The Acolyte is Star Wars if you made an official parody. Leslye Headland is a showrunner who made a show about identical twins but refused to actually use them as actresses, because identical twins look too similar to each other. When your only counterpoint to this is that Amandla Stenberg can do it because she is a genius, You lose a lot of credibility. One expression across two characters is wild, but not as bad mysteries arent as important as how a character looks, jedi should actually balance themselves with evil and Manny Jacinto had nothing to work with, so she lucked out that he was actually good. But what do you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

Did they deprive a job to actual biological twins? How twinphobic.

Star Wars is a total stranger wearing your deceased friend's clothes, they don't act or behave anything like your friend, and they don't flush after using the toilet.

“Who cares about a birthday” If you have any modicum of care for the world building, you would care! It’s literally the most basic thing ever! A character can’t be somewhere when he isn’t even born yet!

Reminder: Brick Face thought _Frozen_ was about incestuous lesbian romance. Her RL sister refuses to speak to her. _The Acolyte_ is apparently a message/love letter to that sister. _DO THE MATH!_ But wait, it gets worse. Brick Face has basically admitted to stalking Amandla Stenberg for years after her Hunger Games role (when Stenberg was 13), and made the role for her specifically. Literally showed up to her with all the concept art ready-made, all showing images/portraits of Stenberg specifically, all before Stenberg even knew this project was in the works. Rather than notice the obvious red flags, she ran with it (and God knows what else behind closed doors). In other words, we probably got non-identical twins because *_Brick Face was thirsty for Amandla Stenberg specifically._*

How she's getting a kick out of destroying something that was once so beloved is disturbing.

The fact that Leslye Headland admits she didn't understand what Vader being "seduced by the Dark Side" means says it all. She thought this entire time that Vader was SEXUALLY seduced.

The series is built on mysteries. Like, how did these writers get hired. How much acid were they one while writing the script. How much worse can each episode get.

Andy Serkis: "I did all my scenes outside with Elijah and Sean and then everything again in a mocap studio." Vigo Mortensen: "I wore my sword everywhere I went so it would feel more natural while filiming." Leslye: "I couldn't tell the identical twons apart."

Leslie continually laughing at the end of each sentence betrays she is very unsure and/or knows she is full of it.

She seemed genuinely happy to have the wookie jedi killed offscreen.

How did Screen Rant come up with the idea that Anakin's turn to the Dark Side happened "too quickly" when it was heavily focused on throughout the _entire prequel trilogy!?_

I’ll never forget when I was a kid and saw Empire for the first time, the scene where Yoda pulls Luke’s X-Wing from the swamp was so thrilling and revealing, with John William’s score truly making it something magical. The force was not a cheap, malleable plot device but rather a mysterious character of its own, and at that point we began to see the true power of wielding it. There’s absolutely nothing memorable or mysterious like that in the latest offerings from Disney, they feel like superficial, poorly conceived, amateur entertainment. These modern creators, whether intentional or not, take the qualities that made Star Wars what it was to begin with and throw them in the garbage, presenting us their own interpretations that are unrecognizable but worse yet lack any substance to be in league with their original predecessors or stand up on their own. I don’t give a shit what diverse people are in a project, just make the forefront the quality and storytelling of the project itself and make it worthy if you’re going to attach such an iconic name to it.

How is her head so square, she looks like a minecraft character

"she was thinking emotionally" aka "she wasnt thinking"

I visited Skywalker ranch and you know the saddest thing? It has a library that houses pretty much every book George Lucas felt would help and encourage every film maker to make encompassing and emotional films. Not one of them, I fear, has taken advantage of, yet even spent time within the splendour of that piece of beautiful architecture.

in 1987, when Ted Turner the billionaire colorized classic b/w movies made by MGM, the studio he had just acquired. Hollywood went up in arms, many actors and producers, including George Lucus ran a campaign in Congress to have Ted, the copy right owners stoped. They said Turner had no moral right to alter their arts. When major football clubs decided to create Super European League, their fans rose up and calling for the owners to leave the clubs. They said the clubs belong to the fans since they pay for them. the clubs owners are mere custodians. Ultimately, the clubs backed off. If the curators of the Louvre Museum decided he could improve on Mona Lisa’s smile, Could he do it? Curators of the art has no right to alter the art. They can make profit from them, but not to alter them. Star Wars’ Universe, including characters and their stories is Art. If the woke Star Wars films were good, why didn’t they create their own art, their own Universes? They can even call it Star Wars adaptation. Why mess with someone else’s art? Fans of Star Wars should get organized and call for it’s protection against art vandalism. Disney’s share holders should be their main target.

Leslye Headland was Harvey Weinstein's fluffer... Which makes her a perfect show runner for modern Star Wars, apparently.

All that goes through their brains is lust, lust, lust, and this isn’t what Star Wars is about. We didn’t tune in for smut. Fifty Shades of Oshamir. 🤢

Someone pointed out that the helmet looks like a bondage mask.

"Mysterious on paper" is literally how you'd describe a character who is not mysterious in practice.

She...holy shit she doesn't know they're not identical twins....

"It's just a birthday." Oh, OK. So when can we expect to see Luke show up? I mean it doesn't matter that he won't be born for over a century, it's just a birthday.

the best part about this interview is the product placing in the back, I WILL NOT belive ONE SECOND that Lesbie Headlamp has any of that in her room, on low cost Ikea shelves

WOW... the Dunning-Kruger Effect.... it's LITERALLY Leslye Headland.

They are glorifying the Bad Boy, the kind who does what he wants with his power even if that means killing people... and how that's "hot"... this show is fucked up

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="679">11:19</a> I can never get over the fact that Ruby's mother named her by pointing to a sign, when no one was even there to see. So dumb.

To sum up the entire problem with these wackos is the fact she was weirded out and didnt understand that Vader was "seduced" by the dark side. I was a very young child when I first watched star wars. Ive never been the least bit confused by that word. I mean, its literally called context and its one of the basic fundamentals of written language. "Vader was seduced by the dark side" is different than "OSHA was seduced by the naked body of a sith". seduced means the same thing in both examples, but the kind of "seduction" we are talking about is slightly different. Words arent just fluid and mean whatever you want them to. Hence why we have "thats what she said jokes".

Every time you show Smylo breathing in that helmet, all I can think of is Dark Helmet from Space Balls.

Her lack of self-awareness that the things she's saying are ... astonishing. Like she's proud that she doesn't give her actors anything to work with?? Also, not knowing what seduced by evil means as a kid is fine, but beinf weirded out by it as an adult? Making Osha's moral structure crumble because of an emotional aspect would make sense if ...well, it was exactly the opposite of what we got. If her moral code breaks because she is absolutely torn for revenge against Smilo Ren instead of wanting to get into his pants. Lesley isn't aware of how transparent her lack of moral compass is to anyone actually listening to what she says and taking her at her words. Despite what her worldview thinks, having everything reduced to sexual impulse is not deep, compelling, or edgy. It's juvenile and depressingly shallow.

Frankly I was shocked that the Cantina served Bud Light.

Manny looks down at script and “what hes given” 😐 … Manny: WHAT,thE FUCK?!

This interview was so illuminating. The utter incompetence, the incoherency, all of it makes so much sense. Tell me, is there anything more that describes how worthless Hollywood is than two NOT IDENTICAL SISTERS taking the spot of IDENTICAL TWINS in a show, because the show runner is too blind and stupid to differentiate them. It's like if they were auditioning people for the role of The Mountain in GOT and picked Destiny, the streamer to play the role.

"A genius like Amandala" "The whole theme doesn't work if her performance isn't as great as it is" I could personally play the same character better without question. I am a short, fat, white guy, and i have 0 acting classes. I guarantee you i could portray black female lesbian twins better than Amandala. This is like saying someone is a math genius who can only add 2+2=4. Literally can't do any other math or add other numbers. You ask for 5×5 and you hear 2+2=4. Any person in this industry that says she is a genius and this performance is even adequate should be fired. One facial expression. Watching a hot naked guy, hearing I'm about to tell you something really important, and even accusing the guy who murdered your friends that he murdered your friends all get the same face. Genius!!

"Don't mistake lack of talent for genius" - Peter Steele; Type O Negative

What psychologists have discovered is that trauma (as in sexual, physical, or emotional abuse) when it is inflicted on children or adolescence, stunts the young person's growth trapping part of them at the age of the trauma, hence it would follow that as their body matures there remains that part of their psyche (psychology) that still views the world from the time of the wounding.

Considering this woman's professional history, and the fact that she, despite blatant incompetence, "falls upwards". Makes it impossible not to imagine that something very dirty is going on behind the scenes.

She's as smart and talented as she is beautiful. 😂

Once again, the only theme in Disney Star Wars is "ME ME ME ME ME!" By the creators and writers. They expect everyone else to celebrate their own therapy session as much as they do. But it's so hopelessly niche and repugnant to most normal people that it's just shallow tripe a middle schooler would know is shallow, preachy, nonsense written by inept but self-important narcissistic writers.

I've been rewatching the Bixby/Ferrigno hulk. Even with "silly" (but fun) special effects, its staggering the contrast of character development the first 10 minutes has to a whole season of whatever they call this.

“We want the audience to do the thinking…” said no movie executive ever….

The little kid versions of Mae and OSHA were not identical twins. Anyone who could not tell them apart has the brain capacity of a hamster.

She saw his fleshsaber and it was game over.

“The character is so mysterious that we don’t understand why we created it” -Leslie Headlamp probably

Distinct lack of books on Leslie's shelves...

It's sad that even when she grew up she still didn't understand what Darth Vader being seduced by the Dark Side meant. And then did her best to surround herself with people that also didn't know (or care).

Who would have ever thought that having George Lucas' and Steven Spielberg's pimp specifically hire Harvey Weinstein's pimp wouldn't result in quality entertainment?

Rotten Tomatoes took down all audience scores for Disney+ Star Wars shows. They probably took it down because Nielsen just posted their Top 10 for the week of Acolyte's release. It's 7th in Original with 488 (million) with less than 3 million average for those two episodes (if at 43 minutes).

So...a fatherless black girl falls for a murderous drug dealer. Stunning and brave! Just like whrn Anakin blew up the Death Ball!!

Her answers are so shallow on everything. I've seen literally fan fictions and elevator pitches has more thought put into it than this $180 Million Dollar project.

In this interview, when speaking of the two actresses playing the younger Mae/Osha she says " I was very conscious of what I was doing to these girls." We'll better late than never.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="211">3:31</a> I would have loved to see that scene from Serenity when Malcolm is asked how he can always tell Fanty and Mingo apart, and he says "Fanty's prettier"

"There wasn't enough time to make it make sense." What!?! I'll remember that 'excuse' the next time I make a chilli and neglect to boil the kidney beans.

All I can think about this is "How the hell did Leslye ever convince anyone she was at all qualified to have anything to do with a major production? Or even a small production?"

If there isn’t enough time in your 4 years of planning show. You have failed at the starting line you have tripped and fallen before the race even started

Remember back when movies were only like an hour and a half and told a complete story with fleshed out characters? The Acolyte has something like 3.5 hours of actual show after intro and credits, but I can see how they were pressed for time to have someone chase another person to two locations.

"He's ugly, he's evil, he's hot".... sounds like she's describing her former boss Harvey, isn't she?

"Don't mistake lack of talent for genius" - slogan on the back cover of Type O Negative's 1993 album "Bloody Kisses"

They should be ashamed of themselves.

Just look at Andor --- pacing, story, arcs, motivations, conflicts of interest and more for multiple characters were fully done. Yes Andor was the title character but the whole Mon Mothma arc was sublime -- showing how someone in power was having to dance between appearances and rebelling. So well done. Pacing was excellent. It was story (not plot) first and action second. They told a more compelling and interesting story in the one prison episode than we've seen in the Acolyte so far ... Showing how the prison / slavery worked, the motivations that the empire had but how much limited on resources they were. The prisoners believing they were working for freedom but that being a shattered illusion by the end ... all amazingly well written and acted - we had an amazing piece of Star Wars world building all wrapped up in a single episode.

If I was a large company who’s in the business of making large amounts of money. I would NOT keep making the same mistake again and again and again. I would either try something new, or heaven forbid ask the consumer what they actually want. Whoever’s running Disney is as bright as hockey puck in a dark basement

My favourite part was when the Jedi Master's personal assistant made sure no evidence was left behind. 😉

The Acolyte is a Shart Onion. Each layer peeled away reveals so many more below it, each getting worse. I love how Headland admits that she does not understand many elements of her own story.

The glass is empty, but some insist that it will be filled at some point in the future.

Not even 60 seconds in, Headlamp says Pudgy Pablo was her SW support, the guy who attacked everyone's favorite Man-Tear moment with CGI Luke... Of Course!

The person who arranged meatings for Harvy Weinstead was given a show with a budget that supposedly was almost 200 million dollars. This is what you are doing Disney.

How is this show a mystery, again? How is this show for kids? How is Hedland free?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="87">1:27</a> Watching Mae's face slide off her head reminded me of the end of Silent Hill F teaser trailer where that poor Japanese girl has all the flowers growing out of her. She cries a single tear, then her face peels away.

But we know Headland is lying about the identical twins in casting, because she already said Amandala was the person she had in mind when she wrote Mae and Osha and who she intended to cast and that Amandala didn't even have to audition, nor did Squid Game Guy or at least two or three other actors she cast in The Acolyte. And how in the actual fuck is 4 hours not enough time for character development? So Gone with the Wind and fucking Lawrence of Arabia didn't have enough time to flesh out characters and a plot? There wasn't enough time to flesh out a good story and to have character development in the Godfather? They need to just come to the conclusion that all of us came to when that first big ol' multimillion dollar piece of shit dropped and admit that Leslye Headland has no business writing anything, let alone being an unchecked showrunner for a 180 million dollar project.

Imagine if a male producer/director/writer said "Once we all saw her massive boobs we just had to write her character into a more important role for the rest of the show" 😂

It’s what’s wrong with Kathleen Kennedy. She looks at Star Wars as a sci-fi movie. George Lucas looks at Star Wars as history of aliens in a region of space. It really happens and these are their diaries of this group of people. You have the history of their planets all named, the Jedi all named and the time they lived in including birth and death certificates, their lineage all mapped out, the hero’s and the villains all mapped out. But she thinks it’s a made up game and that’s why she makes no money on these stories of their lives.

Acolyte is AcoShite. Acolyte is Star Wars Lite. The Farce is strong with the Acolyte.

The corporate security chief in one scene of the first episode of Andor has more character personality and motivation than all the characters in Acolyte

I actually thought they were doing all of this on purpose. Like, they were ruining the first on purpose. Now, I think they're genuinely just profoundly stupid.

It's amazing how they're celebrating exploiting men's bodies in this series, yet if it was a woman instead, it'd be one of the most extreme freakouts about toxicity ever

I don't know why this woman isn't in prison, considering her complete compliance in sex trafficking.

“Ooh, I’m being interviewed by a sci-fi geek, I’d better get myself some geek stuff and haphazardly arrange it behind me!”

the personal assistant to Harvey Weinstein - would (hypothetically) probably have enough 'leverage' to get awarded a 'license to masterpiece' any hollywood franchise. Especially Disney - since Disney bought Miramax years and years ago.

1.30 minutes in that cutting hair with light sabre scene , face falls off was so funny ……sadly it was not real as “ faceless “ showed more emotion and character than her actual face …weird weird …

The whole mask possessed by a sith and dominating someone’s mind to do its bidding is actually a plot point in an old Star Wars novel. It where Vader got the design plans for his palace on Mustafar.

"The theory crafters who try to come up with answers to the plothotes"....damn. Disparu just described MatPat in a single sentence...youch.

So bloody well wait now.... Did she just admit to basically pulling a Ghostbusters 2016 with the script writing?! FFS, this is exactly the crap we gripe about talentless hack writing.

"Wanna hold my saber? If you're really bad, I'll let you feel my helmet." - D+ Star Wars Sith, 2024.

In the 90s film The Craft the good girl becomes afraid to invoke Manon . She tells the older Good Witch _"Nancy did that and it made her crazy."_ and the woman says _"She takes Manon to a dark place."_ After examining Headlamp's thought processes you can see how aware that Craft scene actually was.

Is Osha's bizarre desire to be with a mass murderer the way that Lezzye shows us her unfulfilled desire to be with Harvey, because not even he could find anything desirable about her?

Imagine being showrunner and telling the world that his is your masterpiece. How the fuck woudl you get hired again if it so bad.

Little off topic but when I researched Inside Out 2 because my wife wanted to see it, I found a Screen Rant article bemoaning they didn’t make the 13 year old main character ‘queer’ and there wasn’t any representation. Once I saw that I knew it be a good movie. And I was right. Screen Rant doesn’t know good entertainment.

Also, someone somewhere else stated that OHSA, I mean, Osha and Mae were named after Headlamp's favourite fancy overpriced soap.

"8 episodes aren't enough for major character development." WTF?! 8 episodes of just under half an hour, so nearly 4 hours. How do 1.5-2 hour films manage to successfully develop characters in half the time? Maybe they don't spend their time looking around, walking around, saying nothing with blank faces, and being utterly useless. Just a thought for you, Screen Rant.

Am I the only one who theorized that The Acolyte is ‘the gimp’ from Pulp Fiction? Explains the scars on his back.

😑 Just when you think they've shown you how dim they are, they keep turning the lights out.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="100">1:40</a> "She was thinking emotionally". So she wasn't thinking at all...

Holy shit Batman! Turns out twins are hard to tell apart. Good god, this woman Headland…😂😂

Last surviving 'fan' clinging to the franchise "I put some thought into this and it would be so cool if..." "I'll stop you right there, I just put a chick in it and made it gay and lame." "Oh..."

“Thinking emotionally” Without showing it on her face at all. I enjoyed the clip of mouth breathing followed by the clip of the walk into the pole. 😆 Also, I felt the same way about the myth of “needing more time for character development”. It was written terribly wrong if it takes more than 5 to 8 minutes to know a character.

Maybe he is a member of the baby Ren Brigade, the way he's actually encouraging her to have a tantrum just like Ren

>Amandla the genius Come on, Leslye. Tell me you have a creepy crush on Amandla without telling me you have a creepy crush on Amandla.

I thought Headland told Stenberg that she’d written the characters of Mae and Osha specifically for her, so why did she bother auditioning several identical twins for the roles………? 🤔

Seasons use to be 13-22 episodes. If time really is an issue, quit making 8 episodes a season!!

On reflection, y'know what the Tooth Vader twist reminds me of? Hans, from Frozen. Because the two things everybody knows about Frozen are (1) that really poppy villain song, and (2) the Hans twist, or more specifically how much it sucked. Hans was not a single character. He was two halves taken from two entirely different half-formed characters for the sake of a twist villain, which is really perplexing when there was a complete _non_-twist villain in Elsa. (Search your feelings...) For Hans, two halves didn't add up to a whole, as we basically had to be reintroduced to him post-twist. Surprise, there wasn't enough effort put into marrying the two halves of the character into a cohesive singular entity, probably because most of the movie was written, and probably even animated to some degree, before the twist was conceived. That's not a character. That's the aftermath of a Kung Lao fatality. Watching these clowns try to write puts me in the mind of somebody trying to build a building from left to right. How little planning sense must you possess to squander an entire episode of your eight-episode story on perving on an actor you didn't realize was shredded until you shot _the fifth episode?_ Didn't _you_ cast him, Leslye? (And who taught you to spell "Leslie" with a Y anyway?) How little common sense must you posses to actually _admit to doing that?_