Watching you guys be so enthusiastic about the show and pointing out it's good and its bad in a respectful way is really refreshing vs most SW channels who are nitpicking things that have been issues in SW for decades.

If Vernestra is Qimir's master then that's actually quite poetically tragic. Considering she managed to save her first Padawan Imri from the dark side but not a future Padawan.

Molly made a great point. So many fans tend to grip their expectations so tightly that when they aren't met it leaves them angry. It's a stupid way to go about things.

This channel just became my fav SW channel, I couldn't keep up before cause my eng was terrible, but now, I finally can watch ur talks... Love ur content ✨️

I think with how they've treated Qimir in regard to screen time, build up, and atmosphere. I just don't quite get Vernestra being the Sith Master. I get her having secrets, they've telegraphed that, but the Sith are overflowing with hatred and seething, the universes' most evil dark side users. Sledge hammer to crack a nut? A Jedi tried to control a situation then it got out of her control seems way more normal to me.

Ooo yeah, maybe she just had a hyperspace vision of Qimir becoming a Sith so she Uncle Luked him but with her light whip and more successfully.

Whips don’t really leave curved scars IRL. They leave straight or mostly straight scars, because you don’t get hit by the side, you get hit by the end. Not saying a lightwhip isn’t different, just saying that whips don’t really do that just because they’re curved. That said, lightening does leave forking and non-straight scars when people are struck. Granted often more wild that Qimir’s but just saying.

Could be wrong here, but I think the Light Whip shot was a deliberate misdirect. Qimir could have been lying about being a Jedi. Maybe he instead really was trained by a Sith (which would explain his extensive knowledge of Jedi practices *but also his quotations of the Sith code*), and later he was discarded by his master, left for dead, or assumed dead, but survived.

I still don't think that Qimir was a Jedi. Osha asked him who he is and he said that he was a Jedi a long time ago. That's basically what the Sith were. So I think that he's saying in a typical Qimir roundabout way that he's a Sith.

You guys saying 'we are old' '..we are busy' are soooo cute^^ I am also doing less social activities because og my PhD, I totally feel you ❤️🤗

Q&A: With the hideous backlash to the cast of this show by toxic people online, do you think something worse could happen to the cast of Skeleton Crew? I hope personally that the show is delayed, just because I hope the kid actors aren't traumatized forever. Jake Lloyd suffered so much because of what happened to him after The Phantom Menace. 😔 Not to mention Moses Ingram, Ahmed Best and Kelly Marie Tran.

Everybody on that show is up to something

Prediction for ep 8, Sol battles Osha wearing the Stranger helmet, gives in to his anger and kills her, not realizing it was Osha till too late

The two lines I find curious in this episode are Vernestra saying they were all killed by a lightsaber, which clearly Yord wasn’t. The other is Qimir using the exact phrase “power of two” to describe what he wants, suggesting a definite connection to the witches, but possibly also that what he wants is something unique to Osha / Mae, not necessarily referring just to the rule of two.

I could talk about Vernestra the entire day.

Unless it was on a low power setting, wouldn’t the light whip have cut straight through him like a normal lightsaber blade? Also I imagine a lot more uncontrolled momentum is behind a lightwhip strike and more difficult to pull back than a typical lightsaber blade.

Do we think that Qimir is also attempting to kill a Jedi without a weapon to Vernestra, if she is the cause of his scar? Using Mae and Osha as pawns to get Vernestra to get involved?

I hope we see more lightsaber varieties. We need Jedi with saberstaffs, hinged-sabers, dual wielders, and crossguards. As well as more colours. Unless this is set after the time when those things are common. What exactly made them less common by the prequel era anyway?

If Qimir's helmet deprives his senses, did he hear Sol's voice through the force?

What Molly said at the end about everyone accepting it as fact online… that is exactly what Mike Zeroh did with The Last Jedi before it came out. He put a load of bull on his channel about the movie, his viewers took it as fact and then hated the movie when it came out cause nothing he said came true.

A couple of things. 1) Whips don't leave curvy marks when struck. 2) I don't read the books, but if she is one of the EVILs, I will 100% be reading the books. 3) We enjoyed being spoiled that Darth Vader was Anakin and were glued to Clone Wars. I like this strategy if they are cooking this way. 4) I think if Vernestra IS a sith lord, possibly a apprentice of Tenabres, her being in the Jedi would be HUGE leading up to what we see in Phantom Menace and beyond. What better way to change the way of the Jedi and influence than from within. These are just my thoughts. Love the video, and content you guys put out and thank you for being impartial and letting Disney cook in this series and not bashing it for clicks!

She’s acting real suspicious

In the Aurebesh alphabet, the letter "vev" or "v" is shaped like our letter "y". The scar on Qimir's back is shaped like a "y"----Vernestra's first initial.

Dear Molly and Alex, Albert here (formerly 'The Star Wars Podcast' on the @TopicArchives). I just want to say how grateful I am for who you both are, for the positive and thoughtful energy you put out into existence, and for the outlet and community you've created with your show to give form to all of it. You alongside Friends of the Force are bastions standing against what often feels like a constantly rising tide of cynicism, jadedness in this world (I'm a millennial that remembers a time before the dark times, before the Algorithm/Social Media), and too often openly hostile rage-wagoning. I just wanted to say, please continue what you're doing. The 'silent majority, vocal minority' dynamic is in full swing in this (IMO) exceedingly entitled, energetically scarce and nihilistic world, so while you sometimes may not see it, your comment sections will eventually be fully reflective of the vibrant and grateful community you have out there. Its only a matter of time. The light will prevail, I know it. At least you give me hope that it will :) Please keep going, in a way I realised I was not/am no longer able to. Seeing you both do what you do, brings more than a measure of solace that the positivity-and-inclusiveness movement in the online Star Wars community I left behind is alive and well. Again, thank you both so much -- your outlook and civility go further towards making the planet and species better than you can know. Thank you for keeping the flame of treating each other with more decency (as it was in the 90s) alive and well :) Kindest regards from Australia, Albert

I’m hoping it’s his sith master that gave him the scar and that he’s a failed apprentice. Maybe Tenebrous’ first apprentice.

I’m hoping that Vernestra isn’t going to be Qimir’s sith master and instead be his former Jedi master. The thing I’m questioning is will Sol leave the Jedi order at the end of the Acolyte. Maybe he could be one of the Lost 20 or something like that.

I feel the 2+2=4/whip scars plus light whip points to Vernestra, is an intentional misdirection. Given the stranger said he was "thrown away" another possibility is that he was discarded via being sold into slavery and the whip like scars are from Zygerrian slavers.

Vernestra being my favorite character in the High Republic books, i would find it really sad if she was a Sith.

Honestly, I think the Senator calling for more oversight is more likely to be the Sith master, which is disappointing for me (though it would be a great relief to HR fans), as I like the idea of a Sith successfully infiltrating the Jedi Council, whether its Vernestra or Sol.

Those little bird creatures look like miniature versions of the creature Luke got Homelander's milk from

I think Vernestra is the "kill the dream" moment that Qimir talked about. She was his master and she has been covering up her mistakes from the council and she's already on the verge of losing the dream. Imagine being 116 and having so much baggage, and constantly sweeping them under the rug. Just from the way she looks, she looks constantly tired, and exhausted with little emotion in her voice, and the only time you hear her voice go any higher than a low is when she says to the other Jedi who suggested that Sol might of been the culprit that it was a serious accusation, almost like a subtle light bulb went on in her head. She's perfectly willing to let Sol go under the bus if its to her benefit. I don't think she's a Sith, I think she's made huge mistakes and she's hiding them cause of the shame and the implications they could bring on her.

I like the idea of Vernestra having been constantly covered up everything and being the cause of the downfall she’s trying to stop. And it all makes the most sense if she is the Jedi who whipped the stranger. In the books, we see her cover for a Padawan, who has a moment of darkness.. Wild thought maybe as a way seeker she trained a Padawan unofficially and that is the a stranger

Wasn't the lightwhip originally a dark side weapon?

I just realized -- Qimir's shoto is specifically to counter the light whip! Call back to Luke's strategy when the light whip was first introduced in the comics!!

As someone who is a big Star Wars fan, but not a book reader, it very much feels like Vernestra is the secret Sith master.

Q&A: Do you think Qimir had came to Osha's and Mae's home planet and he might had manipulate Mae for believing Osha going to turn against the entire Witch Clan and Qimir probably killed those Witches while Mae nor any 4 Jedi never saw him killed them?

I think it looks like a scar from lightning. ⚡️

It’s time for Saturday morning brunch with Alex and Mollie.

Anyone else think maybe Sol is secretly Qimir's dad? The more I think about it the more it kinda makes sense.

Alcolyte brought me back to you guys. 5 years after TROS I was so mad about them bringing Palpatine back and neutering Kylo but this show just rocks

With only two episodes left the only way they can tie all of the mysteries up is if Qimir/The Stranger and Vernestra Rwoh are tied into the mystery of what happened at Brendok and the conception of the Osha and Mae.

Regarding the stun blast: in Thrawn Alliances, it's mentioned that cortosis absorbs energy. So I think that's why the stun blast didn't work.

A good point about Vernestra hearing the echoes of the fight - she then immediately asks what Mog could pick up on ...maybe checking what she could or could not reveal, before immediately saying they should leave.

When osha stunned Qimir I was reminded of Ezra stunning the Grand Inquisitor and him simply taking it.

25:00 Yep, I totally thought "Absorb/Dissipate Energy" from the old Star Wars D6 role-playing game.

I think Brendoc is a Waco situation, and the Jedi will be blaming themselves for a mass suicide.

I don't remember where or when, but in an interview I saw Justina Ireland referred to something unfortunate happening to Vernestra in the future.

I think Vernestra pulled a Jake Skywalker and sensed that Qimir was falling to the dark side. She tried to kill him to stop him from becoming Sith, which ironically facilitated him becoming a Sith.

for a whip to cause those scars, it would have to whip him twice, because its a forked scar. my hope is on it being from force lightning instead

Hi guys, love the channel. Keep the positivity coming. Anyway, have I missed a video where you discussed Qimir saying “Master Sol, you don’t recognise me?” in Ep.5?

I also thought the back scar might be from force lightning and the whip is a red herring. But I think the “easy” answer is de rigueur given the writing so far. There are so many planted clues and props that have a next episode pay off. It’s like the whole series is a love letter to Chekhov. 😄

I can see The Stranger being older. After all, "The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. "

What if we have a Mad Eye Moody situation going on here where a Sith changling (Zam Wessel species) attacked Vern and has been posing as her for years and she is dead or locked away somewhere

Q and A: a star wars legends question for you what are the Thor Yor and who or what built them ?

A lot of people are upset and understandably so. Same with me since it was because of Vern I got into HR in the first place. However some have pointed out and even cited passages in all her books that the red flags of her being cagey on certain things, keeping things to herself, etc were always there from the start. Guess we gotta wait until Trials of the Jedi, the final adult novel of Phase 3, to see what else could happen for her to become the politically shackled Jolly Green Jedi we see in the Acolyte.

I think there are two options: Vernestra gave him the scar but he's lying about the context. Or Vernestra wasn't involved at all, and the writers set this up so we'd be able to easily guess 2 twists in a row so that now when the twist ISN'T the thing they foreshadowed it's an actual surprise. Which might explain why the first two twists were so easily guessable. Setting us up for the fall so to speak.

Vonestra has a purple weapon.

Maybe someone in the last 100 years she fell dark, started training an apprentice, then came back to the light

Feeling blessed to have watched a video about the acolyte that wasn't bashing every little aspect of it. I'm convinced that people only hate it because its trendy.

Where the stun blast didn’t work, if you look at modern day stun guns, some people can shrug off being stunned. That said, the stranger is clearly battle hardened to begin with.

It's a little frustrating that shows like Ahsoka came and went without really much happening and then we have to wait 3 or more years to get more story. It's been a year since the first season of Ahsoka and they haven't even started the next season yet.

Ya know what? Part of me was thinking "They'd never have a fun character from a kids book go sith." Then I remembered Jacen Solo....

Really enjoy your channel. Keep doing what youre doing.

I think we’d probably have the same conversation about Anakin if we only had The Clone Wars to go off of and suddenly he goes Dark Side and people are like, whaaaat that feels far fetched. Also with Ray Stevenson passed I don’t think we’ll be doing much with that storyline, at least as it pertains to his particular journey.

"I don't know if he licked it but he was definitely sniffing it." ONLY ONE WAY TO FIND OUT! *drink*

Hi guys. Big fan of your channel. I’ve been subscribed for a while now & realized I hadn’t commented on any of your videos! Just wanted to say as a result of a past video I’m now reading Dark Disciple. Great recommendation, thanks. Thoughts on Alphabet Squadron? Keep up the great content!

The Father keeps his children in balance by keeping them apart. The Mother tries to bring balance by bringing the light closer to the dark and the dark closer to the light.

I don’t think they would spoil a dark side turn for Vernestra in the show that we would later see in one of the last THR books. Project Luminous/THR was created to be the starting point for stories in a new era

Ive been talking with random people on the street that turned out were watching Acolyte. Its not nearly as hated as the internet tries to convince people.

Many or even most of the viewers did not read any of those books, therefore they would not be offended if Vernestra was a Sith Lord in disguise like Palpatine was.

I wish she had her purple hair so baaaad ;-; . As a Vern fan its sad seeing her so old and just shackled by political worry

Regarding Vernestra, also note that Charles Soule was a creative consultant or something like that for the show, so I don't expect them to do something so completely out of left field for her character compared to the books

Both Venestra and Sol will have to face their former Padewons. One lost to Dark Forces, and the other betrayed by years of lies.

Re: Abeloth: I file it under "plausible". I'm not 100% convinced that's where they're going, but if it turns out to be her it wouldn't surprise me.

I don’t know what Baylan will find at his destination but we do have info from the show about what is is seeking… Baylan Skoll: …What I seek is the BEGINNING, so I may finally bring this cycle to an END. Shin Hati: And that beginning is here? Baylan Skoll: If the old stories are true. In Overlords, upon arrival in Mortis & encountering the Daughter: Obi-Wan Kenobi: And what exactly are you? The Daughter: We are the ones who guard the power. We are the MIDDLE, beginning, and the end. Typically we would expect that description to be the BEGINNING, middle, & end. The Daughter leads them along a cliff & Obi & Ahsoka are separated as it is Anakin who has been summoned. The Daughter takes Anakin to the Father’s citadel where they converse and later Anakin meets the Son in his dreams. So he meets the Daughter, the Father, & then the Son. Over the course of the arc the Daughter dies, the Father dies, & then the Son. In Rebels - A World B/ween Worlds, the depiction of the Ones @ the Lothal temple are from left to right; the Daughter, the Father, & the Son. Among the voices Ezra can hear in tWBWs is the Daughter’s line “We are the MIDDLE, beginning, & the end.” The Argonath One’s are again depicted from left to right; the Daughter, the Father, & the Son. Thus, The Daughter = the Middle The Father = the Beginning The Son = the End. Only having the OT as a kid thru early adulthood to refer to, I never had an issue w/ the redemption of Anakin & his appearance as a force ghost. Only Luke could see him, thus he was only ever redeemed in Luke’s eyes & it had as much or more to do w/ the implications of the embodiment of a the great evil of the galaxy who killed his mentor being his father & if that meant that evil was a part of him too. Redeeming Anakin is a refutation that Luke is not condemned to repeat the sins of the father/the past, it is not his destiny. But of course the Prequels brought all sorts of lore implications that muddied the waters & a common question then becomes if all the other force ghosts needed training to manifest, how can Anakin do so w/ none ? It seems entirely possible that Baylan upon arrival @ the Father’s citadel, he finds the current resident/“beginning” to be Anakin. Ahsoka is unquestionably the embodiment of the Daughter. So then Mr. Skoll seems destined to catch his proverbial Sun by becoming the Son & take actions that threaten to bring about his proverbial Ragnorok as the embodiment of the “End”. 🤷‍♂️ Before the series aired @ celebration they announced 3 films, a Dawn of the Jedi, Filoni’s, & Rey’s New Jedi order. After the Ahsoka finale it seemed possible that they were working towards a non-trilogy trilogy of sorts w/ Baylan unleashing a new darkness on the GFFA that had it’s roots in the Dawn of the Jedi & which Rey’s order will have to contend w/. I’m less convinced now as so much of what has happened makes it seem like they’re grasping at straws more than not but who knows, we’ll see. 🤷‍♂️

Why can’t we suspect that Qimir could be older than Vernestra? It seems that he may be a lot older than he appears whether it’s through Sith magic or maybe the magical pool he swims in.

The hands of the mortis gods and where they’re pointing are important just like in Rebels with the world between worlds and how they switched in the mural to open the gateway

Whenever Vernestra uses the whip against an adversary, she doesn't just scar them, she does something (cuts off a hand in Tales of Light and Life). So why use her whip to just scar Qimir???

Okay. I love yall for Star Wars, but I could listen to yall chat about your fav Apple TV shows or Westeros content!!! Please!! Also, could hall do some kinda Indiana jones book club?

Loved this intro! 😂

JUST so you know he wasnt Dornish in the book, they made him dornish in the show

You refer to the High Republic books quite often, which books or authors would you recommend to go along with the Acolyte? Thx.

Q&A: Aside from the funds he felt would be better used in Project Stardust, what other reasons do you think Tarkin had for shutting down Project Necromancer despite it being personally approved by the Emperor and how did he explain that to him?

Thank you for this video.

If the Mortis Mother and Father are opposites, than she would either; -try to create imbalance between her children and the side of the force. - or she would want to them to meet in the middle (a bit like we saw with The Bendu). If Baylan would meet anyone in the temple or on Mortis, it should be Anakin. RotJ and the first season of Ahsoka already showed death isn’t the end for the Chosen One.

I do hope they keep Abeloth out of it. I'm fine with it if it turns out there is a Mortis Mother, but Abeloth is just such a stupid concept. The themes of cosmic horror and Star Wars fundamentally do not mix, so cosmic horror monsters have no real place in it. Shoehorning them in just results in yet another embodiment of the Dark side. Which makes it redundant because thats what the Son already does.

Regarding a Jedi taking the L to protect the reputation of the Order - that might be what Vernestra ends up doing. Precedent in the Legends (NJO) when Corran Horn steps aside for a time during war with Yuuzhan Vong.

Q&A: Could Morgan Elsbeth and/or Baylan Skoll return in Ahsoka S2? Perhaps as physical vessels for whatever was calling Baylan and whatever power the Great Mothers were implied to be fleeing?

If it looks like Ach To but it's not, maybe its a Twin island, like our twins Osha and Mae ?!

I think Osha will turn to the dark side once she finds out the truth via Sol and/or Mae. Mae will bring her back to the light (for some unknown reason).

Does a purple lightsaber still mean more balanced in use of the force in canon/high republic?

The only misdirection this show has brought to the table is that you think misdirection is coming but it never does….. I’d be shocked if vinestra isn’t bad

considering how young jedi start training children, why does qimir need to be older for the former jedi > sith > thrown away by master timeline to work?

Q: How do you Yoda and Mace Windu know about the rule of two at the end of the Phantom menace?

I see you got Hot Toys Cobb Vanth. That's a very nice one to own. HT will probably never remake that one again.

Regarding Mother - given Father's focus is balance, wonder if the Mother could be a way to get a canon Star Wars Multiverse (as a form of chaos)?

The only jedi from the high republic that would turn to the darkside would be Avar Kris.

I am hoping "Mother" would be Mother Talzin...fingers crossed! Or, Ventress finds herself back alive and is a mother. Also, fingers crossed.

If Sol gets framed could he be one of the lost 20?

Ach to is an island on baldemnic and this is just a different one on the same planet.