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Our population has varying amounts of Neanderthal DNA. From a scientific standpoint, Headland’s appearance suggests that she has a significantly higher genetic link to our Neanderthal ancestors.
True consistency loving star wars fans (the people that only like andor and also maybe rogue only in Disney wars) need to be careful about the references to legends because the shills use that as a shill shield without telling you of the division that took place between the writers... Just like in the 30s to 60s in Hollywood, the EU was divided into two groups, good writers and idealogues (bad writers) and since this took place before the comic and adaptation novel industries got overran completely by the idealogues in the early 2010s, we actually got a lot of good stories that a lot of people didn't notice the divide but there were a lot of bad stories.... So be careful of trusting an idea just because they say it's from legends...
43:44 I think they are mistaking what not killing an unarmed opponent means to the extent that they think you can't even fight them armed because they think that rule is a star wars creation because they don't live in the real world with us to know that that rule exists in real life and that Lucas was just using that the same we use it in real life...
It’s a spin on a Chinese story. Smilo REN was the first child conceived by manipulating the Force. The witches could not have a boy so they tried to dispose of him. Somebody found him, saved him from death, Sol, who gave him away when he still was a baby. Somebody trained him and he returned to get his revenge on the witches. Upon discovering that the witches had been killed years ago, he sought out revenge. At some point he had learned the truth of his past. Upon leaving the temple he runs into Mae, he can sense something familiar. He does'nt tell her and at some point he manipulates her to be his Acolyte and unknowingly, carry out his plan for revenge. He blames Sol who he feels also abandoned him. Not only that but he blames Sol and the Jedi for robbing him the chance to confront the witches. Or this is Headland, telling her life story through a 180 million dollar, Star Wars train wreck. Her past is conveniently missing from internet bios.
“A work of media has truly hit the absolute pinnacle of artistic travesty, when its single worst piece of criticism is simply describing the events therein.” -The Little Platoon, probably
I really enjoyed how you've gone and predicted key plot points by thinking about what the worst possible decision is and predicting these writers will make it.
yeah, though to be honest I would have been happier if we got a show that was good enough to be worthy of some actual praise from platoon, and something at least more interesting to disassemble, this show is practically doing that itself. Though I will say I love the Gundam tangent, and I agree with platoon that this truly is a masterclass in how to not write a story, which is it's own form of entertainment when breaking it down.
I will never ever ever actually watch the terrible show but I’ll be here to laugh and enjoy these recaps- good on so many levels and the only good thing to come out of this whimpering death of a great western franchise.
@@TheLittlePlatoon Good to see u with mauler & Drinker we need the British representation Alec Guinness would demand it. I Like your Channel have a good one old sport .
I still don’t understand what that chant is suppose to mean… i mean she clearly demonstrated power of one and two is pretty much same and useless… we all thought it is suppose to mean the one stick and several stick reference but… i am not sure…
@@AppleFrogTomatoFace We all know that no one knows the meaning of it. Not even Leslie. It sounds profound and mysterious, but it's nothing more than hollow useless word salad. Like people talking in Rings Of Power.
That whole show seems to be nothing but the two headed committee camel of the Star Wars Universe lol… ‘We want a polarizing show… but you know… not TOO polarizing… we want everyone to feel _equally_ indifferent’ ‘SOMEONE GET ME KATHLEEN KONTRIVEITALL KENNEDY!!’
"C'mon, MAN! That's a bunch of malarkey. I spent the first half of my career being called the youngest Jedi ever, and now I'm, you know, the thing. Everything that guy just said was a lie!" - Ki Adi Mundi, just before he shat his robes in front of the space-pope
Dude was desperately hiding for his life while wearing the official Jedi uniform. I guess based on what we saw in the show that tracks. Couldn't even keep a cover story for a few minutes. Dude was really banking hard on Vader just fucking HATING sand.
I mean, the force ghost of Anakin in RotJ was wearing the same type of clothes even before any special editions, so it's less "became" and more "always has been"
Genius, as in...Misdirection that has been done before and should be used again because its the best form of attack against people who are powerful and stubborn? But then you miss the fact that the Jedi arent really stubborn and are genuinely humble, the fact that the entire scene would still be generally shite and then the fact they still showhorned in a rare af material to make daggers with. Not to also mention that Platoon also admitted that deflecting daggers is a fucking stupid idea to begin with. It doesnt solve the problem, its not whitty, its just more shit thats slightly more engaged.
A stab wound isn't going to kill a Jedi. Lightsabers don't inflict stab wounds, they burn a hole through you, cauterizing the injury, ensuring that it can't be easily healed, while cooking adjacent flesh and organs with your own fluids. The Force should grant inhuman durability, strength, speed, and endurance, as well as the ability to recover from conventional injuries. That's the most basic benefit to it.
I just can’t get over that Disney is like “and look! Our protagonists were raised by ONLY lesbians! No stinky men anywhere near them! Aren’t we so awesome and progressive?! So anyways the lesbian raised characters go on to be extremely mentally unstable, good guy killers who-“
I'm pretty sure most of what Platoon & co. interpret as inconsistent characterization in shows like this is in actual fact just the inconstant flightiness of the female writing staff being accurately depicted on screen. (Which is why none of them think it scans as nonsensical, or embarrassing.)
The fact that can’t even imagine that the lesbian witches are portrayed with ambiguity despite the fact that Mei and Osha are clearly not OK, shows your allegiance to a belief that an agenda is at work. CLEARLY both the Jedi and the witches are portrayed as problematic.
@@dontbeorbeevilthey for sure do that. It’s funny when they write characters like that trying to make them tough or cool and they make them look horrible
I still find the dialogue between the mothers hilarious, because it technically gives the "Father" all authority over their children. Horns - "I Carried Them!" ForeheadTattoo - "Well I Created them!" Which not only shuts up horns, but allows Forehead to have final say in all authority over the children. IMHO - There is an easy way to fix the writing, and keep the Twins and Anakin's uniqueness. Either Artificial Insemination, or Horns was knocked up by a traveling man, then Forehead used the Force/Thread to manipulate the embryo into a force sensitive, female child/twins. There by keeping their uniqueness in creation and birth, and keeping Anakin force born (through Palpatines manipulations according to cut Episode 3 Movie Dialogue)
One could say "It's just Ki-adi Mundi, do we care?" Yes, yes we should care, because no professional is so careless. When Mike Holmes finds a bookshelf isn't level, it tells him the people who built the house were incompetent, so he starts to pry apart the drywall and finds the roof leaks, the electrical isn't grounded, the the foundation was never completed, and carbon monoxide is being piped into the master bedroom.
I just put it to people this way, if even the 'artist' doesn't care for their 'art' why should you? The argument that it's 'only' Ki-adi Mundi so why should you care, is an argument that the artist doesn't and so you shouldn't, except that it's specifically Ki-adi Mundi because the artist cared only in that he thought you might so this's all an obfuscation to excuse themselves from criticism.
It was about as dumb as putting on glasses and saying "you wouldn't hit a man with glasses would you". Seriously he tossed a cloak at the guy, turned his back on the Jedi and then got angry he fought back. Despite you know the fact they were in an active fight 30 seconds ago.
As dumb as it is... hes right in the same episode. They dont attack unless hes facing them. Watch the episode again. The jedi outright DONT attack without being face to face
@@elyrienvalkyr8167lmfao that’s stupid because Obi-Wan almost cut Vader’s head off from behind in the Obi-Wan show. These rules are dumb and constantly being broken. Stop trying to defend Disney.
@@elyrienvalkyr8167 I mean to be fair it's a fairly old problem in action shows/movies. They want big epic fight scenes with lots of enemies but lack the ability to plan it out in a way that makes any kind of sense. That said they are Jedi, some of them know each other very well and with the force can pretty much read each others minds. They should be able to fight in such a way that they never get in each others way and act as one single force. Parying blows for allies, ducking strikes you can't see so your ally behind you can attack and so on. Sadly "The best fight ever" had Jedi act like a bunch of street thugs with led pipes in a drunken brawl.
@@JustaGuy_Gaminghe didn’t get actually angry. I’m not a fan of this show by any means but don’t purposefully misinterpret the context. It was very obvious he was just goading squid game about his inner anger and “darkness” by pointing out he was about to attack someone from behind
Unironically, OSHA going through the Star Wars universe and correcting various safety hazards would be WAY more entertaining than this show. "This pit you have here goes down several dozen stories. A small guard rail isn't going to cut it here. You need to patch this up before someone falls in." "What's this vent for? You can't have an uncovered vent like this, especially on the outside of the Death Star. If some random debris gets in there, this whole place could blow." [gestures generally to all of Coruscant] "How long has it been since this building was remodeled up to code?"
Its a bold acting choice to play twins on opposites sides, not having seen each other in a decade, wirh zero identifiable difference in vocal cadence, delivery or physicality.
"For that reason, the Jedi Order had gone to great lengths to restrict mining and refinement of the ore" -- from the first chapter of Darth Plagueis. So the Jedi in the Acolyte should not have been staring gormlessly at their shorted out lightsabers because they would have known about this substance. Actually reading Legends before using it might help
In Kotor due to how big the Jedi were in the era Cortosis was incorporated into weapons so normal people could be able to fight Jedi or dark side users who have lightsabers. Phryk a common but expensive alloy also is good against lightsabers but is favored more for it's general use as a blaster resistant material.
@@Valen-mh9fh if it's not canon, why do they keep referring to things from Legends like _the lightsaber-resistant metal_ that isn't explained *_outside of Legends?_*
TLP bring up a good point standard training would be infective v Sith that haven't been seen in 900 years plus Smilo seems much more strong in the Force then any Jedi present on that planet, and he used everything at his disposal to kill them off. Jedi are very obtuse and set in their ways we can almost extrapolate this is the start of the downfall for the Jedi when 3 Masters have already been killed, X knights and 1 Padwan by 2-3 people.
My favorite thing to have come out of this episode is certain fans going "See how this show subverted your expectations? So many unexpected twist deaths!" as if we all haven't been going "Literally everyone must die for the show to not break established canon" since it was announced there was going to be a Sith in it. There was no subversion or unexpected character fates, we stated before the the show's release that this MUST happen for in-universe coherency to be preserved and it *kind of* did happen, that's all.
What!!! Are you saying you don't leave your loved ones to die and abandon their dead bodies to some lucky scavenger who prayed to it's gods the right way out of love and affection??? You heartless bastard... I toss mine from a cliff into the congo rainforest before their deaths to show how much I care about them... You need to have an heart... Sigh, what are humans growing up to be nowadays??? Hollywood isn't teaching them morality fast enough...
Seventh Iteration of Mei Mei part 2: she's so loyal to her sister, she'll leave her in the care of a "they call me Sith" that just murdered several Jedi and just hopes that would work out for a while.
You haven't realized that she has dissociative identity / bipolar or a similar mental disorder by now? Wonder which of the writers was responsible for the character and how they got past the HR screening.
You would think she would be paranoid as hell that he would just kill her sister on sight... which he tried to do this episode but at the end of ep has a change of heart for fcking no reason whatsoever. What did he think throwing his lightsaber at her was going to achieve other than death? So he wanted to kill her in that moment and that's before she's responsible for him nearly getting eaten out by bugs. I'd be pissed as hell and I ain't even a Sith with powers and a lightsaber.
Keeping with established on screen stabbed with a lightsaber events. They are more likely to survive if the stabbing occured after Qui-gon died than before. Most likely scenario is a miracle healing substance was invented immediately after Qui-gon died. Given all this plus the padawan being stabbed multiple times her chances of survival are very low.
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Now I am just imagining a nurse asking her if she wants the Minnie Mouse or Star Wars band aids.
@VikCachat Ha, you think they care about timeliness and respecting their own canon? They destroyed THEIR OWN canon in the sequels, repeatedly. Jecki isn't dead, I'd bet money on it. Especially after Sabine took a light sabre to the mid-gut (you know, diaphragm level?) for several seconds, enough time for a lightsabre to MELT a durasteel BLAST DOOR. And Reva took 2/3 the same number as Jecki and quite literally walked it off, and somehow teleported to Tatooine. Disney doesn't care. Jecki will likely come back.
@@GH-ub7qzIt's not her skill they have a problem with, it's the activist prerogative that there must be in all things fictional combat a young, perhaps trainee-level, female who is superior in skill and strength to even the most veteran male warriors, typically accomplished by showing these veteran fighters to be slow and dumb in comparison. It's become a hilarious trope at this point that a 90lb woman can solo 5+ combat-trained 200lb men effortlessly.
@@rclaws3230 i know. just giving a wildy possible reason. I have beaten much larger and better men in football...but to a point... eventually i was worn down, out manned, out skilled and left to be a sore meat pile, back when football was violent...but in my job...never lost... weapons are a great equalizer
@@GH-ub7qz Football and a fight arent anywhere near the same. Especially when comparing a sub 150pound female versus plus 160 pound men. Weight classes exist for a reason.
Imagine if they showed that the big force push had thrown Jecki and Sol into a rock and temporarily knocked them out (explaining their absence) leaving Yord to take command and organize the rest of the less experienced Jedi to take on the Sith ; giving him a moment to shine. Imagine a brief conversation earlier between Sol and Yord about how Sol was the only master in the group and the rest were all only new knights and students, raising the stakes of that moment. Imagine if during a lull in the battle one of them yelled out to the rest “avoid hitting the armor, it disables our sabers” showing this has taken them by surprise,raising the tension. Imagine if each time a saber got disabled it immediately resulted in the death of that Jedi, causing them to only use the sabers for blocking and giving them an actual reason to use all those kicks and elbows. Imagine if, when Jecki fights the Sith alone she is clearly outmatched and Sol only arrives just in time to see her lose her entire right arm. Imagine he saves her by force pulling her light saber from her severed limb into his left hand and stands over her body wielding duel light sabers. Imagine Jecki cradling the stump of her right arm, suddenly drawing the Wookiee’s saber from her side with her left hand, joining in with Sol to form a 3 saber assault on the Sith, driving him back; showing Jecki as a bad ass not by her undeserved superior ability but by her spirit, courage, determination, and loyalty to comrades. Even if she still needed to die for the story later, imagine how much more you would care about her death after she did that?
unfortunately, the writers aren't competent enough to come up with anything half as good as this that, or those above them won't let them, I'm not employed by the Great Horned Rat
Your summation of the Jecki potential is exactly what I though of first time watching a summary (I will not watch Disney!) - knowing that O.S.H.A also hears her cry in pain - how much more impactful could it be if you don't necessarily see it happen (age rating purposes), but hear it from half a forest away from the POV of those who ran away.....
Disney Wars characters being stabbed by lightsabers: "Tis but a scratch." Disney Wars characters being stabbed by a two-inch blade: "My body is broken."
@moki1547 They don't care about any nuance, storytelling, plot or anything like that. They care about symbols. Icons. Imagery. That's it. What is Star Wars most known for with normies? Lightsabres, Jedi, and the Force. That's all normies care for. More of that = better show. Which is why this show is so bad. It's made for dumb normies who only want more key jangling. Disney fans are the peak, the epitome, the very apogee of what a normie is.
@@hungcuong606the live action remakes are the worst lol I don't k ow why anyone pays Disney Mulan was a childhood great for me and I unsubed after the remake wow f Disney
Leslie Headland admitted she played D&D, and it is really obvious that it has colored the way she wrote this show. Every episode sounds like a DM expositing the story to a small group of PCs. As opposed to following any of the conventional rules of writing or anything like that.
...then Darth Hamas shows up, kills a bunch of people, and kidnaps kids. Maybe this show is a commentary on the Palestine and Israel conflict? I might be on to something...gotta go.
The Acolyte is like if you were really really really into model trains. Like obsessed. Your kid sister sees you and your friends are having more fun with your trains than she is with her Russian dolls or Bridgerton action figures and asks to join...then proceeds to either intentionally or accidentally break the entire collection you'd spent years of allowance building. And when you get understandably upset, she just says "relax bro, they're just toy trains" and goes back to playing with her Russian dolls and Bridgerton live action figures.
It would be the one time green lady made sense. Why did Sol bring his padawan, none of the other jedi did (and we know that at least Yord had one, we met her in the 1st episode)
I think the bug thing was not touched upon enough. That was a three stooges gag. A looney tunes bit. The all powerful with lord we just watched destroy 10 Jedi is bested by a looney tunes bit bc the writers didn’t know how to end the scene. Genuinely, if he just left for no reason it would’ve been better
It wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't already shown the jedi guy kill one easily. They could have made them out to be tyranid-level predators immune to lightsabers and the force. I can't believe they actually killed the smilo guy, tho, it's too goofy even for this show
You know how the voice actors always sound vaguely ashamed and embarrassed in English Anime dubs? Or the way adults sound when they have to play with children and make the child’s toys “talk”? The acting in this show reminds me of that. Between the bad writing and the cringe line delivery, there is no possible way for a viewer to be immersed in this story.
It's why if I can pay attention and read I prefer subbed. The Japanese voice actors really get into character. They lay it all out and have a fun with it.
My standards for acting are so low after Ahsoka. The only non-child actor who stands out to me as especially bad is Leslie Headland’s wife. Which makes Amanda Stenberg’s video even more baffling as I don’t think anyone was really focused on her being a problem in the show.
There really is no substantive plot. The reveal of Smylo Ren was predicted episodes before, and we don’t care what happens to these walking plot devices because nothing attaches us to these characters.
You're definitely not watching good Anime! There are fantastic, phenomenal performances by the "English" dubs in many cases. Perhaps the OTT Anime type characters they sound a bit off, but mostly the more adult (grown-up, not Pr0n)-or even Shonen types, they range from decent to excellent in many cases.
1:45:56 OK... it's bad enough that you are just leaving Jedis and their lightsabers lying around... but NEITHER of you idiots decided it might be useful picking up the feckin' helmet that short-circuits your ONE defensive/offensive weapon?!?!?!?!?
Yes! You’d think, if they didn’t know what it is already, and they’ve seen what it could do, that they’d take the damn helmet! At this rate my episode 6 review is going to spend the first hour bitching about the episode 5 problems I didn’t include.
@@patriciafenwick5846if they really wanted the trees to go that way they could have simply had mr evil man just force push them away from himself. Would’ve even made him seem a bit cooler instead of physics just not working
Had to tune out on Sheev after he and his buddies said Mundi's appearance and retcon "doesn't matter." All I know is that he better keep that same energy when they just start pulling whatever characters they want from their established timeline in service of a plot-breaking cameo. I never wanna hear him bitch about "somehow Palpatine came back..." or Leia hanging out with Obi throughout her teen years. When you say shit doesn't matter, you tend to be the one to step in it.
Sheev and Jolly have gotten a little worse recently in their efforts to distance themselves from the other critics point of view and paint themselves as writing purists. Strawmanning people, saying that it doesn't matter that the space witches are lesbians, when nobody focused on that as a criticism, it's just that "lesbian space witches" is inherently more funny to say.
@@sparkycjsAnd how is it dismissive to call them lesbians? The only relationship we see among them is a lesbian relationship. They apparently aren’t making babies except with the force, so there’s some inferences that can be drawn which are not unfair.
@@sparkycjs i thought it was strange how intolerant they were acting toward the "anti-woke" crowd just for describing what's on the screen. Then Sheev "pulled a Mauler" and called a spade a spade. Or a sith a sith. It's just feels so hypocritical and setting up as many holes in their argument as the Disney scripts.
In LPs episode 1 breakdown, he argued that the way Jecki mocked Yord wasn't a typical Disney "yas queen" move UNLESS she also turned out to be a better fighter than Yord. Guess what? Of fuqqing course she was.
It’s ok that all the Jedi died because apparently it’s an honour to watch anything or anyone become one with the force. So by that logic we should be happy and not be saddened by it. Jecki said it herself lol
“I sense something familiar “ like running into that High school friend who you lost contact with at the high school reunion and now Brett is Brenda and those past locker room comments take on a whole new meaning.
Darth Bane trilogy would be the greatest movie series ever made, if done loyally to the books.
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Hell the Jedi Knight series would of been good too, if they stayed true to it. You have tons of characters to show off, Mara Jade, Kyle Katarn, Jan Ors and many others. And with the Jedi Academy part you can make Jayden a girl because the player COULD choose to have a male or female avatar.
A way they could have explained the fight lasting so long while having Smilo be way stronger is by having Smilo sort of relishing the fact that he's in a duel with Jedi, like I'm not sure if that's something he's done a lot in life and also something he's thought about for a long time. So have him be like The Raid guys in John Wick or something before one of them gets too close to killing him, so he stops fucking around and dispatches them fairly quickly. Have him disarm Yord and then toss his lightsaber back to him like he's disappointed in them
"B-but the material is really rare!" Well, isn't that convenient. You don't even need to forge full armour out of this material, just create a small wristband or something, blocking a lightsaber with it is enough to give you 10 seconds of an opening.
Cortosis wasn’t rare anyway. In the Rise of Darth Bane (which is the first of a trilogy revolving around the creation of the Sith Rule of two) Bane started out life as a born-indentured servant on a Mining-world and spent the beginning of his life working pneumatic jackhammers to mine the stuff, and the book directly described how it withstood lightsaber attacks, they didn’t make more stuff out of it because it was EXPENSIVE lol (what a ridiculous excuse) lol
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@@joshuapratt3593 Eh I can get the expensive side of it, I mean there is a reason the TIE series never got entirely replaced by TIE Defenders which could outmatch ANY other fighter and take on multiple roles. Turns out it was just too damn expensive and resource consuming to make a TIE with shields, hyperdrive, 4 cannons, 2 ion cannons, 2 rocket/missile launchers, a beam slot (Tractor or Magpulse) and with an ungodly amounts of armor and speed. We do have real world examples, I mean look at the Nazis and their Wunderwaffe that always turned out to be a waste of resources to produce.
It’s world breaking. A universe where such a material exists is one in which Jedi either don’t use light sabers at all, or just use as a secondary side arm. And that’s without the Lesley Headland upgrade which not only makes light sabers but actively dangerous to use. I wonder if anyone at Disney thought about the implications of this magic material. Wasn’t Dave Filoni supposed to prevent this stupidity?
Tbf, the whole 'being expensive' thing is kind of a moot point, given the Galactic Empire was doing a bunch of stuff that would cost a whole lot of credits. They were able to build 2 Death Stars, while still having a massive fleet, paying for personnel and so on and so forth. The only reason they didn't mass produce the TIE Defender, was because of Grand Admiral Zaarin and the fact the facilities were destroyed which severely reduced the production of the TIE Defender. Well that and the Empire realized, if a Grand Admiral was going rogue, that could be a problem and you don't want a great ship like the Defender falling into enemy hands. The Empire still produced the Defender, but only in limited quantities. The Defender wasn't just cut out because it was expensive. At least that's the explanation and story reason they gave for the Defender in the EU, which at least makes some semblance of sense. Not sure what Disney Canon has done. Being pricey is kind of a moot point when you control the galaxy and thus being able to get however much money. Money really never mattered to the Empire, because they always had some crazy thing going on with building something extremely powerful, only for it to end up not being used for one reason or another, or at best used in limited quantities.
40:12 Remember when red lightsabers used to use synthetic crystals, which was meant to mirror the original conception of the Dark Side itself being a cancer on the Force? The whole "bleeding" crystals nonsense came into being with the Disney buyout and I'm firmly convinced just existed so Dave Filoni could give Ahsoka a white lightsaber.
@@AJadedLizardStill feels weird. Especially during the Old Republic Era. The Sith are officially supposed to be extinct. Wouldn't it turn heads if Jedi were killed under mysterious circumstances and had their lightsabers vanish?
@@johannesseyfried7933 One Jedi out of billions going missing wouldn't be that out of the ordinary. Jedi go off on their own all the time, and it's not like there's a central database keeping tabs on them all.
Like vader being in front of leia and didnt know who she was? How did leia remember her Mom if she died after the birth. Oh no maybe how the hell the galaxy forget sith in 20 years?
It’s such a small thing to give them credit for, that they willing to show the Padawan being killed by the villain. Unfortunately the mechanics of the fight with Sol just being missing for a very long stretch don’t make that a satisfying result.
What are these "plot holes" the thumbnail speaks of, the elf girl who gets stabbed was lacking plot contributions for her holes to be considered such.😤
The lesbian, elf, Jedi could smell the difference between the twin she’ll like to bang and the one killing people? So death is the solution? There is no logic here, move along. 😂
@@AmeliaBodilia I just realized how much we're missing without having smellaround entertainment systems, though the cat-o-verse welcomes all the new threads lost and put in our great ball of cat threads.
The thing about cortosis is that it's rare and incredibly hard to mine and process. It's single redeeming quality is its effectiveness against lightsabers. Of course that was all too much for the acolyte to properly explain. Even a shoddy exposition dump would have been better than nothing at all.
Another way to introduce this material is in one of the Jedi meetings. Report what was going on and let the one receiving the report update squid game on some other occurrences. But include that in checking the inventory of said material they found out that X kg are missing (a small absolute amount). That is a lot of % of the last 10 years of production. Then his Padawan can ask what the material does to clue us in.
Disney must be seething that people like myself and others would rather watch your content that doubles if not triples the length of their content while simultaneously being better content, objectively.
"Still, at least people died!"....and after enduring 5 episodes of The Acolyte, The Little Platoon is doubtless envious of their good fortune*. On the bright side, absolutely grateful for and loving these reviews and writing lessons all in one. *Even death can't protect one from Disney (case in point: Star Wars).
It was a joke title, but it's basically a plot synopsis. 5/8 episodes in and it's so *barren*. For some of the murdered Jedi, death was the only character growth they got!
Maybe if they would have given the pip droid a voice or something we would have registered it as an actual character and not just a prop that OSHA keeps talking to. The only agency we saw from it was it pissing on the gerbil-man and that's not exactly a personality.
I would laugh so hard if all the Jedi survived and just wake up in the hospital 😂 That would make this show a 10/10 if even triple tapping isn't lethal with a lightsaber
I bet Pip will be the one who figures out that Fanny Mae and Occupational Health and Safety Administration have been switched rather than Squid Game. That's why we needed Pip back
1:12:00 Smilo should have cut both her hands off at the wrists to get the cuffs off and as her punishment, later getting primitive versions of Luke’s prosthetic as replacements
Another wonderfully intelligent vivisection of the most entertaining kind. As far as this "story" is going I wouldn't be surprised if some infamous Jedi-master has a sweet secret in his past and we get a line from a certain self announced Sith like "No, I am your son."
The star wars cannon is actually pretty easy to figure out. Is anything that made after disney bought Lucasfilm is NOT cannon, anything BEFORE that IS!! See?? Easy.
Let's play Best One Sentence Description of the Acolyte: In a galaxy far far away, two top-tier intersectionality twins leave everyone they come near worse off while blaming everyone else for their problems.
Two twins separated for over a decade, birthed by space witch lesbians using force powers - one light, one dark - with no character development have their paths become entwined because… reasons, begin to cloud the ideal heroism of the Jedi and misunderstanding of the Sith.
An admittedly very , very slight shame... 'Squid-game' would have probably made a fine Jedi had Star Wars not become lumpy diarrhoea continually hosed from the diseased sphincter of the evil mouse.
- Yoda not only doesn't teach the younglings, he doesn't sense the fight, a group of Jedi being wiped out, or the large use of the force when he was able to clearly detect this in the Prequels halfway across the galaxy. - The Sith hasn't been seen in a thousand years, but apparently, it happened less than a hundred years ago. - They made lightsabers better in this episode, but the Sith could have easily used simple throwing knives to wipe out the Jedi. - Cortosis (assuming they are using this) can also be used as a metal sword instead of just armor. If it can short out a lightsaber, a metal blade can cleave right through a blocking lightsaber and wipe out the defending Jedi.
The "can't tell them apart" thing applies to all humans. All people struggle to distinguish between members of a members of a racial group that is not one of the ones they grew up with and where there is significant average difference in appearance between the races e.g. black vs asian vs caucasian. I think it's to do with the way that faces are evaluated compared to a reference face that is laid down in the brain in childhood presumably for cognitive efficiency.
yes, its an efficiency mechanism...i have been studying the weeds in my lawn...after 2 years i can spot one blade of a weed at 20 paces, before i didn't even notice
Adding that metal armor to a prequel of everything causes so many problems. Even if it is a little known and rare metal, why didn't someone like General Grievous have access to it. He seams like the type of character that would know about it and find a way to get some. Imagine how much harder it would be to fight him if even one arm was made out of metal that can shut down lightsabers.
The problem with that whole "a jedi like you might call me a sith" thing is: that's purely for the audience. Squid Game, however, should hear that and literally instantly go "oh, he's a sith then."
@@TheLittlePlatoonEven that doesn’t circumvent the problem because Ki-Adi Mindi doesn’t say “The Sith have been extinct for a millennia, but I remember this other fellow using the force and killing Jedi with a red lightsaber 100 years ago. Crikey! It could be another bloke like that!”
I wouldn’t be surprised if the spikey witch mother survived, was burned badly, her skin turned red, her voice got gravely, and is now going by the name Darth Maul. Seems about right for these writers.
It is fascinating that Lucas used a tiered cannon system. The way you describe it, it is identical to the US system of common law as rendered by the courts (regional, appellate, supreme), with lower courts being able to establish new cannon under the umbrella of higher courts, and higher courts retaining the power to elevate, leave alone, or contradict that lower cannon. Very cool.
remember when in the prequels they used the lightsaber cut through a meter thick reinforced steel door.. yeah I wanna see them headbutting that lightsaber..
Fannie Mae loved her sister so much she left her behind unconscious in a dangerous forest that where, very most likely, her master will find and kill her... 😊😮😊🎉🎉🎉
I like what Qui-Gon said on Charlie Hopkinson's channel. "Headbutting a lightsaber blade and it turns off? That's a real game changer, from far in the past.".
How did entertainment devolve into this? You can't watch ten consecutive seconds of whatever this show is without some action, sentiment, or dialogue in it completely contradicting the ten seconds before it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Dear diary, I watched all the stupid people die to a silly person in the mask that shorts out lightsabers. The badger got away, so he's most important guy in the galaxy now.
1:18:52 Might have also been neat if Squidgame’s skill in hand-to-hand fighting was a bit more unique to his character. Hell, maybe it could also be something that informs us about his yet-unspecified past. Maybe it’s a Drunken Master sort of thing, where he’s _really_ good at a potentially self-destructive martial art that also impairs his judgment because of Force tisms. That could have been a neat thing to do with his fight against Mae. He could have been largely in control of the fight, and she would try threatening civilians like she did with Trinity, and Squidgame only narrowly managed to turn deadly attacks on him into merely shallow wounds by virtue of his skill. And maybe Mae tries to shift tactics in a mix of confidence and anger, taunting him with Trinity and Tommen’s death. Maybe she also throws in that it’s no wonder Tommen died if Squidgame is the sort of teacher the Order has. Then, he loses just enough of his cool to treat her without kid gloves. I like the idea of a swift but brutal fight ending with Squidgame snapping one of her arms. Then OSHA can appear, her ‘miss’ can give Mae the time to flee, and it’s genuinely ambiguous if she missed in her shock or instinctively fired on Squidgame in her sister’s defense. Plus, it gives Mae a much better reason to doubt her almost lifelong motives. When she was blinded by pain and fear, her sister appeared to step in and save her, and on top of that her confidence in the ‘off a Jedi without a weapon’ thing would be a hell of a lot more shaken. But this is too much word now stopping blergh
Phrik is in fact the same material used to make the magnaguards’ electrostaffs. It first appeared in Dark Forces 1, then was completely forgotten until Revenge of the Sith (and the tie-in novel leading into it, Labyrinth of Evil) brought it back as the lore explanation for why the Magnaguards can fight back against Jedi. The phrik container that survived Alderaan isn’t like a big shipping container or anything. It was a plot point in Battlefront: Renegade Squadron for the PSP. Bail Organa hid a holocron containing a list of possible candidates for new rebel base locations in a phrik container, like a safe or something, and that’s what survived Alderaan’s destruction.
The "vacuous nonsense" at 1:46:04 is a line lifted almost verbatim from a Jordan Peterson rant. Would love to see an in-depth analysis on the stupidity of writers etc. with a woke agenda putting the words of such an enemy of LGBTQ+ rights in the mouth of one of their representatives of a suppressed minority (i.e., dark-side user). Would tie in with this nearly 2 hour demonstration of how the creators of this show can't sustain a stable, not self-contradictory line thought for longer than the memory of a goldfish and don't deserve their entitled, exorbitant paychecks.
1:36:00 when you consider that Leslie said that this is based on her and her sister's beef they had. Not sure what the quote was, but imagine you make a Star Wars fan-fiction based on your own life only to tell your sister "see, I'm better"
It’s crazy how the main stream reviewers are saying the show is a win. I watch the streams of the “fans” that love it, and even they say embarrassing things, “ nothing really happened this episode “. ‘ the acting wasn’t great but it was consistent “. ‘’ none of the twist or mystery is hidden or unexpected, but there is a lot of it, which is what makes it good “. ‘’ much of the dialogue is inconsistent and the character motivates are not well established” I could go on and on , but it’s insane to hear people say after saying a bunch of things like that “ I’m still eager to see what happens next “. So wild
It’s Schrödinger’s Lore: Legends is “lesser” canon that can be ignored while simultaneously being the justification for items that are crucial for the plot of your show.
Cortosis... hearing that word feels like someone making reference to a dream I once described to them in vivid detail, years after the fact. I somewhat intentionally blocked that (among other choice bits like "Yuuzhan Vong") from my memory... because I know full phoquing well that I will never, ever, EVER live to see that word made good use of moving forward. After KK's bonfire? That was it for EVERY good idea lurking in SW canon.
The Kong should have been the new trilogy. It made the most sense in my opinion. Completely removed from the Empjre, outside of the galaxy and force (so the Skywalker legacy and prophecy aren't tainted or lessened) and very different to what came before. Just having the Empire still being powerful and Palpatine alive ruined the entire Skywalker story.
Remember the director / writer of this Star wars TV series stated that it's based upon her and her sister so that means her and her sister have the weirdest stupidest relationship I've ever seen in my life.
A funny continuity error. When Jecki cuffs Mae, she has her hands behind her back. Later, they are cuffed in front of her so she can conveniently be freed.
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Our population has varying amounts of Neanderthal DNA. From a scientific standpoint, Headland’s appearance suggests that she has a significantly higher genetic link to our Neanderthal ancestors.
True consistency loving star wars fans (the people that only like andor and also maybe rogue only in Disney wars) need to be careful about the references to legends because the shills use that as a shill shield without telling you of the division that took place between the writers... Just like in the 30s to 60s in Hollywood, the EU was divided into two groups, good writers and idealogues (bad writers) and since this took place before the comic and adaptation novel industries got overran completely by the idealogues in the early 2010s, we actually got a lot of good stories that a lot of people didn't notice the divide but there were a lot of bad stories.... So be careful of trusting an idea just because they say it's from legends...
38:40 he he... You said doodoo...
43:44 I think they are mistaking what not killing an unarmed opponent means to the extent that they think you can't even fight them armed because they think that rule is a star wars creation because they don't live in the real world with us to know that that rule exists in real life and that Lucas was just using that the same we use it in real life...
It’s a spin on a Chinese story. Smilo REN was the first child conceived by manipulating the Force. The witches could not have a boy so they tried to dispose of him. Somebody found him, saved him from death, Sol, who gave him away when he still was a baby. Somebody trained him and he returned to get his revenge on the witches. Upon discovering that the witches had been killed years ago, he sought out revenge. At some point he had learned the truth of his past. Upon leaving the temple he runs into Mae, he can sense something familiar. He does'nt tell her and at some point he manipulates her to be his Acolyte and unknowingly, carry out his plan for revenge. He blames Sol who he feels also abandoned him. Not only that but he blames Sol and the Jedi for robbing him the chance to confront the witches. Or this is Headland, telling her life story through a 180 million dollar, Star Wars train wreck. Her past is conveniently missing from internet bios.
“A work of media has truly hit the absolute pinnacle of artistic travesty, when its single worst piece of criticism is simply describing the events therein.” -The Little Platoon, probably
I really enjoyed how you've gone and predicted key plot points by thinking about what the worst possible decision is and predicting these writers will make it.
It’s mad. The annoying thing is the number of predictions I’ve discarded because they wouldn’t be bad enough to come true.
I thank the Acolyte for bringing me almost weekly Platoon content. And ONLY that. ONLY for the Platoon content
yeah, though to be honest I would have been happier if we got a show that was good enough to be worthy of some actual praise from platoon, and something at least more interesting to disassemble, this show is practically doing that itself. Though I will say I love the Gundam tangent, and I agree with platoon that this truly is a masterclass in how to not write a story, which is it's own form of entertainment when breaking it down.
I will never ever ever actually watch the terrible show but I’ll be here to laugh and enjoy these recaps- good on so many levels and the only good thing to come out of this whimpering death of a great western franchise.
When she had the lightsaber haircut I was like wicked she's gonna cut her head off
Instant 10/10, would watch again,
"Welp, I've seen enough BS. Time to get out of this shitshow!"
Lightsabers can’t melt steel lesbians.
@@chazzitz-wh4ly You're joking but someday lightsabers only kill people with iron deficiency may be Disney's real excuse.
@@TheLittlePlatoon Good to see u with mauler & Drinker we need the British representation Alec Guinness would demand it. I Like your Channel have a good one old sport .
The Power of One, The Power of Two, The Power of Many Talentless Hacks writing a Star Wars show. Oh great joy.
I still don’t understand what that chant is suppose to mean… i mean she clearly demonstrated power of one and two is pretty much same and useless… we all thought it is suppose to mean the one stick and several stick reference but… i am not sure…
@@AppleFrogTomatoFace We all know that no one knows the meaning of it. Not even Leslie. It sounds profound and mysterious, but it's nothing more than hollow useless word salad. Like people talking in Rings Of Power.
That whole show seems to be nothing but the two headed committee camel of the Star Wars Universe lol…
‘We want a polarizing show… but you know… not TOO polarizing… we want everyone to feel _equally_ indifferent’
‘SOMEONE GET ME KATHLEEN KONTRIVEITALL KENNEDY!!’
@@AppleFrogTomatoFace Communism, that chant is a fedora tip to communism.
The Power of One, The Power of Two, The Power of JOHN CENA!!!!!!
TATADADAAAAM!
Palpatine: your arrogance blinds you master yoda. Now you will experience for full power of one, the power of two, the power of MAAANNNNYY!!
Someone’s already done a Vader version of that on Bespin. If I could find the original I’d stick it in the next video, it’s great.
Fucking GOLD bro!
😂😂😂😂
Mon Mothma: "Do you know how many Bothans died to bring us this information? MAAANNNNYY."
@@TheLittlePlatoon
This is gold.
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@@TheLittlePlatoon The channel is named Jar Jar Studios+
When Mundi said the sith were extinct for a millennia, he actually meant a few decades. Poor old man was probably suffering from dementia.
"C'mon, MAN! That's a bunch of malarkey. I spent the first half of my career being called the youngest Jedi ever, and now I'm, you know, the thing. Everything that guy just said was a lie!"
- Ki Adi Mundi, just before he shat his robes in front of the space-pope
He should run for president
@stevealford230 "Ki Adi Mundi did a great job! He answered all the questions! Time for ice cream!" Ki Adi Mundi's wife, "Dr" Jill Mundi
"I haven't had anything to eat since breakfast, and that was DECADES ago!" - 'Quite-Addled' Mundi
Yoda: "At the end of his sentence, understand him, I did not. Understand himself, I do not believe he did either."
I love that Obi Wan's hobo desert hermit clothes became the Jedi uniform.
Dude was desperately hiding for his life while wearing the official Jedi uniform. I guess based on what we saw in the show that tracks. Couldn't even keep a cover story for a few minutes. Dude was really banking hard on Vader just fucking HATING sand.
I have always hated this stupid thing that George Lucas did 20 years ago.
I mean, the force ghost of Anakin in RotJ was wearing the same type of clothes even before any special editions, so it's less "became" and more "always has been"
The Jedi were having budget issues 100 years.
@@crimsonking440😂😂😂
Trinity being killed by a cortosis dagger is such a genius bit of writing on your part that it doesn't surprise me Disney didn't think of it.
Genius, as in...Misdirection that has been done before and should be used again because its the best form of attack against people who are powerful and stubborn? But then you miss the fact that the Jedi arent really stubborn and are genuinely humble, the fact that the entire scene would still be generally shite and then the fact they still showhorned in a rare af material to make daggers with. Not to also mention that Platoon also admitted that deflecting daggers is a fucking stupid idea to begin with.
It doesnt solve the problem, its not whitty, its just more shit thats slightly more engaged.
A stab wound isn't going to kill a Jedi. Lightsabers don't inflict stab wounds, they burn a hole through you, cauterizing the injury, ensuring that it can't be easily healed, while cooking adjacent flesh and organs with your own fluids.
The Force should grant inhuman durability, strength, speed, and endurance, as well as the ability to recover from conventional injuries. That's the most basic benefit to it.
I just can’t get over that Disney is like “and look! Our protagonists were raised by ONLY lesbians! No stinky men anywhere near them! Aren’t we so awesome and progressive?! So anyways the lesbian raised characters go on to be extremely mentally unstable, good guy killers who-“
I am sure they do it unintentionally. And that is why it is even funnier
I'm pretty sure most of what Platoon & co. interpret as inconsistent characterization in shows like this is in actual fact just the inconstant flightiness of the female writing staff being accurately depicted on screen.
(Which is why none of them think it scans as nonsensical, or embarrassing.)
The fact that can’t even imagine that the lesbian witches are portrayed with ambiguity despite the fact that Mei and Osha are clearly not OK, shows your allegiance to a belief that an agenda is at work. CLEARLY both the Jedi and the witches are portrayed as problematic.
@@dontbeorbeevilthey for sure do that. It’s funny when they write characters like that trying to make them tough or cool and they make them look horrible
I still find the dialogue between the mothers hilarious, because it technically gives the "Father" all authority over their children.
Horns - "I Carried Them!"
ForeheadTattoo - "Well I Created them!"
Which not only shuts up horns, but allows Forehead to have final say in all authority over the children.
IMHO - There is an easy way to fix the writing, and keep the Twins and Anakin's uniqueness. Either Artificial Insemination, or Horns was knocked up by a traveling man, then Forehead used the Force/Thread to manipulate the embryo into a force sensitive, female child/twins. There by keeping their uniqueness in creation and birth, and keeping Anakin force born (through Palpatines manipulations according to cut Episode 3 Movie Dialogue)
One could say "It's just Ki-adi Mundi, do we care?" Yes, yes we should care, because no professional is so careless. When Mike Holmes finds a bookshelf isn't level, it tells him the people who built the house were incompetent, so he starts to pry apart the drywall and finds the roof leaks, the electrical isn't grounded, the the foundation was never completed, and carbon monoxide is being piped into the master bedroom.
That’s an important point. It mightn’t even be the severest of symptoms, but it is symptomatic nonetheless.
I just put it to people this way, if even the 'artist' doesn't care for their 'art' why should you?
The argument that it's 'only' Ki-adi Mundi so why should you care, is an argument that the artist doesn't and so you shouldn't, except that it's specifically Ki-adi Mundi because the artist cared only in that he thought you might so this's all an obfuscation to excuse themselves from criticism.
“Not very Jedi of you to attack with my back turned.”
My dude you are on a killing spree and actively grabbing a hostage. Have your head on a swivel.
It was about as dumb as putting on glasses and saying "you wouldn't hit a man with glasses would you". Seriously he tossed a cloak at the guy, turned his back on the Jedi and then got angry he fought back. Despite you know the fact they were in an active fight 30 seconds ago.
As dumb as it is... hes right in the same episode. They dont attack unless hes facing them. Watch the episode again. The jedi outright DONT attack without being face to face
@@elyrienvalkyr8167lmfao that’s stupid because Obi-Wan almost cut Vader’s head off from behind in the Obi-Wan show. These rules are dumb and constantly being broken. Stop trying to defend Disney.
@@elyrienvalkyr8167 I mean to be fair it's a fairly old problem in action shows/movies. They want big epic fight scenes with lots of enemies but lack the ability to plan it out in a way that makes any kind of sense.
That said they are Jedi, some of them know each other very well and with the force can pretty much read each others minds. They should be able to fight in such a way that they never get in each others way and act as one single force.
Parying blows for allies, ducking strikes you can't see so your ally behind you can attack and so on. Sadly "The best fight ever" had Jedi act like a bunch of street thugs with led pipes in a drunken brawl.
@@JustaGuy_Gaminghe didn’t get actually angry. I’m not a fan of this show by any means but don’t purposefully misinterpret the context. It was very obvious he was just goading squid game about his inner anger and “darkness” by pointing out he was about to attack someone from behind
The adventures of Fannie Mae, Squid Game, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration! This is peak Star Wars, people.
The meme names write themselves for this show
Smilo Ren... he's more meme than man now.
Peak fire bro
Unironically, OSHA going through the Star Wars universe and correcting various safety hazards would be WAY more entertaining than this show.
"This pit you have here goes down several dozen stories. A small guard rail isn't going to cut it here. You need to patch this up before someone falls in."
"What's this vent for? You can't have an uncovered vent like this, especially on the outside of the Death Star. If some random debris gets in there, this whole place could blow."
[gestures generally to all of Coruscant] "How long has it been since this building was remodeled up to code?"
Don't forget Master Green Bean
Its a bold acting choice to play twins on opposites sides, not having seen each other in a decade, wirh zero identifiable difference in vocal cadence, delivery or physicality.
To be fair...twins separated at birth often live very similar lives. Just sayin.'
@@JohnnyNoPocketsSchwarzenegger and Devito didn't.
She really just plays them the exact same.
@@mattjones7226maybe cause they weren’t identical? Smh
It’s worthy of Neil Breen himself!
Plot holes? Don't you need a plot first?
They are reversed plotholes. The holes are the actual patches of plot, the rest is the nonsense.
Disney digs a 6ft deep hole throws the story in there and calls it a plot.
"Some call me... Tim"
Must be some Monty Python fans that filled in the pause with that.
Disney Star Wars: Some call me named that'll have you booted off any platform you voiced them on.
The bugs - just by pure instinct - revealed themselves to be smarter than all the Jedi combined in attacking Smilo Ren at the same time.
"For that reason, the Jedi Order had gone to great lengths to restrict mining and refinement of the ore" -- from the first chapter of Darth Plagueis. So the Jedi in the Acolyte should not have been staring gormlessly at their shorted out lightsabers because they would have known about this substance. Actually reading Legends before using it might help
In Kotor due to how big the Jedi were in the era Cortosis was incorporated into weapons so normal people could be able to fight Jedi or dark side users who have lightsabers. Phryk a common but expensive alloy also is good against lightsabers but is favored more for it's general use as a blaster resistant material.
They only read Legends to pilfer ideas and twist it into cringe.
Legends isn't canon though? But I do agree, and with Platoon's comments re this in the video.
@@Valen-mh9fh if it's not canon, why do they keep referring to things from Legends like _the lightsaber-resistant metal_ that isn't explained *_outside of Legends?_*
@@rokkraljkolesa9317Because they like stealing vague ideas without any of the baggage of recognizing works they've never bothered to read.
Clearly the High Republic era is still using Knights of the Old Republic turn-based combat.
and they forgot their ranged and healing party mates
Smilo-Ren was buffed like crazy with stims.
They must have missed the memo about moving to more action oriented combat.
TLP bring up a good point standard training would be infective v Sith that haven't been seen in 900 years plus Smilo seems much more strong in the Force then any Jedi present on that planet, and he used everything at his disposal to kill them off.
Jedi are very obtuse and set in their ways we can almost extrapolate this is the start of the downfall for the Jedi when 3 Masters have already been killed, X knights and 1 Padwan by 2-3 people.
@@TheNoonish Sith roid rage? He is a drug dealer after all.
My favorite thing to have come out of this episode is certain fans going "See how this show subverted your expectations? So many unexpected twist deaths!" as if we all haven't been going "Literally everyone must die for the show to not break established canon" since it was announced there was going to be a Sith in it.
There was no subversion or unexpected character fates, we stated before the the show's release that this MUST happen for in-universe coherency to be preserved and it *kind of* did happen, that's all.
@KOTSOSMC2002
I would agree... Had they not included Kiadi Mundi. His presence means this cannsot ever be covered up. This show SHATTERS canon.
@@dragonmaster1360how can they even cover up more than 2 Jedi dying at once in one place
This episode really tanked Sol as a character by having him watching his padawan and his friend get killed and doing nothing to stop it
Negative plot armor?
@@blackcatblending9628 More like Sol got whacked a few times with the dumbass stick.
He had really bad ping during that PvP match
What!!! Are you saying you don't leave your loved ones to die and abandon their dead bodies to some lucky scavenger who prayed to it's gods the right way out of love and affection??? You heartless bastard... I toss mine from a cliff into the congo rainforest before their deaths to show how much I care about them... You need to have an heart... Sigh, what are humans growing up to be nowadays??? Hollywood isn't teaching them morality fast enough...
Just stood there. Twice. Watching people die. Like a dumbass.
“You can only think outside the box once you know what’s in it”
Haha, yeah. Colouring outside the lines is rarely a sign of genius.
And they are in the box....and they will never understand that.
Seventh Iteration of Mei Mei part 2: she's so loyal to her sister, she'll leave her in the care of a "they call me Sith" that just murdered several Jedi and just hopes that would work out for a while.
You haven't realized that she has dissociative identity / bipolar or a similar mental disorder by now?
Wonder which of the writers was responsible for the character and how they got past the HR screening.
You would think she would be paranoid as hell that he would just kill her sister on sight... which he tried to do this episode but at the end of ep has a change of heart for fcking no reason whatsoever. What did he think throwing his lightsaber at her was going to achieve other than death? So he wanted to kill her in that moment and that's before she's responsible for him nearly getting eaten out by bugs. I'd be pissed as hell and I ain't even a Sith with powers and a lightsaber.
@@MajorSmurf Oof. You used the T word when describing character motivation in this show. Shame on you.
@@phoenix211245 Honestly if Mei was revealed to be just some really vivid mass hallucination, that'd still be more interesting than what we have.
@@RangerRobin0404 😧
I'm not convinced Jeky is dead. She still might wake up in a space hospital with three little sticking plasters on her lightsaber wounds.😅
Keeping with established on screen stabbed with a lightsaber events. They are more likely to survive if the stabbing occured after Qui-gon died than before. Most likely scenario is a miracle healing substance was invented immediately after Qui-gon died. Given all this plus the padawan being stabbed multiple times her chances of survival are very low.
Now I am just imagining a nurse asking her if she wants the Minnie Mouse or Star Wars band aids.
@VikCachat
Ha, you think they care about timeliness and respecting their own canon? They destroyed THEIR OWN canon in the sequels, repeatedly. Jecki isn't dead, I'd bet money on it. Especially after Sabine took a light sabre to the mid-gut (you know, diaphragm level?) for several seconds, enough time for a lightsabre to MELT a durasteel BLAST DOOR. And Reva took 2/3 the same number as Jecki and quite literally walked it off, and somehow teleported to Tatooine.
Disney doesn't care. Jecki will likely come back.
@@dragonmaster1360 I'm just coming up with the most dumb reason I can think of why some people survive and others don't.
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R.I.P. Jecki Lon. 😢Gone to the big ball of thread in the sky. 😢It was an honour to witness it. 😢
LMAO
that reminds me... everyone has issues with her standing against zipperhead...maybe she has faster than cat speed reflexes naturally
@@GH-ub7qzIt's not her skill they have a problem with, it's the activist prerogative that there must be in all things fictional combat a young, perhaps trainee-level, female who is superior in skill and strength to even the most veteran male warriors, typically accomplished by showing these veteran fighters to be slow and dumb in comparison.
It's become a hilarious trope at this point that a 90lb woman can solo 5+ combat-trained 200lb men effortlessly.
@@rclaws3230 i know. just giving a wildy possible reason. I have beaten much larger and better men in football...but to a point... eventually i was worn down, out manned, out skilled and left to be a sore meat pile, back when football was violent...but in my job...never lost... weapons are a great equalizer
@@GH-ub7qz Football and a fight arent anywhere near the same. Especially when comparing a sub 150pound female versus plus 160 pound men.
Weight classes exist for a reason.
Imagine if they showed that the big force push had thrown Jecki and Sol into a rock and temporarily knocked them out (explaining their absence) leaving Yord to take command and organize the rest of the less experienced Jedi to take on the Sith ; giving him a moment to shine. Imagine a brief conversation earlier between Sol and Yord about how Sol was the only master in the group and the rest were all only new knights and students, raising the stakes of that moment. Imagine if during a lull in the battle one of them yelled out to the rest “avoid hitting the armor, it disables our sabers” showing this has taken them by surprise,raising the tension. Imagine if each time a saber got disabled it immediately resulted in the death of that Jedi, causing them to only use the sabers for blocking and giving them an actual reason to use all those kicks and elbows. Imagine if, when Jecki fights the Sith alone she is clearly outmatched and Sol only arrives just in time to see her lose her entire right arm. Imagine he saves her by force pulling her light saber from her severed limb into his left hand and stands over her body wielding duel light sabers. Imagine Jecki cradling the stump of her right arm, suddenly drawing the Wookiee’s saber from her side with her left hand, joining in with Sol to form a 3 saber assault on the Sith, driving him back; showing Jecki as a bad ass not by her undeserved superior ability but by her spirit, courage, determination, and loyalty to comrades. Even if she still needed to die for the story later, imagine how much more you would care about her death after she did that?
unfortunately, the writers aren't competent enough to come up with anything half as good as this
that, or those above them won't let them, I'm not employed by the Great Horned Rat
Your summation of the Jecki potential is exactly what I though of first time watching a summary (I will not watch Disney!) - knowing that O.S.H.A also hears her cry in pain - how much more impactful could it be if you don't necessarily see it happen (age rating purposes), but hear it from half a forest away from the POV of those who ran away.....
@@OsellaSquadraCorse even better
That would require a modicum of writing ability, something these imbeciles clearly don’t possess.
that would take a creative mindset and good chracter buliding, which Acylote and Disney dont have
Disney Wars characters being stabbed by lightsabers:
"Tis but a scratch."
Disney Wars characters being stabbed by a two-inch blade:
"My body is broken."
“Emotional damage”
"And now I am the dead, bleh"
"What's that behind all those trees?"
"Just more wood."
Meanwhile legends is kill bill
Just a flesh wound
It’s really telling how just a few shiny lightsabers has the disney fans chomping at the bit about how the show is now “getting good”
are they? must be pretty low end on the brain side
Like Mauler said
They are attracted to the sound of rusty keys
@moki1547
They don't care about any nuance, storytelling, plot or anything like that. They care about symbols. Icons. Imagery. That's it. What is Star Wars most known for with normies? Lightsabres, Jedi, and the Force. That's all normies care for. More of that = better show.
Which is why this show is so bad. It's made for dumb normies who only want more key jangling. Disney fans are the peak, the epitome, the very apogee of what a normie is.
@@dragonmaster1360 they are pretty much the sub category of disney worshiper
@@hungcuong606the live action remakes are the worst lol I don't k ow why anyone pays Disney Mulan was a childhood great for me and I unsubed after the remake wow f Disney
Leslie Headland admitted she played D&D, and it is really obvious that it has colored the way she wrote this show. Every episode sounds like a DM expositing the story to a small group of PCs. As opposed to following any of the conventional rules of writing or anything like that.
If this is how she writes her DMs, she’s a shit DM
And she never played with good DM's either. The ones I play with come up with better shit.
that would also explain why characters do nothing while they are not on camera
@@macetasospechosa9468 Exactly. Each "PC" has to wait their turn, so to speak.
@@macetasospechosa9468 and then appear out of nowhere when it's their "turn".
Working title of this episode must have been "2 black girls, black guy, 2 asian men and a minor have rave party in the forest"
...then Darth Hamas shows up, kills a bunch of people, and kidnaps kids. Maybe this show is a commentary on the Palestine and Israel conflict? I might be on to something...gotta go.
@@saulwallobich1833 WTF man? Where did that brain fart come from? Yea, you really need to go
Don't worry the writers have assured us that Jecki is in fact "barely legal," since Osha has such a raging lady boner for her
I've followed beavers into many a woods, never a good idea.
"I believe you"
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!
Hah, you got buggered!
The Acolyte is like if you were really really really into model trains. Like obsessed. Your kid sister sees you and your friends are having more fun with your trains than she is with her Russian dolls or Bridgerton action figures and asks to join...then proceeds to either intentionally or accidentally break the entire collection you'd spent years of allowance building. And when you get understandably upset, she just says "relax bro, they're just toy trains" and goes back to playing with her Russian dolls and Bridgerton live action figures.
next episode will open with Jackie in a Bacta-tank and green bald lady blaming Sol for taking her on this mission, almost getting her killed!^^
Nah bacta was invented immediately after Qui-gon died.
That will make these rigorous respecters of canon think twice!
And Jackie gets berated by Uncle who tells him “Space magic must defeat space magic!”
It would be the one time green lady made sense. Why did Sol bring his padawan, none of the other jedi did (and we know that at least Yord had one, we met her in the 1st episode)
@@regiman222Sol brought his padawan because the activist writers needed a trainee female fighter to show up the veteran male fighters.
I think the bug thing was not touched upon enough. That was a three stooges gag. A looney tunes bit. The all powerful with lord we just watched destroy 10 Jedi is bested by a looney tunes bit bc the writers didn’t know how to end the scene. Genuinely, if he just left for no reason it would’ve been better
It wouldn't be a problem if they hadn't already shown the jedi guy kill one easily. They could have made them out to be tyranid-level predators immune to lightsabers and the force. I can't believe they actually killed the smilo guy, tho, it's too goofy even for this show
@@AliceBowie they didn’t kill him, they just carry him out of the scene to another part of the forest, which is somehow worse
The mighty Sith Lord was like Homer Simpson trying to get an ice cream off his back.
@@TrueGamer22887 maybe they wanted him to take over the hive? 😅
@@Valen-mh9fh Maybe they were trying to *mate* with him??
Darth Vader: if you only knew the power of one, the power of two, the power of MAANNNNYYY!!
He actually chants that right before cutting Luke's hand off in The Empire Strikes Back
"Have you ever heard of Darth Plaegius, the twice?"
You misspelled money
lol i read that with vader`s voice in my head XD
We need this edit! Someone get an ai on it!
its incredible how terrible this show looks. i hope it never ends because of love watching you review it.
I hope it ends just so I can go to bed!
You know how the voice actors always sound vaguely ashamed and embarrassed in English Anime dubs? Or the way adults sound when they have to play with children and make the child’s toys “talk”? The acting in this show reminds me of that. Between the bad writing and the cringe line delivery, there is no possible way for a viewer to be immersed in this story.
It's why if I can pay attention and read I prefer subbed. The Japanese voice actors really get into character. They lay it all out and have a fun with it.
My standards for acting are so low after Ahsoka. The only non-child actor who stands out to me as especially bad is Leslie Headland’s wife. Which makes Amanda Stenberg’s video even more baffling as I don’t think anyone was really focused on her being a problem in the show.
There really is no substantive plot. The reveal of Smylo Ren was predicted episodes before, and we don’t care what happens to these walking plot devices because nothing attaches us to these characters.
You're definitely not watching good Anime! There are fantastic, phenomenal performances by the "English" dubs in many cases. Perhaps the OTT Anime type characters they sound a bit off, but mostly the more adult (grown-up, not Pr0n)-or even Shonen types, they range from decent to excellent in many cases.
@@TheNoonishAmandLA. Amandla. With an LA.
1:45:56 OK... it's bad enough that you are just leaving Jedis and their lightsabers lying around... but NEITHER of you idiots decided it might be useful picking up the feckin' helmet that short-circuits your ONE defensive/offensive weapon?!?!?!?!?
Yes! You’d think, if they didn’t know what it is already, and they’ve seen what it could do, that they’d take the damn helmet!
At this rate my episode 6 review is going to spend the first hour bitching about the episode 5 problems I didn’t include.
Best scene; The trees falling in the wrong direction.
Ahh yes, but didn't you know that physics works differently in Disney Star Wars? Well, now you do 😅😅😅
@@patriciafenwick5846if they really wanted the trees to go that way they could have simply had mr evil man just force push them away from himself. Would’ve even made him seem a bit cooler instead of physics just not working
That legitimately made my prefrontal cortex scream in shock when I saw the clip.
Physics in Disney Star Wars works differently, mind of like having WW2 bombers in space.
Having his saber deflected back at a downward angle would’ve just made too much sense.
Had to tune out on Sheev after he and his buddies said Mundi's appearance and retcon "doesn't matter."
All I know is that he better keep that same energy when they just start pulling whatever characters they want from their established timeline in service of a plot-breaking cameo. I never wanna hear him bitch about "somehow Palpatine came back..." or Leia hanging out with Obi throughout her teen years.
When you say shit doesn't matter, you tend to be the one to step in it.
Sheev and Jolly have gotten a little worse recently in their efforts to distance themselves from the other critics point of view and paint themselves as writing purists. Strawmanning people, saying that it doesn't matter that the space witches are lesbians, when nobody focused on that as a criticism, it's just that "lesbian space witches" is inherently more funny to say.
They're also letting their politics seep into their criticisms too. Last week they blamed capitalism for the bad Disney writing 😂
@@sparkycjsAnd how is it dismissive to call them lesbians? The only relationship we see among them is a lesbian relationship. They apparently aren’t making babies except with the force, so there’s some inferences that can be drawn which are not unfair.
@@TheNoonish well, exactly
@@sparkycjs i thought it was strange how intolerant they were acting toward the "anti-woke" crowd just for describing what's on the screen. Then Sheev "pulled a Mauler" and called a spade a spade. Or a sith a sith. It's just feels so hypocritical and setting up as many holes in their argument as the Disney scripts.
The Padawan will survive because women in Star Wars are hollow. On many different levels.
Nice lol
Brilliant!
Lightsabers can’t melt steel lesbians.
and also, somehow, dense.
That statement was so harsh......and true!!
In LPs episode 1 breakdown, he argued that the way Jecki mocked Yord wasn't a typical Disney "yas queen" move UNLESS she also turned out to be a better fighter than Yord. Guess what? Of fuqqing course she was.
Oh yeah, so I did! Thankfully for everyone she didn’t live long enough to brag about it.
It’s ok that all the Jedi died because apparently it’s an honour to watch anything or anyone become one with the force. So by that logic we should be happy and not be saddened by it. Jecki said it herself lol
Thats easy to say when you can come back as a force ghost lol
Maybe that’s why Osha and Sol are so unperturbed in episode 5.
I'm sure her last thoughts were "Oh joy, I'm one with the Force!"
She probably loved going to the force. Smylo Ren did her a favor.
Obi wan when he senses Alderaan's destruction: :)
“I sense something familiar “ like running into that High school friend who you lost contact with at the high school reunion and now Brett is Brenda and those past locker room comments take on a whole new meaning.
“No homo, but those tight pants on you really make your ass pop!” - “Brenda”
“lol. Brett, you weirdo.” - innocent youthful me
Making the Zahn books into some good movies would have been too easy I guess 🤷♂️
Darth Bane trilogy would be the greatest movie series ever made, if done loyally to the books.
Hell the Jedi Knight series would of been good too, if they stayed true to it.
You have tons of characters to show off, Mara Jade, Kyle Katarn, Jan Ors and many others.
And with the Jedi Academy part you can make Jayden a girl because the player COULD choose to have a male or female avatar.
There’s no way they’d ever base a story on those. Those books had a competent villain. It’s a violation of everything Disney Star Wars stands for.
There’s dozens of “legends” stories that would be absolutely amazing to see translated to tv or big screen if they faithfully followed the books.
I would have absolutely loved to have seen Luke and Mara. It’s a shame they chose not to do the Thrawn trilogy or anything with those two characters.
A way they could have explained the fight lasting so long while having Smilo be way stronger is by having Smilo sort of relishing the fact that he's in a duel with Jedi, like I'm not sure if that's something he's done a lot in life and also something he's thought about for a long time. So have him be like The Raid guys in John Wick or something before one of them gets too close to killing him, so he stops fucking around and dispatches them fairly quickly. Have him disarm Yord and then toss his lightsaber back to him like he's disappointed in them
That sounds great. But that would take imagination and talent, which they don't have.
"B-but the material is really rare!"
Well, isn't that convenient. You don't even need to forge full armour out of this material, just create a small wristband or something, blocking a lightsaber with it is enough to give you 10 seconds of an opening.
Cortosis wasn’t rare anyway.
In the Rise of Darth Bane (which is the first of a trilogy revolving around the creation of the Sith Rule of two) Bane started out life as a born-indentured servant on a Mining-world and spent the beginning of his life working pneumatic jackhammers to mine the stuff, and the book directly described how it withstood lightsaber attacks, they didn’t make more stuff out of it because it was EXPENSIVE lol (what a ridiculous excuse) lol
@@joshuapratt3593 Eh I can get the expensive side of it, I mean there is a reason the TIE series never got entirely replaced by TIE Defenders which could outmatch ANY other fighter and take on multiple roles.
Turns out it was just too damn expensive and resource consuming to make a TIE with shields, hyperdrive, 4 cannons, 2 ion cannons, 2 rocket/missile launchers, a beam slot (Tractor or Magpulse) and with an ungodly amounts of armor and speed.
We do have real world examples, I mean look at the Nazis and their Wunderwaffe that always turned out to be a waste of resources to produce.
It’s world breaking. A universe where such a material exists is one in which Jedi either don’t use light sabers at all, or just use as a secondary side arm. And that’s without the Lesley Headland upgrade which not only makes light sabers but actively dangerous to use.
I wonder if anyone at Disney thought about the implications of this magic material. Wasn’t Dave Filoni supposed to prevent this stupidity?
Tbf, the whole 'being expensive' thing is kind of a moot point, given the Galactic Empire was doing a bunch of stuff that would cost a whole lot of credits. They were able to build 2 Death Stars, while still having a massive fleet, paying for personnel and so on and so forth. The only reason they didn't mass produce the TIE Defender, was because of Grand Admiral Zaarin and the fact the facilities were destroyed which severely reduced the production of the TIE Defender.
Well that and the Empire realized, if a Grand Admiral was going rogue, that could be a problem and you don't want a great ship like the Defender falling into enemy hands.
The Empire still produced the Defender, but only in limited quantities. The Defender wasn't just cut out because it was expensive.
At least that's the explanation and story reason they gave for the Defender in the EU, which at least makes some semblance of sense. Not sure what Disney Canon has done.
Being pricey is kind of a moot point when you control the galaxy and thus being able to get however much money. Money really never mattered to the Empire, because they always had some crazy thing going on with building something extremely powerful, only for it to end up not being used for one reason or another, or at best used in limited quantities.
By that logic I don’t understand why every single soldier in Game of Thrones doesn’t use a Valyrian steel sword
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Remember when red lightsabers used to use synthetic crystals, which was meant to mirror the original conception of the Dark Side itself being a cancer on the Force? The whole "bleeding" crystals nonsense came into being with the Disney buyout and I'm firmly convinced just existed so Dave Filoni could give Ahsoka a white lightsaber.
The bleeding stuff is by far so goofy
@seriousnesstv7902 Taking a lightsaber from a Jedi as part of their Trials isn't bad but the rest is dumb.
@@AJadedLizardStill feels weird. Especially during the Old Republic Era. The Sith are officially supposed to be extinct.
Wouldn't it turn heads if Jedi were killed under mysterious circumstances and had their lightsabers vanish?
@@johannesseyfried7933 One Jedi out of billions going missing wouldn't be that out of the ordinary. Jedi go off on their own all the time, and it's not like there's a central database keeping tabs on them all.
There's a six foot deep plot hole perfect for star wars
Like vader being in front of leia and didnt know who she was? How did leia remember her
Mom if she died after the birth. Oh no maybe how the hell the galaxy forget sith in 20 years?
The Obiwan show was one of the stupidest things I have ever seenz
There’s enough plot holes from Disney to bury their Galactic Cruiser.
The hole is a latrine and it's getting full😂😂😂
👍
I felt MUCH more watching Hama get eaten by a warg in Two Towers than seeing Darth Munch kill Jecki and Yord.
A stong and brave female protagonist.... died?!?!
She was added to the great ball of thread. It was an honour to witness it. 😂
It’s such a small thing to give them credit for, that they willing to show the Padawan being killed by the villain.
Unfortunately the mechanics of the fight with Sol just being missing for a very long stretch don’t make that a satisfying result.
Maybe. I wouldn't be surprised if she lived somehow.
Well….“No one’s ever REALLY gone” didn’t ya know?!
Aliens aren't a minority Disney cares about. Unless they're crossing the US boarder
It was such an honor to watch all those Jedi become one with the force 🫡
What are these "plot holes" the thumbnail speaks of, the elf girl who gets stabbed was lacking plot contributions for her holes to be considered such.😤
The lesbian, elf, Jedi could smell the difference between the twin she’ll like to bang and the one killing people? So death is the solution? There is no logic here, move along. 😂
@@AmeliaBodilia I just realized how much we're missing without having smellaround entertainment systems, though the cat-o-verse welcomes all the new threads lost and put in our great ball of cat threads.
The thing about cortosis is that it's rare and incredibly hard to mine and process. It's single redeeming quality is its effectiveness against lightsabers. Of course that was all too much for the acolyte to properly explain. Even a shoddy exposition dump would have been better than nothing at all.
Yeah, in a good show, the random (unnamed) appearance of cortosis would break immersion.
But this isn't a good show, so what does it matter?
Another way to introduce this material is in one of the Jedi meetings.
Report what was going on and let the one receiving the report update squid game on some other occurrences. But include that in checking the inventory of said material they found out that X kg are missing (a small absolute amount). That is a lot of % of the last 10 years of production. Then his Padawan can ask what the material does to clue us in.
Someone hack into Disney to delete the rest of this show. Spare Platoons sanity if there's any left after having to watch this nightmare
But my weekly platoon content :((
@@brandonfitzgerald1547 that is a great point
Platoon has chosen to exchange his sanity for clicks. He chose ... poorly.😈
Anyway so some people hacked into Disney and apparently they were furries like a couple of week ago
@@LeaderPenguin 😶😶😂
Disney must be seething that people like myself and others would rather watch your content that doubles if not triples the length of their content while simultaneously being better content, objectively.
"Still, at least people died!"....and after enduring 5 episodes of The Acolyte, The Little Platoon is doubtless envious of their good fortune*. On the bright side, absolutely grateful for and loving these reviews and writing lessons all in one.
*Even death can't protect one from Disney (case in point: Star Wars).
It was a joke title, but it's basically a plot synopsis. 5/8 episodes in and it's so *barren*. For some of the murdered Jedi, death was the only character growth they got!
It amazes me how each show manages to be worse than its predecessor. Though thankfully we at least get entertainment value in the form of reviews!
Maybe if they would have given the pip droid a voice or something we would have registered it as an actual character and not just a prop that OSHA keeps talking to.
The only agency we saw from it was it pissing on the gerbil-man and that's not exactly a personality.
I would laugh so hard if all the Jedi survived and just wake up in the hospital 😂 That would make this show a 10/10 if even triple tapping isn't lethal with a lightsaber
Season 2, episode 1: "Wow, what a funky dream that was! And you were in it, and you and you..."
They've got to the point where only decapitations would be fully accepted at face value. 😂
I bet Pip will be the one who figures out that Fanny Mae and Occupational Health and Safety Administration have been switched rather than Squid Game. That's why we needed Pip back
Smylo Ren is Squid Games's son thats pretty much how stupid its going to be
both are Asian so 100 percent that will happen lool
"No, I am your son."
He could be Palpatine for all we know. There’s literally nothing too stupid for them to come up with.
@@TheNoonish somehow, Palpatine can time travel. 😅
That's racist! He could be the son of Green bean & Ginger teacher for all you know....
Sincerely, Disney.
1:12:00 Smilo should have cut both her hands off at the wrists to get the cuffs off and as her punishment, later getting primitive versions of Luke’s prosthetic as replacements
Yeah, my last brain cells died on this episode
o7, I guess
RIP Yord VPN, your free trial subcription period ended much too soon. 😢
Another wonderfully intelligent vivisection of the most entertaining kind. As far as this "story" is going I wouldn't be surprised if some infamous Jedi-master has a sweet secret in his past and we get a line from a certain self announced Sith like "No, I am your son."
Its hilarius how everyone calls him Smilo Ren by default.
The star wars cannon is actually pretty easy to figure out.
Is anything that made after disney bought Lucasfilm is NOT cannon, anything BEFORE that IS!!
See?? Easy.
Idk what you are talking about, Star Wars has only ever been 3 movies and then a couple KOTOR video games.
And X Wing/Tie Fighter
@@PraxesArdenn *6 movies
FTFY.
@@nopenope2550 Nah the prequels are ass, sorry
*Canon.
Let's play Best One Sentence Description of the Acolyte:
In a galaxy far far away, two top-tier intersectionality twins leave everyone they come near worse off while blaming everyone else for their problems.
Two twins separated for over a decade, birthed by space witch lesbians using force powers - one light, one dark - with no character development have their paths become entwined because… reasons, begin to cloud the ideal heroism of the Jedi and misunderstanding of the Sith.
Minimal words attempt:
Woke vacillating twins manage to get everyone they meet killed.
My favourite plot holes were the 3 that Qimir put into Jaki the padawan
As a bowling ball I feel represented.
@@Rogue-a-Pogue 😂
1:19:46 I died here... no- I transformed into the force here. yeah. thats better
And it was an honour to witness it.
"it's like poetry- it rhymes"
Episode 5 If its a Hole its a Goal
An admittedly very , very slight shame... 'Squid-game' would have probably made a fine Jedi had Star Wars not become lumpy diarrhoea continually hosed from the diseased sphincter of the evil mouse.
Which has more holes now? Jecki or the plot? 😏
Gigitty
Instead of a good narrative with a few plot holes we get one enormous hole with a few spots of narrative floating around.
The Plot, of course.
Jackie only has three (not counting the natural ones).
- Yoda not only doesn't teach the younglings, he doesn't sense the fight, a group of Jedi being wiped out, or the large use of the force when he was able to clearly detect this in the Prequels halfway across the galaxy.
- The Sith hasn't been seen in a thousand years, but apparently, it happened less than a hundred years ago.
- They made lightsabers better in this episode, but the Sith could have easily used simple throwing knives to wipe out the Jedi.
- Cortosis (assuming they are using this) can also be used as a metal sword instead of just armor. If it can short out a lightsaber, a metal blade can cleave right through a blocking lightsaber and wipe out the defending Jedi.
Meanwhile, Yoda according to Wookieepedia itself: Yoda trained no less than 20,000 Jedi lol
This show is a disaster.
The "can't tell them apart" thing applies to all humans. All people struggle to distinguish between members of a members of a racial group that is not one of the ones they grew up with and where there is significant average difference in appearance between the races e.g. black vs asian vs caucasian. I think it's to do with the way that faces are evaluated compared to a reference face that is laid down in the brain in childhood presumably for cognitive efficiency.
Logic Isn't allowed
Oh sure, same-group bias is demonstrable. I was just making a joke.
yes, its an efficiency mechanism...i have been studying the weeds in my lawn...after 2 years i can spot one blade of a weed at 20 paces, before i didn't even notice
But the barkeep who witnessed Mae murdering Master Trinity was all like, "Yes!!! That's her!"
Adding that metal armor to a prequel of everything causes so many problems. Even if it is a little known and rare metal, why didn't someone like General Grievous have access to it. He seams like the type of character that would know about it and find a way to get some. Imagine how much harder it would be to fight him if even one arm was made out of metal that can shut down lightsabers.
*"The BEST CHOREOGRAPHY OF ALL TIME!!"* 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
The problem with that whole "a jedi like you might call me a sith" thing is: that's purely for the audience. Squid Game, however, should hear that and literally instantly go "oh, he's a sith then."
Yeah, it doesn’t circumvent the problem at all. He *has* to be proven *not* to be a Sith before the end of the season.
@@TheLittlePlatooneither that or a cover up. Like Mauler I'm sure that's why they put Ki Adi Mundi in it.
all the dialogue is moronic...you tell me...what did you do...like a 7 yr old wrote it
@@TheLittlePlatoonEven that doesn’t circumvent the problem because Ki-Adi Mindi doesn’t say “The Sith have been extinct for a millennia, but I remember this other fellow using the force and killing Jedi with a red lightsaber 100 years ago. Crikey! It could be another bloke like that!”
I remember when the Sith was a species before fallen Jedi bred them out of existence and took the name to differentiate them from the Jedi.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the spikey witch mother survived, was burned badly, her skin turned red, her voice got gravely, and is now going by the name Darth Maul. Seems about right for these writers.
To paraphrase Nomad, from Star Trek: "Fannie Mae is a mass of conflicting impulses."
It is fascinating that Lucas used a tiered cannon system. The way you describe it, it is identical to the US system of common law as rendered by the courts (regional, appellate, supreme), with lower courts being able to establish new cannon under the umbrella of higher courts, and higher courts retaining the power to elevate, leave alone, or contradict that lower cannon. Very cool.
remember when in the prequels they used the lightsaber cut through a meter thick reinforced steel door..
yeah I wanna see them headbutting that lightsaber..
Fannie Mae loved her sister so much she left her behind unconscious in a dangerous forest that where, very most likely, her master will find and kill her...
😊😮😊🎉🎉🎉
Maybe a bear will rescue her?
BuT lIgThSaBeR fIgHtS aRe CoOl! Just consume product!
The gundam comparison is even worse since Gundam has barely 20 minutes to cram its stories into.
Platoon's neighbors thinking he's working with the Bolshoi ballet or something, with him screaming the best choreography ever, every three minutes...
I like what Qui-Gon said on Charlie Hopkinson's channel. "Headbutting a lightsaber blade and it turns off? That's a real game changer, from far in the past.".
How did entertainment devolve into this? You can't watch ten consecutive seconds of whatever this show is without some action, sentiment, or dialogue in it completely contradicting the ten seconds before it. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Not a great episode but hey at least the main villain didn't reveal himself to be a Si-oh......how embarrassing.
Dear diary,
I watched all the stupid people die to a silly person in the mask that shorts out lightsabers. The badger got away, so he's most important guy in the galaxy now.
1:18:52 Might have also been neat if Squidgame’s skill in hand-to-hand fighting was a bit more unique to his character. Hell, maybe it could also be something that informs us about his yet-unspecified past. Maybe it’s a Drunken Master sort of thing, where he’s _really_ good at a potentially self-destructive martial art that also impairs his judgment because of Force tisms.
That could have been a neat thing to do with his fight against Mae. He could have been largely in control of the fight, and she would try threatening civilians like she did with Trinity, and Squidgame only narrowly managed to turn deadly attacks on him into merely shallow wounds by virtue of his skill. And maybe Mae tries to shift tactics in a mix of confidence and anger, taunting him with Trinity and Tommen’s death. Maybe she also throws in that it’s no wonder Tommen died if Squidgame is the sort of teacher the Order has.
Then, he loses just enough of his cool to treat her without kid gloves. I like the idea of a swift but brutal fight ending with Squidgame snapping one of her arms. Then OSHA can appear, her ‘miss’ can give Mae the time to flee, and it’s genuinely ambiguous if she missed in her shock or instinctively fired on Squidgame in her sister’s defense.
Plus, it gives Mae a much better reason to doubt her almost lifelong motives. When she was blinded by pain and fear, her sister appeared to step in and save her, and on top of that her confidence in the ‘off a Jedi without a weapon’ thing would be a hell of a lot more shaken.
But this is too much word now
stopping
blergh
Phrik is in fact the same material used to make the magnaguards’ electrostaffs. It first appeared in Dark Forces 1, then was completely forgotten until Revenge of the Sith (and the tie-in novel leading into it, Labyrinth of Evil) brought it back as the lore explanation for why the Magnaguards can fight back against Jedi.
The phrik container that survived Alderaan isn’t like a big shipping container or anything. It was a plot point in Battlefront: Renegade Squadron for the PSP. Bail Organa hid a holocron containing a list of possible candidates for new rebel base locations in a phrik container, like a safe or something, and that’s what survived Alderaan’s destruction.
Based comment, I knew this lore and it’s glad to see someone else does too
The "vacuous nonsense" at 1:46:04 is a line lifted almost verbatim from a Jordan Peterson rant. Would love to see an in-depth analysis on the stupidity of writers etc. with a woke agenda putting the words of such an enemy of LGBTQ+ rights in the mouth of one of their representatives of a suppressed minority (i.e., dark-side user). Would tie in with this nearly 2 hour demonstration of how the creators of this show can't sustain a stable, not self-contradictory line thought for longer than the memory of a goldfish and don't deserve their entitled, exorbitant paychecks.
1:36:00 when you consider that Leslie said that this is based on her and her sister's beef they had. Not sure what the quote was, but imagine you make a Star Wars fan-fiction based on your own life only to tell your sister "see, I'm better"
It’s crazy how the main stream reviewers are saying the show is a win. I watch the streams of the “fans” that love it, and even they say embarrassing things, “ nothing really happened this episode “. ‘ the acting wasn’t great but it was consistent “. ‘’ none of the twist or mystery is hidden or unexpected, but there is a lot of it, which is what makes it good “. ‘’ much of the dialogue is inconsistent and the character motivates are not well established” I could go on and on , but it’s insane to hear people say after saying a bunch of things like that “ I’m still eager to see what happens next “. So wild
It’s Schrödinger’s Lore: Legends is “lesser” canon that can be ignored while simultaneously being the justification for items that are crucial for the plot of your show.
Ah...'The Ki Adi Mundi Conundrum'. A world class blunder that turned The Acolyte into a 180+ million dollar fan fiction series.
Cortosis... hearing that word feels like someone making reference to a dream I once described to them in vivid detail, years after the fact.
I somewhat intentionally blocked that (among other choice bits like "Yuuzhan Vong") from my memory... because I know full phoquing well that I will never, ever, EVER live to see that word made good use of moving forward. After KK's bonfire? That was it for EVERY good idea lurking in SW canon.
The Kong should have been the new trilogy.
It made the most sense in my opinion.
Completely removed from the Empjre, outside of the galaxy and force (so the Skywalker legacy and prophecy aren't tainted or lessened) and very different to what came before.
Just having the Empire still being powerful and Palpatine alive ruined the entire Skywalker story.
@@retsaMinnavoiG Amphistaff > Lightsaber
The Vong series of stories is very compelling. The EU has such a rich history
@@retsaMinnavoiGI think the Vong might have been a bit much.
But there are many different stories they could have used in the Sequels.
Remember the director / writer of this Star wars TV series stated that it's based upon her and her sister so that means her and her sister have the weirdest stupidest relationship I've ever seen in my life.
A funny continuity error. When Jecki cuffs Mae, she has her hands behind her back. Later, they are cuffed in front of her so she can conveniently be freed.
I distinctly remember her weaving them under her feet
I think they show her slipping her hands to her front (by lifting her legs)
@@jonathanburk3147they do.
Bro they literally show her getting her hands in front of her