"Write what you know" Leslye: Kidnaps woman and pose nude infront of them

"I'm not easily corrupted." *Gets easily corrupted*

If I had a nickel for every time a Disney Star Wars heroine decided to forgive the dark side villain because they saw them without their clothes on I'd have two nickels... which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.

The power of Rag's's's The power of Mauler The power of Friiiiiinggyyy

"You killed that girl I kinda liked!" "Yeah but you didn't like her *that* much, right?" "Oh, good point. I forgot that a person's life has no intrinsic value beyond what they have to offer me in particular. One evil helmet, please!"

Just a quick reminder to everyone that there is still a container of Phrik floating around the galaxy in the Star Wars universe

So weird Headland wanted a scene where a man takes an unconscious woman to his home, gets newd in her presence, and then strolls out of the bath with everything hanging out before he tries to seduce her to cast off her old life and consider a new villainous career of doing whatever the hell you want, to get what you, at the cost of others.

Sad Fact: As a bridge worker in construction, the average cost of building an entirely new bridge in my state (assuming there's no refurbishing work) is approximately 3 million. That's for four lanes and about 500 ft. So every episode of the Acolyte is equal to about 7 bridges on average in the United States. (my state falls on the average mean). Not only are you getting sustainable infrastructure for at least 30 years but you're also providing work for approximately 25 to 50 people for almost a year with that many to do. All for 30 minutes of this show.

*Smilo's Darksaber got Osha acting unwise*

If only they could have added the brilliant line " TELL THAT TO YORD'S SNAPPED NECK"

"That man corrupted your sister." No Sol, I think the coven of darkside, lesbian, space witches did that, given that she tried to kill her own sister when she tried to leave. But no, blame the Sith Lord, who just lucked out on finding a child who was already conditioned to be a psyco murderer, because god forbid we hold women accountable for their evil actions in a Star Wars show.

Osha: “Sol’s strength to the Force is very powerful.” The same man who can’t sense that Mae is not Osha

It was labeled "Unknown Planet" because the writers don't know what planet it was.

The twins didn’t flip flop, they just forgot their own names.

Writer 1:How is our stalwart character going to be seduced into the dark side? Writer 2: Wowowo repeat that word. Writer 1: Stalwart? Writer 2: No, the sex one. Writer 1: ...Seduce? Writer 2: I've got an idea. Absolute Cinema. Lesley really took "write what you know" to heart.

"Prepare these bodies for burial" Um, don't you cremate Jedi?

Disney protagonists are unable to resist the urge to fall for shirtless, murderous men. No matter the events leading up to their meeting (or lack of events).

I just love how two episodes ago, every Disney shill was endlessly mocking all of us for still taking EU canon seriously, and now they keep pointing to it to defend most of the sh*t that’s happened in the past two episodes.

Fans: "His genitals are made from a material called Dongosis, it's really rare, and it can turn anything it touches into a lightsaber. This doesn't break canon because it was mentioned in this one sentence from this one book."

"It feels good to hold my lightsaber in your hand, doesn't it?"

I’m getting tired of this “jedi do not attack the unarmed” thing that this show has made up

So a Jedi Master can't distinguish between two Force users that have very different psyches, ideals and emotions, but an otter can distinguish between two identical twins wearing each other clothes? Obviously they wouldn't smell identically due to diet, environment and stuff, but still. Bare in mind, Jedi can easily recognize CLONES.

gotta love Smilo's actor putting the ABSOLUTE FINAL FUCKING NAIL in the dumbass cope of "Welllllll, Stranger's not REAAAAAALLLLY a REAL Sith! He hasn't explicitly stated-" No. He's a fucking sith. Stop carrying water for the fucking multi-billion dollar entertainment corporation which couldn't script-write its way out of a paper bag. I had to unsub from several channels over this absolute bullshit where they kept tryna gaslight the fans when we all *very clearly knew* exactly what was going on with this plot point.

Is it not the height of irony that Leslie Headland writes a scene where the male character is wearing only a robe which he then takes off in front of the female character? I mean, there's leaning into the meme, and then there's LEANING into it.

In this episode, OSHA and Mae are one motion away from easily terminating their intended targets. *Mae doesn’t for no reason, and OSHA doesn’t for WORSE reasoning!*

Sol’s ship taking off and the other one appearing immediately after is like something out of a comedy sketch. They can’t even do the most basic stuff (one ship leaving and the other one arriving at the same planet) without making it laughably stupid.

"Fun" fact: Smilo Ren is the apprentice of the green Jedi lady. It's been obvious since the last episode, because... they stole the idea from Expanded Universe. Luke was trying to fight a wannabe Sith Lady name Lumiya, who seduced and trained Jacen Solo (the original, better Kylo Ren) in the Dark Side of the Force, but she was difficult to deal with due to her using a lightwhip instead of a lightsaber. So later Luke constructed a new lightsaber shoto (a red one, for some reason) for defensive purposes and this allowed him to finally defeat Lumiya.

The problem with the way they present the Sith here is that the writers are so ideologically captured that they genuinely believe stuff like Yord arresting her and the Jedi being against the relationship (with another woman mind you) is clearly equal or worse than this sexy Sith Jedi just killing them all. They have a complete morality failure which is what's causing so many of the stupid things in this show.

The guy's name is Mog. Half man, half dog - and his own best friend 🐶

Why are you still watching this? Don't you know there are starving children in Africa???

You know, this kinda makes the Jedi in Episode 3 look far more justified. If a sith serial killer can turn a former jedi to the dark side with 3 questions and a quick glance at his abs, yeah you would need to keep force users away from the dark side by any means possible.

Jedi burn their dead. They ADR’d in that line about burying the dead because they realized they forgot to have the characters give a sh*t, and they didn’t even get the correct Jedi process.

"Maybe Osha will flip this time..." *Osha puts on helmet pretending to have a lung disorder* Yeah, she flipped alright...so much for all that Jedi training. Worst Padawan of the Year. No wonder the Jedi booted her out of the Academy. This also means neither Osha, nor Mae, have any redeeming character traits or values...so neither are worth saving.

13:00 Lee Jung-Jae continues to carry this show on his back alone. I'm glad that the cast and people in general recognize he's still bringing something to the table and I hope that this won't hurt his career prospects. If anything, it increased my respect for him. He really is just a good actor.

“His strength is powerful” is such a wonky line, only there to set up the next one.

The Shlurpolite, Episode 6: This week, Bad Shlurpo becomes Good Shlurpo and Good Shlurpo becomes Bad Shlurpo. More news at 11 after the Weather.

Writing room. - What kind of characters are there? - Stoic. That'll be all.

I really hope in the last episode they change the font for the "Unknown Planet" and write "MORDOR".

It's insane how little is accomplished in this episode.

The scars on his back are lightsaber-whiplashes because 400 years of oppression or something. Edit: I know he's not black but details historically haven't stood in the way of these show creators' stupid references.

Seriously, the writers have no idea what they had. Just make a show about Smilo. Blank face 1 and blank face 2 are terrible lead "characters".

Fifty Shades of RED! Grace Randolph is getting worked up and jilling up a storm as we speak!

The fact that that Jedi has the same name as a character from spaceballs is amazing

Palpatine had to build a whole plan and foster good will and rapport to make Anakin turn, this chick just goes "oh ok"

When this show ends, there needs to be a proper fan edit where there is a laugh track at the end of every dumb moment in this show and Pronhub music during the stalker scene.

To be fair to Sol, Mae doesn't have to try hard at all to pretend to be her sister. Both characters are so insanely devoid of personality and purpose that she could have kept up the ruse for years without any effort.

Hyperspace was basically teleportation since TFA. It's funny how people are still surprised by that.

Jecki lying there dead for one frame... Best acting in this entire show

The interactions between the characters aren't the kind of discussions adults have. These are lines taken directly from young adult books and movies. The trope that the plot can only move forward because people hold back info is getting old. Also, these women are 20 something years old and have no motivation or agency based on experiences they would have had during their lifetime. It's really thin and uninteresting.

I’m in awe of how a show can clock in at, roughly, 4 hours and a good 75% of that is useless information, superfluous information, or just butt fucking nothing happening.

Leslye should've casted someone looking like Harvey Weinstein for smilo ren for those scenes to be accurate to her experience

"Hm, a bunch of Jedi were murdered. Sol must have suddenly turned crazy and murdered all the team members he brought to the planet for no reason!" Jesus christ, that's quite the fucking leap there for someone who has no context, Mog! Also: "That's the path to the dark side." "Semantics." Fucking how!? Even a Sith would acknowledge the difference between the dark side and the light side and how they interact with the force. And if anybody was allowed to have an actual conversation, Osha would easily counter that.

So not only did he absolutely dominate against multiple Jedi knights and against a Master, he did so BLIND!!!!!!!! WT-Absolute-F! Also what a nothing burger of an episode. Also also, shouldn't Sol be freaking out wondering where Osha is? Like does he not care?

remember when fire in space was the biggest problem people had with this show? ahh simpler times.

"An Acolyte kills the dream". This is just 'let the past die, kill it if you have to' 2.0. It's ALL meta. It's ALL deliberate.

Referring to blaster bolts (or even worse, lightsabers) as 'lasers' in one's final product totally screams 'Star Wars fan'.

22:59 Mog, he's a mog, half man half dog. He's his own best friend.

In about 3 episodes we have gone from "I live for revenge" to "I'm done with this" to "I don't care what happens I just want to be with my sister" to "I actually do care and don't want to get arrested" to "I'll impersonate my sister to get revenge" to "Maybe I won't get revenge after all cause the Jedi looks sad" and mirroring that we have "The Jedi are good" to "The sith are kinda hot". What an absolute skidmark of a show. You can tell they cut and spliced a LOT of the script here because character motivation is flying wildly in all directions and people are teleporting to where they need to be.

Leslie Headland claims this was a passion project she greatly cared about, and she had over 3 years to work on it. There's not enough story here to fill 8 relatively short episodes. The entire purpose of this one is to tease things out so they could do the big reveal in the next episode. It's absolutely shocking. You can make a show that has episodes where the characters aren't doing much, and it's still telling a story. Maybe they're simply doing basic maintenance on their equipment and that allows the audience to learn more about what a routine day is like for the character, and they can do things and express themselves in unique ways as they do things. It can be "filler," but if you've got characters, just spending time with the characters itself allows you to craft a story. There are no characters here. Nobody has traits that define how they feel, nobody has a routine they engage in every day, nobody has a history that is expressed through their decisions and their actions. So we're just waiting for the episode to stop dicking around enough to tell us what the plot is, and this episode's plot is "Delay until the next episode which has a bit of plot." It's even worse than just random Mando sidequests, where he at least has to do or see something new (which is equally vapid and stupid, but at least there's a reason the story starts and ends). There is such a lack of interest in telling a story here.

I hate and have always hated a light whip because it's purely an aggressive weapon. It's not made for defence, you can't block with it, you can only relentlessly attack. It's not precise, or elegant, it can't be a tool, or have any other utility besides attacking. It's barbaric and completely antithetical to everything a Jedi should stand for and represent.

Smile-o Ren's counter arguments to Osha's accusations are pure narcissism; Yord arrested YOU, (never mind that he was following evidence and doing his job), and Jackie would never get together with YOU, (because her young life apparently worthless if she isnt with Osha).

The Thirst Awakens

OSHA'S mind this episode: "The power of one egg, the power of two eggs needing to be inseminated, the power of mannnnyyyyy!"

The extent that time and distance means nothing in this show is impressive. In the hour to hour and a half, that master Squid was in orbit after sending his message easage to the Jedi on Coruscant, the Jedi 1. Received the message and presumably unscrambled or somehow recovered it, then listened to it and realized the importance of the message. 2. Found Master Nepo and told her about the message. She seems pretty important and may have a good amount of things to do and may not be available or easy to find. 3. Master Nepo hears the message and makes a decision to send back up and to go herself to see what happened. 4. She then decides who is going with and contacts them to let them know they need to get ready to go as soon as possible. This is going to take time unless you've got a Jedi quick reaction team permanently on stand by. Given that in the grand scheme of things, there aren't that many Jedi, a quick reaction team is unlikely. 5. Master Nepo and the Jedi who are going to investigate the incident need to travel to wherever the Jedi keep their space ships, prepare one for take off. Submit a flight plan to whoever runs the airspace over Coruscant and get that plan approved. The Jedi ship then needs to clear the planet and probably wait to use a specific hyperspace lane because given the amount of space traffic on Coruscant, you probably can't just jump in and out of near Coruscant space with out the danger of running into an incoming or out going ship. 6. FINALLY, they need to actually travel from Coruscant to the planet in the Outer Rim. There's a reason it's called the Outer Rim, by the way. It's really, really, really far from the core planatary systems at whose core is Coruscant. It should take a decent amount of time to travel there! Traveling by hyperdrive, no matter how fast it is, still takes TIME! It's not teleportation. So the fact that Master Nepo and her team of Jedi can do all that in the hour to hour and a half Master Squid Game was in orbit is utterly ridiculous. This show can't even get the most simple things correct.

For anyone who's seen "A New Hope," if Mae could easily rest Osha's droid to its orginal factory settings, then why did Uncle Owen (100 years later, mind you) needed Luke to take R2-D2 to Anchorhead to have his memory erased? Couldn't he have just hit the reset button? Leslye Headland: "Consistency, what's that?"

Cheers for Fringy and Das in the Longman Inc. Editing Dungeons! You boys are quick.

Qimir’s true betrayal was when Kilnaka stole his stew recipe and passed it off as his own. I mean, that would turn me

Sole slapped the table in this episode! Where’s the wacha bring me meme with that?

1:50 Y'alls predictive abilities are waning. Obviously, the communications console won't be able to tell which way is up without a command ship nearby, and therefore the signals won't go towards the intended recipients.

Ryan is the best thing about EFAP in a looooong time.

My favourite part was when Ultron showed up and said "I wanna be a real Acolyte." 15/10 episode.

2 episodes left and we still don’t know what the jedi did wrong. This deserves to be rated lower than the holiday special

19:16 He just said "Attack me with all your strength" to her in Beaverese...

"They have no principals or convictions" - It is as they say "a character is only as smart as the writer". A writer with no morals, principals or convictions is going to have a rough time writing a charcter who has them.

remember The Holiday Special? Wookies are known for their excellent cooking. *Stir whip, stir whip, whip whip stir!*

Jedi Master with the power of the Force, which can detect unique life signatures and read minds Versus One Sniffy boi

This is written as a soap opera. As the Unknown World Turns. Days of Our Jedi Lives. All My Padawans. Guiding Force.

This episode would have been greatly improved if Osha said "Tell that to Yord's snapped neck." If only

What a bizarre, excruciatingly painful to watch episode of television this was.

sooo he asks her if it 'feels good?' when she's holding on to his two handed lightsabre... and 'instructs' her how to hold it better for a 'quicker block' and she doesn't turn it on... what you doing disney i mean really

I can just see them having smilo be plagues’ master, or worse, he names himself plagues and retcon everything, including him being a muun

These god awful Disney shows are designed to be watched once and never again. There's no longevity, after you learn what the "great mysteries" are there's no point in repeated viewing. Honestly the only way I'm able to follow the acolyte is by watching you all shit on it. Keep up the good work. 👍

Confusion is their replacement for a mystery. But it isn't.

Osha and Mae have no conviction.They keep switching motivations so easily

This is perfect, just perfect. People are telling me that this is actually good. I say Osha is an 11 out of 10 on the Padme-murderboner-skale. If it really takes not more than this to convince her AND she falls for Smilo because hot, then i think there will be a switch in the end: She's the evil twin and Mae, who actually has a reason to hate the Jedi (because it's 100 % clear they are responsible for the death of her mothers), will see that things are not that easy and repent. And Sol is just an idiot.

Nobody can convince me that this pointless episode wasn't made in strong part for Headland's wife to get a sort of girl boss moment with her whip and a chance to embarrass/emasculate a scrawny white male character. Since, despite how bad at writing they all seem to be, they couldn't find a way to shoe-horn her into the finale that didn't cut time for the Osha/Mae OC fanfic. That, and to force Green Bean's character into the script to have her on set needlessly again so she gets paid more for her time. This Green Bean character has never served any purpose to the plot, most could have been cut, and what remained could have been done through a hologram conversation, filmed in a near empty set against a green screen delivering basic orders to Sol and co. The other reason this episode exists is make Osha and Mae's incomprehensible characters suddenly change motivations for the 100th time to set up the last two episode set pieces and story beats that Headland wants to ram into this show (like some awful shipping with the bad boy trope) and IP, regardless of making a lick of sense with anything else she's Frankenstein'd into this corpse.

The twins are going to flip and Smilo is just a Sith apprentice looking to have his own so he can take HIS master who is actually the REAL BBEG ...which will be Saber whip lady or one of the twins mothers. Just what i sense is going on because this is textbook Filoni writing 101. He's done this multiple times throughout Clone Wars and Rebels and i see no reason for them to change formula now.

20:08 “These paper clips are absolutely perfect for tinkering with any machine I’ve come across.”

Coruscant to Outer Rim?...eh, we'll be there in seconds. Violations of time and space alone is enough to warrant this series as non-canon by default.

Still waiting for Mauler's KotOR streams. Would love to hear his opinion on what most consider one of the best EU stories. Can't believe he hasn't played them.

The most interesting thing they've probably done with Smilo Ren is briefly address the idea that the Jedi are "less than human" because of their practice of shunning (it's supposed to be controlling but seldom comes across as such) their emotions and attachments. Of course, this has been much more thoroughly explored in EU material, such as KotOR 2.

People say Anakins turn was quick af Took Palpatine years of eroding Anakin's faith in the Jedi and give in to the dark Osha sees Qimir's 'lightsaber', feels it throbbing in her hand. We dont know exactly how long she was there but its filmed like she turned in less than a day Also note, a powerful man takes the sister of woman he's "raised" since she was orphaned, now doing the same to her sister after kidnapping her. Is this empowerment?

His "strength is powerful?" That's not words. You can't grammar that way.

8 Jedi were killed on Kofar, so we should take 4...Vernestra logic...

This is probably the first time ever for me, where a show could have done better without the main plot. That being the twins plot. Take out the Twins, the lesbian witches, and make Smilo the main bad guy, keep the mystery who done it through the entire season, and you have yourself a significantly better story by default.

On an unknown planet The Island of Mêlée The Secret of Floompy Island "Hi! My name is OSHA Threepwood, and I want to be a jedi!"

The Acol-izers. 🎶Bazil the Kungfu Beaver🎶 Maybe the writer thinks sensory-deprivation means it blocks mind-control. It's obviously not SD, it has eye-holes and ear-holes. The grinning teeth make it look like a Hallowe'en mask.

Imagine if the second Jedi ship had arrived just two seconds earlier and they'd both become space dust when the first crashed into it entering hyperspace? Funny how -Venestra- Handsome Squidward didn't need a guide. And just for a little extra soul crushing, based on some estimates I've seen online an episode of DS9 was about 2 million. That would make it roughly 4 million adjusted for inflation today. That napkin math would make these 8 episodes the equivalent investment to *45* DS9 episodes. Meditate on that.

Queue the 🌽 Hub music. Lesbian Headlamp took "being seduced by the dark side" the absolute wrong way.

I think Disney Star Wars is channelling serious 'I can fix him' vibes here.