Kennedy says she cried when reading this script. I thought she meant cause she was moved, didn’t realise it was cause it was garbage

I can’t get over the fact that this show took 180 million dollars to make.

How did they spent all that time on the planet looking for the vergence and never saw the huge temple on top of the mountain 💀

In 1 minute. Sol didn't know oceja existed, to wanting her as a padawan and absolutely loving her so much instantly! This is the weirdest show I have ever seen.. Nothing makes sense

The wookie was controlled by the power of many, but they were defeated by the power of one 😂

I was optimistic coming into this show. Both flashback episodes were breaking points for me. This show STINKS.

General Hospital is better written, more compelling and less predictable than The Acolyte.

Kristian, best point ever, how the hell does Kathleen Kennedy still have a job. She is literally destroying Star Wars and has its fan base potentially in a worse place than after The Last Jedi

The power of one…episode left. Then we can all move on 😅

4:04 "It's unfortunately creepy" OMG😂

Bro, Mike’s face gets wilder and wilder each new thumbnail for each episode. I love how he gives no fcks whatsoever for this show. Seriously…where did the budget go for this show?

They fckin tricked us into watching episode 3 again, this show is insane bruh.

Fact: Most people think the witches were saying “The Power of one, the power of two, the power of many.” Not the case. They’re saying “the power of Manny” b/c he is carrying the show.

The difference is andor was made by phenomenal people and acolyte was made by people who are not phenomenal

the problem with this show is the same for every disney plus show it seems . they bring up some cool things and then wander around with horrible ideas and then have to somehow wrap it all up in one episode and there is no chance they can do it

When Sol first saw the children he also saw Mother Korill, who was very harsh with them, then when he sees them with Mother Aniseya, she attacks them, throwing them to the hard floor, then she attacks them again, but this time Mae is able to protect herself and Osha. Then Mother Aniseya invades Torbin's mind with some voodoo force, plus Mother Korill is again being very aggressive and threatens the Jedi multiple times. Then Mother Korill takes an attack stance with her spear, and Mother Aniseya does some more voodoo force shit, and Sol sees Mae starting to turn into dark smoke. How is he, or the other Jedi not supposed to think that these witches are bat-shit crazy and are endangering the children. Child services would have been all over that shit. I know the writers are trying to make us hate the Jedi and sympathize with the witches, but my question is, why? Why are they painting the Jedi as assholes, and the witches are misunderstood women who are being persecuted by the Jedi? The Jedi were looking into the convergence of the force, that's the only reason they were there. The witches fled their previous planet due to persecution, but we don't know who were persecuting them, or what their reasons were, because we are not told or shown. The witches are basically Doctor Frankenstein, and the Jedi are the villagers with torches and pitchforks, and Mae and Osha are the creature. Is it really that blatant a rip-off?

Leslie Headland should be brought up on murder charges for killing Star Wars! This show is seriously the worst thing that has ever happened to the franchise...and that includes the Holiday Special. The only good thing to come from it are the brilliant weekly episodes from The Critical Drinker completely eviscerating it!

I have absolutely no faith in Skeleton Crew. It stars children. We are done for.

They were looking for a vergence in a field with metal detectors 🤣🤣🤣 wtf!?!?!

The ending credit song was the icing on the shit cake. Lucasfilm has absolutely zero clue what fans want from this franchise.

I laughed out loud when wave pool witches just poof disappeared WTF was that

This episode seems to have broken even some of the more ardent defenders.

I don't even watch the show, I just watch you guys.

I'm struggling with this show to figure out what the end game of this season is. Is it another showdown with Manny? Like what are we trying to accomplish? We have one more episode left of this, and I've been thinking about it. What is the goal of this season? It's not a murder mystery anymore. We know who is the culprit of that. We barely got any "Sith" lore. Someone help me understand lol.

It's crazy to think that Andor and the Acolyte are in the same universe. Like imagine the Acolyte's characters interacting with Andor's characters.

better not call sol

Headlyne must have some major dirt on Disney executives. Hard Stop.

You guys mentioned that a flashback for Qimir would have been way better. That didnt happen cause he was basically supposed to dip out of the show after episode 5 and be saved for season 2 but Leslie Hedland changed it so he would be in it more. So originally we were supposed to get barely any of him. Thats how terribly this show was written and planned out

If Skeleton Crew is in the Filoni universe, I can safely say that the ONLY upcoming Star Wars project I have any interest in is Andor ☹️

It’s the worst big-budget TV show in the history of television! It’s so bad you have to fire every executive and writer involved with this garbage ASAP!

This episode was so bad it even broke Grace Randolph! Shocking

Yes Steph! They ruined Sol's character, he was acting like a pedo! It weirded me out how much he wanted Osha for no apparent reason than a hunch

The end credit music was actually the thing that annoyed me the most. This is STAR WARS. It’s space FANTASY and we are getting modern pop music. What the f*ck is going on man, who is overseeing this stuff? It all seems absolutely clueless.

I honestly believe if you gave ChatGPT the right prompts and stuff to base on you could write a better Star Wars show than the Acolyte. Edit: So I did that very thing. I told chat GPT to write me a Star Wars show that is machiavellian and feels like game of thrones about a brother and sister trying to succeed their father. These are just a few lines of the many it gave me: “The Sith thrive on ambition, on cunning. The Empire we have built stands on the precipice of glory, but only if we are willing to grasp it." "Kael, you will journey to Coruscant. The heart of the Republic. Plant seeds of dissent. Divide their unity." Take those 2 lines and extrapolate that into a whole show with a Sith master and apprentice and that would be an amazing show!

This episode was so disappointing. Sol came off like a pure ass predator

I was talking to my friend and we came up with the fact that Dune (2021) cost $165 million. That movie was gorgeous and screenplay was FANTASTIC. Get that team to write a freaking Star Wars show. I'm sure they all love Star Wars as well.

If Mae witnessed Sol murder her mom, why is that not the first thing she tells Osha when she sees her?! Does she lose her memory?

If only Anakin went into a 10 year Jedi trance he could of awoken to find himself on the council

I don't watch the acolyte, but I love watching you guys talk about it

The look on that woman's face as Kristian explained THE GOOD SON, was priceless. LMAO

You know...maybe we all are looking at The Acolyte the wrong way. Maybe this is an unintentional comedy masterpiece that is like Tommy Wiseau's The Room. Just trying to make sense of this nonsense. 😄

“I can tell you right now, i’m not gonna watch Agatha!” 😂 Yep, same for me.

The Acolyte really brought upon the death of the Jedi. I feel ashamed to be a nerd.

This entire episode could have been done in a one minute exposition dump.

Torbin should have been the one to kill the mother, that would've made way more sense. He's young, dumb, emotional, and it could've explained why he went into deep meditation for all those years

That thumbnail is a work of art. I LOVE IT! 😆

Shows so bad, dude doesn't know what episode he's reviewing 😂

I was a huge star wars fan, but the current head of the company killed it for me. I have zero interest in watching anything they do now.

"It cant be any worse" Lmao you had to say it. Now im really praying that skeleton crew is good 😂

Love the thumbnail. Perfectly Accurate

Can someone PLEASE explain to me, this episode is basically meant to be Sol explaining to Mae, who's strapped to a table, what happened 16 years ago. Agreed? So WHY??? SHE WAS THERE!!! She saw everything. Everything it makes zero sense that this flashback is him telling Mae the story of what happened. Only Osha didn't witness it. Terrible, terrible writing.

I will say the discussion of episode 7 has made watching it worthwhile.

Rules of telepathic battle at 51:11 Steph. O get the confusion, but it was basically this: 1. Koril moved the witches to the back room 2. The witches linked together and controlled Kelnacca; we can assume that is no easy feat because Kelnacca is a Master Jedi and these witches are individually weaker than Mother Aniseya, who has shown to at least be more powerful than 2 together 3. With resistance from Kelnacca, Indara pushing back is too much for them 4. Indara isn't targetting their physical location necessarily, she's disrupting their circuit that is connected in Kelnacca's mind 5. Feedback short circuits the brains of the witches joined in the circuit 6. This either knocks them out or fries their brains (i.e., unconscious or brain dead) - not Indara's intention, but the consequence of being forced out If they weren't dead then (which I don't personally think was the case) they are left incapacitated in a collapsing, burning fortress, so they're dead after the fact, all because of Jedi interference, so Indara would still feel bad, and be tempted to covet this up due to culpability in the situation. None of that is an endorsement of the show though, just that this is how the sequence plays out.

Who is in charge of quality control at Lucasfilm? How the hell does this stuff get released? This is so damaging to Star Wars.

hahahaha that thumbnail is amazing

So bad it's unbelievable

Episode 7 Kristian 👍🏻

Are we at Star Wars Holiday Special bad yet ? I dropped out after episode 3

Leslie just doesn't understand the simplest thing about star wars. It's good vs evil. To her it's the witches vs jedi.... some are good some are bad it's just all up to perspective. That's not star wars. The jedi are good. It's not a perspective.

The Sith Council is back! 🥃

I think this exposes the problem with Rotten Tomatoes for television shows. Often critics will submit their score based on the first few episodes that are screen for them. For the Acolyte it was between the first 2 and 4 episodes. However I dont beleive a critic can change their initial score when later episodes air should they change their mind or submit a seperate review for later episodes on the site. . So the Acolyte is still 83% postiive on Rotten tomatoes, based on many of the initial reviews from critics being luke warm but giving it the benefit of the doubt that it would improve. However it feels a large portion of the critics who intially gave it postive reviews now are overall negative on the show. It would be like submitting a postive review for the first act of a movie, and then being unable to re submit once you have seen the rest of the movie and overall it sucked.

Its not that they are not paying attention when it comes to details, music and stuff, they are just trying to cancer their way in star wars by changing the force, changing the motives, changing the way stuff works in this universe, and the music at the end is just to top it off. No other explanation, you have a perfect music background in this franchise and you should never ever ever put a rnb song in it or whatever the fuck it is at the end

It’s like they went in trying to make a YA SW fan fiction film. So many things throughout the series are things we don’t see in SW but they sprinkle them throughout this show. Yord being shirtless to appeal to that fandom, The Stranger(Smilo Ren) going nude into the ocean while Osha watches him, Aniseya in Torbin’s mind giving seductive speech giving any of his “desires”, and that song that sounds like 50 Shades of Grey song at the end. Obviously the writing, directing, performances, and lack of emotional connection to any of these characters are a way bigger issue but I just wanted to point to this aspect of the show.

Lucasfilm keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over again. It needs new leadership badly.

3 and 7 should've been one episode. These episodes aren't organized right or no connection to others.

Kristian: “man oh man, this episode STOINKS” 😂

Disney's Lucasfilm has the incredible problem of not being able to understand that the Force Awakens earned over $2 billion, The Last Jedi dropped by $500 million and then Rise of Skywalker dropped another $500 million making it a $1 billion dollar drop from 7 to 9. They don't realize if those last two movies would have been handled right, all 3 would have made over $2 billion EACH but they just want to say "The movies were $1 billion movies!!!" That is true but again, all 3 COULD have been $2 billion movies had Disney's Lucasfilm just appealed to the whole audience and cared what we all wanted instead of a smaller minority of the base.

With thousands of Jedi being present during this period I never had a problem with showing some of them as less than "perfect jedi" or tempted by the dark side and how the sith ultimately dupped them. This is such a giant subversion of everything Jedi stand for. It's an absolutely pathetic episode. Whoever wrote and directed it should never be allowed near this type of creative art ever again.

The witch spell on the wookie was straight up ripping off from the Navi's ritual in avatar, where they try to revive sigourney weaver. Also, they all just fell over and died when Carrie ann moss broke the spell?!

I actually love the episodes while we all agree on how bad it is.

The Acolyte is by no means perfect and I wanted to defend it from some of the criticism I know Kristian has after watching his reaction and some of the takes I know Old Man Kalinowski will have, but this show isn’t really worth defending.

What a lovely, lovely thumbnail 😂

Maury: The results are in.... Sol you are the father.

Kalinowski realizing in real time that his opinions on this show align with the nerdrotics of the world is hilarious.

The last numbers for this show I saw where 25% of Ahsoka's and that was after the first couple of episodes. The numbers have been going down. It's not doing well. Disney has been doing that hyper specific qualifiers to make the show seem like the viewership is strong. It reminds me of those incredibly specific stats ESPN rolls out during game to make a feat seem special when it isn't.

The way the episodes are named: Lost/Found, Revenge/Justice, Destiny, Day, Night, Teach/Corrupt, Choice; some of them appear to have been a single episode split and/or moved. I think Destiny/Choice and Day/Night were meant to be just 2 episodes and they split them up. Which makes me wonder if they had a different ending in mind and they cut it and then split those episodes in the edit to fill out the now empty run time. It feels like 4 of these episodes should have been 2 and we actually only saw 5 episodes and are missing 2 episodes that were cut.

People have to now accept it. This is NOT a George Lucas Star Wars, it's a Disney Star Wars. Accept it and move on!

They have been on this strange planet for several months. Why are they not freaked out, especially the padawan? Why are they just talking around camp fire like they ware on the easiest mission ever? Some creepy sounds, visions, etc. would build great atmosphere. They are multiple ways to explain strange actions of the jedi, but they are not used at all.

As a resident of the great city of Denver, I can indeed confirm, that something stinks.

Regarding the song choice during the credits, it reminded me of the episode of Game of Thrones where Jamie's hand is cut off at the end and then some weird music started playing that did not fit in at all...

This almost feels like some sort of intentional plan to make fans stop asking stories outside skywalker timeline.

I've at least gotten some good belly laughs and full confirmation that Star Wars is finished until new leadership can possibly revive it. Kennedy just really wants to prove her own point that she always hated Lucas and is burning his creation to the ground with her agenda.

It just feels like a bad fanfic that was made by people who think the prequels haven't been made yet.

Acolyte, a show without an Acolyte. I like this show because I like train wrecks

I was bored, the whole episode was a rehash but told by the secondary unit shooting it lol. They made it seem in episode 3 like we didn't have all the information...and we basically did... none of the mystery aspects really changed from this... some things had a bit more insight like Osha didn't mean to cause the stone burning fire... but she still did it and just told her sister she was going to kill her lol... there was no mind control or Sith influence for that... How were all the witches killed? I mean I saw it... how were they all killed lol? I know what I'm supposed to understand is they used all their energy controlling Jedi Master Fuzz Ball and when Jedi Master Trinity broke the connection they all died of boredom... but nothing in the show is telling me that I'm filling in their blanks!

hey kristian my brother had a mop of hair like tormen curly as hell and by 30 he was bald so the receding hair line is one of the few things not wrong with that character

Lucusfilm is running a multi million dollar money laundering operation, you know this show must be horrible if Steph says it’s bad normally she’ll defend all the trash Star Wars shows but not this time lol 😂

These shows work better with at least 45 minutes but the characters need a reason to do what they're doing. Even Ahsoka characters have backstory & reason

Did anyone else notice that Tommen killed himself again? Has he been typecast?

The show provides entertainment. Just not in they way they were expecting. Lol

Doesn’t this seem like a complete misunderstanding of why the witches of Dathomir are so cool?

In Glaswegian accent we say "disney" instead of doesn't. And this show disney look good at all guys, thanks for taking the hit.

This is all about going babk and showing the Jedi as liars and corrupt so Rey can fix everything

Remember when we were excited for a show about the dark side and we all theorized what we wanted it to be….disappointing is putting it nicely. The people at Lucasfilm have lost the magic, they aren’t who we need to carry Star Wars into the future.

This goes back to what I found disappointing about the sequel trilogy: too many cooks in the kitchen ... writers and directors who either don't know enough about Star Wars lore -or- are too off the beaten path with their "new vision." I get it; Disney bought Lucasfilm, and George wanted it to be handed over to new, creative talent. Sure. But, you need creatives that keep the stories consistent, giving a little bit of fan service yet can also tell a compelling new story. That's why The Mandalorian and Rebels work: they keep things familiar yet expand on the vision in an intelligent, meaningful way. I'm probably not as angered by The Acolyte as some, but I do agree that there are more disappointments that positives. We'll see what happens in Episode 8, but that's my 2 cents. Keep up the good work, Kristian and team!

Is there something wrong with the writers for this episode that they tripped over themselves and got lost, no one checked to see that it made sense. The Internet hate this one episode more, so sad.

I'm a real casual Star Wars fan, I don't really care about canon or lore or anything like that. I just want any show to answer one question: Why are the characters doing what they're doing?. And in this show I only got that answer for Mae, I have no clue why any of the other characters are doing what they're doing. I also have no clue how the Sith dude fits into the story. It feels like they slammed two different shows together, one about the witches, and one about Sith dude, without there being any thought put into how they fit together. Maybe the final will put all the pieces together, but I don't think it will.

Can we please get this on Spotify soon! I so badly wanna hear Mike just go off on this episode 😂

Episode 6, and Episode 7 should of been like the first 2 episodes we saw. Then you reintroduce Older Osha, Then you do May killing the Jedi. Through out the so as it is going in this scenario we get flashbacks of Mae and Osha's perspective. But we the audience know what really happened. The bring in Qimir. Because 7 sets up the "cover up." you bring in old Osha and Mae, and establish their ignorance of the real events, and you can continue with this mistaken identity situation. Qimir, should be in the last 2 episodes. This is already setting up for a 2nd season, so might as well Leave Qimir to the end. Have the big fight and then bring in the rescue team. This the audience can know what has happened, but still has questions that the further episodes can answer. Instead of having 50 different questions in the beginning, and getting half truths, and shotty writing. We should of seen Mother Anisai be the caring mother, and the protective witch later through Mae's and Osha's memories. This also shows that Mae isn't a cold and heartless character, just confused and angry child still. Its maddening to watch this and see that the show is told in reverse order in some spots and others its just twisted and turned to make no sense. And funny enough it would explain Mae's flip flopping, that got no explanation before this. But still nothing explains how stone burns down like its ancient dried out wood! And the Vergence is just ugh. The only good thing I learned in the past 2 episodes is that Qimir is a fallen Jedi, not a Sith.

Yup worst episode of Star Wars ever. No matter what happens after the first encounter, it was the witches fault that everyone dies. They invaded Torbin’s head first. Mae was literally the one that started the fire and burned everything down, shockingly. No idea how they couldn’t figure out a way to make it so the jedi started the fire and killed everyone, making everything that we have seen like the jedis in hiding or Torbin killing himself make sense. They character assassinated fan favorite Sol making him a seem like a pedo, irrational, emotional, and deciding to let Mae drop to her death. So so dumb