The funniest thing this show did was make the two main characters fatherless black girls (raised by lesbians) where one grows up to be a vicious psychopathic murderer and the other is an unemployed dropout.
The worst "storytelling" is when an incompetent, uneducated, narcissistic "writer" simply embeds themselves into every character and pretentiously placed plot point. It's obvious to anyone intelligent that LH and Didnay staff are projecting themselves onto the pages. Thus, into the film frames it all goes... and it's bloody pathetic and embarrassing. 🙄🤮🥱💩 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ -- Diamond Dragons (series)
The Message comes first, it's not about the money. If you're so incompetent that you fuck up your propaganda task even with 180M$, you might still get shitcanned. But don't think this will guide Disney away from the Message. They will just try to find more effective propagandists.
Apparently, what we got was after multiple revisions because they tested TERRIBLY. So bad that apparently Dave Floni had to step in and supervise the show....and we still got dog shit.... But Apparently the lightsaber fights were pretty good.
George Lucas's statement about his movies being aimed at 12-year-olds is taken out of context, ignoring the point that he was making. The full quote is: "I wanted to make a kids' film that adults would enjoy. And if you really do it well, the kids understand more than you think they do, and the adults get the enjoyment out of it by reading into it."
George also says in different interviews that 12-year-olds are much smarter than people give them credit for. He never thought he needed to talk down to kids, he knew they would understand more than anyone expected them to
When Star Wars came out in 1977 I was about 13 years old. All the movies in the 70s were cynical, anti hero movies. If you believed in good values you were ridiculed in the movies. I ( and clearly many others) were sick of it. Then Star Wars came out. It was inspirational, elevating, positive, uplifting. It obviously struck a cord with many people; not just me. Now here we are again. I am 60. Everything is cynical, anti hero, and ridiculing of anyone who believes we should aspire to be good. I think it is time for a new Star Wars.
Amen to this! To put it a certain way: why did Disney invest in an "IP business opportunity" that is based on the motifs of the Hero's Journey (a la Joseph Campbell, literally) as a guide for living only to subvert and ridicule that very motif? There are plenty of cynical, subversive products out there... And I like some of them, not saying everything has to be innocent... But that's not the Star Wars "brand". Especially if you're looking for new audiences...
The idea that the Jedi order didn't know about the twins is stupid because in the second flash back episode they told the council about the twins and the coven. The story never was able to keep itself straight.
So many great RU-vid creators ripping it to shreds each in their own unique way has been an absolute joy. Actually sorry there won't be a season 2 for people like Owen or Disparu to eviscerate.
Ever since Jodie Tuner Smith's infamous YAAAS YAAAS speech, I expected The Acolyte to become nothing more than material for RU-vid content creators to play with, and I just like you I had a lot of fun watching them. Too bad the show has been cancelled indeed. The second season would be twice as fun...
Leslie says it the greatest piece of art she's ever created, so presumably the second place goes to an outline tracing of her hand on a piece of A4 paper.
Here's who I think the show is for. It's for the 20-30 year olds that grew up on the tween disney shows, but never matured. They want to feel older and smarter, but they lack the maturity or intellect to enjoy things of that caliber, so this show dumbstruck everything down, but keeps the vague pseudo-intellectual concepts. They are also horny as hell. I imagine all of this applies to Leslie and the writers as well.
But TONS of coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate cronies, and opulent opportunities! 💪😎✌️ And that's all anyone needs in order to permanently "succeed".
Wait, the show’s creator admits she never really cared about the characters nor the story but yet claim it’s somehow “the most important art she ever made.” The gaslighting is strong with this one.
I first heard it when Deadpool was in an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man (which he intentionally said was because he was in a kids’ show and couldn’t use the word kill), but I don’t know if the word goes back any further than that.
@@schizzo8959 It's simply a euphemism for "killing/death" that RU-vid and TikTok content creators are forced to use lest they want the algorithms that scan the spoken audio to flag the video.
There's whole genres of porny kindle books and fanfics that are full of that. My wife reads them. They are incredibly dumb......but she always wants to act out the sex scenes, so there's that.
@TheOnlyTinMS3 I mean... That's been a LOT of shows and movies lately... Acolyte, Velma, Robyn Hood, The Marvels, Captain Marvel, Ant Man, etc... It's all crap, and the critiques are MUCH better, more well written, and far more entertaining.
What is even worse about Yord being portrayed as an incompetent rule follower, is that if they had done what he wanted the outcomes would have probably been better for all the characters.
And Yord only dies because he lets OSHA, of all people, convince him to break safety regulations. You can't make this shit up. What was even the point of that? Yord is constantly giving Osha shit about regulations. This rigid adherence to protocol without being able to read the room/go with the flow is clearly presented as a character flaw. So when he finally sets this flaw aside and breaks protocol, instead of being a GOOD thing that marks this moment of character growth.... he's dead. Worse, OSHA returned just to make sure the bad guy survives, quite literally, stopping Sol from killing Smilo Ren. Which marks the second time Sol lets known jedi-murderer Smilo Ren go for stupid reasons. What is this writing!?
If I had to guess, probably by allowing a man she worked for to do horrible things to women. I'm assuming that's probably one way to get promoted, but I could be wrong. lol
Of course she's way out of her depth, but I think there's a partial "real world" answer: I think she genuinely believes there are meaningful parallels between the referenced shows/movies and Acolyte - partly because she doesn't understand the other shows, and partly because _she doesn't understand the show_ *she' _made._ So Dunning-Kruger, but the bad kind that the "actual score 10%, perceived score 60%" people have.
Overall yes, however “The princess twins of legendale ” isn’t a barbie movie and I will not stand for the disrespect and spread of this misinformation. (this is a joke…mostly)
It's just crazy that the witch lady turned into a smoke monster and then tried to play it off like, "I was totally gonna let her go, idiot. Didn't the smoke monster tip you off to that?"
Speaking of juxtaposing characters in different situations by overlaying them side-by-side in order to convey symbolism, the opening cutscenes of Halo 2 absolutely nail this concept. You have Master Chief (the player character) heading towards his awards ceremony while Marines and naval personnel applaud him in the background, and Sergeant Johnson chastises him for not "wearing something nice" because he's wearing his full suit of armor, helmet and all. Then it swaps to the Arbiter, his counterpart on the enemy faction, being escorted towards his place of public humiliation while aliens boo him in the background. While the Master Chief is going to be receiving a medal for valor due to his actions during the battle of Installation 04, the Arbiter then gets his armor stripped off and then "pinned" on the chest by a massive branding iron, due to his failures against the humans in the same battle. The human ceremony even gets interrupted before Master Chief can receive his medal by alien forces arriving at Earth. The dialogue in the scene is also incredible. Fuck, Halo 2 is so good.
I remember getting the steel case of that at midnight with a friend. We were beyond hyped, and when we went home and discovered that you play as The Arbiter, we absolutely lost it. Played until 8, when I had to head to class. What a time
I still can’t believe a team of adults watched them shoot scenes where a stone temple burned down, a fire was burning in space, and people survived crash landing from space, and none of them said yeah this is physically impossible, we should stop.
@@WelloBello there’s a difference between realism and believability. You can make a great story that violates reality, but ignoring believability is always detrimental to immersion in a story
@@WelloBello Sure, but a story has to follow its own rules. Just because it's a story about laser swords and space magic doesn't mean that there are no rules and the writers can just make stuff up without explaining it.
You can split every line of dialogue into one of 4 categories - characters talking about their motivations or what they are thinking -characters saying things the audience already knows -characters saying things each other already know -lines that don’t mean anything but the writer thought it sounded cool
Everyone who signed the "save The Acolyte" online petition should have to watch this video, then allowed to make a public apology that will allow them to reenter society if they so choose.
I signed it. Why? Because i ❤ the acolyte. "How?" You ask? The acolyte is the most awful show i have ever seen. It is mindblowingly bad. And i love it for it. The acolyte is to me the greatest parody of modern shows i have ever seen. Is comedy genius (made by anything but a genius). It was so bad, i couldn't predict the next episode. And that doesn't happen to me normally. So i absolutely support Headland writing a season 2. The woman can't write for shit. Byt by god am I entertained. Also, the show breaks soo much lore, i frankly don't see it as Star Wars anymore than Spaceballs were :D
There's this story about Dave Filoni showing George Lucas a prototype of an episode of TCW. After it was over, George asked Filoni what he wanted to say with that episode, Filoni answered and George said something like "Well, then put that on-screen, because you're not gonna be there to explain it to the audience like you did to me". Whenever creators keep talking about what they wanted to say or show, I just keep wondering "then why not put that on the actual work?"
@@gregowen2022in the UK bugger is slang for an*l sects. If that’s what Leslye would be then it seems quite appropriate. Orson Scott Card allegedly had some ‘interest’ in this sort of behaviour with minors. There is a very dark side in this field and it ain’t just about force users.
The lightsaber fights in this show are actually the worst ever made. Half the time they aim at each other's weapon instead of the opponent. The other half is mostly swinging wildly off target, kicking at the best moment to get limbs chopped off or forgeting to use any force power, except for the thickly plot-armored villain. The power levels are all over the place, with a Sith shoving half a dozen jedi knigths effortlessly, defeating them all like a black belt plowing through drunk yellow belts, then getting his ass kicked by a padawan teenage girl he only defeats with a hidden weapon as she fights even better than her master. The padawan who was trounced by that Sith's apprentice; an apprentice who was overpowered by the master of that padawan... Not to mention their use of lightsaber weapons, weightless and relying on precision strikes and energy output to do damage (and stop an opposing blade) and not muscle power like steel weapons. But here they fight as if putting all their weight behind a strike or making a large swing for momentum would make any difference. Rewatch the very first lightsaber fight in History. Vader and Obi-Wan are two old, experienced masters weilding instant-death weapons. Their movements are swift, economical, always aimed at the opponent, not one wasted or needless (except for one pivot by Obi-Wan obviously made just for show). It's the simplest, shortest one on film and yet, it makes these childish fencing flailings of the Acolyte look like schoolyard samurai make-beleive.
42:50 omfg the whole story was about that. Leslie headland said her self starwars saved my life. This entire show was just her lesbian fantasy power trip where she confronts her child hood trauma against her father.
Yup,..so when it is asked "who is this for?" it was for herself. The ones that are mad about it being cancelled are only mad because they see it as a lost against those they view as their mortal enemies.
The whole "lightsaber is a phallic symbol" thing really is her issue too. It's like...the rest of us just see a laser sword. She made a tv show when she should have just seen a therapist & talked it out.
Sadly the writing is even worse than you exposed: the show begins with Mae killing Master Trinity in a crowded bar with witnesses while Sol was teaching in Corussant. How is pinning the murders of about a dozen Jedi (plus maybe the witches) on Sol, a Jedi Master, better than pinning it on a student who they kicked out??? This show... sheesh!
The “damage control interviews” are essentially dumping gasoline all over the fire. (A fire which might be consuming rocks and/or burning slowly and merrily in space)
From day one, I was one billion percent certain that I would not watch one millisecond of this show, knowing that it would be painfully horrible beyond comprehension. After watching this glorious video, I realized that I grossly underestimated how horrible this piece of flying aardvark dung could actually be.
@@gregowen2022Man I'm a huge fan of your account. Also because while you are conservative you don't seem to be a Matt Walsh "I want draconian punishments like in this world country" type of guy. It's really refreshing to see more moderates speaking about cultural issues. Moderates once made up the majority of the population and now it's becoming increasingly rare.
@@EbonyPope You're right, there isn't many moderate voices on platforms like these... Because most of the people on platforms like these, are only in it for the money and being moderate doesn't tend to make the most money. Sucks but c'est la vie. Oh and I
Regarding the inconsistent tone/target demographic, a common mistake made by new writers is to throw everything plus the kitchen sink into a story that they like from other stories. They put in things from their childhood like slapstick and silly jokes, but also edgy stuff from their teenaged years like death and sex. The result is a wildly inconsistent story with a microscopic target demographic Experienced writers practice the art of "kill your darlings" where they can recognize that something they love in their story needs to be removed to make the story more focused
bro really buried this whole show in the first 10 minutes but had a whole funeral after😂😂😂 great video explaining why this show, script and acting was a terrible mess!
Exactly. They keep going on about "racist, sexist" etc but nah, that's not it. If I can't have it then you don't get to have your Twilight/Hunger Games ass version of Star Wars.
@@LembeckIsStaying Exactly. Disney exists on “stollen valor.” They are all a bunch of narcissistic idiots who don’t know how to have fun and haven’t ever learned how to be creative in any meaningful measure. They’re standing on the shoulders of actual creative giants that have lefts many years prior to now. Sucks to suck.
The idea of the force and by extension the Jedi sith conflict being more morally gray is a concept that has been done plenty of time before, in knights of the old republic, the clone wars, old legends material etc. the problem is this show fails to understand that concept and tries to do a “what if bad actually good” thing. Which is kinda ironic considering the sith empire of legend was very eugenics based
And it was done well better. You can still agree and disagree with the Jedi and the sith but you can still identify the good and bad guys. The best depiction of greyness is in KOTOR 2.
We don't need another morally grey show either, there's Andor for that and even the Madolorian touches on the idea of ambiguous nature of good vs evil. Even so, if they had managed to write better they may not have been canceled
Oh, I finally got it! The "Murder Mistery" wasn't the death of Trinity, but of death of the witches... which wasn't a murder... since it was self-defense... and it's never established how the rest died... and there's no reason why the Jedi involved treat it like a HUGE secret that they needed to cover up...
I know it's "vergence". But what i heard was "the virgins being important, yet undetectable" , "how did virgins become such an important part of the story?", "... establish stakes for any Jedi that came in contact with virgins" and so many more. It's dumb, but I'm crying.
Author here. It's 100% clear that LH knows absolutely nothing about dramatic structure, character arcs, literary & cinematic techniques, thematic underpinnings, color palettes (yup), and relevant world-building. Oh well, though. She's wealthy beyond all measure, and *that* is all that matters. 🙄 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ "Before I start, I must see my end. Destination known, my mind's journey now begins. Upon my chariot, heart and soul's fate revealed. In time, all points converge; hope's strength resteeled. But to earn final peace at the universe's endless refrain, we must see all in nothingness... before we start again." 🐲✨🐲✨🐲✨ -- Diamond Dragons (series)
This was an excellent episode Mr. Owen. I respect the fact that you don't rant or "scream at the sky", so to speak. You tell us why through your breakdowns and let us, the audience, agree or disagree. Before I continue, just to be clear, I didn't watch one second of the Acolyte. That came to be due to a couple red flags: one from Leslye and one from Amandla (Hmmm, this sounds familiar. Did I say this in an earlier comment?) After seeing yours, and others', spoiler reviews...those red flags were right on the money. Your "mini rant" about Hollywood injecting sexual themes, the twisting of morality, good and evil, etc. into kids' movies and shows was (**Chef's Kiss**) SO needed. While I'm not a parent, the things that are being "taught" to the "future adults" concerns me. I learned about themes (good & evil, etc.) mainly from my parents, but also from stories...George Lucas' Star Wars was one of them. In my opinion, Episodes IV, V and VI is about growing up and the ups and downs of it. I can't wait for part two to drop. I think there's some deep issues with Harvey Weinstein's former personal assistant. Instead of seeking out counseling, the Acolyte was created instead. As I said in the live chat, all of these mistakes made in the Acolyte is helping my writing. Have a good night & God bless. 🙂
Osha's arc was having all of her narcissism validated. That was the ENTIRE point of the show, just another narcissistic validation fantasy by toxic velmas that hate the IP they control the customer base, and everyone else, including themselves.
@moseszero3281 -- Do you think she's Leslie's self-insert? Because in that case, she proves that despite what some have argued, you actually really *don't* need to look like the character you're "relating" to; you just need them to get everything you want, no matter how far-fetched or morally dubious your desire is, or however outright insane the antics are that they have to get up to in order to achieve it.
The greatest Sunday school joke ever told. Sunday school teacher looks at her class and says, “What is small, has a big bushy tail, climbs trees, and buries acorns.” Kids stare at her blankly for nearly a full minute before one kid slowly raises his hand. “Yes, Jimmy?” “I know the answer is Jesus but man it sounds like a squirrel.”
@@MylesKillisit’s because in Sunday school/religion classes were always told “the answer is always Jesus.” The joke here is it’s obviously a squirrel, but the kid is following the “the answer is always Jesus” line.
Let's all not forget that "this show didn't have time to stretch it's legs and really open up"..... I can't tell you how many shows I've seen accomplish more with a tiny budget and less episodes. Also, imagine having a show tailor made for your group. Made just for you. Then not watching it at all. Then complaining that it's getting cancelled despite not putting any time or effort into just watching or supporting it. Lol Edit: oh man I thought all of the pictures of OSHA or whatever not showing any emotions.mqn, seeing it play out actually is beyond flabbergasting. That chick made so many millions just because black and gay. Edit edit: oh many the whip lightsaber is so dumb and seriously seems like an incredibly dangerous hazard to the user and any Jedi around her.... Also, I really just don't feel like a floppy saber vs a solid saber is gunna win... Edit edit edit: anyone else think it's funny that both twins ended up with the same hair despite thinking the other was dead? Like, after 16 years they somehow had the exact same hair? Just me? Like neither of them changes their look at all? Especially the evil but not evil but totally evil one? Edit whatever: man, ehy do companies think "ig we put black people and lesbians in it all of the backs and lesbians will absolutely love it and support it because they can like see themselves in it!!"??? Ugh.....
Dark Crystal:Rise of Resistance had almost half the budget and thrice the depth and world building in 10 episodes. It was cancelled for costing too much. That's a series that deserves a 2nd season.
I love how the Jedi are on a spectrum from idiots to straight up evil. And people excuse it because it’s showing how they’re “flawed” like in the prequels. They’re far far worse than anything in the prequels. If anything they cleaned up their act so much from this era by the time those movies happen
@@TrueGamer22887What did the Jedi do wrong exactly? They are as competent as the script writer for sure, but they didn't exactly do anything wrong aside from not communicating with their peers.
@@TrueGamer22887 Remember that Hitler and the Nazi did not think of themselves as evil. It was the same thing with the Catholic church. The Pope told all explorers "any non-Christian people "discovered" by European explorers were to be vanquished and subdued. Direct quote: "Subjugated - and brought to the faith." You can think of the Jedi as the Catholic church, they always felt they were doing God's work, especially with the young children. This is why the order would only allow a Master and Padawan to be together for a short time because they didn't want Masters to get "attached". It's like the Catholic church not wanting Priests and alter boys to get too "attached".
That's probably very true. Her interviews indicate they were still writing the show as it went or making things up along the way. She genuinely could have thought of the seatbelt being stuck that morning and told Amandla to try it out and then went with it, that's how poorly planned it all was
And it's crazy that John Truby in his "The Anatomy of Story" called out this lazy writing even back in 2007: "Most writers don’t use the best process for creating a story. They use the easiest one: The writer comes up with a generic premise, or story idea, that is a vague copy of one that already exists. Or it’s a combination of two stories that they have creatively (they think) stuck together. They “flesh out” the main character mechanically, by tacking on as many traits as possible, and figures they’ll make the hero change in the last scene. They think of the opponent and minor characters as separate from and less important than the hero. So they are almost always weak, poorly defined characters. They come up with a plot and a scene sequence based on one question: What happens next? Often they send the hero on a physical journey...Finally, they write dialogue that simply pushes the plot along, with all conflict focused on what is happening..."
Leslie and her show freak me out because like you said, she doesn't seem to have basic morals, or understand them. Zero accountability, zero morals, zero brainpower and creativity. Wokeness and DEI really is the death of creativity and true expression. It feels so corporate, so soulless. Everyone involved going through the motions. No actual thought or effort put into any of it. Everyone probably too afraid to challenge these strong, brave, independent women. I don't understand how this low quality is acceptable for a public company and its board. I don't understand how they keep failing people forward there. I'm overjoyed though to see this and many other woke/modern garbage shows and video games utterly fail. GET FELTED. Finally it feels like we might be pushing past this horrible boring era.
To me What's even more annoying than all these bad shows is all these stupid people trying to sound deep. As if they just finished a coloring book and want to be compared to Picaso. Short sided , simple minded buffoons trying to write complex and intriguing characters. This is the only outcome we could've had
So this is the second video I've watched of yours and you bring up a lot of valid points. I want to bring up something that might be interesting. The other day, i was eating lunch with my dad and brother when my dad brought up the acolyte's cancelation. I then asked him what he would do if he made a dark side focused show. He gave it some thought and said the main character would have to be wronged in someway where the jedi weren't directly responsible for it, but played a part (Ex. A crime lord kills the MC's entire family and the jedi arrest the crime lord, but thaks to having connections and money, the crime lord gets a lesser sentence). This moment drives MC to look into the dark side and commit terrible acts. I added onto what my dad said by having a sith lord (not plaguis) act as a kind and understanding elder to the MC when in reality they're manipulating MC further and further into the dark b/c we seen how the sith manipulate people with Palps and how the dark side is described as seductive. And this was discussed by 3 dudes waiting for lunch while the rat entertainment empire known as Disney didn't even try to make the acolyte interesting, let alone entertaining. Just shows hiw badly they screwed up something that would've been interesting.
"For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic." - Obi-Wan Kenobi. "We're in that period where the proliferation of power is so huge and far-reaching." - Headland, regarding the era Obi-Wan is talking about in A New Hope. So what is she talking about exactly? Greg's "It was a prank, you got punked bro. It was a joke and you took it too seriously" line sounds like a Rick & Morty scene. 🤣 "A wookie with a lightsaber" Okay....we had that in the EU around 30 years ago. So?
Not to mention that the entire High Republic period is supposed to be the golden age of the Jedi where the Jedi were at their most ideal. So it deviates from the canon Disney itself created.
Well played on the Ocean's 11 lasers. Never thought about it until you brought it up and felt pretty stupid realizing the carts would trip them, lol. Exceptional example.
Amandla Stenberg looks more like a child playing Make-Believe then she does an actual actress. Watching her jump into that cockpit to pilot that ship was hilarious.
Plageus being just some weird creeper in a cave for no reason is so utterly moronic it boggles the mind. You can tell that the writers had no idea or understanding of the character, just knew that he looked like a weird long-headed monster man so they just threw a black robe on him and stuck him in a cave. Darth Plageus was one of the richest and most influential members of the galactic community, a high up member of the Banking Clan. He wouldn't be hanging out in some cave in the middle of nowhere... he'd be on Coruscant, and that's where we should have seen him if we absolutely had to get this dumbass cameo. Have him be one of the politicians at the end listening to Jedi Master Nepotism as she tried to cover up the Jedi's involvement by... blaming the Jedi for their involvement. At least his presence would have made more sense than just hanging out in a cave like the Boogeyman
TBF his book begins in a cave. Also he was just born around the time the akolyth takes place so he would be still on his birth world or just begun training under tenebrous at a young age....
@grotzbully1340 -- But do we believe that Leslie and Co. even know that, as opposed to just being lazy about his random cave-dwelling-for-no-reason? Probably not.
This was by far the most clear, intelligent, honest, exposing but most importantly complete analysis of this extremely embarrassing because stupid show - Acolyte. Thank you for revealing all the problems I had with this show, plus some facts I hadn't seen! Alle the best from Germany!
So friggin excited for part 2 of this! Woooooo more product!!! P.s. I wasn't trying to be ironic or facetious...I really am excited about the next video. This was awesome
The number of fails in this series is beyond belief. It's not just bad scripts, acting, special effects etc. Think of just how many hands that Script had to go through. How many hours people stared at this show in the editing room and adding the special effects. At no point no one said a single thing about it? Either they have zero taste and no idea what a profitable show looks like, or they lied about watching it.
You just gotta remember... these people, like LH, etc., are... sacred. They can't be criticized. Even the stuff that comes from their thermal exhaust ports smells like roses... Anyone who says differently had better start looking for a new job... in a new field... immediately.
If Osha's light saber turned red when she turned to the darkside, why did Anakin's stay blue while he slaughtered the children? Guess he was straight up chillin' or something.
The real answer is simply that this particular twist of lore hadn't been invented in 2005. It took a while longer, I believe when Ahsoka reclaimed a once-corrupted crystal on The Clone Wars series. You could argue that Anakin's lightsaber - which Obi-Wan gave to Luke in Ep. IV - remains blue because Anakin hadn't fully become Darth Vader yet. Vader found a new crystal and built a new saber in his fully corrupt state, so it was red from the start.
It's cancelled and no one with a braincell is actually surprised. More relief than celebration for me because there's zero possibility of cancelled horsesh*t ever being considered canon. So it comes and goes and leaves nothing in its wake, except the memes. Always enjoy your analysis Greg, you always find angles that I didn't see before.
Personally I'm pretty disappointed it's cancelled, it's always a joy to watch Disney throw millions of dollars in the trash and not know why they're losing money.
I wouldn’t normally sit through a more than 2-hour long video on something, but this was well constructed held my attention all the way. Looking forward to the next one.
1:39:29 Honestly, where is _anything_ in this show? "There's nothing. Merely a series of events happening on screen, entirely disconnected from the people that we SEE, the lines we HEAR, and most importantly... the reality we are all living in." This really sums up the entire show and why I just couldn't CARE about it.
It’s so strange how Disney, a company known for family entertainment,appears to have changed their focus to promoting the interests of certain social groups. For a while, it seemed like money was no object. Regardless of failure, they just kept green lighting project after project. It is starting to look like the money is running out, though.
Excellent video, Greg. It completely dismantled the narrative that The Acolyte was cancelled because of troll’s racist/sexist hatred, but instead it was a poorly executed show at every level.
This content is great! Seeing how the standards have been lowered so much I think it's really necessary and educational to show people what good craft looks like. Do you have plans to do an analysis like this with Andor? That show is magnificient and it would be great to see an explanation on what makes it that.
It seems like someone made all the levels, placed all the NPCs, even rough draft of the plot as a placeholder got made, yet someone forgot to put in the fleshed out plot and dialogue (and Amandla's face animations) before sending it out..
To be fair, Elden Ring did incorporate several popular ideas... like being an open world with crafting mechanics... They just made sure that the core essence of what makes their games popular wasn't compromised in order to do it.
There will other stuff. Even though movies are seemingly moving away from this type of stuff with the massive failures and firings the gaming industries is still rife with it. Assassin Creed shadow Star wars outlaws Concord Dustborn And many more. There will be PLENTY of content
As you were talking about the Witches, Greg, you made me realize that they might have managed to accurately depict what happens, statistically speaking, to kids raised in homes without fathers.
Something a lot of people are missing: the kids are too old to be trained by the Jedi per The Phantom Menace. It’s one of the whole “things” about Anakin
@@markdg33wait no. I remember in episode 8 that Sol said that OSHA was too old and the Jedi wouldn’t have trained her had he confessed to what she is. That means they already had their under 7 years old policy. I’d find the time code but I really don’t wanna watch it again.
@@drakonb6987 No that's unnecessary, you're 100% correct. That was literally one of the biggest things about having to lie to the council when they didn't need to, in order to get Osha to become a Jedi. Dude was a creep.
This was the first video of yours I've listened to, and it helped me through the last couple hours of a really boring shift. No idea who I watched that made RU-vid recommend your channel, but I'm glad it did that. I always suspected that these Hollywood "writers, actors and directors" who squeeze out this deluge of Chipotle-Taco Bell sewage might actually be evil, but nothing affirmed it to me more than interview clips with Stenberg and Headland where they unabashedly (and proudly) declare that they'd choose to be Sith if they were in the Star Wars universe.
An abused kid ends his own life 16 years after his trauma because of supposed guilt over his actions with the coven… and Headland claims to be glad that it’s possible to interpret the Jedi actions as not a crime. I. Do. Not. Believe. Her.
Yeah, I agree with that ending bit, hate when people go "well it's just a kids show" or "why do you care so much, it's just a kids show" That's exactly why I care so much, content for kids is the most important content to have be good. The last Airbender gets such high marks because, while it's a kids show, it's incredibly well written and has solid moral values. If they tossed any of that I doubt anyone would care. On that same coin, there's a reason so many people hate Kora, for a lot of it they have weird morals and garbage writing, especially with Amon and the anti-benders. It's annoying because the person doesn't actually care about the topic, they just want to stop you from talking about something they do or don't like.
Exactly, especially that last bit. The people who say that don't care one way or another, but they think that line shuts down the conversation so they "win"
The thing that irritates me when these people talk about magic as if some mystical thing in Star Wars is that Star Wars magic is the SAME THING as the force. It is the force just used in a different way.
You know whats insane? The entire run of the wire, one of the greatest shows of all time. Every single episode in the entire series, every season, costs less than one episode of this stinking turd of a project. Why they hire talentless hacks like Lesley and Amandla I will never know. It has to be fraud or money laundering or something.
I find it so funny how the fans of the Acolyte cry out "she literally explained it to us!" Or "just listen" when it shouldnt have to be explained. It should be shown in the narrative.
"How did" "How could" "Why did" "Are we sure" "I can't believe" "Can we confirm" "It's unfathomable" "By the full power of the Darkside" "Luke, it was for nothing" None of these are great, but all better than the original.
Something I didn't notice in the... I forget which number of episode, but the one where we find out what happened 16 years ago: when the head witch turns into a smoke monster, Master Gangnam Style immediately goes for a stab in the torso. Like he doesn't even turn to look and then stab, he just shanks her like they're two out of three lions headed for Noah's ark and it's already raining. This is a very Sith move. Maul goes for the kill on Qui-Gon this way, Palpatine when confronted by the Council, Darth Bad Haircut and Sabine in Ahsoka, more examples I can't remember where from right now... Contrast this with the Jedi: disabling their opponents with small cuts that render them immobile or unable to fight (Dooku (former Jedi) vs Obi-Wan and Anakin, Anakin vs Dooku before Palps makes him kill the other - yes, Windu is a glaring outlier, but that's Windu). It seems to me that Leslie doesn't understand this fundamental difference between the two sides either: killing is an extreme solution to Jedi.
funny things this show could have been easy to fix. * the main character loses to the jedi is left to die. Sith mentor picks up the pieces * the jedi was part of some war things where her parents die because(actually bad, wrong place wrong time) * sith guy trains and fixes mc and tells her about a substance that will allow her to defeat the jedi * they go on a journey to find said substance * comes back beats the jedi add scenes that shows she is fully a dark side character and setup next series where mc is the big bad easy
Headland keeps referring to better movies in interviews. Kill Bill, The Thing, Frozen and Three Kings. Stating that this was what she had in mind. When she wrote the show. It is obvious that she doesn't understand the movies she is referencing.
Sir, your commitment to consistently refer to the Sith character as a new Darth name every time is freaking IMPRESSIVE and more importantly, HILARIOUS.! Bravo, sir!!
Hahaha commenting for algorithm engagement bump and to say, I'm shocked I haven't seen people use that office space clip as a reaction more often. You used it hilariously.
If Jedi landed on a planet to explore a weird force thing happening, then found a coven of "witches" using force like power, almost like sith alchemy, they'd 100% kill them. Like it's expected. At minimum they would return with many more jedi and take them into custody.
Right?! But we're supposed to believe that the Jedi counsel was like "nah, stand down, don't bother checking up on this huge discovery that directly relates to the mission you are on".
My friend who's a casual star wars fan, said and I quote: "Dude I watched the first episode and I just couldn't watch that sh*t, it made no sense and I couldn't follow with the story. I couldn't give 2 fvcks about the twin girls and those weird witch women.. also, how Tf did some Jedi master, die to some nobody?" (Osha who murdered Trinity's character in the beginning). Even casual star wars fans couldn't watch this meaningless piece of trash.
