The Acolyte: A Star Wars Product
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I've learned that the dark helmet is made using Cortosis. Which, while sounding like something you need a cream for, fucks with energy levels from a blaster or lightsaber.
"One of the strongest minerals in the galaxy, cortosis could even withstand the blow of a lightsaber and briefly short out its blade" - wookieepedia
Episode 5 was entertaining for the most part; the dialogue and exposition is still below par (even for Star Wars). Manny Jacinto's is the only performance that carries any weight, Lee Jung-jae is not doing it for me, and Amandla Sternberg is having to grapple with two roles that are underdeveloped and poorly written; I don't think it's her fault that Mae is a stupid character who motivationally flip flops about like a fish on a pole, and Osha's character sleep walks through every scene, or seems to wake up in the middle of one. That's all in the writing.
"One of the strongest minerals in the galaxy, cortosis could even withstand the blow of a lightsaber and briefly short out its blade" - wookieepedia
Episode 5 was entertaining for the most part; the dialogue and exposition is still below par (even for Star Wars). Manny Jacinto's is the only performance that carries any weight, Lee Jung-jae is not doing it for me, and Amandla Sternberg is having to grapple with two roles that are underdeveloped and poorly written; I don't think it's her fault that Mae is a stupid character who motivationally flip flops about like a fish on a pole, and Osha's character sleep walks through every scene, or seems to wake up in the middle of one. That's all in the writing.
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Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
I would rather they hadn't mentioned the 'S' word at all in this episode.
The moths? Come on. Moths?
The sniffer beaver is gonna be the hero of the whole show. I'm telling you now!
The moths? Come on. Moths?
The sniffer beaver is gonna be the hero of the whole show. I'm telling you now!
Nanker Phelge
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This is my main criticism I think. It hasn't really moved on since Episode 2.
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
It seems to be increasingly common for TV to only seem to care about individual moments and not worry about them fitting into a whole. So characters act with no consistency just so they can have a particular moment they want.
Like shows are a series of short vignettes, rather than a coherent whole.
Maybe it has always been that way and I notice it more now?
I didn't actually guess, and for a while I thought it was going to be their mum.
I'm working on a grand unifying theory of why so much modern tv/cinema is so mediocre and it is that.... they don't spend enough time on writing.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
i just find it boring. I don't care about anything or anyone in it and I see no reason to, other than perhaps the origin of the twins, if that is ever explored. The whole thing is just so empty
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
The 'truth' Sol keeps promising to tell Osha will also be a let down. I don't think I've ever seen a character repeatedly say 'yeah, I'll tell you later' used as a form of suspense.
Did you never watch Lost?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Not all of it. I got bored.
Well, I'll explain about it at the end of this three-hour trek through the jungle during which we have nothing else to do but talk.
bemused
Well-Known Member
When you hear about a series focusing on the sith and jedi you expect a lot of action, this has just dragged along.
T & P
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Disney won’t go bankrupt because of it (and it might well be making tidy profits even though about three quarters of their SW output is admittedly quite shit. But precisely because they are unlikely to depend on its success from a financial standpoint, I really wish after Andor 2 they would have the sense to give the whole franchise a good ten-year hiatus at the least.
The same could be said of the Marvel universe, but frankly I couldn’t care less whether the franchise lives or dies- probably the latter if I’m honest.
The same could be said of the Marvel universe, but frankly I couldn’t care less whether the franchise lives or dies- probably the latter if I’m honest.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Enjoying it but finding I don’t love it. 
Do really like the aesthetic, the characters, time, and interesting argument for turning to the dark side (in the Skywalker saga it’s all about fear and loss turning to suffering and hate which the fuels the dark force) being about individual freedom (comment on Libertarianism?), and really enjoy being able to watch Star Wars without the weight of the Skywalker saga…
I just find I’m not as emotionally engaged in it like I was for Andor (which remains the best Star Wars since rogue one)…
Do really like the aesthetic, the characters, time, and interesting argument for turning to the dark side (in the Skywalker saga it’s all about fear and loss turning to suffering and hate which the fuels the dark force) being about individual freedom (comment on Libertarianism?), and really enjoy being able to watch Star Wars without the weight of the Skywalker saga…
I just find I’m not as emotionally engaged in it like I was for Andor (which remains the best Star Wars since rogue one)…
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T & P
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Agreed. And yet, we should still expect to be served quality spin-off shows even if lighter, style-over-substance ones.Enjoying it but finding I don’t love it.
Do really the aesthetic, the characters, time, and interesting argument for turning to the dark side (in the Skywalker saga it’s all about fear and loss turning to suffering and hate which the fuels the dark force) being about individual freedom (comment on Libertarianism?), and really enjoy being able to watch Star Wars without the weight of the Skywalker saga…
I just find I’m not as emotionally engaged in it like I was for Andor (which remains the best Star Wars since rogue one)…
Like Mandalorian. Which managed to get adults emotionally involved in the fate of an animatronic soft toy. And whose co-star main lead spent 99.9% of his screen time wearing a full-size helmet obscuring his facial expressions and who didn’t ever raise or change the tone of his voice, yet managed to convey far more acting emotion by tilting his head a few centimetres than just about all other live action actors in all other Disney SW series excluding Andor. And that includes the likes of Ewan McGregor.
I would actually name an exception, funnily enough also behind masks. I found the story of the Sand People in the Boba Fett series not just fascinating but surprisingly moving. But everyone else, blergh. I can’t literally remember the first thing about the Obi-Wan series.
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Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Yeah I loved the Sand people strand in that show, so cool to see them beyond the one dimensional savages Lucas rendered them as…
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
The truth is likely that the Jedi killed the witches independent of the fire started by mae. Not very exciting.
moochedit
Mr Mooched It
Yeah it's been very predictable.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Oooh, the Jedi are not goody two shoes. How edgy!
It's star wars ffs; it's fairy tale space wizards.
It's star wars ffs; it's fairy tale space wizards.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Yeah, best element of that show. Expanding the universe instead of wringing the last drops out of what we know most about already.
I enjoyed the Andor episods about the scientist too. It got slated, but I found it interesting.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Well, yeah, I'd figured that much. It would be nice to be wrong though.
Maybe sniffer beaver did for them all.
moochedit
Mr Mooched It
I think the scientist episode was in the mandalorian not andor although it was more like an andor episode in style. I don't remember it getting "slated" though. I thought it was a good episode.
ruffneck23
front left
I predict in an 'enormous' twist that Osha will become the Acolyte.
Zzzzz
Zzzzz
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Seemed like animal cruelty to me. We'll just subjugate this sentient being to righteously sniff out our foes. WTF?
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Yeah me too.
krtek a houby
Sail hatin'
Watched the third ep last night.
Well, that was a drop in quality.
how did the powerful coven get wiped out so easily? That fire spread remarkably fast. And what was Mae's motivation for starting it? She went from bratty to the dark side in the blink of an eye!
Well, that was a drop in quality.
how did the powerful coven get wiped out so easily? That fire spread remarkably fast. And what was Mae's motivation for starting it? She went from bratty to the dark side in the blink of an eye!
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