She shouldn't be in the Jedi Order... 

In my head canon, most force sensitive Wookies become tribal shaman, not Jedi. It's not worth the risk to grab force sensitive Wookies when they lose 3 Jedi to the forest on the way. Wookies are a lightside culture, Jedi don't need to keep them down.

You don’t need to say “looked nothing like the cartoons” when talking about The Grand Inquisitor, because we already saw his species properly displayed in live action in Revenge of the Sith. And he looked nothing like his own species.

As a brazilian this concept is fairly easily for me to understand: your blood means nothing behaviour-wise and you have nothing to do with other people's actions. Be a good person and you're more than welcome among us!

As for the minimal appearance of aliens in SW: Andor, isn't the Empire supposed to be 'humanocentric'... 'anti-alien'?...

I m not against an alien invasion, as long as they are twileks.

You know what else, I think she’s a hybrid of a Zygerrian and a Zabrak, given the horns and minor stripes around them.

A possible head canon idea for a zygarrien jedi. Since the zygarriens hated the jedi so much, a force sensitive child would have been an embarrassment or disgrace to their family, and cause for contempt. This zygarrien jedi would have just been fortunate enough to have parents who loved her enough to give her to the jedi

There is also a Trandosian jedi in the high republic comics, I think it’s cool when the less commonly “good guy” species become Jedi learners/ Knights

To be fair, Kenobi wasn't really putting up a fight. His job was to distract that particular Zygerrian while Anakin and Ahsoka disabled the weapons (don't remember at this time what those weapons were).

The Nemodians looked INCREDIBLE. Whoever was in charge of that: a million praises.. and then a million more.

Nicholas Mayer was not a Star Trek fan, but gave us Wrath of Khan and Undiscovered Country. As long as you respect the source material, it might even be better not to have ‘fan baggage’

That introduction to Kelnacca makes me think that he and Jolee Bindo would have been fast friends and would have plenty of tea parties complaining about all the kids who keep showing up in their yards XD

The no Wookie jedi rule could have been a way to reduce a problem with Wookies showing up everywhere.

I smell in the distance that the acolyte will include a storyline about corruption in the jedi order

Jecki Lon is great. Dafne Keen is yet another example of the stellar acting cast of The Acolyte. She manages to convey Jecki Lon's youth, dogmatism, intellect, and inner warmth, all without seeming contradictory.

My favorite Star Wars actor playing a lovable furball will forever be John Candy! He was a good boy. Going plaid!

The fact you're aware of the economic negatives of slavery and point that out too is based. Way too many people get comfortable hiding behind the micro-econ particulars of the individual owners.

I didn’t realize she was Zygerion while watching the Acolyte but right before u said her species, I was like o wait I know her, she’s the slaver species 😂

3:14 "she's actually a feline humanoid that's evolved from a sentient canine". Huh?

Fun head canon: Allen constantly has different backgrounds there are forces out there trying to silence him. So he is constantly on the run while making these videos Love the discussions and content on the star wars show. Currently have some mixed feelings on it, but I'm open to see where it's going

other channels are farming rage bait, this guy is actually digging into the lore and pumping out cool stuff, cheers mate

There were deffinately more episodes with Andor in the background, on Ferrix and Coruscant.

She is not just Zygerrian. Her horns and tatoos may imply she is half-Dathomirian Zabrak. Maybe this is why she is not with her species.

I don't think a zygerian has to have a violent recruitment story. Even in Zygeria, there may be Republic sympathizers. Of course, even in the Republic, people could have a violent Jedi recruitment. Take this channel favorite Jedi:Ki-Adi-Mundi. His father said no to the Jedi. A gang bike beat him up. Then he agreed to send Ki-Adi-Mundi to the temple so that the gang wouldn't kidnap Ki-Adi.

Jedi don’t take children against the will of the parent. The parents have to give permission for the Jedi to take the child

I knew Tasi Lowa was a Zygerrian at first glance. I think the makeup artist team did a great job taking the feline race only seen in the animated works until the Acolyte.

I like to see more "bad guy aliens" as something more than bad guys. Tuskens in Mandalorian and BoBF, Weeqway in Mandalorian and BoBF, Quarren in Clone Wars, Trandoshans in High Republic and Squadrons and now Zygerrian in Acolyte. Hopefully more like Hutts and Aqualish get same treatment someday. Even if most of certain species are a-holes there will always be some good guys in there

Tasi Lowa’s background doesn’t necessarily have to be negative. She may just be from a family that had left Zygeria several generations before and abandoned some of the negative aspects of their culture.

You're assuming all Zygerians are part of the same cutlure. Zabraks for example can either be from Dathomir or Iridonia, and plenty of Iridonian Zabraks have joined the order. There's also no reason to assume Zygerian culture was exactly the same at the Time.

I would totally fraternize with some of those aliens. Boldly go where no man has gone before.

Also human-occupied planets aren't necessarily going to host aliens, or vice versa. There's probably whole regions of space where humans and other species are rarely seen too.

Well, that's certainly a take. This sounds an awful lot like saying all Rodians must be incompetent bounty hunters because the one we saw was. Even if 99.999% of Zygerrians are massive dickweeds, that still leaves the possibility of the rare Zygerrian who isn't. Even if we assume they're all as bad as the one queen and her court (which is a bit of a stretch), why would the Jedi turn one away to grow up in an evil culture with Force powers? That's like asking to make a darksider.

At this point, you’re the only person I trust to give a rational take on Star Wars at this point.

The part, where the Zygerrian girl would be taken forcefully from her parents, that totally fits into the Acolyte lore of Jedi being now evil (instead of offering to train force sensitive kids as an educational institution) - abusing their power.

ik this isn’t what the video is about, but just wanted to share. JJ Abrams wasn’t a Star Wars fan… he was an Episode 4-5 fan. He outwardly trashed on everything else from Star Wars. Dave Filoni is a star wars fan, he understands what makes Star Wars, Star Wars. Thats why one made the sequels, and the other made The Clone Wars, Rebels, the Mandalorian, etc.

Generation Tech 826K subscribers I do remember the Zygerians, as they had a powerful and vast slave empire. The Zygerrians (Star Wars) are very much a lot like the Orion Syndicate (Star Trek), because they're infamously and notoriously well known for being greatly feared and notorious slavers and pirates. But it is always nice to see a fewgood, kind, and friendly individuals members of these two hostile species from their respective franchises fighting on the side of good. D'Vana Tendi one of the main characters from "Star Trek: Lower Decks" for example is a friendly female Orion who joins Starfleet and teaches us that not all Orions are bad.

Zygerrian Jadi are rare but they are some. Farzala Tarabal was a Zygerrian male Jedi Knight of the Jedi Order during the High Republic Era. And for now I dont see many problems with Acolyte. We see how it will look in next episode.

We are all supposed to be working but really we are just watching you talk about Star Wars.

I was stoked to see a Zygerian not just in live action but as a freaking Jedi.

There was also a Hutt Jedi.

I'm trying to figure out why each species has to be a monolith. Some aliens can be born off there home world and not have an allegience to the homeworld especially if the parents will allow there child to join the Jedi.

Its a shame we don't get to see Jecki and Yord's padawan interacting. I wonder if they are friends. I understand why they didn't want to add too many characters, especially another with such heavy makeup, but would have been interesting to see them discuss their masters, similar to Ahsoka and Barriss.

So when is a cat girl not a cat girl when she is in a Disney Star wars tv series.

Her journey to the Jedi Order would be interesting to explore in a comic.

why was none of this in the show, they knew folks like you would elaborate. i still, still want starwars to be what my older brother showed me HOPE. A idea of how small the material is and how unstoppable a good man can be, ohh calm down man means people THE RACE OF MAN ON EARTH. A MAN ON THE MOON......

I know this video wasn’t about those guys you mentioned but I would enjoy a video talking about different perspectives of being a part of the Star Wars fandom. I appreciate you for being very objective in your videos but I wouldn’t mind hearing your personal take whether I agree with it or not. Your one of my favorite Star Wars channels so I’ll support you no matter what

You take this series too serious. It's just fan fiction, and it's bad fan fiction.

I’ve been watching you for years and this is the first time I’ve commented (I think) I just wanna tell you that you’re the best Star Wars RU-vidr/Content creator. I enjoy The Acolyte and you’re the only one analyzing and making positive videos about it instead of crapping on it 😂. Disney isn’t perfect I agree and I don’t like the sequels too much but all of their shows have been great to me! Never stop making videos. You have the most in depth immersive Star Wars videos on the internet! Thank for the entertainment lol

You know, I've never realized why people hate that the sequel trilogy is essentially a re-telling of New Hope. I LIKED that, they brought back most of the characters we used to love, and we found out that the galaxy hasn't changed that much. The refurbished plot was a shout-out to New Hope (as was bringing back as many of the core characters as they could) is the way I saw it. I saw the new trilogy as kind of resetting the stage for a new cast of heroes - considering Ford wouldn't stay, and how old the original cast were. We lost two of them, or was it three, during the course of the sequels - the real actors passed.) Honestly the only thing I had against the series was that they set us up to have three main characters; and in the last movie the two guys were only barely in it. I mean, what might have been neat is if Rey got captured by elements of the New Order and the guys had to band together to rescue her, or some other important personage had been captured and the three of them had to work together to free the person. Maybe though that would have been a better plot for movie 2, but the guys should have played some prominent role in the last film. I tend to think that this is a big part of the reason everyone hates Rey as a "Mary Sue" - not because she was exceptionally talented (her grandpa was the Emperor for cripes sake, he was one of the most powerful Force Users ever. And he was deliberately trying to find a way to clone Force Users so he could get a proper clone of himself.) Part of the lore says that the reason Jedi are not supposed to have children is because the child of a force-user is almost always more powerful than their parent(s) - and it can be difficult to teach an abnormally powerful child any sort of morality when they can make you "kiss" every wall, floor, and ceiling in the house with bone-breaking force during a temper tantrum. Imagine the "Terrible Twos" with a child that can throw you through walls when they get upset. Or maybe Mind Trick you into giving them their way every time. There's an old Twilight Zone episode I think was called "It's a good life" where this entire town is held hostage by a remorseless, selfish kid who can make his every wish come true. That's kind of what having a Force Sensitive child could be like period without the Jedi to teach them (and teach them that bad behavior has consequences with the power to enforce it). And it would be worse with an even stronger Force Sensitive child of a Jedi who can't compete with their own child. If Rey was a Mary Sue then what does that make Luke? He gets a couple weeks of training with Obi during transit to Alderaan, and a couple months of training with Yoda on Degobah, and suddenly he can go nearly toe to toe with Vader. And in RotJ he could have taken Vader, he didn't want to, it wasn't his Destiny. Somebody had to push Anakin into fulfilling his Destiny - and doing that was Luke's Destiny. Palpatine WANTED Luke to kill Vader because he knew Luke was stronger than Vader. I also don't quite get why people are angry about Luke's death. He died a heroes death, saving his sister one last time. He'd turned away from The Force after a terrible mistake, blinded himself to it, and managed still to Mind Trick Ren's entire army from halfway across the galaxy, to save his sister. That's pretty epic IMHO. At the same time he stopped Ren from killing his mother, and maybe forcing him to reconsider some of his actions. Brief note; the Jedi almost never kidnapped children; just like we saw with Anakin, instead he and his mother were talked to and ASKED to let Anakin become a Jedi; that is how it was USUALLY done. The Jedi would tell the parents they have two choices; they can keep their child, but the child will be untrained and eventually probably forget their connection to The Force; or the child can join the Jedi Order, be trained to use their gifts, and possibly become galactic-level heroes. But the latter would come with sacrifices. I can imagine that many parents would have to take serious thought about this. They can keep their child by their side knowing that their child will probably end up just like them. Or they can give up their child for the child's own sake so they can make the most of their lives. Do they do the selfish thing and keep their child by their side, or do they do the selfless thing and give up their child to the Order knowing the Order will do their best with them? Also "taking a child from their parents against their will is troubling and morally incorrect" - what if the parents are abusive and a danger to the child's life? That was MY childhood, my entire life would have been so much BETTER if I had been taken from them against their will. I might have actually had a decent life without them. Now I'm almost 63 and I'm alone. I've never been married, I have no children, and I barely know any of my blood family. I have to take daily medication to help me deal with the trauma of my childhood with my parents. I know I'm not alone in this either, I've met dozens of others who had similar, or even worse, families. Good, you mentioned the Wookie Padawan from Clone Wars. Wookies are almost certainly one of those species derived from human colonists that evolved to survive on their planet. Almost certainly the ancient Rakata Force manipulated human genetics to make us more adaptable then we already were - it was why humans were their favorite species of slaves and a big part of why there are so many worlds with humans living on them. Sorry for this long post, I always seem to get these ideas when listening to your show. I deleted a longer one for another pod-cast just yesterday.

I saw a really fat jedi, I don't know about you but as far as I know, Jedi train their bodies to the physical limit to make sure they're ready for battle.

if we want to go by weird jedi species...there is an old comic about the first sith vs republic war and it does show a pureblood sith with the jedi XD

Thank god I’m not the only who caught that!😂 right when she appeared on screen I was like “what’s going on here”

I feel like if humans can be in the order, anyone can. Lol

(Here's me not wanting to spoiler myself this time but the thumbnail actually made it click for me 'Oh! She's *Zygerrian, isn't she.* ' I had this nagging sense of familiarity I couldn't place with her. )

Just be thankful it was a Zygerrian and not a Cathar. Imagine the CGI Cats, but an entire species of them.

Star Wars has always had a race problem. The twileks are a dancing race, the bothans are a scheming race, etc

I should note that Tasi Lowa wasn't the only Zygerrian Jedi. Just 100 years before The Acolyte, we had Farzala Tarabal from the High Republic Adventures comics.

Leslye Headlund see the High Republic comics feature a Trandoshan Jedi, says "hold my beer" and walks into the Acolyte's writers' room.

Reminder that it's ok for people different from you to play in your sandbox

I want a Harry and the Skywalkers sitcom.

Oh ... I thought she was some kind of Bat species. You know, like in Andromeda. I look forward to your comments on the female Zabrak design they presented with the third episode today.

I’m not sure what race this Jedi/Sith was, but they were aboard the Yuuzan Vong ship when they tortured the one tuskan Jedi, who became Darth Krate (def spelling wrong) and they looked kind of similar, are they the same race?

Love your videos! Always hyped when I see a notification that you dropped a video :)

It's cool that The Acolyte has more aliens.

great synopsis , i do find your take on things interesting and well thought out.

I remember seeing at least one zygerrian civilian in the background during the clone wars season 5. It's possible not all of them are slavers aside from tasi lowa.

Thoughtful analysis of the show, finally. I'm sick of all these weird, highly critical reviews by dudes who clearly have something against women, or something. I enjoyed the backstory on the various alien species, it helps flesh out the show. I'm still on the fence as well, and definitely share some of the overall concerns (fire in space, etc.), but I do find that a lot of these SW shows need the entire arc of the season to reveal how well (or poorly) executed they were.

A HUGE STEP SIDEWAYS KILLED ME XD

I get it when GL wanted the OG species and race lore a little more boxy. the Wookie cannot be a Jedi as Mandalorians cannot be Jedi and others. he wanted Wookies primary roles as the strong primal race. it's like marvel comics as The Hulk is strong, unstoppable force while Venom as symbiote nemesis to spiderman with wicked powers. Marvel have often combines these two elements as the Hulk Venom fusion is better than their counterparts. now turn Wookie into a Jedi and you get a Hulk/Venom thing going on on star wars and looses the value of what Chewbacca brings since you create a hands down more powerful Chewbacca and if that becomes common, then the beloved Chewie just becomes a Wookie grunt. but race wise it's not all bad since Wookies are probably natural affinity to light side of the forces. they are primal in a savage world, live almost as long Yoda species and a natural knack for justice and honor. But leave Mandalorians alone. they are too proud to be members of the Jedi cult in their own words.

the fact that you think any thought went into these characters at all is funny

I always wondered why we never saw a Zygerian (forgive me if I butchered the spelling) jedi

I love how this man is writing more interesting canon in his head by reading between the lines than the writers can express explicitly.

It’s really nice to see someone actually talk about Star Wars instead of the toxic fans making the same stupid points over and over and pretending to be Oscar writing geniuses. Subscribed

0:05 ... Yeah, I think it's very telling that you have to open like that. I don't hate it. I just don't understand who they're trying to tell this story for. I thought they were supposed to have learned some kind of lesson about who their demographic is and who they need to be selling Star Wars to. If you want to kill a franchise, then tell your largest demographic that the franchise is no longer going to cater to you. It's not for you anymore. 😂

Thank you for your continued discourse, Alan.

The behind the scenes crew really should take note on how to make alien characters look real from the LOTR crew

I mean, there were Sith Pureblood jedi, anything is possible on this front

Filoni shouldn't get heat for rescuing legends content.

There have been at least two other zygerrian Jedi: Farzala and Tosan! Farzala specifically gets some spotlight on him during the high republic, he’s a really cool dude! I also really like his blue coloring, it’s really unique!

While most Force-sensitives can be found all over the galaxy of almost every type of alien species known to the Republic, I do have to agree that a Zygerrian Jedi probably isn't the best idea. Now unless the Zygerrians asked the Jedi to take her because they found out she was Force-sensitive, I might understand that. Otherwise, it's not a good idea.

Thank you for always giving a balanced outlook on the lore of Star Wars! ❤️

You rock, Alan. As a fellow hafu, thank you.

When organizations are high, they make mistakes....

Thank you for posting a video that's actually about how the show fits into the Star Wars universe rather than what others are doing. Thank you!

How did I not remember the knife fight between the rat & monkey like creatures!? I wonder how many other weird background/foreground events they slipped in that only get noticed upon rewatching.

Mandalorian's were not known to be Jedi, but there is at least one instance where we do know. 🤷

I wonder if the Zaigerian padawan was sold by her own people. Considering their history with the Jedi, they could have seen her as an inherent threat, and sold her cheaply - she then could have been noticed and inducted into the order. Much like what should have happened with Assage Ventress, had her master not been so busy fighting criminals.

Regard Andor alien thing. We need to remember that alien presence vastly depend on the region. While in outer rim and slice it was common to see aliens. In the Core, well it was heavily dominated by humans. Andor is a show what primarily take place inside Imperial dominated regions (and Imperials were racist). So it hardly is a justified complain.

Now I wanna make a Zygerrian Jedi character in SW5E.

I have read a fic that had a Zygerrian Jedi in it - the fic did that specifically because it was a "Tatooine Slave Culture" fic, in fact I think it is the tentpole fic of the fanon that is cited next to Fialleril's own work (FYI for people who don't know the fanon, Fialleril is the one who invented it). The plot point was that Shmi (who was characterised as being Force Sensitive in the fic)meets the Zygerrian and he has a very repentant for his species attitude. I think the thing having a Zygerrian Jedi loses out on is bringing up that issue in their racial background. Maybe this show is not looking in that direction, so the slaver issue is never going to be brought up.

For me, there are 3 things I accept. 1. I generally like every new show or movie that comes out in live action. Because they try to give us what we liked in animation. 2. With legends, there was so much info that you couldn't include it in new shows/movies from the start. Slowly add it and correct the errors that the books created. 3. No matter the show/movie. Fans are going to hate it, because it didn't do what they feel it should of done. Maybe years down the road they'll accept it, but they'll still hate it for that reason.

The first two Star Wars films are more human centred. Yoda being the only really alien character is fleshed out more as a consequence. It's only with Jedi and probably with developments in puppetry and later CGI that aliens become less of an exotic bit of flavour like the Cantina scene and appear everywhere. I think to the detriment of the story. The Hoth Battle feels like a real battle because real Norwegian soldiers are in real snowy trenches. The Gungans vs the Battledroids is a cartoon and doesn't feel like real characters facing a real threat. Not just because of the CGI but also because we are human. We aren't robots or rabbit frogs.

The show starting 150yrs plus before the battle of Yavin, it would give the series more wiggle room if it gets multiple seasons.

Kelnacca is even more interesting and better because the present Chewie actor plays him. So in a way, Chewie is technically Force Sensitive.

Television budgets have gotten bigger over the years and decades of the television industry.

With the passing of Comicstorian I’m now paranoid. You can’t leave us too, okay? :c

I sure wish people would stop Retcon Star Wars, the movie by referring it to as "A New Hope" or "Episode IV". In 1978, they released "Star Wars". Yes, much later they released a new movie "Episode IV, A New Hope" which reused many scenes from Star Wars. But that didn't exist in 1978. But at least for those who actually saw "Star Wars", there is a significant difference.

Exploring diverse jedi species is generally a good idea.And even the Zygerrian slaver gets a pass.. Nature versus nurture and all that.... As long as they do not get a wild hair and try to go too far.... the Hutts had ONE, singular jedi, So the body positivity box has been checked. No need to go there again. (Torben's Temple already has the Chonky boy ... I'm assuming he's not just from a high gravity world)

lol your hot take on seeing more of the wookie Jedi didn’t age very well. Killed off before we even got to see him do anything other then break a gun in half lol

Tasi, I believe, is a hybrid of Zabrak and Zygerrian. Yes, Zygerrian's have horns, but they aren't on the tops of their heads.