The Acolyte 1x7 Reaction: Choice 

Mother Aniseya said ascension is about sacrificing part of yourself. Mae misremembers it as “Everyone must be sacrificed…”

You realise the range of power Aniseya had when you catch the fact she invades Torbin's mind while casually talking with Indara and Sol

Trinity killed that whole coven by disconnecting them from the Matrix!

Sol performed a wellness check and went into CPS mode. haha

I think Torbin's wounds are from Kelnacca's claws, which would explain why Kelnacca went into isolation. It is HUGELY taboo from Wookies to use their claws and any that do are exiled.

Sol is a captivating character with many layers. Lee Jung-jae's exceptional acting adds even more depth, making it even better.

I loved how this episode showed Sol and Indara having different parenting techniques/styles. Sol is super soft and short from becoming a "soccer mom", believing Torbin´s emotions are valid and the girls need protection, while Indara thinks you can't hold the hand of your kid the whole damn time, you guid them but let them learn by themselves. Torbin was such a teenager here, stuck camping with his mum when all he wanted was to hang out with his friends.

Mae misremebered what her mother said. She made it sound a lot worse by accident.

Fear was the enemy here. Everyone acted of their worst fear and it ended up in disaster. Mother Anaseya and Master Indara were the rational ones here, sadly they didn't listen to them.... That's sad. 😢

I really like how this series shows how not all Jedi think nor deal with their emotions in the same way. And I love how ya'll pointed out how we have seen this happen with other Jedi.

I don't know why anyone can't understand why Sol stabbed her. Mae said they'd be sacrificed. He sees her transform and go for Mae.... yeah. You can see why it happened.

“jump to conclusions mat”… Hector for the win😂

Oh look at the Jedi at the start of the episode collecting and carrying moss... with Carrie Moss. ☺️🤣

I love the conversation and sensible exploration of the lore. Thank you for such a welcoming discussion

Adam Spitting FIRE * snaps like a jazz show

Great conversation about this show guys. If the criticism uses the word ‘Woke’ - byeeeeee! 💫✨

For a wookie to use their claws in battle is the ultimate Taboo. Someone who does that is usually banished and called a MadClaw

Hector doing the NYC gangster accent 😂❤ LOVE YOU GUYS - so glad there are intelligent positive-vibe channels like yours ! I for one am sooooo loving this show and I am always looking forward to your reviews and insightful discussions ❤

Hey guys. This is the first time I’ve ever left a comment on a RU-vid video. I really enjoy watching Star Wars reaction videos, but I have to say that I enjoy yours the most. I appreciate your perspectives. I’ve been a Star Wars fan ever since I saw the original movie in theaters in 1977 when I was 5 years old. Do I enjoy everything about every episode/movie…..no. But I do enjoy watching any Star Wars movie or series. I appreciate that you guys enjoy being entertained and can have a balanced, thoughtful conversation about this franchise that I have loved for almost 50 years. Thanks for being a positive oasis in a sea of polarized opinions.

Okay! Frfr! You guys give the best reviews of this show. Your objectivity and depth cuts thru all the BS around this show. You see the work and examine the work with context and don’t give us a Monday morning Quarterback take. Please keep up the great work.

Thanks to Adam, Hector and Agustin! 🌑 The "we must be sacrificed" misquote little 'Mae' relayed to 'Indara' and 'Sol' had a huge impact. They literally thought the girls were in mortal danger. 'Aniseya' actually said, "It is about sacrificing a *part* of ourselves". 🔸 It's also wild to learn that 'Sol' was imposing his own wants (to have a Padawan... even though he might not be ready) onto the situation. He even almost lost his temper on 'Indara' at the end. That shows a very un-Jedi-like conflict that adds to his motivations.

another youtuber brought up how this show exists in the gray and i totally agree. there is no all bad or all good character. everyone did what they thought was best with the information they had. mother aniseya invading tobin's mind was messed up, but the jedi were absolutely in the wrong to just barge into their home. esp when they have a (false) reputation of stealing children. mother koril showed a violent desperation to protect her kids, but she put mae in a really messed up position in the process and it quickly got out of hand. if sol and torbin had been correct, their actions would've been honorable. they thought those kids were in danger and immediately got active. but not taking indara's advice to stop and think led to them jumping to dangerous conclusions without solid proof and turning a catastrophe into a tragedy. and i like that!! i also love victoria monét singing the outro song and have had it on repeat since i watched the ep. thank yall so much for appreciating this show for what it is and actually taking the time to understand what it's trying to do

The witches did not owe the Jedi any explanations. I have heard several commentators state that Anasaya should have explained that she was transporting. He came uninvited into her home and butting into coven business does not result in any owed explanations.

Your comments about Luke’s journey really resonated with me

Dont the Jedi also sacrifice self, and teach children to ssacrifice self, to the good of the whole as these witches do? I don't say that to minimize their importance. They are human. People blasted the idea that Luke would leave to protect others from his failure. This showed that the struggle is legitimate.

I’m glad yall brought up Qui-Gon. This story shows how because of the Jedi’s hubris and the fact the want to cover so much like this up and even when Indara mentions the hyperspace incident she downplays it. Qui-Gon acted with what information he was given and the council denied or kept him in the dark which frustrated him and led him to trying to train Anakin anyway

The discussions after these reactions is my favorite part.

Your after commentary was on point, and I loved everything you had to say. I'm subscribed for life.

The Hyperspace accident and how the jedi helped resolve the aftermath was in the first HIgh Republic book, if you want to see Jedi at their full power the first few chapters are a treat. I was happy they mentioned it.

THANK YOU GENTLEMEN SO MUCH!!!! There are some very good reactors I have followed who have been OPEN to this show and have had positive things to say, but they are still nitpicking this episode and complaining that it's "too convenient" an explanation for the fire and they are missing the fact that Sol is only seeing very specific little snippets of the girls; a harsh woman being physical with them in the woods, literally pulling them along back to the structure; another woman raising her voice at them and "attacking" (he totally missed the fact that they were being brats, fighting with each other while their mother was TRYING to instruct them); more witches preparing for some kind of witchy ceremony... it looks bad. If a social worker had seen this when observing kids in a home, we'd expect them to go in there and investigate, talk to the kids to make sure they are ok. And while it annoys TF outta me that because of Dave Filoni only highlighting one faction of the witches of Dathomir, EVERYBODY hears "witch" and automatically thinks "Nightsisters," at least one of the writers on this show decided to use that and say "yeah, when someone hears that word, they automatically think evil spooky Nightsisters," exposing the prejudices Torbin holds, and maybe Sol too. If the witches are preparing a ceremony, then it MUST be for evil purposes, right? So we have to go save those kids. And they are still nitpicking the fire, even though we clearly see it got out of Mae's control, it was an oil lamp that sparked wiring, this is an old mining facility so whatever they were mining COULD have left residue on the stone and it could be highly flammable. (The Centralia mine fire is a coal-seam fire which has been burning in the labyrinth of abandoned coal mines underneath the borough of Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States, since at least May 27, 1962, and in 2006, it was reported that it is expected to do so for another 250 years.) Electrical fires can be devastating, even in old stone houses. Either way, is this REALLY the thing to focus on? I appreciate that you gents are having thoughtful discussions while not beating the show up. I consider myself a Super Fan, I've been in this more than 45 years, I know all kinds of nerdy lore about the OT and the EU, not so much about the prequels (to me it just felt like George took all the heart out of the story) but I don't dis other people for liking other parts of the franchise. Lately it has become SO toxic with people pissed off that this or that character doesn't conform to their idea of who she/he/they/it are, and everybody is SO convinced that they would write a better story or make a better TV show. I've gotten to the point where I say I'd like to see their student film portfolios and/or their AO3/Fanfic.com pages to see the years' worth of stories they have written. What, you don't have one? I do. Been writing SW fanfic for 30 years man, what have you done with all YOUR story ideas? Hell, I was conviced LFL had my house bugged because I'd write a fanfic about, say, the first female Imperial Admiral, and 6 - 9 months later an EU book would come out using my ideas, in this case introducing us to Admiral Daala (though, I _will_ say that unlike Kevin J. Anderson's version, my Imp Admiral wasn't an idiot who slept with Tarkin to get the job, lol). Anyway, TL;DR, I appreciate you and I thank you for your comments at the end of this vid. We need to get toxicity and possessiveness out of this fandom and EVERY fandom. Likes get back to a point where being a fan means you ENJOY a thing.

It’s so refreshing to watch people just watching and appreciating the show for what it is. Thanks, guys.

"Someday those noble intentions you all have will destroy every Jedi in the galaxy" It took me a while to realize that the clone wars were filled with the noble (or seemingly noble) intentions of the Jedi to support a clone army, and those heroic intentions to chase after bad guys did empower Palpatine to destroy almost every Jedi. Similar to how Sol's heroic intentions eventually led to saving no one and bringing overwhelming tragedy to Mae and Osha.

Loved the reference to the Hyperspace disaster. The event that kicked off this whole era of content.

Acolyte sound track: The Power of one, The Power of two, The Power of many on repeat

They were not going to sacrifice the girls. That's not what her mother said in episode 3. She said that everyone must sacrifice a little part of themselves to gain more power.

I’ve always seen this show as opening up so many possibilities and it’s nice to hear others view it in the same way. You guys rock!

Love it when yall chat after the fact! Yall were spitting truth 🔥

People think that Sol is out of character in this episode, but this is Sol 16 years ago, more reckless, insecure, not yet tempered by the wisdom of experience or restrained by regret. The main issues with the story wasn't what happened, but what they didn't show: Both Sol and Torbin's motivations weren't fleshed out enough. Clearly there was more going on that we needed to know about for both of them. The script alluded to Sol being restless and insecure about not yet having a padawan, and this desperation to prove himself or find meaning as a Jedi (his frustration with the Jedi council for not seeing him as worthy of being a master/having a padawan?) made him make brash choices and false assumptions that suited what he wanted. This would explain how he could have convinced himself, in the urgency and confusion, that the twins' needed protecting from their mother. Torbin clearly had deeper reasons for wanting to return to Coruscant. If they'd only given the audience insight into some personal pull, for example perhaps someone he loved was ill or in trouble back home, and he needed to get back to them. This would further comment on the flaws of the Jedi for making the members of their order conceal their emotional attachments, and the harmful consequences of this. I honestly think that everything else in the episode made sense (the other witches didn't necessarily die from being severed from their spell). But making us fill in the missing pieces ourselves is arguably just as bad writing as writing pieces that don't fit.

Aniseya probably thought giving the Jedi a scare would be a better solution to open conflict, but had she not invaded Torbins mind, would he have acted differently?.... little poor choices with unforeseen life changing consequences .. We've all been there at some point I guess 😅 I really love the writing on this episode

This was 100% the Jedi’s fault. We all create our own worst enemies/hell. Broke into their home and want to take their children….Jedi are the worst.

Really appreciate Hector drawing parallels between Sol and Qui-Gon. Both found a connection with a Force sensitive person that was deemed too old by the Jedi Council and the rules they'd probably been following for centuries or millennium and they both led to tragedies, one with cataclysmic consequences. I've always felt the same way about Jinn. He's completely likable b/c he's thoughtful, kind, charismatic, etc, but Qui-Gon's decision was the fatal event that set everything after into motion.

Really great discussion at the end as always. Love you guys!!

You guys had me so hyped up when at 1:07 Hector started about his excitement for the OST. It had my anticipation up for your reaction to the original end credits song, "Power of Two", by Grammy Award winning singer Victoria Monet. However that anticipation was crushed at 20:35 when you collectively exclaimed, that's it, and stopped before the credit roll. The "Heroes" should reassemble and react to, "Power of Two".

Love this channel. Love how open to discussions they are.

Indara told the truth to the council (and Osha) just like Obi-Wan told the truth to Luke-from a certain point of view.

I just want to thank you guys for always highlighting the positives in something even if it is not you care for or isn't the best.

There are so many dope webcomics that actually incorporate music or some kind of curated score to their comics and it elevates it to another level. I try whenever possible to do exactly what Hector was saying about putting on thematically appropriate music in the background when reading books or comics.

I love your guys channel it’s not complaining about the show it’s you guys enjoying a show for what it is does it have its faults yes but I’m here for more Star Wars it adds to the lore

JEDI WOOKIE!!!! 🔥🔥🔥

I like how Adam, Agustin and Hector are embracing the thematic concepts of the series in this show even though the writing varies in quality Who cares? Star Wars fans look for the good in the bad and this episode dives deep in exploring the Jedi's role in the galaxy and how one small misstep can cause irrevocable damage and I am 1000% all in Just think: if any word of what really happened ever got loose, the fall of the Jedi would've been HERE, not around 32 BBY That's what's great with this show: you get to see other angles and it's terrific All of the blind horses' behinds can go live in a cave if you hate it so much

Wookies have retractable claws that they can only use for climbing. If they use them in battle they are call "Mad Claws" and are expelled from their tribe. So Kelnacca has no home and his honor stripped from him. His connection was severed from the Coven, but they are still in there driving him mad. I still think he allowed Qimir to kill him to end his pain.

Master Sol decides to hold a metal bridge that probably weighs several tons but didn’t think to just use the force to pick up the toddler sized girls? Come on SOL. 🤦🏻

Enjoyed this episode it's funny how so many people are both confused and angry about Torbin whereas I'm like what he's doing isn't his own decisions entirely he was still feeling the effects of that spell hence why he was so obsessed with the idea of going home

Wow what an episode! Now we got our answer! I've enjoyed the show and love hearing your thoughts as well. Let's see how the finale will go

Finally a conversation that isn't just tearing the show and Disney down. If people watch all of the other nine movies... it was the same. A lot of bad choices and things that came together that shouldn't or even conversations that don't make the best sense.

does anybody get Star Trek vibes here? A team of surveyors/researchers are assigned to sweep through a peculiar location and wonders how to solve the mystery as to how and why it's like it is Soon, they come across a surprise and want to investigate THAT instead When the lines of morality start getting blurred, their superiors tell them to mind their own affairs and leave the inhabitants alone (the Prime Directive) Orders are disobeyed and cause trouble that evolves into mayhem and chaos that will ripple throughout their history, directly or indirectly

Indarra asking Kelnacca if he could jump off she got the ship close enough gives me major Porter Engle vibes. He loved doing that shit.

Thank you for your valuable input and analysis.

Even clones had different signatures in the force

30:44 YES thank you Hector !!!!!!

To Adam's point about Jedi being human and making mistakes despite their dogma, just think of another good example with Obi-Wan. In many ways he was very dogmatic, we see this so often in the Clone Wars, where Anakin wants to take one path but Obi-Wan reigns him in, quoting some aspect of Jedi teachings... yet despite his dogmatism he does not step in or reveal to the Jedi Council the extent of Anakin's relationship with Obi-Wan. We see repeatedly in the Clone Wars, and even some in Episode 3 that Obi-Wan clearly knew that there was at least a relationship there that according to the Jedi code should not have existed. And Obi-Wan's choice in that instance ended up being so critical in that Anakin's relationship with Padme made it so much easier for Palpatine to manipulate and corrupt him.

So glad you caught Kyla’s theme. Freaked me out as I was listening from another room.

I dont love this show, but I see it has some really good ideas. I also think the fight choreography and Lee Jung-jae are fantastic.

I wonder if we got all the information that happen 16 years ago or if there is a small bit of information we are missing that both the Jedi and Mae do not know. If this is all the information from what happen 16 years ago I will say I'm pretty satisfied with what we got.

I'm with you on the soundtrack Hector.

Sol shot first

Another great episode of commentary, gentlemen. You guys are like an oasis in the desert. #SolPatrol is down bad. There was so much nuance in this episode, nobody had their hands completely clean. The show has a lot of questions to answer in the finale but I'm intrigued for sure.

You guys are some of the best reactors. You all have actual in-depth thought about the concepts that this show is trying to convey. It is frustrating to see a few other well-known Star Wars reactors fall victim to the ridiculous criticism of what Star Wars is and what “it should be”. for those thankfully few but loud everything has to stay the same as the older movies or it’s garbage. I love Star Wars and anything that is Star Wars, and I can also appreciate what they’re trying to do in branching out on all the concepts in the Star Wars universe. There are quite a few fake Star Wars fans that just want things to be only the way they see it fit. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Keep up the great work gentlemen! 👊🏼

The only truly innocent one in the party was Kelnacca -- Torbin's homesickness amplified by fear from the witches was the catalyst for the events, the body count was from Sol and Indara (assuming she did kill the coven) and the coverup from the Council was Indara's decision. The only one who was using their brain however was Indara. But poor Kelnacca man he was just vibin. Loved his rampage scene though, wish it was longer. Sol I still love you but if in the finale Osha and/or Mae kill you, ngl I will root for their success lol I'll miss you but you will have deserved it.

I almost missed half the podcast after the Key and Peele reference.😂😂And Out of the Park goes Navarro😂😂

I have mixed feelings about the show but overall i certainly don't think it's the worst SW thing ever as many so-called fans have said. It had a lot of potential telling a story in an era of SW we hadn't seen in live action. did it fully live up to that potential? Not really, it dropped the ball in a few places, but it also had a lot of good things going. I think it deserves the chance to improve on the execution in a second season if the last episode is ends in a way that allows for that story to continue. Also, the wookie jedi fight is one of the best things I've seen in SW, if i had to pick one thing this show did great, it's the fighting.

Can I commission a special video on Pateron of Hector doing the ENTIRE reaction in that accent...lol. " And then these witches..... " Just tell me what I need to pay.....That was amazing.

As always loved your reaction.

What if Sol is the first Ren, and this story is his fall?

You mentioned one common, recurring criticism from "fans": breaking cannon. I remind them that George Lucas "broke" cannon every time he tinkered with the original trilogy. Han shot first. Luke and Leia being siblings after the infamous kiss. Leia saying that she remembers her mother being sad. Need I go on? Love your stuff fellas. Keep keeping it real.

Great way to close this video, most people don’t really understand the star wars saga … thank you Hector 👏🏼

I just want to say I'm one of the three soundtrack nerds on the channel who also looks forward to the soundtrack release for every show :) I'm low key obsessed with Star Wars soundtracks (and Williams soundtracks, and scores in general) and also collect Star Wars music from movies, shows, video games and other sources. That includes a large collection of all the diegetic music in Star Wars - there actually are albums of things like the Jedi Survivor bar music, the Oga's Cantina music and Gaya's album from the Starcruiser, plus plenty of other places in the shows/movies. (And yes I do have some rips of the Holiday Special music, haha). I've really enjoyed the score so far and it really does have a distinct prequel vibe to it (Kylo's theme aside!). I'm not really sure how I feel about the end credits song though. I could definitely see it as a lounge/cantina song in world, but playing over the credits, I don't know if it worked for me or not (plus the song isn't totally my preferred genre). As for the rest, this episode was almost painful to watch because there were so many places disaster could have been averted. Overall the Jedi come off as overzealous social workers, BUT I do kinda wonder what the witches had planned and if there was something more sinister involved and that is WHY Aniesya was willing to let her go with the Jedi. Like, it's one thing to say 'it's what she wanted', but she's 8. If my 8 year old wanted to join the circus I'd say hell no, even if they legitimately wanted to. But I wonder if she had other reasons for being willing to send her away. I don't dislike TLJ BUT - one thing I do wish we had seen in the overall narrative and that you kind of touch on is how BAD the Jedi are at dealing with their emotions when they DO crop up. In some ways Sol is proving the Jedi right in that by getting himself overly attached, he wasn't able to make a clear decision. I also don't think Qui Gon was wrong per se to let Anakin come with him. But then they didn't know how to handle it, and I really wish we'd gotten a chance to see Luke figure out a better way as he became disillusioned with the Jedi, especially given that his attachments and compassion/love ARE what helped save the galaxy. That's one thing I still feel the sequels kind of shortchanged us on.

Another great conversation. Always nice to hear your thoughts about the show and thanks for continuing to call out those internet people that we all can't stand.

I liked the song at the end

It gives extra context on why Baylan fell - he liked the idea of the Jedi but the not the reality and, "the Jedi legacy is death and destruction"- true, even if that is not the intent. The counter to that is whilst that might be true his and Qimir's (also a fallen Jedi) responses seems nihilistic at best.

Engagement for the engagement god!

Enjoyable reaction once again, homies 👍🏻

Carrie-Anne, my wayward Moss!

Guys, you are so right. I hate this hatings, in somebody don t like this Show, so why are they watching? Everybody has a different Taste, some like it, some do not. Discussing is okay, but in the Internet, especially here on YT, respect to different thoughts is gone. I am a huge Star Wars-Fan from Germany, I saw the first movies in the cinema directly. Maybe because of my age I am a Little Bit more flexible😊Hope some day it will change to a better. Guys, Go on like this.

the high republic books and comics are honestly way more developed and put together than this show (which i still like, even though there are definitely some big pacing and threading issues) --- Light of the Jedi, The Fallen Star, and Eye of Darkness especially are great High Republic books. Was happy to be introduced to this era by the Star Wars Jedi Survivor game

Great commentary guys 👏🏻👏🏻

Last jedi luke didn’t distance himself because to improve. he went to hiding/ his failure he didn’t want to touch those books. don’t know what you guys are talking about

Can we acknowledge that the Witches were definitely tapping into the dark side of the force ("good girl, get angry"). They might not interpret it as such but the Jedi would. Also, they say they are not part of the Republic but is this a bit like Sovereign Citizens declaring they are independant of the country they are living in? Finally, the Jedi seem to be like cops/social services in the High Republic (there is no military at this time), the Witches' response was super aggressive (invading Tobin's mind immediately, suggesting the Jedi be killed before the can report back) and hardly likely to result in being left alone.

Conquistadors stumbled upon a field of cacao that they thought they had burned during their last visit, got too excited to find it growing so beautifully, killed some people who were already there tending to the field, and brought home a minefield of generational consequences.

Gentlemen; it is not a lie. It was the truth... from a certain point of view! 😉😁😆

God I love you guys so much!! Seriously the funnest reaction and discussion experience 👽

Your commentary!!! Loved all of it, especially the *Litmus test* part. I have little patience for all the b!tch squealing about Star Wars. Being critical is *ONE* thing, but the angry whining ain't worth my time or brain space. They seem to want an easy little story, not use any effort in dealing with the different story lines...or women in leading roles (with *Leia* being the exception), or minorities in major roles in the later installments. Also...the word *'woke'* has taken a brutal beating after being co-opted. Poor word must be *exhausted* from carrying such an unwanted load.

Great review good format.

Hope Sol gets what he deserves, all these deaths before and after in the context of the series

I think it was an old mining base that the witches took over. Not 100% sure here but they don't have the manpower to build it with 20 women.

Wow. I can't believe we are watching the same show...but I am glad you guys like it.

I wonder if she was telling the truth about the High Council saying "no" to bringing back Osha. I think it's odd to not see that conversation and we just see her sending the others away before she got the message and then her relaying that message. I wonder if she really even sent a message to the High Council at all about that.

I'm happy to see a group of progressives recognizing the complexity and depth of this series. "This is a new litmus test. Like The Last Jedi". Damn right!

That English actor whose accent you lot made fun of represents Luke Skywalker who managed to whine through two films from Tatooine, to this guardians, to Obi Wan Kenobi, to Dagobah to Yoda. Luke Skywalker aptly described what he thought of Tatooine and he left Yoda to go to Cloud City despite Yoda and Obi Wan advising not to do so. Torbin only left one Master to go Witch hunting.

I did not see mother coral die