The acolyte is lesbian rage poetry.

It all boils down to *"My fetish good, your fetish bad"*

"Write what you know." "I know unconscious actresses." -Lesbian Headlamp

Disney shareholders must demand an audit: Where did the $180m go? Obviously not into scripts, costumes, production design.

Harvey Weinstein's Assistant ain't really subtle about her accomplice past through Acolyte.

My grumpy old mother would call this show, "an insult to her intelligence" and switch it off. RIP mum, I love you.

That's what headlamp knows: women being rendered unconscious and waking up dazed and confused in a strange place with a shirtless evil man.

"...the most important piece of art I have ever made." - Leslye Headland I would suggest a different line of employment.

Shirtless Qimir thinks that he's in an Old Spice commercial.

Writers: Were going to show how evil the Jedis truly are. Audience: Thank the force those Jedis were there to stop that evil witch cult.

Osha gets knocked down so much she needs a Whisky drink and a Cider drink and Lager drink and then a Vodka drink

Lee Jung-Jae, who plays Sol, is an absolute star of Korean movies and dramas and has been a dependable leading man for decades. If you haven't any experience with Korean drama, watching a half-dozen shows and films with Lee Jung-Jae is a great introduction to it. He is a class act and a solid professional.

Before the Acolyte, I'd never seen a main character change their mind so much in such a short time and without any justification.

Amandla Stenberg sucks at acting as Mae and Osha and she can't make a real distinction between twin girls despite they had lived separately after drifting apart for years.

Normally the final episode in each Disney+ show is the worst part... How will The Acolyte achieve that?

The time inconsistencies remind me of season 8 of game of thrones. People just teleporting all over the place because they need to be somewhere. It seems to be a common phenomenon when terrible writers are involved in screenplays

It makes perfect sense. Leslye Headland has a naughty list, and this is how she gets paid.

"It doesn't matter if it's good or makes sense, komrade. as long as black and brown people can see other people that look like them" - woke progressives

Everyone to EU Legends: "Perhaps we treated you too harshly."

They aimed to deconstruct Star Wars, the ended up deconstructing our intelligence.

The fact that Sol didn't detect that Mae was Osha through the Force the first few seconds of him seeing her is criminal.

I can't cope with Qimir being mightier than a dozen Jedi and he's in his twenties. Count Dooku had power and gravitas as a master of the force because was experienced, trained, and has spent YEARS mastering the force. Qi Gon also. This guy (apparently from being stupidly over-powered) is just way too young and was never established as a 'master' or big bad. I think in the writer's mind he is just so strong because he can 'let loose' with his powers because he's unleashed or some trite bullshit.

Long ago in a Galaxy far away, nothing made sense. The writing is so good, even the script writers haven’t a Scooby Do what’s going to happen next.

Evil's greatest wish is to be seen equal to good...and this show tries its hardest to force that idea home

There are legitimately good actors in this show. To be CLEAR; no hate is aimed at the real world actors. We hate the writing. Period.

The biggest mystery in this show is how squid game guy didn’t smell burnt hair from the lightsaber haircut.

I don’t believe it’s about money anymore. If it were about money someone would e stepped in.

It shouldn't surprise us that people entirely divorced from reality produce fiction which is absurbdly nonsensical and internally inconsistent.

"Make them unconscious and just drag them through the scene", so true Platoon, so damn true LMAO!

It is about the message. "There is no such thing as good or evil." and "Evil can be attractive."

Bazil exists for one reason and that is as an attempt to sell toys.

Osha gets kidnapped more often than Mokuba.

Isn’t it great when a tv-show is so chaotic, that we have no idea what is going to happen? 😂😂 What a messy pile of Bantha Pudu.

The time it takes to travel anywhere in Star Wars has been wonky since the Sequel Trilogy. They made the galaxy feel really small. The Original Trilogy had moments where they're sitting around bonding while travelling, Luke training, Chewie and R2 playing Dejarik (space-Chess). There's even a measurable wait for the Death Star to manoeuvre around Yavin so it has line-of-sight! Space felt big! There's none of that in TFA, TLJ, or RoS. They planet hop with no downtime, and people arrive in the nick of time all the time! I don't know which sequel film was worst for this. TFA had its BS hyperspace laser which could be seen throughout the galaxy and New Republic which consisted of 4 planets in the same system. TLJ had that inane side quest to the casino planet, getting there and back before the fleet ran out of fuel. I'm fuzziest on RoS since it was all flash no substance, but that ending where everyone and their brother turns up for the final space battle still ticks me off; grand spectacle, sure, but damn convenient they all made it through that super narrow dangerous space corridor then regrouped into that mess of a cloud before making their appearance. Coming from an EU Legends fan I remember they always made a point of how Luke and the Jedi would have to enter meditation/hibernation when travelling long distances in their X-Wings because it would take days to go from place to place. The Falcon has cabins because it takes so long. This maintained a sense of scale and grandeur. The galaxy was big, and the republic/empire spanned a vast number of worlds. You couldn't hop around, travel took time and planning which made it that much more meaningful. If I recall correctly, the only time this breaks down or gets a little fuzzy is in ESB where the falcon's hyperdrive is borked. I think it's implied they travel to Cloud City via sublight, therefore adding days or longer to their travel. But this works since it gives Luke time to find Yoda and train with him for a *non-trivial* amount of time (unlike some other protagonists).

But who gave Smilo those whip-like scars in the exact same episode that a shady 'good jedi' uses the first EVER seen in Disney Star Wars lightsaber whip?!?! DAMN you, Headland, and your infernal RIDDLES!

It's like they stole the A-Team storylines where B.A. wouldn't fly, so they'd find creative ways to incapacitate him and then fly to their destination.

Yoda said to a group of clones, every living thing emanates a different aurora in the force. Sol should have known who was who instantly

It's not bad writing, it's all a subversion of expectations! Seriously the plot is so schizophrenic. Feels like 20 people in the writing room.

I don't think even the CW could make something this bad.

To be fair, after working for Weinstein. Leslie Headland probably feels that waking up from being passed out and not knowing where you are is pretty normal.

Those scars are whip scars. Leslye headlands wife uses a whip lightsaber. Mystery solved

Sure it does. Stop looking at it as Star Wars, and start looking at it as an agenda driven recruitment video.

When the kid in class that eats crayons gets an opportunity to write for star wars...

J.J. Abrams' mystery box strikes again!

I disagree with drinker we don't even care about the actress. Because we're tired of female leads in Star wars by a woman named Catherine Kennedy who was pushing her political agenda on the franchise in dividing the fanbase

I can't imagine ever watching that garbage. Life is finite.

One of the most egregious signs of bad writing is the constant feeling that things happen solely due to the fact that the writer wants them to happen, instead of due to any internal logic or proper setup and payoff. You can excuse maybe one or two coincidences in a film or a show, but when it becomes the default that characters act stupid or passive despite every reason not to, the material can't be salvaged by any acting performance or money poured on special effects.

The Acolyte is a story about a character waking up from a series of naps and being very confused about it

"Qimer" as pronounced is very close to "chimera." Defined as "an imaginary monster compounded of incongruous parts," this Stranger -- not to be confused with not-Gandalf from Rings of Poop -- is just that. Very imaginative naming choices, Leslye.

The twin leads are played so robotically dully, that to have any interest in their stories and how they end is impossible. It would be like being passionately concerned about the ultimate fate of the cardboard tube from the middle of a toilet roll.

It would just be super nice if giant media companies would stop giving creative control and writing gigs to activists whose sole purpose is to air their manifesto.

no one has ever been knocked out more than the cast of SMALLVILLE over 10 seasons all of them should have CTE

Disney Star Wars does not consider time...Look at Mandalorian season 3. Mando gets captured after exploring for hours. He is going to be cooked by the weird droid. Baby yoda backtracks, gets to the ship, flies to another planet, gets Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica, flies back to the planet, they have to hike for hours to get back to Mando and he's still fine.

Total amateur hour at Lucasfilm. It’s absolutely disturbing how that company went from “Empire of Dreams” to Luke milking space cows . 😂

Whenever the Little Platoon goes in.. I just start laughing in anticipation 🤣

Season 2 of The Acolyte... well, we thought Season 2 of Velma would be impossible, Hollywood's idiocy should never be underestimated.

12:30 - This instant travel is part of Disney Star Wars. Look at how fast the ships moved in The Last Jedi. But in A New Hope, the journey from Tatooine to Alderaan is so long Luke gets in a lightsaber training session.

They need a Dallas moment and say it was all a dream and then you can forget how bad this was.

0:13 this is Disney Star Wars in a nutshell . “Interesting ideas “ that are ignored in favor of the absolutely worst idea and “subverting expectations “

It's Sybil...IN SPACE!

How does the hamster monster figure out who the person is but not the trained Jedi who have spent their entire lives learning how to read and understand everyone around them?

I'm so confused how Amandla showed more acting ability as Rue, as a child actress, but as an adult she has ONE expression.

For a show that's supposed to be all about female empowerment, the main female protagonist and antagonist sure don't have much agency in this show, and they sure seem to be getting knocked out, kidnapped, and restrained a lot. Osha has been rescued or protected how many times? Usually we call major female characters in such situations damsels in distress, kind of the very opposite of a strong female character. What has she done through this entire show that has actually made a difference to the story, especially in a positive way. Yes, you don't want your characters to be Mary Sues, but the main character's decisions and actions should be driving the plot, if they aren't then they shouldn't be the main character.

Blue Collar Loser: Independence day The Little Platoon: Dependence day

I've seen adult films with a better plot and characters. 😂🎉

Acolyte isn't Star Wars. The end.

3:00 Now that he pointed it out I just realized they LITEALLY knock her out EVRRY scene transition! 😂 that's hilarious! She nearly starts every episode waking up that's hilarious!

Disney writers heard the term character arc and drew a semi circle. Characters legit do not grow in these shows, they don't go through anything. Look at Frodo from Fellowship to King. That guy goes through it and was scarred by his journey. Hell even a side character like Théoden goes from a puppet, to being freed only to find his country in ruins and despairs to becoming a legit king of kings when riding to the aid of a country that did nothing to help him only to fall and die in battle. NOW THAT IS AN ARC!

The Acolyte makes She-Hulk look like a masterpiece.

Jean-Claude Van Damme did a better job at portraying twins in Double Impact

It’s not Star Wars anymore

There is definitely the skeleton of an interesting premise in this show, that is, the differences in philosophies between the Jedi and the Sith. One of the hoary maxims about writing villans is that they themselves shouldn't think they are villans, because everyone believes themselves to be the heroes of their own stories. If Vader and Palpatine have a weakness as characters it's that they seem a little too aware that they're the bad guys, which was never a really a problem given that Star Wars unabashedly embraces archetypes, and certainly Palpatine and Vader can and do logically enumerate their philosophies and justifications at various points throughout the two trilogies. But Count Dooku, for example, is different in that he's much more of an idealist who does what he does less from a desire for personal gain than from a genuine belief that he's on the right side of history (and also some personal gain, he's a Sith, after all). In any case, a Star Wars story with a more Dooku-like villan could absolutely work, but I think the narrative perspective would always have to remain true to the Star Wars ethic of "good vs evil," i.e., as much as the audience is allowed to understand the motivations of the villan, and as much as the villan is permitted to think of himself as the hero, the objective view of the story would always need to be presented as that villan being wrong, and the corresponding "good guys" being right. Because that's Star Wars. It's also a lot tougher to write a sympathetic or at least logical villan who is completely convinced of his own righteousness but who has flaws that he himself doesn't see, and which undermine his position so that the audience won't fully accept his reasons for acting. Much easier to just have your villan character be polite, have some scars on his back that indicate someone was mean to him, and make your "heroes" shady as hell. Then everything is nicely ambiguous, the writer doesn't have to take a moral position, and the show runner can prattle on with terms like "I wanted to *explore*..." and "we really *dug in to* the motivations..."

So this show has now dropped out of the streaming top 10 completely for week 6. Into no-mans land where numbers are not even worth releasing. Yeh, they wrote this thing with season 2 in mind, realised they couldn't stretch it out to a measly four hours and brought stuff in that was planned for season 2. They STILL don't have enough material for season 1, that's why so much of the episodes are dead air and info repeats. There won't be a season 2. This thing is dead in the water.

Other than letting us know what happened on Brandock, (personally I don’t care) this show has no story. We have two episodes left, which is about 50 minutes in total, to wrap this up, but what is there to wrap up? The witches were killed. So what. It has no bearing on the main story. Neither Mae or Osha has mentioned or hinted that they need to know what happened. Whatever happened is not motivating Mae, as she just wants to become an Acolyte, and killing those Jedi was her task. Other than the incident with Master Torbin, I haven’t seen any motivation on Mae’s part that has anything to do with revenge, she was just doing what she was told to do. The only character that has any agency is Qimir, but we don’t know much about him, and he’s literally only really showed up in episode five. I still don’t understand how this got greenlit. Where’s the quality control?

the Acolyte is a story of good being reduced to evil to capitulate to evil being given equal footing

The lack of travel time etc. is also prevalent in rings of power.

I had an argument with someone about it and they then watched it out of spite for me, hated it so much and couldn't says so and now we don't talk

Dude learned English for this role and the other weirdos didn’t even bother to watch Star Wars

With a budget of 180M$ they would have made 12 Godzilla minus 1 movies.

That "interuption" thing you guys are talking about is an old TV writing trope. It happens in most series actually. Someone about to say important info then the doorbell rings or the phone rings. And then they never get back to that train of thought. It's a "soapy" cop-out for writers because they FEAR ending or concluding plot lines (if one can call plot what Acolyte is doing).

Does anyone else find it terribly appropriate that not only does Leslye Headland announce that it's all going exactly the way she thought it would, but that - it's "just like the stories she wrote in high school?" I weep for future feature film and on-demand content.

I'm getting "L0KI" flashbacks where the fans are desperately trying to come up with explanations that would fix the script, but there's no fixing it because the people in charge are just incompetent and it's never going to happen.

I'm waiting for MauLer to get an animated Avatar like The Little Platoon. That would be so freaking cool!

Seoul, Smilo, and X23 must be great actors, because they took shitty roles and actually did something with them. They got bad writing and bad direction and are kind of fun to watch compared to the rest. I feel like i've watched his show, just from watching MauLer, Disparu, Az, the drinker, platoon, and gary going through each episode.

This cutting right at the moment someone is about to say something important is a common thing I've seen in Korean series and I hate it with every bit of my existence

Is getting unconscious so frequently good for her health?

I would love to be a Senior Disney Executive because nothing would give me more satisfaction that recruiting the 5 of you along with a few others Nerdrotic, Disparu and Snarky etc , a few decent writers and Star Wars nerds in order to develop a totally original series without “the message” limitations because personally I think that it would be the start of a new era .

Female Shreck and her whip!

Why do the comment bots use diffent names, but the same butt pic? PS, the guy cosplaying as Frank Miller's 'Nuke' painted his face in reverse, the stars go on the other side. Looks good though, it's not easy putting that on in a mirror. Happy 4th of July.

Just realized they made their black main antagonist Want to kill an Asian…

I find it hilarious that everything under the sun gets explained in monologues... While something like the tracker talking to sol or sol finally feeling the force again, happens to be the biggest mystery of the show

I really appreciate that none of these guys are resorting to dumb homophobia or woke jokes and just criticizing the writing and acting for what it is. Garbage. I love the scene in episode 6 when Osha and Mae finally meet and midway through the shot of them approaching each other there's suddenly an aerial horizon shot. Like, WTF just happened. On top of everything else, it's edited like crap. So effing amateur.

How is anyone supposed to take StarWars seriously after everything that disney has pulled, this show has only further degraded the expectations of the next movie or series

The show should be named The Asylum instead.

My theory on Mae not killing Sol back in the forest is because she’d be stranded. Remember she came with Qimir. She had no idea where the Jedi ship was located and they needed the gofer just to find that place.. Then there were ppl around when they got to the ship.. her first real chance was when they were alone on board

So after getting the message out- it took 5 minutes to reset. In that time, vernestra's team spent 20 minutes prepping their ship and .00001 seconds in transit, and arrived within inches of Sol about .001 seconds after he left.

Sounds like the writers forgot who Ohsha and May were while writing this.

You guys gotta react to Space Ice’s video on the acolyte- so good lol

Smilo Ren: Wanna know how I got these scars?

I can't believe that they couldn't even write enough material for 8 episodes. 😂