Acolyte 8: The Worst Show Ever Made 

Jedi Squid Game was a disappointment in every way.

Yeah, if I had learned a new language to play a character in a series that I care about and they did my character like this….

Wait until the Disney emails, all 1.2 terabytes get released, and I'll bet you Slaughterhouse Five (I think I've gotten brain damage from this show, so idr the Korean series I watched him in) knew exactly what disney was, and how he was gonna die with a stunning and brave force choke handy j, before Vader did it. F' this show.

Blah blah. The dude read the script. He knew what this was and frankly he wasnt good in the show.

@@thestarisalie Star Wars hating has been going on since 1977. Look at all the bad reviews for the first movie. Some reviewers thought it was stupid and made for kids. The first 6 Star Wars has tons and tons of plot holes because George was adding stuff along the way for the Prequels which were then never mentioned in the Originals which happens years later like Qui-Gon Jinn and midi-chlorians which Obi-Wan and Yoda never speak about in the OGs. You would think Obi-Wan would mention his former master at least once in the OGs but he’s never mentioned. Not even in private with Yoda. And if you want to go even further, where the hell is Ahsoka in all of this? Never mentioned at all in any of the 9 movies. Filoni makes it seem she’s so significant. R2-D2 did more for the rebellion than Ahsoka did. Star Wars has tons of continuity issues. In 3 of the 9 films, they used the same planet killer Death Star plot. Two of those from the OGs. You should check The Acolyte subreddit with people liking the show. One person said it’s at least taking risks and killing off most of the main characters or at least the so-called good guys. But there’s an interesting discussion if Sol deserved to get killed or not? Was he more bad than how many of us perceive him? Bad as in doing bad things. Not necessarily evil. *Thank* *you,* *The* *Acolyte* www.reddit.com/r/StarWars/s/kb7vWMWtxF You might have a different opinion on it when reading some of the more positive comments for it. Could The Acolyte be misunderstood? Or could it be so hated now but be appreciated years later like what the Prequels became? I’ve seen positive comments for The Acolyte coming from Star Wars fans of at least 30-40 years. And thirsty females / shippers like this Oshamir stuff as their dark side Reylo. I still think The Acolyte sucks and is the worst thing that ever came out of Star Wars. But, I might compare it to when I owned an Atari Jaguar. I thought it was the worst video game console I ever had but I still have a soft spot for it. Sometimes being so bad can be looked upon as a cult classic years later. There are tons of people who love Godzilla movies and get a joy watching cheesy, campy fights with guys in rubber suits. Everybody processes information and media content differently. The few positive aspects that The Acolyte did give us are… - Qimir / The Stranger - Best lightsaber fights since the Prequels - Darth Plagueis Plagueis could lead us to a young Palpatine series someday. What Star Wars Meg needs to talk about next is Darth Plagueis possibly being in a Season 2 of The Acolyte if we do get one. It’s the big WTF/OMG moment from Ep. 8. Yoda is my second favorite SW character ever but I didn’t care about his appearance. And more Abeloth talk in Season 2 of Ahsoka. Star Wars Meg and Allen Xie of Generation Tech are at best when talking about Legends and stuff deeper into the lore. Shows like Ahsoka and The Acolyte are more like this providing more of the mystique of Star Wars than say Andor. Have the haters watched any actual SW shows? www.reddit.com/r/TheAcolyte/s/WIcQ64oXT2 I will admit The Acolyte did have superior fight choreography than Ahsoka. Not saying it was better than Ahsoka as an actual series, but it had far better fights. Does anybody remember when Maul kicks Obi-Wan to a lower floor? You can see zero contact. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qo__6MZIg6U.htmlsi=At6rA5Epw0aKJWbi My Disney+ SW Series Rankings 1. Andor 2. The Mandalorian 3. Ahsoka 4. Obi-Wan Kenobi 5. The Book of Boba Fett 6. The Acolyte ^ Or take the first two seasons of The Mandalorian and the first season of Andor and throw the rest in the trash.

I disagree, I think the Mae actress is worse.

They both are abysmal.

I liked her character in hunger games. After this show, as bad as it sounds, i watch her demise in that movie smiling!

I doubt she cares because she don't fuck with your discourse. In fact she's probably bored of the whole thing.

Yep, she sure is a baddie.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 🤭 💀

@@OsloTime Hmm rule of two... the apprentice replaces the master? Oh my... so Leslye is the master now?

@@marhawkman303 😬😬😬 👀😶‍🌫️

​@@marhawkman303only the master of evil.

@@jaranus597 But of course, what else would it be when replacing Weinstein?

After the Empire took over and dissolved the Senate, Ex-Senator Jar Jar now out of a job, wracked with Grief and realization that he inadvertently helped Palpatine rise to power. Jar Jar now spends his days in a cantenna at the depths of Coruscant using Death sticks, High Octane Spice and copius amounts of Alcohol to tell stories from thousands of years ago that no one can verify but they like the funny way he talks so they help pay for his addiction just for 1 day longer poor Jar Jar...

Feels more like a Rose Tico daydream to me.

That just proves that ANY random scenario is better than this series!!

I prefer the darth jar jar concept him and plageuis being one and the same

It was bad before Disney touched it

and Marvel

@dam1lor not fully dead. In a coma. Agatha All Along looks good.

Osha powered it with her mind

It’s probably would work just not in this franchise. Hara Kiri does an excellent job with some of those aspects with samurai and honor.

It stinks of a writer who has a destination in mind without considering how their characters could get there organically. Rather than change the setting or the end point, they just have the characters do whatever is necessary at that moment regardless of if it makes any sense.

The communication problem you mention is what writing coaches call the „idiot plot,“ where an entire story hinges solely on some sort of idiotic behavior or silly misunderstanding. Any drama that could have been avoided through a quick WhatsApp message isn‘t worth engaging with.

No they were lying to them for 16 yrs and they killed their family and tried to frame Mae when she was a CHILD how is that ok in any way what amount of talking would allow you to see someone point of view who did those evil things like that ?

@@ashleybanks-wm4cg Nothing in my post implies that what the Jedi did to cover up the incident on Brendock was "okay". In fact, my post goes to the point that if the Jedi and witches had talked to each other more effectively or even at all in some instances. The incident on Brendock likely wouldn't have happened. If it did still happen for whatever reason, if the Jedi had just told the council what really happened, none of the events that followed 16 years later would have unfolded. Almost everyone that was there shares some responsibility for what happened and the main reason that events unfolded the way they did that night is because no one simply talked to each.

@@alannothnagle I was going go mention this in my other response but I didn't want to write a book lol. You're right though and this plot contrivance has become such a trope that it's immediately recognizable as soon as it happens. The most common I can think of off hand is the guy getting caught in a seemingly compromising position by his love interest that has a perfectly innocent explanation, but either he doesn't bother trying to explain, or she runs off before he can, creating artificial conflict where there doesn't need to be one, usually in the 2nd or 3rd act of the show or movie. It's just lazy script writing.

who'd figure that the woman who used guilt to keep a serial sexual predator out of jail, would use guilt as a weapon in a show to bludgeon otherwise innocent people.

That would require comedic acting skill which is actually the toughest kind of acting. She is the opposite of that, no ability to be funny whatsoever, has one mode of expression

Oy! Please don't mention the great Mel Brooks alongside this modern crap

She can’t act, she can only overact…..atrocious

Every movie she's ever been in has been a success and an A list production with a lot of market you're just saying anything

She has that one deer in highlights looks. It's like blue steel but worse.

Answer:She the worst Jedi ever.

Yes. She did. Mundi “bought” it.

She is white and white people is evil

It was a respectful goodbye teleport. Why?

@@rosssoyka860Thats not what Leslie said.

Are you slow Sol clearly kills her did you just turn the show off while that was happening so you didn't see the scene afterwards holding her ?

@@ashleybanks-wm4cg I'm not watching it. I'm getting second hand knowledge of the trainwreck. If the second mother turned up later then it was a form of teleportation otherwise what was the point of it.

In general yes, the reason why I dislike all the crap about "Jedi are useless" pushed first in The Last Jedi is that even without the Jedi, there would still be countless Force users all around doing what they want and with a high risk of falling to the Dark Side and being a pain in the ass to everyone. So, yes, I'd pick the dogmatic but overall benevolent and controlled Jedi over a mass of uncontrolled Force users, scattared ans each with its own agenda and ideas

I don't remember where I heard it, but apparently she wants to do the Old Republic. Can't wait to see who gets to screw that one up.

They teased Yoda and Plageueus. So for season 2 promises to assassinate classic characters as well.

@@craigjacks588 i heard that too. I hope if they make a kotor Film or series they just copy everything one to one. Kotor is woke enough, Jedis are doing Bad stuff, Meetra Surik is a strong female character, same as Kreia and any other female companion, no need to change anything

@@Elias-2004 You'd think so, but I have zero faith they wouldn't try and "update for modern audiences" and ruin an already good thing. I mean, just look at what they've done to Star Wars in general.

@@craigjacks588 yeah, sadly you are probably right

I am NOT defending the atrociously bad tv series, but the common apologetic is as follows (from the Star Trek/Star Wars discord discussions): a. He wanted to use his Ion blasters to disable her ship, and shooting through the rocks would either cause more debris to hit him or her, and also be ineffective, plus his computer couldn't get a lock. b. He needed to keep an eye-line on her due to the rocks possibly becoming more dense or a potentially thick dust cloud could obscure her ship if she darted in another direction. - The counter to the apologetic that he knew she was headed for the planet anyway is that after she lost line of sight, she could just hide behind a large rock or dust cloud to wait him out (and he couldn't wait as the Jedi team was coming after him) c. If she decided to dip down out of the middle into the lower empty layer, that would further obscure his vision and mean he would need to go through 2 layers should he need to pursue her if she kept heading straight down d. His larger craft (mothership to the escape/fighter pod) has much more shields, power and hull durability than her small ship, so he could handle the hits until he disabled her ship. Trust me, there are far worse points to binge on to show the show is bad (just like people keep banging on Noah's Ark or the 6-day creation of the Earth in the Bible, when there are far easier ways to disprove God's existence). We're thinking way too much on the show than the scriptwriters ever did.

It's the swtor trailer called sacrifice. All of the swtor trailers are leagues better because they do such great job at show don't tell and leave you hype for more

Not to play the Devil's advocate, but I kinda like the idea of a powerful, proper Sith Lord refusing to depend on "trinkets and toys" like Cortosis armor and instead hone actual skills, Force and swordplay to the top. Anyone can kill a bunch of Jedi with a saber-proof armor, it takes a master (or an utter madman, admittedly) to accomplish this feat with skills alone. A villain can have pride too.

@@dariovirga7711 But his plan was a Death Star twice. Not to mention the fleet of ships in RoS (ew), would that not count as trinkets/toys?

He came close enough

@@icecreamchief5417 one thing is himself, one thing is the Empire he wants to set up.

From my perspective; the jedi are evil.

That's not to forget all the women in Legends who mop the floor with the ones from this show. And this lady also wants to do Kotor. 🤮🤮🤮

What attachment or even conversation has he made to love her? That was part of Sol delusions and false self justification that led to his downfall him being desperate for a Padawan doesn't justify him being obsessed with an 8 year old girl to the point he would kill her family and kidnap her

@@ashleybanks-wm4cg Poor writing that doesnt explain any of it. They would have to write a novel just to explain all of that and make him deluded and shit. Then write backstory for Osha as a Padawan to give them this father daughter relationship when they should be having a padawan master relationship.

A Jedi master 😭 this show is so painful

@@nxckz8759 I watched the first episode and half of the second, just out of morbid curiosity. Good God, where did the money go? The acting is called in by those who know how and everyone else is so bad. The sets and CGI looks like a "Hallmark TV Special" production.

And it's repulsive!

If it was, it would be an insult to YA novels.

More precisely it is YA fanfiction. The writer doesn't have the true creativity to make art from whole cloth and must use the shortcuts available with an established franchise within which they insert themselves and their ideas, often williey nilley, as in The Acolyte.

Fifth grade fan fiction. Bad fan fiction.

​@@RealLifeFakeWizardI'm starting to see your many points about the acolyte....you were slightly ahead of the curve ....I tell ppl : Don't sleep on the Fake Wizard.

I imagine the series is intended to conclude with Mae and Osha fusing back into one superior being, integrating her dark and light sides in classic Jungian fashion. But, yes, that will take at least six seasons and another billion dollars. 😢

Great points!! 👏 👏 👏 It makes no sense and she didn't even think it was important enough to explain or expand upon. So little care when into most parts of this show and then they over focused on other things that are dumb. She's out there working over time explaining her show on Mary Sue on YT and other interviews and it's like... if you have to explain SO much, it wasn't easy to understand and makes you wonder if this was the first effing draft and she ran with it. She straight up said she didn't have backup options for her actors as far as, if someone couldn't play the role she hadn't thought of another actor as a choice. And Amandla said that they'd had her in mind and it was all written for her before she even auditioned (which she would've gotten hired anyways so it's not really an audition) I wonder wtf made Leslye want Amandla in her lead role because she's as wooden in her acting a cardboard cut out. She's got like 3 facial expressions hahaha. It's just all so effed up and backwards.

@@OsloTime We all know why Amandla was propped up into this position. She's black, gay, and non-binary. That's like the trifecta of DEI hires. Even worse they gave her TWO starring roles as two different characters that she plays exactly the same even with the same hairstyle. I love how the sisters kept the exact same hairstyle since they were 8 years old clearly because Headland needed them to reasonably switch places and have no one notice. It's pretty clear how this story was structured that Leslye had an idea she liked and just wouldn't let it go no matter if it made sense to the story. This is the laziest written piece of garbage anyone involved should feel embarrassed to be associated with and even call yourselves professionals.

Sol was desperate for a Padawan This is explained in episode 7 when Indara chastised him not o let emotions get in the way of clear thinking

@@ashleybanks-wm4cg never in the history of Star Wars have I ever heard of Jedi masters who were desperate for padawans. That doesn't make any sense and it makes Sol an even worse Jedi if he didn't even have a force bond with Osha but instead just really believed that Osha was meant to be his padawan. Also no it was not explained that Sol was desperate for a padawan. At no point in episode 7 did Sol express desperation for a padawan. It was one line she said where she gloated about why she has a Padawan and he does not and it's only after she says that line when Sol starts claiming Osha is his padawan. Good lord even trying to have a serious debate on this show makes me feel stupid. What garbage writing and incredible misunderstanding of the Star Wars mythos.

@@Lockn3s5 it was clearly shown and implied that he was desperate for a Padawan

And not to mention that mofo saying they'll all fall if one jedi isn't good... what? Since when are the jedi a group that acts as one. Venestra who is such an awful character, whips her Palawan, Qimir and he's got scars. Whatever he did, it shows that clearly there have been jedi or Palawan who've 'gone to the dark side' before. That senator speech made me want to throw up my breakfast on Leslye's desk. 😂😂😂 I HATE Venestra's character so much. She's a bad actress and of course wife of Leslye gets the last word which is all lies, lies lies. Smh...

Does not seem too far fetched considering the "logic" of the first season.

You're stuck in 2001

Never read about lightsaber bleed yet you're a star wars fan? I doubt it

@@ashleybanks-wm4cg I've read about and if you have too you would know from the Vader comics that its a difficult process and doesn't happen on the go. Comics BTW were put out by Disney and considered Canon

@@accursiusx13 it happens based on how close what side you are on That's why some non Jedi have orange sabers

Thanks so much! This was a tough one to get through.

Basil's cute I guess. Does that count?

Darth Vader redemption provided unexpected twist spicing already great story. Acolyte 8 episode nailed to coffin the bad story with even worse story. And... clif hanger is pointless as no further seasons will be founded

Sith don't take children and prefer users to be older than not so you're backwards and wrong

Palpatine is a redhead and the child of some high ranking politician from naboo. If they claim smilo is Palpatine they completely break canon. Especially since he shouldn't even be born for another 40 years or something, not even the Disney knights should be able to defend such a decision.

@@brotbrotsen1100 All of that information, except for the Naboo part, is from the EU if I’m not mistaken. Disney threw that out a long time ago.

The way this show treats the lore, it would not surprise me. Palpatine was 50 to 60 during The Phantom Menace according to EU so he shouldn't have been born yet. With a few clicks on a keyboard, they can make him 150 easy as pie. Sadly I haven't cared about Star Wars for years, as far as I'm concerned the series ended on episode 6 with the occasional surprises like Rogue One and Andor.

​@@MashoneNBKAndor is the most boring show😂You're stuck in 2003

21:24 It’s real.