Why The Acolyte Really Is THAT BAD

[@chaseazarian]

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[@neverlistentome]

I'd argue the Acolyte is perfect. It shows that wokeism 100 years ago led to the destruction of the Republic. It's secretly BASED! 😂 (Nah, it's trash)

[@EAS76]

The problem is I think Leslye Headland, Amandla and several others who worked on Acolyte think they did amazing work. They think they did amazing character development, dialogue, and plot. It boggles my mind.

[@chaseazarian]

Some people just live on a different planet than the rest of us lol!

[@Legion-p6y]

They wrote what they knew… pedo island

[@klowen7778]

Yep, and even Kennedy should have known better and seen that, but instead she let her professional judgement get clouded by the same kinda 'virus' that's currently plaguing *_all_* of our current _political_ discourse... aka, "Ideology"!

[@Scoring57]

EAS76 You're all simply steeped in bigotry and hatred but won't admit it and like to pretend you're innocent. We know social politics are big driving factor behind these reactions. It's certainly isn't the worst star wars or whatever. It looks fine to me

[@davidnielsen5695]

​@@Scoring57Soo why did I like The Last of us?

[@jonoleech7832]

It’s a 180 million dollar fanfiction, it’s the kind of story I came up with when I was 14 and I couldn’t go to sleep

[@LoneSilverW0lf]

Please do your 14 year old fan self a favor, call this tripe Trollfiction instead. I’m betting you at 14 had a more passionate, and interesting storyline than what these ‘adults’ are pretending to have made.

[@thiefofa1073]

It's actually 230 million dollars - 180m is AFTER the UK/Wales government tax breaks...

[@CristianMuntean-e2b]

Leslie had a buget of 180 Million Dollars for 8 short episodes. She still said that it wasn’t enough to do certain things. I bet if she got more the Acolyte would have been even worse. Disney gave this person 180 Million Dollars to much. She should just quit and never try to direct another tv show or movie again. Star Wars is dead, because of her. Shame on her!!!!

[@CarlWheatley-wi2cl]

I made it through every minute of Disney Lucasfilm, live action and animation. I made it through Book of Bobba Fett without too much effort although I was gritting my teeth in places. My tolerance level is extremely high. I couldn't get past ep4 of The Acolyte, I'd just had enough of the horrible writing and characters. So yes, it was THAT bad.

[@BroadMeadow-d9s]

Imagine hiring Michael Bay to direct a sequel to "Barbie". And then wondering what went wrong. Sigh.

[@scotthallgv]

The funniest thing about this is, there were 10 writers on this snow and between that nearly dozen of "writers", they couldnt piece together 8 episodes that were worth a shit. Pathetic.

[@chonger83]

It's been the same problem since the acquisition of Star Wars by Disney and their sequel trilogy. No coherent direction and agenda over substance.

[@chaseazarian]

Knowing Lucasfilm they'll say "Okay...we need 20 writers for Season 2! That'll fix everything!"

[@thiefofa1073]

For the 10 person writing team, EIGHT of them are women. Jocelyn Bioh, Claire Kiechel, Jen Richards, Eileen Shim, Jasmyne Flournoy, Charmaine DeGrate, Lesyle herself and Cameron Squires. I'm not saying that women can't write sci-fi (indeed, some of Andor's best episodes were written and directed by only women), but this bunch didn't do their homework (aka the Mundi debacle) and weren't self-aware enough to NOT write CW-style dialogue and scripts.

[@scotthallgv]

@@thiefofa1073 Bascially this show was written by a group of people with and certain agenda who kinda knew what star wars was/is in the large contextual sense that everyone on the planets knows what star wars is but they didnt as you say do their homework. They know who vader is and luke and leia and all those characters but they dont know anything about star wars. These are nothing more than paperdolls for them to play dressup with and insert themselves and their bad writing into the framework of a star wars story. Theres no respect for the source material or its history. Its plainly evident they could have plugged this into any franchise and not given a fuck about that either and done the same bullshit sad excuse for a story, but using the star wars name they could get seen by a larger audience which is the point. They dont give a fuck about star wars or the fans.

[@avalond1193]

And they were majority bunch feminist Karen's that knows nothing or care about story to them star wars is patriarchy

[@MiniSalt]

Why does everyone like the lightsaber fights in this series? They're awful. Deliberately missing each other, kicking when they could kill, aiming for each others lightsabers, padawans out performing 4 masters. Come on.

[@stwrmi]

Yeah, whenever I was watching clips since I was a bit invested when I was watching Qimir fight the jedi they was NOT hitting bro

[@thesoapboxsage2581]

Disney hates lightsabers. They are addicted to the twirly plastic sticks they use on the green screen.

[@TheeKrix]

The Acolyte wasn’t a mystery it was more like a comedy all in the wrong ways

[@lasercraft32]

The thing people don't get is that the PROBLEM is that its _bad._ The writing sucks, the story is nonsensical, and it breaks pre-established lore (which no matter how you slice it, should _never_ happen). They quite literally let someone write a morally-questionable fanfic, and then they published it.

[@chaseazarian]

I agree with you, I don't have every detail of lore memorized, but if you're in charge of any show or movie in a universe, you bet your ass you should know every detail so you don't mess anything up. It's just a no brainer hahaha, thank you for the comment!

[@martinmp19]

How does it break established lore?

[@chaseazarian]

@@martinmp19 Ki Adi Mundi shouldn't be alive lol! Just feels like a "Let's put in a familiar face for fans to get excited about!" Even if it doesn't match the timeline at all

[@OsloTime]

And I believe Plagueis would be around 15 years old when he's in the cave, lmao. Maybe that's why he's hiding, he's a brooding teenager 😂😂😂​@@chaseazarian

[@fiktivhistoriker345]

At least they should have avoided the whole Sith thing. It leads to nowhere, we all know they won't get revealed at this point! It's just cheap fanservice.

[@Padtedesco]

To me, it is clear, Disney went full Planned Obsolescence on Star Wars. Industry, even cultural, make everything with an expire date. Actor grow old, institutions decay, sets change. Disney is trying to bring everything that we love in Star Wars just as step stones for whatever new toy they want to sell. Last Jedi is about that, Book of Boba Fett, Obi-wan and now Acolyte. It is capitalism, new toys cant sell if old toys are still okay.

[@gagebailey8342]

A rushed video game has one of the BEST Sith Lords EVER in Kreia and this show had a budget of $180 mill for a yoda and Darth Plagueis cameo that literally ruins the “impossible the sith have been extinct for a millennium”.

[@chaseazarian]

Still have to get around to KOTR 2 (and finish the first one I've started it like four different times in my life lol)! I'm sure they'll have some dumb line in the series finale that says "Nobody must ever find out about this..."

[@swordsmith2576]

@@chaseazarianget the party swap mod to get the full experience. It’s compatible with the Sith Lords restored content mod, but a certain version of the mod. It gives you access to the party characters that are only available to which gender you choose for your character, with edited dialogue for whichever gender your character is. Totally worth it as you can experience the story as the developers originally intended.

[@doro626]

I was SUPER annoyed by those kids. Maybe worse than Ewok annoyed. But you know what they did better than the lead? They presented two distinct personalities. Something the lead never did. I'm ALSO convinced that when May is escaping Sol and she says HANG ON PIP! the actress thought she was doing the scene as Osha, because of how she was dressed.

[@chaseazarian]

I didn't notice that in the finale, but I'll take your word for it because I don't want to rewatch it lol! But overall yeah, they just both feel like half baked characters. Thank you for the comment!

[@doro626]

@@chaseazarian I can tell you pretty much exactly where it is. After Sols ship is disabled by the tracker , May is going into the atmosphere. Somewhere between her leaving the field and before she enters atmosphere, she says Hang on PIP! which doesnt make sense because she has no affection for the mini droid. Another thing that I thought was a mistake that gets covered up, is When Sol leaves the ship on the planet. Right when he gets a sense in the force, it looks like the actor Stifles a yawn. He does a weird thing with his mouth that I cant really explain.

[@fiktivhistoriker345]

It seems to me that neither the actors nor the authors and the directors were sure if it's Osha or Mae in a particular scene.

[@EAS76]

I really enjoyed your video. Very level-headed and to the point about the bad writing and editing that’s happening regardless of whatever diversity representation is happening. It’s nice not to hear someone yelling their critique for an hour.

[@chaseazarian]

Thank you! I just feel like a lot of these channels milk their complaints for months at a time to make as much money as possible while repeating their same point over and over and over again, and I'm just over here like "Please make Star Wars good again" lol! I appreciate the support it means a lot.

[@rileyjfosbre6383]

“One foot in, one foot out” is a good way to describe. I also like “halfway house”. It felt like Mei specifically changed her mind about her motivation like six times.

[@munstrumridcully]

If Kennedy so desperately wants female written Star Wars, why not just rehire Karen Traviss to do a show about the Republic Commando storyline from her novels? Oh, right, cuz those books are GOOD...

[@draaskinuaar2151]

That, and she doesn’t want to involve in any Star Wars project because of what Filoni did in The Clone Wars

[@ocky88]

Thank you for not giving the stereotypical complaints about women, POC, and black actors.

[@JumpingJack6]

I consider The Last Jedi in the running for the worst movie ever made.... the Acolyte now qualifies for the worst TV show ever made. There really is no close 2nd.

[@chaseazarian]

I've seen a lot of movies and a lot of shows, The Last Jedi might not be the worst ever made for me but it is by FAR the most disappointing movie I've probably ever seen (there might be one or two more I'd have to think about it though), and like I said I think Book of Boba Fett is still worse than this show lol! I appreciate the comment!

[@paskowitz]

There just seems to be a complete void of writing talent at Disney (MCU and SW). How does Tony Gilroy (Andor) even have a job in the same place that produced dog water content like The Acolyte and Obi Wan? I just don't get it. Is producing garbage making Disney money? Since we don't have reliable ratings from streamers we may never know. Disney can just mix the bad apples in and tell everyone the basket is full.

[@chaseazarian]

When you have somebody like Jordan Peele come in to talk about doing an X-Men movie and somehow he walks away because their not on the same page....you know they don't care enough about the talent (I'm not even the biggest Peele fan as of now, but he's more qualified than a majority of the people working on these Marvel and Star Wars projects). Thank you for the comment!

[@Ivegotsomewater81]

It’s not bad because it’s “woke”, it’s bad because it’s not Star Wars.

[@SilasFink]

Another bad thing: They even messed up the lightsaber special effect. They look really bad in this show, like they are made of rubber and filled with led lights.

[@josephatherley]

Finding this video after house of the dragon season 2 wet the bed is hilarious

[@Vicious0Sephiroth]

On top of everything else, the lightsabers looked like shit. Like they used the "disneys galaxies edge" toy lightsabers, and thought, we dont need to add special effects. They look great and not like dim glowsticks when they swing them at all.

[@chaseazarian]

I didn't think they looked awful to be honest, but you know they're going to try and sell as many of them as possible! I appreciate the comment!

[@kittenconsumer9960]

Ahsoka broke me for Star Wars this was complete apathy.

[@chaseazarian]

That was Book of Boba Fett for me lol! Thank you for the comment!

[@mikemichailidis1685]

After watching the acolyte you realise that Jar Jar wasn't that terrible 😂😂

[@maninanikittycat4238]

I've been feeling disillusioned with disney. It just feels like instead of a 5 star meal we've been getting slop

[@ShowLSWH]

My biggest issue with the show is that the Plagueis novel exists. If/when Disney takes from legends content and disregards other parts, it should take care to make sure what it’s replacing it with is as good or better. The Plagueis novel is from the perspective of the Sith, it makes the Jedi look foolish, and it’s well written. It plays with some grey morality, but in the end the Sith are still evil.

[@nm2358]

I feel Sol, Quimir and Yoda's back-head are the best things in this show, in that order, and what sucks is how the best elements of this show that aren't lightsaber fights are saddled with awful writing and editing. Like, Sol's willing to let Quimir go free, after Sol and the Jedi discover Quimir was "selling" poison to kill people. One of which victims was a Jedi Master. Like, the whole show kicked off from a single Jedi Master being killed, and its just ignoring this guy whose an accessory to murder of another Jedi-Master. But... if they (or attempt to) arrest Quimir the plot gets harder to write, so instead the Jedi are going to let a guy who helps murders people / a Jedi go. Arresting Mae is just that important... ah sand in my eyes, I can't see her... And it all culminates with the parent trap of Jedi and Sith proportions, as Osha falls to the Darkside because Quimir, I shit you not, is too hot. Like, the guy who just murdered her long time friend, and new friend / padawan sister, showed her his "darkside" and boof, she's onboard with listening to his Palpatine sale's pitch. But that's like the whole show: Characters are written to be insanely dumb and aren't allowed at any point to have proper communication with one another (otherwise there isn't a plot, because Sol sure as hell wasn't a monster for lightsabering a evil force smoke cloud witch to save a little girl). And I could easily complain about Mae and Osha bland as !@#$ characters, but even then, the writing that goes into their arcs revolves around them shifting their beliefs scene to scene, quite dramatically, without any real work put into it. Its next to impossible to understand who they are because they're the human equivalent of sand in your hands narratively.

[@Steel-101]

After Luke Skywalker came to the rescue in season 2 of the Mandalorian, I really thought that Disney was going to fix things in the timeline. Man I was so wrong. It’s astounding how stubborn, rude, & foolish they are. Lucasfilm just keeps getting worse every year. Makes you wonder what disaster they’re gonna pull next year lol 😂

[@chaseazarian]

Mannnnnn I told my friend the same thing the other day hahaha, like surelllllllly Skeleton Crew does not save us right? Surely it's just another thing we end up complaining about? Who knows, they just have to get it together sooner rather than later. I appreciate the comment!

[@Steel-101]

@@chaseazarian Wow. Twilight Zone moment lol 😂. Also you’re welcome man! You’re channel is awesome!

[@Mgauge]

It's the sheer ego that the creators show in these interviews while lumping in all criticism with actual terrible people that really aggravates me. Leslie Headland's gibberish "explanations" and honestly bizarre views of morality were very telling of how this show ended up so terribly.

[@rivera123v]

The good: the show is over, the bad: the phantom menace of season 2 😢

[@captainfutur3]

Yes. Hoping Andor season 2 will be the best Star Wars ever

[@animesjogoseseriesclassica8282]

These people wanted to use the franchise to benefit themselves and clearly they dont give a 💩 about it. Just like a abusive parent or something.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Just something they could put on their resume so they can do what they want to do.

[@MegaNinjaRyan]

The “make Jedi the bad guys” could have been done way better. When there is a comic series about a Jedi padawan who is accused of killing his fellow padawans and is forced to live on the run, when in reality his Jedi masters all killed their apprentices because they saw a force vision that their padawans would all become dark-siders and kill them. And the only reason that he survived is because he was late helping a person in need, that makes for a good storytelling experience. I never finished that comic, it’s been a while since I read it, but I’d rather read or watch that story go down than to watch the acolyte again. There are way better ways to make a good story than plot convenience.

[@mrreyes5004]

That's the most insulting part, for me: the fact that we ALREADY have good Star Wars stories that show the Jedi being shady in some way in the form of old comics and games. It _should_ be super easy to just decently adapt them into live-action or even animated form, and efficiently cut out the pains of coming up with an entirely new thing. But nope, not only do we not get modernized adaptations of those stories, but the "original" media we do get is absolute trash that doesn't actually bring anything new, let alone explore the topic at all.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Not even that. Star Wars The Old Republic MMO already did this much better with the story of Nomen Karr during the Sith Warrior’s story. To sum it up, Master Nomen Karr became so obsessed with hunting down corruption within the Republic and the Jedi Order that he ended up being corrupted by his own ego and self-righteousness which you can reveal to his apprentice to turn her to either the Dark Side, or towards joining you as a light side apprentice if you're a light-sided Sith.

[@coletrain583]

For all people asking why Osha chose to train with Qimir, while rightfully calling out the nature of the ship due to Qimir killing many of the Jedi who accompanied her (while Jecki seemed to like Osha and Yord was already someone familiar to her), aside from Sol and Yord, the rest are complete strangers. Not to mention the circumstances surrounding her situation really lead to a lot complications that started with a massive misunderstanding with Osha and Mae’s Mom and the Coven of Witches in Brendock. If anything Koril was the one at fault for escalating the situation, leading to Mother Aniseya’s death as well as the death of the whole Coven. Even if Sol told the truth and Osha everything, while it was the right thing to, it’s not the most easiest thing to say. And when it happened, Osha didn’t know wheather to believe him or not. At this point, Osha couldn’t go back, considering she killed her Master (R.I.P. Sol) and so turned to Qimir cause there was no other choice, with Mae having her memory wiped. People maybe shitting on that, but in the Ahsoka series they are willing to give Shin pass for some strange reason, even though I’d argue she is much more ruthless and bloodthirsty than Qimir (a Sith of all people), expressing no remorse for her actions and clearly dosen’t seem to be very empathetic with other people. In fact, they her and Sabine (someone she gleefully wanted to kill) to be a couple instead of Ezra (who was really the nicest person to her and clearly had a strong crush on the girl and understandably so) being with Sabine. Honestly I think Wolfwren is more toxic and illogical than Oshimir, which rightfully earned its criticism. But I’m Qimir’s defense, he did seem to care about Osha, whereas Shin could care less about Sabine. If the creators need to get some flak, then so do the fans.

[@chaseazarian]

I get your argument....but it still comes across as kind of hollow in here for me. Like to see a guy mow down some people you at least "somewhat" cared about, to getting ready to kill him, and then seeing his abs and go "Actually never mind", is just wild hahaha! But I appreciate your comment and get your point of view, it was well laid out!

[@coletrain583]

@@chaseazarian Thank you.

[@Veronr.7180]

Im BEGGING them to NEVER make another season 😭 not shit really happened in the first season and I’m sure they’ll give us nothing in a second

[@chaseazarian]

Plagueis will maybe show up in Season 4 at this point lol!

[@MrDrieman]

Its a terrible written story

[@chaseazarian]

Yes it is Mr. Drieman lol!

[@doro626]

The pacing is off. The order of the episodes are off. There is no murder mystery. We know who is killing them, we dont know why and when they reveal the why, its very lackluster. Osha only has one characterization scene. When she tries to save the life of the prisoner on the crashing ship. Then it ends. No more character work for her. Its wooden stares from then on out. I heard Daisy Ridley was wooden, but JJ yelled at her and then she was petty much fine. Perhaps they should have had auditions instead of hiring friends, family and people from the prior show Russian Dolls. I would have introduced the cortosis and the Sith master in episode two. Have him save May when she gets in over her head. Let her see her sister but rather than Osha fire at her and miss, May and the Hidden Qmir leave. Still have May do teh dust thing, but they are just gone. There is no need for it to be a mystery of who is killing Jedi and why and also have the mystery of who her master is to May herself. I would also point out that since this is the first introduction to the Disney created High Republic era, maybe a more straight forward story that illustrated how this is different from the prequel era. The stand up comedian padawan kind of makes sense, because you can be an archivist or something, but the overweight padawan doesnt make a lot of sense to me. Maybe he's thin, but hes from a high gravity planet. They need that little five minute thing at the end where the writer explains a little of what the hell is exactly going on. KK said that they killed the canon so writers could be free to write what they want, but they you cant abuse the little bit of canon/ lore that still exists. So I found out that in the Disney Star wars universe the Force can be used by anyone so long as they believe and no training is needed. That black cloud smoke thing, seems completely new. Now if its just a form of fast travel, how about you explain that. Then that scene becomes a mother trying to get her daughter to safety and the officer kills her because he thinks she is lunging at him, not lunging to protect her daughter. it would even make sense if Sol thought she was taking Osha away from him since he wanted a padawan so much. It could also explain how Q'mir killed the wookie jedi so fast and how he go into the mountain compound in the last episode. For a moment, I thought that it was just in Sols mind and she was doing a mind trick on him that only Sol and Jodi could see, so to May, it would look like her mother was standing still and he just stabbed her, but since we see the Zabrak witch do it also, it must be a technique. Where did she go? is she dead? maybe I would have shown someone take child May from the planet. What was she doing for 16 years? Who was she with all that time? I would have show if the witches were killed when they were disconnected from the Wookie mind control or if they were just unconscious. There were clues that the mining colony looked different from the night of the fire. I know she could be planning to reveal these things in the second season which I hope never comes unless they fire the show runner. George wasnt perfect, but at least he understood Star Wars on a fundamental level. All his mistakes were pretty much for the right reasons.

[@chaseazarian]

"There is no murder mystery. We know who is killing them" is such a killer line hahaha, that right there sums up everything you need to know! I appreciate the rant!

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Unfortunately, Leslie confirmed in an interview that she was turning herself and Mae into the Force. Which by every understanding we have as an audience, means she was commiting a murder-Sewerside on herself and Mae.

[@doro626]

@@Lobsterwithinternet So does that mean the Zabraak female "died" when she turned to black smoke?

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

@@doro626 Don’t know. She didn't say.

[@Jakemealer]

Thumbnail goes stupid hard

[@chaseazarian]

Thank you brutha!

[@Mgauge]

With such a massive budget, you would think that they'd at least spend some cash on hiring decent writers. Yet Disney seems determined to sabotage writing for cash or egos at all costs.

[@ethanmoon3925]

Don't bash your fellow fans. Tons of fans who love original Leia and Ahsoka in clone wars, have really been put off with Disney's obnoxious take on girlbosses, and the attitude that Star Wars doesn't need men... excuse me, women were NEVER excluded from Star Wars. The ones who have done these female characters dirty - is Disney! They are single handedly creating misogyny by churning out terrible female led content, and daring fans to blame women. Since YOU don't like the Acolyte, buddy, now YOU "don't like women". So think before you assume that everyone else who's annoyed with Disney is somehow bad.

[@dantewilliams2757]

I hate that this attitude became widespread becuase it gives the people making this trash an excuse to not improve or even try in the first place.audience doesn’t like it?welp they’re woman hating sexists.and the most annoying part is that the people who aren’t tuned into the culture war are the ones who let this idea spread

[@fiktivhistoriker345]

A german youtuber dubbed Sol with a line "I don't know what's going on, i don't even speak english".

[@merkaitendencies7373]

The fact that we have had strong female lead characters should not even exist here. Off the top of my head Elen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Jamie Lee Curtis. These are all female leads. I think poor character writing and development are main reasons this whole series is bad. TLJ tried to be different which is not bad. The ROS did not and was somehow one big waste of time.

[@OsloTime]

Maul is my favorite SW character. Haha, Satan with a double light saber is hilarious! I'll never not think of that now whenever I see him lol. 😂😂😂

[@timymax]

I haven't finished watching this video but I'm responding to the statement of them bringing in the creators of the Old Republic video games. Even if by the casting Kennedy was to bring in the original creators of the Old Republic to fix their IP it still wouldn't be enough, because they would tie their hands heavily in order to emphasize their own shity propagandic messages

[@kennethellingsen5902]

Watching the Acoshyte is like watching an Uwe Boll movie with lightsabres

[@chaseazarian]

I will only be saying Acoshyte from now on lol!

[@Ivegotsomewater81]

I’d much rather the Postal movie than that garbage.

[@owangejewice]

Just a small nitpick here...the acolyte happens 100 years BEFORE the Phantom Menace. That is clearly, unarguably not the final days of the high republic. You could fit a dozen awful shows in the massive gap between acolyte and the end of the high republic.

[@chaseazarian]

So true 😭 None of it adds up, but thank you for the comment!

[@morxsum693]

9:30 - 9:38, I've never heard someone say Qui Gon Jinn's name 4 times in almost one sentence.

[@hermannmakuta3311]

I gave this Show a fair Chance for 5 episodes It is really bad

[@chaseazarian]

That's five too many for me lol! I appreciate the comment!

[@timhenley3602]

Hats off to you for enduring that. I gave up halfway through episode 2…

[@scotthallgv]

I always hold out hope, but Kennedys reign as head of Lucasfilm has been and abject shit show in no uncertain terms. I always hope a show or movie is going to be good but for a decade now since George signed away his children over to the white slavers of disney, I have been met with almost universal disappointment. Rogue One was really good but the mind reading squid thing was terrible and Andor was amazing and frankly the best thing to happen to STAR WARS since a new hope, but everything else in the movie end of things has been abysmal or varying shades of terrible. Oh and in terms of Disney bringing someone else in, I feel like the chances of them hiring someone with talent are slim to none because STAR WARS is toxic to anyone wanting to do good work, not because of the fandom but the brand is kyrptonite and I dont think anyone wants to touch it anymore at this point til Kennedy and commpany are gone.

[@chaseazarian]

I still have nightmares about how fun the Solo movie could have been if Lord and Miller never left over "creative differences", and I agree, until Lucasfilm rebuilds its team from the ground up and gives power to somebody who hires confident filmmakers that have great Star Wars stories to tell...the brand is shot haha! Thank you for the comment Scott!

[@scotthallgv]

@@chaseazarian Same. I would love to see Lord and Millers version of SOLO because Ron Howard was brought in as a fixer because they knew he wouldnt do anything blantantly offensive because hes a safe film maker and complete milktoast and did what he was told. He knows HOW to make movies but has no soul or vision and they needed someone like that to tow the line and do what they wanted them to do.

[@Alknix]

11:40 Riiiiight. Hey, remember how the Light Side Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jin tried to cheat a trader with his mind-control powers, and then, when he encountered a family of slaves kept in check with explosive collars, he was pretty much "meh, whatever", and only bothered to free the kid because he was super-force-sensitive, but the Jedi never gave a shit about the mother? And remember how two Light Side Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda were gearing a teenager up to kill his own father WITHOUT telling him it was his father?

[@OtomostheCrazy]

I remember them trying not to cause too much trouble during their investigation and the slave owner only agreeing to free one of his slaves. I remember them having conversations with Anakin and his mother. I remember Obi-Wan taking Luke in because the relatives were horrifically killed, and Yoda only training him because Luke was persistent.

[@MarkHoltze]

He didn’t learn English for the role, that’s a monumental undertaking and I love him but he learned his lines in English…that’s it. He still uses a translator all the time.

[@koammudo43]

This guy sounds like Jerry Seinfeld I didn't realize till he laughed while talking lol

[@superglou913gomez3]

Unless season 2 would be yoda lining up every character and force choking them all to death,I'm not interested.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Or season 2 is just Sol waking up from a terrible Force Vision ala Groundhog’s Day and uses his knowledge to do it right.

[@victor6207-d6h]

Good content. Thank you for saying what we're all thinking

[@chaseazarian]

Anytime Vic! Thank you for the comment!

[@sistersamich2075]

Thanks for that disclaimer at the start. I love watching video essays like this, but it always seems like the people that make it either don’t go in hard enough, or make everything political.

[@MrChupacabra555]

9:42 Sad thing is, I can see what they were trying to do/say, but it wasn't done well. Too often in the real world, you hear stories (in America, at least) about how a cop shot an otherwise innocent person because they were making a 'threatening move', which often turns out to be something like Reaching For Their Wallet......or absolutely NOTHING......... However: Yeah, when someone who admits they follow the Force (ahem) for Evil in the Universe does something THIS sketchy, I can fully understand why he would have taken that as a 'threatening move' and act accordingly (and just cutting off her hands/legs might not have stopped her.....even though she didn't really have any by the time he struck anyway 😅) Also, on the 'Chubby Jedi': If they has just literally made him a Hutt (10 seconds of SFX shouldn't cost THAT much, right?), it would have made more sense, as in 'Legends' there were a couple of Hutt Jedi that I can recall (and ALL Hutts are a bit 'Thicc' 😅)

[@chaseazarian]

I gotta be honest...I feel like people still would have ripped on the Hutt Jedi, but I'd appreciate the ambition! And again, that whole Sol sequence on paper is a good idea, but like you said, it just wasn't done well. Thank you for the comment!

[@mikolaykuka9759]

I agree 100% I waited till the end hoping for major twist to fix the story.

[@mikolaykuka9759]

On paper this story is very interesting and with potential but 🥾 approach is ruined all. Plus it ended half of the story.

[@Rawen1982]

Solid take. Sadly I'm not expecting much out of Disney other than continue to produce too much crap and blame the fans for not liking the latest serving of meh and garbage

[@SamMontoya]

I hoped this show was going to be good. My hope died when I heard Mae essentially say come at me, lol. The writing was really bad. I’d say from a writing aspect, the acolyte is worse than bobf. The Vespa slow chase scene still makes me laugh.

[@benmcreynolds8581]

Sidenote: Has anyone realized this Star wars project has the Least amount of Alien species? It's the least diverse Star Wars. It's mostly Humans. Also the locations are so bland & small. There's No impressive locations. There's no wide pan shots of interesting environments. The world is so claustrophobic. The characters are so shallow. We've been seeing such expensive projects, yet they are so terribly designed, terribly managed, Awful writing, awful world design, awful character development, poor aesthetics. So much now feels creatively bankrupt and I really hope we snap out of it and get back to making better things. Better games, better shows, better movies The Acolyte comes off so cheap & tacky.. It's not just the terrible writing & terrible acting. The whole thing is a complete self centered power trip.. It's horrible set design, horrible world building, horrible camera work. It all makes this show feel so small. Like it's filmed in a single green screen room.. Grasping at awful CGI techniques to try and force any bit of a false reality into this mess of a show. It's so far from Legitimate Star wars movies that it feels as if this whole thing is a big parody.. A very expensive parody.. These people have proven they are only capable of writing narcissistic stories that self insert themselves and their own beliefs into anything they do. Even if they get the opportunity to make something from a pre-existing beloved story, they cannot help themselves. They seem to be incapable of creating artistic creations that stray away from their own personal perspective. Instead of showing they are capable of leaning heavily into escapism and creative storytelling.. They have proven time and time again that they are not capable of doing anything even remotely close to that.. (which is weird because that should be one of the most important set of attributes that a movie director, or a actor has so they can be successful at their job....?) How is there no one that will fire these people who openly hate the fans, hate the consumers who made their success in the first place.. Compared to "The Acolyte" If you go back & watch "X-Men the Animated series" It was so well crafted. The story of the struggles of mutants having to deal with humanity was such a universally relatable storyline. Media back then was not afraid to face difficult topics head on. They found really unique ways to abstractly teach people life lessons. They touched on difficult situations & found intelligent ways to convey certain stories. Even when I was all grown up & rewatched it, it really felt like the story is crafted so well & executed at such a high level that anyone is capable of relating to it in someway or another. It's stuff like that, that we are deeply lacking nowadays. So much so that literal kid's cartoons from the 90's told deeper and more mature stories than most media nowadays. Stuff used to take pride in who can find the most creative ways to convey certain things. Who can give the audience certain feelings without overly explaining it. It used to not matter what kind of character, creature, species they were. What matters is that they found ways to convey artistic depictions of the Human condition. Creative ways that can connect us on a deeper level

[@MrDrieman]

I thought Andor (wich i liked much more than this stupid Acolyte show) had no Aliens at all...

[@chaseazarian]

"A very expensive parody" is the best line in here. I think too many of these creators are taking the fanbase for granted, and it's crazy how so many of them blame the fans over their own work hahaha. Lucasfilm just needs a complete overhaul, but thank you for the comment!

[@MrDrieman]

@@chaseazarian hahaha... maybe i should look at it that way as a parody ... like Spaceballs ... so then it is Spaceballs 2 " how to loose more money " 🤣🤣🤣

[@swordsmith2576]

I’ve been against Disney ever since the sequel trilogy, especially Luke’s character assassination in The Last Jedi. The Mandalorian and Ahsoka won me back a bit, but Book of Boba Fett did Temuera Morrison bad, and deserved a second season just to repair the character development. The Acolyte again ruined it again. I did enjoy Andor though it took me a while to finish it. Side note, insiders say Kathleen Kennedy hated Luke and Mara Jade, and has argued with Jon Favreau regarding Luke in the Mandalorian. They should have reintroduced Luke, Leia, and Han with new actors so they can be explored further in the post original trilogy timeline, bring Mara Jade back to canon and do what they have done but planned out a better sequel trilogy.

[@skreechverminking2227]

I haven’t watched the series, so I can’t really say mucb about it. But I am happy that there are a few people giving good reason why the series wasn’t or isn’t that great to watch. Like you for example did

[@roni.nerdtv]

The showrunner did that show for herself, not for fãs, i drop it. keep your show, this not for me 😢

[@pete6705]

I really don’t think Boba Fett was as bad as this. To me Acolyte is as bad as it gets. I actually thought Disney hit rock bottom with Willow, but Acolyte was a new low

[@Golden_Ghoul]

The force is femcel.

[@CristianMuntean-e2b]

Leslie Hedland didn’t just add the cringe, but the lesbians and gay people too. Star Wars is dead, because of her and the awful writers of new projects. But nothing is worse than the Acolyte, oh no, at least for now. Who else would like to see a Marvel TVA short film in which they erase the timeline in which Yoda imagined the events of this show after using Death sticks and the Sequels Timeline??? The TVA should also erase the events of The Book of Boba Fett, but not the crazy Spa meme 😂. Or at least have Deadpool go and kill the characters of these projects. Like if you agree with me.

[@drewjackson3858]

Lauren Chen didn't put politics into a review channel. Disney did. Not bringing it up or minimizing it does a disservice to understanding the train wreck. Look, you're woke but you like good star wars. I get it. You're not full mind virus. You got the sniffles. But minimizing the single most important element causing the suckage isn't being fair and balanced.

[@morxsum693]

While I have yet to watch the series ( I will watch it soon, don't worry), as an outsider looking in, I feel like the biggest problem now is the people in charge of Star Wars. Kennedy, Headland just literally everyone in the kitchen thinks that only their pleasure matters and no one else's so more and more of this shitty writing and forced politics will happen at the expense of the fans. At first I thought both creators and toxic anti whatever fans are in the wrong but the more I thought about it the toxic fans are becoming less of a problem (Still though, those fans need to do better in terms of criticism). Just seeing the interviews constantly annoys me with the people only talking about politics and barely about the story and hearing about the story just saddens me. PLEASE DISNEY, give us Star Wars where I don't hear a lot of politics and I hear better stories.

[@EAS76]

Yeah manny Jacinto is actually a good actor. Go watch the Good Place. They handed him horrible stuff to work with.

[@chaseazarian]

I'll have to check it out! I've heard good things about it

[@TheKonnoisseur11]

Hates on the show for the wrong reasons??? Like who

[@dearcastiel4667]

The action in this show is atrocious. Nothing makes sense, the shots are bland, the moves are either stupid or ridiculous, the characters stop existing the moment they aren't in the frame otherwise the combat would end, the characters forget basic stuff like (oh, I could just hit him with my anti-lightsaber helmet" or "oh I could just use the force to get my weapon back". Honnestly, I'll take the pretorian fight over this mess, I I find the pretorian fight to be among the worse fights in a big budget movie in the past 20 years.

[@boazemek226]

great video.only thing is house of the dragon isnt the best show rn. arcane, slow horses, and true detective are one level above

[@chaseazarian]

Thank you! Haven't seen Arcane or Slow Horses, and I couldn't make it through the second season of True Detective. Loved Season 1 though!

[@boazemek226]

@@chaseazarian ye just skip the second season and straight up go to third which is amazing. and u gotta watch slow horses garry oldman is acting so skillfully there

[@johndodo2062]

Let's be real, the fact that she won an emmy means nothing. That was likely a pay off or good old fashioned nepotism

[@chaseazarian]

I haven't seen Russian Doll but I remember hearing amazing things about it years ago, so who knows! Just trying to give credit where credit is due. Thank you for the comment though!

[@pierreboucher2450]

Me and my kids are SW fans and are usually easy to satisfy. We even enjoyed The book of Boba Fett, Obi wan Kenobi and Ahsoka even if they were sometimes cheesy and badly written. But The Acolyte is probably the worst tv show I've watched these last 10 years (let's says, it's equal to Fear the Walking Dead seasons 6-7-8). There's no likeable characters, the Jedis are Nerdy incompetent weak loosers and incapable of "sensing" anything with the force, all the characters motivations are more than questionable (and change their mind at every turn) and the dialogues are flat and boring. There is no fun moments at all, and we dont get to see much of what could have been fun to see... Missed opportunity here. Poor actors that never got a chance to shine.

[@darcejackson5902]

I fully enjoyed it and I’ve been watching Star Wars since the 1980’s. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@TvV1ST3D]

Completely disagree. HOTD does nothing to make me want to revisit that shit stain they call Westeros.

[@chaseazarian]

Aye to each their own, I thought I was over GoT for good, but there is a reason that show has won so many people over.

[@yasyas618]

I agree with how well homie dismantles the show, without even having to go into every last aspect of how much more terrible writing there actually was through and through. BUT! I disagree with the idea of shying away from criticizing the woke, or really most specifically “the force is female” which is a blatantly foolish banner / mission statement for the franchise. so ya, the show could/should have been better if the actors and writing are better, no doubt, but the insane marketing interviews about it being the gayest, and subsequently that equating to lezwitch immaculate conception, and a random flirtatious pick-up line at the young padawan … it’s just so weird 😂 that’s just crazy … a brand can’t be explicitly antagonistic and hostile to their audience, and in the case of SW, they literally took one of the most famous and valuable IPs in history and were like “there’s a new sheriff in town, and ya’ll are gonna need to fall in line” 😅 um no, no I don’t think we will * and all of that is to say, EVERYONE LOVES TRINITY!!! but that’s because he is BALANCED with Neo. It’s just weird how ham-fisted they’ve leaned into the “force is female” insanity…

[@chaseazarian]

Thanks for the compliment man! I just feel like too many people focus on that side of things while breaking something down, but the reality is if these shows and movies were AMAZING with the same exact cast, I don't think people would be complaining as much (obviously some still would), because good storytelling exceeds everything else. It's when people get handed the keys to a franchise they clearly don't understand, that's when things go wrong. Give me as many female force users as you want, just make them GOOD CHARACTERS lol!

[@alejandromolinac]

Huh? Lauren Chen is a political commentator who sometimes does movie reviews…. Also “complain they out a woman in Star Wars”…… people make videos on badly written characters who use “woman” as a shield for criticism….and they always cite better written chicks from the past….. the fact that you are using straw man arguments to make yourself “objective” is beyond laughable …..

[@chaseazarian]

That's on me, I don't watch her content personally, I was just trying to find the most ridiculous thumbnail I could find on here. But there are plenty of channels that just talk about "movies" as an excuse to just make a million videos about "Disney goes woke and goes broke" and it's just exhausting. Yes, they cite Ripley and Sarah Conner every. single. time.

[@scienceandponies]

It's so hard to find an honest critique of the show amidst the torrential shitstorm of poisoned discourse from anti-woke chuds. With all the folks spamming 1 star reviews before it even came out, I have to dismiss out of hand anyone dunking on it after just the first 2 episodes. It was kinda meh, but there was still time to take it places so I kept putting off final judgement. Then episode 6 onward everything just started falling off a cliff and it seemed like they just gave up trying to make anything make sense scene to scene.

[@halbleavy9900]

Disney wins again.

[@FriendlyBatDoom]

Yes it was

[@chaseazarian]

Glad you agree Friendly Dr. Doom!

[@chris424cm]

I dont mind an awesome heroine, but osha and rey aren't it. Give me a likable hero.

[@chrisreed2766]

I'm so glad I didn't watch it 😅

[@chaseazarian]

You didn't miss much Chris! I appreciate the comment though!

[@parapendejadas4913]

My god, if the sole purpose of Lesbi Headlamp was to 💩💩💩 all over SW, she accomplished that, even better than Ruin Johnson (and that's saying a lot). 😉 Now, if this is the game, Disney shoul give me 5 Mil and I will create a show 1000 years before the Crapolyte and have Darth Trans and Darth Pansexual create a vergence from the thread and give birth to Yoda or some garbage like that 👍👍🤡

[@e-satan9032]

Complaining on the title is complaining for the wrong reason.

[@chaseazarian]

I just found Lost/Found to be hilarious lol!

[@AXSofHFDS]

You need star wars and disney.

[@chaseazarian]

and talented filmmakers^. Thank you for the comment!

[@Legion-p6y]

Toxic feminist…..

[@TheKonnoisseur11]

Lost / Found😅

[@michaelschroeck2254]

Ummmm quit buying into the narrative that men hate this because there is a woman in the main role. You said that several times as of you agree with the shills. The show is bad. It’s just bad. Disney Star Wars is bad. No matter who the main character is. Maybe there is actually a handful of men who actually think women in a lead role is deplorable. I don’t know any of them nor have I ever actually seen their comments. I’ve only seen genuine criticism that the content is just bad and there is too much proof to back that up.

[@kermmettfrogger624]

1. s.w. acolyte is not as bad is fans make it. 2. I can point out all types of errors, in all the original 6 star wars movies, but I'm not filled with absolute hatred over them. 3. s.w. acolyte was entertaining & would improve if it was 24 episode tv series, if fans demanded it. 4. the actors & actresses ranged from fair to awesome. good or bad the plot original. 5. you cannot expect star wars to be exactly the same it came out in 1977. different culture, different crew, different tech. 6. some parts are good & some are bad. 7. try to accept it all, with the expectation of it getting better by suggesting ideas, instead of making pure venomous comments. 8. if george lucas hates all the new material, then he should had done his best to continue with saga instead of giving fans decades gaps of continued film material. 9. also, with the exception of "the Mandalorian", it seems as though viewers hate every single new material from s.w. 10. If you hate all new s.w. material produced by disney, why do you waste your personal time viewing & then making negative comments? 11. star wars has never, ever, been a perfect saga.

[@SonOfTheOne111]

I’ve watched dozens of reviews and no one complained about there being female leads. Stop with the straw man bullshit.

[@booska5]

👍👍👍

[@chaseazarian]

Thank you 👍👍👍

[@Alknix]

6:00 a) She never says she wants to kill all the Jedi. b) She wants to turn herself in, because she thinks her Master's task is impossible, she'll fail, and he'll kill her, but he's far away and the Jedi could protect her. She says all of that to Qimir. But then she realizes that her Master was right there, cutting the Jedi to ribbons, and he IS Qimir, to whom she'd just confessed her intention to betray him, so surrendering to the Jedi became pointless. Her new objective was to get the hell away, which was difficult to do while some bitch was kicking her, cuffing her and Miranda-ing her. That is why she fought Jecki. This isn't the mfg "Mulholland Drive", it shouldn't be that hard to figure out as long as you pay even the minimum amount of attent... oooh, that explains it.

[@filippotaricco6515]

It's not. It's wonderful! But a part of the fandom doesn't want complex storylines. The want farytales as babies❤

[@Tarquin2718]

Dude nobody complains about woman in SW. Nobody ever has. Woke has nothing to do with woman but with horrible writing a political agenda and plain stupidity

[@alejandromolinac]

He’s making dumb straw man arguments to make himself more “objective”…..

[@chaseazarian]

I've seen PLENTY of videos on here that do, so that's what I was calling out lol! I appreciate the comment though!

[@chaseazarian]

Man loves saying "straw man arguments" hahahaha

[@Tarquin2718]

@@alejandromolinac Wauw you are not the smartest of the bunch are you?

[@Scoring57]

People like you can't make objective criticisms anymore. No it's not "that" bad. The fact that you would side with the people over exgerrating about the low quality of this show already disqualifies your trash video

[@alizaidi2893]

Sorry, I couldn't get over your lame preamble about how much you dont hate women because you dont like disney Star Wars "like the others"