The Acolyte - Episode 6 - Why Was This Made? 

This show was worth it just to get Platoon to say Occupational Safety and Health Administration over and over again.

"I'm not as easily corrupted like my sister." *Gets immediately corrupted*. I don't think the writers are very good.

Critical Drinker and Mauler after seeing Platoon release edited 1+ hour long videos every couple days... Mauler: "He has perfect control over his editors and work schedule, he's too dangerous to be kept alive!"

Disney shills: "Stop complaining about bad writing! It's a kid's show with space wizards!" Disney: Has space wizard kidnap a woman, and expose himself to her...after murdering her lesbian love interest.😐 Remember folks, it's for kids!

As Robert Baratheon once said “give me something for the pain and let me die”.

The irony should not be lost on people, that the former assistant of Harvey Weinstein makes a scene where a character spies on another naked character. lmao

Give me the meat! And give it to me raw! - Osha after turning to the dark side for no reason at all.

It has made me wonder if these lesbian writers are really lesbian, though. The first chance they get, they put in a fit, shirtless bad boy type with a tragic backstory and say "I can change him!"😅

Leslye Headland thinks the Acolyte is the most important thing she has done, I find this kinda heartwarming, since her other job was feeding young actors to a sexual monster.

So Occupational Health and Safety Administration has stockholm syndrome, that reminds me, did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Dingdong the nude?

It's almost comical how they sexualize their male actors while condeming "muh male gaze"

For being the "gayest" Star Wars, it sure is straight.

"Where did you get that scar?" "On my back."

Oh my God Platoon is right. Not only did Sol leave the Jedi bodies to be eaten, not only did he leave their light sabers behind to be picked up by anyone that may come across them, he also left behind Smilo's Cortosis helmet lmao. An extremely rare and valuable artifact that the Jedi Council would kill to get their hands on and the main clue that may lead to the antagonist. Good God!

"Stop hiring Gungans" is probably Platoon's funniest line ever.

His "prominent" scar is going to be a map/key that matches up to a rock formation, that will lead her to the knowledge of many covens of space witched

Thank you for calling out that horrible line: "His strength in the Force is very powerful." 🤮

I'm still somehow blown away with how awful the character writing is. I read a fanfic once that, as a side thing had a cursed sentient house. It couldn't speak but had motives, a character arc, dark secrets, wants, needs, anger, and actually made me cry at the end when it sacrificed itself. Writing that no character in this show seems to have. A fanfic writer made me cry over a house and DISNEY can't make me feel anything for any of their characters, let alone the main one 💀

When I saw him shirtless, I knew I had to see Platoon's review.

The “write what you know” burn is so savage. Well played sir, well played.

“His strength in the force is very powerful” lol We don’t need to make movies anymore, nothing can top that

Mog. Half man, half dog. He's his own best friend

I love how dedicated he always says "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" without failing.

Such a virtuous heroine. Such a rolemodel. Don't go to the darkside unless he has a big lightsaber. LOL

Incompetent writer mindset: Noticing the marking on the forehead is a too simple of a method to find out the woman Sol brought back was Mae. Instead, I will have the sniffer alien smells Mae out, tries to tackle her first, THEN run to tell Master Sol leaving the audiences guessing how an alien that doesn't speak Galactic Basic is able to communicate information to a human. I am totally not compensating for my incompetency as a writer!

Disney doesn't know how to make tv shows, which is weird, because they own several tv channels.

When I saw this scene I thought “Oh I wonder what jokes Platoon’s gonna make about Darth Shirtless the fanservice” and you did not disappoint my friend

Reylo Part II: Abusive Boogaloo

"We need to slow things down Smilo.. I'm not Jecki, I'm not just going to let you poke holes in me" LOL

I'm glad Platoon exceeded my expectations for the Smilo-lusting.😂

"Hey baby, wanna hold my saber? If you're really bad, I'll let you feel my helmet." - D+ Star Wars Sith, 2024.

"Fair use jar jar" is the best thing to come out of this show

16:05 "He's installed railings, obviously, because he knows Occupational Safety and Health Administration is on the scene now." Hahaha a random payoff to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration joke!

I figured that Platoon would like this episode for the eye candy.

I find it funny how every time Disney wants to add inclusion for diversity, they always end up making that person a super stereotype of whatever ethnicity they are. Asian people in star wars will obviously wear asian inspired clothing and fight eachother with hand to hand marshal arts style combat. Reva was a innercity black kid getting bullied by a pasty white alien dude (funny considering the empire is supposed to be extremely racist to alien species). I just don't get how any "fan" can defend disney as a diverse inclusive space when most of their depictions of other ethnic groups is based solely on stereotypical traits and customs.

At this point I hope the battle for OSHA's soul at the end of the season takes the form of Smilo and Squid game stripping down and showing who is stronger with the Schwartz. Abandon any pretense of this being a serious show and embrace the T and A.

*I can’t believe the studio wanted to swap out its formerly devoted fan base for THAT audience demographic.* Ah, yes, the ones that would give you billions for merely mentioning the names of Star Wars icons, versus the Fifty Shades of Grey crowd.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to hang out with me and smoke Spice and fill our bellies with DIET blue milk and play Pazzak Revenge for the P2-S2." -Smileo Ren

"His strength in the force is very powerful" just made me speechless when I heard it first time...

OSHA's mind this episode: "The power of one egg, the power of two eggs needing to be inseminated, the power of mannnyyyy!"

Are we sure this show isn’t a pg-13 cut of a corn parody? Because the way Smileo delivered his lines makes me think that it is.

Platoon's little avatar blushing was unexpectedly cute, though.

Thank you Platoon for covering this abomination. You put more effort into these videos than the showrunners and writers have done for the show. I am convinced these showrunners only care about validation for their first drafts because anyone with a critical eye would note the problems here and would advise redrafting of scripts. I am finally going through Andor(thank you and Mauler for recommending it) and it is night and day how the dialogue and character work is in Andor than it is in the Acolyte. It helped that Gilroy redrafted his scripts. So really, there is zero excuse for this other than these Leslie and Kennedy are high on their agenda and don't care about quality. They just want folks to worship them. Not me.

Another seldom discussed plot hole, Jekki was using a translator device when she was talking to the merchants playing space chess next to the forest (for reasons) in Episode 4. This establishes that Yord VPN wasn't even really necessary to communicate with the Pronoun Beaver at all, unless (of course) said device is conveniently forgotten about...which it has, so there is that.

“Take the wheel” “Factory settings” This all sucks

If they already show a male torso, they could show a naked female torso as a matter of diversity ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I'd bet Smilo is a failed experiment, likely mixing DNA. He's literally called Qimir (that sounds a lot like Chimera). They're smart that way...

You see, the thing is with Ki Adi Mundi is that in The Acolyte, it's Ki Adi Mundi SENIOR. The Ki Adi Mundi in the prequel trilogy is Ki Adi Mundi Junior. They don't make a distinction because Jedi are supposed to eschew all titles because they form attachments. True Story!

By the end of this show Platoon is gonna be hearing "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" in his dreams and waking up in a cold sweat 😂😂

Talk about having the darkside thrusted upon you. 2 force users, one midichlorian cup

_"Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose"_ Thanks master Yoda, I have done exactly that with Star Wars.

This is the one small piece of grace I give Amandla's 'performances'. When you ask the director/showrunner "What are my characters' morals, beliefs, motivations, outlooks and personalities?" And the answer is "No". I imagine it makes it difficult to portray said characters. This defence has been provided on behalf of bobs and boot.

The romance of Smilo Ren and Little Platoon had more substance than this entire show

You just got out of the water. Why am I wetter than you Smilo?

Yeah, Little Platoon picked up on exactly the same thing I did, which is, "If this is the most important story you've ever worked on, how can you possibly have so little to say?" And the truth is that this is not anything close to the most important she's ever worked on because she clearly doesn't care. I've seen her interviews where she has no thoughts about this story, no ideas about the world, she can't answer basic questions about how the world works. She has zero interest in the work needed to make this story coherent which is how you end up with a second episode that does nothing except stall for time so you can have the big reveal next episode. The problem is, I can't imagine this series not deciding to end season 8 with a kind of big reveal, so episode 7 is probably going to be yet even more pointless stalling.

Platoon flirting with Smilo Ren killed me XD

Osha is a blank self-insert [your name] character like Bella in Twilight. She exists only as a vehicle for lonely middle aged women to experience a Jedi story with themselves as the main character.

"Spell 'special' with a capital 7" I am going to have to borrow that one!

Someone, somewhere: “What’s this straight stuff doing in my gay starwars???”

You know, watching Leslie being so touchy and flirty with Amandla, after admitting to obsessing over her for years, is a little nauseating. Let a guy be so tactile with a woman in an interview and see how quickly they get canceled. She learned well from her master. I sense an approaching divorce in the Force.

God I hope that Squid Game finally tells Bad Twin what went on with the Witches tonight. They have strung that out for 7 episodes and its the only interesting thing in the series.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration feels more prop than character at this point...

Yes, it is illogical to present the Senate as having the power to audit the Jedi Order. They are separate institutions the Senate has no business in Jedi affairs. But then this is Leslye Headland she's used to making excuses for violating boundaries.

19:30 To be fair... remember... he can glide down... he was prolly at the summit of the island's peak and just floated down to there... But... seeing as the last time she saw him she was trying to get the murder moths to kill him... shouldn't she be a tad worried that, you know, he might still be holding a grudge about that? Also... why didn't he toss THAT back in her face when she starts going on about "who killed who"... "Bish! You tried to get a bunch of insects to eat me to death!"

The writers just aren't smart enough to do the twins device. Osha is a blank, and Mae is "convenience of the hour". In this episode, the writers expect us to have amnesia or brain damage, and Osha likewise, such that she does not react with fear and loathing to Smilo Ren. She's just experienced him flicking her sideways like a ragdoll (ep.4), and massacre her mates (ep.5) including Yord. She should be TERRIFIED. Not mildly curious what he has to say during pillowtalk hour.

Is this the mythical “wider audience” they so desperately sought? Amusing, if so.

you know you done something wrong when its more fun and interesting when someone criticly mocks a group of characters instead of the story of sayed characters.

Mog, half man, half dog. He’s his own best friend.

Watching these reviews of The Acolyte, I had the strange feeling that I'd seen the (theoretical) characters Osha and Mae before and it suddenly hit me: this is the modern-day adaption of Peter Seller's The Pink Panther movies. Osha is Inspector Clouseau, bumbling around cluelessly while the plot keeps happening around her without her having any influence on things. Mae is Kato, the attack lunatic who's only reason for being in the show is to constantly attack, only for the sake of being the comic sidekick. All other characters are simply there to move the plot along around these two fools.

If Star Wars "saved her life" seems like she would care for it more. Or any at all.

I'm not joking when I say this -- I keep getting the feeling that each episode of shows like this are made by entirely different AI systems, with barely any clues for the AI to integrate one episode to another.

We now lots about green bean. She's a jedi. She has a purple lightsaber whip. She gets hyperspace sick. That's loads of character work.

So, this finally explains why they needed an intimacy coordinator 😮

Did anyone notice how fast Vernestra and crew get to the Outer Rim. Almost, instantaneously. Fascinating. It's almost like the writers refused to account for space and time in place of dramatic affect. :)

This show is a marvelous thing. Indeed, I can't help but marvel at the immense effort put into digging progressively deeper holes into what I previously thought was the intellectual floor of Star Wars. It is fairly giggle worthy, in fact, to see someone playing out a compressed air line, down their little pit, as they have developed blisters from the pickaxe. As the jackhammer begins, all I hear echoing up is an ambiguously AI voice over repeating "wraps her hands gently around the hilt" and "predatory gaze". I must admit, I was under the impression this was a murder mystery, not a bodice ripper.

I'm going to be so sad when this show ends. These videos from Platoon have been top tier.

"Series Protagonist" Occupational Health and Safety Administration. I could literally hear the air-quotes around that.

I really appreciate these reviews, as a human audience member.

9:50 I love how the Jedi just assume there's only one assassin. Why couldn't it be a group? At that point in the story, the Jedi know very little.

@TheLittlePlatoon only 15min in but the writing and editing is particularlly witty and funny in this one. Good work as alwaysn but the elegant brutality of your intelegent sassy/british roasting has been turned up a notch causing me to literally laugh out loud

HIS STRENGTH IN THE FORCE IS VERY POWERFUL!!!

For me, it was the moment when the extremely physically threatening main antagonist was spontaneously abducted by a swarm of Deus Ex Mothinas (somehow being taken by surprise despite having highly attuned senses) flailed his powered-on lightsaber around frantically for several seconds on screen in a panicked, desperate manner, all while failing to inflict an ounce of harm upon even one of the piñata-sized bugs... That's when i realized "oh, these writers *don't give a fuuuckkk"* and they are shamelessly writing for the lowest common denominator of their audience. This isn't your average, everyday badness. This is... *advanced badness.*

Most entertaining show ever…your coverage of Ejaculyte, that is ❤

I don’t remember giving my likeness to this video. However I am okay with it.

This show is not only incompetent, it is purposefully insulting. It had one thing going for it, which was everyone (with no exceptions) wanted to see the wookie jedi in action, and they barely even showed him alive. They had one thing everyone agreed was cool, even if we doubted their execution, but then they decided to not execute it.

Platoon is more committed to the OSHA joke than the writers are with their shows lmao

It was made so we can suffer... and to have so many great and entertaining videos talking about this garbage.

Jackie: I have three openings. Smilo: Well... about that.

What is with all the heavy panting in this show? Normal conversation? Panting. Skinny dipping? Panting. Hug? Panting. Tied to a bed? Panting. 😂

I came for trashing on Disney, I stayed for the short history lesson on Rome

Smilo is palpatine. In putting my stake in it. 1 TRILLION DOLLARS!!! *puts pinky to edge of mouth.

LMFAO @ "It feels good Spilo, it feels powerful, it feels right." You're out of control Platoon! 🤣

"My notes from my first watch of this episode say" Jesus man, you are a masochist aren't you?

Just cause he's hot doesn't make it good 😞

As a woman from Poland living in a society characterized by a "Slavic smile", I don`t understand one thing: Do "the creators" of this series distinguish between showing emotions on our faces and those that determine our choices/actions? Jedi can show emotions on their faces while remaining stoic because they aren`t machines but human beings. Each side is characterized by its own emotions and the actions that are associated with them. The "main character" looks like an inflated doll moved from place to place. This isn't acting, it's amateurism. Do "the creators" understand how humans function if they want to show how easy it is to go to the evil side? Sometimes I have the impression that aliens are hired for scripts these days...

I don't think we are giving the writers of this show enough credit. It is truly impressive how much of star wars, and characters they are able to break with one show. Every episode has been able to one up the previous one in destroying the lore, or characters, or the force than the previous one. This episode with a casual throw away line undermines the entire political structure at up in the prequels and numerous legends and high Republic books. It gives lip service to all the contradicting ideas on how force sensitive people exist in the start wars universe. And it manages again to contradict the laws of time it set up in the previous episode. The level of destruction done by this writing team is absolutely impressive. Lesser writers can only dream.

It’s a strange situation where I feel like I have to watch the episode to prepare for the actual entertaining part of this show, which is The Little Platoon’s reviews.

Thanks! Your editor (if he splices the clips, which I imagine) is brilliant too

I love how you can hear the will to live gradually draining from Platoons voice with each new episode.

"spells special with a capital 7", has been added to my roast options. Genius. Ha Ha