Call me a conspiracy theorist but there is no way this cost 180 Million dollars.

Koril is the real villain here. Her selfishness caused all manner of miscommunications which ended up leading to the deaths of a lot of people. And intentionally riling up Mae, trying to cause rifts between not only the witches and the Jedi, but between Mae and Osha, is just messed up.

I miss the days where the season of a show was 20ep+ long and could actually tell a whole story...

So what exactly was Mother Aniseya doing when she started to transform into black smoke? Was she just teleporting away to get Osha and she was just gonna come right back and then let them leave? Sol probably overreacted by stabbing her, but when a person who you have an antagonistic relationship with starts to transform into some ominous black smoke, what else should he do?

This entire episode could have been an email

The story of this show would have been a good option for a Rashomon-style feature film, focusing on the different perspectives of what happened during an ill-fated meeting between a group of Jedi and force witches.

Body snatching, mind control and using your new meat puppet to fight his friends still feels pretty evil ...

I can forgive a lot of plot holes and even sloppy writing in many things, especially Star Wars, but I think the biggest problem with The Acolyte by far was it's marketing vs what we got. They told us it was "Going to tell us events from the Sith's prospective", and I'm not even sure we've seen a True Sith in this entire show so far, with only one episode left.

This series has less connecting episodes than the third season of the Mandalorian

i really found it lazy that just her removing the dark side presence from the wookie automatically killed them ALL. like one? two? ok, but the entire coven? they didn''t just get a force headache but frickin outright died? that's a pretty big weakness. 50 ppl to possess one person that one jedi can purge and you ALL die when you literally could have easily killed them by force instead of chanting. the fight sequences however in the entire series are ALL really good, so it's got that at least. i capitalize ALL a lot...

This episode still hasn't explained why shit started exploding. I find it very hard to believe that tiny ass fire that Mae started somehow caused a reactor to explode. I expected it to be the sith the sabotaged the reactor but they haven't shown that and I doubt they'd do ANOTHER flashback in the very last episode

That Jedi that drank the poison , what did he do that was bad enough that he decided he deserved to die ? I don’t understand.

I think this show's biggest weakness is presentation/execution. I feel like this should have been episode 1 instead of a flashback. With the exception of Sol, I feel little to no connection to these Jedi characters since they've already died early on in the show. I think this would make Mae's "fall" (and the plot in general) more profound as we follow the events as they happen, instead of looking to these flashbacks to justify what we saw in previous episodes. To me, the characters and events feel really dull and the whole show is just hinging upon the mystery of "what happened?" I think the big mystery should really be "Will Mae succeed in killing Sol and fall further into darkness, or will she be swayed from her path by Osha?"

Mei and Osha's backstory amounted to a guy with an unhealthy obsession, a homesick man-child and an idiot who issued vague threats and impulsively triggered an ominous power instead of just communicating like an adult. Then in her dying breath she gaslights Sol. And the issues don't end there. I can see what the writers were going for but they completely lacked the competence to pull it off. Ultimately, there's very little about this episode that's defensible. And it's apparent that this series is going to end in an Ahsoka-style cliffhanger where nothing's resolved and everyone's back to square one. Seriously, this is the worst episode yet.

This episode also tells u y Saul didnt know it was Mae who was the one on the ship with him. The girls have the same essence or wavelength so using the force to tell them apart isnt possible because they are one and the same in the force. The tattoo or the way they act is the only way to distinguish them.

I feel like Osha/Mae don’t make sense is because they’re meant to be one person.

The end credit song was my last straw. I tried defending some of the stuff, but r&b pop isn’t Star Wars. Artist themselves, while good, is yet another multi check box hire too instead of picking someone that would know how to make a Star Wars theme.

This episode broke me I hate this show now

Episode 3+7 should have been flashback scenes during the season, and episode 4+5 should have been one 50 mins episode instead. Maybe it's just me, but I absolutely dislike mid-season cliffhangers! This show really didn't need to be more than 6 episodes.

How many flashback scenes are in the six Star Wars movies George Lucas made? It's hard to stay in the moment and enjoy shows with all of the timeline jumping

The choice of music at the end was a real shock for me

episode 8 gonna have you looking like Chuck in the courtroom. IT WAS THE BIRTH MOTHER SHE ORCHESTRATED IT SHE GASSED HERSELF INTO A WOOKIE

Why does Sol try to hold up both platforms which look quite heavy and not just force pull the girls to safety?

What does any of this have to do with the sith guy? These writers are infuriating.

The lane rnb song in the credits was extremely out of place

I disagree, I was very impressed by how not anti-Jedi this episode actually was. This episode to me was all about tragedy caused by people acting on their assumptions and confusing their personal desires and feelings for reality. If anything it Sol and Torbin showing their inexperience as Jedi, which Indara emphasized

"Jedi screwing up and having to redeem themselves stories" have been done better in the past.

Flashback episodes are bad unless done VERY carefully, and choosing to make a penultimate episode a flashback episode is frankly insane

The funniest comment on twitter I say was saying that "This show was a tax write off" lmao

how have i seen nobody talking about how absolutely horrible the speeders look in this episode? it looks like a paper cutout of sol on a speeder pulls up then it cuts to a still shot of him getting off. where did the $180 million go???

Despite this episode "attempts" to portray the Jedi as bad I'm still firmly on their side. Sure they made mistakes, but that's all it was mistakes.

For episode 7 Disney really thought "episode 3 was one of the worst star wars products ever and the worst episode of The Acolyte, let's make it longer without adding anything"

I didn't think the witches were actually teleporting but we're casting an illusion of disappearing to throw off the Jedi. I understood that Sol was able to see through it somewhat and kill aniseya.

They tried to do Roshomon, but I feel like nobody making this actually watched Roshomon - or Kill Bill. Or Frozen.

I take issue with you saying someone invading and taking control of your mind is banal. That has to be one of the most invasive, cruel, and dangerous things you could possibly do to a sentient living being. It's not like she was just telepathicly communicating. We see that when they do that, they take control.

Now comes the question of how are they gonna kill everyone who knows of the sith in 1 episode

What’s driving me insane is waiting for these videos to drop

The witches are the villains here. The jedi did nothing (knowingly) wrong in this episode.

Calling it now. They are gonna end this on a cliffhanger, with the expectation that this show is gonna get a second season.

The execution issues you cite are also everywhere to be found in the sequel trilogy.

The girls just standing on the bridge screaming each other's names was the most idiotic scenes in the show, and there's a lot to choose from.

It's not going to wrap up they're probably going to make a season 2😭😭

The show is about what happens when Jedi mess around with powers they don't understand. They say they have to "study the vergence" and that's probably their biggest mistake. It may be a power that "protects" itself from being studied. They want to know more about the phenomenon that creates live, so they go one step to far, similar to Plegious and Palpatine.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Qamir himself is possibly Plagueis and has the ability to create life. First, this would explain why he still looks young despite it being implied that he's much older than what he looks. Perhaps he has the ability to continue to renew himself or prevent aging. At the end of the fifth episode when he rolls over Osha, it looks like he somewhat heals her wound or at least seals it? If he is Plagueis, is older, and can create life then perhaps he was involved in creating the twins. Episode seven emphasized that despite being twins they had the same aura signature (I don't think that was the exact wording but it's what I'm using) as if they are the same being split into two. Perhaps the original plan was that the twins go through the ceremony and one of them becomes the leader of the coven while the other becomes his apprentice? The witches seemed very against having Osha leave despite Mae still staying and leading the coven, almost as if they were scared for their own well-being if they let Osha go with the Jedi. When Qamir/Plagueis saw that the Jedi were taking Osha and may have heard Aniseya say that she was going to let Osha go anyway, he may have decided to then blow up the place and kill everyone. I mean, this episode still doesn't really show why the explosion happened. It seems unreal that a hallway fire caused all of that lol.

Hollywood reaaaallly needs to stop with the eight episode season bullshit

This is what happens when you write a show with Chatgpt

This won't be a story about sith. Qimir isn't sith. He's the acolyte and Coral will be the master. The "power of two" is Mae and Osha.

Eckhart, bombastic, Moist and RLM are the only star wars reviews i trust at this point. These channels seem to be the only ones judging these shows from an unbiased neutral standpoint

Questions from this episode: Why does Leslie Headland still have a job? Why does this episode exist? It’s basically a reshoot of episode 3 with like 4 extra scenes of Squid Game guy and Woman talking about Squid Game guy’s weird obsession with little girls, frizzy hair kid taking a blood sample, and like 1 fight with the wookie guy. No information is really gained, episode 3 is not meaningfully recontextualized, my mind isn’t really changed from the Jedis doing everything they could/should have done regardless. Why is everyone so traumatized by this. The events of this episode were apparently so bad that frizzy hair kid kills himself in episode 2 because he is just so guilt ridden and traumatized. Why. He literally did nothing wrong. THEY attacked HIM. He literally just wanted to go home, and this cultist inflicted a thinly-veiled rape allegory on him. How does any of this relate to smile face guy. How did May survive the infinite pit drop, flee the planet, and then manage to find presumably the only Sith in the universe at this point. Why does stopping the mind control instantly kill all the mind controlling women that seems like a severe design flaw. Why is it framed like I’m supposed to side with the women like they literally “assault” a little boy and harass this squad of monks over a blood test and a space themed eye exam. What the fuck was the main woman trying to do, she was “going to let her go because that’s what she wanted” but instead of just saying that we had to fight, turn into ghosts, and then die. Unless she was literally just saying shit to be funny this makes zero sense.

I would rather have flashbacks throughout the episodes than two completely pace-breaking flashback episodes.

Free dinner with kennedy

Sad we couldn't get an obi wan season 2 because season 1 was bad. 90mil for obi wan, 180 mil for the acolyte 😂.

I'm thinking that the last episode might be a double-length for the finale. I certainly hope it is, because I have no idea how they're going to wrap it up in 30 minutes.

What’s done.. is done.. but why insist on making it worse

I hope the eight episode is longer and more fleshed out because I get what you mean with going back twice with these rather short episodes. I really liked this episode but we have a lot of lose ends right now and if they end it on a cliffhanger I’m going to be rather disappointed.

I didn’t like either of the flashback episodes but overall I’ve been enjoying the show for what it is. I’m looking forward to seeing how the “current day” storyline wraps up.

A daily reminder each episode of this money laundering operation disguised as a bad star wars show cost more than godzilla minus one.

I mean, we know the safety standards in SW are non-existent. Nary a guardrail in sight. But, no fire suppression systems? No fire alarms? Lucas, please. Atmosphere on asteroids and sound in space? Sure. Lightsabres? Ok. The Force? OK. No fire suppression/alarm? That's where I draw the line.

Sol's killing of the witch mother made absolutely no sense to me. He fights the horned witch (whose name I can't remember even after just watching a video about it) by dodging unarmed first, only igniting his saber at the end to cut her staff; he fights the Wookiee the same way, using his saber as a last resort; but he sees the mother witch do something that looks a little scary and *immediately* gets stabby? I just don't get it.

Okay Ecks, what you call an "eight hour movie" is actually called a miniseries.

The shills/fans of the show telling haters to keep coping yet giving no actual examples of how it’s a good show is just as annoying as the haters who say it’s awful yet give no actual criticism and just say it’s woke

Mae went from lying during the test to suddenly answering truthfully about Ascension simply because the plot required it... and I just couldn't believe that a padawan would act as rashly as Torbin did, hopping on a speeder and racing back toward the same compound where his mind was invaded... his motivation was paper thin. Such a frustrating episode, I keep rooting for the show but the execution just keeps failing the underlying ideas.

I'm hoping we get a Patterson cut of the Acolyte that can move all the flashbacks around.

Nothing beats your “good boy” credits

Disney just cannot write or direct a half-decent Star Wars show

All that shilling got you no where

Prediction, they will think they’re super smart and have a twist reveal that Sol is a Sith as well

"The witches took things too far" How would you feel if someone broke and entered your home?

The biggest problem with the show really is just bad writing/execution and storytelling. It's been a recurring problem with a lot of the Disney era Star Wars. There have been interesting ideas that have either been executed poorly or marred by trying to push other messages into the story hamfistedly.

I honestly wish George just decided to end Star Wars all together instead of selling it.

This episode was great and it was the perfect follow up the its previous flash back one. Most people in the future will see this in a binge fashion so will get the answers they want sooner rather than dread out over months, leading to less frustration.

"How will they wrap up the story?" They won't, they only have one episode left...I speculate Qimir will get away, there'll be a few more pointless deaths, and nothing will get resolved because this series is supposed to be about the bad guys - not the good guys.

This show alone is ruining the whole franchise.

I went into this show with an open mind. It makes no sense. Everything from the little things like fire in space up to Sol’s reasoning the twins were in danger. I just can’t get into it.

#AskEck who do you think would win in all out war? The Reapers from Mass Effect, or the Necromorphs from Dead Space?

Boy the vibes have sure changed since episode five.

This show is a complete waste of money

No way, even Eckharts has stopped denying it after this crap?.. Maybe something will actually change

I think the message of this show is to accept the differences of others and not force your world view on them.

I don't understand how all the witches died, it made no sense to me. If their shared connection gets broken by one jedi they all die instantly?

I dont understand HOW you can like this show the "jedi" in this show are more emotional than a karen in a walmart

This is the most baffling SW show cause on paper showing the Sith side no matter how black and white the themes are in most telling of the good vs evil side in this franchise, there's always a chance for some ambiguity. And they just tossed that in the trash with the most garbage writing and execution. It's a vortex of suck.

I figured they just got knocked out but then died in the fire. That would make what Indara told the Council true, from a certain point of view. Seems a more fitting reading for Star Wars.

This episode created more questions than it could answer

I think what they wanted to go for is to show how the Jedi wreak just as much havoc as the Sith do, the difference is the Jedi do it unintentionally out of ignorance and self-righteousness.

The Acolyte: where fire can exist in the vacuum of space and rock is flammable.

My main concern about this show is how vague written it is. Even when I try to take the "unrelieble teller" into account I dont just get who is who in this story. It would help if the show established a clear protagonist in the begining who embarked on a journey to find out who was killing Jedi like the trailer suggested. But now it seams like the protagonist is swapping every episode and it makes for a really confusing story. And it does not seams that the story "unveals" more clues to solving the mystery as the season goes by - In fact I feel like it ads to the mystery with its vague written and I got the sense that the showrunner lead to much story choices to the individual directors instead of giving them a set of characters and story to direct. It also feels that "story goes over characters" a lot meaning that characters does things that the story need to take it to a certain point rather than the opposite. I really hope they can "stick the landing" but with this little time left I feel that we are gonna left as confused to where the seasons end as we are now without enough conclusions for us to feel satisfied over a good end of the season. The showrunner even said that she designed the show to be open for more seasons without many answers this season and it had me worried about where we are going. I can understand the cliffhanger and telling a story over many season but for a good mystery show that is said to peel of layers of the onion to feel like it has a good end it needs to solve many of the open end tickets and make us understand what the story was trying to tell us over this season. Like in The Bad Batch where the first season ended with the bombing of Kamino and the second with the capture of Omega - Both those seams like well earned season finale even thou I was heartbroken to leave us with Omega captured. I really wish they would have established who is who in the series early on. Like make it clear that Osha is the protagonist and Qamir is the antagonist and Sol is the main reason to why events went downhill and so forth. In that way I would have know that my heart was gonna be with Osha the whole season and so on. Or at least give us an protagonist who is investing in solving this mystery - Now its more like every person is revealing things to us as the story need rather than as the protagonist dig it up.

Its not that 8 episodes or even 30 min ep isn't enough to tell a good story, the issue is is what it focuses on and there's way too much

I honestly believe the story would have better pacing if episode 3 was just episode 1. Then they could renove all the exposition about the events of episode 3. Then THIS episode could be a flashback that we got in parts, instead of a standalone episode. The show has bigger problems, tbh, specifically the dialogue. I see a mot of people saying this episode is the worst of the show, but no way. This episode has the best dialogue and acting, and honestly I think its the highest quality episode so far. That isnt saying much, though, lol.

The overall Star Wars story needed a "hey, this is why people didn't always like/trust the Jedi" story. Jedi have always been the ones coming in and cleaning up the messes, not causing them. In our lives, we see so many cracks in organizations that were portrayed as being there to help us. Sometimes, even while trying to do "the right thing", we have the wrong people in the moment. A situation escalates that never should have occurred, and irreversible tragedy results.

*Gives you a medal for reviewing this* You did a brave thing tackling this monstrosity my man.

Im starting to think this show will indirectly explain anakins birth. Its likely the real sith became aware of the coven and "vergence" and will use one to tip the scales and thatll be how we get lil ani

I think people should cry a little more about this pretty good show. First completely new thing we've gotten with no nostalgia and all the weirdos are yapping about it.

They were all hostile darkside cultists.

Its so interesting hearing him talk about this after him speak on so many other shows

This could have been episode 3 with the elements from 3 combined into a 40 or so min episode. It's like they ran out of content, budget or have made a decision to make a fundamental change to the story late in production.

Disney Star Wars is usually so bad it becomes hilarious

I have no idea how on earth Disney and Dave Filoni can afford so much to make so many star wars series and movies for us to watch for FREE, and end up wasting a large part of it in the Acolyte, Episode 7, 8, and 9.

I just wanna say I really enjoy your content and to keep up the great job you're doing.

I think they are taking a step in the right direction. Although, 8 episodes isn't enough time to complete this narrative. The show has potential, I won't right it off until I see the last episode