Let's talk some "The Acolyte" (Episode 8) with Thor & Naboo 

When Qimir put on the helmet quickly when he sensed Vanestra.. I audibly laughed at the goofiness of a Sith apprentice scared of his mommy finding him.

I love hearing ep. 8 review with Naboo because Thor is laughing instead of sounding despondent and bummed out like in his own review.

“It isn’t cheating if you’re a vergence” lol 😂

Can I get Qimir to wipe my memory of The Acolyte?

"It's not cheating when you're a Virgence" LMAO 😂

It turns out the Acolyte was the homesick boi who just wanted to go home after 7 weeks of camping in the woods.

Also, Naboo is on fire in this video! Backward-talking Yoda is amazing "yeah, no one knows what he's saying"

"Don't make sense. We're talking about the Acolyte," was a fantastic comment. About choked from laughing.

Naboo was in rare form today lol😅😅

I have simply excised Acolyte from the Star Wars part of my brain. It bests exists by not existing.

Turns out the real treasure was the Jedi we slaughtered along the way

For the lightsabers, you can clearly tell they're a plastic blade with lights under them. They look terrible in daylight, hence why a majority of scenes from more recent shows (obi wan, Ahsoka) are shot in nighttime scenes. In either lighting environment, while I think the practical lighting looks great, they really need to CGI them to make them look like prequel/OT blades, they need to look like a "beam of light" not an "illuminated plastic blade" imo

Yoda looked old because the puppet, they pulled out of the storage bin, was old.

Well, when you get a famous, big name actor like Yoda, you obviously can't use him too much. His salary would eat up all the budget.

If there's any consolation for Disney and Star Wars brand integrity it's that not a lot of people actually watched this. I think they should really consider just giving it the "Willow treatment". Meaning, a complete ERASE from existence.

I can hear my tears in your laughter, especially the Darth Nepo conversation, and it's very therapeutic. Thank you for that 😂

It's actually quite entertaining watching some other YT channels twist themselves into knots attempting to make sense of this show. LOVE the discussion guys. 🙏

It turns out the real acolyte was the good-turned-evil twin vergence clone we met along the way.

I think Yoda spent the last 50 years in the bacta tank. It's the only explanation.

I feel bad for Lee Jung-jae, Manny Jacinto and Dafne Keen, all more than decent actors, and hope this pos of a show won't tank their carees too much. Yaas Queen Amandla Stenberg can go twerk rocks as far as I'm concerned.

I move that we have Naboo in some capacity on every video 🙋🏻‍♂️

Agree with Thor, the Senate angle needed to be developed so we have a sense of danger or the stakes with a possible official investigation.

I like that there are so many justifications and caviots that have to be made when watching this show. Why can't a show just be made with great writing and coherent story?

OMG I realised why Basil did that to Sol's ship, because he has a thing for pip, and didn't want him to get hurt... If that's the real reason why we saw him so interested in Pip those previous episodes, this show is beyond idiotic.

i nearly died laughing great review

Who knew Magneto's helmet also protected him from getting probed by aliens? 😂😂😂

Mae’s personality: Uno Reverse card OSHA’s personality: Uno +4 card

Naboo makes this hella-funny!😂

The real mystery of this show is how the hell anything makes sense.

The power of one, trained by Manny! 😂

OMG 100% on point with Bazil...WTF is he doing?

Naboo: At least they tried Lmao

The only good was Lee Jung-jae acting. Not his role, just his acting. That's it.

Given the chance Lesley would make smiley and whatever twin is with him be the grandparents or great grandparents of Anakin

lightsabers do look off

I found almost no answers here... Same in Ashoka though, but we were promised complete story

Going back to Ep 7, they could had added context 'Mother' turned into the smoke creature by including a few lines. For example, having her say, *_"I will not allowed the Jedi take my children. I will destroy you."_* At least, that would be justifiable motivation for Sol to attack her in self-defense. Another way they could have is to maybe include some outside forces manipulating the Jedi to act irrationally.

We don't know Qymir's full name... Bet it's SKYWALKER 😮😂

I think Basil sabotaged the ship because he sensed Sol's actual feelings in the moment and that he was going to try and kill Mae. However, it was not conveyed well at all, just like many things in the Acolyte, and actually made no sense. Why would Sol suddenly feel the need to kill her? Why would his character ever feel the need to kill someone who was not a physical threat to himself or others in his group? Had she said that she was going to go and kill Osha, then okay...maybe then it would have been a justified thing to do. But it made zero sense in the context they put it in. Sol in the last two episodes became some hyper emotional, ultra selfish, blubbering fool who was completely engulfed in self pity. Made zero sense. I liked his character until they completely changed his character in the end to fit their narrative of Jedi bad.

He's clearly a gopher

There has been a lot of terrible Star Wars under Disney, a long with a few good things, but this series baffled me with how terrible it was the entire time. I just couldn’t believe it. I still can’t believe it. How on earth do you make something so terrible with putting any effort at all in to something. It’s like the script was written by an AI and never proof read

12:54 Yeah, I know this show has like 500 other much bigger problems to addeess but... Is that the crest of the Rebellion on her shoulders in that dress? Because thats what it looks like...

Identical twins always come from one egg.

This is the funniest video you guys have ever made! 😂😂😂

Mindbogglingly bad script. How did it make it past pre-production? 😢

It's not cheating when you're a 'Vergence'. -ohmygod. lmao.

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Basil the rodent?

Amazing. Well done. I loved all of your reviews and especially this one that incorporates a more casual perspective.

Sailor Naboo needs to be on FNT this week 😂

Nothing happened. Nothing was resolved. Qymir starts and finishes with Mae / Osha as his buddy (same person). The Jedi who fought with the witches got killed, Venestra covered it up, that's it. We don't know who Qymir is or why he's a Sith. We don't know where Osha / Mae came from. The whole stupid plot is just going round in a big pointless circle ending up where you started. Trash!

now with the acolyte, star wars has finally reached the abysmal depths of star trek discovery, which came out about 7 years ago. in retrospect, this was only a question of time. i think it takes a VERY special kind of stupid to fail in such a way. i thought i was hardened by STDis, but such impudence still hurts badly. i once loved both franchises.

This was the funniest episode I've listened to. The chemistry was on point

Great video from thor and naboo

If this gets a season 2, Koral will be revealed as Plagueis

I thought the joke about Yoda wasn’t in the budget was a joke like Yoda was an A list actor that would demand a huge salary

Jedi don't sense anything in the Force...until the plot requires them to.

Do you think they would do Plagueis=Master, Vernestra=Apprentice, Qimir=Acolyte #1 who is looking for an apprentice to move up the rankings? The whole thing is such a convoluted mess.

If you can change lightsaber color: Why didn't luke's green lightsaber turned red when Vader used it or why Vader's lightsaber remain red in the emperor's chambers? Now if anything ruins canon is going to be Acolyte's blame

Yoda on sabbatical could* be a fun light-hearted comedy for kids where Yoda travels the galaxy helping solve problems. * If it isn't made by Disney.

Like a Vergence, touched by the Force for the very first time,

I was questioning why he didnt just wipe himself from her mind. Nothing about Osha in her head would have lead her to be used to find her. Mae new what planet qimir was stationed on....so why not just wipe himself from her

Yoda: "No sense does this make!!!" ; )

“There is no good or evil. There is only power and those too weak to use it.” -Voldemort

I knew this last episode would be abysmal based on her zoom interview on Star Wars Explained. She literslly said, "Star Wars is about the betrayal of the father"

We usually get subtitles when it's a key plot point and the POV character understands the alien even if he/she's not speaking it himself/herself. If there's no real POV character present and they're setting up a scene with a bit of dialogue they'll give subtitles. It's when one or more POV characters are present who don't understand the alien that we usually don't get subtitles. Or if there's someone there to translate the gist for the POV character(s) then we also don't tend to get subtitles either but we find out what was said when the POV characters do. I'm sure there's been exceptions to all of that but that tends to be the trend from my observation.

That whole part at the end felt rushed and not believable. What incentive does Osha have to go with Qimir? I get Sol betrayed her and it pushed her to the Dark Side, but that doesn't mean she's obligated to go with Qimir who is a murderer. Just run off with your sister? If she was basically sacrificing herself to free Mae from Qimir, then why is Mae okay with Osha being left with him while her memory gets wiped? Why is Osha okay with Mae's memory getting wiped and being captured by the Jedi? Why is she getting romantically involved with a monster just because she felt betrayed by Sol?! Wild

16:15: "It's not cheating when you're a vergence." Best line to come of this show. 🌟

It will be interesting to see what Disney decides to do from here.

Basil clearly understood that Sol was a menace and did something about it. A true hero!

16:15 😂😂😂😂😂 they are 1 person sooooo not cheating checks out lmao

You folks were on fire, thank you

They made the Jedi bad Jedi and the Sith Grey Sith so we'd feel sympathy for them. They forget George's number one rule, Star Wars is for kids. What is the lesson you're trying to teach kids here by making the good guys awful and the bad guys compassionate and misunderstood oppressed people we should feel sympathetic for?

lmao the Bazil discourse cracks me up.. I just see his angry little face 😂😂😂

I like how our expectations for the finale were already so low, and it still somehow turned out to be worse than we expected

The acolyte is part of the legends comic that didn’t release lmaoooo

I am genuinely afraid they get a second season and screw up what Luceno told us about Plagueis in his novel

Almost already forgotten about this series. It really didn't give much, it's like it never happened

Man here I also agree The devil wears prada is such a good movie

Yoda was on vacation with Yaddle making Grogu

Are we surprised that much of the issue with the series is the executive producer's wife getting an outsize role?

I’m with Naboo I read/watch garbage because I need answers. It’s a stupid thing but I get wrapped up into seasons and seasons or books and books because I need to know everything. I usually regret it though

I'm so glad I didn't watch one second of this garbage besides clips online.

...since "The Force Is Female" i assumed Basil was a Beaver...? ...at The End of TFA, we see Jake Skywalker... ...at The End of "The ACOLYTE" we see Yoda Head[land]... ...again, it's lyke Bunta Tree, they rhyme... 👽 🖖 🤖 ...Answer, or Answer not, there is no "they tried"...

You should not be able to bleed a crystal while it's still in the hilt. That would absolutely damage the lightsaber. And it's way less cool then scenes like Dagan Gera's bleeding or Vader's bleeding.

The point about the Jedi being flawed is to portray that they gave into fear And that led to their downfall

I think there should be a Meme Monday devoted to skewering The Acolyte.

I like lady thors points.

The way sol died was just demoralizing though. For a character people liked the most or compared to qui gon, his death like that was basically if iago from Aladin killed sultan when he stuffed the crackers in his mouth. He wasn't a perfect guy but he deserves a better death. This was like your kid you adopted killing you because you saved them from a broken house hold.

Name the person who never uses a light saber in this show😂😂😂

Hey Thor: Oh man Thor, hearing you and your wife genuinely break out in laughter made my day. Perhaps the only saving grace of the show is r laughter it brought, probably not what they were going for. Keep up the great analysis. Also I'm still interested to hear your opinion on the idea of doing the Darth plagueis novel as an animated series, thoughts?

Clearly Bazil was the comic relief character but was cut from it as it was tonally wrong when they upped the sith and the killing. They excised as much as they could but they had to leave the bits where he changed the plot (pip hard reset and sabotaging sol’s ship). They realised that it made no sense but couldn’t not have it in.

The Jedi are the X-Men of the Star Wars Universe.

In my opinion, the two cameos are just fanservice, for people in the know to point and clap. I dont mean this because there are just cameos at all, but they dont serve this story, instead they tease another, probably better show that we could have gotten. I think i know what would improve them immensely while changing very little. Firstly, dont tease Plageius 10 minutes into the episode then never bring it up again, move it to the end like the yoda one, this will also help juxtapose the two masters. For Plageius, instead of hiding until qimir and osha leave for brendok, since its at the end now, have him be waiting for them in the cave for their return. He doesnt have to say anything, but maybe something short and menacing, that instills visible fear into Qimir, doesnt even need to kill him, though if he did kill him for breaking the rule of two, it would be quite poetic end for him, but if theres a season 2 i get keeping him alive. Then for yoda, simply change whos saying the line, let him say something like "Master Vernestra. Speak, we must." and she would have a hint of fear on her face aswell, since she knows what shes done, and yoda aint gonna like it. I honestly think this would better fit the story we were watching. though wanting to tie up another loose end, could have Plagueboy say the rhyme to osha, finally connecting the two plots, but again probably in a season 2 if it happens.

It’s not that evil won, it’s that evil won and that is supposed to be a good thing.

Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the lightsabers in the prequels, or at least in Revenge Of The Sith, a lot thinner than the ones Disney uses. I think the blade part of the props were thinner compared to the ones you see in something like the Last Jedi behind the scenes.

Didn’t Qimir want to kill Mai in episode 5 for leaving him

I have to say: what a tragic, colossal waste of Carrie-Anne Moss! They get HER to play a Jedi and this is what it all amounts to? Travesty.

Let us hope that episode 8 was the last episode of this abomination.

why did they shift the scenes on Coruscant to the ancillary Jedi office building all the sudden, in the final episode? the one with blue and purple walls?

Why didn’t the words “Smoke Demon” come out of Sol’s mouth, at any point when he attempted to explain “why he killed Mom”?