When the designated heroes are irrational and the designated villains rational to such a degree, it feels intentional. It feels as if we aren't actually meant to sympathize with the witches. This is what our common understanding of writing tells us. It's like playing Among Us as a veteran and getting completely bamboozled by beginners because "Nobody would be dumb enough for that." Honestly, "That's the neat part, we don't" is a good answer to how we fix it. We don't need to fix it. All we must do is not pretend that the story is about something that it is not. Then, even with such a clunky start, it could still be salvageable somewhat.
It kind of rinses the nuance-free star wars duality shit and i'm here for it. Star wars typically fails to see the good within the bad, and the bad within the good and it's a bit childish in its simplicity. Disney adding nuance to the mythology isn't a bad thing.
@@libernihilusWhat nuance of good is there in the DARK SIDE? Star Wars isn't just about good people vs evil people. More specifically, Star Wars is about people who choose to be good vs people who choose to be evil. There's a difference And in Star Wars... Light Side = Good Dark Side = Evil The Force is a gradient. Light |---l---l---l---l---l---l---| Dark One end is the light side, the other end is the dark side. The Star Wars characters appear on different points across that gradient. As a frame of reference, Yoda would be the farthest point to the light end and Palpatine would be the farthest point on the dark end. Meeting in the middle would be characters like Qui-Gon and Count Dooku, where Qui-Gon was considered the most roguest Jedi on the council and Dooku was a fallen Jedi who did have legitimate grievances with the Jedi but allowed himself to commit evil in defiance of them Anakin's story is so interesting because he starts fully on the light side as a boy. As he grew up his philosophy to always protect the ones he cared about no matter the cost was heroic, but Palpatine was able to twist his judgment over the years until he was convinced it was worth committing horrific acts to protect the ones he loved. THAT is the point when he transitioned from the light side to the dark side. And when Padme died and Anakin became Darth Vader, he doubled down on his evil behavior believing he was beyond redemption, which moved him farther and farther into the dark side. It was only Luke's existence and defiance of the Dark Side that led to Anakin believing in himself himself again and sacrificing himself. In his last moments, Anakin was convinced that the good still existed within him, and so turned back to the light side and away from evil.
You're wrong about the Force and Dooku and Jinn Jinn was an EXEMPLARY Jedi and entirely in tune with the Force. Dooku was steeped in the dark side. The dark side is largely binary. Once you draw on it you are committing evil...and it grows from there. Its a malignancy That said, the Acolyte introduced exactly zero nuance. Its braindead.
@@EPPicstuff The Jedi rules didn't dictate the Force, they were meant to make sticking to the light side as simple as possible. For this I would argue Qui-Gon was more light than Yoda in the prequels because he was free of the bureaucracy of the council. He may have been rogue but he was not someone like his former master Dooku who would start a galactic war to make things better. A major implication of the first movie is that if Qui-Gon Jinn didn't die Anakin wouldn't have become Vader. It's only because Anakin didn't have a father figure when he craved for love in his life that Palpatine was able to corrupt him, and Qui-Gon was not so anal about doctrine so he would have been there for Anakin. The main problem with the Jedi in the Prequels was that they were a peacekeeping organization/religion pushed into roles as generals at war because they were so rigid in their thinking that they were never able to realize that they weren't always on the right side nor were they able to realize who their enemies were. They were so into sniffing their own farts that once they realized that they had strayed it was too late. The person you are replying to didn't know what they were talking about but there isn't a nuance to the dark side as a whole, nor the light side, but especially in the prequel stories the nuance comes from how people interact with these ideals and the acolyte is too busy sniffing it's own farts to try making that point.
"Spice creams" really shows how little the writers knew about Star Wars. Spice is a potent drug not unlike the one from Dune, but unlike Herbert's spice, it's closer to a narcotic than a psychic power-inducing resource. The witches are drugging their kids through sweet treats, but the story wants us to believe them to be the good guys?
This one’s debatable because “spice” is also the name of a horrific, family destroying drug in our world (the cannabis version of bath salts), yet we still have no issue using the term elsewhere. Similarly, I doubt the presence of Malange makes the question of “was your pizza spicy enough?” invalid in Dune. It’s The Spice, not all spice. I think there’s actually an Indian dessert that gets translated as spice cream, which is probably where she got it.
Dealer: "Do you want some spice cream?" Obi Wan: *Waves hand* "You don't want to sell me spice cream." Dealer: "I don't wanna sell you spice cream." Obi Wan: "You want to go home and rethink your life." Dealer: "I want to go home and rethink my life."
One thing that people frequently miss about Plagueis' story; while he was able to manipulate midichlorians, Palpatine was actually lying about the part about creating life. The Force created Anakin in reaction to Plagueis for the sole purpose of stopping the Sith from trying to control the Force itself. So if that's the case, then not only do the twins make Anakin's birth less special, it also completely destroys the reason for his birth if anyone can do it with the right knowledge.
I’m thoroughly tangled on this because what you just quoted is decanonised, yet they went to very expensive lengths to scream “remember the book?!” in our faces. I’m sure he’s been dragged into the High Republic, but the fact they kept his book species indicates they want confusion (or are just terrible).
Yes. He actually admits it when Anakin is given a Darth title that cheating death "was only achieved by one" or something, and that they can rediscover it together.
@@mrbigglezworth42 technically what they’re doing is more viscerally annoying because they reused his design from something they’ve removed from canon, so they’re waving a flag with boot prints in your face, demanding you salute it. Current state of the canon they’re telling us is solid, we know nothing but Sheev’s two speeches, because even the High Republic writers aren’t seeming to treat that as canon…
I would argue Kung Fu Panda is the standard you should go for if you want to do the mentor vs student scene. Yes Po wins, but at the end, he gives the dumpling to Shifu showing his growth as a character. It ends with a mark of respect by both. Nobody needs to put in their place.
I really like Kung Fu Panda. Po's growth is well earned since the final battle against his teacher comes at the end of his training. Before that it was hard work and failure until he eventually proved himself.
The whole thing also shows he's content with himself, I'd argue. Remember that it was noted more than once that he's a stress eater. Additionally, to Literature Devil, it should also be noted that it was Shifu's own moment of growth too: Learning to adjust his teaching style and accept that just because his original approach wasn't working, that didn't mean Po was unteachable, nor that other methods were ineffective. And in learning the right way to teach Po, he grew as a master (and it likely factored into him gaining inner peace by the start of the second movie). As Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple would note, 'The master teaches the disciple, while the disciple teaches the master'.
@@LordTyph Quotes in the movies to confirm your point: "When you focus on kung fu... when you concentrate... you stink. But, maybe that is my fault. I cannot train you the way I have trained the Five. I see now, the way to get through to you is this (holds out bowl)." "But when I realized the problem was not you, but with me, I found inner peace..." Though the movie both shows and tells this, since the first quote comes after the kitchen scene shows Shi Fu what Po can accomplish when he's motivated by something other than being yelled at and thrown around.
I would say in defense of Brave, Merida acknowledges she's in the wrong or least acknowledges her actions were wrong unlike other examples. Elinor is also not as villainized, she tried talking things out with her daughter and got turned into a bear for it.
Thank you. At first, I was gonna take that L, because the woman Director they had originally is likely the reason for so many girl power moments through out but you're right. Queen Elinor was waaay more understandable and portrayed as loving. Brave opens and closes with them having fun together.
@@ThreadBareHope1234 It kinda helped that the female director projected herself into the mother's role and not the daughter's role. And honestly, I get mixed results on which director wanted to lean into the girl power.
And both side conflicts are solved by them helping each other enter their shoes, Merida channeling Elenor with her aid to solve the arranged marriage issue, and Merida training Elenor in outdoors stuff to fight Mordu, and both being used to solve the primary issue. That's not very feminist to think from someone else's viewpoint.
Are you telling me, that in a story where the writers are so driven to showcase their fantasy, they undermine their revenge plot by revealing that the person seeking revenge actually did the deed yet blames others?
@@Beohun "you made me feel this way", "you're why I did this", "it's your fault I (for example) cheated on you", "see?! I knew you were a monster and I, the victim (after thoroughly destroying someone's life and mental health)". They cry out it pain... as they strike you. Very common tactics from people that agree with all the bullshit Disney spews today.
Even though I've seen many critiques of the Acolyte, episode by episode, your's stands out in carefully pointing out not only how and why it failed, but how it could have succeeded. I learn so much from watching your videos.
For Enchanto, the grandmother's obsession with the perfection is an issue that happens in real life too. She is smart and if film theory is right and she was making sure their closed of home doesn't have too close of blood relations, she's a smart woman that knew what problems can come from staying closed off. But the trauma from when she first made that home was driving her to choose the more round about answer, causing unhealthy expectations to be met by her children and grandchildren in order to remain closed off.
Democrat and a girl here!!! Exactly!!! You know what I find funny; Russell t Davis Leslie headland Chewta Gatwa and the main actress of the Acolyte are just reinforcing the fear that people from the 80's and 90's had about the LGBTQ community that it would eventually turn into a perverse deivant sexual cult which it has become. That's why anime and manga are mostly better they understand that traditional heteronormativity is what sells and keeps humanity alive. Anime and manga couples are straight and straight only.
@LiteratureDevil Democrat and a girl here Exactly!!! These types of people are just reinforcing the fears the most people in the 80's and 90's had about the LGBTQ community that it would eventually become a perverse dievant cult. Heteronormativity is what sells and keeps humanity alive don't know why America has forgotten this
A minor nit-pick I have with the "Thread" cult is their hand movements. When describing a power as a thread that can be pulled I would imagine the movements to be either puppeteer like (maybe foreshadowing), instead the movements are more like they are pushing or throwing it around.
Spice Cream? You are putting a highly addictive drug in food? I agree with the other mother on that one kids shouldn’t have that adults shouldn’t have it either. Still that detail probably explains the fire issue as they were too high to stop it.
I want to be nice and think maybe they mean spice like *a* spice, a star wars equivalents of cinnamon. But they likely just want laced ice cream for the kids.
@@emberfist8347Exactly if any star wars fan who actually know lore knows that Spice is just "Any drug" or spice sticks is just cigarettes. This shows that the writers don't know anything besides a casual viewer of the series.
@@WhyYouMadBoi Hell even a casual viewer would figure it out if you paid attention to the first movie. Han’s motivation was that he owed Jabba for dumping a shipment of the stuff to avoid being arrested by Imperials. Jabba is set up as a being a crime lord or mob don in space and the mob was known for their drug rackets particularly at the time the film came out.
Episode 4 is full of plot holes. Episode 5 is barely tolerable (except the ending). Episode 6 is borderline porn. Episode 7 is Episode 3 (only worse). Episode 8 is the last nail in the coffin.
I'm reminded of the how the trolls of the Discworld count: They use one (1), two (2), three (3), many (4) and lots (16), which can be combined for larger numbers.
“The power of many” is so frustrating, not because it’s cringe (it is) but because in theory, it seems akin to Aes Sedai linking Saidar and performing powerful feats with it by combining their energy and letting it flow through a single foci. But instead of that, we get this rancid slop.
I really hate the whole 'witch' thing. They scalped Wicca and Germanic mythology for the "Wed of Wyrd", isn't that cultural and religious appropriation? Hypocrisy
According to their rules, it would be appropriation. Little Platoon had an interesting argument for appropriation not being a big deal, that it is a way for myths and ideas to survive, but because the idea of Witches is so broad, even mangled, that preservation angle doesn't apply here. As messy as the Nightsister lore is, at least they aren't vague undistinguished force users. They are a combo of traditional Germanic herb mixtures, cauldrons, and rituals Witches and (arguably) voodoo with the dolls and using hair (body part) in spells, which is a weird addition.
@@ThreadBareHope1234 The bibi dolls are generally more of a Germanic thing too. They’re pop culture Voodoo but where the religion flourishes, you’re more likely to find these larger wooden dolls with chambers corresponding to major organs that are ritually connected to the target and given herbs and such in the chambers. Sympathetic and taboo magic is pretty much a universal human concept so I wouldn’t get stuck o that.
@ThreadBareHope1234 Just saw the reply. Poppets are actually really interesting! A lot of cultures outside of voodoo use them. We've found clay poppets in Greece with spells on them, and grain/corn dolls in Britain and Central Europe. As for hair or body parts are used to 'lock' a spell to a specific person in traditional witchcraft. Religion is one of my areas of study as a historian so stuff like this is fascinating to me.
Here's the thing about this whole respect my pronouns business. The people who are pushing this frame it in terms of people identifying as they want. That's not consistent with what they are actually demanding though. The pronouns they are demanding that people "respect" are third person pronouns. Generally, they are not used to identify yourself. They are used by other people to identify you when talking to a third person. This is not about how they identify. It's about how other people identify them. This is not about people identifying as they like. It's about controlling how other people identify them. It's about dictating what everyone around you says.
So Mae was the one who set the fire that destroyed the coven, and is hunting down the Jedi who were attacked by the coven first, simply because they were there when it happened. She is blaming the Jedi for the crimes SHE committed. And the soy pods can't figure out WHY this show was cancelled?
It got even funnier with Episode 7, where it's revealed why the coven was dead: the whole group except the two moms banded together to mind control Kelnacca, and they all died when Indara severed that connection. The Jedi yet again acting in self defense, and inadvertently placing the witches as in the wrong *again,* but also... Mei completed her revenge mission in episode 1. No need to go after anyone else. She's just flat out evil.
@@insulttothehumanrace3807 So much for "the power of many," when they can't shrug off the power of one single force user. The writers proved beyond reasonable doubt the coven's philosophy was fundamentally flawed, that they were evil, literally sealed their own fates by their own actions, and yet, we're still told that they were the victims. The cognitive dissonance is strong with these writers.
Aniseya is also seen "wielding the Thread" against the bickering twin girls...which is a direct contradiction to her previous lecture. How is she "The Leader", again? Is it because she can turn herself and others "into the Force" (even against the others' will)? None of it makes any sense!
Isn’t she the one who metaphorically raped a teenager Padawan boy, too ? She used the Force to break every possible boundary of a child, but, no, the Force isn’t a power and they’re better than these filthy Jedi who only got involved when they believed witnessing child abuse.
20:33 I feel like Spice Creams should’ve been like used like it was in “Kingdom Hearts” as reminder of better times and to reestablish their connection. Naw someone was probably hungry when writing the script.
It's funny, what this series really ends up showing is that the Jedi ARE the good guys. It took their pride, hubris, and complacency, built after a long time of peace and quiet to bring them down, something that erodes any governing body. But they were ultimately still the good guys. The show tried to flip it but failed hilariously.
If the has restructured the Force as vibrations or tones rather than The Thread they could have gotten acapella singers in to play the witches and the the "Many" thing actually be cool....maybe.
There's something they don't seem to understand. Jedi can never be evil willingly. Evil brings suffering and pulls them to the dark side, at which point they're not Jedi anymore. Jedi might have strict practices like separating children from their families, that's true. But its obvious that what they're doing is done with good intentions, and it worked pretty well until they made an exception for Anakin who was too old to be seperated from his mother as an emotional bond was already formed, and they did that only because Qui Gon and his apprentice forced their hands. Also, the show didn't even give any straight answers as to why Jedi are against witches training younglings, so we don't even actually know who's in the right before the conflict even begins. But based on what I've seen in other media as well as this show, I'm incined to side with Jedi. They were wise and compassionate, and they fought only for defense as against to an aggressive witch coven who constantly escalated things, a psycho murderer wannabe child/youth, and a Sith who thinks he's opressed because 'he can't be himself" which is a murdering, sadistic, manipulative maniac. What's worse is that the writer readily admitted that the Sith guy was a self insert for her, and she emphatized with him much more than those pesky, patriarchal, controlling Jedi. Sounds like you're openly admitting that you're evil when you're saying that you feel a kinship with a cult that wants to rule the galaxy with brute force and manipulation as dictators.
I found the "show don't tell" advice in regard to setting up a desire for explanation later in the story an interesting point of feedback. I'm a gamer and it always feels like no one understands that and instead dialogue vomits explanations up front.
ANH laid out that the Force guides a Jedi's actions, while also obeying commands. A contradiction that questions where the Force's guidance and the Jedi's command begin and end. That perhaps ultimately they are one. Something Obiwan sensibly didn't see fit to share with Luke as it's confusing enough for those who have practical knowledge and experience. It also lays out the reason why the Jedi do what they do. The source of their power are the lives of every living thing in the galaxy. If they didn't exist, neither would the Force, and neither would the Jedi's power. Therefore the reason they have it is to protect what gives them power. The witch's dogma is incomplete. it supposes they have no agency (or fault) in their actions. It's the thread that guides them to their destiny. The thread simply exists for the sake of the witches and whatever happens to them.
There is a book series from the 1980s by Tonya Pierce called the Song of the Lioness that I think would be a good review. I read the entire series in the 2000s as a teen. The female protagonists actually goes through hardship in her training to become a knight after switching places with her twin brother who wanted to study magic instead of being a knight.
it's ironic to me that Aniseya is the "cool" one and Coril is the "Harsh one" when Coril is the one that carried the twins and thusly bears responsibility for them while Aniseya (as the feminists would say) pumped and dumped.
I remember in creative writing class, one of the techniques for characterization is to write small, daily life scenes. What is their favorite food, for example? When you know these small details, you can create a more rounded character that feels more real. The issue with this as I see it implemented lately is that... This is more like the icing on the cake. You need to have a good cake for the embellishment to mean something, and they botched the cake.
@@fnors2 it’s been a trait of lady writers to bring up food since Austen’s time (it’s one of many things she makes fun of). It seems to be a default form of world building in the female mind, such as the great lists of foods in the first two Harry Potter books, but historically got beaten out of them by editors. It’s relatively ineffective world building, hence it being disfavoured, because you don’t know what associations the reader has or what they’ve tried. The HP example was rightly questioned by editors because they didn’t know if American kids would know what a treacle tart was; the kids didn’t and Rowling got many letters about what Harry’s favourite food was. We don’t have editors these days… 😭
Ironically, it would have been more progressive if they did make the thread stronger with more thread users, showing that people are stronger together joined together in solidarity and the goal of the well being of the collective in mind
Ep 3 as Ep 1 to fix the plot makes sense. And this Episode needs to be only show the perspective of Osha. That means only scenes were Osha is a part of.
in defense of agent carter punching that one badmouthing soldier, from my understanding its because they are in the MILITARY, while yes. simply punching him is the incorrect thing to do in such a situation(she could punish both him and the group through physical activity instead, i think?). she also needed to instill discipline and respect of those in a higher authority. its not good for a fresh recruit to disobey superiors in any setting
I know we're here to **** on the progressive women writers of Hollywood but Carter knocking out that guy isn't an example of this. The guy was acting perfectly in line with the time and place the scene was set in. He was an American soldier in in the 1940s, feeling superior to the British and women, which is not exactly unique behavior in those times. We didn't need a montage of Carter training hard to get strong enough to punch him out. She didn't want to have a girlboss moment. She had to establish herself as someone those guys would listen to so that she could do her job. It showed us, the audience that she was indeed a soldier. Even better, if it had been a male British soldier, the scene would have worked just as well and nobody would have complained... so yeah, I'd say that was a complete miss in the otherwise good video.
It's a minor point, but there's the bit during one of the mother-and-daughters scenes where Osha says that she wants to join the Jedi but Aniseya tries to talk her down from it by pointing out that she's young and thus her desires could change. And yet she wants the twins to permanently commit their lives to the coven at such a young and supposedly fickle age... Potential parallels notwithstanding, the fact that this hypocrisy isn't acknowledged at all just shows how biased the writers are towards their OC witch coven, how committed they are to seeing them as right and the Jedi as wrong despite everything on screen...
Star Wars isn't just about good people vs evil people. More specifically, Star Wars is about people who choose to be good vs people who choose to be evil. There's a difference. And in Star Wars... Light Side = Good Dark Side = Evil The Force is a gradient. Light |---l---l---l---l---l---l---| Dark One end is the light side, the other end is the dark side. The Star Wars characters appear on different points across that gradient. As a frame of reference, Yoda would be the farthest point to the light end and Palpatine would be the farthest point on the dark end. Meeting in the middle would be characters like Qui-Gon and Count Dooku, where Qui-Gon was considered the most roguest Jedi on the council and Dooku was a fallen Jedi who did have legitimate grievances with the Jedi but allowed himself to commit evil in defiance of them Anakin's story is so interesting because he starts fully on the light side as a boy. As he grew up his philosophy to always protect the ones he cared about no matter the cost was heroic, but Palpatine was able to twist his judgment over the years until he was convinced it was worth committing horrific acts to protect the ones he loved. THAT is the point when he transitioned from the light side to the dark side. And when Padme died and Anakin became Darth Vader, he doubled down on his evil behavior believing he was beyond redemption, which moved him farther and farther into the dark side. It was only Luke's existence and defiance of the Dark Side that led to Anakin believing in himself himself again and sacrificing himself. In his last moments, Anakin was convinced that the good still existed within him, and so turned back to the light side and away from evil.
I do have to push back on two points so far ( 12:17 ) 1. Rebeling isn't inherently bad, which is what you were describing with your examples of the tw8ns here and mentioning Encanto and Brave. I'm not saying they did the story well here, but a child rebeling against their parent(s) is a common trope and can make a compelling story. 2. Having different names for "The Force" isn't a bad thing, and in fact makes sense. You can just llok to the real world, where not only do we have different languages which inevitably lead to different words for the same concept. We also have different philosophies based around the natural laws of physics. Again, I'm not arguing the writers did a good job at showcasing this, but the idea isn't bad.
On 2... On one hand, I agree. Especially since in a setting as vast as Star Wars is, it actually makes perfect sense that different people groups would interact with the Force and come up with different names for it, different ideas of what it is and how it works, all that. That part's okay. What's not okay in Acolyte's case is that when the leader is having her lesson she says "some call it a 'Force', they think it's a power that they wield", pretty much directly saying that the Jedi have the "wrong" view of what it is and their coven has the "right" view. Which combined with how the show as a whole tries to frame the Jedi... comes across as attacking the previously established stuff.
Honestly even if you attempt to break down the logic of certain characters, you just hit a wall because there's not even an alley of logic to walk down. It's often completely irrational why X character does anything and no none of Acolytes characters are complex, they're just completely and utterly nonsensical. Complex character work requires characters to be torn with their/upcoming decisions, struggling with them due to morality or beliefs or things they've learned/experience but in this show nah sod that too hard, here it's just puff X character is a brand new character now who doesn't like to kill anymore. Why? No one knows.
I think it would be interesting for one of you guys to go back and review Underworld. you, littleplatoon, efap guys.. What interesting there is Selene is a girlboss, who also does not go through a traditional heroes journey. Shes a badass right from the start. She does learn and grow. But, in a skill, or physical manner. How she treats and respects everyone around her is important. Reverence for elders. she acts feminine. Even to Kraven, who is presented as the inferior male leader. At no point does she show him up in a girl boss way. She doesn't kill him, or embarrass him to show how great she is.
OK, you make points but the reason why the alcolyte is bad is they spent 180 million on it and reused content so basically 7 episodes. 2 are walking thru a forest. 2 are walking thru a barren planet and not seeing a giant installation on a mountain right next to you for 2 months. a couple are on a trial that doesn't make any sense. and then we got OSHA being shipped with a murderous sith and becoming one because sith are cool. whats left is people getting lamely killed off like the writing wouldn't matter if the content were cool if they had 100 million spent on cool fights and 80 million spent on the SFX to support the cool fights/music etc. I don't care about the writing. but instead we get walking simulator and reused content which is just unacceptable with a 180 million dollar budget. this is criminal misappropriation of funds. Disney should be suing Leslie for 180 million.
Nope, they're a whole new faction made up for this show. The whole "witch" thing makes it hard to tell, but yeah they're not connected to the Night Sisters.
Anakin fell to the dark side because Mace Windu was a hypocrite. Anakin felt enormous guilt over executing Dooku, despite mitigating circumstances like having to rescue Palpatine and Obiwan in the middle of an enemy warship. Fast forward a week, and Windu attempts to execute Palpatine under similar circumstances, only he even has less of an excuse since it's totally within his power to take him prisoner at that moment. Windu was one of Anakin's foremost critics and put the greatest pressure on him for failing to conform to their standards, yet fell to the dark side more easily than even himself. Anakin can hardly be blamed for not caring at that point.
I know this has nothing to do with the video and I'm a little ashamed of knowing this, but I'm pretty sure Steven Universe's creator stated that Rose shape-shifted a reproductive system in order to get pregnant and give birth to Steven.
@Raccoonik Ohh. I guess that's why he sounded way different in a live video I watched a while back. I don't like it. I miss the classic Literature Devil voice that he usually has on his video essays.
Woke is when I make up random politics that has nothing to do with the show Jesus Christ the brain rot in this video I do t even think the show is good but damn this is derang ep 7 completely debunks what you said about Turbin
He's made Cyberfrog toys before and they turned out really well. And, fortunately, he has other people doing the production. So it shouldn't be TOO long before he can get them out lol
@@LiteratureDevil That's fair. *I just mean in many online circles he has a bad reputation generally speaking* and _especially when it comes to delivery... But if he can do it, I hope he does._ I hope noone has a bad experience. Basically: *Guys, stop the e-drama and get to making the stuff!* 💪🔨🖊 et cetera...
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I understand videos are a lot of work but this pace is crazy slow. The show has already been cancelled and you're still talking about episode 3. This is one hell of a forgettable show, by time time you're done no one will even remember it. At this point you might as well just stop and talk about something else
Can we please stop harping on the Spice Creams? Han said Spice to two people looking to be smuggled and trying their hardest to seem underworld. That’s cant, slang specific to criminals, it’s world building. Flattening it to be the only use of the term spice does nothing but damage. Mother Spikes is talking to two children and has no reason to be speaking in code. Spice is a terrifying drug on earth (it is to pot what bath salts are to meth) and causes zombie scares occasionally, yet it’s existence does nothing to curtail the use of the term “pumpkin spice.”
What are you talking about? I cant think of a single instance in Star Wars where spice isnt referred to as anything but a narcotic other than this series.
@@seanvaughan3896 It was used as a general term in several novels. It does not need to be referenced elsewhere in the movies to be safely assumed to be slang, in much the same way as it is slang in Dune (properly called Malange there). We’ve seen literal spice merchants, like something out of Agrabah, in the background of both Phantom Menace and Rogue One and until told otherwise, I’m not assuming those are deedlypoop stalls. Beyond the Spice Mines of KesselTM, which are a threat used on underworld members, it’s only mentioned by Solo, to underworld types. I appreciate that you probably encountered Star Wars long before a) you heard of Ice, spice or bath salts in the real world or b) were the target age of the show based on its inspiration but please stop and think. Does your standpoint make the setting deeper or shallower by limiting the term “spice” to a singular vague smuggled substance (undefined in George’s stuff, apparently retconned into fuel in Solo, given that’s what the Kessel mines now produce)? I would certainly argue shallower.
When the designated heroes are irrational and the designated villains rational to such a degree, it feels intentional. It feels as if we aren't actually meant to sympathize with the witches. This is what our common understanding of writing tells us.
It's like playing Among Us as a veteran and getting completely bamboozled by beginners because "Nobody would be dumb enough for that."
Honestly, "That's the neat part, we don't" is a good answer to how we fix it. We don't need to fix it. All we must do is not pretend that the story is about something that it is not. Then, even with such a clunky start, it could still be salvageable somewhat.
It kind of rinses the nuance-free star wars duality shit and i'm here for it. Star wars typically fails to see the good within the bad, and the bad within the good and it's a bit childish in its simplicity. Disney adding nuance to the mythology isn't a bad thing.
@@libernihilusWhat nuance of good is there in the DARK SIDE?
Star Wars isn't just about good people vs evil people. More specifically, Star Wars is about people who choose to be good vs people who choose to be evil. There's a difference
And in Star Wars...
Light Side = Good
Dark Side = Evil
The Force is a gradient.
Light |---l---l---l---l---l---l---| Dark
One end is the light side, the other end is the dark side. The Star Wars characters appear on different points across that gradient.
As a frame of reference, Yoda would be the farthest point to the light end and Palpatine would be the farthest point on the dark end.
Meeting in the middle would be characters like Qui-Gon and Count Dooku, where Qui-Gon was considered the most roguest Jedi on the council and Dooku was a fallen Jedi who did have legitimate grievances with the Jedi but allowed himself to commit evil in defiance of them
Anakin's story is so interesting because he starts fully on the light side as a boy. As he grew up his philosophy to always protect the ones he cared about no matter the cost was heroic, but Palpatine was able to twist his judgment over the years until he was convinced it was worth committing horrific acts to protect the ones he loved. THAT is the point when he transitioned from the light side to the dark side. And when Padme died and Anakin became Darth Vader, he doubled down on his evil behavior believing he was beyond redemption, which moved him farther and farther into the dark side.
It was only Luke's existence and defiance of the Dark Side that led to Anakin believing in himself himself again and sacrificing himself. In his last moments, Anakin was convinced that the good still existed within him, and so turned back to the light side and away from evil.
You're wrong about the Force and Dooku and Jinn
Jinn was an EXEMPLARY Jedi and entirely in tune with the Force. Dooku was steeped in the dark side.
The dark side is largely binary. Once you draw on it you are committing evil...and it grows from there. Its a malignancy
That said, the Acolyte introduced exactly zero nuance. Its braindead.
@@EPPicstuff The Jedi rules didn't dictate the Force, they were meant to make sticking to the light side as simple as possible. For this I would argue Qui-Gon was more light than Yoda in the prequels because he was free of the bureaucracy of the council. He may have been rogue but he was not someone like his former master Dooku who would start a galactic war to make things better. A major implication of the first movie is that if Qui-Gon Jinn didn't die Anakin wouldn't have become Vader. It's only because Anakin didn't have a father figure when he craved for love in his life that Palpatine was able to corrupt him, and Qui-Gon was not so anal about doctrine so he would have been there for Anakin.
The main problem with the Jedi in the Prequels was that they were a peacekeeping organization/religion pushed into roles as generals at war because they were so rigid in their thinking that they were never able to realize that they weren't always on the right side nor were they able to realize who their enemies were. They were so into sniffing their own farts that once they realized that they had strayed it was too late.
The person you are replying to didn't know what they were talking about but there isn't a nuance to the dark side as a whole, nor the light side, but especially in the prequel stories the nuance comes from how people interact with these ideals and the acolyte is too busy sniffing it's own farts to try making that point.
"Spice creams" really shows how little the writers knew about Star Wars. Spice is a potent drug not unlike the one from Dune, but unlike Herbert's spice, it's closer to a narcotic than a psychic power-inducing resource. The witches are drugging their kids through sweet treats, but the story wants us to believe them to be the good guys?
This one’s debatable because “spice” is also the name of a horrific, family destroying drug in our world (the cannabis version of bath salts), yet we still have no issue using the term elsewhere.
Similarly, I doubt the presence of Malange makes the question of “was your pizza spicy enough?” invalid in Dune. It’s The Spice, not all spice.
I think there’s actually an Indian dessert that gets translated as spice cream, which is probably where she got it.
Also the girls are black with no father around. Disney is doing a pretty terrible job of getting rid of negative stereotypes.
Maybe it's just a joke ice cream. Like, "ice cream it's so good your kids will be addicted to it" 😂
@@joshuahicks7798 Yeah, but in reality its just another tic on the list of "Modern Star Wars writers don't know -ish about Star Wars"
@@joshuahicks7798You wouldn't name your ice cream m3th & expect it to sell or be of good standing. Spice is vastly worse.
Dealer: "Do you want some spice cream?"
Obi Wan: *Waves hand* "You don't want to sell me spice cream."
Dealer: "I don't wanna sell you spice cream."
Obi Wan: "You want to go home and rethink your life."
Dealer: "I want to go home and rethink my life."
Remember kids do drugs, practice witchcraft, and if things get bad there is always murder or running away. ----- Disney Morals
...but you are only legally allowed to murder someone, if they have signed up to Disney+ at some point in their life. ------ Disney Morals
One thing that people frequently miss about Plagueis' story; while he was able to manipulate midichlorians, Palpatine was actually lying about the part about creating life. The Force created Anakin in reaction to Plagueis for the sole purpose of stopping the Sith from trying to control the Force itself. So if that's the case, then not only do the twins make Anakin's birth less special, it also completely destroys the reason for his birth if anyone can do it with the right knowledge.
I’m thoroughly tangled on this because what you just quoted is decanonised, yet they went to very expensive lengths to scream “remember the book?!” in our faces.
I’m sure he’s been dragged into the High Republic, but the fact they kept his book species indicates they want confusion (or are just terrible).
Yes.
He actually admits it when Anakin is given a Darth title that cheating death "was only achieved by one" or something, and that they can rediscover it together.
Welcome to Disney Star Wars, where they attempt to destroy everything imaginable about the 6 movies that actually matter.
@@mrbigglezworth42 technically what they’re doing is more viscerally annoying because they reused his design from something they’ve removed from canon, so they’re waving a flag with boot prints in your face, demanding you salute it.
Current state of the canon they’re telling us is solid, we know nothing but Sheev’s two speeches, because even the High Republic writers aren’t seeming to treat that as canon…
I would argue Kung Fu Panda is the standard you should go for if you want to do the mentor vs student scene. Yes Po wins, but at the end, he gives the dumpling to Shifu showing his growth as a character. It ends with a mark of respect by both. Nobody needs to put in their place.
I really like Kung Fu Panda. Po's growth is well earned since the final battle against his teacher comes at the end of his training. Before that it was hard work and failure until he eventually proved himself.
The whole thing also shows he's content with himself, I'd argue. Remember that it was noted more than once that he's a stress eater.
Additionally, to Literature Devil, it should also be noted that it was Shifu's own moment of growth too: Learning to adjust his teaching style and accept that just because his original approach wasn't working, that didn't mean Po was unteachable, nor that other methods were ineffective. And in learning the right way to teach Po, he grew as a master (and it likely factored into him gaining inner peace by the start of the second movie).
As Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple would note, 'The master teaches the disciple, while the disciple teaches the master'.
@@LordTyph Quotes in the movies to confirm your point:
"When you focus on kung fu... when you concentrate... you stink. But, maybe that is my fault. I cannot train you the way I have trained the Five. I see now, the way to get through to you is this (holds out bowl)."
"But when I realized the problem was not you, but with me, I found inner peace..."
Though the movie both shows and tells this, since the first quote comes after the kitchen scene shows Shi Fu what Po can accomplish when he's motivated by something other than being yelled at and thrown around.
I would say in defense of Brave, Merida acknowledges she's in the wrong or least acknowledges her actions were wrong unlike other examples. Elinor is also not as villainized, she tried talking things out with her daughter and got turned into a bear for it.
Thank you.
At first, I was gonna take that L, because the woman Director they had originally is likely the reason for so many girl power moments through out but you're right. Queen Elinor was waaay more understandable and portrayed as loving. Brave opens and closes with them having fun together.
@@ThreadBareHope1234 It kinda helped that the female director projected herself into the mother's role and not the daughter's role. And honestly, I get mixed results on which director wanted to lean into the girl power.
@wingedyaga2914 I didn't know that. Good to know. All the articles, (or at least the ones I read) made her seem pretty feminist.
And both side conflicts are solved by them helping each other enter their shoes, Merida channeling Elenor with her aid to solve the arranged marriage issue, and Merida training Elenor in outdoors stuff to fight Mordu, and both being used to solve the primary issue.
That's not very feminist to think from someone else's viewpoint.
@@angrytheclown801There are very different branches of feminism. I wouldn't exactly tar JK Rowling with the same brush as Leslye Headland after all.
Are you telling me, that in a story where the writers are so driven to showcase their fantasy, they undermine their revenge plot by revealing that the person seeking revenge actually did the deed yet blames others?
Possibly the biggest, most expensive Freudian slip ever committed to broadcast media.
It fits though, I have to admit.
"Look at what you made me do."
The rallying cry of the abuse
@@Beohun "you made me feel this way", "you're why I did this", "it's your fault I (for example) cheated on you", "see?! I knew you were a monster and I, the victim (after thoroughly destroying someone's life and mental health)".
They cry out it pain... as they strike you. Very common tactics from people that agree with all the bullshit Disney spews today.
Even though I've seen many critiques of the Acolyte, episode by episode, your's stands out in carefully pointing out not only how and why it failed, but how it could have succeeded. I learn so much from watching your videos.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. And I appreciate the compliment
I think Platoon did it pretty well as well. Although his breakdowns are a little more... Verbose.
The rule is don't ever criticize how someone does something if you can't do it better.
For Enchanto, the grandmother's obsession with the perfection is an issue that happens in real life too. She is smart and if film theory is right and she was making sure their closed of home doesn't have too close of blood relations, she's a smart woman that knew what problems can come from staying closed off. But the trauma from when she first made that home was driving her to choose the more round about answer, causing unhealthy expectations to be met by her children and grandchildren in order to remain closed off.
You scream
I scream
We all scream
FOR SPICECREAM
Both of the flashback episodes are the equivalent of Leslie shooting herself in the foot with a bazooka.
Ha!
Democrat and a girl here!!! Exactly!!! You know what I find funny; Russell t Davis Leslie headland Chewta Gatwa and the main actress of the Acolyte are just reinforcing the fear that people from the 80's and 90's had about the LGBTQ community that it would eventually turn into a perverse deivant sexual cult which it has become. That's why anime and manga are mostly better they understand that traditional heteronormativity is what sells and keeps humanity alive. Anime and manga couples are straight and straight only.
@LiteratureDevil Democrat and a girl here Exactly!!! These types of people are just reinforcing the fears the most people in the 80's and 90's had about the LGBTQ community that it would eventually become a perverse dievant cult. Heteronormativity is what sells and keeps humanity alive don't know why America has forgotten this
She's just trying to rocket jump, then?
A minor nit-pick I have with the "Thread" cult is their hand movements. When describing a power as a thread that can be pulled I would imagine the movements to be either puppeteer like (maybe foreshadowing), instead the movements are more like they are pushing or throwing it around.
Or maybe playing a string instrument, harp movements would make it very distinct and graceful.
Tai chi Dragon Ball knockoff😂
@@tynytian With a dash of knock off weaving from Wheel of Time.
Actually that's a great idea
@@Fern-and-Bone How about the guzheng players from Kung Fu Hustle 😂
Spice Cream? You are putting a highly addictive drug in food? I agree with the other mother on that one kids shouldn’t have that adults shouldn’t have it either. Still that detail probably explains the fire issue as they were too high to stop it.
I want to be nice and think maybe they mean spice like *a* spice, a star wars equivalents of cinnamon. But they likely just want laced ice cream for the kids.
@@ThreadBareHope1234 Spice has only been used in Star Wars to mean drugs at this point.
@@emberfist8347Exactly if any star wars fan who actually know lore knows that Spice is just "Any drug" or spice sticks is just cigarettes. This shows that the writers don't know anything besides a casual viewer of the series.
@@WhyYouMadBoi Hell even a casual viewer would figure it out if you paid attention to the first movie. Han’s motivation was that he owed Jabba for dumping a shipment of the stuff to avoid being arrested by Imperials. Jabba is set up as a being a crime lord or mob don in space and the mob was known for their drug rackets particularly at the time the film came out.
Cocaine chewing gum. Hand them out to every child.
Wow, the Witches and Valve have something in common.
Can't count to three? 😭😭
Ha!
Episode 4 is full of plot holes.
Episode 5 is barely tolerable (except the ending).
Episode 6 is borderline porn.
Episode 7 is Episode 3 (only worse).
Episode 8 is the last nail in the coffin.
I'm reminded of the how the trolls of the Discworld count:
They use one (1), two (2), three (3), many (4) and lots (16), which can be combined for larger numbers.
“The power of many” is so frustrating, not because it’s cringe (it is) but because in theory, it seems akin to Aes Sedai linking Saidar and performing powerful feats with it by combining their energy and letting it flow through a single foci.
But instead of that, we get this rancid slop.
The "power of many" chant sounds like how trolls count in Discworld. "1, 2, many. Many-1, many-2, many-many" anything more is "too many".
I really hate the whole 'witch' thing. They scalped Wicca and Germanic mythology for the "Wed of Wyrd", isn't that cultural and religious appropriation? Hypocrisy
According to their rules, it would be appropriation.
Little Platoon had an interesting argument for appropriation not being a big deal, that it is a way for myths and ideas to survive, but because the idea of Witches is so broad, even mangled, that preservation angle doesn't apply here.
As messy as the Nightsister lore is, at least they aren't vague undistinguished force users. They are a combo of traditional Germanic herb mixtures, cauldrons, and rituals Witches and (arguably) voodoo with the dolls and using hair (body part) in spells, which is a weird addition.
@@ThreadBareHope1234 The bibi dolls are generally more of a Germanic thing too.
They’re pop culture Voodoo but where the religion flourishes, you’re more likely to find these larger wooden dolls with chambers corresponding to major organs that are ritually connected to the target and given herbs and such in the chambers.
Sympathetic and taboo magic is pretty much a universal human concept so I wouldn’t get stuck o that.
@ThreadBareHope1234 Just saw the reply. Poppets are actually really interesting! A lot of cultures outside of voodoo use them. We've found clay poppets in Greece with spells on them, and grain/corn dolls in Britain and Central Europe. As for hair or body parts are used to 'lock' a spell to a specific person in traditional witchcraft. Religion is one of my areas of study as a historian so stuff like this is fascinating to me.
@@Fern-and-Bone That's pretty cool. Didn't know that
they're just counting in troll, next is the power of lots
Hack writers = Cackling Hags
Is something I didn’t know I needed lol
Here's the thing about this whole respect my pronouns business. The people who are pushing this frame it in terms of people identifying as they want. That's not consistent with what they are actually demanding though. The pronouns they are demanding that people "respect" are third person pronouns. Generally, they are not used to identify yourself. They are used by other people to identify you when talking to a third person. This is not about how they identify. It's about how other people identify them. This is not about people identifying as they like. It's about controlling how other people identify them. It's about dictating what everyone around you says.
L.D. releases a critique on episode 3 and the series gets canceled. A coincidence? I think not!
My work is done
@@LiteratureDevil Wait, no! I need to know how the show ends, you can’t stop now! 😂
@@Channel_Theory This IS how it ends. With a freaking whimper.
So Mae was the one who set the fire that destroyed the coven, and is hunting down the Jedi who were attacked by the coven first, simply because they were there when it happened. She is blaming the Jedi for the crimes SHE committed.
And the soy pods can't figure out WHY this show was cancelled?
It got even funnier with Episode 7, where it's revealed why the coven was dead: the whole group except the two moms banded together to mind control Kelnacca, and they all died when Indara severed that connection.
The Jedi yet again acting in self defense, and inadvertently placing the witches as in the wrong *again,* but also...
Mei completed her revenge mission in episode 1. No need to go after anyone else. She's just flat out evil.
@@insulttothehumanrace3807 So much for "the power of many," when they can't shrug off the power of one single force user. The writers proved beyond reasonable doubt the coven's philosophy was fundamentally flawed, that they were evil, literally sealed their own fates by their own actions, and yet, we're still told that they were the victims.
The cognitive dissonance is strong with these writers.
Do you suppose they thought calling it "Thread" is a desperate sort of advertisement for their dead social media platform, threads? 😂
I wouldn't be surprised, actually lol
Aniseya is also seen "wielding the Thread" against the bickering twin girls...which is a direct contradiction to her previous lecture. How is she "The Leader", again? Is it because she can turn herself and others "into the Force" (even against the others' will)? None of it makes any sense!
Isn’t she the one who metaphorically raped a teenager Padawan boy, too ? She used the Force to break every possible boundary of a child, but, no, the Force isn’t a power and they’re better than these filthy Jedi who only got involved when they believed witnessing child abuse.
20:33 I feel like Spice Creams should’ve been like used like it was in “Kingdom Hearts” as reminder of better times and to reestablish their connection. Naw someone was probably hungry when writing the script.
I scream.
You scream.
WE ALL SCREAM...
At the tragic house fire at the witch coven reunion.
It's funny, what this series really ends up showing is that the Jedi ARE the good guys. It took their pride, hubris, and complacency, built after a long time of peace and quiet to bring them down, something that erodes any governing body. But they were ultimately still the good guys.
The show tried to flip it but failed hilariously.
"The power of WOOOOOOOMEN!"
If the has restructured the Force as vibrations or tones rather than The Thread they could have gotten acapella singers in to play the witches and the the "Many" thing actually be cool....maybe.
I can't wait for your take on episode 7, the other half of the atrocious 3rd episode.
Them spice creams be some good stuff.
There's something they don't seem to understand. Jedi can never be evil willingly. Evil brings suffering and pulls them to the dark side, at which point they're not Jedi anymore.
Jedi might have strict practices like separating children from their families, that's true. But its obvious that what they're doing is done with good intentions, and it worked pretty well until they made an exception for Anakin who was too old to be seperated from his mother as an emotional bond was already formed, and they did that only because Qui Gon and his apprentice forced their hands.
Also, the show didn't even give any straight answers as to why Jedi are against witches training younglings, so we don't even actually know who's in the right before the conflict even begins. But based on what I've seen in other media as well as this show, I'm incined to side with Jedi. They were wise and compassionate, and they fought only for defense as against to an aggressive witch coven who constantly escalated things, a psycho murderer wannabe child/youth, and a Sith who thinks he's opressed because 'he can't be himself" which is a murdering, sadistic, manipulative maniac.
What's worse is that the writer readily admitted that the Sith guy was a self insert for her, and she emphatized with him much more than those pesky, patriarchal, controlling Jedi. Sounds like you're openly admitting that you're evil when you're saying that you feel a kinship with a cult that wants to rule the galaxy with brute force and manipulation as dictators.
I found the "show don't tell" advice in regard to setting up a desire for explanation later in the story an interesting point of feedback. I'm a gamer and it always feels like no one understands that and instead dialogue vomits explanations up front.
14:59
We admire strength of character. Not raw muscle strength.
If they had made your version of the Acolyte I might actually watch Star Wars again.
You know "the power of many" makes sense if instead of people we talk about midiclorians.
Midiclorians don't grant power.
They can count to more than 3: 1, 2, many, many 1, many 2... heaps...
Reignbow's hair makes me very happy
Watching this after learning about that show’s cancellation… so sweet… ^^
Your attempts to find logic in stupidity deserve respect.
...it had a mask?
For reeeeeal
It wasn't a good one, made of used pizza boxes, old elastic, and sidewalk chalk, but it was there.
Well at least this 'massive hit and critically aclaimed' (according to the tourists on twitter) show is CANCELED
*Laughs in hysteric JJJ*
Interestingly, this video refused to appear in my recent history no matter how many times I updated it.
Well. Appropriate timing.
Oh wow, didn't expect to see you here!
quite.
Slight proposed edit at 9:05 "Losers sorely in need of a spanking". Therapy is part of what made them losers!
one. two. many? sounds like Leslie Headland's alcohol intake when she wrote this shit...
The thread sounds a lot like the thread of the fates.
I think that's what they were trying to go for, but they didn't quite explore it well enough. Or at all really. They just said it's a thread.
@@LiteratureDevil Ironically, it's been cut.
Wait- Is my copy of Rainbow the brute is finally coming to my home?? I remember paying for kickstarter but I assumed it wasn't arriving.
ANH laid out that the Force guides a Jedi's actions, while also obeying commands. A contradiction that questions where the Force's guidance and the Jedi's command begin and end. That perhaps ultimately they are one. Something Obiwan sensibly didn't see fit to share with Luke as it's confusing enough for those who have practical knowledge and experience.
It also lays out the reason why the Jedi do what they do. The source of their power are the lives of every living thing in the galaxy. If they didn't exist, neither would the Force, and neither would the Jedi's power. Therefore the reason they have it is to protect what gives them power.
The witch's dogma is incomplete. it supposes they have no agency (or fault) in their actions. It's the thread that guides them to their destiny. The thread simply exists for the sake of the witches and whatever happens to them.
"The witches are doing the same here, but the writers want the audience to fall into that trap." xD
There is a book series from the 1980s by Tonya Pierce called the Song of the Lioness that I think would be a good review. I read the entire series in the 2000s as a teen. The female protagonists actually goes through hardship in her training to become a knight after switching places with her twin brother who wanted to study magic instead of being a knight.
Fashionably late
Well, if you're going to be late might as well do it with style.
rainbow the brute sounds metal
it's ironic to me that Aniseya is the "cool" one and Coril is the "Harsh one" when Coril is the one that carried the twins and thusly bears responsibility for them while Aniseya (as the feminists would say) pumped and dumped.
Seriously, what is up with all the progressive writers and their obsession with food/sweets?
I remember in creative writing class, one of the techniques for characterization is to write small, daily life scenes. What is their favorite food, for example? When you know these small details, you can create a more rounded character that feels more real.
The issue with this as I see it implemented lately is that... This is more like the icing on the cake. You need to have a good cake for the embellishment to mean something, and they botched the cake.
@fnors2
Most of them are fat, lazy slobs who can't say no to an ice cream cone. You tell me.
@@fnors2 it’s been a trait of lady writers to bring up food since Austen’s time (it’s one of many things she makes fun of). It seems to be a default form of world building in the female mind, such as the great lists of foods in the first two Harry Potter books, but historically got beaten out of them by editors.
It’s relatively ineffective world building, hence it being disfavoured, because you don’t know what associations the reader has or what they’ve tried. The HP example was rightly questioned by editors because they didn’t know if American kids would know what a treacle tart was; the kids didn’t and Rowling got many letters about what Harry’s favourite food was.
We don’t have editors these days… 😭
Ironically, it would have been more progressive if they did make the thread stronger with more thread users, showing that people are stronger together joined together in solidarity and the goal of the well being of the collective in mind
Episode 3 is "the most mask off Disney StarWars" WTF YOU ON ABOUT!?!? Have you seen episode 7?!!!!
We're getting there with this video series. Patience. 😊
Ep 3 as Ep 1 to fix the plot makes sense. And this Episode needs to be only show the perspective of Osha. That means only scenes were Osha is a part of.
Great work LD keep up the good work ^^
I genuinely feel sorry for the Korean actor Lee Jung-jae, who plays Sol.
He tried his best, and I actually liked his character.
Until episode seven revealed his uncomfortable obsession with Occupational Safety And Health Administration, yes.
Bet you they planned to market spice cream. Like blue milk.
in defense of agent carter punching that one badmouthing soldier, from my understanding its because they are in the MILITARY, while yes. simply punching him is the incorrect thing to do in such a situation(she could punish both him and the group through physical activity instead, i think?). she also needed to instill discipline and respect of those in a higher authority. its not good for a fresh recruit to disobey superiors in any setting
16:02 Sounds like the first half of Ultraman Leo
I know we're here to **** on the progressive women writers of Hollywood but Carter knocking out that guy isn't an example of this.
The guy was acting perfectly in line with the time and place the scene was set in. He was an American soldier in in the 1940s, feeling superior to the British and women, which is not exactly unique behavior in those times. We didn't need a montage of Carter training hard to get strong enough to punch him out. She didn't want to have a girlboss moment. She had to establish herself as someone those guys would listen to so that she could do her job. It showed us, the audience that she was indeed a soldier.
Even better, if it had been a male British soldier, the scene would have worked just as well and nobody would have complained... so yeah, I'd say that was a complete miss in the otherwise good video.
It was called "The Force" because it's a very blatant metaphor for power/authority. It's no surprise this was completely lost on the writers.
It's a minor point, but there's the bit during one of the mother-and-daughters scenes where Osha says that she wants to join the Jedi but Aniseya tries to talk her down from it by pointing out that she's young and thus her desires could change. And yet she wants the twins to permanently commit their lives to the coven at such a young and supposedly fickle age...
Potential parallels notwithstanding, the fact that this hypocrisy isn't acknowledged at all just shows how biased the writers are towards their OC witch coven, how committed they are to seeing them as right and the Jedi as wrong despite everything on screen...
11:51 i didn't watch it for a moment and I tought that is what Obi-wan said 😅
WTH Reignbow the Brute sounds awesome
Star Wars isn't just about good people vs evil people. More specifically, Star Wars is about people who choose to be good vs people who choose to be evil. There's a difference.
And in Star Wars...
Light Side = Good
Dark Side = Evil
The Force is a gradient.
Light |---l---l---l---l---l---l---| Dark
One end is the light side, the other end is the dark side. The Star Wars characters appear on different points across that gradient.
As a frame of reference, Yoda would be the farthest point to the light end and Palpatine would be the farthest point on the dark end.
Meeting in the middle would be characters like Qui-Gon and Count Dooku, where Qui-Gon was considered the most roguest Jedi on the council and Dooku was a fallen Jedi who did have legitimate grievances with the Jedi but allowed himself to commit evil in defiance of them
Anakin's story is so interesting because he starts fully on the light side as a boy. As he grew up his philosophy to always protect the ones he cared about no matter the cost was heroic, but Palpatine was able to twist his judgment over the years until he was convinced it was worth committing horrific acts to protect the ones he loved. THAT is the point when he transitioned from the light side to the dark side. And when Padme died and Anakin became Darth Vader, he doubled down on his evil behavior believing he was beyond redemption, which moved him farther and farther into the dark side.
It was only Luke's existence and defiance of the Dark Side that led to Anakin believing in himself himself again and sacrificing himself. In his last moments, Anakin was convinced that the good still existed within him, and so turned back to the light side and away from evil.
So I wonder if Mae would have been so homicidal if Sol didn't unalive the "cool" parent?
Since it got canceled, will you still go over the other 5 episodes?
Does the force let you "go to the john" while meditating?
The john is the perfect place to meditate.
I do have to push back on two points so far ( 12:17 )
1. Rebeling isn't inherently bad, which is what you were describing with your examples of the tw8ns here and mentioning Encanto and Brave. I'm not saying they did the story well here, but a child rebeling against their parent(s) is a common trope and can make a compelling story.
2. Having different names for "The Force" isn't a bad thing, and in fact makes sense. You can just llok to the real world, where not only do we have different languages which inevitably lead to different words for the same concept. We also have different philosophies based around the natural laws of physics. Again, I'm not arguing the writers did a good job at showcasing this, but the idea isn't bad.
On 2...
On one hand, I agree. Especially since in a setting as vast as Star Wars is, it actually makes perfect sense that different people groups would interact with the Force and come up with different names for it, different ideas of what it is and how it works, all that. That part's okay.
What's not okay in Acolyte's case is that when the leader is having her lesson she says "some call it a 'Force', they think it's a power that they wield", pretty much directly saying that the Jedi have the "wrong" view of what it is and their coven has the "right" view. Which combined with how the show as a whole tries to frame the Jedi... comes across as attacking the previously established stuff.
15:08 Asoka Tano comes to mind, but Disney didn't invent that character. Disney ruined her.
8:15 I didn't understand why you considered Encanto to be a sjw story when you first spoke about it. Now it all makes sense.
Honestly even if you attempt to break down the logic of certain characters, you just hit a wall because there's not even an alley of logic to walk down. It's often completely irrational why X character does anything and no none of Acolytes characters are complex, they're just completely and utterly nonsensical. Complex character work requires characters to be torn with their/upcoming decisions, struggling with them due to morality or beliefs or things they've learned/experience but in this show nah sod that too hard, here it's just puff X character is a brand new character now who doesn't like to kill anymore. Why? No one knows.
It's weird how this show tries to sexualize the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
I think it would be interesting for one of you guys to go back and review Underworld. you, littleplatoon, efap guys..
What interesting there is Selene is a girlboss, who also does not go through a traditional heroes journey. Shes a badass right from the start. She does learn and grow. But, in a skill, or physical manner. How she treats and respects everyone around her is important. Reverence for elders. she acts feminine. Even to Kraven, who is presented as the inferior male leader. At no point does she show him up in a girl boss way. She doesn't kill him, or embarrass him to show how great she is.
Mask?? Payday 2 reference!?
I guess u can stop making these it’s canceled..so hopefully all this was a fever dream by Yoda or something 🤣
OK, you make points but the reason why the alcolyte is bad is they spent 180 million on it and reused content so basically 7 episodes. 2 are walking thru a forest. 2 are walking thru a barren planet and not seeing a giant installation on a mountain right next to you for 2 months. a couple are on a trial that doesn't make any sense. and then we got OSHA being shipped with a murderous sith and becoming one because sith are cool.
whats left is people getting lamely killed off
like the writing wouldn't matter if the content were cool if they had 100 million spent on cool fights and 80 million spent on the SFX to support the cool fights/music etc.
I don't care about the writing.
but instead we get walking simulator and reused content which is just unacceptable with a 180 million dollar budget. this is criminal misappropriation of funds.
Disney should be suing Leslie for 180 million.
So ....are they supposed to be the Dantooine witches or they're just some other weird thing?
Nope, they're a whole new faction made up for this show.
The whole "witch" thing makes it hard to tell, but yeah they're not connected to the Night Sisters.
Anakin fell to the dark side because Mace Windu was a hypocrite. Anakin felt enormous guilt over executing Dooku, despite mitigating circumstances like having to rescue Palpatine and Obiwan in the middle of an enemy warship. Fast forward a week, and Windu attempts to execute Palpatine under similar circumstances, only he even has less of an excuse since it's totally within his power to take him prisoner at that moment. Windu was one of Anakin's foremost critics and put the greatest pressure on him for failing to conform to their standards, yet fell to the dark side more easily than even himself.
Anakin can hardly be blamed for not caring at that point.
I know this has nothing to do with the video and I'm a little ashamed of knowing this, but I'm pretty sure Steven Universe's creator stated that Rose shape-shifted a reproductive system in order to get pregnant and give birth to Steven.
Why is the narrator's voice different in this video?
probably AI
@Raccoonik Ohh. I guess that's why he sounded way different in a live video I watched a while back. I don't like it. I miss the classic Literature Devil voice that he usually has on his video essays.
6:11 Of seemingly the same species as Darth Maul? Definitely evil.
Woke is when I make up random politics that has nothing to do with the show Jesus Christ the brain rot in this video
I do t even think the show is good but damn this is derang ep 7 completely debunks what you said about Turbin
Assuming EVS can deliver them on time. Kind of disappointing.
He's made Cyberfrog toys before and they turned out really well. And, fortunately, he has other people doing the production. So it shouldn't be TOO long before he can get them out lol
@@LiteratureDevil That's fair. *I just mean in many online circles he has a bad reputation generally speaking* and _especially when it comes to delivery... But if he can do it, I hope he does._ I hope noone has a bad experience.
Basically: *Guys, stop the e-drama and get to making the stuff!* 💪🔨🖊 et cetera...
So how much do you charge for sponsors. I have some stories that I write and I post them to RUclips in audiobooks. Let me know how much you charge and I'll get you paid.
I understand videos are a lot of work but this pace is crazy slow. The show has already been cancelled and you're still talking about episode 3. This is one hell of a forgettable show, by time time you're done no one will even remember it. At this point you might as well just stop and talk about something else
That's the plan lol
Can we please stop harping on the Spice Creams?
Han said Spice to two people looking to be smuggled and trying their hardest to seem underworld. That’s cant, slang specific to criminals, it’s world building.
Flattening it to be the only use of the term spice does nothing but damage. Mother Spikes is talking to two children and has no reason to be speaking in code.
Spice is a terrifying drug on earth (it is to pot what bath salts are to meth) and causes zombie scares occasionally, yet it’s existence does nothing to curtail the use of the term “pumpkin spice.”
What are you talking about? I cant think of a single instance in Star Wars where spice isnt referred to as anything but a narcotic other than this series.
@@seanvaughan3896 It was used as a general term in several novels.
It does not need to be referenced elsewhere in the movies to be safely assumed to be slang, in much the same way as it is slang in Dune (properly called Malange there). We’ve seen literal spice merchants, like something out of Agrabah, in the background of both Phantom Menace and Rogue One and until told otherwise, I’m not assuming those are deedlypoop stalls.
Beyond the Spice Mines of KesselTM, which are a threat used on underworld members, it’s only mentioned by Solo, to underworld types. I appreciate that you probably encountered Star Wars long before a) you heard of Ice, spice or bath salts in the real world or b) were the target age of the show based on its inspiration but please stop and think. Does your standpoint make the setting deeper or shallower by limiting the term “spice” to a singular vague smuggled substance (undefined in George’s stuff, apparently retconned into fuel in Solo, given that’s what the Kessel mines now produce)?
I would certainly argue shallower.
incel take imo
@@libernihilus How so chief?
incel comment imo