ACOLYTE Episode 8 BREAKDOWN - Every STAR WARS Easter Egg & ENDING EXPLAINED! 

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Qimir romantically holds Osha’s hand while gazing over the vast ocean…Osha whispers quietly in Qimir’s ear…”I hate water. It’s wet, it’s cold, and it gets everywhere…” 😎

Everybody knows that all the first cuss words in SW were from R2-D2.

When Palpatine tells Anikin the "The Tragedy of Darth Plaguis the Wise" was not a story the Jedi would tell him, it was implying it was a story they knew, were just withholding.

The fact that we have a live action Star Wars that put a LOT of time and effort into incredibly well choreographed lightsaber fights makes me happy... 😊 There hasn't been lightsaber fights this good since the prequels. I'm tempted to say that the lightsaber fights in The Acolyte are the best we've ever seen.

Have you ever heard the tragedy of Han Solo the blind? He was the correllian smuggler who lost his sight the same time his girl was in a metal bikini.

Why are we ignoring the tracker sabotaging Sol's ship?

I'm still confused about why that rat-lookin tracker decided to break the wires in Soles ship...like that was really random😂

Don't forget, Cassian and Jyn looking out at the sunset at the end of Rogue One.

In Legends Luke constructed a shorter "shoto" lightsaber to defend against Lumiya's light-whip. He has that because of vernestra!

This comment section is a breath of fresh air compared to all of the hate on SW Theory's channel.

When Sol did the force repulse like Starkiller in The Force Unleashed game I lost my mind.

When you mentioned a pair of characters gazing outward together for the endings of the darker Star Wars films, there is another one: Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor holding hands and then embracing on the beach of Scarif as the blast wave from the Death Star laser shot approaches and overtakes them.

I love how when Qimir's former master senses him in the Force, he acts like Jason Mendoza realizing a scheme has just gone south. "Later homies".

Han’s “see you in hell” in Empire wasn’t the first SW curse word. In the first movie, Han called Obi-Wan a “damn fool” and also said to Leia “What the hell are you doing?” Owen also said “there’ll be hell to pay.”

That no-shadow kick by Sol is what I have been waiting for (from Star Wars) for years! that was the best live action saber battle, yet.

I love your positive spin on things! Im so here for this.

Peter Griffin’s lightsaber cheese knife walked so Kimir’s mini saber could run

How GREAT was LEE JUNG jae's performance.. including his amazing fighting and lightsaber skills

Am I allowed to say I really loved this show?

Props to chris cowan who designed the fights. Tossed a little Donny Yen bicycle kick in there too.

I must say this channel is good at its job.. I come to these videos to learn about movies and shows … not sit and hate on it as a group … these days it’s hard to learn anything new about SW bc everyone stuck in the past

The senator was Martian manhunter on the CW's Supergirl

A minor mystery we didn't get an answer to. How did Mai get off Brendock and meet Quimer. Hope I spelled the names right.

1) How did the senate find out about Jedi dying but not the High Council? 2) Why is the senate talking to Vernestra at all? Does she lead the high council now? All the Jedi? 3) What was that ridiculous Plagueis cameo? It makes no sense! Was he there all along? 4) Why did Sol go into the asteroids? Why not just follow her outside of it? 5) Why was Sol targetting her? Was he going to shoot her down? 6) Why did Basil rip those cords out? 7) Why didn’t Sol just kill Qimir? 8) How the fk did OSHA bleed the crystal that fast without a problem? This almost KILLED Darth Vader!! 9) Where did OSHA’s force powers come from all of a sudden? 10) Why did Sol give up to OSHA? She pulled a Sabine SUDDENLY being super powerful? If she had the power all along then why could she not pull PIP to her on the prison transport? 11) Why is the senate having a conversation with Vernestra about the Jedi? Why are they not speaking to the high council? 12) Why did Mae let herself get captured? What did that do for them? 13) Why did Vernestra solidify the senates belief that the Jedi can go bad with her lie? How does that "protect" the Jedi? 14) How did the high council NOT know that Vernestra was full of shit? 15) Am I suppose to believe all the Jedi that know the truth also chose to lie to the High Council? There are at least a dozen Jedi ALONE in the situation room watching Mae (not Sol) kill the Jedi. None of them talked? They ALL kept the secret?? 16) Mae spends 16 years feeding on hate and then suddenly does good? 17) OSHA spends 16 years being good and then suddenly becomes evil? 18) Why would Qimir all of a sudden be Dr Love to Osha? 19) How the fk can Yoda be a part of this lie? 20) If Qimir can wipe a persons mind with the flick of a wrist then why not ALWAYS do that? Why fight at all if you can just revert anyone to the age of 1? How was this powerful ability so easy to do? 21) How come the Jedi can sometimes sense people and sometimes need a tracker? 22) How did OSHA power the elevator? The power supply for that facility blew up 16 years prior! She didn't have an alternate power source so HOW?? Where did the power come from? What the fk did I just watch???? Regarding your review... Ryan... 1) Vernestra did NOT frame Sol to "protect the Jedi Order". Telling the Senate that their fears are REAL does not protect the Jedi, it weakens them. She did it to protect herself and you know it! 2) You said that we see who Vernestra was reporting to "the entire time" but you know that's bullshit too! She specifically said that she was going to keep it from the High Council (you claim Yoda himself ordered her to keep it from the council without a single shread of proof to that) and had she been reporting to Yoda 'the whole time' then she wouldn't have anything to tell him at the end? He'd already know. 3) Yoda did keep things from the Senate in the past but NEVER from the High Council. What are you talking about? 4) The fight between Qimir and Sol was well done, I must admit, but the fight between OSHA and Mae was ridiculous. If you watch, not a single strike is intended to hit the opponent. They're just hitting each others strikes. 5) Why do you keep implying that Sol did something evil? The witch turned into a dark cloud, demon looking spirit (with sharp teeth) and appeared to be absorbing Mae (who Sol thought was OSHA). How can you NOT see he was reacting to protect and not to murder? YES, he should of done any number of things other than go lethal but there is no denying he did it as a protective measure and not an evil move! 6) Vernestra "might" be up to no good? MIGHT BE?? She LITERALLY lied to the council AND the senate. She IS up to no good! 7) Qimir tells Mae she cannot kill a Jedi with a weapon and yet the 1st Jedi she kills was with a weapon? Explain? 8) All us 'continuity hawks' are still right! Ki Adi Mundi KNEW the Jedi were killed by an assassin and NOT by Sol so he's STILL lying in TPM. How do you NOT see that? 9) Ryan... Vernestra's chair looks NOTHING like Emperor Palpatines... come on man! 10) If Qimir is not a Sith then WHY would Lesley Headland say this is a show about THE SITH? ANd if Qimir IS a Sith then why the hell is he being so NICE!? That's not how the dark side works! Ryan... MAKE IT MAKE SENSE and stop the shill antics bro!

Still confused why it seemed the twins switched ideologies so seemingly easily.

I love how Doug just started quoting Weird Al Yankovics song Yoda 😂❤

You mentioned again about all the sith triangles in this series. I don't ever remember hearing anyone mention this before, but I recently noticed that Shmi Skywalker's belt has a bunch of triangles on it too!! Poetry it rhymes!! Great job with your reviews. I always look forward to them just as much as the episodes.

whoever wrote the "Troy and Abed in the morning" into this video, i thank you

I just want to say 'Thank you Ryan and co!!!" You have given such a great review of this series without all of the negativity that I have seen on other channels. I am a 51-year-old woman who remembers the hatred given to the prequels when they came out. Then watched all the hatred for the Disney movies. This show is NOT as bad as a lot of SW fans are saying it is. It's not perfect, but nothing is. I have enjoyed it and am glad to find a space that doesn't try to shame me for doing so. I so want a season 2. I need to see more of Darth Plagueis! 😍 Let me go buy a ScreenCrush t-shirt! Thanks again for 7 great videos about this series.

I enjoyed this series! I hope they continue it. As always, Screencrush “crushes” the coverage! Also, I laughed out loud when Ryan says “…they’re going to smash”

Thank you ScreenCrush for the great content!! See ya on the next Star Wars project!!

I’m sorry you turn into a smoke demon without any warning you’re getting the saber…. Nobody believes the witches were just some friendly old ladies raising two kids from dark magic to be upstanding citizens 😂

What about the mole guy? He's still alive, I feel like he saw everything on the forest planet

I flipped out of my seat when I saw Darth Plagueis

I could be wrong but I feel like this show was like specifically designed to be watched one episode at a time like most weekly released shows AND to be watched all over again back to back in a binge session. Because I chose to rewatch every single episode before watching the finale and I personally feel like it made the show so SO much more enjoyable overall. You almost get even more/better context from previous episodes simply by having knowledge gained from later episodes. Like the scene where The Stranger cuts down a forest full of Jedi, knowing he couldn't see a f**king thing, imo, makes that scene so much cooler.

THAT LIGHTSABER FIGHT WAS EPIC

Doug - Nice job working in the Weird Al reference. Good dog!

At 16:29 - This wasn't a reveal ... Qimir killed Jecki with the little one

When Vernestra calls someone and you hear the voice on the other end saying “it’s highly unorthodox, but I will see what I can do” the voice sounds JUST like Papa Palps.

So am I the only one who thinks they named the Tynnan Bazil after The Great Mouse Detective? Basil of Baker Street, master detective… hmmm 🤔

Doug with that Community reference lolol 😂

Qimir's whole design was very Japanese inspired. He wore a Gi, his mask was clearly inspired by Hannya masks, and he had a Wakizashi. I loved this show, really hoping for a second season.

I absolutely loved this show, the suspense and horror aspects of the show were done beautifully. The lightsaber duels were some of the best in all of Star Wars.

I feel Qimir might still start the Knights of Ren. He may be an acolyte to Plagueis, or even just an assassin like Ventriss was for Dooku. Qimir might be thought to be dead, but comes back and starts the KoR. Plagueis will use Osha (and maybe Mae) to figure out how to make his own vergence in the force. Really good episode, and series, leaving us with a lot of questions.

During the awesome lightsaber sound (18:56), the stranger is trying to pull Sol’s saber into his helmet to try and deactivate it. Sol, remembering this from the forest, deactivates/destroys the siths saber.

Absolutely loved the Acolyte and really want a season 2. I want to see how this story continues to unfold!

I really love your videos because you can easily speak about the good and the bad of Star Wars without being like those annoying old fans… it’s really refreshing… ❤

Been waiting for this all day!!!

The bleeding of the lightsaber was awesome in live action

I think what everyone is missing is that Qimir is actually Darth Venamis who is looking for an apprentice so he can eventually overthrow his master Darth Tenebrous! What Qimir doesn’t know is his master had another apprentice Darth Plagueis who was SPYING on Qimir and Osha and if we get a season 2 we will see Darth Plagueis take his place as the master of eventually Palpatine in season three

This was an amazing finale honestly. I had a great time watching it, and almost every channel is hating on it for not strictly following the canon books that no one has read since 2012.

Mind wipe is also a big call back to what happened to Darth Revan

I just watched the whole thing start to finish. "Balance in the Force" is the best fantasy element in Star Wars writing. That's why I needed this show. All throughout Star Wars (if we've been watching closely), we've been told that we're only getting a "certain point of view." There's alot of pressure on Sith characters. I like Qimir quite a bit. Thanks for pointing out all of the balance themes!

Finally, somebody who appreciates Acolyte for what it is and doesn't criticize it for "ruining canon" or "diverse casting"

Hey Ryan. Just want to say that I was a huge New Rockstars fan since Wandavision, but I come here first now. You guys crush it and I love your content.

In legends the only way Luke could defeat lady lumiya who has a lightwhip was with a shoto. I suspect that’s why Qimir has one. You see he uses the helmet to hide himself from his former master Vern. If he ever wanted to defeat her with her lightwhip he’ll need a shoto.

Did anyone else find it hard to sympathize with Osha and Mae after OSHA killed Sol? Their story was sad. But just as a viewer who was conditioned to sympathize with Sol, I just didn’t feel much emotion towards their heartfelt goodbye at the end after force choking Sol to death.

Thank you for all the neutral, unbiased reviews of The Acolyte!

Mae being told to feed on her anger when she was a kid led to her setting the coven on fire and killing everyone. She had a lot of regrets and this probably kept her from really being able to stray into anger again. So she had trouble to pass the tests to join the Sith. Osha on the other hand never got to cope with that because the Jedi doesn't allow them to experience emotions, teachings she still held on to after she left.

Ah yes, Sol did it and acted alone. The guy who was on coruscant teaching younglings during the first murder.

When the show started I said “If I get to see a cameo of Plagueis once I’ll be happy.” I’m happy 😂

This was an awesome breakdown! I always look forward to running to your channel after watching these shows

LOVED when you played Seal’s “Kiss by a Rose” when Anakin meets the younglings.

i really enjoyed the series a lot, for so many reasons! I and am looking forward to more of this!

Literally just got on YT to see if SC uploaded anything yet, I was not disappointed.

Let's say it again. THAT IS SOME GOOD STAR WARS

They stuck the landing a lot cleaner than I could have expected and am glad they setup the next season so well while finishing this one's arcs

You can always know when an episode is written by Ryan because of the "your mom" jokes lol, I love it

One of the few positive and deep analysis of this show online. The show wasn't all the way crap! Thanks for showing how the show does have "The Force With it."

21:40. Also as soon as Vernestra sensed Qimir, he quickly put his cortosis helmet on to avoid the Jedi Master to read his thoughts.

I would like to thank this channel for being neutral and not just bashing the series

Season two: Yes, please. This opens up a way to make some wonderful stories about the Sith. Additionally, I think it can show how the Sith didn't just take over all at once, rather the Sith were slowly working in the shadows, manipulating the Senate as well as the Jedi, all while using assassins/acolytes to spread chaos without revealing their existence and their plans.

Just enjoying SW content.

This is the only place to get a NON BIASED Star Wars reaction. Cannot stand the other channels besides Star Wars explained. Both of these channels give info and not their bias

So, like two weeks ago Osha could not pick up a set of keys with the force. Are we to expect that force choke was so powerful, that the now powerful Sol couldnt resist it? She must be a fast learne...rememberer.

One of my favorite small details of this episode was how Kimir, Mae and Osha triangulated around Sol.

The "that's your mom" jokes always catch me off guard. The one at 22:15 actually had me invested

I absolutely love that show. Hope they soon start filming season 2

Am i the only one who was happy to see Martian manhunter? I yelled 😂

Thanks again for your reasonable coverage of The Acolyte. The toxicity online is outrageous. I can't understand how "fans" can bitch so incessantly about some things. They obviously just WANT to hate everything new.

In the book Plagueis knows of around 6 non-Jedi force users that were identified by his master that could be potential apprentices or dangers to the Sith plans. I always thought Plagueis would show up to eliminate Qimir.

Loved it! A great show!!

I liked this series. I hope there's a season two!

Thanks for not getting caught up in the hate hype.

Not Doug singing the Weird Al song 😂 13:59

Can’t believe I’m so excited for season 2! This episode is what the show should have been from the start.

I love these breakdowns bc it does show that they have out thought into the episodes even if the execution and final product is underwhelming.

I really hope there's going to be more seasons of this show. This was done so well.

Screencrush not spoil something in the thumbnail challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

This is the perfect reason why the Jedi masters rules , say they can’t have any emotional attachments He let Mae slipped off didn’t even sense or noticed , no focus 🧘 Then got choked out betrayed, by being emotionally attached A Sol, he does Not have - Yoda

Do NOT make fun of Simon. Always do what Simon says.

Highlight of the episode was OSHA rage inducing the kyber crystal from Sol's light saber.

You said Mae turns the light saber however it was OSHA.

I'm really confused about why Mai needed to be left with the jedi...like just because there are only two seats on the ship doesnt mean that she cant just stand in the ship while it goes into hyperspace..like come on..Osha: "Sorry Mai, I just found you again after over a decade apart and I love you so much but we only have two seats on the ship..cant stand next to me, sit on my lap or chill in the storage area sooooo sucks to suck now we gotta whip ur memory"...like what???😂😂

i feel like a lot of yall are missing a point which he stated in the beginning of the video. their “switch” in ideology wasn’t random or quick. everyone has good and bad in them. osha and mae are the same person (light and dark) a theme being shown throughout the entire series. osha always leaning towards the teachings of the sith while mae leaning towards the jedi. light and dark in everyone. i still think mae will end up becoming a wayseeker but will probably be a jedi at first.

Plagueis uses Osha & Mae to gain the ability to create life himself.. Palpatine wants to do the same after trying to take it from him, he realizes he needs a vergence to absorb to achieve it himself

Season 2 with Vernestra vs. Qimir, Vernestra vs. Osha, and ultimately Plagueis killing Qimir.

The jokes of my mom are always the best 😂

Thank you for easing my anxiety around this series.