelief just to get here

[@billjacobs521]

Plus, the sound in space is not part of the plot--characters aren't hearing enemy spaceships or anything. It's entirely something the audience hears.

[@WickedScott]

Listen to Leslie Headlands laugh in that interview then listen to the old tub woman from The Shining. It’s the same laugh.

[@SubFlow22]

This is what happens when your baby sister takes over your favorite toys.

[@DerpyDaringDitzyDoo]

180 million dollar budget... Just a reminder, Squid Game had a budget of approximately 1 million dollars per episode, and costed about 21 million total including editing, advertising, etc. 21 million. We could have gotten more than five seasons of Squid Games for the same cost as this.

[@bandaid6550]

God, that one bit of dialogue from the shield scene you played almost killed me. I have avoided most of Disney Star Wars since the sequel trilogy, but every time I get a snippet the dialogue just gets worse.

[@randymarsh27]

HK-47 in here spitting facts I remember playing kotor and meeting Hk and thinking wtf is up with this droid haha

[@Synfuls]

TLP almost got taken during this recording by the Harvey-knappers but fought them off with a kitchen knife because it's clearly more effective than a lightsaber has been for near a decade since Disney took over the money printing franchise and some how clogged the printer up

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

Kitchen knife? No. Too underpowered. I threw a pencil at them and they exploded.

[@Vladislav888]

@@TheLittlePlatoon Mightier than the sword indeed.

[@hawkeye5955]

​@@TheLittlePlatoon: Wouldn't that pencil be a downgrade from the pen grenade from Goldeneye?

[@ThespianPrince13]

Fan expectation: ✅ Sith perspective story. ✅ Mature and grounded story similar to Andor but with the mysticism of the Dark Side. ✅ Well-written Sith protagonists. ✅ New Star Wars timeline. Reality: ❌ The Acolyte…. Gay. Gayness. Queerness.

[@suburbanbanshee]

I'm pretty sure that everybody expected the worst from Lesley Headland.

[@thesaucemaker1319]

The Team America's sound over the fire was so good, thank you.

[@kendrickl5913]

My buddy was one of the cosplayers who got to be an extra in kenobi. Even hes not watching this show

[@BalkanRedneck]

Why does a prison ship, staffed exclusively by droids, need escape pods?

[@CharlesUrban]

If someone accuses me of being afraid of gay people, I can defend myself by saying that my favorite Star Wars character is R2D2, and Artoo is a lesbian. Thanks, Leslye!

[@Vladislav888]

Also one of my favorite movie critics happens to be one. Not quite the gay friend, but that will do.

[@dotfflan]

Is steel even worth a damn in the Star Wars universe? Wouldnt they use a rarer, more resistant alien element?

[@mrnixon2287]

After watching Ep.03 of The Acolyte I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.

[@tjroelsma]

KK has managed to create a new chapter in the Star Wars saga: Star Wars for Idiots.

[@ivanthemadvandal8435]

Will be with family so wont be able to watch the premiere, but comment for the algorithm, and pre-thumbs up

[@TheLittlePlatoon]

How dare you prioritise family over yet another terrible Star Wars show. You’re not a real fan!

[@Kekoapono]

1:33:07 - What also shows that the lightsaber here was an afterthought or rushed is the reflection of the sword's beam in the water below. The ripples in the water clearly distort the humanoid figure, but the beam of the lightsaber is barely distorted at all, perhaps even not at all! I thought seeing the beam in the water's reflection was a nice touch, until I saw how sloppily it was implemented.

[@DanDomnik]

"My Acolyte... I want to play a game."

[@pktheviking]

The fire outside the ship reminds me when the old 1930s sci fi movies had smoke coming out of the exhaust of space ships flying through the galaxy.