The Acolyte Episode 6 - Teach / Corrupt Review 

I really love how Qimir’s helmet is a sensory deprivation helmet. So not only did he wreck all those Jedi on Khofar with little to no armor, he did that while he could hardly see or hear anything.

I found it interesting that we saw Qimir's scars that look like lashes and then we see Vernestra pull out her lightsaber whip in the same episode.

I think Vernestra was Qimir's Jedi Master, and that when he fell to the dark side they fought and she thought she'd killed him.

Qimir's scar and Vernestra's whip appearing in the same episode really gives me strong vibes that she was his master

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to RU-vid, RU-vid.....leads to suffering.

I think the coolest/most messed up part of this episode is that we literally experience sith manipulation first hand. We watched this dude kill everybody last episode and now I almost want to trust him/feel bad for him. Crazy

The entire week is gonna be people talking about Quimir’s ding dong.

If something interrupts Sol talking without talking again I may throw my TV out of the window lol

I'm pretty sure Osha's constant jump awakes is a sign she really needs to see a doctor.

Vernestra does seem shady, but I doubt she is actually the Sith Master. She mya have been Qimir's Jedi teach and has perhaps confronted him before and has kept it super quiet. She does seem very against bringing any of this to the council and definitely knows more than she is letting on, but I don't know if that equates to being flat-out evil.

I really love how "Qimir" twisted Jecki's words from the last episode. She said that everything Osha survived made her stronger. Then Qimir says that what she lost, which is also everything that she survived, now allows her to be free to do as she pleases

“Power of 2“ ”Peace is a lie” “The Jedi like you would call me a Sith” “I want a pupil” Quimir is a sith 100%

RIP Pip. He put up a valiant fight for a body-less droid.

I’m gonna start saying “Aren’t these pesky rules just a nuisance” daily now.

Manny Jacinto can't keep getting away with being this hot.

I don’t believe Vernestra is Sith. Instead, I believe she was Qimir’s former (Jedi) master and something happened between the two of them where they fought and she left him for dead. The scars on his back look like they could have been caused by a whip or, in this case, Vernestra’s weapon. She may be starting to suspect he is still alive hence, her apparent uneasiness throughout the series.

“Are you going to kill me?” “I would certainly LIKE to” “I know you do. I can feel your anger. It gives you focus. Makes you stronger” Sheev to Anakin in Ep. III “You WANT this don’t you? The hate is swelling in you now. Take your Jedi weapon. I am unarmed. Strike me down with it. Give in to your anger…” Sheev to Luke in Ep. VI Desire has always been part of the Star Wars lexicon, it’s just hasn’t been done as sexy or as physically seductive as it has on the Acolyte. This is some great stuff from the folks at Lucas. Also, regarding Ach-To. What if we have another Korriban/Moraband situation with the Sith? Its name in antiquity is Ach-To, but its “modern” name is Bal’demnic.

Osha definitely has sleep apnea. She gasps awake far too often. 😬

I love that they mention desire as one of the dark side emotions.

Man, I loved this episode, perhaps a bit more than Episode 5, which says A LOT. "The pool was a set up, he wanted her there...." damn straight he did 😉

In just this episode Qimir has risen to be one of my top favorite dark side users HE TOOK ON ALL THE JEDI IN THAT SENSE DEPRIVED HELMET and that chilling quote “I lost everything. When you’re left with nothing..only then are you truly free.” *Looks to Vader* damn…

"What is the dark side in the real world sense? It's letting your fear, anger, and aggression control your actions. We all feel those emotions, probably on a daily basis. If you're watching RU-vid, I can pretty much guarantee that's true." 🤣🤣🤣🤣

That scar on Qimir's back looks like it can be from a whip....his former master's whip perhaps 👀

rarely we see connection episodes this great, thought they were gonna drop the worst thing possible after that banger of an episode from last week but I was very surprised it was amazing. Loved Osha putting the mask

I interpreted Qimir’s scar as being a consequence of being rejected by a Sith master. Qimir could very well be someone rejected by both the Jedi and the Sith. He could end up being killed by the end of the series and then Vernestra covers up the whole situation. Meanwhile Qimir’s former Sith master and their new apprentice remain at large. I really don’t like the idea of Vernestra being a Sith. I would rather her suspicious behaviour be an example of the Jedi becoming more interested in political intrigue than in serving the greater good. Something we see crippling the Jedi in the prequels.

Solid episode and even better breakdown. You really make me think about what I have just watched. Really appreciate the time and effort put I to these breakdowns

I believe it will end up being Ach-To but I really want it to be Baldemnic given what looked to be a vein of cortosis on the wall of the cave. That would further the link to Tenebrous and Plagueis that I hope they are going for.

Vernestra's emoting is so wooden it's unsettling.

This show is paying homage to the EU in a way live action Star Wars never has. That alone is thrilling for me. Im really hoping its revealed the true sith lord is Tenebrous and maybe even a line from him about finding a more promising apprentice in Plagueis

5:55 My guess is that Bazil and Pip cut the power so that one person would be sent to check, and they can either A. confirm Mae's identity/ scent or B. warn Sol, depending on who had come

I haven't had a boring moment in any episode. The mystery has kept me throughly engaged. Really looking forward to the next episode.

I'm not a book reader, forgive me, but Vernestra in this show has been my VERY least favorite since the beginning. I really don't like her and didn't even get excited for the whip saber bc it was her. I want to learn more to be swayed otherwise.

1:31 And it wouldn't be the first time that the Sith twisted an origin point of the Jedi into something for their own use (the Bane Trilogy establishes that one of the New Sith Wars Sith used Tython as their base of operations).

With multiple Jedi temples in the High Republic era, Qimir could have been found, trained, and discarded at some little temple on a more obscure planet instead of Coruscant.

Should also note that Quimir put some emphasis on saying he'd been a jedi "A *long* time ago." I wonder if it'll be some ancient sith awoken from stasis or something.

Wow- that is so interesting about the creatures on the unknown island! Very cool! Btw- not saying I was umm looking when he was in the pool but I was looking lol 😂😂

I think Qimir is older than he looks, based on what he said about it being a “really long time ago”. That could be decades older or he could be 100 years older idk.

I loved this episode. It's unfortunate how certain corners of the web are reacting to "The Acolyte". At a certain point it's not proper criticism, it's just a glib dog-pile.

So interesting that osha genuinely wants to kill qimir, so he exposes himself to her, turns his back to her, makes killing him a dishonorable and dark act. Its all part of his corruption and manipulation and its brilliant. especially given that osha will have to kill qimir one day to become the sith master. its ironic...

May the force be with you, Alex, and Molly !! ❤your video breakdowns.

Throughout the High Republic books, we see the Jedi confronted with external threats that questioned their beliefs, the Path and the Nihil, which set them up on this path of dogmaticism, and control. One that the Sith will exploit. This show is planting the seeds of the old High Republic Jedi that we know they're SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE, to the Clone Wars Jedi who abandon their principles. I see it. The Beginning of the End of the Jedi. Long Live the Empire.

Man! your narrative skills are great. Salute your knowledge and passion; you communicate them well.

i got the impression Qimir had artificially extended his lifespan.

I like that Qimir' said he wants "The Power of Two" I hope it is a reference to the Rule of Two

6:55 Great words bud. As someone who works with kids excluded from school, the light and the dark is not easy to learn. As people sharing this space and time we must patiently train each other in the ways of the light by acknowledging the dark. This is why Star Wars hits home with me. It gives me hope.

I have feeling Qimir was on Brendok as jedi all those years ago and he tried to stop what ever really happened there. Sol stopped him causing that scar and thats why he lost faith to Jedi and turned to dark side and tries to kill them for it usin Mae

Ok the way you explain the two sides of the Force and how you use it are words to live by.

The biggest selling-point to the "Unknown Planet" being Ahch-To is that Qimir was set up in the cave...like the cave where Rey heard whispers from the Dark Side.

I really love that we slowed down this episode and got an interesting look into Qimir's mindset and how corrupt the Jedi are appearing.

Qimir, where do I sign up to join the dark side?

Maybe Venestra saw darkness in Qimir and then decided to end up trying to kill him like Luke did in ep. 8 before it was too late, unethically unlike the Jedi code, hence why he is insisting on the "no weapon"-rule.

I definitely thought it was Ahch-To at first. I laughed when it did say UNKNOWN PLANET because I thought it might as well say NOT AHCH-TO.

I really hope Qimir isn't filling the role of Darth Tenebrous as Plagueis' master. I like non-human sith, especially when it's an uncommon species when it comes to importance within star wars. Bith and mostly just a joke or as background aliens. Having a Bith as a sith makes the universe feel less centralized on humans when basically every main character is human

Great episode a solid 9/10

What if Vernestra is already dead and is replaced by some impostor? I.e. it could be former witch... That would explain the sith infiltration and change of character.

Last week I said that too many people were ignoring Vernestra. I'm glad to see you're picking up on it. I don't want her to be a Sith either, but that's what it's starting to look like.

So the view on the force that I've always seen is that I think it is true that we apply morality both Jedi and stiff to the light side in the dark side. Is why I think they have very different names in other languages and other belief systems and taken. Also what Marin from Star Wars Jedi has said about the dark side here's always been my take: The force is a mirror which makes sense because Ray kind of in my mind sees the purest version of the force which is literally a mirror. The Dark Side of the force is you in the mirror. It's a direct reflection of yourself the way you are now. Also interesting to note that technically by definition while the mirror shows you truth, it's also technically an illusion. This is the thing most people when they look in the mirror they see their imperfections they see their hair. They see their scars and blemishes and if you stare long enough at those things, you become obsessed by them and corrupted by them. This is why the dark side is a natural part of the world. It's simply just showing you who you are, but due to people's nature of obsessing over wrongness of themselves, they end up falling into terrible traps and thus becoming morally bad. The light side of the force is the actual light reflected back at you. It's purity it's to show you what you could become if you did things well. To me, this explains a lot about Force visions. For example, how when Darth Vader enters his dark side vision, all he sees is every single thing he did wrong. But when he sees the glimpse of the light side, he sees Luke in a redeeming form. There's been other examples like this throughout Star Wars, but this is how I always broke down the force. The real two sides of the force is the living force and the cosmic Force possibly chaos in order. The Light Side and dark side is stuff that we've attributed human language to because of the consequences of our own actions. People dwell on the dark side. They fall into a giant pit of despair with exceptions and people get so blinded by the light. They're unable to see the beautiful future that they could have. Balance part as you said in your video is seeing yourself for who you are acknowledging your imperfections and then combining that with okay. Here's where we are now. Here's where we could be and then working towards that thus building a better future for yourself. This to me has always been the actual balance in the force.

Amazing episode, there hasn't been such a deep dive into a bad guy on screen than this and it's been awesome

Still sad about Kelnacca... But I love that they are exploring the nature of the dark and light side! I never felt that the explanation that the light side is the proper force was true as it didn't make sense.

Thank you for making an analysis video i had to scroll past nothing but hate videos to get to yours.

Love your insights! Thank you!

So Qimir is a former Jedi, but none of the Jedi recognized him. He says it “was a long time ago.” Could he be like really old? Like as old or older than Vern?

"...bummed about the last High Republic books having a storm cloud over them." I see what you did there.

5:00 with Qimir having those "whip slash marks" across his back, could they have been put there by the only Jedi who has a lightsaber whip????

The uneven scars on his back look like marks that could be made from a lightwhip so I'm guessing Vernestra was his teacher. A question I have is if she is, is she a master that had a student go bad (not common, but we've seen it often enough on the screen) or could she be Qimir's Sith master who is working from the inside and is irritated that Qimir has made a mess of things? I'm sure the High Republic fans will lose their minds if she is, though. edit: heh, I got to the part where Alex makes mention of this

If Vernestra turns out to be a secret Sith or something, that just wastes her role in the High Republic books and they should just keep her as a Jedi.

Qimir is clearly a different kind of Sith. The man has safety ropes on his stairs!

The breathing of Osha wearing the mask sounded exactly like when Anakin put the Vader helmet on for the first time.

One thing that I'm seeing often online regarding speculation (and don't like) is that people keep taking the Legends Sith Masters timeline as canon. At this point, shouldn't everyone be assuming that Disney will be changing things?

She got tired of everyone calling her Vern, and turned to the dark side.

It would be awesome to have you and generation tech have a good conversation because I enjoy both of your channels. Very very informative.

So I have a question can Master Vernesyra's lightsaber whip be used as a regular lightsaber and she can press a button to activate the whip part of it or is it just a whip?

I wonder if the reference to being a Jedi "a long time ago" could be a hint that this Sith is perhaps much older than we thought? Possibly surviving through essence transfer? He gave me a slight amount of Set Harth vibes, but then again, Set was all about living forever and fulfilling his selfish cravings, and not on the Sith Grand Plan.

Has anyone mentioned that Qimir might be a follower of Abeloth? His helmet design has huge smiling teeth, and Abeloth has been depicted as such. Also, I'm glad that this channel is not crapping on the show, it has its faults but it's a pretty good show.

Was your closing line about the High republic books having a “storm” cloud a play on words?

I think the two planets might just look similar because... Ireland. Based on all the British actors in small roles, it's clear that the show was filmed in/around Britain and Ireland

All the Bazil stuff was deeply, deeply annoying to me; the music has been brilliant this series but in those scenes it was super aggravating.

Your analysis of Qimirs mindset and manipulation methods is brilliant!

Tenebrous and Plaguies just over here like:...you know we exist,right?

A few of the thoughts/ideas/theories I have coming out of this episode: 1. Qimir is older than he looks and I'm thinking maybe he and Sol came into the order at the same time, were Younglings together. 2. Qimir WAS the Sith apprentice but isn't any more and it was his Sith master that discarded him, not the Jedi. That's why he wants the 'power of two', to have an acolyte to teach and train to rival and eventually take down his former master and the apprentice that replaced him. 3. Qimir is going to be killed by the new Sith apprentice and they will take Osha as their acolyte.

Bro, what's with the shot at us for watching RU-vid? That was bizarre.

I really liked the episode. Reminded me of Luke's introduction to Yoda on Dagobah, but with everything flipped to the Darkside. Vernestra is a good callback to the peak of the High Republic, when Jedi temple outposts were at the frontier of the Republic's expansion. Qimir could be either Revan or Plagueis (remember he said something about being really old).

Like Vern’s other stories. This is Young Adult High Republic.

I thought the tip the scale line might be referring the need to bring balance back to the force. If it needs to be brought back into balance, it had to be out of balance.

My big question of this show is where is the Jedi council, how does the council not get involved when a sith that isn’t supposed to exist show up and multiple Jedi die beyond stupid

I feel this was the best episode of the series so far. Sol is heading to the dark side I think. Vernestra sure has a lot of secrets and I think she was Qimir’s master and turned on him

I find it interesting both Qimir and Sol repeatedly use the word pupil instead of apprentice or anything of the sort, Idk if it’s really anything but it’s interesting that it feels like deliberate word choice. Qimir especially has said pupil numerous times and I find it interesting.

It would be so powerfull and explain a lot if its Vanestra who is the Sith and working from within the order like Palpatine working from within the Senate. It would also make for a wonderfull last fight with her killing Qamir and revealing her thrue identity in the last moment. It gives me chills thinking of it. But are they that bold?

The idea of what they presented about Sol in this episode through the idea of blaming him for all of this through a political cover up is the most Star Wars thing about the Jedi you can think of. Especially when you factor in how Clone Wars did that many times. How I never thought about it that way is crazy lol.

Ahch-to was shot in ireland, this unknown planet, was shot in Portugal. That doesnt mean anything, it could be ahch-to. It is a very similar landscape. It could be that filming in the Madeira Island is cheaper then filming in ireland? Or indeed it is another planet?

Gotta think that planet is called Ahch-Two at this point

I've been thinking Vernestra is the big bad as well.

"I don't want to see a young, talented Jedi Knight become a Sith!" - literally hundreds of Jedi Masters over the ages as they watched that exact thing happen

I like the dual meanings and our interpenetration of them , from our perspective of Jedi they are the teachers kind patient and understanding . All the traits Qimir is showing to osha during his manipulation tatics, while on the other hand we see the anger and grief may have affected Sol more than he lets on. As an audience we see his lack of composure and doing things unbecoming of a Jedi leaving without explaining himself to Vernestra. In my head cannon the dual title could mean the Teaching of Osha from Qimir to the Sol becoming corrupt . Which could be a stretch but good media does tend to make you question things.

Finally someone besides me that gets the hint that those scars might be from a (light saber) whip.

Since the first two episodes I've wondered if the witches created a plan to destroy the Jedi and Sith The Sith are a Jedi faction after all For them it isn't a fight between the light or dark but rather they see the Jedi and Sith as heretical to the use of the force... indeed the witches chafe at the idea that it is called a "force" let alone a force than can be separated into light and dark - good and evil When Qimir calls light and dark semantics - that makes me think he had more to do with the witches than we realize Maybe he and the witches hatched this plan...

I swear in one of the establishing shots of “not” ach-to I heard a little wildlife critter sound that is also in TLJ. Maybe I’m remembering incorrectly but idk. It’ll be weird if that planet isn’t ach-to.

I'm guessing Sol read Mae's mind. Mind reading has been mentioned by Qimir twice and shown in the first episode. I still don't think Qimir is a Sith. They've been adding alternate groups of force users for years. Going back to Jedi good, Sith bad would feel cheap when we've got Bendu, the Knights, three or four ancient civilisations from Cal games and Aphra comics.

Osha's """friendship""" with Jecki :P

I loved this episode! Loving the music too! Especially these last 2 episodes where Kylo Rens theme has played a few times overall in both episodes. I’m thinking Qimir could be trying to break free of his Sith master and he could become the first knight if ren