I don't know what to say. That was cringe from start to finish. This is not your grandpa's Star Wars, kids. Read my review here: www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain...
I still have to see for myself, because I'm a masochist. I've watched the first episode and skipped the second (my first time, watched every other show in its entirety, that's how bad it is), but this I just have to see. Edit: Personally, I consider only Rogue One and Andor (CW and Rebels) canon, since Disney bought it. And Star Wars was always diverse (Lando or Mace Windu). We even have aliens, ffs. 😆
lmao, exactly the same thoughts here! After reading Erik's review on Forebes then watching his videos, im staying wel laway from not just StarWars, but also Disney+ I'm happy with my 6 movies of starwars :D
Best thing about The Acolyte: It exposes paid, shill, agenda driven critics once and for all, without the shadow of a doubt. You can ignore these people from now on. Shout-out to Grace.
Yes, Andor was the best they've ever done. Every character was real. The Empire is ruthless and clever; their employees career- driven, not necessarily evil. The Acolyte is just poorly thought out, and dreadfully written. The whole idea of the "thread" -- an alternative way of thinking of the force is interesting. That there are competing users of the force is predictable. But the use of the twin trope is boring, as is much of the series. Somewhere in this is a good premise, but what we have been presented is boring and nonsensìcal.
"The whole idea of the "thread" -- an alternative way of thinking of the force is interesting" Not really. They're just trying to be creative and they end up calling the force another thing...the thread. It's so cringe.
It was lame. The worst part of the experience is the cognitive dissonance I get from the stunning mediocrity on screen and the appalling self-congratulatory nonsense from the showrunners. So bold, so inventive, such boundary pushing, so not even at the level of a mid-season SG1 episode. The outright theft of visual devices is pretty bad, starting with the cut-price ROP scenery; the translucent bird is from The Expanse; the witch conjuring is from Shadow and Bone etc etc. Every Frame A Piracy. And it makes nil sense in-universe. And - like ROP - cannot remember it's own story or lore from one week to the next. 1. Stone fortress goes up in flame. How? Isn't low fire risk one of the reasons stone is used as a building material? 2. Witch chanting is fine, if lame. But it's utterly jarring to have wordy exegetic sound along with the scene - again with accompanying song but no one singing it. Does no one understand how sound works in these shows? 3. Stunningly bland music. Either discount baroque, or - at the end - a terrible warmed-over Ren Fayre motif. Why? Why is a medieval motif being used in a galaxy far far away? Does no one understand how sound works in this show? 4. Master Torbin drank poison last week because of this sequence. I must say I have sympathies, but for different reasons. Master Torbin did nothing wrong, and certainly not to the extent of needing to meditate for 10 years on his regret and guilt. Does no one in this show check continuity? etc I was hoping they'd do something cool and have Mother Talsin arrive and do battle. But no. Just lame.
Why are the adult twins identical but not their younger versions? Like, what the hell…They went from fraternal as kids to identical as adults. Why not just use one girl and then duplicate her image on screen or whatever like they did for the adult actress or like they did for Lindsay in Parent Trap? This couldn’t be done on an $180 MILLION budget? Seriously? How lazy. Disney, I would excuse you for using fraternal twins if it was worth it in the end because you found extremely talented child actresses to play these roles, but ya didn’t, did you?
in general I find their camera work VERY lazy, apart from the odd fighting scene. I think it has a lot to do with them filming in the volume a lot to save money.. oh and unexperienced and untalented camerawomen and directoresses.
@@Bareego I'm seeing quite a few location shots(I think). Absolutely the sets are too starwarzie theme park, but there's less Volume than Ashoka or Kenobi. Not that that says much. Take the forest scene... great candidate for a stage shot but it was on location. Probably why it was under used despite having felt like a foreshadow. "Don't you know these woods are dangerous?'' .... nope
Because it would be too confusing to the audience if they actually did that. It’s important to know which one is Mae and witch one is Osha. Some people are already confused enough as it is.
It's important to have honest reviewers like you so we know what's bad and what's good. I shudder at the thought of critics who just give away good reviews to everything they see . thank you for your service.
All the episode did was reinforce that Osha is the good twin and Mae is the bad twin. Perhaps if it was revealed it was Mae who wanted to be the Jedi and Osha took her place by causing the fire then maybe we could have had some interesting development. Maybe through Osha’s efforts to keep her sister she inadvertently caused herself to end up in the Jedi as she had nowhere else to go. With her coven destroyed, the Jedi would have been the only ones with the knowledge to train her. Heck, that could serve as a better explanation for where Osha’s turmoil with the Force stems from and why she left the Jedi. She’d feel guilty about her direct role in the downfall of her sister and community, while also not having ever wanted to join the Jedi in the first place. It was a decision born of necessity and desperation to replace what she had lost: her family. This could have been so much better.
This is the 6th video I've watched this morning dunking on this and its only 6am. I'm currently getting hours of entertainment out of this and it didn't require a millisecond of watching the actual show. Star Wars: The dunkening, Star Wars: The dunk awakens, Star Wars: Revenge of the dunk...
It was terrible. I'm a calm person and don't critisize like others. But this episode was super boring, cringe, acting was horrible. It's nlt star wars at all. It's super sad.
Fan expectation: ✅ Sith perspective story. ✅ Mature and grounded story similar to Andor but with the mysticism of the Dark Side. ✅ Well-written Sith protagonists. ✅ New Star Wars timeline. Reality: ❌ The Acolyte…. Gay. Gayness. Queerness.
@@ErikKain ITS A TRAP!!! lol. You would be branded a alt right nazi and will probably get kicked off Forbes. You are one of the few balanced reviewers who still has "mainstream media" access so that would be a shame. But I think the tide is turning. People are realising the CD and FNT guys are complaining as passionate fans as opposed to the shill media who just want access and ad revenue from Disney.
Haha your right 😂😂😂how about the chant they do 😂😂its laughable. Like something a middle school girl wrote for her "wiccan club" and thought it was soooo cool and mystical sounding 😂😂😂so lame and gay😂😂
I knew I recognized this name! We were discussing on stream last night the previous article about how the critics must be crazy because star wars is mid, which I fully agree with. We were joking that Tassi could never be so bold and negative, glad Forbes has some balance, keep up the good work.
Tassi loves his Kennedy-Lucasfilm goodie-bags. Go back and read both Tassi's and Erik's reviews of the Mandalorian S1. Erik loved it, Tassi despised it. Very odd for Tassi, considering his simping for every other Disney-Lucasfilm production.
Thanks for the review, Erik 👌🏽 There is a simple solution for this Dilemma: Kick out the actual nonsense and restore the old, true canon. After that adapt Timothy Zahn’s classic Thrawn-Trilogy and all the books after it. In the meanwhile you can adapt stories from the time of the old republic.
Adapt the Darth Bane trilogy - it's really good, rule of two stuff. I agree - get rid of the ridiculousness and just use what you've already got that clearly worked.
Now that’s a terrible idea to adapt all books after Thrawns revenge. First the amount of them that twists lore and makes it heavily contrived and confusing. Doesn’t help contraindications and wrong timeline times. Especially once you go to the New Jedi order series and the X wing squadron that came after right before EU got cancelled. And it’s a giant mess then. I like the books. But their confusing. When you go after Thrawns revenge.
@@sphere117gaming Thrawn‘s revenge.? Do you mean the book series „Hand of Thrawn“? And could you tell a example of a book, which twists the lore unnecessarily? You and surely many know the books better than I do. If there are really contrivances, than it is a chance to correct them for the screenplay. Or if necessary just cut it out. One series, I really want to see, is the invasion of the Yuuzhan Vong. A threat, that is surely never seen in SW‘s Galaxy.
I think the Solo Twins would have worked well even with agenda. The problem is that the pay-off would actually happen maybe on the 3rd movie of a trilogy but Disney would be too impatient to do that.
The old, true canon? The one that George Lucas destroyed in 1983? You like incestual twins? You liked watching Boba Fett die like a punk ass little bitch? You prefer retconning Han Solo and ruining his character by making Greedo shoot first? You like and miss Jar Jar Binks? You like horrible CGI and even worse chemistry between actors? Interesting. You are probably even one of the TRUE fans who shames Ahmed Best into almost killing himself leading directly into George Lucas saying "fuck this, I'm out". I am so godamn fucking happy that Disney is making new Star Wars like Andor which is the best Star Wars since 1980's Empire Strikes Back (which is my favorite movie before the dumpster fire Return of the Jedi ruined the OT).
If you re-watch episode 3 and go to the end right before (edit: Osha) wakes up on the ship, you'll see a view of Indara and the Padawan Torbin(?) in the background. If you pause the picture of those two and look at Torbin, then you'll see that his face looks a bit beat up. I'm guessing the Jedi were at the witches' coven talking to the witches when both sides noticed the fire. The witches blamed the Jedi for the fire and attacked the Jedi, who then defended themselves and killed the witches. Only after the witches were killed did the Jedi discover that Mae started the fire. While the Jedi were killing the witches Mae witnessed the event, not knowing the fire she started caused the misunderstanding that led to the Jedi and witches fighting each other. The Jedi realized that they f-cked-up so they agreed to cover the truth about the killings after returning to Jedi HQ.
Yeah, Torbin clearly has the scar on his face that his older version had in episode 2 - so that must've happened on the planet, since he didn't have it a few mins before.
@@Peterski wrote, "Yeah, Torbin clearly has the scar on his face that his older version had in episode 2 - so that must've happened on the planet, since he didn't have it a few mins before." Maybe in a future episode we'll learn that Torbin got pissed that the witches put him under that black-eyes spell during the first Jedi/Witches encounter, and that in a yet unrevealed visit with the Witches (when Mae started the fire), Torbin struck the first blow against the Witches during some misunderstanding about who started the fire. If the above sounds stupid it's because I'm predicting how the show's terrible writing will develop the mystery reveal storyline of how all the witches died so quickly from a small paper fire that destroyed their coven built inside of a massive stone mountain.
What absolutely baffles me is the way the people in charge of Disney now use phrases like "star wars should be for everyone and everyone should see themselves represented in it", then make a show where pretty much every white male (there's not many) is either a criminal, coward, or a piece of shit. And then they act surprised when that audience doesn't respond well to their show...like honestly what did you expect? If you believe representation is the most important thing in a show, and you represent one group of people as above, how can you not expect to get criticised by that group. But hey maybe everyone is just racist and sexist right?
Doesn’t help Star Wars is all very famous in White majority countries like the US, Canada, UK, literally all of (not all is white but the ones that are) Europe. So the main consumer in the majority is literally whites. Sooo… they do what you said… and surprise your majority consumer base isn’t happy. USA is 70-80% white after all let alone other countries. Not saying China and other countries don’t like Star Wars and don’t listen. But the main income Disney gets is from the USA. Soo.. go figure lmao.
The showrunner is an admitted "sith" Literally. You can't take them on their word. They are liars. They lack the creativity to make anything, so they buy ip and degenerate them, because that is all degenerates can do. They cannot write a logically cohesive story because they fundamentally lack logical cohesion themselves.
You hit the nail on the head: "Nothing feels natural". This is the result of extremely bad writing and directing. Even daytime soap operas have better writing and acting.
Appreciate how thoughtful and deliberate your take is, rather than just being anti-woke tirade clickbait. I, too, am disappointed that I have to keep being disappointed in Star Wars.
So they want us to believe that these four Jedi killed all the witches, but were afraid to show them doing that? This is disgraceful and the reason why fans are so pissed off.
Inclusion/diversity well applied: X-Men 97 - Morph, a shapeshifter, has feelings for Wolverine. Why not? The guy lives by metamorphosing into different characters of all races and sexes. Andor: you already explained it, the relationship between the two rebels is part of the story, and it doesn't want to be anything more than this. And in The Legend of Vox Machina, Scanlan Shorthalt has no problem charming everyone he meets, and it's well done, as well as being damn funny. That's where they fail, flat shows like this.
I agree up and down. These flashbacks should've been spliced throughout as we, the audience, try to piece together what "really" happened. But in the meantime, we should be watching an interesting story about tracking down a dangerous criminal, uncovering a plot that seeks to up-end the Jedi Order, working to clear the name of an innocent wrongly-accused person, and discovering more about this era of the Republic and the Galaxy more broadly. But none of that is happening. It's amazing that the people at Disney can keep a straight face while they publish this.
For me, Star Wars was dead after live-action Ahsoka because of writing (shame, because I loved that character from The Clone War), it's a peaceful life. It seems Disney needs to run Star Wars into the ground, losing tonnes of money, before the serious cleaning up in the writing and directing side of the company happens. But hey! Disney is allergic to making customers happy and making money for the time being and attack us, paying customers when we reject a bad product. I need to watch Andor because I hear many good things about it but I have sour taste about Star Wars still. Thank you for the review Erik, so we don't have to suffer watching such bad Star Wars.
@@halfrocanadianv5086 I remember Andor is so good because it was worked on when pandemic hit and the writer had lots of time to polish the script too. Even animated SW looks like it was made by different studio even though it still has writing issues but not to such degree
There's a wookie with a top-knot. Yes, they gave us a hipster wookie. I look forward to a scene with him eating smashed avocado on sourdough and tweeting about his feelings.
This episode was BAD. The acting was terrible, the dialog was confusing and laughable. The whole episode was so bland and didn't really further the lore or plot of the show. -Giant cave fortress catching fire from a candle -Oshi immediately ready to be a Jedi even though she had no clue who they were. - Sol: "we're not here to take your children" in that same sentence to Mae: "do you want to be a Jedi?" 🤦♂️ What's crazy is someone watched this in post-production and approved it.
But why would we assume the Jedi would do such thing when they've never done such a thing before? There's nothing about this ludicrous episode that makes a scrap of sense. "I don't think this should have been an episode [...]" Yeah neither do I. Forget all your qualifiers about "flashback" or the rest. This just shouldn't have been an episode. Or series.
At the end of this video when he was talking about how he supports diversity in Star Wars but how forced it feels like a corporate agenda in this show. So well said and how 90% of star wars fans feel. Yet because we don’t appreciate them using our favorite fictional universe as a agenda to obviously push down our throats we are all “racist” or “hate women”. When In reality we just want a good Star Wars story and could care less about gender or race.
This episode was the sloppiest combination of storytelling and directing that I've ever seen. I had to rewind to see if maybe I missed an entire scene. It was piss poor at best.
Exactly, how did Osha know what the Jedi are and why she thought they were good when she didn't even know there were other kids in the universe. Why would she want to leave when she had no access to the outside universe.
Speaking of "no point," wait until you see what happens to the wookiee Jedi. And my God, Andor was so great. That's because KK couldn't step to the Gilroy boys.
Thank god for a genuine review that isn’t about “the culture wars”! It has been really hard to find someone that reviews these shows on their own merits without pulling in outside narrative. A+ and nee subscriber. And to answer your question, no. I am not watching it. I was genuinely excited about it, but once these reviews started to roll in, i realized i had better things to do with my time. Like my laundry.
This is the first Disney SW I haven't watched (and won't), I pity those that have to. Judging by the synopsis I've heard, I already know all there is to know.
The Lizzo episode of Mandalorian was nowhere near as cringe as this. I actually kinda laughed at how absurd that was. The big difference is that they knew it was a silly episode in the Mandalorian. This has no awareness of how cringe it is.
Thank you for your service, we have all noticed how the latest article by Forbes is a massive gaslight to the audience. We hope you didn't get pulled out or replaced for going against the corpos.
I wonder if any real witches were consulted. It could go both ways though "it sucks because no real witches were involved" "it sucks because real witches are that boring, and that's what the consulting witches wanted
The children are terrible at acting, the women singing for a second was cringey and the girls motivations were not written clearly prior to their decisions of choosing either path. Mae torchers a space bug and Osha just decides that she wants to be a Jedi… (they needed to make that character more serene and perceptive somehow)… have her observe something - or do something intelligent.
I'm trying to figure out how cancel my Disney+ subscription. BUT THERE IS NO WAY TO DO IT!!!! I haven been trying for 3 hours... THERE ARE NO OPTIONS TO CANCEL!!! WTF?!?
@@Darthdoodoo I finally found it. You click on the subscription plan you have itself, and THAT brings you to another page. If I want to unsubscribe, why would I click on the thing I don’t want?
I watched it just out of boredom and found it so hard to watch its like a 13 yr old girl who wants to be a witch wrote gay fanfiction. The writing is outrageously bad and the actors suck so its a mess
So they want us to believe that these four Jedi killed all the witches, but we’re afraid to show them doing that? This is disgraceful and the reason why fans are so pissed off!!!
Bro don't degrade the prequels to this garbage. The prequels are not perfect, you can even argue they are not good but they absolutely have many redeeming qualities. Come on brah.
This episode has some of the worst writing I've ever seen in my life. I used to compare this show to a Star Wars fan film, but it's so much worse than that.
The smoke could have killed everyone. Not because that makes sense, but Osha runs out of the building with light smoke and then somehow is waking up from being passed out and put on an oxygen machine. Writers have probably never been around a fire I guess, so they probably have no idea how smoke works.
Erik I want to give you massive props for this To be honest I was not familiar with you until your review in Forbes on this show I have absolutely no issue with the casting or what might be called "political" critiques of this show but what I am absolutely stunned by is the dishonesty of reviewers when it comes to this show. Like it would be one thing if IGN came out and said "this show is definitely not Andor-tier but we think there are some good aspects to it", but instead they try to tell you with a straight face that this is as good as Rogue One. I really, REALLY struggle to believe that they actually think that, and seeing what can only be described as disingenuous-ness from reviewers greatly disappoints me. Your review is the first honest review from a major publication I have read on this show and great work on that. I will be emailing Forbes (please let me know if there's a department in particular that I should contact) giving you a big shout out for the quality of your review there
There was a time when I was a kid when I would watch the Wonderful World of Disney anthology show every Sunday at 6:00 pm and they really knew how to make fun television shows like episodes of Zorro with Guy Williams or Johnny Shiloh about a young drummer in the Union Army in the Civil War. Now it seems Disney is completely incapable of doing television with maybe an exception here and there. It makes you wonder what systematic problems they have going on behind the scenes for such dreck to get actually aired.
OK, had to check what a RAP lyrics AI came up with, if I choose Power of one, power of two, power of many as an input: Here we go: I'm the one, I'm the spark, I'm the flame The power within me is not something to tame I'm a force to be reckoned with, I'm a hurricane I'll break down barriers, I'll make a name Two is better than one, we're a dynamic duo We'll take on the world, we'll steal the show Our strength combined, we'll make the earth shake We're a lethal combination, we'll keep the haters awake But when many come together, we're an unstoppable force We'll move mountains, we'll stay on course United we stand, divided we fall We'll break down walls, we'll stand tall The power of one, the power of two, the power of many We'll rise up against the odds, we'll make history We'll light up the sky, we'll shine like the sun As can be expected, the actual song sounds like crap, but it's still better than what I watched in this show... *Walks off humming One is the Loneliest Number...*
Well done for your latest Forbes article Erik. It's certainly getting some traction out there and the obvious review shenanigans from critics needed to be pointed out from a prominant publication. I'm not watching the series so can't really comment on it beyond the fact that I even struggle to get through three minute clips with how wooden the performances are and how rote the dialogue is. The decision not to watch is certainly justified from my point of view.
Current Year is so limiting for solo authors. I’m writing a script, and if it (miraculously) reaches production I think I'm “banned” from writing non-white characters, but my own principles reject “writing by committee”, so my only option is to write an all-white story, which is a perverse outcome from “inclusive” policies. I lived 1/3 of my life in China, would love to write Chinese characters, and know Chinese people would generally appreciate that, but loud voices in America would call me evil for doing that. But it’s totally ok for me to write white American characters, despite never setting foot in the country…! It’s totally bizarre, and despite being a reasonably progressively-minded, I feel very lucky to live in a socially conservative country that is more likely to support a project that clashes with all this Current Year stuff. (Edit: Copy/paste for LGBT)
Ah, beautiful. There is a beauty in destruction. And, well.. this show is the trashiest of all trash fires. It keeps us warm. After this Disney has a huge problem, they might just have killed Star Wars, until they SELL the IP!
Thanks for this honest review Erik. I have seen 2 episodes of this show and I think it’s written poorly, the acting is horrible in some instances. (I was introduced to Star Wars in 1990 in Apartheid South Africa, my elders in the late 70’s and early 80’s could not go to cinemas to watch Star Wars so we ended up watching Star Wars on home video and later TV. It was great. )So I do support D.E.I coming from a history of segregation. The only issue with that in this film is that it’s done in bad taste. The story is not engaging, there’s a whole lot of exposition (Ep 1&2) that made me feel like I’m watching a bad parody of the Acolyte ( if that makes sense). Also this show feels like a dismantling of the Star Wars Universe rules that have been already established. I felt the same with Ahsoka( did we have high hopes for Ahsoka). This show gives D.E.I a bad name. I will watch until the last episode though, it’s like watching a car wreck at this point. (Somebody wrote yesterday that if a person is going through a creative slump or writers block, then said person must watch a bad TV series )
Don't you think we'll we'll find out how/why the coven died in a future episode? This episode is told from Osha's perspective, I'm sure the events will be told from the Jedi's and Mae's point of view.
Overall, what I do not understand is how HBO can do such great shows, that last for most of them almost 1 hour per episode while Disney+ that has the greatest franchise of all time, multiplies the tv shows that are 30 minutes long and that are so poorly written. While I recognize that CGI are good, honestly for the story sometimes I believe that CW could have done a better job... Disney will say "quality over quantity" but quality isn't there...
Thanks for continuing to give honest reviews dude. It’s frankly quite terrifying how people continue to praise such low tier entertainment, as if anything that pushes diversity or modern politics is exempt from criticism. Star Wars fans are fine with diversity, just focus on writing a good story.
I do like the idea of different sects using the Force, but Disney hasn't really done anything interesting with the couple they've established and there's an obvious problems with making too many Force groups for the canon (haha, like canon means anything at this point) and diminishing the overall "specialness" of the Force (haha, again, this time at George Lucas). Another part of me wishes that most Star Wars media would just ignore it all together and make as "realistic" a universe as possible, but I guess we have Andor for that. Also want to add that a couple of these elements, twins and covens, sort of sound like they were ripping off Picard season one (shudder) but I guess that makes sense because that show ripped off so much generic scifi.
I really wanted to love this show but this was such a chore to watch. I dont get this version of nightsisters. In the clone wars the mother had a second demonic voice that echoed, why doesnt this mother have that? why is this coven all lovey dovey. Their use of the force is a callback to one of the Pre Disney books where the jedi feel the threads being pulled around the planet as if its covered in a web.
I could not agree with you more!! Diversity isn't the issue - it's the terrible TERRIBLE writing and storytelling making it bad. If the writing and storytelling were great, audiences would be invested in that, not whether the actors were suitable or not. I was * heartbroken * about Ahsoka. As someone who was huge fan, I thought the franchise was done, until The Clone Wars convinced me otherwise, and the *new* character of Ahsoka won me round. All the good will generated by Clone Wars has been flushed away with the mediocre-to-terrible series Disney is churning out, and the series 'Ahsoka' was one of the worst (also 'shudders' at Boba Fett). The fibbing by a largely compliant press is bonkers too. It's depressing and Disney doesn't have to care because the press claps along and people watch it anyway. Sad state of affairs for future entertainment I feel.
The problem with the writing it's done to service the diversity, not the other way around. So it's more important to be diverse even if it makes no sense in the setting, instead of focusing on telling a good story and adding diversity organically.
@@Peterski Yes absolutely agree. And let's face it, if the writing / storytelling was of a higher calibre, it could do both, as good writing / storytelling as done since time immemorial.
As for what happened to the witches, I'm sure the Jedi did something... they do feel guilty after all years later (at least Torbin did). So it might have been the witches thought the Jedi attacked, the Jedi defended themselves, the witches died. Also, if you look at Torbin in the final scenes, he clearly has the scar on his face that his older version had - so that must've happened on the planet, since he didn't have it a few mins before.
I stopped caring about starwars after seeing lea outrun three full grown adults in Obiwan (you know the show that wast supposed to be about him, but turned out to be about a 6 years old and a black evil woman????) To be honest, I feel like unless ''real fans'' start being in position of power within disney, star wars is a dead brand. I mean its sitting at 91% critic and 25% audience review on RT.
I’ve watched enough of these RU-vid reviews to decide that I’m not going to watch the show. Life is too short and I was never that devoted to the franchise anyway, you know? The only thing I plan to watch that I know will be bad is RoP S-2, because the first season was bad in such bewildering fascinating ways. Cheers
Why, oh why, oh why do we have to put up with this DRIVEL by Lucas Fluffs up! For myself, I fondly remember a scene from Star Wars, A New Hope. There is Sir Alec Guiness, Mark Hamill & Harrison Ford after lightsabre training against the remote. Harrison Ford's next line was about a "hokey religion!" That is something to remember!
I want to watch Andor, but I can't bring myself to it as my heart is not into watching anything Star Wars anymore. I was so into it all my life, but it's on a path of self destruction. The Legend books are still the superior Star Wars experience after the OG movies.
While osha was going through the tunnel you can hear commotion above and later on electricity crackling. Not sure how a fire in a mountain would have triggered that. Perhaps it’s from use of the force. Just like before the Jedi first arrived, and the focal point was the Tesla tower thing. Definitely learned a whole lot of nothing from this episode.
You did the cringey chant with such a Catholic Mass melody that I almost sang "A---men" instinctively. Hahaha. But also, amen to this review. I want to like this show. I really do. But it's not giving me much to love 3 eps in. And this ep had no Qimir so that already made it less than the first two.
The kind of diversity you want is a kind of diversity everyone is fine with, and it already has existed in Star Wars for quite some time. When people complain about "diversity", it's this forced, fake, token diversity they have a problem with, the obsessive box checking that makes every production look the same because every assemblage of people has to resemble Los Angeles, which Hollywood thinks is "tHe WoRlD We LiVe In ToDaY" because it's the world THEY live in. And of course the problem that, when minority characters are supposed to "represent" their group, it becomes "problematic" for them to have real flaws as this would reflect badly on the group they represent. So writers don't dare to give such characters real flaws, especially not when interacting with white male characters, and the characters become flat, boring and predictable as a result. That's why I think that "representation" is never a good thing and should be avoided. It needlessly loads real world political baggage on characters that greatly limit what you're allowed to do with them as a writer.
There definitely a split between the witch mothers. It all hinges on that. “No violence.” [horned witch mother gives disgusted look]. People don’t like it because they missed clues or just don’t understand it yet.
Thought the episode was fine, didn't like the mysterious way the trained force-users died. It's weird that they wouldn't tell us why or leave us a hint. But the whole taking the children for training has always been a Star Wars lore thing, it's totally not new like some folks seem to be pretending that is it. The sisterhood and their views on the force was interesting. I don't know, I just don't hate it at all. The child acting, is always going to be bad in almost all cases, so I'm kinda immune to that aspect of the show. I really think the show could use 5mins extra here, 10mins extra there, to fill out the story bits some more. The show wants to tell a mystery but it doesn't give itself enough time to give it the presence it needs to flow.
