I think the reason he says "what are you?" is that Sith haven't been seen for about 900 years at this point. This is probably the point where the Sith have probably faded to myth (at least to the public) and some probably wondering if they even existed at all at this point and also younger Jedi may not know that they wielded red lightsabers. And I'm also guessing that any Jedi who encounters this dark side user will not live to tell the council and thus keep the "the Sith haven't been seen in over a millennia" line from Phantom Menace canon.

But the Jedi didn’t always tell the truth. Qui Gon may have been told it had been many generations, but the Jedi kept lots of secrets.

"The Sith have been extinct for a millennia." "I do not believe the Sith could have returned without us knowing." These phrases come from the single most arrogant and narrow minded members of the Jedi Council. Why do we give them credence?

They showed us a sneak peek of the fight scenes after the Phantom Menace, and it was "Matrix- level" badass. 💯

Had the same thought: last time I was only whelmed by a SW trailer it was for Andor… and Andir turned out to be freakin’ amazing. So, cautiously optimistic.

You guys are having the weirdest takes on this one. "Why this story?" Because we've never deviated from a story being after Phantom Menace and before Force Awakens, and Disney is testing if people will be interested in shows and movies that expand beyond that, because parts of fandom have started really asking for it. You're sick of Tatooine? You're sick of post-empire? You're sick of pre-OT/post-PT? This show is them seeing how many people feel that.

I mean, all of the Skywalker era movies and shows take place over the course of 67 years. I'll gladly take something 100 years out from something we know.

I get the feeling Adam just does not want to like it.

Franchises will always have this struggle: How to introduce new ideas, characters, settings and situations without immediately justifying their existence. People are either turned off by "everything is connected to everything," or that "this new thing doesn't make sense with the information I have about this universe."

I used to really like your channel and felt like you were a force of positivity and I really enjoyed your excitement about things but these recent reviews on the Acolyte trailers have seemingly joined the chorus of supposed Star Wars fans that just hate everything new and breeds toxicity that hurts people. This tone is just very different from what I remember your channel being. People seem to forget how much the prequels were hated when they first came out and how intensely the toxic backlash affected actors and artists involved in the prequel movies. You are absolutely entitled to your opinion but as a lifelong Star Wars devoted fan myself, I’m extremely disappointed to hear you say, “yeah this series will have to prove itself to me”. Star wars in general as a societal era and a pop culture movement has literally been with me my whole life and made a very significant impact in my life. This series looks incredible. Some of us are excited and welcome all of it.

WELL NOW WE NEED A YOUNG JUSTICE REACTION BECAUSE ADAM SAID WHELMED

That mask is giving me Sith Chainsaw Man vibes. And now I'm picturing a mashup design in my head 🤯

The why? Because shit rocks. The Jedi are at the height of their powers. We will learn the why in the show. There is a lot of mystery in what happens and I am glad for it.

Is it ever exhausting to sit there and filter everything through a lens of "can I/should I/should everyone enjoy this?" instead of just enjoying it? I really don't understand it.

Little disappointing...Adam has clearly decided he already doesn't like the show. If the reactions end up like the Rebel Moon one (where they went in ready to crap on it and crapped on it for the sake of crapping on it) then I'll have to skip these

Ki Adi said the sith have been extinct for a millennia, but I predict this string of murders is going to go largely unexplained. The reason the antagonist is using knives is to not lead anyone back to the sith, but if someone does happen to encounter the red blade.. they're never seen again and thus can't let the word get out. Also, sorry y'all, I love ya but I'm confused by the confusion and hesitation. Show looks cool.

Darth Sidious wasn't born the day we first see him and Maul in The Phantom Menace. "The Sith have been extinct for a millennia" is false the second Mundi says it. Its to show the Jedi hubris and ego. They had been around for quite some time, but were smart enough to cover their tracks. Only Sidious was smart enough to find a way to reveal and pull off his plan to take out the Jedi. The previous ones remained in the shadows. If anybody survives that fight, they wont be believed either.

Adam is very obsessed with a single line said in the prequels by people known to bend the truth to a certain point of view and hush shit up.

i just i fucking love that carrie anne moss is playing another trinity-esque character

When will you resume reacting to Rebels?

I like this one, and I liked the reference to the Sith code. There is an obvious answer to why this doesn't reveal the presence of the Sith...all these Jedi on the expedition die.

The sith were in the shadows trying to manipulate everything for 800 years before the acolyte . Kidi mundi’s knowlege on the sith only goes so far . Yoda is known to hid things from the other members of the Jedi . He hid the existence of the nameless until it bit them on the ass whose to say he hasn’t done the same here

Force Nijas are a very cool idea. A force user who doesn’t have a light saber, or simply chooses not to use the saber, and instead leans more into using other force abilities with a different variety of weapons is dope. Use the Jedi Mind Trick and make everyone in the room you just walked into think you’re invisible. No one sees nothin. The negative about both this trailer and the last teaser is that the Jedi are always getting murdered. They are always getting hunted. And seriously, when was the last time we weren’t told the Jedi are the real bad guys because they’re secretly war mongers who are so drunk on their own Too Cool for School-Aid hubris. Like, I just want the Jedi to be an actual effective force for good again. Their fall is less and less impactful if they never actually had the moral high ground to begin with.

The asian guy is the main character from Squid game!!!!

Happy Revenge of May 5Th. Hope it’s good too.

The person wielding the red lightsaber reminds me of the guy the Night Sister from the Ahsoka series resurrected. His armor looked just like that, and he turned into green smoke when he was defeated, remember? I think this may be the rise or fall of the Night Sisters of Dathamere.

I agree with Adam, that is the same place shown where Carrie-anne moss is fighting the Ninja, but it looks like a completely different time of day.... so perhaps they are toying with us in some fashion.... or they are using Eclipse imagery for when Jedi Master Trinity dies.

Havent seen a sith in a millenia... this is only a hundred years. Enough jedi die, that no one knows about this sith, to be able to inform the council that the sith are back.

I think it's possible that the thing that is missing for you guys is how this ties in to the story we already know, which has become one of the biggest joys of new Star Wars - a different perspective in a familiar story. But my guess would be that the way in which this ties in will be the big reveal of the whole show, and so can't really be made clear in the trailer.

I have zero idea what's going on, and quite honestly, I like the fact that I cannot pinpoint this series to a lot of the Star Wars lore that I already know, and that's good! Many times, I'm like, oh I know this reference, or I know who that is, or where this is. This leaves me open-minded to new lores and new adventures, and I'm excited for this series! 🤩👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Thank you I have been saying it since the beginning! Moss is the Jedi who gets killed! She’s only in one scene everytime

Adam's right to a point. The Sith supposedly had not been seen in a millenia, but that very well could be so that the Council could keep everything hush hush and protect the peace. The council were also so full of hubris they simply couldnt imagine it happening during Phantom Menace. I also doubt they could admit someone was just going around easily killing off a bunch of Jedi, because to the people that may show they really arent all that powerful.

people are being so weird, this looks so cool. exactly the kind of star wars I've loved since reading those weird only semi-official history of the sith books before the disney buyout. I just hope the lightsaber fights don't take the entire season to get to, but I think we could get some real epic sith war flashbacks as these jedi learn about the past and could be some of my favorite star wars in a long time. im super excited.

my wild guess is that releasing the phantom menace and this trailer on the same day is related. i suspect that they'll reveal a hidden but strong connection between the two stories. on another note, i heard that one of the jedi in this series uses not a light saber but a light whip. i hope they show some of that.

big love of this oen, a great time for sure!~

I had to watch the opening few seconds of this trailer multiple times to understand what was being said, and finally turned on the subtitles, which informed me the first two words are "Last night." I don't know what garbled word that actor is actually speaking, but it's not "night."

The council didn't believe qui gon when he said it was a sith. It was their arrogance and their hubris that blinded them. And besides it could be like what they did in the high Republic with the nameless they encounter them and just keep it on the hush hush until years later when they appear. The Jedi could have done the same thing with this sith.

For those of us that are newer to the fandom and have not read the books or played the video games or dug deep into the history, I appreciate that Star Wars is giving us content in an easily consumable format that helps explain the lore and why things are the way they are in Star Wars. And I think that red light saber user almost looked like Venom from the side!

Yeah, I thought after the teaser that Carrie-ann Moss' character is killed early in the series. A bummer balecause it feels a bit like stunt casting, but we'll hopefully get her in some flashbacks.

so Adam is saying Trinity is the Aunt Robin of Star Wars' Secret Invasion. I honestly can't wait to see how it all plays out

I feel like this trailer is going to be so misunderstood because the High Republic comics and books are not overly popular. There is so much that is different about the galaxy than what you see in the Skywalker timeline. A lot more force groups, both light, dark, and grey. And the Jedi are becoming the insular organization we are familiar with. it would only make sense that if some sith lord, or acolyte appear, the Jedi would hide that information. At this point, it would be self preservation.

Frustrated Jedi: "But Master, why didn't you tell us about the Sith?" Everyone starts singing: "We don't talk about Bruno-no-no-no...."

Please be good please be good I’m hopeful… there’s potential for it to be a good show 👍

I found that Sith to be quite ominous and unsettling. The toothed helmet looked so sick.

I agree with you Adam about Carrie's character dying. I thought that the first time I watched it.

Brand new world of the sith and jedi, i love it. This looks very new, that so many people are unsure of the why this exists. People need to just watch it. Its star wars. Its a new story and a way to expand the world. However we just want epic and badass jedi and sith battles. With a bit of emotional vibing.

Peace is a lie is the first part of the Sith Code.

Carrie is not dead they gave us a sneak peak at phantom menace this weekend for the 25th anniversary in theatres

It's "reported" to explain the prophecy origin!! @12:45 rumor has it, Yoda's face shows they only "thought" the sith had been gone.

I'm excited enough for both of y'all. 🤓

I'm in the same boat of confusion as Adam: If this is supposed to be set approx 100 years before ep1 and the Jedi seem to not know what a sith is... I'm not sure exactly where this lands from the point of canonical knowledge we have. What im wondering is, what if this is the origin of Darth Plagueis and the start of Palpatines rise? That could honestly be an interesting take on how the sith return into the films history

Can’t wait!

Maybe there are no lightsaber-throwing stars, but Vernestra Rwoh (who's in this trailer) has a "light whip" instead of a lightsaber in the High Republic publications. So, its got that going for it.

This is the sith revealing themselves again. But due to that statement in Phantom Menace, I have a theory that all those jedi are going to die.

I reckon we're seeing the same tactic they used to advertise the Mandalorian. That it's a lot of footage from the first couple of episodes culminating in that fight scene before it focuses on the Acolyte herself. Because I can't see them maintaining the flow of star wars history if any those Jedi make it out of that situation alive

"If you want to pull the thread, change everything, then pull it." Is this going to start an alternate timeline?

Worth saying Carrie Ann Moss is in another non-wooden room shot later on with another jedi. Could be the other one that gets murdered.

I would say its safe to assume that any Jedi who encounters the Sith in this show will die. So as to preserve the whole "we've never encountered a Sith in a 1000 years thing" from TPM. Especially since we know Jedi were killed by the Sith before TPM (that's how Sith get their lightsabers). I also think it would be dope if they get rid of/retcon Darth Tenebrous with this show. Have Mae (Amandla's character) being trained by the current Dark Lord of the Sith to become the new Sith Lord. End the show either with Mae becoming the new Dark Lord of the Sith or simply just fully becoming the Sith Lord. And then tease in some way that she will ultimately be the one who trains Plagueis. Cause its not like Tenebrous has any interesting lore anyway.

Which makes me think that NONE of them are gonna survive to tell the tale.

I think that Shark Face is either Mae's twin sister or that Filipino merchant who gives the speech about Jedi being oppressive.

I agree that Carrie-Anne Moss’s character is maybe the first or second Jedi that is killed. It also looks like there are magic users in this, or perhaps they’re Nightsisters, which could be cool, or it might break Star Wars.

If you want the why in the trailer then why do you need to see the show after that? If they show me enough to get me intrigued then I will watch it to see the why in the show. Just my opinion… 🤷‍♂️🤓🥰

i'm interested in this show but yeah i had to watch the trailer twice lol. i cannot help but wonder if the jedi maybe suppressed the information or they all died which is why the council 100 years later says the sith hadn't been seen in a 1000 years. that's what's intriguing to me.

The High Republic era along with the Visions short episodes is exactly what Star Wars need. Fresh ideas. Yes, Star Wars has always been about the rise and fall of Anakin Skywalker. It is one of the greatest stories ever told! Filoni will complete this saga (with his "Filoni-verse") but Star Wars needs to go beyond the Skywalker saga. They did it before with the Old Republic stories, they must do it again now. What I like about the High Republic is that they also bring in some of the aspects/elements of the Old Republic stories. The Acolyte takes place around the end of the High Republic era where the Jedi have been "weakened" by other threats (presented in the comic books and novels). It will show us how the Sith (who are considered a myth now) returned and how the events will lead to Plagueis, Palpatine e.t.c..

I saw phantom menace in the theater and they showed a preview .scene .Im shocked its not leaked yet .it was really good action ,what i saw .i dont want to spoil anything

I'm still wondering if Acolyte might be an origin story for Palpatine.

Maybe this is the origin story of Darth Palegius (sp?)? That would help us understand Palpatine/Sidious and his rise.

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon but Star Wars

There is so little Star Wars? 11 movies? 3 animated series with 100's of episodes and what 50+ episode of live action shows, 40-50 videos games and 100's of books, board games, comics, ttrpg, 1000s of toys...? Uh........there is PLENTY of starwars

Careful with the canon Adam regarding "we haven't seen the Sith for a millennium". George Lucas been retconning this damned I.P. since 1983. Vader's papa now? Give me a break. Luke and Leia are twin siblings? give me a break. Then what did we get next. Greedo shot first! Retcon retcon retcon. Hell "return of the Jedi" was originaly called "Revenge of the Jedi" I had a poster sent to me by the LucasFilm fan club back in the early 80s. RETCON RETCON RETCON that's the George Lucas way. Disney just keeping with tradition that George set. It's bewilders me how so many Star Wars fans don't like the retcon. I got used to it at the age of 11 when I saw Return in the theaters as a kid. I'm 51. 40 (edit) years of retconning I can handle it. Seems everybody else is weak in the knees. Sucks to not be me.

The makers of this series are making the trailer's like this not to spoil us on the plot which I like. There are too many spoilers in film and TV trailers these day. Plus more lightsaber fighting is good to me. :)

They are holding a lot back because it's a murder mystery with twists and turns. I expect the initial interest/viewership will be modest. It will find a larger audience if the first few twists/reveals really land.

Reminds me of Emil from Nier... only more evil force-clownie

I think someone in the order lied to the majority of the order about the sith being back, so they weren't expecting it when episode 1 happens😊

And Obi-wan kenobi didn't remember R2D2 in A new Hope. I think it is okay to recon small details like Mace Windu mentioning the sith haven't been seen in a millennia. We also know that the Republic is HISTORICALLY bad at predicting stuff and knowing things. Yoda the entire prequel trilogy was constantly pissed off about how much he couldn't see of past, present, or future. The council is part of why the Jedi fell from being the holy order they were into mercenaries. So let's maybe not take some side line Mace says as verifiable fact.

Just did my reaction! I was way off about the sith lol

Either all the Jedi die, the person isn’t actually a Sith, the Sith cover everything up, the Jedi just lie and cover everything up I wouldn’t put it past Yoda given how dumb the council was. Any of these options could be the case

love the Chopper t-shirt! I love AND hate Chopper. I enjoy watching him and his shenanigans but I don't think I would EVER want to be around him in real life. How many times could have been the reason for one of The Rebel's death?!?!?! Fuck that robot. BUT. I LOVE HIM what's wrong with me?

The Jedi's hubris are their downfall. They didn't recognize the Sith had returned in TPM until it was too late, and in all likely hood, they either defeat this guy or just brush it under the rug and assume the Sith are still destroyed and that he isn't Sith, just another force user with a red lightsaber because the Jedi of this time WOULD DO THAT; probably keeping the information ONLY to Council members too, but probably only like Yoda. Yoda himself even swept the massacre the Jedi did to the Nameless in the High Republic under the rug, so a 'Sith' appearing and then disappearing would also just be forgotten and not told to the Republic or the rest of the Order.

I just need a slightly younger yoda rendition

Every Star Wars series, going back to Clone Wars, set out to do two things. They tell the story of the characters on the series, and in doing so uncover more about the overall Star Wars Universe. The most recent example of this is Bad Batch. It's both the story of Omega and her space dads, and an exploration into the Empires practices in experimental cloning. Granted, it was like a 90%-10% split on that, which made the show a bit of a slog for me because I was more interested in the weird cloning stuff. So I'm very interested to see what this show adds, and how it goes about that. From the trailers I have no clue. That's not a bad thing though. I'd rather learn from the show than the trailer.

Hold on bro said there is so little star wars right now... like bruh...

Its abeloth 100%the smile mask

Its an s&m mask.

Sure enough, it’s a superpower kung fu movie, like The Matrix.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Flop

My dudes, Jedi lie. A lot. Frequently. Just because they said a Sith hasn’t been seen in a hundred generations doesn’t mean that’s the actual truth. Just like Obi Wan’s lie about Vader murdering Anakin Skywalker

sadly they've said the episodes are going to be 25-30 minutes. And that includes credits time. So Its going to suffer from the same shorted story telling the other shows theyve made have.

Adam, I agree. I think this movie spoils Carrie-Anne's fate. As for the whole Sith being unheard of, Yoda slips Mace a sidelong glance that basically says that's not entirely true.

NIghtsisters?

It's the end of the High Republic, an entirely new era in live action. Without knowing details this looks like maybe, MAYBE, the start of the sith re-emergence. The Jedi believed the Sith were gone because for millennia they were. But the Dark Side is always present. One thing I would recommend is to not look for too many connections to the eventual prequels era. Yes, everything is connected in SW but I get the impression this is more about the Jedi beginning their slow journey to being more fundamental. In the High Republic the Jedi are far more looser, more colorful, they have unique connections to the Force and are encouraged to tap into their individuality to enhance the Order overall. By the prequels they were much more monk-like. Way more rigid in their approach to the Force and a more rigid adherence to the rules.

I’m pretty much aligned with Adam on this. I’d say the only things that make me interested is the showrunner, who has done good stuff before, and the general story vibe of “Jedi Detectives”. I’m much less interested in more lore dumping. If the characters are interesting and well written, I’m on board

I got a bit giddy when he quoted the part of first line of the Sith Code lol "Peace is a Lie, there is only Passion." I hope they recanonize it in this series.

Get em Kylo Ren Xenomorph!!

The response of the council was basically "Well we agree you were attacked Qui Gon, though your evidence he was a Sith is possibly weak and contradicts what we do know...... we'll use all our resources to look into this though as it is important". They didn't dismiss everything, they were just understandably doubtful that the Sith proper had returned. As for the trailer...... yeah this show has nothing for me. I can see a good show being built into the idea of a person falling to the dark side. That story has legs. But Disney has shown no ability to tell that story previously so I doubt they can do so here.

I still think that Disney should go forward instead of back. Go 200 years (at least) into the future. Establish a new type of Force user and go from there. Also, 100 years before ep1 is not that long ago for this to be called High Republic era. Dooku was 83 when he died. All the old heads would have been around for these events to have been relevant stories. 100 BBN is still in regular Republic. Not High Republic. Okay, just looked it up and this would be near the end of the High Republic era.

Unless it isn’t a Sith? Maybe someone who doesn’t go by the title of a Sith? The colour is generally just a signifier of your ‘side’ or allegiance to the force, the dark or the light. But seems hard to believe it wouldn’t be a Sith. Idk

If that's a sith then either all the jedi get killed or they cover it up

Are you not reacting to Rebels anymore? Are you not reacting to the final season of Bad Batch?

im confused wtf Adam is confused about 🤨