I agree totally. 7. They definitely stuck the landing...taking lots of chances along the way. It was far from perfect, but nowhere NEAR as 'bad' as the attacks after a single episode made it out to be. I WOULD watch a second season.
My thought is he was thinking, Sol was going to kill May, and didn’t want that to happen. or he thought something was going to happen to the ship and it was just a survival move, self preservation But I agree there were seemingly no reason for that to happen other than to separate the two ships. It was definitely weak writing.
Not really, he saw how tunnel vision Sol became and sabotaged the ship before Sol killed them both. Sol was totally loosing himself to his emotion at that point.
My biggest question was how would someone kill a Jedi master without a weapon? It might’ve been very obvious, but a force choke never came to mind. I don’t know why. Such a duh moment for me
Honestly I thought when he said to kill a Jedi without a weapon, he meant make a Jedi fall to the dark side. Kill the Jedi as an ideology, not just....use the force to kill one.
Didn't they already establish that they can kill a jedi master with just a knife in the very first episode ( which again is them contradicting themselves)
6:18 the Force cult with Mother Aniseya was obsessed with balance and yin yang type symbolism. Clearly Osha and Mae are meant to represent that balance.
@itachii267 you skin is like 4mm. So if he was to be lightly whipped with a lightsaber whip, he would have to literally have to be hit with just the tip. His scars are long. He should have a bunch of dots I feel
A common theme in part of the storytelling of star wars. They did it with kylo ren too. You don't see his master until the third movie of the sequel trilogy.
I have to agree with Eric. I may go a little higher with a B- grade just because that choreography was 🔥 and I'm okay with *some* of the mystery being left unresolved. Tbh my main issues were pacing and editing. So many episodes felt like it cut off almost at random.
I think Qmir is Plagueis's proxy so that Plagueis can hide behind the scenes, I think Plagueis was trying to create an apprentice that would faithfully serve and protect, and I believe he was the reason Anakin exists.
Maybe this is just me but i still rlly want tenebrouses considering hes not canon yet. I feel like maybe qimir and plagueis are competing to try to get the position of tenebrouses apprentice
What of Plaguis is like Vader as in he has a secret apprentice Qimir while currently being the apprentice of Tenebrous, like how Vader had Starkiller while under Sideus, and he is finding out the Qimir had a secret apprentice as he was sneaking around the caves
Aside from starkiller not being canon that's it exactly. Qimir is a Sith Lord, he is currently after an acolyte who he will use to try kill his master. It won't work of course and either Qimir or Osha will be killed. Though we know from legends the Plagueis carried out experiments so he may use these 2 for these experiments before offing one or both of them.
As someone who just enjoys watching Star Wars and your analysis, I thought this was great. A little more complexity in the world of good versus evil, plus some great saber fights!
@@viperkillz_jdm7314 Honestly the best thing I did to my psyche is not being the 14 year old that vehemently, structurally attacked the sequels in all of their flaws to anyone that praised them. Sure, we CAN spend the time writing every way BoBF, Ahsoka, Mando S3 and, Kenobi fumbled the bag to a random person on the internet, but...Why? Ever since I asked my ass that question and began simply not caring for this franchise anymore, my time in these types of content and discussions greatly improved.
@@viperkillz_jdm7314 it's an opinion dude. If you feel you have to attack someone's opinion, you're not a real fan, you're a bully. And that's pathetic.
@@its_dey_mate exactly. A trap that too many people fall into. It's a story. They are storytellers. And it's not our story. If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it. We aren't ever going to have control of it or what happens. People being angry isn't going to change that.
I just finished watching it. I actually really enjoyed it, I appreciate the grayness of how the Jedi Order has to operate and how good intentions, when you try to excuse or hide them, can lead to foul consequences. I get that we like seeing the Jedi as pure and stuff but, I think it's perfectly fine for them to be imperfect.
YES!!! Exactly! So many people aren't getting this they just think that The Jedi are these godly perfect beings guess what they aren't! That was the whole point of The Jedi's Depiction in The Prequels they became corrupt and clouded and that's what ultimately led to their downfall.
I was thinking maybe he’s the one who told the witches about Brendock/ creating life and the vergence almost as some experiment. (I mean since this series has already changed ages of characters. )
nothing disney has produced, except andor, has been good or cool. it all just feels like fanfics with extremely bad writing a lot of the time (especially with acolyte)
@@gaudy1242every star wars "fan" just wants to watch the first movie on repeat well go ahead then but personally i like other perspectives on stories and not just the same shit for 50 years
So here's my theory on what's going on based on the premise that Disney (as shown with Ki Adi Mundi's retconned age) aren't afraid of tweaking things. The shift Vernestra felt was the death of Tenebrous at the hands of Plageuis. Qimir is an adaptation of Darth Venamis, Tenebrous' secret apprentice from legends with a name designed to invoke the word venom. The first time we see him, he's handling poison. When we see Plageuis in the cave, he's just tracked Qimir/Venamis down, that's why he's looking out the cave in the way he does, and as per legends has the intent of killing him. Plageuis is stronger in the force, and can mask from Qimir/Venamis, whilst also being able to gain some grasp of the situation playing out around the events on Brendok and the twins origin Venamis had a grim fate in legends. It's likely a version of that may play out as he's now more valuable "alive" than dead
@Carpediem357 okay, misuse of the word retconned, his age was established in what is now legends, and is different in canon as of this series, so it shows they're willing to tweak legends continuity into canon
We know he's a Sith Lord. We only know him as Qimir or the stranger or Darth Teeth. So yes he absolutely could be. People act like the rule of 2 is absolute but we know that the jedi can be wrong and that became looser with Ventress and the Inquisitors etc.
Why would the twins separate? They would be on the run any way. Plus Mae and Osha are one, so technically if Quimir have both Mae and Osha as acolyte it technically doesn't break the rule of two. Also more bodies for Plaguis to experiment on.
@@gaudy1242 its a plotbuilding device called foreshadowing. now in a reversal of the beginning of this series Mae is being asked to hunt Osha by the Jedi. "bad writing" is an excuse for failure of critical analysis. "why" matters.
Perhaps that would explain why Osha and Mae never really felt like fleshed out characters, because they were duplicates, neither whole entirely while the other exists. The vergence may have been the pure will of the Force or the Force being bent to the will of one powerful enough to.
@@arianalikens5300 MY assumption has always been that he created Luke in secret to survive and take over for Palpatine one day and didn't tell Palpatine. And Palpatine killed him shortly after, so Anakin's existence went unknown to Palpatine. I don't know if this has been confirmed, but I've seen others assume Palpatine create Anakin, but it wouldn't make sanese to make him and then leave him to a desert planet as a slave.
@@johndoe6032So the official stance is that he did NOT create Anakin. It’s always been that Anakin was brought about by the will of the Force alone, in response to Plagueis trying and failing to create life.
@@TheMystic-Portalso are those who dislike The Assolyte “anti-fans” because they want to see actual good Star Wars content and not dog water? Good riddance this shit got cancelled 😂
I really loved it. I am hopeful for a second season focusing on Osha and Qimir and their sith training, as that is something we haven't really seen before. I'd give it a solid 8 because I think it stuck the landing. Season 2 could be more exciting now that all of the setup is out of the way.
Season 2 could be about them training and plagueis watching on reporting back to his master and plotting to either kill them both or take one of them on as his apprentice to overthrow his master.
Instead of having multiple directors to film their own episodes, just pick one to do the series. Too many conflicting views and it showed in the series
This is laying down the groundwork for how Anakin is going to be born... In the Legends continuity the birth of Anakin was a reaction by the force to Darth Plagues' experiments...
"Always two there are. No more, no less." Yoda always knew the Sith were in hiding. I find it odd people obsess over Qui-Adi Mundi's quote but never seem to connect the dots on what Master Yoda himself reveals to Mace Windu.
@@rossanderson5815 my guess would be in Yoda's many centuries he crossed paths with a Sith Lord and apprentice and felt it best to keep it secret. Could have even happened in a season two of The Acolyte between Yoda and Plagius. Mace Windu also felt like his most trusted member of the Jedi Council so he probably entrusted him with the knowledge.
Well even though there's a rule of two we know the apprentices are always trying to overthrow their masters and training a potential apprentice(s) in the shadows
True, still think the rule of two is a big con/lie of the sith to have an advantage against the Jedi Think about it, I’m episode one there was palpatine, who was over maul and doku, who was over ventrus, that’s not just two
@@cole71so explain Jedi Survivors.😂😂😂 there is no single way to bleed a saber. Vader and Ren struggled bleeding because they were not fully tuned into the darkside
I think I Qimir is just a rouge Jedi, a ronin (a masterless samurai), that is why he is looking for an Apprentice/acolyte. The Plagueis scene is almost like an after thought so that we as viewers can get excited and ask for a season 2. Kinda sad that the more interesting characters Qimir and Sol are just side characters and one of them is dead.
Well, he did say he had a master, as well as mentioned he had a master in the order, so plageus is most likely his current master and may and osha are just being used to do the experiments palpatine tells anakin about in episode three
honestly i really liked the acolyte. Kept me on the edge of my seat each episode and manny jacinto was just... muah 👌 seems they also went out of their way not only to not break any existing lore, but to further expand it. I am stoked for a season two if there ever is one
I don't think this series is gonna get a second season. As much as i had high hopes for this series, it raised so many questions that never answered and has trampled over some established lore. This series did have great fighting tho
Enjoyed it overall. Fights were awesome. Really suffers from not being released in 2 arcs (1-4 & 5-8). Not everything needs to be episodic. As much as I loved andor, that also should've been released in arcs
I think this series did some things that will stick with me for awhile, the action scenes and fight choreography were excellent and I liked seeing the more karate / martial arts side of force battles.
@@patrickhayden8183 I loved the story, how the jedis although a force for good, can be flawed, how their involvement in politic forced them to stray from their own ideals sending them on a darker path blindly. I also loved this about the story, everything is about perception. I also liked the huge amount of mini lore details that was pread everywhere, like how a Force nexus is an unsettling environnement that can mess Force users up. Sol clearly was affected by it to the point he could not see the line between Force intuition and his own emotion and deeply failed.
@@whanblake8360 I don't think that's it. Those kids didn't have like a huge role in it. They reused a bunch of shots. They probably only actually filmed 2 episodes with them.
ive always held issue with the rule of two.. since the masters hardly seem to stop the apprentices from getting thier own before killing their master. they just seek the strongest apprentice, so i feel like at some points there might be multiple dark-users. but only 2 would be "sith". so plaegis watching him groom a replacement either as an apprectice for himself or to replace himself. is kinda the status quo. i feel like the pattern is always never just 1+1 but always 1+1+(1)
I've been a Star Wars fan for decades, and even though each movie/series has its flaws, I love what I get from them. Each one gives us a view into the SWU, and The Acolyte was the first to give us a flawed Jedi Order and how the dark side is carried in everyone. It was a really good series and I enjoy it for what I got out of it.
I'm sure that you noticed that several visuals in the fight between may and osha symbolize the Ying and yang... Like literally if you pause the screen they look like the symbol... And the overhead shot was the same.
I enjoyed it. I hope there's another season or that they're able to contextualize it in another. I think that this fandom, in particular, is tenuous, and sometimes unreasonably volatile. However, every form of media is subjective, and this series is not immune from it. Looking forward to season 2 of Ahsoka.
The serie was ok, there were mistakes but some nice scenes. Mae and osha remind me of jing and jang. Im happy that they took some knowledge from the legends and made it cannon like cortosis and plaguis.
Wasn't it also mentioned by Dooku himself in tales of the Jedi that the Jedi Council is dismissing the possibility of a Sith Lord existing while being the cause of death of Qui-Gon leading to him leaving the order to Yaddle? So, is the Jedi actually aware of the Sith but just sweeping it under the rug out of fear any Jedi members would leave either out of fear of the Sith or to switch to the dark side?
I really enjoyed the Acolyte. The introduction into Osha/Mae was a unique perspective of the Star Wars universe. I’m hopeful for a season 2. They shouldn’t leave us hanging on sooo many cliffhangers.
Yes they did. In the books both sith masters tried to replace their apprentices because they both thought their apprentices were weak, which is ok to do in the Rule Of Two. Palpatine didn’t care at all for the rule.
I like the first episode Every episode after that just got worse and worse The acting from the main character was one dimensional And the writing was all over the shot The most shocking part is you giving it a 7/10 Must be nice to get paid by Disney
I really didn’t think it left me with too many unanswered questions. I really think that I felt like I had actual resolution from that last episode, which is the opposite of how I felt with Ahdoka.
I agree with your 7/10 rating. There were some amazing performances and sequences bogged down with clunky plot holes and shortcuts. I would watch a second season, but would hope it learns from the feedback to this season.
I loved the acolyte. It shows us how well do you know someone. It makes you see that the Jedi where already suffering from pride and hubris and would lie and cover up. The role swap of Mai and Osha. All was not as it seemed. Also the torture of the Khyber crystal to make it a sith weapon was amazing never thought we would get to see that. Yes there is more story to tell and questions to answer,so I hope that there is a second season but over all I think it’s a great story.
These were my favorite saber fights in the whole franchise tbh. I never really liked the showy spins from the prequels. The sol/qimir duel was just incredible. The series was a clear homage to crouching tiger hidden dragon, which is a great influence. The acting was incredible by pretty much everyone too. I do agree that as a mystery it wasn't the best, and the writing was inconsistent. I couldn't help but feel like if the twins were actually one character, the story could have been a little more interesting. It got a little too parent trap at times, and frankly they didn't have enough stuff for both characters to do, it was really just Osha's story. I think the whole medichlorian idea is dumb still, but star wars has doubled down on it a few times since the prequels so what can you do. The witches stuff is also pretty established by now so I didn't have a problem with that either. I really enjoyed watching it though, and I hope it gets another season, not sure how likely it will be. It would be cool to see the two if them form the knights if ren after the sith and the jedi mark them for death. Thanks for the video!
Seeing the crystal bled on screen was one thing I hoped they did and did well… I wasn’t disappointed! Looked amazing. (Though the meme of the rocket ship ice cream was hilarious 😂).
I think it was just a story about how the Jedi are flawed. It wasn’t just Ani but so many Jedi are pieces of shit with too much power. They aren’t all Obi-wan
To answer your question EV, being a SW fan since 4 was originally released but legit closet nerd for decades so didn’t allow myself the joy of comics, books and lore for fear of social death early on in life, yet have always been a fan and since come out ot the closet,🥁I loved the Acolyte. The lightsaber and non lightsaber duels were intense. I have rewatched them and episodes multiple times already. Not for nothing, Qimir’s performance is beyond stellar. Not gonna lie, when I saw him greet Osha in the apothecary in the earlier episode, I thought he’s not revealing all that there is to him. WOW what a difference in his internal twin. I’m impressed. I really hope they do a season2. There’s a lot to be revealed. Ya there’s some eh parts and the rest makes up for it.
Do you think Qimir knows that his master is watching them? Or has this master not yet taken on Qimir as an apprentice?
Amazing series 8.5 out of 10. Loved this series.
It would be cool if in this scene, as in the book, Plagueis had just killed Tenebrous and stumbles upon Qimir's den as he's trying to flee the planet.
He was so nearby to qimirs lair that i feel like he has to know. Hes also a powerful sith so i believe he could at least sense plagueis
It was an ok series. Too many borrowed lines and tedious in places. Still a meh 6/10 for me.
I agree totally. 7. They definitely stuck the landing...taking lots of chances along the way. It was far from perfect, but nowhere NEAR as 'bad' as the attacks after a single episode made it out to be. I WOULD watch a second season.
Bazil sabotaging the ship is the most frustrating unanswered question of them all. Darth Bazil? 🤔
It's called bad writing
My thought is he was thinking, Sol was going to kill May, and didn’t want that to happen. or he thought something was going to happen to the ship and it was just a survival move, self preservation
But I agree there were seemingly no reason for that to happen other than to separate the two ships. It was definitely weak writing.
Not really, he saw how tunnel vision Sol became and sabotaged the ship before Sol killed them both. Sol was totally loosing himself to his emotion at that point.
more legit than Darth Jar Jar
I think he thought he was going to shoot down May
Plaguis is the #1 Qimir/Osha shipper. Just chillin in that cave hoping they kiss. 😂
Would love to see that next season 😂
I call them Qisha
Peeping Plaguis?
he def runs a couple shipper blogs forsure
"hey! you guys should kiss!"
The line about the Jedi being unchecked power posing as a religion is something that needs to be explored more.
Raynecourt spitting truth
*Cough* *looks at current events.*
I agree I think it's what we have all been thinking for a while jedi is not about being good it's about absolute power.
How
Indeed
My biggest question was how would someone kill a Jedi master without a weapon? It might’ve been very obvious, but a force choke never came to mind. I don’t know why. Such a duh moment for me
Same lol. I don't know why I was wrecking my brain on how it could be done.
Honestly I thought when he said to kill a Jedi without a weapon, he meant make a Jedi fall to the dark side. Kill the Jedi as an ideology, not just....use the force to kill one.
@@Revanaught that would have been good too
@@Revanaughtsol would have been the one to do it too honestly
Didn't they already establish that they can kill a jedi master with just a knife in the very first episode ( which again is them contradicting themselves)
6:18 the Force cult with Mother Aniseya was obsessed with balance and yin yang type symbolism. Clearly Osha and Mae are meant to represent that balance.
I was MORE confused by the end, than I was during the season...😂😂
Like how 🤔
I feel like a lightsaber whip would not just lightly scar someone
It would if it barely hits you.
@@itachii267copium
Agreed.... That is not a lightwhip scar
@itachii267 you skin is like 4mm. So if he was to be lightly whipped with a lightsaber whip, he would have to literally have to be hit with just the tip. His scars are long. He should have a bunch of dots I feel
But a master Jedi would
Something never really explained is how Qimir came to know and train Mae.
A common theme in part of the storytelling of star wars. They did it with kylo ren too. You don't see his master until the third movie of the sequel trilogy.
It's a question Osha is bound to ask Qimir at some point. Probably covered in a flahsback in Season 2.....
I have to agree with Eric. I may go a little higher with a B- grade just because that choreography was 🔥 and I'm okay with *some* of the mystery being left unresolved. Tbh my main issues were pacing and editing. So many episodes felt like it cut off almost at random.
I think Qmir is Plagueis's proxy so that Plagueis can hide behind the scenes, I think Plagueis was trying to create an apprentice that would faithfully serve and protect, and I believe he was the reason Anakin exists.
I think there is a book you can read that will help you better understand Plagueis. He didn't really believe in the rule of two.
Also the force "Struck" back when he attempted to create life through the force
So no, he didn't create Anakin
Maybe this is just me but i still rlly want tenebrouses considering hes not canon yet. I feel like maybe qimir and plagueis are competing to try to get the position of tenebrouses apprentice
@@Potaty_manthat'd be such a cool shift for the story.
Agreed, him messing with the creation of how the twins were made, this causing the force to create anakin
"You dozen, form a perimeter" Does perimeter mean something else, cause they didn't and were all traveling in a massive group.
I think it was a Force perimeter
He said "5 klicks," i.e. 5 kilometers, so they're all exiting the way they came so they can spread out outside the temple.
@@christopherverdery1294 Yes ^^ I've seen many Fandumb Menace people mocking this part in Facebook pages. Dumbg dumbery.. LeSigh 😐
What of Plaguis is like Vader as in he has a secret apprentice Qimir while currently being the apprentice of Tenebrous, like how Vader had Starkiller while under Sideus, and he is finding out the Qimir had a secret apprentice as he was sneaking around the caves
Starkiller isn’t canon
Aside from starkiller not being canon that's it exactly. Qimir is a Sith Lord, he is currently after an acolyte who he will use to try kill his master. It won't work of course and either Qimir or Osha will be killed. Though we know from legends the Plagueis carried out experiments so he may use these 2 for these experiments before offing one or both of them.
Since he brought test subjects back to life also, they might come back as a zombie too! ... If it gets renewed :/
@@johnaustin1061 Like how Dooku had Ventress, ok?
@@jroot227 🙂↕️
He didn't wipe Osha's memories. He wiped Mae.
Exactly
He mixed them up
@@maxpfennighaus i mean. who hasnt lol
As someone who just enjoys watching Star Wars and your analysis, I thought this was great. A little more complexity in the world of good versus evil, plus some great saber fights!
@@viperkillz_jdm7314 Honestly the best thing I did to my psyche is not being the 14 year old that vehemently, structurally attacked the sequels in all of their flaws to anyone that praised them. Sure, we CAN spend the time writing every way BoBF, Ahsoka, Mando S3 and, Kenobi fumbled the bag to a random person on the internet, but...Why? Ever since I asked my ass that question and began simply not caring for this franchise anymore, my time in these types of content and discussions greatly improved.
Thanks you, i feel less alone in loving this serie now, swimming in that sea of '' that was shit because reason A to Z ''.
@@viperkillz_jdm7314 it's an opinion dude. If you feel you have to attack someone's opinion, you're not a real fan, you're a bully. And that's pathetic.
@@Naerah It was really good.
@@its_dey_mate exactly. A trap that too many people fall into. It's a story. They are storytellers. And it's not our story. If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it. We aren't ever going to have control of it or what happens. People being angry isn't going to change that.
The best part of the episode seeing the kyber crystal bleed red gave me goosebumps.
Yea something that took Vader so long to do a failed Jedi did on accident out of nowhere 😂
@@AyoSwayveythat event isn’t canon, the acolytes is
Or the ending credits
@@Howlingburd19 🤦♂️
I just finished watching it. I actually really enjoyed it, I appreciate the grayness of how the Jedi Order has to operate and how good intentions, when you try to excuse or hide them, can lead to foul consequences.
I get that we like seeing the Jedi as pure and stuff but, I think it's perfectly fine for them to be imperfect.
YES!!! Exactly! So many people aren't getting this they just think that The Jedi are these godly perfect beings guess what they aren't! That was the whole point of The Jedi's Depiction in The Prequels they became corrupt and clouded and that's what ultimately led to their downfall.
Okay... the Jedi are not perfect. But they don't cover up murders. They also are at least as smart as normal people.
THIS IS HOW PLAGUES is finding out about the way to make life right now...
This is how he got the idea to create Anakin … what I thought too
@@justicestylesHe didn’t create Anakin, technically. The Force created him in response to Plagueis messing with the force.
I was thinking maybe he’s the one who told the witches about Brendock/ creating life and the vergence almost as some experiment. (I mean since this series has already changed ages of characters. )
@@thehalfricanguyExactly. I actually think that maybe Plagueis is the one who taught the witches how to make the two girls.
@@evanmisejka4062 oooooo that’s goood!!!!!
Seeing that lightsaber go from blue to red in real time has to be in my opinion, the single coolest shot in Star Wars
Anakin under his cracked helmet by far
nothing disney has produced, except andor, has been good or cool. it all just feels like fanfics with extremely bad writing a lot of the time (especially with acolyte)
@@gaudy1242every star wars "fan" just wants to watch the first movie on repeat well go ahead then but personally i like other perspectives on stories and not just the same shit for 50 years
@@gaudy1242100%, I've been calling it "Hollywood budget fan fiction" since j j abrams TFA
@@gaudy1242okay anti fan, you live in your delusions 😂
Today was always covering things up. He didn’t tell the Senate about Maul. He didn’t tell Luke about Vader. He didn’t tell Luke about Leia.
Obi Wan?
@@marshsundeenYoda. Absolute horrendous typo
So here's my theory on what's going on based on the premise that Disney (as shown with Ki Adi Mundi's retconned age) aren't afraid of tweaking things.
The shift Vernestra felt was the death of Tenebrous at the hands of Plageuis.
Qimir is an adaptation of Darth Venamis, Tenebrous' secret apprentice from legends with a name designed to invoke the word venom. The first time we see him, he's handling poison.
When we see Plageuis in the cave, he's just tracked Qimir/Venamis down, that's why he's looking out the cave in the way he does, and as per legends has the intent of killing him. Plageuis is stronger in the force, and can mask from Qimir/Venamis, whilst also being able to gain some grasp of the situation playing out around the events on Brendok and the twins origin
Venamis had a grim fate in legends. It's likely a version of that may play out as he's now more valuable "alive" than dead
There is no retconned age omfg. Ki Adi Mundis age was never mentioned in canon. The age comes from legends
@Carpediem357 okay, misuse of the word retconned, his age was established in what is now legends, and is different in canon as of this series, so it shows they're willing to tweak legends continuity into canon
@@philclark3399 Disney isn't really tweaking anything if they themselves never establisbed his DOB.
I've been thinking Qimir is Venamis too. I agree that it's kinda cool that they are weaving legends into canon and tweaking it when they need to
We know he's a Sith Lord. We only know him as Qimir or the stranger or Darth Teeth. So yes he absolutely could be.
People act like the rule of 2 is absolute but we know that the jedi can be wrong and that became looser with Ventress and the Inquisitors etc.
I loved every second of it of every ep . . Most times I fall asleep watching Star Wars but I tuned in to this one
Why would the twins separate? They would be on the run any way. Plus Mae and Osha are one, so technically if Quimir have both Mae and Osha as acolyte it technically doesn't break the rule of two. Also more bodies for Plaguis to experiment on.
yea i still have no idea why they had to split... the power of wiping memories is also a mystery to me.
it's called bad writing
@@gaudy1242 its a plotbuilding device called foreshadowing.
now in a reversal of the beginning of this series Mae is being asked to hunt Osha by the Jedi. "bad writing" is an excuse for failure of critical analysis. "why" matters.
Because Osha was trying to "save" Mae from going to the dark side and would only agree to train with Qimire if he let Mae go...🤷🏼♀️
Fax that confused me too
I don't think Mother Aniseya intended to create twins, but was just attempting to create life and the force made them twins.
I don't think Mother Aniseya did, I think Darth Plagueis did.
@@Ultimate0ne i don't think he did...however i believe he created anakin
Perhaps that would explain why Osha and Mae never really felt like fleshed out characters, because they were duplicates, neither whole entirely while the other exists. The vergence may have been the pure will of the Force or the Force being bent to the will of one powerful enough to.
@@arianalikens5300 MY assumption has always been that he created Luke in secret to survive and take over for Palpatine one day and didn't tell Palpatine. And Palpatine killed him shortly after, so Anakin's existence went unknown to Palpatine. I don't know if this has been confirmed, but I've seen others assume Palpatine create Anakin, but it wouldn't make sanese to make him and then leave him to a desert planet as a slave.
@@johndoe6032So the official stance is that he did NOT create Anakin. It’s always been that Anakin was brought about by the will of the Force alone, in response to Plagueis trying and failing to create life.
Great review. Healthy balanced take on things. We need more of this. 🎉
Did The Acolyte stick the landing? Yeah, like a Hindenburg.
Nice
Yeah okay anti fan 😉
@@TheMystic-Portalso are those who dislike The Assolyte “anti-fans” because they want to see actual good Star Wars content and not dog water? Good riddance this shit got cancelled 😂
I really loved it. I am hopeful for a second season focusing on Osha and Qimir and their sith training, as that is something we haven't really seen before. I'd give it a solid 8 because I think it stuck the landing. Season 2 could be more exciting now that all of the setup is out of the way.
Season 2 could be about them training and plagueis watching on reporting back to his master and plotting to either kill them both or take one of them on as his apprentice to overthrow his master.
Season 2🤣🤣🤣 not happening
@@SimplyStopMotionActionFigureFu don’t count your wishes before the stars are visible.
@@Spaced_out9000 Disney know what review bombing is. They won’t worry about that score.
@@jnzoogerreview bombing to 15% is impossible 😂😂😂
Instead of having multiple directors to film their own episodes, just pick one to do the series. Too many conflicting views and it showed in the series
That's not how TV directors work. They just shoot the script they don't have a say in what the story is.
This is laying down the groundwork for how Anakin is going to be born...
In the Legends continuity the birth of Anakin was a reaction by the force to Darth Plagues' experiments...
This didn’t age well
"Always two there are. No more, no less."
Yoda always knew the Sith were in hiding. I find it odd people obsess over Qui-Adi Mundi's quote but never seem to connect the dots on what Master Yoda himself reveals to Mace Windu.
Would be nice to know how Yoda knew that, and why Mace wasn't shocked.
@@rossanderson5815 my guess would be in Yoda's many centuries he crossed paths with a Sith Lord and apprentice and felt it best to keep it secret. Could have even happened in a season two of The Acolyte between Yoda and Plagius. Mace Windu also felt like his most trusted member of the Jedi Council so he probably entrusted him with the knowledge.
Well even though there's a rule of two we know the apprentices are always trying to overthrow their masters and training a potential apprentice(s) in the shadows
@@rossanderson5815i mean, the sith could have had the rule of 2 dating back to pre "extinction" so it could be common recorded history
True, still think the rule of two is a big con/lie of the sith to have an advantage against the Jedi
Think about it, I’m episode one there was palpatine, who was over maul and doku, who was over ventrus, that’s not just two
Big question is: Is Tenebrous alive or just been killed and Plaguis has just found Qimirs little den
Either option is possible
Supposedly Plagueis is in his 20s here
I know in the Darth Plagueis was an apprentice to Darth Tenebrous during that time in his life
Quimeer says he has a master though, so plaggy was just avoiding being seen by osha to keep his existence as secretive as possible
It's a possibility
Qimir says he has a master on Episode 4. This makes me believe Plaguis is for sure his master right now.
Indubitably
The bleeding of the crystal and how it turns red was a great scene; loved it.
Yeah I thought that was amazing I think it’s the first time we’ve seen it in live action
Read Vader
@@geneoliva9584exactly! These people are only happy cuz they don’t know the real story. Ignorance is a blessing sometimes 😂
Yeah. That was not the 'way'🤣😊
@@cole71so explain Jedi Survivors.😂😂😂 there is no single way to bleed a saber.
Vader and Ren struggled bleeding because they were not fully tuned into the darkside
I sure hope we get to see some more of Darth Plagueis!
The lightsaber fight was awesome and for some reason reminded me of the matrix lol
These are all the reasons you're not a Star wars fan. You're a Disney star wars fan.
Found the clown @@deewatt
I would encourage you to read the book then, as it is spectacular!
@@deewatt so we're a cry baby?
Grow up @@deewatt
I like the fact that the lightsaber was unstable. Great callback to Kylo.
I think I Qimir is just a rouge Jedi, a ronin (a masterless samurai), that is why he is looking for an Apprentice/acolyte. The Plagueis scene is almost like an after thought so that we as viewers can get excited and ask for a season 2. Kinda sad that the more interesting characters Qimir and Sol are just side characters and one of them is dead.
Well, he did say he had a master, as well as mentioned he had a master in the order, so plageus is most likely his current master and may and osha are just being used to do the experiments palpatine tells anakin about in episode three
Qimir wipes Maes memory**
Seeing Plaguis was something I expected at the end of the episode, but that little tiny scene of him was so cool
Seeing him creep in the shadows was so good
Agreed, it was Plaguis all along 😂
Oh! So that's who that was!
(I'm posting this before seeing this video).
honestly i really liked the acolyte. Kept me on the edge of my seat each episode and manny jacinto was just... muah 👌
seems they also went out of their way not only to not break any existing lore, but to further expand it. I am stoked for a season two if there ever is one
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Pleagus in that cave was creepy af.
I think it’s cause of the long fingers rapping around the rock and his evil eyes , he looks so good
Like Gollum
I came away thinking that the Sith had a point and the Jedi were corrupt and flawed
welcome to the republican party
@@beatboxxxerso jedi are republicans and siths are democrats? it fitting
It’s always been that way
Osha’s turn was done so well. I wasn’t really expecting it, but as it happened it was obvious. And somehow oddly beautiful.
Yes, i think the same about them not knowing about plagues.
I believe the Qimir and osha will name their first child Ren , who they will train to start the order of the knights of Ren
I loved it sure some unanswered questions but it was so amazing seeing all the Jedi back in action I really hope we get more high republic Jedi shows
I don't think this series is gonna get a second season. As much as i had high hopes for this series, it raised so many questions that never answered and has trampled over some established lore. This series did have great fighting tho
You can't trust this guys reviews at all, he is a paid schill by Disney. Literal insider.
I love how you jump to vernestra is an evil abusive master and in no way could of been protecting herself from a student turning to the dark side!!!
It's cuz they were on his back. Obviously not in defense. Like shooting someone in their back
Yea, that was a weird assumption.
I think you meant to say “Qimir wipes Mae’s memory” - not Osha’s.
They are the same person
@@patrickhayden8183yea but no but yea well only one is brain wiped
But..they're the same person. 2 body's 🤡😂
@@Drcaeser_endojo - EXACTLY!
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I really hope there's a second season where they can flesh out more of the story, but the fandom being what it is not too hopeful...
Enjoyed it overall. Fights were awesome. Really suffers from not being released in 2 arcs (1-4 & 5-8). Not everything needs to be episodic. As much as I loved andor, that also should've been released in arcs
I think this series did some things that will stick with me for awhile, the action scenes and fight choreography were excellent and I liked seeing the more karate / martial arts side of force battles.
Exactly what I thought! Great video! Awesome series, fantastic season finale! ❤❤
Lol
Good bot
@@patrickhayden8183 Good toxic fan who thinks everyone who likes something they don't like is a bot.
They better make a second season to finish this storyline, would be awesome if it ends with a flash forward showing plaguies meeting Palpatine
The finale made me want more.
What was your favorite part about it that makes you want more?
@@patrickhayden8183 I loved the story, how the jedis although a force for good, can be flawed, how their involvement in politic forced them to stray from their own ideals sending them on a darker path blindly. I also loved this about the story, everything is about perception. I also liked the huge amount of mini lore details that was pread everywhere, like how a Force nexus is an unsettling environnement that can mess Force users up. Sol clearly was affected by it to the point he could not see the line between Force intuition and his own emotion and deeply failed.
Your theory is different than others and makes sense! Your theory that Qiamir is basically a wannabe sith is refreshing!
Why they didn't use identical twins that look exactly alike when they were little will always make me wonder.
Maybe not that easy to find the right actors?
@@agathisrobusta lol no. Just no. That was a choice, and a dumb one.
@@DRossGaming You asked mate. And those kids were perfectly fine.
I thought the same thing. Must be some really horrible identical twin actors out there.
@@whanblake8360 I don't think that's it. Those kids didn't have like a huge role in it. They reused a bunch of shots. They probably only actually filmed 2 episodes with them.
ive always held issue with the rule of two.. since the masters hardly seem to stop the apprentices from getting thier own before killing their master. they just seek the strongest apprentice, so i feel like at some points there might be multiple dark-users. but only 2 would be "sith". so plaegis watching him groom a replacement either as an apprectice for himself or to replace himself. is kinda the status quo.
i feel like the pattern is always never just 1+1 but always 1+1+(1)
I've been a Star Wars fan for decades, and even though each movie/series has its flaws, I love what I get from them. Each one gives us a view into the SWU, and The Acolyte was the first to give us a flawed Jedi Order and how the dark side is carried in everyone. It was a really good series and I enjoy it for what I got out of it.
The deception setup by the Sith is diabolical 😮🤔
How could it have been Sol all along? I mean wasn’t he on Coruscant training younglings during the first murder?
What? Get sober 😊
Exactly he was no where near Mae's 1st kill just the 2nd and 3rd
@@SimplyStopMotionActionFigureFu?
@@kiidkif2009sol was with other Jedi during the second kill.
I'm sure that you noticed that several visuals in the fight between may and osha symbolize the Ying and yang... Like literally if you pause the screen they look like the symbol... And the overhead shot was the same.
Been waiting for this video ALL DAY 🤣🤣
same lol
I enjoyed it. I hope there's another season or that they're able to contextualize it in another. I think that this fandom, in particular, is tenuous, and sometimes unreasonably volatile. However, every form of media is subjective, and this series is not immune from it. Looking forward to season 2 of Ahsoka.
What the faak. Now I understand why the writing gets progressively worse
I was pleasantly surprised, enjoyed it more than I thought
8:21 Allegedly
Season 2 🤣🤣 that’ll be the day
Right!? These ppl have no idea it's already cut!😊
The serie was ok, there were mistakes but some nice scenes. Mae and osha remind me of jing and jang. Im happy that they took some knowledge from the legends and made it cannon like cortosis and plaguis.
Wasn't it also mentioned by Dooku himself in tales of the Jedi that the Jedi Council is dismissing the possibility of a Sith Lord existing while being the cause of death of Qui-Gon leading to him leaving the order to Yaddle? So, is the Jedi actually aware of the Sith but just sweeping it under the rug out of fear any Jedi members would leave either out of fear of the Sith or to switch to the dark side?
Yes. The Jedi believe these "Sith" were just dark Jedi or rogue Jedi using the darkside.
I also still feel robbed and duped that Carrie Ann Moss was a minor supporting character!!
Yeah agree
Same with Dafne Keen!
I DO AGREE WITH THAT
I really enjoyed the Acolyte. The introduction into Osha/Mae was a unique perspective of the Star Wars universe. I’m hopeful for a season 2. They shouldn’t leave us hanging on sooo many cliffhangers.
Season 2 could play with idea of (2 cells) of Sith master and apprentice.
Season 2 should stay and whoever's brain it lives in
And you think the writers could pull that off😅
@@wolfinstedd no god please no season 2. I wonder how your brain works enable to think a season 2 would EVEN be viable
I'd like to see it as a third entity. Why does it need to be only "good vs evil"? This isn't an American presidential election.
@@jeffl4802 you’re putting a lot more into this than the writers jsyk
But why did the twins have to go their separate ways in the end?
Probably to be safe like they said, if the Jedi could find both of them, they could prove the divergence was real
Season 2 better be renewed people were hating before this even came out.
Probably not. I would give it a 5-10% chance that someone can convince Bob that it is important to further explore the High Republic Era.
I got some bad news…
im calling it now. Mae & Osha are gonna be star wars version of solid & liquid snake.
Hoping to get invited back to the next media roundtable I see.
Yup.. 😂
I hope they will do a Season 2 cause we have a lot more things to explore here !!!
You rated it 7/10.... 😂😂
I wouldn't give it a 7 out of 100.
Plageuis could very well be Qimirs master. Plageuis didnt care for the Rule of two, nor did Tenebrous and Palpatine
Yes they did. In the books both sith masters tried to replace their apprentices because they both thought their apprentices were weak, which is ok to do in the Rule Of Two. Palpatine didn’t care at all for the rule.
I like the first episode
Every episode after that just got worse and worse
The acting from the main character was one dimensional
And the writing was all over the shot
The most shocking part is you giving it a 7/10
Must be nice to get paid by Disney
As long as season 2 is like episode 5 of this season,then I’ll watch it.
I really didn’t think it left me with too many unanswered questions. I really think that I felt like I had actual resolution from that last episode, which is the opposite of how I felt with Ahdoka.
I think it was pretty good. Some world-building was done looks like they are trying to tell a longer story and bridge the eras
i agree that the finale helped boost the entire season lol
I agree with your 7/10 rating. There were some amazing performances and sequences bogged down with clunky plot holes and shortcuts. I would watch a second season, but would hope it learns from the feedback to this season.
No video on this getting canceled?
I loved the acolyte. It shows us how well do you know someone. It makes you see that the Jedi where already suffering from pride and hubris and would lie and cover up. The role swap of Mai and Osha. All was not as it seemed. Also the torture of the Khyber crystal to make it a sith weapon was amazing never thought we would get to see that. Yes there is more story to tell and questions to answer,so I hope that there is a second season but over all I think it’s a great story.
You said here that Qimir wiped Osha's memory, but it was Mae's memory that was wiped. Just pointing it out. - Jason (The Hebrew Café)
Evil Avocado!!!
Disney+ needs to figure out run times. Episodes feel too short, too long, or too rushed a lot of the time with SW and Marvel
These were my favorite saber fights in the whole franchise tbh. I never really liked the showy spins from the prequels. The sol/qimir duel was just incredible.
The series was a clear homage to crouching tiger hidden dragon, which is a great influence. The acting was incredible by pretty much everyone too.
I do agree that as a mystery it wasn't the best, and the writing was inconsistent. I couldn't help but feel like if the twins were actually one character, the story could have been a little more interesting. It got a little too parent trap at times, and frankly they didn't have enough stuff for both characters to do, it was really just Osha's story.
I think the whole medichlorian idea is dumb still, but star wars has doubled down on it a few times since the prequels so what can you do. The witches stuff is also pretty established by now so I didn't have a problem with that either.
I really enjoyed watching it though, and I hope it gets another season, not sure how likely it will be. It would be cool to see the two if them form the knights if ren after the sith and the jedi mark them for death. Thanks for the video!
Manny Jacinto murdered that role. Excited to see him in a season 2
Seeing the crystal bled on screen was one thing I hoped they did and did well… I wasn’t disappointed! Looked amazing. (Though the meme of the rocket ship ice cream was hilarious 😂).
8:38 Sir, wrong twin. He wiped Mae's mind.
The bleeding crystal was cool but I feel its only a ploy to sell a red/blue changing lightsabre toy haha
They've existed since ROTS, you could get Anakin's that did this...
Wasn't Vernestra one of those High Republic Jedis that survived a Padawan purge?
I think it was just a story about how the Jedi are flawed. It wasn’t just Ani but so many Jedi are pieces of shit with too much power. They aren’t all Obi-wan
The lightsaber battles were peak. I’ll give them that. Truly does the high republic era saber combat justice. The rest? Meh.
The last two episodes were hard to watch. It just didn’t land with me.
None OF it landed. Lol😂
To answer your question EV, being a SW fan since 4 was originally released but legit closet nerd for decades so didn’t allow myself the joy of comics, books and lore for fear of social death early on in life, yet have always been a fan and since come out ot the closet,🥁I loved the Acolyte. The lightsaber and non lightsaber duels were intense. I have rewatched them and episodes multiple times already. Not for nothing, Qimir’s performance is beyond stellar. Not gonna lie, when I saw him greet Osha in the apothecary in the earlier episode, I thought he’s not revealing all that there is to him. WOW what a difference in his internal twin. I’m impressed.
I really hope they do a season2. There’s a lot to be revealed. Ya there’s some eh parts and the rest makes up for it.