The Acolyte, episode 5 - a rambling review

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  • Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025

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  • @sinimeg
    @sinimeg 7 месяцев назад +31

    Vera: “I assume we all have watched the episode”
    Me *not having watched a single one*: Of course :D
    I just like to hear Vera talk about whatever xD

  • @tristanmilner9511
    @tristanmilner9511 7 месяцев назад +13

    I don't think any of us knew he was also a gun smuggler cause damn! Those arms!

  • @Calliborc
    @Calliborc 7 месяцев назад +4

    I kinda liked how, when the lightsabers were shorted out, the blade looked like it fell out of emitter like water, as opposed to just turning off. Of course, this is assuming I wasn't just imagining it, which I'm willing to accept I did.

  • @Mark_o_Helm
    @Mark_o_Helm 7 месяцев назад +5

    It seems that Disney wants to keep Star Wars "family friendly". Stabbings and neck snaps are ok, decapitation is not.😊

  • @snowglass3969
    @snowglass3969 7 месяцев назад +6

    I know many people were asking why Sol didn't know about the switch. I don't expect the show to go this route, but I can't help thinking, well, what if he does, but he knows he can trap her once he gets her into the ship. However, my big issue with the episode is why does Mae go immediately from I'm turning myself in, to I have to kill all the Jedi. Her master already knows she wanted to betray him, killing them and running won't save her. So why didn't she just actually turn herself in and use the jedi as meat shields to protect her? Or at least play along long enough to be able to speak to her sister without the added drama of having killed/attacked even more Jedi. Yes, I know the argument of, well, they'll believe she killed the wookiee, but she doesn't even try, not once, to defend herself or ask for leniency.

    • @nighteye002
      @nighteye002 7 месяцев назад

      Ok so first thing after deciding to turn her self into the jedi she never went back to wanting to kill them, she was immediately attacked by Jekki when she left Kalnoca's hut and was only defending herself from that point onward and as far as her switching places with Ocea I'm not sure of her reasoning for it but I fully believe Sol is already aware of the switch because Ocea was trying to question him before he was knocked out and then when he woke up she instead of trying to continue her conversation she was in a hurry to leave. Also Sol expression and body language when Ocea woke him up showed he was a bit hesitant towards her.

  • @superkid801
    @superkid801 7 месяцев назад +4

    Oh you definitely called it! That helmet is cool and was very effective in combat! He was jacked wow those muscles! I enjoyed this one and am curious to see where it will go.

  • @ghlmk5931
    @ghlmk5931 7 месяцев назад +6

    Based on some comments I saw on Jessie’s channel, the metal the helmet is made from is Cortosis, a rare metal capable of cutting through and shorting out a lightsaber, which has appeared in novels and/or comics.
    Episode 5 was going to be this show’s last chance to make me stay. Ok, I’ll stay. This was great. I loved the fighting style, I can’t describe it, visceral, realistic, maybe? Most lightsaber fights have always felt a bit too choreographed, almost like a dance. I’m not saying that’s bad, I always attributed it to Force users being able to anticipate one another’s moves, but after a while, they begin to look the same. These fights had an edge to them, I enjoyed that a lot. Honestly, I didn’t expect all these Jedi to die. I was like, wow, they went there. And I like Darth Teeth😂 even if his identity was obvious. Yeah, I like that villain. Especially after the “you brought her here” line. I immediately thought “Good point”. Because he’s right. Jecki was a child and a Padawan, skilled as she was.
    My only gripe (besides Jeckie dying) was the twin swap. And that’s only because back in episode 1, when I learned that OSHA had a twin I thought “these two will be swapping places at some point”, and that’s a trope that’s been used to death, although not in SW that I know of. Sol should be able to tell that that’s not Osha, but apparently the little tracker’s nose will be more effective than Mae/Osha’s presence in the Force. Still, this was a great episode, and I’ll keep watching. The show does explore some interesting ideas and I hope they pay off.

  • @nick5661
    @nick5661 7 месяцев назад +11

    The metal is called cortosis and while I enjoyed having it appear something as important as that needs to be explained.
    Me and my partner watched it and he asked how he's doing that which I answered but then he was like
    "Why isn't it used everywhere"
    "Like the clone wars the droid army should have been made of it"
    "Why don't sith use it instead of light sabers"
    The simple answer is it's very very rare but it derailed us watching it and I can imagine some people who didn't have a star wars nerd as a partner may get confused by it, some simple lines would have helped.

    • @WhiteWolf496
      @WhiteWolf496 7 месяцев назад +2

      I agree they should have had him explain it in a 4th wall break to the audience in the middle of a fight.

    • @nick5661
      @nick5661 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@WhiteWolf496 a simple line could have been worded in at any point its called good writing, no need to try and be clever.

    • @WhiteWolf496
      @WhiteWolf496 7 месяцев назад +1

      @nick5661 idk I think the way it straight up shows how it works was fine. To me I was like oh cool new thing and moved on.

    • @xenon8117
      @xenon8117 7 месяцев назад +1

      I'm aware of cortosis from swtor and as far as I knew it was just lightsaber resistant not something to short it out. At least it isn't the now impenetrable beskar that can't be scratched.

    • @nick5661
      @nick5661 7 месяцев назад

      @@xenon8117 in swtor it doesn't show that ability but it does in other comics and novels.

  • @bluenoahx
    @bluenoahx 7 месяцев назад

    The trees in beginning is for Osha's perceptive to see the fight from the outside, the rest is for Qimir to advantage of the environment, to hide (to pull a Batman) and to showcase the spinning lightsaber tree cleaving trick

  • @R.senals_Arsenal
    @R.senals_Arsenal 6 месяцев назад

    I like getting a prediction right too. In the 90s, before the Game of Thrones show, I think between book 2 and 3 coming out, I predicted Jon Snow was not Eddard's son, that he belonged to his sister, and I think, hard to tell given the primitive internet of the time, I was one of the first to connect those dots, so I've always been kinda smug about that.

  • @rosalie.e.morgan
    @rosalie.e.morgan 7 месяцев назад +3

    Manuel Jacinto is the best part of the show by a long shot. I'm getting really bored waiting for the reveal of what the jedi did.

    • @xenon8117
      @xenon8117 7 месяцев назад +1

      Already did a full episode to show that event and never actually showed what happened so we will still have to waste more time on covering it. They are building this crap up and it isn't interesting and will not be surprising.

  • @SarcyBoi41
    @SarcyBoi41 7 месяцев назад +4

    One thing I think mainstream Star Wars really needs to portray is a morally good Sith. I don't mean an unaligned dark side user or a "Grey Jedi", I mean a Sith. As you mentioned, the Sith Code is purely about freedom to follow one's passions, not inherently evil or conquest-driven. Yet every Sith we meet has a passion for conquest and/or murder. Why can't their passion be for helping and caring for others? I mean, I know WHY, but I'd still like to see an exception.
    The MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic portrayed a few good Sith. One particularly interesting one was involved in the Imperial faction's Tatooine storyline - despite being a full-on Sith, this guy was nurturing and fatherly towards the troops under his command, even the grunts. He knew their names and comforted one when he had a PTSD moment.
    That game is no longer canon of course, but I think it would be nice to see something like that in Disney's Star Wars media.

  • @billycranston5481
    @billycranston5481 7 месяцев назад +1

    This was the best episode in the bunch and that’s such a low bar at this point. I’m only watching to see how bad this train wreck can be. Done agree with the host of this channel on most things and it’s sad that everyone guessed who smiloren was in like episode 2.

  • @aarononeil9832
    @aarononeil9832 7 месяцев назад

    I vaguely remember the metal (cortosis) being a really interesting thing in the early expanded universe that eventually started to feel overused, especially in the late stuff before the Disney acquisition

  • @thefragrantwookiee
    @thefragrantwookiee 7 месяцев назад

    I liked the interesting stuff done in the fights. I liked that the Sith uses his cortosis helmet to headbutt a lightsaber, I liked that the Padawan is the one to actually be free-thinking enough in her combat style to actually stand up to the Sith (for a bit, at least) and I liked that Yord, despite being the Jedi Master of Wet Blankets, manages to use the Sith's own cortosis against them (for moment, at least).
    I think lightsaber fights are always more interesting if there are elements beyond just two people swinging swords at each other (which is why the Duel of the Fates, with three people, four blades and a 3-dimensional arena, remains the best duel in Star Wars).

  • @robertbell4276
    @robertbell4276 7 месяцев назад

    I also called the identity of the Villain, but Qimir I don’t think is a Sith but could be the person who starts the Knights of Ren, Kylo Ren is also not a Sith he continues the Ren legacy.

  • @victoriajankowski1197
    @victoriajankowski1197 7 месяцев назад

    I think my biggest gripe with the show thus far is theres not enough storyline for the format. Several times the episode ending was jarring because it felt like the story was just getting moving.... I think its really designed to be watched all at once not week by week. But watching it this way is almost physically uncomfortable to me. FYI Im oldish, I come from the wait a week or even a whole summer to see what happens next, and I'm still having having this issue.

    • @christianwise637
      @christianwise637 7 месяцев назад

      Pacing has been one of my biggest issues with the show, a lot of the episodes feel rather needlessly slow and drawn out. Pretty much every episode feels like it would benefit from losing 5-10 minutes, basically the same story but with the structural format of Headland's previous show Russian Doll. I have no problem with a slow-burn Star Wars show (I loved Andor for precisely this reason) but in The Acolyte's case it just makes it feel meandering. We'll know for certain when it ends, but I think this will be filed with Obi-Wan Kenobi as "should've been a film rather than a TV show"

    • @Alfje17
      @Alfje17 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@christianwise637 This series feels so much like a movie chopped into pieces: not enough story to fill a complete series, but at the same time not enough episodes to make us care about the side characters.

  • @rogvortex58
    @rogvortex58 7 месяцев назад

    As much as I want to root for the Jedi to win, the show isn’t about them. It’s about the sith finding his acolyte. This episode proved no one is safe. Not even likeable characters like Jecki.

  • @Tuaron
    @Tuaron 7 месяцев назад

    Congrats on calling the reveal, even if others have - that doesn't mean you shouldn't be proud of that. I wasn't as thrilled by the reveal simply because...I didn't feel anything. I'd also guessed it after the last episode (I'd initially been leaning toward one of the Jedi, but dropped that after the end of that episode), so I didn't get any surprise and the character hadn't been established well enough for me to go "now I have to second guess/rethink certain things", it just felt like the easiest choice. That said, what they did with the character *after* the reveal really worked for me, I liked some of the things said, and the action was top knotch, hadn't expected that from that actor.
    I really liked this episode, and generally liked the action. There was something interesting about the way that initial massacre is shot, where you really are put in the position of Osha as an observer not quite sure what to do, watching almost helplessly as people who seem to be better prepared for a fight fare rather poorly. Some of the creative choices and the brutality of the action really work (I have preferred the Disney era's focus on making it look like people actually trying to fight each other, something I feel the prequels failed at, by making the moves too flashy). I will agree that the choreography for that bit did look like it was...less tight than other fights in the show (the opening fight with Carrie-Anne Moss was particularly well done), but I rather liked what we got later, particularly most everything involving the padawan, Jecki (shout out to an unrecognizable Dafne Keene). It never got as good as that premiere fight, but I liked it.
    Getting more spoiler-y: I was a little surprised by the body count mostly because of *who survived*. I was really expecting Master Sol to bite it and Yord and maybe Jecki to survive (as the only 2 others with actual personality), but through much of this episode, I'd also been thinking "I'm not really sure where they are going after this, they can't defeat the bad guy yet, so what is going to happen" - that switch at the end does leave some interesting options, I'm curious to see where it goes and how everybody reacts to it (Sol should figure out Mae isn't Osha relatively quickly, unless she's better at acting than I expect, but he'd also been hoping to "redeem" her, anyway). I'm hooked enough to watch more, and rather enjoyed that episode.

  • @meander112
    @meander112 7 месяцев назад

    Engagement for the engagement god!

  • @johnhmaloney
    @johnhmaloney 7 месяцев назад

    I was pretty disappointed by the reveal because it was so incredibly obvious. If they had misdirected at all and let us think for a second that the Sith could be anyone other than Quimir, then I would have been fine with it. But he was literally the only option.

    • @WhiteWolf496
      @WhiteWolf496 7 месяцев назад +1

      The identity is not the point imo.

    • @johnhmaloney
      @johnhmaloney 7 месяцев назад

      @@WhiteWolf496 If the reveal wasn't the point, then they should have shown us from the beginning, in scenes that didn't involve Mae. It would have been much more interesting to see him playing both roles and hiding it from her, instead of setting up a guessing game with an underwhelming answer.

  • @JohnBainbridge0
    @JohnBainbridge0 7 месяцев назад

    This is the first episode I thoroughly enjoyed. The rest was fine, but this one was really good. Especially the fight scenes. Also... I'm not gonna drop spoilers here, but damn... I was not expecting some of the things that happened. Not at all.

  • @saphcal
    @saphcal 7 месяцев назад

    most of the titles have been complimentary. tho the first ones had the two halfs as the title for a single episode. so its clearly something theyre intentionally doing but its very clumsy.

  • @BrianDavidson-q1j
    @BrianDavidson-q1j 7 месяцев назад +4

    You called it.

    • @calebmarmon1310
      @calebmarmon1310 7 месяцев назад +3

      **Standing ovation** She’s earned this.

  • @lucyrainn2204
    @lucyrainn2204 7 месяцев назад

    I felt like episode 4 was giving us red herrings for the foreshadowing of Manny Jacinto as Darth Smiley. I really thought they'd pull a twist and have Carrie Anne Moss as the sith. So I was dead wrong. You have gloating rights over at least one person

  • @christianwise637
    @christianwise637 7 месяцев назад

    Easily the best episode of the show so far and a marked improvement on last week's plodding snooze-fest. Cool action! Shocking main character deaths! Manny Jacinto being badass and intimidating! Actually engaging plot developments and character beats - seeing Sol lose his cool after Jecki and Yord die was a great moment and Lee Jung-jae plays it perfectly.
    I've still got issues with the show, the dialogue is weak and I'm still not buying Mae's character, but for the first time since the premiere I'm actually engaged by the show. Hopefully with the developments of this episode and the villain firmly making his presence known, the remainder of the season will pick up the pace and end on a much stronger note

  • @Elwaves2925
    @Elwaves2925 7 месяцев назад

    While I agree it was the best episode so far, it still fell flat for me aside from the fighting. I don't buy him as the big bad, as obvious as he was. He was so obvious I thought it had to be someone else. Not sure what it is about him but he was much better as his alias. Jecki was the only Jedi who was interesting to me and I was pissed they killed her, although it was a cool death. I hope the last 3 do something really great but I'm not expecting much.

  • @DanTheElevator
    @DanTheElevator 7 месяцев назад +3

    This whole episode played out like a series of JJ Abrams scenes, sudden interruptions of action preventing the characters from saying whatever important thing and character deaths meant to elicit gasps and shock that just fall flat. It felt like a mess. I love the performance by the actor playing the villain, he rocks. I think this episode suffers from what all the other episodes suffer from--the short runtimes lead to a lack of meaningful character development so when they do the big revelations they mean absolutely nothing. The sheer adrenaline of this episode makes it the best of the series so far but it's not a GOOD episode, and I'm so disappointed in this whole series because the underlying ideas are really interesting.

  • @Coolcoolcooldude
    @Coolcoolcooldude 7 месяцев назад +1

    If I had to guess, the helmet was made of Beskar. It's a metal that lightsabers can't cut through. It's what the Mandalorian's armor is made out of also.

    • @nick5661
      @nick5661 7 месяцев назад +2

      It's not it's called cortosis it's much rare than mandlorian metal and much much harder to refine.

    • @kiarash608
      @kiarash608 7 месяцев назад +2

      It's cortosis, a metal from "Legends" that can deflect and short circuit light sabers

  • @cjayconrod
    @cjayconrod 7 месяцев назад +2

    I'm shocked both you and Jessie Gender liked this episode. It felt rushed and unsatisfying to me.

  • @edselgreaves6503
    @edselgreaves6503 7 месяцев назад

    I dont watch the Acolyte but im giving you a thumbs up just because you called it. I also rarely call it (and when i do my ideas are usually better than what Hollywood comes up with)

  • @SeanORaigh
    @SeanORaigh 7 месяцев назад

    I didn't buy the villain that much. Physically he's imposing, the mask is scary enough but whenever he speaks, he loses a lot of his fear factor. Just seems like a guy.

  • @revoktorment440
    @revoktorment440 7 месяцев назад

    Pandering aside, the show is crap. Lazy writing and erasing all the lore.. I wouldn't have minded the very progressive agenda if it was better. Disney is milking the star wars cash cow way too dry

    • @nighteye002
      @nighteye002 7 месяцев назад

      1. How does this show have a progressive agenda?
      2. how is the writing lazy?
      3. how is all the lore being erased?

  • @eliselianaboyd2547
    @eliselianaboyd2547 7 месяцев назад

    CONGRATULATIONS! You made the call 📞 .❤❤🎉🎉❤ enjoy 😆