Star Wars: The Acolyte

JAWS said:

Watched the trailer tonight.

If this is really awful I might like to Hate watch.

Otherwise I can’t believe how little I care about this series. It looks so meh. Doesn’t help that it’s about the most boring group in the galaxy, the Jedi.

Nothing about this show looks interesting. Take out the sabers and it’s barely recognizable as a SW show. Though I can see how some might like that it doesn’t.


I’ll wait for the Jye reviews and go from there. A hate watch can be fun but a boring, wtf do I care watch is one of the most frustrating things to me.

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A Y-Tuber rightly pointed out that timeline-wise, these events take place ~100 years before Phantom Menace; so Yoda was alive and well. The implication is that the Jedi council were the biggest idiots ever, that they'd already forgotten this rising threat that happened not that long ago.

I always thought too that Palps had effectively, carefully, hid this very slow growing evil; which Darth Maul comments on in the Clone Wars, in the end. That's what made it so terrifying. An evil with a charming face (Palpatine). An animated series pays more careful attention to canon and common sense!

Then there's the lack of any white male children or like, white guys. It's ludicrous. Then there's the martial arts WTF and finally - well, here we go...evil Sith are kinda good guys, really, battling these oppressive colonist Jedi - when even Anakin points out the Jedi are "selfless, they only think of others".

The whole thing smacks of current politics and a rehash of Reva #2.

Sassafras said:

A Y-Tuber rightly pointed out that timeline-wise, these events take place ~100 years before Phantom Menace; so Yoda was alive and well. The implication is that the Jedi council were the biggest idiots ever, that they'd already forgotten this rising threat that happened not that long ago.

I always too that Palps had effectively, carefully, hid this very slow growing evil; which Darth Maul comments on in the Clone Wars, in the end. That's what made it so terrifying. An evil with a charming face (Palpatine). An animated series pays more careful attention to canon and common sense!

Then there's the lack of any white male children or like, white guys. It's ludicrous. Then there's the martial arts WTF and finally - well, here we go...evil Sith are kinda good guys, really, battling these oppressive colonist Jedi - when even Anakin points out the Jedi are "selfless, they only think of others".

The whole thing smacks of current politics and a rehash of Reva #2.

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It is still too early to say (they will likely come up with some stupid contrived way to get around the "why didn't the jedi council remember they just dealt with Sith" thing) so I assume the show won't be as lore breaking as we fear but then again, it is Disney wars and led by a bunch of activist types so maybe it will be that dumb. I will wait to see if it truly is as bad as we fear. I cling to that small glimmer of hope that Star Wars will improve still. It is fading but it is there.

The poster already breaks lore with Lizard woman's purple lightsaber.

Unless it turns out that this is the exact saber that ends up in Mace Windu's possession and he uses it on Geonosis and to fight Sidious.

Mondragon said:

It's you describing and dismissing Lando, Mace, Saw, etc as tokens, not me.

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Describing them as tokens yes, dismissing them NO - don't put words in my mouth. In my view Saw, Finn, Enfys Nest, etc., don't even belong in the discussion as they are recent enough to be considered part of "wave that is ushering in inclusion and safety for Black nerds" of which Stenberg spoke. When we are then left with Lando and Mace for the entirety of the OT and PT (not counting the voices of James Earl Jones & Ahmed Best), as great as BDW & SLJ were in the roles it still amounts to token/meager representation. Of course it's not as if SW was alone in this practice, it's just that the large time gaps between trilogies meant there was quite the wait before any progress could be shown on screen.

The Buffinator said:

the roles it still amounts to token

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Disagree.

The Buffinator said:

... the large time gaps between trilogies meant there was quite the wait before any progress could be shown on screen.

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For me Lando, was a major part of SW from the moment he showed up, and still was for all the time between films, and after. He is SW as much as Luke, Leia, Han, Yoda, etc....
He was never a token, and I will never see him that way.

Ok folksies and folkettes. Lets keep the thread on topic. Lets also shut it down for a day.

This is not a general thread for politics or gender politics.

I'll have to watch this show just to decide which is the worst caca serie of all time. This or Rings of power (who reigns supreme for the moment). There can only be one.

I admit the one action sequence they released online was kinda cool, so if the series has a ton of that it might be a decent watch. But I have a feeling it'll be just as light on action as most other Disney shows
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davejames said:

I admit the one action sequence they released online was kinda cool, so if the series has a ton of that it might be a decent watch. But I have a feeling it'll be just as light on action as most other Disney shows
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I also just think the villain design is cool af. The helmet is creepy and intimidating.

davejames said:

it'll be just as light on action as most other Disney shows
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Budget slashing in progress.

chrisstbh said:

I also just think the villain design is cool af. The helmet is creepy and intimidating.

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You're kidding, right? It's Mouth of Sauron, that crazy new Joker thing, and the grinning slender man thing that's everywhere now all in one.

It looks like a cheesy Halloween costume that has borrowed its best gag (that grin) from Jack Skellington.

What's this? What's this?

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chrisstbh said:

I also just think the villain design is cool af. The helmet is creepy and intimidating.

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Come on man loll I guess to each his own but this is a ridiculous attempt at trying to be dark and edgy while making a Sith with a Joker grin.

I can picture the scene in my head:


-Big Butch writer:

"Ill put a mysterious Dark Sith vilain but he will have a modern joker grin Helmet which is very edgy and he will be tortured and also when he take off his mask he is a lesbian girl boss baddie. And also, yeah those jedi privilege males were wrong!"

Sith gay Evil Lyn Procede to Ignite red phallic symbol and kill the patriarchy with it! Go gurl yazzzzz!

Woahhh that will put some butts in the seats.

chrisstbh said:

I also just think the villain design is cool af. The helmet is creepy and intimidating.

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It looks like a muppet.

Mandible said:

It looks like a muppet.

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Thats cause thats a girl, look at its feminine shoulders with that bubble head on top. Yep that plot twist will be so different than the last 400 movies from the last 15 years

It would be bold if Disney pulled another Rogue One and killed all the Jedi characters in the show at the end of the season. That way the Jedi Council never learn about the new threat, which is why they seem baffled by Maul's existence in TPM.

I hope the show is good. I liked Ahsoka and half-liked Kenobi, so I'm not the biggest critic of the D+ shows. Going in with an open mind. The fact that this takes place in an era we haven't seen on screen yet is interesting enough for me to check it out!

Wor-Gar said:

You're kidding, right? It's Mouth of Sauron, that crazy new Joker thing, and the grinning slender man thing that's everywhere now all in one.

It looks like a cheesy Halloween costume that has borrowed its best gag (that grin) from Jack Skellington.

What's this? What's this?

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Nah, looks cool as ****. Y’all just miserable.