Are the scenes mostly dark to cut down on CGI costs?

Looks like the line at the movie theatre for the prequels...not good enough for a fan fiction. It's pretty hard to train people to fight when they have had others do it for them all their lives.

Awesome video. People can say what they want about the prequel trilogy but the fights were dope and that score makes you wanna bust

I haven't watched the show on D+ (no subscription), but I've gotten a lot from reaction videos and yes, when I first watched it, its flashy and looks amazing. I said in another commentary video, though why couldn't they have dumped the two or three red robes and had the fight be between Sol, Yord, and Kalnacca? Jecki and Yord's padawan (who apparently disappeared) could have been trying to capture Mae. Anyway, yes, the fight *looks* good because its lightsabers and its flashy. However, just like the breakdowns of the throne room scene in… whichever fucking sequel movie that was, when you break this fight down, there is so much dumb stuff. Dudes flaking out off to the side, to suddenly realize a fight is happening, dancing around and spinning off screen, only to come back when its back to one on one. In short, its all flash and little substance. Maybe Qimir is a very powerful dark force user, and the Jedi have become complacent, that dovetails nicely into existing film canon. Granted, we don't know how this story wraps up, but I'm not hopeful.

It's not depressing. I think it's good. The only thing that sucks is the Moth creature carrying the Sith Lord. WTF.

0:56 .. instead of acting she should try Poker and have a nice career with that poker face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

She just prove George Lucas right. He does hold all the keys for a good light sabers fight

It definitely was the best episode so far... A solid one out of ten.

Oh but she isn't Just a Black lezzy, she's a HALF DANISH Identifying with the Matriarchal DNA but apparently Despising her father's contribution.

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The sith lord was temu ezra miller all along! who would have thought.

In this show, the sets look so cheap and small, claustrophobic, and the props look very cheap. I can literally feel the foam they are made of; there's no way this costs 180 million.

Just to add that the skill levels were also screwed, Smilo Ren ran through a couple of Jedi knights and he struggled the most against a Padawan.

jecki was the best fighter and she was also the only functional jedi. fuck pisney

The music of "Duel Of The Fates" brought this video home. Play The Acolyte's "Duel of The Baits" right after. then THAT would have sealed your laudable point.

They are calling him “The Gimp” or “Smile-oh Ren.”

Really Headland? 🤣 her name is headland? 🤣🤣 and then she has a forehead like a brick? 🤣😅😅 Is she a character from the marvel universe? 🤣😉 u cannot make this shit up 😅😅

The score is very important, aren't they allowed to use John Williams score in the series?

It's also worth mentioning how much the soundtrack sucked, amplifying the already massive levels of cringe.

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So many other channels talked about the light saber fight in episode five being somehow ok while still hating on the show overall. The dark, the trees, and the fact that there were multiple jedi able to struke Smylo down whenever only Smylo and a singke jedi were in frame. Ridiculous. DOTF took place in lit, open areas with ALL THREE IN FRAME. Lezzye has zero clue about what supposedly "saved her life." By the time i finished this, you had covered every point! Nice. 🙂

Based on the lightsaber combat scenes I'm amazed the Jedi lasted 25 years, much less 25,000 years or whatever their starting point. I'm not really a Star Wars guy, so this is just a naive perspective, but I knew they were dead when I saw them walking single file in their robes towards the wookie's location. My questions to the showrunners would be, 1) why would they dress in robes on their way to capture a killer, 2) where/what are their mid-range weapons (like blasters), 3) what are their communication devices to synch their combat operations, 4) if there's a metal or tech that shorts out lightsabers (like the helmet does) why isn't it standard issue for Jedi to have on them for defense, 5) why don't they have an attack strategy for multiple Jedi vs. a single target, 6) why is Jedi combat training always apparently inferior to Sith combat training, 7) why didn't they leave someone at their ship in case it was needed, 8) why isn't their ship manned, airborne, and tracking them to provide air support, 8) why did they bring Jecki - a Padawan who we just saw in a 'Lightsaber 100' class training with a wooden katana - along to capture a murderer, and 9) how is it that Jecki is apparently a better fighter than full Jedi masters? This was like watching shopping mall cops try to take down a prison-hardened veteran killer. What a dumb show!

All these dark lightsaber fights are inspired by the glow in the dark "sword" fight from the movie "Skin Deep." m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zr5_ftl33rTVpYE.html

They make the Jedi look so stupid! Can’t even stop one guy…😢

This is one those fights that look cool at first glance but then at a second glance and after remembering what IP this was makes you question and point out the flaws. And when you have a series that has alot of flaws with alot lapse in judgement made the characters only just makes this fight look worse in hindsight. Dont really get the appeal of the show even if set the lore aside especially when it makes it difficult to turn your brain off to

I've been rewatching Ahsoka. The Acolyte makes Ahsoka look like a masterpiece. I do like the light saber fight choreography in Ahsoka infinitely more than what I've seen so far in the Acolyte. Ahsoka's fight pacing, bright settings, poses before strikes and music all make Ahsoka's light saber battles fun to watch. With the Acolyte, I just wasn't invested and I saw too many times where characters pause in the middle of the fight for effect when a real opponent would have struck them down for freezing.

headland is a real life Funkopop

Good video. There's a youtube channel called Science fiction with Damian Walter. He has some good video essays about tolkien and other stuff I thought was good. Recently however he has become a bit obsessed with critical drinker and nerdrotic et al, calling them nerd bros. I think he is envious of their popularity despite being intellectually inferior to him. Also saying they are focused on diversity conspiracy theories rather than offering genuine critique. I say he is doing the same thing, pointing out part of their criticism and straw manning. Anyway he is saying that this show is good. He gives no explanation other than he sees jungian psychology there. Maybe it is there intentionally or maybe he's just projecting I'm not sure. I commented as much and that those things such as archetypes, themes etc don't make something good. Take shadiw self for example, it's not as if it hasn't been done countless times. How many twins have we seen where one is good, the other bad? Details are what count. There is almost nothing good about this show in terms of the details. The original premise might have some merit but it doesn't matter if the quality if what you produce is bad. And this is objectively bad. Anyway I'd be interested to know what you thought if you check it out. I found it baffling. I'm sure he thought rings of power was bad. I see both shows as pretending to be something they're not. Badly written fascades. I am honestly baffled by his stance, given his usually well thought out analyses.

No, it is TRUE that only Lucas holds the key, she's made that more than F'N clear. This episode was as bad as Game of Thrones' "The Long Night." Looking forward to more, Mr. Judge.

My motivation to keep watching this show is just to watch videos about people talking how awful about it is.Which yeah, a stupid motivation.Also, I was neutral, when the characters died.Just didn't care.

No way she didn’t know what Weinstein was doing

Dude... Homer Simpson is me through the entirety of Star Wars existence

Facts with Mr. Judge

I was genuinely sorry when Qui Gon died. 😟 Can't say the same for Yord or Beef Jeky.

Who knew the secret weakness of Sith Lords would turn out to be giant wood lice.🤣

I think people target the wrong reason why this is a very average series. It’s NOT the diverse cast, it’s the poor, derivative writing.. look past the race/gender of the characters, and what you see is the same trotting out of the SW tropes, and recycled characters.

how many HAWK TUAs you think she gave Harvey to get her previous job? no pun intended lol

While I agree a lot of Disney Star Wars is bad, I’m just tired of all the pessimism because it really does just feel like a bandwagon. Saying Disney doesn’t understand Star Wars is a stretch because even George Lucas didn’t fully understand Star Wars. A lot of the mistakes the acolyte has made have been made a thousand times before Disney ever got ahold of Star Wars, and also some legends material straight up sucks and is weird as hell or contradicted canon. Like criticism is fine but at this point everyone has mistaken pessimism for criticism

Daphne gave a great performance in Logan when she was a kid

I actually think they understand Star Wars better than most of the fans who pretend to understand Star Wars. the expectations and hate blind people to how well it "rhymes" with the rest of the saga. haters gonna hate. 🤷‍♂

Yeah I'm done. Not even watching anymore.

You can't criticize this director without being labled an ist, ism, phobic, fanboy (does fangirl exist?) But what else would you expect from someone who doesn't know how to spell Leslie!

This a joke, you can say that about almost all of the George Lucas films. Writing, and characters are not his strong suit.

Leslye Netherlands came to her sexist misandry authentically, from working for Harva the Hutt. Her labor as his procurer gained her enough compromat on Disney execs to make her unfireable. My evidence for this theory is her continued employment.

*Disney’s Strange Behavior Explained* Lately Disney has been producing flop after flop, which are ruining IPs that Disney has acquired, such as Star Wars and Doctor Who. These failures are partly due to mismanaging IPs, partly due to ham-handed culture-war hectoring, and partly due to cringeworthy dialog, wooden characters, chaotic pacing, idiot plots, amateurish costuming, and mediocre special effects. But why those reasons? Here are three theories for Disney’s strange behavior: *Monopolistic Business Practices.* Disney is a monopoly. Their business plan is to eliminate the competition. One way is to buy that competition, then ruin its brand by wretched writing and ham-handed culture-war hectoring. Maybe Disney doesn’t ruin IPs to push DEI: maybe instead they push DEI to ruin IPs. The true-believers who do the dirty work are useful idiots for their scheming bosses. *Money Laundering.* The Acolyte spent $180,000,000 for mediocre special effects. Why? Maybe the execs skimped on special effects and kicked back most of the money to themselves and their friends-of-friends. *Tax Fraud.* In “The Producers”, by Mel Brooks, two corrupt producers run a fraudulent scheme for making money by producing a deliberately failed show, then writing off the loss in taxes. Maybe Disney is doing the same. All three of these theories can be true at the same time, and indeed can synergize. Disney targets a competing IP: they buy it, then deliberately ruin it by inept writing from useful idiots, by performative diversity hiring, and by skimping on costuming and special effects. The money not spent is kicked back to the execs and their friends-of-friends. The shows fail, the IP is ruined, and the cost to Disney is an investment in monopoly maintenance. Then they write off the loss to evade taxes. I admit that these theories are purely speculative. The only evidence I have for them is what we see on the screen. It’s possible that instead of Disney being that crooked, Disney is that incompetent. I recommend that the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice act to break up Disney for monopolistic business practices. The DoJ should also investigate money laundering and tax fraud.

3:23 perfect representation of me watching Disney Star Wars

It annoys me that narcissistic and incompetent people keep getting rewarded with such lucrative opportunities.

I'm a star wars fan & all i can say is: ACOLYTE IS BAD... just picture "TRINITY-FROM-MATRIX-JEDI-MASTER" getting killed with a tiny butter spreader knife... that is enough to make me turn off the TV. (when other characters get cut in 2 or empaled with a light saber and live to tell about it). that is just the first 5 minutes. rest is TORTURE!...

The character names are rather unimaginative too. Sol is from Seoul. Osha-Mae is a real life soap brand. Jeky sounds like a salted beef snack treat. 😄