Counterpoint to one of Maude’s arguments: Casual viewers don’t know that’s Plaugueis, because they don’t know who he is. They don’t have to. They just have to know there’s an even creepier guy lurking behind the scenes. It’s a thread to follow when and if the story continues.

I don't really think it was necessary to write in Osha's "anger" or "hatred" into the show. As someone who has to mask a majority of myself, I know firsthand what's it like to have to act like everything is okay, all the time. Which is the position that Osha has ALWAYS been in, from the first episode. She didn't want to be a witch and was never pious enough to be a Jedi. It's a kind of a Goldilocks situation. The Stranger was just the right person to draw out Osha's true potential.

Why is Maude nitpicking every little thing? Like I don't get her complaint about the helmet scene in the beginning. There were never any rules saying that the person using the helmet can't use the force on other people. In fact, Qimir does exactly that. It just prevents other force users from entering your head, not from you entering someone else's head. Or complaining about Yoda at the end? He's alive during that period, one of the masters, is a fan favorite, and is a good character to tease for the next season as he can provide guidance for Venestra. I'm sorry I just hate the automatic kneejerk negativity.

I feel like everyone is forgetting the point that to the rule of two is secrecy. For Qimir to just announce himself as sith goes against everything he apparently seeks. He said "You would call me a sith....." because a jedi would. I don't think he is an apprentice. He is a fallen Jedi who continued training in secret. If that is Plageus then he would still be Tenebris's apprentice scoping for Cortosis and finds Qimir.

You guys are assuming a lot and running with it as facts. Osha is the acolyte, clearly. Qimir is likely venamis, a sith apprentice. An apprentice would seak an acolyte to overthrow the sith master. Plagueis is likely also a sith apprentice in this timeline under darth tenebrous. Why should they reveal everything within season 1 if they're pushing for a season 2..?

24:21 Why would they formally introduce Darth Plagueis and tell us his origin story on top of the current Acolyte story in the first season? They gave us a glimpse of the ACTUAL bad guy and will show us more if we get season 2

Am I the only one that felt heartbroken for Osha when she bled the crystal? It was like watching her lose her soul.

Yay, another episode of "Let's Spoonfeed Maude!"

I just wish...Maude would address her nit-pickiness, it would have made her complaints more tolerable

I was pretty sure the saber Osha bled WAS Sol's saber. You mention it would be cool if it was... I am quite sure it was. His was the only blue saber in that fight, and we SAW IT start blue, and turn red when she turned it on after that.

This feels like they are upset every storyline wasn’t finished. While ignoring the fact that it’s a TV show trying to create long term storylines if you finish season 1 of any show with every answer why would you want to watch a second season?

Starwars fan 2022 "Andor is well written but so boring there are no light sabers or jedi! I just want cool light saber fights, screw the story." Starwars fan 2024 " the Acolyte is crap worst star wars ever the storyline makes no sense but wow are the lightsaber fights so cool!"

I get its not the best but Muade is maaaaad the show is like a 7 - 7.5/10. If he can use the force to see while in it I think the cortosis just stops mind reading

Peeps we criticize films for feeding us answers as we are dumb. When a show lets us figure out that that OSHA is struggling and will make the turn now is a problem that they didn’t esplain this?

8:42 the kid who always has to be right in class energy 😂 Brandon’s just like “wtf?”

I just feel like there is at least 2 episodes missing from the show

Maude, ive defended your criticism in a lot of these episodes. But you just said to show not tell then, said i wish she wouldve said one line when bleeding saber. Give me some firepower when defending you love ❤😂

Venestra doesn't know about the vergeance, Sol never said anything about that cause he didn't have proofs he said, she probably told Yoda what happened, the lie she had to say to calm things with the senate and that she thinks her ex padawan is responsible, a fallen Jedi, no Sith to worry about

Was Maude up to Write and Direct this season and didn't get it? Why the salt? Still love the content!

Maude reviewing Star Wars is the reason I'm here. Someone who loves the universe and is not blind to the problems. Thank you for your honest opinions.

I hope season 2 opens with the reveal that its actually Yaddle shes speaking to

I really believe there was nothing for Maude that would have made her love the episode. Her words for this entire series was, “I would have wished…”.

The moral of the story is that Osha wanted a lightsaber without being a Jedi.

Maybe the helmet doesn't block the force in the way the witches connect to it. Also, I think her choking Sol WHILE bleeding the kyber is her channeling that anger. We can't expect her to display her anger the same way Anakin does.

I think Maude is overly negative - seems like she’s looking for reasons not to like it as much. Causes inaccuracies. For example she stated she wanted more emotion when Osha turned like Anakin. But there was none at his turn. No yelling and screaming when he turned and killed Windu, or the younglings or when he first arrived on Mustafar. It was actually very similar until he faced Obiwan.

If Qimir had manipulated Ohsa it would have been a pale imitation of Anakin’s fall. I like how in this situation the Jedi were exactly what Anakin would accuse them to be falsely. Osha didn’t need a push.

You don't need to know who "the mysterious" person is. We didn’t know who The Stranger was. He is just big and bad.

Qimir did tell Mae that his Master collects things. He just didn't tell Osha about his master

Did anyone else think that the person that Vernestra was talking to, on the comlink on Corusant, sounded like Palpatine?

New drinking game…drink when Maude says, “What would have been…”

**PRETTY LONG MESSAGE. DON'T READ IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO** Maude's responses are starting to display, someone who invalidates others' emotions or how they would handle certain things in certain environments, other than their own. I recognize this with how she describes how Mae and Osha should react in their environments. There are alot of people in this world who handle their life and emotions DIFFERENTLY. And this may not be the case for Osha, but there are people who know how to control their emotions or repress them, even when they have dealt with extreme situations or environments. A lot of people control or repress their emotions in different ways, and there are others who end up becoming implosive. Which implosive is what I got from Osha, and even that could be displayed different ways that may not always be spelled out, and can catch someone off guard. Not everybody is going to show the signs like Anakin Skywalker. Some people can tell you they're angry and still show restraint, and I mean alot or restraint. And to mix in with that, we come to this crossing point where we can't always do the same thing when it comes to someone's emotions in movies, or shows, because we should be showing variety. At the same time, we end up having this bias towards how people should conduct themselves, because we become too oblivious about the variety and nature of people, and are not accepting as we pretend to be. Maude really takes it home like it's a complete shutdown on how someone should be. People are not always the people you read in books or you see in movies or shows of the past. People are people, and that complication of people is rarely explored because we have our own bias. The dialogue, yes, may not always be great from the series, but how the people reacted or acted in the series is not different than how many people act in the real world. And I applaud Brandon everytime he came on this week, for this segment. It always seems like he tries to observe and understand people's nature when observing.

Doesn’t anyone remember Mae asking The Stranger about his master, and he says, “he likes to collect people!” THAT IS PLAGUEIS!!!

Aniseya and the Senator: You’re self righteous noble intentions are going to lead to ruin. Maude: Venestra still lying is stupid. Facepalm

when i tell you, i was waiting for this vid to drop today because break room after shows are how i get through a rough day at work 😅 love you guys !!🤘🏼

Maude has a habit of looking for the negatives first in everything she reviews on this channel (And at times her snarkiness was downright spiteful)…. This show had some high highs and some low lows, and I wish she would have mentioned the highlights more - it would give more credit to her criticisms. Poor Tom was visibly uncomfortable during some of her barbs, making this another panel with Maude that was hard to get through.

Maude wants a 5 star course meal.. Spoon feed to her lol

Ima sorry but respectfully, I disagree with everything Maude has said. Why would I want every question I have answered in the first season??? It makes people want to watch the next season. It’s not perfect but definitely better than she has made it seem all season.

Someone needs to erase Maudes' memory lol

I don't like The Acolyte much, BUT - 'It would have been better if Osha bled Sol's saber' - she did. - The Plagueis cameo is clearly set up for future seasons (if we get one). Putting glimmers of future story lines in a finale has been a standard for shows since TV has existed. I don't get the issue, other than 'I want everything explained to me now, instant gratification style'. The casual audience doesn't need to know his identity, they can have fun speculating over it. - During the Osha-Qimir vision, his eyes were black the way that receding hairline jedi's was when Mother Anaseya was projecting into his head, so it's reasonable to presume Osha is projecting to him. It is established that Cortosis blocks the outside from coming in, but not vice versa. Nothing suggests that force powers cannot be used from within, so there is no inconsistency. -'Osha was contained with her emotions the whole time' - no she wasn't. She expressed clear rage and cried multiple times throughout the episode. Not sure what you wanted from her here?

I cant make 20 minutes this entire season. Of these reviews, have your opinions but what a Mood killer. Why would i want to finish the video let alone sit through the ad read. Be Critics all you want just realize you alienate a potion ofnthe audience who wants to be here and now wont.

I had a lot of issues with the show but mainly just the writing. Also, At the beginning Osha told Qimir that she could see Mae with her hand outstretched to kill Sol, and we took it at face value because the next thing we see is Mae reaching to taze Sol with Pip, but upon a second watch, i think she was actually seeing her future self when she kills Sol, because her and Mae are technically the same person and her force choking him makes more sense as the "hand outstretched to kill him" vision she saw because despite looking identical, she had no reason to believe it was herself.

idk what Maudes problem w this show is... I think its good. Not something thats gonna get an Oscar but its good for Star Wars TV.

I enjoyed the frank discussion, and I LOVE Maud's X-wing shirt

Maude is totally right! LOVE her so much! This show needed a bit ....'more'. Underdeveloped characters and plot points scattered all over the place. I like the show but I really wanted to love it. The fights were the best part but need more cohesion to get excited about future seasons.

I'm fine with not knowing everything that's not a negative to me

During Osha's and Mae's witch ceremony in Episode 3, an unknown person was standing off to the side. When the Jedi arrived, this person immediately left. Could this have been Plagueus?

Thank you for all the points. Great panel.

Video awesome. Together, you are awesome. Maude , you are amazing. LLAP 🖖

Venamis is an excellent light Saber duelist and we see it with qimir. He moves unpredictability and with precision. Ppl assume he's outclassed by sol but it's literally the same thing as Palpatine vs mace windu. It's strategic for them to fake being vulnerable to turn a light side user to the dark. How do ppl not catch this..?

Maude is in this! I'm watching!

😮 the core problem with Star Wars as a movie or television franchise is that they made it too dependent on the core story of the original three movies and the characters in it. Rogue one and Andor are really good shows but general fans for some reason cannot get behind it. Obi-Wan, I will admit was kind of rough, did better because it is a Star Wars original character based movie. Solo the movie in general did not get a good reception because it wasn’t a character that the audience recognized obviously, the character was Han Solo but the actor didn’t look anything close to what Harrison Ford looks like, and they were taken out of the fantasy for them

Worst take by this channel since I started watching. This was awesome and everyone's biggest complaint is quite literally that we didn't get enough...

It was pretty freaking obvious Venestra was seeing the past crime scene when they landed

I liked the show, and usually disagreed with Maude on previous episodes, but most of her criticisms in this one I agree with. The type of screenwriting 101 issues that she has with the show are something that’s plagued nearly every Star Wars project going back to at least the prequels, but that doesn’t excuse them, and instead only makes it more important for the fanbase to let Lucasfilm know they’re fed up with it. That said, it really really feels as though the issue here wasn’t that the script was lazy, but that it was overwritten by too many cooks, likely being a victim of the studio system.

I loved the show, the finally felt very cinematic

My favorite alien species from this show is definitely the Skura. I’m surprised y’all didn’t mention them, they’re just small and cute. Rayencourt’s read of the Jedi is 1000% accurate. I also agree with the points Maude brought out, the show could’ve put out more.

Maude basically wanted the same SW and cookie cutter scenes of Sith manipuation that we all seen before. Gladly we didnt get that. I'm sorry nothing she nitpick about was original.

Maude, as always on point. See, you can be a nice person and dislike and criticize the show. That's called having an opinion.

Maude, it’s only 8 episodes. They can’t show everything. Is it so hard to believe that an older padawan (Osha) had a hard time and anger issues because what she went through with her family? Did we really have to spend time seeing that?

I'm team Maude on this, plus it's nice that everyone has different things to say! It's a real conversation, but the one thing I will say is this is some of my favourite fighting in all of Star Wars

I, for once, agree with Maud 100%

Bazil sabotaged the ship to save Pip ... Only reason i can think of 😂

More than once when they talked about the vergence they were looking up at the moons in near alignment. I am guessing its several force rich bodies coming into alignment focusing multiple power sources onto one location allowing for unimaginable things through the force.

I agree with your thoughts on them possibly using the prophecy as motivation for Sol and why he really wanted to "Save" Osha but I think they didn't do it because of toxic fans. Leslie did that interview where she specifically said they weren't created in the same way as Anakin and aren't as powerful and I think Disney knew and were afraid of upsetting those fans so they went with something else.

Mae killed one person-Indara. That woman killed all of her aunties, so that was pretty justified in my book.

Have to agree with Maude. Acolyte was not it.

I'm feeling like Maude.

Star Wars is Truly a soap

I wonder why the closed captions went from calling dude, Qihmir to stranger.

I was stoked after this finale. After visiting reel rejects and now this my hype has completely washed away. This is supposed to be mandatory fun!!! 😢

Really refreshing to see Maude fully standing by her thoughts on the show - respect it greatly

I was under the impression that the motivation for splitting 1 being into 2 was to create the ultimate "Power of 2" system as the were being taught in one of the early episodes. Their whole thing was power in numbers. And 2 identicals should function together flawlessly unless their minds develop to desire different things. Thereby causing all this strife.

I love how Maude says "Kimeeeeah" (qimir) its so cool.

As usual the main character who hasn’t used the force in years magically wields the force to force choke a Jedi master. May trained constantly but was scared of buff boy but Osha can beat a Jedi master????

Darth Plaug Deez Nutz 😂

It was decent. Not as good as Andor or Ashoka and mando and much better than boba get and Obi wan. Come at me.

I really liked the action scenes and some of the ideas presented, but felt like there could’ve been better writing and dialogue.

Andor is superbly written and og Stars Wars know that it leads directly to Rogue 1, A New Hope, and to Anakin Skywalker’s destruction of the Death Star

I think bazil stopped Sol because because mae and OSHA smell the same so he's worried that he was trying to hurt her because he can't tell the difference because they're the same person

feels like Maude was saying the show is bad withouth saying the show is bad. thet majority of the budget got lost in the Matrix ctfu

Maude is out for blood today

The worst part of the finale was Vernestra promising resolution and not delivering anything except more setup

I think we needed at least 1 or 2 episodes to answer these questions

There was that line between Maye and Osha not knowing where their little song came from. One of them even says, “I thought it was you that made it up”. Perhaps it was Mother Aniseya that said it, maybe as a part of the creation process, an incantation of sorts

Also i love the theory kimir was in control of Oshas turning

Everything Maude said!

Maude is right on several things, but primarily about needing Plagueis early. There's no urgency to Qimir's pursuit of Mae. It never really feels like he's trying to kill her after she breaks their deal. The knowledge that there IS someone out there who will punish Qimir if HE doesn't punish HER would have given that some actual weight.

Darth Maude on point with the commentary again.

we also have no idea if plagueis is his master or if plagueis was scouting a rogue sith

We still have no clue what mother anasaya was smoke monstering into or how mae would have been affected by it. If we would have seen where korel ended up it could have explained a little

make it make sense

If season 2 happens, I would personally like to see Qimir and Osha training to challenge Darth Plagiues for the title of Sith Lord and what not but when they do (at the midway point of the season) Plagiues just laughs and introduces his true apprentice Darth Sidious. Rest of season is Plagiues and Palpatine hunting down Osha and Qimir while we learn about the sith.

Qimir was able to use the force to slow the Jedi down while fighting in the earlier episodes. So the helmet force rules are confusing AF

Darth “Play-Gee-Us”?!? Really Brandon!

The lady's nitpicking is off the charts!! I think she may have set a world record.

I wish that ppl that just shit on the show were able to articulate their points like Maude does. She highlights what was good and she breaks down what was bad.

It was the same lightsaber that killed her mom, but how fast she bled it was kind of lame. The only other example was when Vader did it and it was a massive massive battle. If how she bled this saber is true, then why wasn’t Anakin’s saber bled during his killing of the younglings?

At least this show was better than episodes 7-9…

"Young advantures of Sheev Palpatine" would be awesome 😂 Also Mog is probably Palpitane: first he suggested Sol to be responsible for everything and then he let senator into control room "by mistake".

As far as the Plagueis, Qimir, OSHA (and Tenebrous) thing goes, the Sith always had a ton of plates spinning in their grand plan. Plagueis may not have even have revealed who he was to Qimir. Just said he was a dark side user who then used Qimir to further the agenda. And then the whole Qimir/Osha spinoff would be something different - either that or Plagueis kills them 🤷🏼‍♂️ just a thought