Poor Jecki, Qimir literally killed her and stole her girl

Like Reva in the Kenobi series, it would be better (for the audience) to know what Sol/Mae are hiding or reacting to. More often than not, hiding details (to have a twist or reveal) inhibits our ability to understand the characters' choices in real-time.

Missed opportunity to call Qimir’s cave a “budhole”

My most anticipated review lol really enjoyed the last two episodes. Manny Jacinto is killin it

What's that you're suggesting? A power hungry politician with antipathy towards the Jedi? He's played by a British actor? And all the while, there's a second Sith lurking unseen in the background? I very much doubt they'll be one and the same...

I know the Qimir hot sith stuff is fun and all, but does it not kinda destroy Osha’s character that she super immediately gets horned up over the guy who literally juuuuuust killed more or less all of her friends?? Like sure he’s been keeping it tight but, priorities

Most unrealistic part was qimir not worrying about shrinkage when coming out of those cold waters

When Sol reached out to hug who he thought was Osha, he felt the lack of force and knew for sure that it was Mae. Mae never hugged him back, she didn't know how to react to Sol's emotion.

I figured the reason Sol missed the whole Osha/Mae thing was because he was still overwhelmed by grief and shock from everything that happened in “Night”

Disney afraid to show us some sith cheeks.

Your TOP 9 Qimir Seductions were so good!! Btw, I just listened to The Watch pod with Chris and Andy. I hope Andy Greenwald would eat his own words after watching The Bear S3E6. LOL

Quimir presented himself as a needy nerd to Mae. He presented himself as a self-sufficient powerful and inventive force capable being. Which one is his true character? Mae tried to use him to get her revenge plan accomplished while, Osha is trying to figure him out, his power, his Jedi connection and his fall from the order. He is manipulating them into joining his renegade order of one. Mae was at the step where she was to kill someone without a weapon. Quimir is at the step where he is to recruit a force sensitive being. Who is the Acolyte????

I'm so glad you guys are covering this show with depth and glee. It's so good to get this much force/jedi lore and concepts to chew over in a show that isn't a cartoon aimed at small children 😂 It's wild to me how many people are unwilling to engage with it on that level when as Star Wars fans we're so practiced at squeezing all of the juice out of - let's be real - often much much much worse material. And it's such a relief to have one place in SW fandom to turn to that will never demean the female gaze, or a woman showrunner, or women's sexuality, or our place in the fandom, or be subtly or explicitly homophobic, racist or sexist. You've long been one of a very few online places I feel safe to come to for SW content, but I've been especially feeling it these last few weeks as the really awful vitriol has been nearly impossible to avoid.

A show so inconsistent, Mel and Jo stopped covering it mid-season and since I'm not on social media, I didn't hear they were stopping. What did they say about not covering it anymore? Just that it was so inconsistent, so why bother?

Where's the episode 7 deep dive?

I’m totally rooting for Qmir/The Stranger.

Just a guy chilling with his girl in a crevice. When Mae replied to Sol “ I’ve always been like that” it implies that while erasing Pip she knew Osha loved him and that she cares little about what Osha actually wants and loves. She only cares that they were supposed to be together for ever. This is also the moment Sol realized it was Mae. Up to that point he was blinded by his emotions and truly hadn’t listened to her words and focused on her

The last two episodes have been watchable after the first few being absolutely horrendous. Qimir by far the most interesting part

Why did it take 7 plus minutes to get to the actual pod? Omg so many plugs.

if we dont get more carrie anne moss in a flashback ima be pissed and confused on why they wasted her.

For the algorithm!

Still unclear to me what the basic plot of this show is

Osha: "I mean, you just killed two of my friends, but I'd love to hear your traveling Sith Semantics Guidebook sales pitch." Rey: "I mean, you killed your dad, my friend in front of me after torturing and kidnapping me, oh yeah and maimed my friend...wanna make out?" So yeah, the ReyLos are feasting Jo.

I just don't see anyway this is getting a 2nd season

#MakeJomiLookatit

Something about the Acolyte just hasn't hit with me. I really want to like it, but it just feels uneven or something. these mass murderers being hit with sympathy music cues was a little much. like, my eye roll reflex has been on overdrive; my The Rock eye brow uncontrollable; my "huh?" verbalizations in overabundance. Hedlund gives me the vibes of someone who becomes pen pals with a serial killer and ends up marrying them, no?

What is it with this recent desire to portray the Sith as the good guys? Was that really George’s intention?

Qimir leaves out the "what you bring with you" wisdom part. I think it's because he wants Osha to identify with the fear/hate she finds there. Whereas, Yoda encourages Luke to understand he will see things he is carrying with him, but it's not what he is. In the words of WBW Anakin, "because he's more than that."

I recently found your HOTD podcast and enjoyed it. KZfaq then suggested this one and I was interested to see if there’s someone actually doing a positive podcast about Acolyte since I’m middle of the road on it and I mostly only hear hate cast review the show. BUT now that I’m here why am I 19 minutes in and all I’ve gotten is plugs for other shows (understandable) and sexy talk about the Sith guy. Currently you’re discussing the all important top 10 sexy things said 😂😂. Can we just take a moment and imagine if 2 guys spent this much time discussing the sexiness of a female character,smh. We know that wouldn’t go over well. This is sounding more like a couple of teen girls reviewing Twilight for the first time. It’s fine to do this but maybe put this section in the middle of the show as a fun intermission to the overall review. It’s your show, so cool but those are my thoughts. The frustration is going to cause me to move on from this pod episode so maybe I’ll give the next one a try once it’s been confirmed that the Sith guy is sexy and we can all focus on the show. Again, really enjoyed your HOTD so I will be checking that out again.

I’m pretty confident that if The Acolyte sticks the landing, it will end up as one of the best things to happen in Star Wars next only to Andor. It’s brilliant on its own right and a breeze of fresh air that the franchise actually needed. It’s certainly the most fun I’ve had with Star Wars sincerely since the prequels. Love Mando, Andor is absolutely brilliant but The Acolyte is delivering on things that the franchise needed for decades and I think that very much like Empire Strikes Back, time will be kind with this one.

This show probably had enough material for four one hour episodes, at best. Setting aside the quality of the material, this show has been horribly paced and structured. It really feels like amateur hour in that department.

Seems like they’re trying so hard not to say anything negative about the show.

Of course if it was the guy watching osha take a bath & confront her while she’s still naked, this show, disney would be canceled immediately & this podcast would have been non stop trashing how disgusting this was but instead its just a big joke how fun all this is. 🤮