Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers on the North Ridge!]

[Condottiere]

I thought episode 7 was the nadir, but 8 appears to have dug a deeper hole.

Stenberg's acting is the weakest link: she's okay when she's playing one character, but can't differentiate when playing the twin and this wouldn't have been that big an issue, except Mae and Osha are the focus of the show. I used to think Anakin turning Sith was rather abrupt, but Osha's 180 was even more unbelievable and she didn't give Sol the benefit of the doubt, as she knew him for years.

How much authority does Vernestra Rwoh have compared to the High Council?

Why is Darth Plagueis playing voyeur?

[Condottiere]

Thor Skywalker's 40 minute spoiler filled review of episode 8:

[anevilgiraffe]

I quite enjoyed that episode to be honest, although the form a 5 click perimeter somehow became hang around in a mob with the tracker... and that lanky guy from Outlaws is not a good actor, no idea who thought he had the presence to be a jedi.

Osha's 180 was even more unbelievable and she didn't give Sol the benefit of the doubt, as she knew him for years.

Maybe because she'd known him for years...

[Minsk]

I’m still not sure if a liked the show or not. I know I didn’t hate it though. The final episodes fights were pretty cool

[zemjw]

I figured it was the last episode because of the length. However, it didn't really feel like it had an ending, it just fizzled out

I have no idea why the tracker sabotaged Sol's ship, that came out of nowhere and was never explained. Green lady throwing Sol under the galactic bus seemed rather un-Jedi like. Talking about a "5-Klick" perimeter seemed really unnecessary, unless the metric system really was being used a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

Highlight was Yoda finally making an appearance

At least it's over. I'm not sure where it ranks with the other shows, but it's in the bottom one or two for me (fighting with Kenobi for bottom place)

[anevilgiraffe]

saying Klick/Click is just a way to give viewers some sense of measurement without using our world terms.

[Condottiere]

I quite enjoyed that episode to be honest, although the form a 5 click perimeter somehow became hang around in a mob with the tracker... and that lanky guy from Outlaws is not a good actor, no idea who thought he had the presence to be a jedi.

Maybe because she'd known him for years...

Didn't you get the memo? Anyone can be a Jedi nowadays, just like anyone acting like an emo is considered a Sith - not even a canon Dark Jedi.

Still not a good enough reason to force choke someone, without hearing their side, and then go live on the lam with someone she'd just met.    I've read and watched better plotted bodice rippers than this poor man's Agatha Christie. Everyone had to act stupid, just to progress the plot or whatever passes for a plot, not unlike the Shogun remake. I'm getting the impression this series was set up to make the Jedi look like perpetual losers, culminating in the blue milk scene in those horrible sequels.

I'm reading comments elsewhere and I'm surprised at the number of posters expressing sympathy for Dark Side Force wielders and the real bad guys are the Jedi - too easy to dismiss the posters edgelords, more a sign of the times.   

[Condottiere]

I figured it was the last episode because of the length. However, it didn't really feel like it had an ending, it just fizzled out

I have no idea why the tracker sabotaged Sol's ship, that came out of nowhere and was never explained. Green lady throwing Sol under the galactic bus seemed rather un-Jedi like. Talking about a "5-Klick" perimeter seemed really unnecessary, unless the metric system really was being used a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away

Highlight was Yoda finally making an appearance

At least it's over. I'm not sure where it ranks with the other shows, but it's in the bottom one or two for me (fighting with Kenobi for bottom place)

Almost nothing's been explained in this show, like we're expecting another season or two to wrap up this JJ Abrams style mystery box. If there's a season 2 and Yoda buys green lady's cock and bull cover up, then he's a bigger idiot than I thought and the Jedi deserved to fail. The prequels were about their hubris and a later story about a Sith temple leaking Dark Side energy, located at the lowest level of the Jedi temple, clouding the residents' minds.

From Reddit via a Google search: The Acolyte Nielsen Rating Analysis from a TV Industry Guy for the first 3 episodes and if the stats are true, it ranks at the bottom of the list. Maybe there will be a season 2, as it's not a network show.

[Ninefingers]

I thought green lady was going to be hideously disfigured by dark force energy and then turn into Yoda

[Condottiere]

I thought green lady was going to be hideously disfigured by dark force energy and then turn into Yoda

That would've been an interesting twist a la M. Night Shyamalan!

She's much to badass to be disfigured by force lightning, as she wields a purple lightsaber. Like Mace Windu, she channels the Dark Side without going down that path and probably proficient enough to use her opponent's attacks against them - no wonder Qmir looks afraid.

Unlike Kenobi, with Reva having all the presence of Arnold Rimmer, with the exception of the budget Nightsisters, the majority of the Acolyte's characters were rather interesting before episode 7. 

I think Osha and Mae were the first or one of the early experiments in creating life, so made sense for Darth Plagueis to make an appearance, though it would've been better to have occurred 2 episodes ago.

[Condottiere]

 

[AKULA]

 

Final episode - decent fight (apart from the Mary Poppins bit), a couple of fan pleaser cameos...and the rest was a bit meh... clearly the writers had given up by this point.


{producer}"Why did Beaver-guy sabotage the ship?"

{writer}"Just because."

{producer}"...and why did Mae get left behind?"

{writer}"Just because."

{producer}"But what about the "force dyad" storyline, I mean that was tee'ed up the whole way through...shouldnt they have taken Mae with them?"

{writer}"Look, I said just because ...ok? ...Ok quick glimpse of Yoda...right run the credits quick."

[Condottiere]

A series can't be that awful if it inspired someone to create a rave music video...

Who can hook me up with some glowing Death Sticks?

[hubbabubba]

That's actually better than the series itself.

[Michi]

That's actually better than the series itself.

This was my initial thought too.
That way the song will last at least, while it was rather boring when they sung it in the episode.