your dad sounds like an awesome guy :)

It's funny, I remember a few years ago seeing articles about how gen z were doomed and millenials were doomed before that when I was a teenager. Also if we look at the broad age range of the star wars fanbase and the behaviour of said fanbase it's painfully clear gen alphas didn't invent tantrums or bratty behaviour and vast swathes of gen z, millenials and gen x never matured beyond em.

Alan has the courage to speak up for the collective community, despite facing potential backlash from the mob and risk losing his subscribers 👍👍... as we are constantly reminded, Alan's allegiance is to the republic, to democracy.

Ditto, and thank you.

Only generational tech and screencrush

@@darthsullenThor Skywalker is IMO. I’ve always liked Generation Tech, but Alan is definitely dipping into the “positivity for the sake of positivity” narrative after the backlash to The Acolyte. In one of his recent videos, he literally said “Yeah it’s bad, get over it.” That’s one of the most braindead arguments you could possibly make to defend anything.

@@russellmxnia Talking about a specific plot point, not the whole. Context matters more than details. Without one the other just becomes weaponized misinformation.

Its strange cause Tech knows Leslye is a fan because he pays attention further than just the usual surface level stuff , shes clearly a prequel baby and is the first one making a show now .

@@Crocthunder She even predates the prequels. I'm only a few years older than her, and based on what I've read/seen, she was a huge fan of a lot of the Legends books I read growing up. George had a lot of influence over those early novels, so it makes sense that they built on rather than undermined his vision.

He has also recently said Disney doesn’t understand the force lol so I’m gonna go with what Lucas has actually said. The answer is yes. He wouldn’t like this show because he has already said that.

@@billylocke9633 People understanding George's vision of the Force has no bearing on whether the material is true to George's original vision for Star Wars. Right now, the only people I see pushing the idea that The Acolyte doesn't align with George's original, approved material is either pushing an agenda or isn't familiar with the original Star Wars works (or both). The fact that The Acolyte addresses the Force in a somewhat cryptic and unknowable way is exactly in line with every Star Wars project through the Prequels.

I dont dislike the Acolyte because of its relation to Star Wars lore. I dislike it because the acting is so poor, the dialogue is so bad it makes Lucas' dialogue akin to Shakespeare. I cannot stand bigots who dislike women, and women of colour especially. The treatment of the actresses in the Disney sequels on Social Media was disgusting. I had always asumed that ALL STAR WARS fans were tolerant, folk who didnt care if you were green, were covered in hair or whatever. and it was a shock to see half of the fan base are Trump bigots who spew hatred and intolerance, who targetted Kelly Marie Tran & Daisey Ridley especially. Their love of Star Wars will always have a sour taste because of those idiots. just as they hurt Jake Loyd, Terryl Whitlatch [who created Jar Jar Binks ] and Ahmed Best who played him. watch the behind the scenes video of the Phantom menace and Terryl was so excited about a character she created, as a fun character for kids - only to be so horribly insulted by a bunch of Star Wars 'fans' who expected Lucas to recreate the feeling they had as kids in 1977. but who never grew up, and whatever resentment they had with life poured out so much vitriol. F. them ALL.

so true. Those who hate their life and took it our on George Lucas - the man who enriched so many people's lives was unforgivaable- George gave us so much but was heartbroken at this small minority of idiots who never grew up and spoiled his enjoyment of the prequels that so enriched the SW lore. watch the 'making of" video and see the effort of thousands of prople it took to bring his vision to life and you cant help but love them all for that gift.

Hell yeah, as much as the 3d clone wars is good, the OG cartoon is what i always watch in between episodes 2 and 3 when im watching all the movies

⁠@@dib_human6151Same here!

@@dib_human6151 It's strange though because each series creates it's own plot hole surrounding Ashoka in ROTJ lol. If you just watch clone wars 2003, then you can't watch the modern stuff without questioning where she is. But if you just watch Clone Wars 2008 then it makes you question why in God's name Anakin doesn't go and help Ashoka after defeating Dooku in ROTJ lmao. Dude literally knows she's going to face Maul and does fuck all about it? You cant possibly reconcile that with his portrayal in the clone wars 😂😂

@@shoolcreates1999 Ahsoka didn't exist when Clone Wars 2003 was canon thing. If anyone, you should say that about Asajj Ventress, she's in both series.

@@LukiKruki I know lol, it just bothers my OCD 😂 I can't help but ask these questions. It's even worse with the canon stuff bc that's what they've chose to go with and it's completely disjointed lol.

I believe only a small few with bullhorns are doing this. I know I have a lot of respect for Anthropology. And I know my kids and my grandkids have the same feelings as well. Endlessly fascinated by new discoveries and new questions. I saw your posted and wanted you to know that I do love ya guys. and if marketing has any truth, and 1 person can represent 10k of people, there are probably 10k of people who feel as I do. Keep up the discoveries!

can imagine you guys not having many allies. when I was younger I wanted to study anthropology but my mother talked me out of it

I have a very deep respect for anthropology. Thank you for all your hard work

As a future history teacher, I salute you. Many people are pretty interested in kicking everything that treats humans like complex beings out of the window.

Social studies was always my favorite class in middle school :)

RIP the south veiness, afganess I guess.

There are dozens and dozens of well informed Star Wars being extremely specific about why this show isn’t good. It’s hilarious how folks totally ignore the completely valid and correct criticism.

@@billylocke9633 Maybe if the valid criticism wasn't drowned out by the "go woke go broke" weirdos, we could have real conversations again

Homie does his fair share of mud slinging. Only difference is that you are on his side.

​@@ericp1139 where

@@ericp1139 "side" LOOOOOOOOOOL are you waging a secret war right now? Are you one of the elite enlightened people fighting against the "enemy." HAHAHAHAHA sides lmao. I can't take some of you guys seriously.

@LysimedVenteel What about Krypton to Alderaan?

@@Cert1f1edM1dget Access media literally do exactly this by claiming there's an "enemy" of toxic fans, and this video claims that critical videos either don't, or generally don't, use rational argument

I just did, thanks for the recommendation. :)

Exactly. Jedi are larger than life. No reason to show them doing mundane things.

Blue milk lactose intolerant: A Star Wars story

​@@ericp1139 I guess you don't remember Grand Master Yoda just being a little goblin on Dagobah, or Obi-Wan living in a little desert igloo. Humility is a core tenet of the Jedi philosophy. Qui-Gon understood this. Yoda realized this caused the downfall of the Jedi. Being larger than life caused the downfall of the Jedi. Theory is a contrarian clown.

Yeah Sith don't need sustenance at all. They're fueled with rage for many decades 🤭 I hope good mental healing for the man / woman who made that whine 🤞

Did he think Jedi don’t poop?

" What is this ?! This is all that is left of the New speeder you just got ?! Drunk, scrap up, bloody bruised, holding the remaining handle of your bike ! wHERE ARE yOUR CLOTHES YOU DRUNK ! " C.Horn, " Look, it isn't what it really looks like." 2.) Love the novel from a space cop, rebel fighter pilot, and Jedi in training. Covering history of the early Empire, and the cheap hokey " Jedi " ghost story tv series where the brave Imperial investigator puts down the insane Jedi. Nearly forgotten in the Core worlds but still watched as booty leg underground copy in Hutt space. Ham it up the Jedi Sith'ish boogie man to scare the smugglers and space pirates.

Cooking?

​@@theodorgussburger7470 Cooking= Creating content. You can see this saying a lot in DC Fandom 🙂 "Gunn is cooking" + words like that ^^ [DC Fan since early -90's & as a kiddo i used to watch when cousin hand drew DC characters]

@@Fedaygin i have watched it too and also Alien and many others. I am a writer myself. I have publish ed texts only under pseudonym. It was succesfull, now I am on an end of a Writerv's Block - a Long time I couldn't write, but I am Back to Cook.

Like how light sabers only kill? Like though out the prequls we see they don't have too.

seriously, I'm so fed up with the hyper-polarized channels, and the hyper-polarizing responses from some of the staff and cast. Its all so silly. Allens been killing it!

"look how they did muh childhood hero dirty!" Luke Skywalker cults? I hardly thought those people exist 😅

@@Darren_Xero haha seriously, other channels top complaint for every Star Wars series after the sequels is “WHERE’S MUH LUKE SKYWALKER” while frothing at the mouth

That's a little hyperbolic, no one thinks he is a priest but on the other hand he is the creator of the SW universe so there's that...

@@chocomalk I mean yeah but IMO he wasn't the best storyteller, he's great at world building, but everything else not so much, and he already made the general Star Wars universe so it's not like his vision would really help or mean much. The prequels narratively weren't all that great, the dialogue was really unnatural and weird, the story of the prequels only really was made interesting by the other Star Wars media around it that built upon the lore of the prequels.

What a trite and hysterical take on the fandom and what Lucas made. Is this the kind of nonsense that people comment on this channel?

I mean I think we have to wait and see, I really like yord, jecki and even Sol I think they’re flawed but ultimately good Jedi. Also if you read the legends and eu stuff before Disney bought Star Wars . The Jedi did a lot of crazy stuff that’s far worse than what Disney had done. Well probably do a video about it next week

@@GenerationTech still, in my 47 years of being a fan... Look, Vader choking a mfer out for back talking? Damn son. Ok. Watch yo mouth around the dark lord (should have been your first hint right there). Darth smiley straight up twisting Yord's nugget the whole way round without effort or 2nd thought? Fukn SAVAGE.

I know he's mentioned that he offered to help out with the sequels and was basically brushed off by Disney who didn't really care to hear his ideas.

@@Pseudowolf which is why I say he was not a fan of the direction those movies went

He liked The Last Jedi? I knew I was in good company :)

You are not alone! ❤

That's why I subbed tbh

Yes, and this is why Alan's content requires a higher then average IQ to watch and understand. Smoothbrain channels like Scoundrel's Cantina and Critical Drinker just feed their talking point of "disney bad woke bad, oh my gosh look at these people of color, there are so many of them, that's literally white genocide!"

Eh... Eckhart's kinda losing his way. His videos and titles are so clickbaity now I'm encouraged to scroll past them. I get he's doing what he needs to to survive the algorithm, but yuck.

I've actively avoided SWE because I was under the impression that was a nasty channel. Is that not the case?

@@kodyshaw6991 definitely not the case at all. Alex and Mollie are great people and never have anything overly negative to say

haha , those haters , their force are not strong , clouded by the dark side

Hell yeah 👍🏻💯

@@Ikcatcher go watch his most recent interview for yourself then💁🏽‍♀️

@ikcatcher the worst kind of fans are the PDFILES the acolyte brings in

El Bueno 🙂 I wish you good trip to Galaxy Far, Far Away when streaming Beautiful The Acolyte via D+ 🧘‍♂

12 year old range hits into alot of space when you consider the Doctor Who franchise was made for 8 year olds.

@ImNotTheProtagonist 10-14 is a perfect age for nostalgia. It's where you start fully percieving the world but don't have too much bias from previous experience. For me that was the prequels which I recently watched with my 8 year old who was snoring lol 😆.

Headland said she’s interested in the era but I who knows what will happen now

I think a show has fundamentally failed if they can't hook you by the third episode. You shouldn't feel obligated to watch an entire show, especially on the merit of "I know you aren't hooked 6 episodes in, but trust me the ending is worth it"

I think it's more an issue of hooks. If you don't have a good hook into a story, you're not going to care. I remember an interesting case years ago, there was a film a while back my buddy and I saw in theaters. We normally give our quiet commentary throughout the film, either praising or hazing it. For the first half of the film we were poking fun. But in the last half, we got hooked. We stopped the commentary and just watched. We got invested, and ultimately loved the movie. To the matter at hand, The Acolyte has not sparked this. I find myself enjoying the show more by tearing it apart rather than getting hooked by any story or character. Even my girlfriend, who is much less critical than me and is easier to please with cinema, kept asking me how much longer the episode was because she was bored to tears. If you don't have a good hook(s), you make your own fun with a show.

I think you’re right about some of the comments, but a lot of them were also taken out of context. It’s also really scary to be on the receiving end of a lot of hatred most of us don’t know what it feels like. It does come with the territory of being a Star of course but more empathy from both sides is definitely welcome

@@GenerationTech With the things I hear, both sides are not helping their case with what they're doing and saying. adding fuel to a wild fire that shouldn't be burning.

The little baby books back in 2003 " This is not lore accurate starwars is ruined "

The lost fans yes but most see the cartoons as the best star wars we have left.

.. official Star Wars RPG .. WEG west end games d6 dice pool system. Then had to do a homebrew AD&D cross with TMNT, yeah early 1990's as teenagers were fun. Then WotC 3e d&D/ Star Wars came out, then 3.5e revised edition for the AotC. Then a new group of teenagers I had to deal with in my twenties, .. Must cross Wotc3e D&D with .. Harry Potter. Then do Skill Ranking of magic spells like Jedi force skills. Whatever it took to get the teenage grandchildren out of Granny's hair. Not forgetting Star Wars 4e Saga edition, which no one at my gaming shop at the time really cared for its system. I got close to 6 or 8years in my twenties playing Star Wars as an adult. Over the years, meeting people out shopping for food. They .. refuse .. to play any edition unless its current official because the rest isn't .. canon. So I tell them, " I do not deal with children under the age of thirty. Follow comics long enough or watch Star Trek, everything that has been .. recon .. over the years is just regarded as Alternate timeline realities. Except for the Princess Leia being Wookie jokes, those are canon in any reality. I loved the " Baron Fel, " comic.

@@krispalermo8133 WEG would likely be my 2nd choice. WotC Star Wars is too "D&D" for me. I'd potentially go as far as PbtA, FATE, or maybe GURPS for running/playing Star Wars. Power creep can be bad in any game with "progression"..and that is embedded in the design of many RPG systems. The issue with "canon" is all about the premise: hey, all this lore exists, some may be true and accurate, while some may be false or otherwise inaccurate. the story at this table, is about your characters...not all these other characters in star wars "canon". This is why I prefer a more cinematic, narrative system which is what the "current official version" was designed to emulate - taking inspiration from previous editions and other game systems pre-2011. The spirit of Star Wars always begins at A New Hope. Yeah, I prefer gaming with humans who have fully formed brains, so thats like age 25+. A little life experience, a little maturity, a better sense of how to interact respectfully - including a bit of self control.

@@orokusaki1243 Nicely written, .. We got Star Wars cause G.Lucas couldn't get Flash Gorgon. If Flash Gorgon was a hit, then more money would have been funded to Lucas .. pet .. project, .. Star Wars. Biggest film to toy action figure gabble in history. Funny thing about .. Star Wars .. before the renaming as " A New Hope." a.) Basic concept ideal, made into a comic and short novel. Since the art was still 1970's space fantasy Flash Gorgon or Buck Rogers along with the Misleading movie posters. People went in thinking/expecting one thing and they got something completely different beyond what anyone has seen before. Such as Carrie running into the hanger bay, on the big screen/ drive in movie theater. I was too young to understand. There was a few reasons Why teenage boys and men bought tickets to rewatch the movie again. b.) As for the movie itself, OMG watching the multiple behind the scenes filming and all the edit cuts to get something watchable. So you had at the time The Official Edited, where the book follows all the action in the movie. Word for word. Like the Kenton Batman movie bubble gum card collection set. c.) Then something about the radio drama, or audio caset books of the time. Remember the Read Along plastic records books that had a near plastic texture pages ? d.) Now you have the Novel, which briefly cover Lukes's life, education from the local imperial garrison. Along with uncle Owen views of Luke slacking. Luke, " I already met the stander of a sand trooper and recon scout speeder rider." Owen, " Oh, so instead of you and your friends doing nothing and bike racing all day, you decided to con the empire into Paying you to do nothing and ride around all day." ... stated as a Very OLD joke. Even the garrison commander wanted Luke to wait a couple of more years to mature and lose his whine. But he can't wait much longer to enlist to get career bonus. If he is conscripted and he will be due to his skills & grades he end up with few career advancements. What you see on film is Official Canon, .. but the book filling in the nature of what life is like. e.) Film test footage to set the hallway running scene with the .. twins. The actors not treating it as a live take were giggling as they ran, and ran straight into the wall falling over each other. The overhang shot, Powes in Vader suit had his glove off and pointing his fingers as they ran to line up their movement cause he was .. bored. So .. they wrote in novel that Vader was waiting in their passing and cause them to run into the wall by Clouding their perception of the hallway walls. Making of the film into the novel, in house production joke. 2.) Other than Han shot first or not, .. the point made in film was in the location .. no one cared and that was what life was like there. As for Kenobi cutting that guy's arm off, .. even as a " As a 6year old " if Jedi are in hiding you Don't Flash a Jedi weapon ! You use a taser to Not draw Imperial attention to you. a.) Newpaper comic page, and Sunday comics later reformatted into what later came know as Marvel Classic Star Wars comics. In short, .. Jedi lightsabers had .. bounties .. on them by the empire, and black-market prizes to those in Hutt space. b.) Other than the OT movies, everything else about Star Wars and it going into a RPG, was through the comics and G.Lucas cash grabbing on D&D. Videos games were still a sad stated during the late 1980's. I was 12years old, well I was 11yo and going to be 12 by end of summer 1989. I got a hold of Star Wars magazine and it advertise WEG and how to story board a Star Wars comic or novel into an RPG. My parents at the time were still in their Southern Baptist Church control freak stage and the B.s. of the Satanic Panic. Yeah, life was fun, FU. If you read all of this, god bless your sweet heart. c.) Then the Thrawn trilogy came out and we got Mara Jade.

@@krispalermo8133 Imagine a world where Flash Gordon was the hip sci-fi adventure franchise...I shudder and grimace. I've got like 5 years on ya. I saw ANH in the theater sometime in '78, it ran for over a year in 1st run theaters and then another year or more in 2nd run theaters. I got all the stuff minus maybe 2 or 3 figures for christmas...I was blown away by the scope and how fresh it was in comparison to *all* previous sci-fi I had seen. Heh, makes me think of Spaceballs, Mel Brooks agreed to not make merchandise at GL's request..thus the scene at Yogurt's cave. Yeah, the original script was rewritten quite a bit and there were certainly other media besides the film that may have used some of the notes (or just plain embellished, unauthorized) in addition to the script. It is said that Star Wars was "saved in editing" by GL's then wife. Else, it might have been a bust and we'd not have seen even the Holiday Special. The sensation exploded in many directions, for sure. While I do think some of the released deleted scenes for the film would've been fine to leave in, I'm sure there were many more that never got released because they just didn't add to the film in any positive way. Some of it was seemingly just GL awkwardly projecting his own life onto characters, with the racing and such. For sure, the mysterious "clone wars" and why this hermit on a remote world now wants to go save the galaxy at the beckon call of some hologram girl. That stuff is certainly something interesting to explore, and that new RPG sensation that had people's panties in a bunch was precisely the kind of vehicle in which to make those explorations of this fantastic "new" far away galaxy that existed a long, long time ago. Kids have always wanted to roleplay - cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, hostess and guests, and so on. A game with clear rules and a randomizer, in which nerds tell stories with each other. It is too bad about the satanic panic...but there were sci-fi and other genres that didn't have angels and devils. Still a lot of fantasy, and exploration in that fantasy, would likely have been also demonized by the closed minded or those who otherwise just couldn't understand the hobby. BTW, in Obi-Wan's defense, those were two really bad dudes and one of them had just drawn a blaster, both were fine with killing. Obi-Wan didn't expect to be on-planet for very much longer anyway. So it did make sense to use his lightsaber, from a certain point of view. I definitely stand by my opinion that the original film is the heart and spirit of Star Wars, and from that sprang all these other stories, embellishments, and various fan-fictions. I even consider further GL contributions as fan-fiction, but a higher order of fan-fiction than some novel writer or tv producer/writer. LOL, read, parsed, replied. ;)

In short my view, the Force can be translated into " the holy spirit," or divine breath. Now as for the Darkside, .. 1980's Florida being a Southern Baptist area, and I was a 10year old Yanky Catholic that could tan as a Cuban, I'm Sicilian/German and I wasn't being treated as .. whyte .. enough. I had speech problems with stutter, glasses, and hearing difficult. What do you call an adult that bullies a disabled child ? I also had hyper fight or flight which throw me into cold sweats and shaking. " .. panic attacks .." Along with being told on a weekly bases that my grandparents were going to hell cause they were Catholic/ Lutherans. After head butting adults in their eye socket for mocking/bully about my grandparents in their personal faith in G*D, I tell them .. " I find your Lack of Faith disturbing." 2.) Now as for Life isn't nurtured or grown. My area growing up had more than a few grass grown over farm fields and grassed over dirt roads. After a few years without maintenance, dead yellow/brownish grey tone grass reeds straws. Empty Medows without green growth. I spent years shovel turning the empty woodland lots and mixing ash/manure spreading it like chicken feed. Breaking the soil for earth worms. What did that get me ? Other than a workout and away from people, ... A full belly, with all the game returning to a .. safe .. feeding/den site. Free range livestock. 3.) There were a few Darkside nexus sites, cross section where two packs of coyotes/wild dogs chase deer & other prey down for a kill. There was nearly something on a bi-weekly basis left rotting there. Still had enough remained for a bone & pelt collection. You could walk across a few spot and just .. feel .. the urge to panic run. Then I spent more than a few years practicing stone circle magic on the location. The local white tail deer buck used the location to defend himself from wandering challenging bucks. If you wanted him, you had to step into the circle of panic.

LOL One of the Shittyest tattoo ideas ever. GG Alan. No ragrets. I'm sure.

Yeah, Alan must really like that phrase to have it tattooed so prominently

lol good point!

Seriously man 😂.

I think you just have bad taste, mate. That dance number was awesome.

@kodyshaw6991 Sure, whatever you want to believe. Lmao