EFAP TV: Reacting to The Acolyte S01E02 - Revenge/Justice
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
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How did the dust work? The first thing they learn in Jedi school is how to fight blinded. The fucking helmet and laser ball they all use
Don’t think about it
@@bcmm1880
Just consume product!
Stop bringing logic into this!
The dude literally gave the “your eyes will betray you” line. It is insane how poorly written this is.
Sometimes I think their scripts are just crayon scribblings on a wall left over from bring you kid to work day.
Suddenly, taxation disputes in Naboo doesn't sound boring after all
I love how the first thing Occupational Safety and Health Administration does when finding a dead person with a vial next to them is to SNIFF the vial.
Smells like... aaaargh... splat
"mmmm smells like a Violation"
-OSHA sniffing the potential death gas vial
Which is also really bad when in science fiction worlds it's not uncommon for poisons to be so toxic that they can work as an airborne so she legit could have just killed herself which would have been funny as fuck. *sniff* Oh I know this-- *dies*. Or just spores which can be a common for certain species on earth to get themselves killed by rolling, eating or breathing in certain natural things that than go to grow inside their victim. Although lucky for us most of these species are highly specialised and need very select victims.
Survival instincts are strong with this one
@@bhbobbyd "I find your lack of survival instinct disturbing."
Smilo-Ren hanging out around the beach:
"what's that? a quarter!?"
[ignites the red light-saber]
"sweet!"
🤣
"Look at this fat fucking Jedi" might be the best delivered line ever spoken on RUclips. Ryan perfectly evokes his disappointment and utter contempt of the portrayal of the Galaxy's peak of mental and physical discipline.
Sumo Jedi!
XD
Need a vine boom sound effect for "fat" and "fucking"
There's only one other pudgy looking Jedi I've seen, and he was in legends. I think he was in the rise of the Sith era, in the yinchorri uprising comic. He looked fat, but that was actually just strongman bulk, and was very agile and smart, oftentimes messing around with padawans by using sleight of hand. He died making by stalling for time with the yinchorri as the other Jedi escaped from an ambush, and was too wounded to escape himself. So he blew himself up alongside all the other yinchorri who were around him.
I doubt Disney could even come up with something approaching this concept though, lmao.
Padawan Pyle. If only the Jedi had Lee Ermey
*Day Five of living with the Jedi:*
Such a strange people. They’ve already handed me a Force-proof blaster they called “The Jedi Killer.” I didn’t even ask for it; they just said it would be beneficial for my spiritual growth or something.
I sometimes wonder how these people lasted for thousands of years…
"I told the Jedi Master I was downloading their ship's entire private data onto my droid despite still being a suspected murderer, but he was more concerned about the 30 dollar tattoo I had. I'm starting to remember why I decided to dropout of the Jedi Academy."
23:17 The moment chat erupted with "HOW COULD YOU MISS?! SHE WAS 3 FEET IN FRONT OF YOU!"
They really wanna hype up the acolyte as if she’s a really cool character when she is just a clown person
The actual premise would be really interesting if it wasn't written directed and acted by talentless hacks.
A noir style murder mystery following a jedi enforcer would be really interesting getting to see some of the layers of starwars that we usual barely scratch the surface of
Clowns are at least funny.
@@Ericshadowblade -I have this idea pitched. What do we do with it?
+We solve the mystery the first 15 minutes and then we do fuck all.
-This is why we hired you at Lucasfilm/Disney.
"Attack me with all your might!" strikes retarded martial arts pose. That occasionally was used in anime, but they forgot that there are different kinds of anime - what worked for 13 year olds 25 years ago may not be viewed as cool now. And also this is not the end-viewer of Star Wars even now. Besides - a martial arts pose is retarded in the Starwars universe.
Person are Acceptable term
Very inclusive and tolerant
Funny how this jedi can be so much at peace and at one with himself that he can mediate in the same spot for ten years and defend himself from any direct attacks without having to move or break concentration, but he's also so crippled with self-loathing, guilt and doubt that Mae just saying 'Kill yourself' once was enough to get him to drink poison. Star Wars writers seem to constantly forget that use of the force is about the state of the users mind. That's why the dark side is so corruptive, because you need to put yourself in a sadistic and selfish mindset to draw upon it. You can't be pulling off crazy zen shit like this if your mental state is this fragile and shaken.
that's because this was written by incompetent hacks and based on the random nonsense that happened when Leslye Headland was playing SW-flavored D&D.
I think that's why the actions feel disjointed. I think it's trying to follow a bunch of decisions that players made which were random nonsense decisions. But the core story... was written to NOT follow canon at all.
Remember how Qui-Gon Jinn was supposed to be the first to see a red lightsaber in 1000 years and how the Sith had remained secret until the prequel series? How much do we wanna bet that they don't follow that bit of canon?
lol I didn't know that they had already shown in a trailer that not only did they screw up that lore, they actually had a ton of people see Smilo Ren light up his lightsaber AND they fought him, completely retconning the prequel canon.
Canonically the High Republic Era was a flat out nothing burger, because the Jedi treated Qui-Gon like he was spouting Flat Earth theories when he claimed to see a Sith Lord. I will never understand why Disney decided this particular era needed to get pushed so hard.
All in
i mean, we're about to get to the episode that fundamentally rewrites how the Force even functions and the reveal that only women can actually use it right.... so i'm betting pretty big here
and no, i'm not being hyperbolic, this show is about to obliterate the foundations of Star Wars
Says where? He never said that. He was the first to encounter a Sith. Not all red lightsaber users are Sith. And that looked more like pink.
Evil twin: "Attack me with all your might."
*Force chokes the life out of her*
Credits theme
Best Season Finale ever
Imagine this situation: Your group consists of 3 Jedi of varying levels - Padawan, Knight and Master. You cornered your villainess up against a wall. You outnumber her 3 to 1. She was shown in the fight that immediately preceded this situation to be vulnerable to be held in stasis by the Force, which all 3 people in your group can use. So how did your group arrest the villainess?
The villainess throws up a little dust against your group and in just a few seconds, she already slipped past all 3 of you.
That's The Acolyte Episode 2.
- An acolyte kills without a weapon
- No she dont (Watto)
- An acolyte kills without steel
NO SHE DONT, What? You think you are some jedi?
Pocket Sand: the ultimate weapon.
But have you considered that she's a woman? Of color?
@@TheCultureCommentaryat this point, I think she’s trying to kill with a weapon just to contradict the Writer at every corner.
She’s gonna pull out a pocket Death Star in episode 4 to completely break the “no weapons” rule.
Remember when one of the first things we learned about the force was knowing where things were without seeing them, and sensing peoples presences?
On an unrelated note, wouldn't it be great if the Jedi had a way to tell where she went after the dust cloud?
I feel sorry for Torbin. He was too old to die at such a young age...
*This is “peak Star Wars” like a road bump is a peak in Kansas and Nebraska.*
This is peak like a volcanic vent at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.
I sincerely disagree!
Wait...
what direction are you going in in Kansas?
Because east to west towards colorado is a slow barely noticable climb from 600 to 3000 feet
So west to east?
Peak valley
I find funny that the show wants to portray the evil twin as a martial artist and morally grey, when in the world of martial arts, the use of poison is considered an act of one who is too cowardly and dishonorable to fight.
She’s an assassin not exactly an honourable job. Using poisons has been done by assassins for thousands of years.
@@Revelationscreation The major point is she is completely evil.
This ‘world of martial arts’ sounds an awful lot like the ‘European code of chivalry’
@@SaintWombo I'd argue it sounds a lot like something you'd hear from like, 13th century Japan.
@@breadlast I was referencing the RR vs Shad debate. The point being i think the OP is talking out of his ass.
It's baffling how incompetent the Jedis are
. Letting a suspicious person casually walk through the Jedi temple.
. Allowing Osha roam free on the ship, even though she's still a suspect.
. Allowing Osha to sync up with their communications, despite still being a suspected criminal or accomplice.
. Leaving Master Torbin alone after the assassination attempt.
. Letting Mae's accomplice off with a warning, even though he was the one that made the poison.
. Letting Mae escape.
"Evil wins because Good is dumb."
@@TheMaleRei That might as well be a quote from Palpatine
@KelShu
I think it was from "Spaceballs".
Unironically.
But it very much fits in here.
I mean...
At this point it could be argued that Palpatine did nothing wrong?
With the way Lesley Headlamp is putting things.
The game is all about destroying everything you know and love. You know, "let the past die" 'n all that.
"The force is female"
Yep, judging by the universe that Disney made, definately seems like that is the case.
"Would you like me to investigate, or bring OSHA back to Coruscant?" Oh, so NOW it takes time to travel somewhere. Last episode they made several round trips across the galaxy in a day. Traveling at the speed of the plot.
I mean. I can excuse those travel speeds because maybe there are just couple day periods between events. Or maybe the ship Osha is on isn’t far from Coruscant.
the speed of plot. a speed that even the flash cant achieve
I mean there's a team of them. Others can investigate while he delivers her on Coruscant.
When I heard the part about needing a poison, I foolishly assumed that the writers would have her use a poison gas that would get past his force shield.
...I've seen your example in a "hand tie". This show officially has a worse plot than corn.
@@charlesruteal9062 You can't just mention some kinda "hand tie" and not give the source.
@@АняШакал Okay, but it's got "family bonding", so I warned you.
"Noryoku Gakuen Gekokujo" by Eba. There's an English translation floating around, and the relevant scene is in Chapter 7 (it's a tankoubon).
@@charlesruteal9062 Fuck, now I know what you meant by hand tie...
Same.
I can't believe we're doing Reva 2.0.
Another female Force user who does evil things but the audience is supposed to sympathize with her because she had a traumatic childhood. And by the end she'll do some BS heel face turn and become good or something and never be held accountable for the people she's killed.
For fuck's sake, Disney, learn a new trick.
Wouldn’t it be Alice Kane 3.0
It's a writer self insert, and as usual all their people are inherently evil
Remember Reva, and her redemption arc? I’m sure glad they put all that focus into a character who was utterly irrelevant and apparently is never coming back.
Pointed out identifying tattoo means bad twin is definitely gonna try to pass as good twin later…so original
Kinda bizarre that the tattoo was CGI.
It's legitimately weird that these companies would rather pay huge amounts to use CGI for things that could be done for much cheaper. Like, famously in John Wick they spent tens of thousands to CGI dog poop instead of just using fake dog poop, or even real dog poop.
@@ashblossomandjoyoussprung.9917 The same was true of the very ugly CGI stew Kenobi ate at home. Could they not ask the catering company to make a stew, or is CGI really that much cheaper these days?
Disney keeps their animators chained in the basement might as well get some use out of them.
@@kaykutcher2103 Isn't that kind of how it works? I mean, you can say vaguely that they "paid thousands of dollars" for Kenobi's CGI stew, but assuming that this was done by people they had on staff, CGI has no materials cost other than the electricity and maintenance that goes into the server farms for rendering, right?
So the choice is not "pay little for a prop or pay a lot for CGI", it's "pay a lot for CGI or pay a lot for the CGI department to sit with thumbs up their asses AND a little for a prop". Like it's literally a make-work assignment.
@@Lemon_Inspector That's... not how it works. If it did, why not just pay the prop people they have "on staff" and use the materials they had "on hand"? Different sub-contractors are used for almost everything on a massive production like this. Just for CGI you need several different teams to get done with anything in any reasonable amount of time, which would be way too expensive to just have "on staff." That's why VFX companies exist, so they can have teams of people working on keyframes/animation/lighting/compositing/shading etc. etc. at the same time, for multiple different projects at any point in time. Same with servers, the losses would be ludicrous if you had server farms reserved for rendering that you only used for 4-5 productions a year (god forbid it was Star Wars only and did 1-2 a year). CGI people do _not_ sit with thumbs up their asses, basically ever.
Im glad to see Hot Pie has made something of himself. Going from a poor orphan to a jedi is quite an achievement
It amuses me how often the upstart young prodigy characters propose an even *worse* plan than their suposed bumbling senior.
You can see the writers intentions clear as day but they're so lacking in critical reasoning themselves that they have the most stupid solutions to easy problems presented as if it were genius.
I know. It's bad enough when they try to pass off idiocy as genius, but what kind of utterly inversed intellect does it take to unironically portray the obviously better idea as inferior? Is it intentional?
@@KingBuilder525 it certainly feels intentional sometimes.
As if making things logically inconsistent acts as a filter for the kind of audience they want. If you notice the problem, you'll be told that you're not the right kind of fan.
With that said, I do still think good old fashioned incompetence is the reason for most of it.
@@KingBuilder525 dumb people be like that. Their conclusions are not following what we mere mortals call logic.
Daily reminder that The Acolyte was under development for 4 years.
And Andor was 4-5 years. Some of their other shows have had less time. Really doesn't mean anything.
@@elementSe34 it means they had all the time to not make a jumbled mess that looks cheap.
@@elementSe34 are you joking? Andor is actually good, it actually used the 4-5 years productively. Acolyte by comparison wasted that time completely
@@elementSe34 It means they wasted 4 years
@@sigy4ever That was my point. Both shows came out differently so OP mentioning this daily (which I'd hope not) is pointless.
I think it was a really intelligent idea to leave Master Torbin, the target of a failed assassination attempt, in a room by himself with an unguarded opening to the outside. I'm sure he'll be fine in his bubble.
I mean, it seems like he would’ve been, if he wasn’t so utterly suicidal.
@@a_fine_edition2746But if he was suicidal, why didn’t he let Mae kill him the first time? Why does he only decide he was waiting for her when she shows up a second time? Who wrote this bullshit?
@TheNoonish I mean, your guess is as good as mine. Makes no sense a Jedi this emotionally unwell would be able to mount such a powerful defense with the Force. It’s about willpower and resilience, and he’s clearly on shaky legs. Also yeah, no idea why he even bothered blocking her first time around. Did he just… not recognize her? Because she had her mask on? Even though that wouldn’t matter because he can sense her and wasn’t using his eyes anyway? It’s dumb, no doubt.
Sol- “your eyes can deceive you, we must not trust them”
Also sol- “mei, I saw her die”
In defense of this flaccid show he could’ve lied about seeing mei die to protect himself from guilt. As long as the show acknowledges it I’m fine with it
That’ll probably be a part of something that happens later between him and Mei, and with a better show, would actually work as a payoff. This show will be super explicit about this and clearly tell us that what’s happening is a part of the theme
Is that not literally the point? That’s a bit of good writing actually.
"We didn't find anything."
You didn't find the small pile of knives on the floor?!
Okay in the defense of the show in some small details, we see her pull up the pile of knives with the force while she was fleeing. they weren't that dumb.
"I must kill this wookie without a weapon!"
*Wookie disarms her*
"Good luck with that."
Jedbacca: Rree-rrohh! (Try it NOW!)
XD
You would need to be a *way* better fighter to kill a Wookie without a weapon.
And Mae isn't one.
Note: we are not talking about weapons here
@@dodojesus4529 Yeah... OUCH
disarms, in a literal sense. Because that's what wookie do
Apparently Mae was playing new Vegas and just did a speech 100 build, cause she talked that Jedi into suicide faster than I convinced Lanius to chill.
Missed an opportunity to fill in her weaponless kill quota.
@@RebellionInHell her to the Jedi "bro, fr can you let me kill you quick? It's for a challenge quest"
Where this guys poop went is more interesting to discuss than the main plot.
Disney Star Wars was molded from it. The twist is that everything you are seeing IS that poo pile.
@@ericv00 Oh no. We have been living in the poop dimension all along!
and this is also an answer for people who always say: "you should watch the series to have your own opinion" thanks to efap you saved a lot of neurons to not watch shitty series
In 10 years Disney+ will have a whole series about the poop
The world between worlds, obviously
Mauler can't stop saying Okey-dokey.
Fallout scarred him.
I would like to point out, since I think they missed it, somehow, the apothecary guy clearly MURDERED the actual owner of that store, stole his clothes, and stole his store, and the Jedi just don't care. Master Chungus literally knew this apothecary personally, and he just doesn't care he's been replaced by a murderer.
Yord in episode 1 - You lost everything, your mothers, your sister.
Also Yord in episode 1 - She had a twin sister?!?!?! No one mentioned a TWIN sister.
The dream that The Acolyte kills is the dream of Star Wars ever being unironically enjoyable again.
IT’S TORBIN TIME!!
Gary : Torbu
Jeremy : Turban
Torbin overdosed on white guilt
And then he meditated all over everyone.
TORBIN TASTIC
@@lucasmorahan4248You're not thinking of going Torbin', are you?
It's too bad Leslye Headland isn't as good a writer as she was an accomplice to a serial sexual harasser.
Then this show might have done something competent.
The “peace is a lie” line made me upset because they lifted that from the Sith creed essentially
Yeah, that annoyed me too. Good luck making her sympathetic/redeemable if she is a follower of the Sith Creed.
Why would that upset you? I mean, aside from it being used in an incredibly shitty show. Doesn't it make sense for her to do that? Didn't they do it alright, the way they did it?
@@Lemon_Inspector Just because it’s bad doesn’t mean it’s bad
She is basically a sith. A lot of non-jedi force users gravitated towards sith-like stuff. All the coven of les bian witches were sith-lite
@@SolarDragon007 Darth Vader was a Sith who got redeemed.
The Jedi that was in some type of hibernation knew that there was someone currently killing Jedi, he was even waiting for her, yet he chose to just kill himself instead of warning the others, potentially allowing her to kill more. Just ... wow
Sols actor is amazing man. I fucking hate that he’s stuck in this garbage.
It's really cool that Squid Game actually went to the trouble of learning English to help his performance.
Yeah I applaud his optimism that he thinks he is going to be working again after this
Disney Star wars is a textbook case study in wasted potential.
Good source material, good actors, dedicated fanbase. They had *everything* to work with. They had it all and they blew it.
Too bad it was for this stenchblossom of a show.
That's really cool. It's a shame it was in service to such a terrible show. I guess learning English will probably still be a useful skill even after working on this lol
@@MrSphandor He will, he's in Squid Game 2.
The Shlurpolite, Episode 2:
Last time, Bad Shlurpo was hunting for a new target. She finds Jedi Master Isgonnadie at the local Jedi Gay Bar, who fends off her attacks. Eventually, Bad Shlurpo decides on a different strategy; instead of physical attacks, she leaves a trail of cheese leading to a giant mousetrap that finally outwits the Jedi Master, crushing him.
The Jedi now realise that Good Shlurpo could not have shlurpo'd all those Jedi and that it must be her evil twin. There are no leads though in the town, but after much searching they figure out that only one shop in town sells cheese and comically large mousetraps. They attempt to trap Bad Shlurpo but hijinks ensure and the target escapes. She is now free to pursue her next target, Grand Master Porkins of the famed Porkins dynasty.
👏👏👏👏👏
Most excellent. Have a shlurpo on me.
Incredible
Please no
anybody but Porkins
Isn't there a thing about force users being able to sense each other? Like Vader sensing Obi Wan on the Death Star, Luke sensing Vader as they fly near the SSD, etc?
So even if she blinds them with sand they can just follow her by force sense?
Especially since she reeks of Dark Side ???
I mean, the very character who couldn't find her in the dust said "Your eyes can decieve, do not trust them." It was basically the first thing he said in the show. Then suddenly he's useless if he can't see someone.
whats crazy is that the actor for master Sol learned english for this role cuz he loved Qui-gon. This show doesn't deserve someone with that much commitment
“Close your eyes. Do not trust what you see.”
(Mae poofs up a bunch of sand)
“Wait, where is she?! I can’t see! If only we could somehow SENSE things through the force and not have to depend on eyesight!”
Igniting a lightsaber pointlessly is so dumb, like you wouldn’t write your bad guy in a movie set in the modern world just pulling out a pistol and shooting for no reason and then putting it back in the holster.
>He missed the Knives out EFAPs
Lightsaber EXHIBITIONISM!
XD
Is it? I mean, if you owned a lightsaber, would you never just turn it on and swing it around for fun?
Even if there's nobody around to judge you
@@Lemon_Inspector We're talking about the supposedly big and scary villain.
For that guy, a lightsaber should be something normal.
If he maybe executed an Informant who had outlived his usefulness, then it would make sense. Or if he was sparring.
I mean, it's been established that lightsaber users are morons who don't know what flashlights are, so I guess them taking it out and using it as a mundane tool technically makes sense, albeit, a sign of the general stupidity across the galaxy
They let the poison maker go with a warning?!?!? Useless Jedi!
He is discount Ezra Miller, of course he gets away scott free, that's his power
Yeah, it’s like they said. They have to make the good guys morons in order for the dumber bad guys to move the plot along. The writers barely have a defective coke-addled brain cell to share, pity them.
In 200 years when they tell horror stories about the depravity of the American Empire, this show will be taught in the "media studies" class as an example.
At the very least, the marketing should be studied.
Kathleen Kennedy: "What I've done is going to be puzzled over, and studied, and followed... forever."
Cinema History: "You're no messiah. You're a f**king 'Force is Female' t-shirt - at best."
"We knew exactly where you were in the galaxy to arrest you but we can't prove where you've been or if you were at the scene of the crime"
Jedi don't pull their lightsaber unless they plan to kill.
x2 here for ARRESTING suspects.
Maybe that line was nonsense, eh?
The easy fix ia to change the wording.
"Jedi don't draw their lightsaber unless they're *prepared* to kill"
Much like pointing a gun at a person in self defence. You don't intend to kill them but you must be prepared too if necessary.
@@MediumRareOpinions But then you screw up the scene in episode 1. There's no winning with trash lines like that.
@@hassathunter2464 true, I think a more experienced writer would advise not having these sorts of declarative statements in the work at all for that reason.
They make it very difficult to not contradict their own writing or the lore of writing they're adapting.
it's writers that thought a naruto pose with "attack me with all your strength" was not weapon grade cringe, there is no real expectations here
A reminder with the whole smoke cloud thing. Jedi literally train to fight blindfolded and can use the force to locate people.
It was "anti force sand" same with the dagger she used in the first episode...
At least this episode solved the mystery of why Anakin hates sand. It must bring back Vietnam-style flashbacks for Jedi whenever they remember all the targets who escaped because they kicked up a cloud of sand in front of them!
Regular monthly post of appreciation for the "What'd ya bring me" eye catch at the end. Keeps me sticking around every time!
I always tune in for EFAP's whatcha bring me videos. Weird how there's always all that other footage in the beginning though.
The best part of this episode was when Torbin said "it's Torbin time" and then self-deleted.
"I've lost visual"
What happened to not trusting your eyes?
what happened to ship sensors, thermal cameras and other stuff too
I am really tired of the "Jedi are actually bad" trope.
I can't get over the matching hairdos of the twins, lol. I know it's possible for separated twins to choose the same hairstyle... but not one like this, that's identical down to the uneven cuts on the bangs, and which is the kind that would have needed someone else helping as well. The only thing that makes sense is that Mae was deliberately framing Osha... so my question is, have we seen any indication of that, or that the possibility has occurred to anyone?
Mae seemed to think OSHA was dead so no, that doesn't seem likely.
They're not identical hairstyles though. The evil twin has long pieces at the back. Very similar, but not identical.
>Do you think your twin sister is responsible
>She says in a world with holograms, shapeshifters and medical procedures that can change everything down your bone structure to look Identical to somebody else
30:17 “cringe aura” is a good way of describing this show and Disney Star Wars as a whole.
I really hope this doesn't turn out to be a The Prestige situation, with the twins working together and switching positions. If that's the case it would feel like a personal attack on Mauler.
The second episode is already breaks my brain. Master Torbin sat in a force field for 10 years and waited for May to commit suicide? How did he not recognize her the first time by her voice and the Force, if he did, why did he defend himself? The Jedi simply send Oisha to communicate with the merch seller, without even finding out from a local resident who he is and what he does, without rehearsing at all what she will say, and they are fabulously lucky - he immediately talks about poison and murder, despite the fact that he KNOWS that May has a twin... He is not arrested and is barely watched, so much so that he even meets May the next day...
Sol and Yord did not paralyze May with the Force, without waiting for her to use the dust trick (which all the Jedi must learn in school anyway, this is the most basic crap?) Master Kentakiu is a nudist...
Overall it’s watchable but the plot is already shaky, I think it will collapse somewhere before the finale.
And if she knew she could talk him into suicide, why did she do the whole "Defend yourself" nonsense the first time she approached him? Why do characters do things?
The fat Jedi is the Sith Lord
Nah, he ate the Sith Lord ...om nom nom
He's Samwell Tarly
a SIT lord. to much walking would kill him.
So I don’t think it was mentioned yet but the acolyte is supposedly 100 years before the rise of the empire as the opening crawl suggested. Anakin is how old before he becomes Darth Vader? Least say 30 since this is when the Death Star probably half way complete, the systems are starting to align with the empire, the Jedi are being hunted, etc. This would mean Acolyte is 70 years before Episode 1.
Yoda is on the council. Darth Plageus exists or if he no longer exists Sideous does. The rule of two is still enforced amongst the sith and any force user not a Jedi would be captured or killed at this point. In the case of Mei she’s a hit-woman killing off high ranking Jedi with no lightsaber. This should be drawing massive amount of attention to dark sided force users. Yet Mei clearly says her master would have issues getting help to kill Jedi. Which doesn’t make a bit of sense in any lore brought forth by old canon or new.
Edit: Thought jedi had their force abilities removed when they quit the order.
Granted there's plenty i haven't read but I've never heard of striping failed Padawans of the force either in EU or Disney canon. In EU Ferus Olin left the order just fine powers intact. And in Disney Ahsoka left, also with powers intact.
Yeah i dont know where you got that last bit from friend, ive read a LOT of the EU Books and Stripping someone of their forceconnection or sealing it in is
1. Very hard to do and reqiuires advanced techniques or technology
2. Extremely traumatising and damaging for the Person its being done to
3. Most cases i can remember a cutoff happening is a person closing themselves off due to Trauma or Fear (like Anakin Solo or the Exile), never as a punishment, and if it were that sounds like a sith thing more than a Jedi thing^^
You guys are right I got it mixed up with KOTOR 2 and some story a while back about jedi leaving the order and thought they were related
@datzfatz2368 the only jedi to be Able to cut off people from the force was nomi Sunrider. She was an incredibly powerful psionic jedi, mastering battle meditation and pushing it so far that she was able to reach out and cut exar kun off the from the force, containing his spirit on yavin 4 in the tales of the jedi comics.
She's considered a once in decamillenium talent.
@@silverprimus321boi9 yeah, shes the only one i can think of as well if i really remember right. I thought there might have been some other cases but that must have been me confusing stuff. Every other disconnect from the force was selfinflicted by the Person due to Trauma.
6:21 "Mech Neck" is them trying to steal the tough gritty qualities of today's offshore workers commonly referred to as "Rough Necks".
I think it was the little platoon's video where he showed an interview from her about how she picked bits from a D&D campaign she lead during covid and put them in the show.
I can totally look at parts of this series and see it, it just has a star wars coat of paint. Like when mei kicks up dust i can totally believe that it was some sort of assassin in a campaign who smoked out of the encounter.
But the opponent being a jedi fucks with it in the shows context
I see it in the dynamic with the main three Jedi. You’ve got the smarty-pants prodigy, this is a high-INT character like a wizard. Then you’ve got big dumb oaf, he’s a warrior with INT as his dump stat. He’s there to say stupid things and be corrected by the smart character.
The thing is, in an RPG campaign, you often play up your character’s traits to absurdity for the sake of humor. It doesn’t have to make sense that your character is too astonishingly dumb to exist, you’re often just doing everything for the funnies, and you can turn it off in more serious moments.
In a world that’s meant to be coherent for an audience, you can’t do these sorts of things. You need characters who are believable and consistent. You’re not there to laugh at the absurdity of what a character is doing because it’s all a game, you’re trying to tell a story.
The plot of each episode seems so convoluted. When taking characters from place ABC to place XYZ, the strangest routes are taken.
Episode 1 ends with Osha on board a ship with the three Jedi. To end up at that point, she is captured by Jedi, placed on a prison transport without those Jedi, then crashes after an insane prison escape sequence, just so she can be retrieved by Jedi again. Just have Sol, Yord, and the other one take her prisoner, she has the vision in a dream in a cell, she discusses it with Sol, and he trusts her and lets her out of the cell. Then they can receive a call at the start of Ep.2 and they change course to go to the temple. This accomplishes the same thing without the messy escape, without damaging the Republic’s security skills, without making Yord an idiot, and cleans up the timeline. Just have her stay with the Jedi throughout, instead of leaving and then rejoining them for no reason. The other prisoners are all instantly captured, she isn’t injured by the crash, they have a new ship, and they couldn’t have arrived faster to save the meditating guy. There isn’t any lasting consequence to the entire prison ship sequence.
Similar thing happens in Ep.2. Mae enters and leaves the Jedi temple unseen again, and then disappears to somewhere so they can interrogate the medicine guy. The medicine guy doesn’t even give them any information they couldn’t have gotten via simple deduction or from Mae herself. Osha is immediately cleared of the crime by Yord, so no consequences there, either. They could just chase Mae out of the temple, split up to chase her, and have Sol get to her first, alone. Then some simple dialogue can work to get all of the character work the show has. Sol can tell Mae that he knows he is a target and engaged anyways to speak to her, thus keeping his bravery and moral code. Yord can try to immediately head to back up Sol, but the padawan convinces him to wait so they can get the ship and thus corner Mae with the firepower. This keeps Yord’s brashness and the padawan’s intelligence. Then Mae can escape, have the confrontation with Osha, and then meet her apothecary friend later. This provides a solid flow of events without the stupid plan of Osha dressing somewhat similar to Mae without knowing how she acts, and prevents the Jedi from letting the apothecary guy walk free for murder. This will result in all characters having the same information they did have, in the same places, without adding stupidity and moral bankruptcy to the Jedi.
These rewrites are literally just drawing a straight line from point A to point B, instead of the convoluted roller coaster The Acolyte takes us on.
See an EFAP upload: yay!
See that it's also only 35 minutes: wtf?
I love how they use covering her mouth as short hand for secrecy but not only is she not covering nearly enough to hide her identity (which they know since she gets identified for muh twins gimmick to work), she is also the only one doing it, everybody else is walking around normally, which means she looks just as out of place and attention drawing as she would irl.
Her face covering is equivalent to a Skyrim PC crouching down while "infiltrating" the Jedi temple. Something a RUclips video would do as a joke, but they are serious.
You know the song “Scott Pilgrim Ruined a Whole Generation”?
*I feel like Dungeons and Dragons ruined storytelling.*
It’s never about smart character development or intricate plot construction. It’s all about archetypes with a unique enough costume designs doing “fun” things in a group of other “main characters.”
And some people love that. Sad.
Everyone wants to feel special. Syndrome (and Dash) can fill you in on the rest.
Dungeons and Dragons should have good writing, too, shit like Critical Roll, Normies, and the general culture of toxic positivity ruin Tabletop and especially D&D.
I blame the printing press.
Dungeon and Dragons was a victim of this too. It was heavily dumbed down to appeal to normies, and that's what they turned it into. A platform for the "me me me me me" people while the actual nerds were forced to retreat
@@tsusmildrides4937 All people that ran Critical Roll should be on trial for crimes against humanity, and given the harshest sentence. Look how they massacred my boy
>Stupid dust cloud conceals the Sith lady.
Jedi: "I've lost visual!"
Remember when Luke specifically trained to deflect lasers without being able to see in ANH? Or the blind guy in Rogue One? Jedi don't need their fucking eyes to sense things. I hate this show.
literally the first episode, the korean jedi guy "don't trust your eyes, they deceive you" and then asks the kids to focus and use their jedi senses.
The writers don't know how to read
@@marcogenovesi8570 It's like this show has anti-setups and payoffs. Fuck I miss well-written tv
I predict Smilo-Ren are the twins' "birthing person" that used her "Fun Force Funnel" to create the girls. She believes OSHA died in the fire, her favorite daughter, so takes the twin she's left with to train as a tool to get revenge against the Jedi who wanted to take the twins to train. Maybe she knows the girl is alive and just hates the Jedi for taking her but it will be shown to be entirely the girl's choice to leave. Like she said it was her choice to then leave the Jedi.
"No, I am your Mother"
It's coming. You know it's coming.
So this is suppose to be the high republic when the jedi are at their spiritual best and leading an ordered and peaceful galaxy. What is it with Disney only writing the jedi as corrupt and compromised? Do they just hate the idea of good?
Yes, everybody that works for Disney is unironically evil. They hate the good guys
The only things that bring me joy in life are Smiler Ren, Ryan trash talking Disney Wars and reading Rag's sweet little mind ... consensually, of course
Look, we had a lot to cover in episode 1. Many aspects of the Jedi needed to be shown. We REALLY needed to know how Jedi Knights steam the wrinkles out of their cloaks between missions. It's a really important character moment, you know. *Rolls eyes*
we had to see his naked torso, because it's ok to show that for a man. Now if it wasn't a man it would have been bad though and we could not see that
22:17 One of the first things a Jedi PADAWAN learns how to do is block lasers with their eyes closed. You're telling me a Jedi master doesn't think to 1: force push the sand away, or 2: use the force to see her through the sand and just put her ass on the ground. Fantastic.
I just keep thinking back to the scene in Clone Wars where Anakin, Obi-Wan and Mace both force Cad Bane into confessing where his base of operations is with the Force. They don't even need to MIND read if enough Jedi collectively do the "You will do X" trick. They've literally established that anyone is susceptible no matter how mentally strong. What a load of nonsense lol
It'd be a lot more interesting if there was no twin, she just had some kind of personality disorder and the "good" personality did truly believe she didn't commit any of the murders making her pseudo-immune to mind reading and force confession while the "evil" personality is aware she's manipulating the Jedi.
Pretty sure Cad Bane resists that in that episode and they don't try it again since they almost fried his brain doing it.
@@SuperMicklovin He literally still leads them to his base.
3:08 of course he was just looking at the ocean.
Because the sea is always right
Why does the guy in the thumbnail look like a 20 year old trying to look like he's 50?
Bro should shave the hair and grow out his beard like Kratos.
The microplastics have not treated him well.
His beard looks more fake than the ones from Rebel Moon
Looks like a woman with a bad wig
"Mae's the force" be with you
May is gonna convince the Wookie Jedi that it's Life Day and push him off a cliff while he's changing into the red robes.
I got a fucking Acolyte trailer when I clicked on this video 🤣
"StAr wArS rETurNS, CertIfIEd FrESh"
I think its hilarious that Osha Mae Body Scrub goes into the pharmacy for poison and the Qimir guy explains to her how to use the poison like she didnt just ask for it or think to use it
Leslye Headland is a hero, guys.
Just think about all the money she's losing on Disney's behalf!
My theory is that it’s a payoff for all the times she looked the other way/actively participated with Harvey Weinsteins nonsense
@@zacharynelson5731Les the notorious blackmailer.
you guys know the P stands for Pause, you can stop the video to not talk over scenes and miss out on the dumbness
Osha: [sniffs poison] “Iocaine! I bet my life on it! And there are my twin sister’s footprints. She’s alive! Or was, an hour ago. If she is otherwise when I find her, I shall be very put out.”
Rags and Ryan should do a forge. Cyborg commander rag outpost
What’s with the dialogue during the fight preambles? Unfinished business? Attack me with all your strength? What is this, Kill Bill? It sure wished it could be.
It's funny to have watched Sheev and friend complain that May didn't change out of her murdering clothes immediately and then listen to EFAP complain that a hood is excessive because disguise is unecessary.
Missed opportunity to photoshop Ryan's face on the Torbin thumbnail.
'Don't trust your eyes. They can deceive you.'
Escapes by hiding from their eyes with a dust cloud.
Hold up, I've just realised, are they just ripping off the KotOR 2 dark side Exile assassinating all the Jedi masters?
When ripping off stories so great, it takes real skill to make something so bad.
The interview clip this video (and the last one) keeps clipping of them laughing directly states that not only did she want to copy a character from kotor 2, and write a story about it but also directly spoils a key plot point that isn't revealed for some time in the course of the story, and it's just brushed off as a throwaway sentence. So I assume they took the time to read a wiki article and then just lift elements of it over and over without any understanding as to why it existed in the first place.
pretty much everything in this show is a direct ripoff of better source material. They have zero creativity
Calling it now, Smylo Ren is a woman. Far too many characters assuming someone’s gender for it to be a mere coincidence.
Probably a green fart person, like the other similar being in Asoka
Stoic Jedi: *exists*
“OMG HE’S JUST LIKE QUI GON”
Imma call in now: they got separated as kids bc their house burned down and one ran out the east side of the house the other out of the west side and just assumed the other one is dead
While it sucks that this is Gi-Hun's first English role hopefully he can get more since learning(?) English.
Lee Jung-Jae, the actor playing Jedi Master Sol, has been a highlight for me. Even with not being fluent in english, he's doing a good job selling the cringy dialog. This is more than can be said for the other scotrs, who are kinda just delivering cringe directly to my senses in the hopes Ill be deprived of my sense of taste.
Jokes on you, Disney. I'm already stuffed full of longman.
So.
There is the The Old Republic storyline with the twins.
Lesbie Headlamp either stole it, or it's just genuine similarity due to twins turning against each other being a popular trope, I don't know.
But even in that storyline, the perfectly matching twins are distinguishable from each other, because 30 years is a long time to develop a different personality and different distinguishing features. One of them grew more bulkier due to his different training with his master, while the other one is more slender. They have different scars from fights and one of them even has a prosthetic arm.
And now Headlamp wants to tell me, that by 16 years, neither the outer space junk mechanic and the sith apprentice received a similar upbringing, what made them perfectly indistinguishable... The Sith apprentice isn't bulkier or has scars... The outer space mech doesn't has a buzz-sawed or a short haircut to not get her locks stuck in the machines... NOTHING!?
Its so freaking frustrating watching those "characters" act like they know simultaniously that her suspect is free of any guild and the target they are looking for at the same time
13:58 - It's such a obvious and tired trope for drama, they get a fraction of a point of subverting it slightly
Sousou no Frieren had a moment like this where the main character sneaked out of the city fearing she could get the blame for a kill, the show expertly subverted it because the law enforcers weren't stupid had good reasons to think she didn't do it
Character escaped because they didn't know they were that smart but they weren't going to take the chance
Such a great show if anyone wants a palate cleanser
Calling it now the evil twin "died" bey falling down one of those super deep shafts that never kill anyone.