THE ACOLYTE: EPISODE 7 | Film Threat Reviews
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- Опубликовано: 6 авг 2024
- Chris Gore and Alan Ng review episode 7 of “The Acolyte,” now playing on Disney+.
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It's feels like the writers of this $180M Disney franchise series are a bunch of inexperienced lesbian fan fic writers from Tumblr with no interest in Star Wars. Oh, wait...
To quote Apollo Creed from Rocky III: "Ding, Ding."
Money Laundering
Jedi executed a No-Knock warrant. Ref: Breonna Taylor
Looks like a writer is using a narrative for MODERN AUDIENCES
179 million was most likely put directly into Headland's personal bank account...
What does lesbian have to do with anything? Showed yer cards there maybe hide the bigotry a little better next time
No need to warn for spoilers. We aren't watching the show. We are watching these funny reviews!
It's kind of like worrying if people will want leftovers after everyone got sick on pink turkey.
The wookie was looking for the 180 million dollars they spent on the movie with the metal detector and they ain't found $hit.
Nice
Should have used a big comb instead.
😂😂😂😂
They probably would have had more luck on a desert planet.
They should have called Time Team in... sorted in 3 days.
I love to know everything about The Acolyte without paying a single cent to Disney and also get to know it in an entertaining way 😂❤
I also have paid Disney nothing to watch all the content creators hate review and it's been hilarious
_"You cannot deny ... with your permission of course"_ had me rolling my eyes so hard. It's so bad.
A person in a position of power using it to manipulate a youth? Wow, right what you know I guess.
Yes, and it's so obviously perceived wrong from these makers.
The Jedi were known for people to talk to, if parents noticed something very special with their kids. These kids were ofthen seen as abominations or bad omens by many cultures, because it is a very RARE phaenomenon. The Jedi were able to examine the kids and test them for their connection with the force. They offered to take them if they showed potential to be a jedi, and this was mostly seen by the parents as the best possible future for their kids and a great honor. Because the Jedi were known to be very pure and good and always protected the weak in the galaxy.
A thousand years of peace... Star Wars is supposed to be a fairy tail after all.
It's making me so sad...
I like the "Jedi have the right" part in the middle. How is it a "right" if you need to get permission? 🤣
Clearly no one has any idea about how to smooth out potentially problematic situations. For sure this 'solution came up in post production. lol
I almost threw up in my mouth and choked on it when they said that shit. “You can not deny…… with your permission of course”
My son is 6 and has a better understanding of the jedi than Disneys acolyte writers.
Just the facts.
He probably understands natural conversation, time and common sense better as well....
Better script writer too.
Give a boy GIJOE like SW figures, and he will craft stories 1000 more interesting that this.
Leslies of the world dont realize that Lucas started writing SW at the age of 6-7
Hope he's not gay.
@@parapoliticos52 YES
remember they were trying to sell this as some great mystery show
False advertising lawsuit, perhaps?
The mystery is why this show was made and why it was so badly done.
The true mystery is where the hell all that money went? 💸
@@ian8477it's a mystery alright...
The retcon you're scared of is Yoda going up to the Acolyte and saying "Mae, the force be with you" and that becomes the canon way of spelling it from now on.
Oh god dont even joke about that
Episode 8 will be awesome.
It must have somewhere close to $175,000,000 spent on that one episode....
You hit the nail on the head: they don't understand the end between a cliffhanger and an unsatisfying ending ...They were apparently just so supremely confident that they were going to get renewed...
thhey dont even understand what words mean, or basic writing concepts, or how humans think/feel/act. This show feels like its written by sociopathic children.
Because they know merit isn’t what go them the job. Their genitals and political positions did.
I just saw an article Headland gave where she's openly saying if she's able to get a season 2 she wants to use it to bring in Darth Plagueis...I'm sure that will go over well.
It seems like the writers sometimes forget which twin they're working with.
My prediction: In ep 8 we will see Anakin blowing up an entire death star (finally!)
While screaming 'yaaaasssss' 'YAAAASSSS'
@@PaulSimonMcCarthy-fu6ms This is where the yaaaaaaaaaaaas begins.
8:53 Remember when Kenobi went to The Outer Rim and Yoda went to the reclusive Dagoba, both thus reducing the risk of being FORCE-detected by Sidious, Vader, or the Inquisitors? Remember when Vader could sense the FORCE-sensitive Kenobi on the Death Star? Remember when Vader could sense the FORCE-sensitive Luke in the Death Star trenches? Remember when Vader could sense Luke on the Millennium Falcon on the run from Bespin? Remember when Luke could sense the FORCE-sensitive Vader during the fly-by of the Super Star Destroyer? Remember when Kenobi sensed a disturbance in The Force light-years away at Alderaan's destruction?
HOW THE F*CK did 1 Jedi Master, 2 Jedi Knights, and 1 Jedi Padawan miss sensing an assembly of over 50(!!!) Force-users, including the two individuals that represent a vergence in The Force, while being in the same area? What happened to one of the most iconic and basic abilities of the Jedi in this turd of show?
@@durchhalter They use metal detectors now.
If Master Sol has that connection with Osha, how could he not know that Mae switched places?
Dont ask questions, just consume product. Then get hyped to consume next product.
@@TotesRandom 😄
It's a genital connection.
The worst part so far as I can tell from the clips ( I won't give Disney a penny ) is that the continuity "expert" had the make up artist leave off the brand on Mae's forehead I assume intentionally so that the audience doesn't pick up on that. The fact Sol should know regardless is awful in every way.
@@TotesRandom very coooool
I'm not even watching the show. Just loving the RUclips commentators videos about it! 😂 This show is a perfect example of what happens when you hire for diversity and representation first.
All the actors are excellent I'm not sure why you think they weren't picked for the job because of their abilities. Oh well. Somebody told you to hate something you didn't watch so you signed up like, yeah I don't really need my integrity for anything, do I?
acolyte is a failure@@ichigen511
@@ichigen511 You're not going to convince anyone who has seen any of her scenes that Amandla is a good actor. Why lie about it?
@@ichigen511I’m afraid that besides the awesome Carrie-Ann and the male actors, the rest of the casting was blah. And no, I’m not a white incel man 🙄.
@@BetaRayBill32She's a great actress. Watch Bodies Bodies Bodies starring Pete Davidson
This episode follows last one where Sol finally after a lot of "I'm gotta tell you later Osha" decides to finally tell Mae what happened 16 years ago... Something Mae did know because she was there when Sol killed his mother, this little factoid that she didnt told Osha those times they were face to face because of reasons 😅
What do you want to bet that Padawan Torbin wants to go back home, because there is a secret male lover he misses? I’m calling it!
OMG you just gave me the piece I was missing. I just commented on another reaction channel - they were complaining that 7 was another flashback - that 8 is also a flashback to explain how Qirmir got involved in all of this.
Nailed it
🤦😆😆 probably
The Jedi did nothing wrong outside of lying to the council. The witches acted aggressively first and repeatedly acted aggressively throughout the episode. Sol killed the mother witch in response to her turning into a dark evil cloud.
Mark my words - Weinstein's Angel will be the future Lucasfilm CEO after KK steps down.
At this rate there wont be a Lucasfilm for much longer. Their either going help bankrupt DIsney, or get busted by the feds for money laundering, raqueteering, etc.
Angel? Let me laugh in a Gandalf meme laughter.
Episode 8 will end with a real cliffhanger, then all 11 fans will demand a season two. 😅😂
Given that the show has firmly established that it takes about 20 minutes to get to Coruscant from anywhere in the galaxy, even the outer rim, I want to know how Torbin was so desperate to go home but incapable of it to begin with. Most people have longer commutes to work; there's no reason for them to even spend the night sleeping on the planet.
“Show don’t tell” is 2,500 year old advice, but Space Lesbians know better.
La blue Girl had better story better combat and lesbians
it's not surprising to see them write like a 7 year old coz most of these Tumblr people are. They are toddlers trapped in the body of a 30 year old millennial. It's disgusting.
What does lesbian have to do with anything? Showed yer cards there maybe hide the bigotry a little better next time
Lol
@@ichigen511I hardly think it's bigotry considering the fact that the lesbian space witch accolade associated now with the Acolyte in question is actually used by almost everyone including the left with no ill intent.
( I also just noticed the unintended alliteration in that sentence... Sorry) Pretty much everyone refers to them as lesbian space witches or communist space witches because no matter how bad it may sound, that's what they are supposed to be.
Rather than accusing someone of bigotry you should have asked what the characters have to do with it?
It's the writers that failed to show rather than tell.
Assuming the worst of everyone does not help.
We went through the whole episode of Sol explaining to Mae what "really" happened (even though she was there and saw everything but never mind about that) and we didn't even get to see her reaction at the end. Crazy.
What were we supposed to believe was happening when the witches turned to dust? What was that?
Why did all the witches die while taking over the wookie? Isn't it the power of many? So together aren't they very powerful? What happened there? Why was Sol only response to kill the dust witch? Why did Sol save a heavy metal bridge by force powers instead of saving 2 small children with force powers??
Why cant we have a picture of the 12 writers including Headland that Disney hired? I want to see that writers room so badly.
I assume next week they‘ll show an episode-long flashback to muddy the waters even further. 🤣
The weakness of one, the weakness of maaaaaaanyyyyyy.
Diversity Hires wrote this!
You mean activist writers that don't care about the material wrote this. Women and minorities don't operate like a hive mind.
@@Fenrir72 Why does logic, narrative and reason seem so exclusively Male ???
Diversity hire doesn't mean female. Plenty of soy boys in there.
We would like to say diversity hires, but there are plenty of great diverse writers out there. What this was written by were ideologues who are writing films based upon their ideology and nothing else. Therefore they have to take something very far away and bring it near and dear to our political scene.
@@jamesesparza6893 Those are not diversity hires.
A "diverse" writer who gets their position in merit is, in fact, the opposite of a diversity hire
It seems as though the writers had heard of Rashomon, but neither seen it, nor understood it.
“Here’s what happened from this new perspective-wouldn’t you know it, it’s the same!!”
The worst line of the series so far was in the previous episode: "Her strength in the force is very powerful". English is only my third language. And even I realize how wank that was.
Like a vergence, touched for the very first time...like a verr err err errgence...
@@Dazgul at first, I swore I kept hearing them say “virgins” by the way they were all saying “vergence”… 🤣🤣
That's actually pretty funny.
I'd say, people presenting as biological adults wrote this. Mentally though, they are like green goo.😂
I understand why they made it. White men are dying. They are catering to the growing population of Colored people hence why they cast Amandla Stenberg, she is mixed race
I predict nothing will be resolved and the story will be left as sequel bait.
The original title of THE ACOLYTE was THOSE DARN JEDI!
💩📺💩The WØKE-A-LYTE has *_Dragged Down_* the overall aesthetic & magic of Star Wars.....simply by being *_ASSØCIATED_*_ With It.*_
(* It's "Terrible Storytelling" is the understatement of the Macrø~Solar-Cycle )
Bladdy 80’s music is playing in my head! Hope you happy.
Wasn't it The Parent Trap - Star Wars DEI edition....
The Ejacolyte™ 💦
Lol - that put a smile on my face.
The Jedi's actions seems pretty justified. I dont see how thecwriters thought this was a terrible secret.
That's because you're moral, snd they are immoral.
I totally expect many of these weak story lines to not have any real closure after the final episode. The Producers probably think they're so clever that they'll get a 2nd season to carry these nonsensical story lines forward. They really don't think their crap stinks and the critics are wrong.
I honestly believe they're trying to launch their new perspective of the Star Wars universe with this show. I think they had other big plans hinging on this thing.
That's why Lucasfilm is so vengeful and flummoxed that it's been universally rejected.
Big red flag: "Jasmyne Flournoy" is one of the writers. Stop hiring people with silly names.
Jasmine Flournoy sounds like name on a Chinese Twitter thirst bot
Women hiring other women solely for the fact they aren't men...creating an industry solely dependent on women.
Some of the lessons we learn from history are refresher courses.
Maybe they're not a real person, and Leslye just collected multiple paychecks?
Sounds like this person have visited a Numerologist.. freaking weirdo’s
They can’t be serious allowing this Acolyte show being canon… this is so bad. As someone said … this is so far away from anything real Star Wars.
It's trying so hard to be Game of Thrones with over the top reveals, twists and plot mechanics that are never executed correctly or ever earned.
It’s written by a seven year old that wrote it on his bus ride to school
@@vladdebrancovan7011 was a Leslye screenplay from when she was in high school with some Star Wars flavor splashes.
Actually that kid would probably do a better job. At least kids at that age have far more imagination and creativity than Leslie Headland posses
@@ABoyandHisDog-pd3lbI've talked to some 7-8 years old before. Granted they can be excessively imaginative & creative, but they cannot keep track of all they said/created + make it into 1 coherent & logical story. Lesley is ghastly boring & yet still, cannot string a coherent & logical story😅😂
@@ABoyandHisDog-pd3lbMy 7 year old wrote a much more intriguing story than this tripe.
He hasn't been exposed to weird politics, so he's able to craft basic narrative.
When I started teaching a teacher gave me a R100 and said I will get this money if I can explain what is going on here and also which language (English or Afrikaans) is this. My brain melted when I finished and went to a bar to have a drink. It was a combination of words. ( Imagine German and Japanese combined ) . The Acolyte makes less sense than that essay.
I’m pretty much 100% convinced that Disney Star Wars is just a way to launder money at this point. There is no other explanation for how so much money can keep being lost on projects yet more of the same projects get green lit.
Seeing as how women are in charge of this particular project, I'm sure the money disappeared in fancy restaurants and shopping trips to the Beverly Hills mall.
Not just Star Wars, there is no way Disney is wasting money like this without some sort of subsidy or “kick-back” (not just a tax right off)
The horrifying crow monster was the hero all along. Duh!
@@dieseltyme it became one with the Thread 😆😆
This is what happens when someone is hired for the gender, sexuality, or skin color over their credentials. You get people who are inept at their jobs who feel entitled to have them.
Well why would they hire white men? They're dying, aren't they? Population decline is real and Companies need babies
This show reminds me of that one time when I spent 5 days sitting in a metal fold up chair at the center of an empty room so I could watch the paint on the freshly painted walls dry.
Blew my mind.
At least that experience didn't ruin your affinity of Star Wars.
I am literally more interested in my grass growing than this drivel!
One of the things that confuses me is how did the Jedi know that Mae started a fire? Nobody other than Mae and Osha would’ve known that. Mae didn’t get to tell anybody because her first appearance afterwards is when the mother gets stabbed, but when Osha wakes up on the ship afterwards, Sole (Idk how any of these names are spelled) tells immediately tells her that Mae started it. So did they just guess correctly that that’s what happened? Definitely just one of many nonsensical holes and convenient occurrences in this awful story.
I’m here for the Master Saul voice Alan don’t let me down 😂
Leslie's wife will be addressed as Darth Plaguis or Tenebrous, there's Alan's predicted rage bait.
anyone ever thought that "divergence" do be a play on words for "the virgins" .. as in, "we no need no man to reproduce" .. ..!?
Yeah. I'm not even sure if he said the virgin or divergence in the explanation 😂
"It just doesn't make sense because it's terrible storytelling!" -Chris G. [I meant this to be in the main comments, but it still applies!]
@@Ewil.Bluetooth exactly - i was just listening to them and it made total sense they be talking about the virgins 🤣
This series couldn't handle the "same story from two different points of view" plot device for ONE EPISODE! If you remember, Arrested Development did this for an entire season, and made it entertaining as hell!
Lezzie Headcase herself revealed that story elements of season would carry over into a second season. I've heard as many as four unfinished story arcs will be left. That seemed to be her foot in the door to continue her position as show runner for at least one more year and lead to several more projects to press forward her and KK's female force/LGBTQ+ agenda farther into the future. I don't see that happening now, despite her assurances otherwise.
Don't insult 7 year olds. The writing in this series should only be used as a classroom example of everything you shouldn't do. It's the equivalent of Vogon poetry.
Thank God, I have a towel.
OH THE VOGANITY!
Still saying it: Osha was Mae and Mae was Osha all along. Because that’s the kind of “TWIST!!!” that would be so mindblowing to these writers. If it doesn’t happen that way, then genuine kudos to them.
So are we assuming that horned lesbian space witch becomes darth mauls grandmother or something?
Loved it when Trinity flipped into Boss mode and her power of one killed the power of mannnnnnny!!!
Groovy
Seoul imprinted on Osha like that werewolf dude on the baby in Twilight
You guys are such pimps and I’ve been following Chris since G4 (The real G4) much love to you both
I wish you could get Chris Tucker to reprise his role in "The Fifth Element" and explain "The Acolyte".
My guess is: There will be no grand finale. It will just be cliffhangers for S02...
Depends on your definition of what an adult is.
This whole show is an example of "and then" writing instead of "but" & "therefore"
why did Sol try to force lift the gangway to save the twins, when he could have force lift the twins themselves?
Disney: Let's hire people who dont make movies/shows, and also hate starwars, to make starwars shows for an audience that doesnt care about Starwars.
What could go wrong?
Remember when Star Wars didn’t have flashbacks or Christopher Nolan/ M Night time jump twists?
There's actually many layers of the acolyte story, especially in the flashbacks, that have potential for interesting character exploration, but in order to do so they'd have to 1. Communicate the message they intend to tell better, and 2. Explore the story with a different frame of mind.
With the parallel with Anakin and twins, I still think we are going to get the " I am you mother moment". Worse case scenario which I can see them doing and would have to buy a new monitor afterwards, qimir is going to say that.
The bad guy looks like he's wearing a bondage "gimp mask" and the wookie is wearing a nylon sock on his head like the "do-rags" soul-brothers used to wear in the 1960's when I was a kid in Oakland. Interesting costuming choices, Leslye. LOL! 😎
The wookies head is shaved, it's not a nylon durag, lol
One of the Acolyte writers is also writing for the upcoming Dune:Prophecy series
I can't remember which channel it was on, but two guys where reviewing episode 7, and one of them commented on how weird and creepy Sol's obsession with making Osha his padawan was and joked about "Sol driving away in his van full of candy." That cracked me up. Maybe it's not really that funny, but I had a stroke a month and a half ago, and besides paralyzing the right side of my body, it lessened my emotional control so I laugh or cry about things much more readily than I normally would.
What the hell is a "hyperdrive accident"?
Maybe it's when you go "hyperspace skipping" too close to a planet 😅
6:42 My theory is that the writers got confused with who Sol was talking to at the end of Ep 6. He was talking to Mae, but he needed to be talking to Osha. Mae had seen it, and Sol thought she was dead anyway - making his 'I have thought about this for 6 years' out of synch with what he knows. Osha wasn't there to see it and she would be the one most affected by knowing that Sol killed her mother. He had also promised Osha that he would tell the truth eventually. ... The only people who fell for the old 'Identity Switch' trope were the ***king writers.
Kathleen "You can't play with my toys, they're MINE" Kennedy
“This planet is thriving because of the virgins.”
Leslie must OWN those corporate meetings. She must be a corporate apex predator on the warpath to live forever in the annals of history! She's reinventing Star Wars because of her prowess in the halls of corporate Hollywood.
Because corporatism exists, this is happening to Star Wars.
I knew Sol's arc was complete when he said "We finally beat medicare."
Why does Sol try to hold up both platforms which look quite heavy and not just force pull the girls to safety?
You think the show can't get any worse, and then this episode drops.
Ai wrote this. With the prompt. Star Wars , queer, girl boss , no whites
Which button can I hit to give more kudos to Alan for speaking in Sol-voice?
When Trinity cuts the connection between Wookie and the Hendersons, it causes a backlash. I still can't tell if they're dead or just knocked out. Darth Mom escapes unscathed and she was the nexus of their power sharing. Either way the coven's dead, but why not do something to make clear the status of the witches like have one of the Jedi go over and confirm they are unconscious or dead. No one seemed to give a crap that twenty people collapsed inside a burning building. Just left them and took the one kid Sol could save because he didn't think to lift the girls and not the bridge parts. I don't even watch this show, only the reviews because they're more entertaining.
Oh my God….Osha and Mae are going to become one and disappear and that will somehow become Anakin.
Thank you for the content. I was smiling the whole time.😂
guessin they just asked an AI to write a star wars show that would generate maximum audience response
I didn't think that episode 3 could have gotten any worse but they remixed it for episode 7 and they did it they made it worse
I like how the Lucasfilm had to be thinking and dreading, "Wow, they're making fun of the third episode...they're REALLY going to clown us when the 7th comes out. Eughh.."
It's like when the teacher starts covering the answers after the Trigonometry test and you suddenly realize you worked all the problems the wrong way.
This show seems to be written by chat GPT programmed on an old Commodore 64...
Witches went out like Jake skywalker.
Thread stroke
*I THINK I figured it out.* The Wookie was looking for Cortosis, but he was acting-out part of an *OLD SCRIPT!*
Wow, just what everyone wanted, episode 3....again. But hey, we got to see those awesome bow and arrows in action!!
I know how the witches home exploded the witch mothers turned into fart gas and Mae lite a match
This is written by adults who think they are riding for adults. But turns out with the level of stuff they're producing, it's pretty much a bad kids show level of writing.
They just had chat GPT write the whole thing 😂
Not even the CW makes shows this bad.
I think this episode being mostly flash backs is a result of the rumored 1000 reshoots they supposedly did. Just recut and splice together a "flash back" episode "from the jedi perspective" using old, existing footage, even though it wasn't originally designed to be shown that way.
What If Osha saw Mace Windu in front of Mae's Window?
Now that we got the nonsensical setup and cardboard innuendo, I am ready for the bad CGI werewolf transformations in the finale of AcoTwilight!
The more I hear about the Acolyte and the more I play with ChatGPT, the more I am convinced AI wrote this.
It definitely forgets its own plots, mixes characters up, and has no sense of pacing.
Metal Detectors........19th century technology.
Wookie Jedi in the search for 180.000.000...
I think we can say that star wars has been weinsteined ! OUCH !
Acolyte: DEI failure masterclass
just watched the first scene of the acolyte and the first scene in mando back to back... it's a stark comparison even within the disney universe.
Its like a kid reying to immitate how they've heard adults talk...having never seen a film or tv show themselves😢
This channel takes all the fun out of Star Wars.
So funny i thought Sol was saying Virgins
Why did Alan Ng sound like a french guy when he tried to do an Asian accent lolz tell him that Chris!