THE ACOLYTE: FINALE......The End 

Really 🎉

Yeah, that phrase will stick with me.

Yup easily a highlight.

He's incorrect! It was worse than bad or ass, it was pathetic and a final nail for the prequel fans and overall for shaming Geoge Lucas legacy!

lol.. was gonna comment the same.. what a line..

Best part of the show and definitely the best performance. He was probably the only reason I watched a few episodes of this Acolyte

Give him an advil for carrying that show on his back

Thought Manny Jacinto came out pretty well

What's sad is that I could see Lee be a Jedi under George Lucas's original work. Wasted talent

@@Boghopper9999 Manny was the highlight for me. I kinda wished the whole show was about him instead.

I actually thought it was good if not just as good as Any Other Star Wars IP

@@pqowi9098 happy for you but I absolutely despise everything about it.

@@realriorex why?

@@pqowi9098 terrible writing, poorly designed characters, lack of a coherrent plot, poor choreography, weak set design, failed alignment to established lore and world, I could go on. Jeremy covers it well. Watch his reviews.

That quote made me laugh out loud, it was so good and so correct. (I can't address the person's comment asking why the show is bad, I'll just write something rivaling war and peace in length)

I actually thought it was good if not just as good as Any Other Star Wars IP

I thought he was going to say cancel it, because that's the only thing to do with this series!

@@lucinae8510 why?

Let's remember that Rings of power was renewed for a second season.

@@pqowi9098 And that's the problem

Don't compare Jeremy to that loser

@@bottombarrelbudgetfilms1854real

​@@bottombarrelbudgetfilms1854 i predict Drinker-simps incoming

Lol😂😂😂

​@@bottombarrelbudgetfilms1854 Respectfully disagree, he's very precise with his criticisms and is willing to acknowledge the good and the bad of the product. Look at his review of Blue Eyed Samurai for proof of that.

Punishment, cruel and unusual, it was

No one deserves a punishment this bad, if palpatine was the one who killed him he was actually putting him out of his misery.

😂😂😂

I have seen this comment on so many videos and it's always funny every time.

​@jonathansalazar4630 I'm actually hoping there's a season 2, and we get to see Osha get surgery to become Palpatine. Just change her gender to male and her skin color white, and she can be a young Palpatine, then she gets rid of qimir, goes to Naboo and becomes a Senator, and kills Plagueis.

@AmBobbyMudda This series didn't warrant a cast.

@@romanclark3274 you are correct sir

Didn't warrant existence.

That is some sad shit right there

Holy crap! MINUS ONE was amazing!

Just... How?? Where did all that money go? Inflation??

​@@IzzysaiProof you don't need a huge budget to get a good movie.

@@dimitri4457 Personally I'm willing to bet that it was either from the writers having massive egos, or the actors just needed huge compensation for being in something so awfully put together.

I still remember Star Wars Theory crying like a baby over Luke in Mando season 2, and now look how far THAT channel has fallen

Holy cow, when you put it that way that's like the general attitude towards the franchise summed up in one man's series of videos.

@@alexanderforbes1452 Yep! And how I feel these days about the franchise, compared to years ago. I’m not nearly as much of a butt-hurt hater as some ‘fans’ though.

@@alexp601 I also remember him applauding and crying over The Rise of Skywalker. I stopped watching him after that.

Because you're not a fan You're just a tourist ​@alexp601

Because of... reasons.

That reasoning to leave the other one behind is so stoopid.

"And if you failed to do that, a second season shouldn't even be made!"

Lightsaber crystal bleed not a thing pre disney. but who cares disney lore is not canon as far as true fans are concerned

She touched the crystal, that is why it bled. Read the comic, it shows how Vader gets his red lightsaber.

@@Methyllbut it brings up a good point. that Anakin wasn’t wrong lol

​@@Scyrenuscame to share this

In old lore, it wasn't just your actions, but forcing your will into the crystal to make it bleed. Like pouring all your hate and misery into it rather than just slicing and dicing. Stole it from Legends AGAIN, but not consistent or makes much sense... AGAIN. =[

@LateSleeper and afraid there might be a part 2

@@Bigotsandwich1995somehow the shit return

That's why I skipped the diarrhea and decided to hear about others diarrhea experience. After all, having the diarrhea ensures you get more diarrhea going forward. Self inflicted diarrhea.

Dont know about you guys. I enjoyed the show. From the eyes of the youtubers who shat on it.

I care for the master of the greatest antagonist portrayed in the cinema, Darth Sidious. Ladies and gentlemen I present you the tragedy of Darth Palgues the Wise, stealer of ideas from a poor, hardworking cult of women! A final nail in the coffin for all the fans especially the prequel era lovers! The show was spectacular bad, the more you think about all the episodes, interactions, motive you will discovered another plot hole, inconsistencies, etc!

It’s explained that his resisted being bled in the comics because of his conflict between the remaining good and the dark side (and I think it also needs to be exposed to be bled, as sol’s hilt was broken and all the other examples are taken out of their sabers too. Anakin never took his out and so when he bled one it was stolen from a jedi he killed) Though it implies osha is suddenly very much on the dark side and very strongly motivated toward the dark to the point she doesn’t even have to bleed it on purpose, which makes 0 sense. Their constant flip flopping flimsy motivations were maybe the worst part of this show

They showed anakin's crystal bleed and kelnacca's death, in the best way, they knew how. Off screen. They probably thought to themselves, what stars wars fan would want to see that?

@@tigerlancer anakin's (vader's new) crystal bled very much on 'screen' in a comic actually, concept just didn't exist back when rots came out. Vader's was famously the first time they showed bleeding lmao

​@@k--musicyeah, where no one will see it, 30 years later, as an afterthought. In the least popular medium, nobody buys. I guess technically, that's supposed to be canon.

@@tigerlancer there was no bleeding 30 years ago lmao and why would they make a whole movie about vader making his lightsaber red you think that would sell? Vader 2017 was very well received as it was, so the fact you didn't know about it personally doesn't really mean much. IDK another medium that would make more sense, bc 'how do they make red lightsabers' is honestly a mundane and pretty boring question anyway. Just a random piece of lore, whether it's bleeding or synthetics.

Also everybodies force abilities and power levels constantly shift. Can't be bothered to type out the 5 million examples. Just one. In the last episode Sol beats Qimir, then Osha turns up and force chokes him to death? How does she have that ability? You can't force choke a powerful jedi unless you are way more powerful. That has never happened in the whole of live action Star Wars. Qimir didn't force choke Sol. He just lost to him. Just 1-2 days earlier he killed a whole squad of jedi and Osha had literally zero force powers. What??????

The camera work and directing on this one was especially horrid.

Cringe

Well put

Their moral compass is as confusing as the show runner's sexuality

Truly a Pitch Meeting moment

Exactly. Nothing more or less to say. Well said.

​​@@timfahey7127 "But it makes no sense!" -Do you want to be unemployed?

Why the hell did the one sister stand there and be ok to have her mind wiped? lol

@@mikerosoft1009 Funny enough, she's the one who's been getting trained all these years. She could at least run away and try to put up a fight. But, she literally lets it happen because the showrunners talked to her and told her they needed her to let it happen.

And he has Squid Games season 2

I’m in this group & you’re absolutely correct. He was the lone bright spot of this show.

Mate, he's one of the biggest names in South Korea lol, I doubt he's worried even if Hollywood doesn't call him back. He's incredible in Chief of Staff if you're looking for top quality TV show. (basically Korea's version of House of Cards)

He was awful.

I really hope they don’t he went above and beyond for this role.

Also in Cartoon Network's The Clone Wars (2-D cartoon), After General Greivious is getting away with Senator Palpatine and is in fighting stance, Mace Windu crushes his fist together and you see Grievious' inner-biological parts collapse. That's why in Revenge of the Sith he's constantly gasping for air and coughing.

Again, Luke and Anakin are not great examples. Anakin was seduced before he started using Dark side powers. Luke was destined to not be a pure Jedi. He eventually became a user of both dark and light powers, not believing that the Force was purely dark or light but a combination of both.

It was a visual parallel to show how Luke is more like his father and liable to fall like his father did, but notice he didn't kill them. Force choking shouldn't be just a Dark Side power, because one of the best ways to stop bad guys is putting them into choke holds. Cutting off air and blood temporally, especially from far away, would be one of the best ways for galactic peacekeepers to subdue bad guys. Like how if they could control force lighting well enough, they could use it like a taser. Honestly, Jedi need to carry blasters if nothing else then for the stun-setting.

I was just about to bring that up.

@@MegaKnight2012 there are more force powers than just choke. We just rarely see anything other than. Jedi powers are meant to more passive in nature. Nothing that would cause fear, anger, or hate.

Compare Andor's production costs.

man, that's insane. This sure shows how Disney like to spend its money..

Its HBO . Big old legendary directors release their films in it . 😅 Disney+ = Acolyte.. old cartoons , not so serious fiction & romcoms

And HOTD is enjoyable

I am not surprised at all by this. When you use DEI hires, you need twice as much staff that each get equal pay, buit also each performing only one fifth as much quality work. So you end up with less than half the results anyway.

He’s a smart guy. Always has been. A bit annoying at times but he is always close to being correct.

I can't wait for his reaction later tonight.

To bad the beaver wasn't Darth Plagus

Can you point rhis video? I'm curious to where he said that

@@40KWill I would've given this whole show a 10/10 🤣

Headlamp has secrets on disney execs. Thats where the laundering went

I didn’t believe it before but Star Wars being a money laundering front seems 1000% more likely now thanks to this show

That's it you are completely right

Too bad it shall get a second season. Even the Galaxy far away won't know what is going on.

Can’t wait for season 2. Show was great

Someone with the brain of a teenager

😅😅😅

Or when your boss was the infamous Harvey Weinstein and you were his personal assistant

@@TimeBomb014Xit takes an accomplice of a groomer to write a narrative where the protagonist has been groomed to a more “rationale” dark side.

Did this show just accidently justify the empire and order 66? This show just accidentally just justified the Star Wars equivalent of the holocaust

I don't know, jedi/sith being emotional wrecks is pretty on brand.

him looking like a creep is the tragedy

Makes you wonder how many legends have Yoda heard and figured out that's not what happend.

The real tragedy is being part of this show

@@Markvanleerdam why?

@@Markvanleerdam Him peeping out of a cave in the middle of an episode of this series is criminal. If they ever brought him into a live-action film/series, I expected it to be done in a much cooler way.

Well yeah, that guy murdered her only friends but she got to see his dong so in a show all about the power of lesbian space witches, the power of the penis cannot be denied apparently. They really had no idea what they were doing.

I streamed it on a completely legal site. So I didn’t have to give Disney the viewership they wanted and I could still talk about iy

o7

I watched it. Seeing plageuis was the final nail in the coffin for me to not watch season 2. I don't want them touching him

@@cheezuschrist While, same, little known fact is that pirating stats are still taken into account for most streaming services, and hell, most companies that generate media. Granted, it's not as granular and concise info when compared to what they get when using their services, but they still get their hands on it and count it. Which is important to not discuss things you pirate online so the algorithm doesn't pick it up if you truly dislike. And for clarity sake, not trying to be condescending. Just letting you know in the future so when hate-watching you don't, accidentally, still end up supporting the Thing you're hate-watching.

i might watch ep 5 for the fight scene

I’ve read so many threads of people defending xyz and it’s mind boggling, with the closing argument often being “you don’t get it because you need it served on a silver spoon for it to make sense and you should read between the lines” Hard to think they aren’t just bots that have taken peoples FB accounts hostage using ChatGPT. 😂

Oh yeah, that's pretty obvious lol. I always took it as a personal vow to not be as cruel as the Sith like Jeremy thought.

To be fair, he didn't officially become a Jedi until later in the film when he refuses to finish Vader off and join Sidious. That's the point when he declares he's become a Jedi, like his father before him. But he sort of force crushed those droids in Mandalorian...

Anakin also did it a couple of times as a Jedi in The Clone Wars series

Actually, according to the lore he used a different ability (force shock I think). It was made a different ability because they didn't want Luke to be using one that was seen as an evil power.

I would recomend Lagavulin 16 heartily. Spenny, but incredible.

Rich Evans ?

​@@jonbaxter2254psssst try balblair it's pretty good 😅

Nice

They also said that Yorde didn’t know Osha had a sister, but a few eps later he tells her how, growing up, Mae was all Osha would talk about 🤷

@@alexp601 It's amazing that the actor didn't realize his dialog contradicted itself. I can see, unfortunately, different writers getting their wires crossed on this because they are lazy and don't communicate across episodes, but how does that Yord actor not realize his dialog is saying two different things about a very important aspect of the show?

@@jeffreyroedel9804 That same actor also said in an interview that Anakin blew up the Death Star, so… we shouldn’t have too much faith in him 😂

​@jeffreyroedel9804 what if he just didn't care 😂

@@TwistedReality13 LOL I have no words then.

LOL

top tier comment

I hope they never put Ian McDiarmid in Season 2.

@@jamesbellefeuille2926 Agreed, just let the man retire the character with dignity.

Actually, it made sense. It really was like he was swallowing his own poison.

Maybe he's into kink

@@Tomsfoolery no. it definitely does not make any sense. why do you think we don't just see "Choke Wars"? because force choke is easy to block for another force user.

He let her. He said "it's okay"

My thought on it is that even though he could, he didn't want to. He struggled with the guilt of it for years hoping to find solace in the teachings of the Jedi, but found none, (Just like Osha). I'm sure in his mind if anyone had a right to punish him for his crime it would be her, and part of him was relieved to finally be rid of the guilt. It was the one time in the show he was honest with himself about how he was feeling, something the Jedi never allowed him to be.

My father and I had a running gag about wanting Basil to die from a blaster shot that came from the sky

I made a public playlist for his Acolyte reviews. You can copy it if you want.

That is seriously the best name for him hahaha lol 😆

Im sure her physical attractiveness appealing to Lesley had nothing to do with it. The former PA of a well known you-know-what would never do that,would she? 🤔

She did give a second facial expression this episode. It was as close to acting as she's gotten. Mrs. Green Bean still had only one.

She of course played the race card as soon as the criticisms were levied. If she doesn't want to be criticized, maybe do a better job? People will assume she was a diversity casting, and they'd be right to do so. Sol's actor was also a diversity casting, but he could clearly ACT.

Pretty rich as the actress is super smug and snarky in interviews, like she's some untouchable savant of acting.

So prequel level acting.

He got picked up in Madame Web as a villain.

She shouldn't be allowed to do ANYTHING again.

This show actually made me stop procrastinating and pick up Jedi Survivor so I could experience a good Star Wars story again 🤣

@@user-qu4sk9kh8x its a really great game, especially if you liked fallen order

but what do you have to do to get a purple one? and how do I get a turquoise LS?

@@benzaiten933 Find an actual purple kyber crystal. This 'lightsaber bleed' is pure Disney fucking bullshit.

​@@benzaiten933I may be corrected, but in order to get a certain color, it's based on your personality and force alignment. Mace windu did dabble in the dark side.

I guess the planet had some special magic thing that allowed the witches to create life, it attracted them to live there, etc.. and Plagueis was the one who altered the planet somehow

There is no place here for common sense.

Sol is a lolicon

Nah, they'll claim that Seoul killed the Jedi because he was covering up for Osha. The problem is, this scene is intended to whitewash the murders to the Republic Council. It's not going to get past the Jedi as they're supposed to be Jedi. Not in this show, but it simply has failure points unless they also delete evidence and witnesses. Flight Logs. security footage. Things that Leslye Headland knows all about deleting evidence and hotel records, laundering money and clothing, et al. Just like Yoda or Ki-Adi Mundi can't be in the show, because they would know there's sith again. Problem is Vernestra/Nepotism hire... is a Super-Detective. She has even worse face-acting than OSHA. She can see everything that happened. So of course, the writers have to stop her from ever going outside or visiting a murder scene. OH NO MY CONVENIENT SKILL TO SEE MURDER AND CRIMES IN THE PAST! What could happen. She also knows that the witches died because they attacked the Jedi. And kept it secret. The Jedi somehow have to work with the absurd evidence that they're perfect twins, despite Vernestra's convenient knowledge of the history and deaths of everyone, including the context of where people were in the time and location. And she would also know that OSHA and Mae are two people. And she knows that Qimir killed the Jedi in the mask he's wearing. Except, Sol died. And Mae lost her memory. How did this happen ? They saw a video tape lying on the ground that had the words "Leslye Headland Casting Couch Tape 115."

Progressive Liberalism in a nutshell.

I really didn’t perceive the ending like that. Having villainous characters shed their ambiguity and become full-on evil is actually a really compelling idea that I wish media did more of. Reminds me of Shigaraki from MHA and what Rian Johnson wanted to do with Kylo Ren in TLJ (before JJ reversed it with his lame redemption).

Did you watch the same show? Sol did a lot wrong? He literally kill all the witches or killed their mum and kinda led to the whole mess? He was toxic force projector onto others but Sol absolutely did do bad stuff

@@Henbot Did YOU watch the same show??? The witches all died when Trinity snapped them out of the wookie's mind. And, he killed Osha's mom BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE SHE WAS GOING TO KILL MAE. He did 0 wrong.

​@@gavo7911 I'm not against stories with evil protagonists. Blood Meridian is one of my favorite books. But, if you're going to do that kind of narrative, I think you need to have a good grasp on morality to begin with, and also make sure you don't glorify evil (unless your target audience is actual teenage edgelords). I do not think the showrunners for this show can tell good from evil. Again, Stockholm Syndrome is treated as erotic and hot in this show. That last part isn't my opinion, LESLIE HERSELF SAID THAT WAS THE POINT, TO SHOW QIMIR LITERALLY SEDUCING THE GIRL WHOSE FRIENDS HE JUST MURDERED INTO A RELATIONSHIP.

I’m pretty sure he just knocked them out. He didn’t kill them.

Novelization states it was a higher tier of mind trick. Force choke seems to require more time to choke someone out too, and Luke waved his hand instead of focusing on the choke like we'd normally see.

@@UnifiedEntity He has his hand as if he chokes them and the guards stumble back while clutching their neck, I 100% interpreted this as Luke choking the 2 guards

Luke also wasn't a Jedi yet , Yoda made that pretty clear later on

@@locustl6230 When has even a sith wave their hands choking someone and not positioned their hand in choking as if they were actually choking someone unless they were extremely high level in the force? Especially when it's two ppl

Iirc its a bit deeper than that. More like you're murdering the quasi-sapient magic crystal with dark-force which, through timeywhimey magical shenanigans, makes the crystal stronger and cuts better. (or something along those lines, been a while since I dived into legends.)

​@amaplicab12345678912 But it's too easy here. Darth Vader fails multiple times to bleed the crystal, and she can do it with a change of mood.

Right?! Way more entertaining than this dumpster fire that Disney gave us!

He sacrificed himself for us, truly the messiah of our time

@@aerochicc Why did you watch it then? There are other shows/series out there

​@@davidmun1601probably because people keep hoping star wars will return to its former state.

@@Skogebear Not sure about you, but there are literally thousands of things we can watch. Just last week, there were Euro2024 and Copa America. There are other shows like The Boys, House of the Dragon, The Bear. Not sure why people are so fixated on a series they do not like.

bribery

The whole point of the prequels is to show the Jedi flaws and hubris. Like that’s literally the point of them. The Jedi are too ingrained with the politics of the time. What world would a Jedi just let slaves be slave? A Jedi would do everything in their power to free all slaves, not just one because they want him to be a Jedi, but they can’t because it’s outside the jedi jurisdiction essentially. The Jedi are literally told by count Dooku that the Sith Lord is the leader of the senate in attack of the clones and yet Palpatine is still hidden. There are 7 jedi masters in a room with Palpatine at any given time, literally a Sith master, and they can’t even sense him. That is the definition of hubris. And in the acolyte we see more of the beginning of them getting to that point. They are fundamentally good but fundamentally flawed at the same time because they are beginning to have that senate oversight and be brought farther under the wing of galactic politics.

@@bjmanzeycorrect - but do they ever compromise their integrity in their hubris? They feel they need to be subservient to the government - which is what gets them into trouble fighting a war, and its the reason they can't go around freeing slaves. In the high republic, they are more independent, but they have even more integrity. In this show - they are painted as having the same level of integrity as the sith. And that is a fundamental misunderstanding of Lucas mythology

@@writingref yeah you literally said yourself that their integrity is compromised because a Jedi would never allow slavery to exist if they were true Jedi. But they have to because as you said they are subservient to a government and not the will of the force. You can’t tell me that four Jedi who made very critical errors by not listening to the council and such are the definition of the Jedi order. Everything we’ve seen of the four masters shows that they are heavily compromised and not what the Jedi stand for. But also they aren’t an example of what the order actually is as they go against the wishes of the council. You can’t tell me in a thousand generations that the actions of 4 Jedi, I guess 5 if you include Vern could possibly show that the entirety of the Jedi have the integrity of the Sith.

Knight Templar Jedi who go around purging Dark Side witches absolutely feels like something that could happen in-universe (and would make the Imperial Inquisition feel karmic in hindsight). Calling the Jedi the "good guys" sight unseen is reductive, they're enforcers of a status quo that allows slavery and their religion calls for the destruction of anything even resembling the Dark Side. A young witch orphaned by these Jedi who now seeks revenge is a compelling character hook for an anti-hero. The problem (beyond the show fumbling everything it touches) is that killing Jedi is only fun in a video game (such as Star Wars Unleashed), so at minimum the Acolyte was made for the wrong medium...

I mean, isn't it quite a big point in the PT that the Jedi, while good, were getting slightly arrogant and affected by hubris? In thinking they could easily take on the training of Anakin, not realizing the danger at any point. Their removing children from parents early, and forbidding any attachment later on, also seemed unhealthy. Back then I thought it was pretty brave, to portray the Jedi as flawed like that. The PT movies are bad, but that has to do with the execution, not the overall story. Which came from Lucas, so I consider it canon.

that was sucha random moment, what was that bro, the biggest question of the series

One of the many, many, many, idiotic parts of the show

forgot about that! no explanation at all why he did it

Who are YOU to question the incredible writing of this masterpiece?

@@YourCreepyUncle.we’re all playing checkers with monopoly pieces. Leslye is clearly playing 4D chess

Came in to say the same thing. Thank you!

Yea only some of video games really made it so only Sith could use certain powers and Jedi could use others. Think it's supposed to be like anyone strong in the force can use any power they want, but Jedi tend to not usually use the lethal ones just due to their values, meanwhile Sith don't really care about healing anyone but themselves. Though, who cares what's canon at this point. Disney Starwars is a joke.

@@nokturnallex2160 which I am pretty sure was just for video game rpg stuff.

Luke isn't a traditional jedi, and he didn't have a master to tell him "Force Choke bad." It was more "I don't feel like force pushing people to knock them unconscious, I want to try something new."

And he was dressed all in black, like a Sith

You didn't look hard enough...

@@yoshidinono8095 Fair enough. Good to know.