It's the first time in Disney Star Wars that lightsabers actually work. Also, it was a nice detail to see Cortosis (the stuff that temporatily shorts lightsabers) making it's live action debut. The plot was still stiff and forced, but so far this is the only episode that I would call mediocre instead of bad. The acting was good, except for Osha and Mae, who for some reason had way worse acting, even though her acting on the previous episodes was really good. It feels like they didn't do enough takes because we have seen that actress doing A LOT better in the previous episodes.
My theory for this tying in to the prequels: Sol actually dies before he gets to Coruscant. This would make sense considering Mae is on board with him in the ship. I’m sure she still wants revenge on him too. And finally, even though the Jedi that were sent never return, the Jedi on coruscant will have no idea what happened to them. If sol does die, say in the next episode, the show may transition to Osha, Mae and more detail/background on quimir and possibly even his master.
I think that cool ending for the show would be Jedi figuring out he is not actually the Sith but just wannabe (because the way he says the line makes it very clear he is not actually real Sith), then there is the final battle, which he survivers, flees somewhere and then the show ends with the actually current Sith Lord appearing and killing him for the rule of two. But if that Sith lord is not Plagueis or Tenebrous, then fans are probablt going to rage even more.
Easiest conclusion to draw is that everyone dies and the council is never informed that Qimir identified himself as a Sith. But is it possible the council is lying about the Sith being extinct in TPM? Could the Jedi involved in Acolyte have solved the Qimir problem to the best of their ability and then brushed it under the rug or chose not to investigate it further?
Qimir is probably a young Plagueis and is more than likely the apprentice and is just wanting an apprentice so he can usurp his master. That’s my theory anyway. He somehow knows what happened on Brendok 16 years ago while neither Mae or Osha have the full story and at most Qimir might’ve been like 14 when that happened. His master probably was working with the witches to create life/immortality and that’s how Qimir knew. I have a feeling Sol might get “possessed” and idk. That will be what convinces the Jedi that it wasn’t really Sith.
His wrist brace and helmet are made of Cortosis a metal capable of shorting out lightsabers on contact. It has appeared in the books and comics. This was its first live action appearance.
I absolutely love your channel and you always have such fun videos. Keep up the incredible content. I really hope that people don’t come down on you and start calling you. Terrible names because of how you were covering this particular show. I have seen it all over where people are seemingly not allowed to criticize this show.
It’s mandatory the Jedi all need to perish. How are you surprised? If any of them survive to talk about the Sith, then it’s lore breaking of the highest order.
8:20 Only Sol and Osha currently know who Qimir is, so I'm guessing Sol won't live long enough to inform the Council, and Osha may take Qimir's place in the end. Well, Mae still knows, but she definitely won't pass this information on to the Jedi
As someone who has no clue (or care) about what's going on: Maybe Qimir (along with the Jedi) believe the Sith are extinct, and so Qimir decided to "revive" the order. Causing him to look for an apprentice. But he's not an _actual_ Sith because they're alive and well.
It doesn't matter if they say "Sith" or not. It still breaks the lore... Here is "an opponent" - wielding a red light saber, signifying he uses the dark side, wielding the force, has an apprentice, and standing up to Jedi (almost the exact Definition of a Sith). Even if you want to call this person not a Sith, but some NEW force user entirely... That still means a powerful, capable, foe exists. A massive plot point in Phantom Menace was the Jedi had become very complacent and dogmatic, horribly unprepared and unaware that someone could challenge them.
What Ki-adi Mundi said was clearly a lie, intentional or not. We know the Sith weren't extinct, but hiding, so I don't get how seeing the Sith doing stuff in secret is a retcon really. At least for now it means the events we are watching didn't make it to the council, or that they are lying for some reason, both are intriguing possibilities.
Anakin killed dooku and it as a hudge step into the dark site killing the sith here would push master sol to dark site and it wouldnt fit the charackter to me also
I think the Ki-Adi-Mundi being there adds to the hubris of the Jedi. The fact that he says the sith have been gone for a millennium, yet a hundred years prior was here for some dark side force wielder murdering several Jedi kinda shows just how arrogant the Jedi had become, though I know most aren’t reading it that way.
Just a reminder don't do voices when you are sick. :) Come on dude sure you know about Cortosis ore? His helm and his bracer were made out of it. Pure cortosis shorts out a lightsaber for a time, and alloy made with Cortosis becomes Lightsaber resistant, but doesn't shut the lightsaber down. No its the dialogue. Mae and Osha get some the worst dialogue in this show. I think the actress is fine, she pulls off the differences between Mae and Osha just fine, but the dialogue is just ugh. Which is nothing knew to Star Wars, but some of this dialogue made the Prequels look good. I love the Prequels, but even I knew that some of the dialogue in it was bad.
He might not identify as a Sith, but just as a dark side user. Which it seems like the Jedi have just lumped together to say that all dark side users are Sith. So I believe when he says "I have no name. But the Jedi like you might call me Sith." He's saying that the Jedi call him a Sith, but he isn't one.
The show is very clearly setting up Osha to kill Sol. With Sol dead the Qimir's secret is safe. No one is going to believe the witch sisters or Basil. It's kinda dumb to be upset that Sith exist. We know the Sith exist, the EP1 was about the Jedi being morons believing the Sith were gone.
I have this theory, that qimir is actually the apprentice of darth plageius and he wants an acolyte to over throw him and become the new sith master, although qimir will fail in doing so and will meet his demise. Osha, mae and sol will also die some way before they tell about the sith to the jedi council.
Cortosis armor has been in comics and books since the 80s. It is in pretty much every Star Wars game. Cad Bane used Cortosis slugs to disable lightsabers. Cortosis armor hasn't shown up in live action because we haven't had armored Jedi and Sith in live action.
I loved this episode compared to the others bc of the action and it killed off half of the most insufferable characters so far. I could not stand Yord and Jecki, idk if it’s the acting or the character, but they were hard to watch along with Mae and Osha. Sol and Qimir, while not show saving (because how could they on their own), are two incredible potentially interesting characters who need more screen time
im sorry saying this is controversial is downright stupidity, it is universally hated anmd 87% of people agree probobly more since theres alot of people spamming bot reviews
