I love the fact that they tried SO HARD to portray the Jedi as the bad guys, and it backfired miserably. They have no concept of what writing actually is.

Jesus what a smug, self satisfied person in the intro

That quote at the beginning from Kotaku girl has already been proven false; the leaked Disney interview video says that there is a company mandate to exclude white men in upcoming projects.

It's insane that killing a lady turned demonic smoke monster then indirectly killing the other witches, who possessed a Jedi to kill his friends, somehow shows the Jedi as being bad guys...

Kotaku aren't clowns, they're the entire circus.

Their argument is always the same: "audiences hate diversity". We don't hate diversity, we just hate crap. People didn't care about diversity or even noticed it when the stories were good, but the moment they called attention to it and made stories all about the gender or race of a character, people got annoyed for good reason cause the quality of the stories went downhill.

I don't know what you expect from 14-year-old writers who live in adult bodies.

I said this after South Park missed the boat with Kennedy. This isn't incompetence. This is a new religion.

Forced inclusivity isn't natural😂

The Acolyte is what happens when moral relativism takes narrative form. There is no one to root for in the show, because the very idea of virtue is an unfamiliar concept for a team of writers and producers who are able to coast off their identity, as opposed to what they can contribute to the world.

Calling it right now: the finale will answer no questions, and everyone will say "what the fuck was that?" Headlamp will then say: "See! It's a successful mystery! Everyone is asking what the fuck happened! That's why we need a season two."

This attitude toward the Jedi, reminds me of the same mentality of Communist China, against the Buddhist monasteries and Tibet.

When did all the progressive women decide to walk into their preferred salon and tell their hairdresser “Give me the Morgan Wallen”

She truly is an example of "if I can't be the best, I sure as hell can be the worst."

"The industry is diverse naturally. Nobody is making them be diverse." The SBIs of the world would disagree.

“When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master.” “Only a master of evil, Dereck.” 😂

Alyssa is the last vestige of the Buzzfeed Outrage click business model. The Less attention given to her the better. She craves attention and her takes are solely designed to get engagement. She best handle not with Breakdown her views and honestly engagement, She deserves total apathy.

Kotaku just trying to stay relevant! I feel like the only thing Frosk 2.0 learned was how to stick around longer …

I'd love to see this chick interact with the "urban disenfranchised minorities" that she thinks she speaks for without calling the cops...😂

If my company was financially failing as deeply as Kotaku is, we would have closed our doors years ago. Because of that, when some employee exhibits contempt for our customers/the general public, it forces my leadership team to terminate that persons relationship with the company. GO media is literally throwing investor money in a bonfire until the fire eventually turns to coals and embers and runs out of money to waste. It defies all explanation that such a high profile media enterprise can be managed so poorly.

What Baggage Claim is talking about is literally a classic Star Trek episode where Kirk gets split into 2 parts that are both technically Kirk but missing key pieces, and neither of them can function correctly alone, so they have to reunite. They did the concept better and cleaner in 50 minutes than these hacks have done in 4 hours.

Kotaku: "In defense of child grooming"

Force-sensitive twins growing up in totally different ways, only for their stories to intertwine because of the Jedi. Now where have I seen that before?

Making an entire characters personality - I am black / a woman / gay, and focusing on only that will guarantee the failure of the game / film / series. Audiences want to be entertained by complex stories that make sense, free from implanted messages with a strong focus on the quality and consistency of the worlds lore. If all Game studios / film studios / TV channels wrote that at the top of every script we would have good media.

I'm a woman, and I've been a fan of primarily male targeted franchises my whole life, Star Wars, TMNT, Transformers, Batman, etc. I never needed them to cater to women. I liked them how they were, and all the changes made to be "inclusive" have just driven me away.

4:25 If the Witches were in fact just knocked out like Kotaku says, that means Mae has even more blood on her hands, because surely they all died when the fire she caused destroyed their fortress and the Jedi are even less culpable for the massacre of the coven.

I foresee the acolyte getting the Willow treatment

It doesn't matter if the content makes no money... it's the propaganda costs disguised as a business. I've been tormenting my head all this time getting around why all content is so bad. They don't want to make any money. To them it's just paid propaganda.

I tip my hat to you kind people for trying to save Star Wars (and Marvel, etc.). I for my part, have now learned to turn my back on the Sarlacc Pit that Disney has become and have mentally moved on to a new world.

Mauler quickly phrasing the chant as "The power of one too many" perfectly sums up how this show became written like this.

The Jedi never say only their spirituality is valid, and anyone who has watched the franchise over the years would know that.

That video clip in the beginning showed a portion of the mindset of these types of people: crazy and misguided.

After the prequels and clone wars, Jedi bad is not subversive anymore. Having the Jedi being paragons of good and living up to their ideals would be the most subversive plot and probably a really good story

Indara channeling her inner Trinity to disconnect the cult of witches from the Matrix and they fall down like puppets with strings cut off.

There was a time in that beloved "galaxy so far far away" when the characters were mostly a Wide Variety of alien species and a few humans who would do "something important". *Now* , since Disney took the reins, there are very few aliens on screen in exchange for a Big diversity of humans with ridiculous clothes and hairstyles, which do not match Star Wars and who do little or nothing for the plot.

It's pretty obvious that the creators of this show have a different view of morality than some people on this planet. Or should we say most people on this planet?

I never got the idea that the Jedi are some sort of oppressive religion. I'd have to imagine if you're overseeing the peace of an entire galaxy you have to have a level of tolerance to the uncountable number of different cultures and aliens you'd find across the galaxy.

Don’t worry, Kotaku won’t be around for much longer

My cat took a greasy, rancid Acolyte in her litter box. It doesn’t stink as bad as this show, tho.

The last time Kotaku was relevant, Mass Effect 3 hadn't been released yet. And it fucking shows.

Modern entertainment is like a bachelor party organised by your over-protective mother, up to and including the part where she resents you for no longer wanting to go to the party, because she's already put in so much effort after you specifically asked her not to.

Still waiting for that "Frozen meets Kill Bill" thing to make sense

When the actors you hire aren’t having fun portraying the characters you’ve written, then there’s a huge problem. There’s NO enthusiasm for their parts whatsoever.

The smug on her face says it all. Feeling like moral knights and looking down on everyone else.

This show is evidence of what happens when you hire people by checklist instead of hiring according to actual talent and experience.

Instead of Sol not having a Padawan because he’s…not ready?…it could’ve been because he failed to intervene when his former Padawan was in trouble, and it cost them their life. Now, he’s unable to stand by and do nothing, even if he’s being a bit emotional and delusional with attachment. And Torbin could’ve been troubled by premonitions of a dark chasm that come true when he’s mindgraped and sees what the witches worship. Might be why he spent so much time meditating, as the chasm gets bigger over the years. There. Simple, quick and dirty fix. It puts fault on the Jedi for their actions, but it gives credible motivation.

Harvey's PA would see the Jedi as the villains.

A few minutes ago, in a safe space five blocks away...

Merecunty doing her best Dr. Ian Malcolm cosplay.

Outfits like Kotaku are most of the reason why nobody trusts or respects gaming journalism to begin with. The jedi did almost everything right. The only mistakes that could be laid at their feet is that they dared interfere in cult business to REQUEST permission to test their children and to show up with more than one Jedi when it came time to pick up the one child that had tested positive and expressed a desire to go with the Jedi. Meanwhile the space witches demonized the Jedi as part of their educational practice, acted defensive when they showed up, lied to them about the presence of the children, then instructed the children to lie during the test, hid the children away when the time came for one of them to be handed over, assembled in an armed and belligerent mob when the Jedi showed up as expected, menaced them. During that fight a whole bunch of them team up to literally mind-control one of the Jedi to attack his friends. They couldn't have made the Jedi more in the right if they tried. Apparently all the Sith had to do to be the poor suppressed underdogs was to recruit only women and have them bump uglies at night. Instant recipe for justice. What they could have done was show the Padawan as the naive recruit and the other Jedi as the jaded, arrogant cop types. After millenia of Jedi supremacy they started taking rights and liberties that seem utterly out of bound (each of them established in response to some tragedy and valid for that specific situation, but being too broadly applied because the Jedi have been unchallenged for so long), have the Jedi apply those rights to a community that didn't opt into their oversight or agree to their stewardship over the Force and Force sensitive children and have that go terribly bad in a situation where all the signs pointed to crazy space witch Sith cult when, in reality, the signs were simply misleading or badly interpreted due to the defensive and confrontational attitude of the cult leader. A sort of "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" kind of deal.

The idea that the Jedi could sometimes be arrogant and morally questionable was at the heart of KOTOR. Its not 'new' or 'groundbreaking'. Just like the Cortosis they made smilo's helmet out of, all that was done in the Acolyte is rip ideas out of already established lore and sew them together to create a Frankenstien monster and then slap a 'Star Wars' sticker on it.

I've been a gamer for 40 years and I can proudly state I have never clicked on/read or watched anything created by Kotaku except for clips my favourite youtubers put in their videos. Everything is much clearer if you avoid mainstream media of any sort.

"The world is diverse." Yea. The 50% Asian world is diverse.

It's a testament to how bad the writing is on this show that it was unclear to people whether all those witches were killed or knocked out. Something that straightforward wouldn't be the least bit vague if any real effort had been put into making this show.

Mercante looks like Steve Martin in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. "May I use the bathroom please?" "Of course Ruprecht" "Thank you".

If smug had a profile picture, it would be that thumbnail.

Many star wars stories have depicted the Jedis hubris and dogma as the cause of their downfalls. Some of the best stories tackle this, such as KotOR 2. The Acolyte does not cover this topic. It thinks it does, but it doesn't understand the Jedi or basic storytelling well enough to do so.

“There are some who call me… Tim.”

Kotaku really is the new Buzzfeed. Shallow, printing outright lies and mistruths and just the worst when it comes to journalism

Yodas' explanation of the Force in Empire will always be my cannon. Luminous beings are we...

They don't think they're making entertainment. They think they're having a (one-sided) conversation with the viewers, but we're not comprehending what they're saying

So funny the "power of many" was defeated by Triinity. lol.

Raising my hand .. what's a Kotaku? .. is it something my exteminator can handle

Witches VS Patriarchy 😂🤣🤡

When you make a product your customer doesn’t want, blaming them for not consuming it is peak delusion.

Kotaku are just cheerleaders at this point for The Message, and see any criticism of substance to be an attack on their ideology rather than just actual reviews.

Fetid Sarlacc Pit sounds like a good name for a band.

Oh man this SO GOLDEN! "The power of one too many." That one's got me rolling! 🤣

The Acolyte makes the Phantom Menace look like a master piece.😆

Torban being wided-eyed and seeing the jedi as heroic doesn't work though. Remember, they are trained from very early childhood specifically to clamp down on such emotional aspirations. Because. Ya know. Dark Side.

The way Theory's window lines up with the backround characters arms is a nice touch lol.

"The Acolyte is about the Jedi's hubris." If they had any understanding of the Jedi they would know that you cannot be a Jedi if you are blinded by hubris. These people don't know what they are doing.

It is becoming more blatant every week that the Acolyte writers did not read each other’s scripts. The level of contradictions between episodes and from the beginning to end of the series is insane.

That guy in the orange glasses is high af.

To be brutally honest, I thought Kotaku went under ages ago, so when this article came out my first thought was just "they still exist?"

Honestly, Kotaku has been bankrupt for years... it's an organization entirely run by activists and only kept alive by people working for free and minimum wage

That thumbnail tho. Thats the face of the deviantART/Tumblr/Jr High-set's "Its Better To Be Hated Than Ignored" movement.

If mother Anassya had only said right from the start ''Osha can go with you if she choses to, '' _nothing of this whole shit would have ever happened!_ They all died because they didn't post a memo on the fridge. This is textbook bad writing. And they wonder why we despise that crap.

Theory looks like his hand is on the desk during the whole video 😂

The Drinker shows that "diversity" can be done properly... Look at the man's panel! Cheers to you Drinker 🍻

"Make me a sandwich" is an effective defensive maneuver against an aggressive dishwasher.

I thought the Jedi fell from grace because of a secret plan to kill them from behind. Maybe I watched the wrong movies.

Great chat! I especially value the insights from Baggage Claim. Wish she was on more often!

Great panel. Baggage Claim needs to be on here more for sure.

Kotaku needs to worry about their own future right now. And we didn't watch it wrong, The Acolyte episode 7 doesn't make any sense. 💯🎉

Did you have to pick that most puпchable face to appear in my recommended?

Great conversation with good ideas. I agree with Baggage Claim when she said 'what if the coven was in charge of a governing body? '

I can't unsee the fact that, one Tyrone joins the conversation, Theory's panel moves and it looks like he's got large arms and a drink, the whole time.

Darth Derek would be an AMAZING character for a prequel series. he's a sith that predates the rule of two era, and he's basically a smug smarmy dick that is full of himself and even the other sith hate him. like "oh god... NOT Derek!" and he creates trouble for protaganists and the sith alike, his ship was stolen from his master, he participates in smuggling, blows the profit on rediculous things, he jsut lives life to the fullest and uses the force to troll people AND get his way, the only time things ever get dark is when he DOES get serious....

None of the Jedi act like Jedi.

Oh they're not dead, they're sleeping. Dreaming of happy places with candy rainbows and licorice unicorns.

At this point, I'm convinced Mae is just mad Squid Game doesn't want her as a padawan. Hence her hesitation that shouldn't be there because she wants to kill him. Even though this itself wouldn't make sense because Mae didn't want to leave. I do agree, there is an interesting premise to be had here with the idea. However, these people were clearly not even close to beint qualified to do it. Even in the prequels there are clear issues with the Jedi and their mantra of essentially trying to be so stoic it'll cause any normal person to snap. Where Anakin was seeking how to handle the concept of loss, something he already doesn't handle too well, Yoda's advice was not exactly helpful. A typical person may have responded with "Shit, just enjoy the time you have left with the person." not "Welp, that's life better mentally prepare how to deal with it."

After yesterday I have no patience for these people

Star Wars cannon is that women have no accountability

I don't think the coven was supposed to be depicted as pure good and the Jedis weren't supposed to be depicted as pure evil. However, they have botched it and made the Jedis more sympathetic than they intended and the coven less so. I think the narrative is meant to be about the Jedi being prejudiced, but not malicious. They didn't fully commit to that, but also they probably expected the audience to be more sympathetic to the witches. The witches were shown to be bigoted and dishonest as well as aggressive in Episode 3.

"I'm so happy that's it over" No my friend, it is just beginning

Looks like the Jedi were also led by women, lets not forget that.

The point the prequels made was that the Jedi had become COMPLACENT, not evil. They were off course, not completely turned around.

If Indara didn’t kill the witches, the roof caving in from the flammable rocks probably did

"where the hypocrites at? what community feel they're the only one relevant?" -kendrick lamar