This is REALLY not looking good 

Coruscant Airbnbs are looking pretty great

Remember that the creator of the show straight up said there will be at least 2 Sith in this series, and so far we have only seen one, assuming Qimir counts as a Sith, so there is still at least one more Sith to show up.

Sol is truly gonna be blamed and buried :/.Cause honestly, they will not know the sith in the end of the day , they will have seen a Jedi Master who has had issues for a long time with guilt,Vern didnt want him to go and they can easily just say Osha/Mae influenced him and they went on the run.

The first episode of the CW temple bombing arc, Anakin says he can still hear the screams. Force echoes seem to definitely be a thing in canon, no psychometry needed.

Honestly as this series progresses, I can see more and more why Lee Jung-jae was tapped to play Master Sol. Dude is absolutely crushing it at playing this tortured individual who's driven more and more to the edge with each episode

It’s so weird how Jedi teach each other to be the moral police and in tune with the force but the minute something goes wrong, they’re the first to point fingers and throw each other under the bus. I think Vanestra is framing Sol, just to take the heat off of herself. You could see it in her eyes when she realized it was Quimir. The more I get to know about Jedi practices, the least I like them. As much as I wanted him to stay with Luke, I can definitely understand why it wasn’t very hard for Baby Yoda to choose the path of becoming mandalorian.

I’m a prequel fan and I am loving “The Acolyte”! It appreciate your ability to make an honest critique of the show. I’ve convinced many of my friends to watch the show that “only heard bad reviews” and they have all enjoyed it after watching it.

This channel is by far my favourite new subscription. Thanks for your ongoing thoughtful commentary regarding The Acolyte and also the SW universe in general. I am fairly new to the legends aspect and appreciate your well researched insights.

Sol now stands for Shit outta Luck lmao, dude can't catch a break

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." That should be the Jedi's motto for this era. They're trying so hard to not appeared flawed, that their flaws are being exposed. I'm wondering who originally sent the Jedi to Brendock. Was it Vanestra? She seems to be in charge of the investigation division of the jedi, if that's even a thing. The clues being dropped in each episode just bring up more questions. It is unfortunate that this show isn't doing that well. As much as I enjoy Legacy characters, I'd rather see some new characters and some new stories set in this Universe.

Have any of you actually seen the Christmas Special? I have seen it all in one go without taping my eyelids open. The Acolyte is definitely better than that at least.

I haven’t seen anyone mention when Sol says “How did I not see that villains intent” while he is spiraling out. I think that’s meant really to be about Vernestra.

I have a feeling she might try to shift the blame on Master Sol considering the fact she wants this matter resolved quickly and discreetly.

The shot of Vernestra as Mog says “A powerful Jedi has fallen” just seals it for me. 4:35 She has indeed fallen. A disease growing within the Jedi Order.

It does seem like Sol is being set up, and the clues point to Qimir being Vernestra's former padawan. I wonder if "Acolyte" will get it's day in the sun in a year or so, like "Andor" is now.

What if the witches aren't really dead. That Sol made Osha forget, or changed her memory's. So she thinks they are dead.

The Jedi in this shows era reminds me of the future cops in Demolition Man. "Fellow Greetings Master Jedi" 😅

There's a reason Qimir is stationed on Bal'demnic and they purposefully showed the vein of cortosis in the rock wall. I think we get a Tenebrous cameo at the end.

Nah with that hairstyle, he's absolutely a Mog. Why couldnt he and Jecki swap for the mission

If Sol takes the fall for Qimir's actions and no other witnesses survive to clear his name, that would ensure the Sith remain hidden until The Phantom Menace.

Love your content man! It's really refreshing to listen to a guy analyzing Star Wars without the hate that you get from certain channels... I loved your take on that at the end of the video.

Vernestra is basically Atris.

If there is a season 2, it seems a bit harsh for the Sol actor to learn English for the role then get killed off in the first seasin 😂

I just thought of something. What if the real cover up is silencing the Jedi that knew about the Brendok incident? What if all of this is to cover up what happened because the Brendok incident would reveal parts of the Sith's plan and Mae is just a scapegoat. Qimir only reveals himself when Mae decides against going ahead with her revenge mission because Oisha is alive. Qimir's relationship with Sol is still a mystery though.

Cal Kestis uses that ability to read an objects past in the games

It's true that the Jedi shouldn't have entered the power play of the Republic's politics. Plagueis remarks this as the Jedi supported the Republic's policies as the will of the Force. He even commented that the only way the Jedi order could have stopped the Bane line Sith was to break away from the Republic and tend to the study and true will of the Force. Even Luke in the expanded universe, eventually separated the Jedi Order from the New Republic control.

Anyone getting Sith vibes off of Roh? Because from the start she made me feel like she had given herself over to the Darkness within her

I'm glad I found this channel and am grateful for the life lessons Allen gives. I hope he continues to find enjoyment in sharing these videos because we seem to have a lot to learn from him these days.

We really differ here. I like it when they follow the lore. Hence why i watch.

Generation Tech Rules!!!!🧡💛

Ahsoka needs more respect

“I’m a Mog. Half man, half dog. I’m my own best friend.” - Mog, Space Balls

Nice observation of the fugitive!! Man, you see details that other theory channels don't see! Thank you for the great content.

The prequels were a deconstruction of the Jedi, the OT was a reconstruction.

Love this man’s background when he talks just peaceful and calming

Last scene: Tenebrous to Sol "You wanted in live in peace. Instead, you will die in pieces." Slash.

You are right about the hindsight. I've been watching week to week: First I suspected Yord, he was so straight laced and quick to palm his saber when ANYTHING seemed amiss (A Jedi doesn't pull her weapon unless prepared to kill), so I thought maybe he was mad at the looseness of the jedi and thought secretly they were a lie. Then I thought it was Mother Coral. Then I thought it was Mother Coral force wielding Qimir. I was almost disappointed when Qimir was revealed, until he started speaking with Sol and Mani is so good at the roll. I love that almost every guess I've had is wrong. My only issue with the last episode was they didn't address whether they found Newbacca's (Kelnacca's) body in the ship-hut or not. Wierd since he's the only Jedi that was actually known to be there. Or did I miss it? Great vid.

Yes, you're putting my unorganized thoughts into words again :D What I also really like and missed is the one week waiting to see what's coming next. The theories building in my head and just waiting for wednesday. After episode 5 I feel like no character could be safe! It's the 2012 Game of Thrones feeling. And it's all about the cracks, the faults at the hightime of the Jedi. Similar to Andor showing us the cracks and faults of the empire, birthing the rebellion. The series won't beat Andor :D That's for sure. Andor is a masterpiece, but right now, it's a solid. It could blow me away with the next episodes and this is so engaging. I also feel like the ones rating The Acolyte badly haven't watched a single minute. You said it in one of your other videos. Most who rated Andor, haven't even watched the show! I guess those people multiplied. That's concerning. :( So thumbs up to you for being a voice for the show.

This whole show gives me the Among Us vibes

This channel has become the only one I watch for star wars content, especially after The Acolyte. Everyone else has just become too hatefull...

alan, you remain the best SW channel on youtube.

Of all the people in Coruscant, you make the best star wars content

I love how to make the title of your videos just like the rage bait channels to draw in the haters so they can see it from "A different point of veiw"

Btw... I just gotta say your backdrop is amazing! You don't see many RU-vidrs broadcasting from Coruscant 😮

I enjoy your balanced take. Keep doing it. The show should be rated on its merits or faults and not on a culture war. It does deserve props for giving us a brand new story

I like the show it gives a different perspective to the star wars universe

Don't let the past decide who you are going to be.

It's not just YT but all of social media. I used to love the huge amount of theory and comments about any show on Twitter and now it's all gone. Just bits here and there and you have to search for it too because the nonsense of spammers and the culture war nonsense is in the way. And I've tried so many of the other platforms and it's either not there at all or also just as hard to find and interact with. That's why I'm here. Your channel and a few others have been great! And this video was excellent. Thank you Allen!

You can create the most chaos the with best of intentions. This is the thing the Jedi can not comprehend.

I’m still convinced that another character is showing up. Dave Harewood was an actor rumored to be showing up in the show in a “small” role. That guy has a good voice on him so I imagine if he were playing a character it might potentially be a Sith that’s voice acted but who knows maybe it’s an in the flesh character too.

Ahsoka also used psychometry in "Ahsoka" when she wanted to figure out what happened to Sabine while she was busy fighting for her life after her encounter with Baylen Skoll.

Master Sol needs to get scarce like Master Luke. It is a large Galaxy

I appreciate your vids. At least you are looking at the show for what the show is and does within the show and not everything external.

I have to say Dave Foloni without Dave Faverau it’s literally like taking 50% of the goodness out of the Star Wars and I wish he would come back because Faveraue is like a big kid and he puts in the stuff that you want to watch where is Filoni is the scalpel of Lore/storytelling.

You covering this shows great and your in deep depth on Star Wars is always highly appreciated

Maybe Qimir knows what he knows about Brendok from Mae?

I find this show so interesting, I really hope they continue it and do a second season. I really want to see more of Qimir.

I think the initial reception was brought on by their own interviews and publicity that put a lot of doubt in fan minds. I will say the show has turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Is it fantastic? No. It is really good? Absolutely.

Wait, acolyte has 83% tomatometer tho?

we know that mog adana is a padawan of someone. during the high republic padawans wore a belt piece in the color of their lightsabers. you can see a green belt piece on him

This is one of the things I actually really love about The Acolyte: it's too easy to say "[some group] are evil," but its never actually that simple. And it’s a big problem to attribute ontological evil to a group. What The Acolyte does is demonstrates that good and evil are something that you do, not something that you are.

Thank you! Explaining what happened before the prequels was what we've always wanted. This show is trying to do it but nobody (almost) wants to hear it. It's too bad. Maybe in a couple of years, people will look back and realize that they need more of this story and we'll get a continuation, even if maybe it's a separate series.

I agree sir. People are so quick to hate and call for a cancellation.

If they ultimately go with blaming everything on Sol (or if they consider Qimir as more of a "fallen Jedi" than a "Sith"), that could explain why Ki-Adi-Mundi doesn't acknowledge the possibility of a Sith in the prequels. Dude is ten-alarm super-sus otherwise tho.... >.>

When he's getting in the water, stripping away his dark clothes, he's being transparent and vulnerable to Osha. Mae has never known her master's face and he's trying to do it "right" this time. He was carrying his white clothes. He set them down offscreen. We'll find out what happened to the coven. Koril probably controlled both sides of the battle so the Jedi look bad. The helmet will show Osha the truth and Sol will tell Mae his truth. Sol is not weak-minded so maybe he knows the truth and went along with [whatever Koril did] to get Osha out. Vernestra doesn't know the whole truth but knows it's someone else. Sol's biggest secret will [probably] die with him without telling her. The other three Jedi think they did something bad. Sol knew it was Mae even before they left for the ship. There's one thing that will change everything for me. If the witches are revealed to survive in the end, there will be speculation for years about whether they ever died or if Koril brought them back. Koril might be the big boss-ness and a tie to the Sith returning. Her ties with If it were me, I'd end the series with Osha and Mae testifying, Mae earning her redemption with Qimir (Darth Guns) expressing how she learned from her weakness, how to kill the dream. They plant the seed of doubt that grows dogma within the Jedi Order beyond recovery and have them fade into obscurity without anyone else knowing about Qimir. That's my perspective and theories. Destiny / Insecurity-Skepticism Deviance?

I just love Allen's Coruscant apartment. I couldn't live there though, I'd get vertigo.

I think Sol being the fall guy is whats gonna make the Sith still not have been detected for a millennia. I dont think theres going to be a happy ending on this one.

8:21 I think he knew already at that time, but just decided to play along until the right moment to stun her 🙂

I feel like the writers purposefully put Sol and Mae on the same ship as to make it look like they were the ones responsible. Master and apprentice, there can only be two. Also the name Sol.. Sol-e survivor, pretty on the nose writing imo. But that is star wars for you.

I like that they are exploring something different. We know from the prequels that the Jedi are not so balanced. This little mystery serves to reveal some of the subversion and complacency within the Jedi as an organization and just how strong it was. The Jedi seem like a corrupt Police Department in this Republic era. I hope we do get know more about the other forces users, what happened to them, who did it to them and why. I for one am still very interested. Just why is it that ONLY the Jedi can train force sensitive children in this Republic? Until further notice, it still does look like the Jedi came after the Covenant for doing exactly what the Jedi do, train children. I wonder if the Acolyte is here to show us the degradation of the Jedi.

I'm always amazed by your insight on the actions and motivations of individual characters and institutions. I'm a real old school fan---stood in line in 1977 with my husband and our baby to see Star Wars. I'll never forget it, watching the destroyer go overhead on and on. An instant fan. While I subscribe to other content, yours is far and away the best. I'm going to work my way back through your past content, because you're that good. Keep it up.

Cant wait for the flashbacks episode im sure the jedi did not kill the witches without a good reason

I would not say it's literally better than Ahsoka, but I like how some speeches in The Acolyte are more deep and make sense, like when Osha was speaking with Qimir on his secret planet, most of those sentences were pretty well written, which is shocking for Disney era StarWars and fight choreography is a massive step forward for Disney era, but after all, I am still looking forward for Ahsoka season 2 more than Acolyte season 2 because you have whole new galaxy there and anything can happen there. I am pretty sure they will waste this potential, but let's hope they won't. Instead of the Acolyte, I would like to see something in more distant past or future, this is too close to prequels and they are limited by that. That massive hate of Acolyte before it was actually released is stupid and I don't watch channels like Nerdotic anymore, I thought they are serious StarWars channels before, but now I know they are not, you are vice versa one of only few big StarWars channels who is serious and don't automatically hate everything just becuase it's created by "some LGBT woman" or something.

This is so nice. You’ve cultivated a good audience

Roe is pretty intimidating. Well done character so far.

Love these videos and the level headed takes. It’s sad seeing the fan base divided like this… I hope someday they can come together again

As I’ve watched the series week by week, it becomes more clear to me I should have waited til the season finale night and just binge watched to see the whole thing like one long movie.

"Casualties were heavy." Then 'The entire team'. Shades of Rebels Ghosts of Geonosis with the flying troopers.

Not sure yet it is better than 'Ahsoka'. Those middle episodes are soooo good, and they can be enjoyed as standalone episodes imo. (Sure, the end has Thrawn stumbling into a "win", but we haven't seen the ending of 'The Acolyte' yet to say if it sticks the landing.)

I dont think Vernestra is a sith but its very possible she was Qimir's master after we saw the whip marking on Qimir's back. Very possible for her to have trained him during the era she had left the Jedi. I think that would be a good solution, have Qimir either lie about being a sith, or just frame it that way because of how the jedi view dark side users. Its just his mention of the power of 2 being so similar to the rule of 2 that makes me think he might have become darth tenebrous acolyte of sith apprentice at some point, and have been discarded.

I have to admit brother I really do appreciate and value your opinion and how you see the show more than most people covering it, I really love how you can also see how this "culture war" has effected the show to a drastic and completely unfair level. I also like the show and find so many parts interesting, yeah it has slow buts and maybe a bad episode or 2 but what series of television doesn't? All the best to you my man, thank you so much, I'm always looking forward to hearing what you have to say and it's just nice to know their is still someone out their that doesn't let clips and "anti wokeness" cloud your judgement :) All the best to you bro and to anyone else reading this, your all amazing and I hope you have an amazing time :) Keep up the amazing work my man 😊 ❤

So far this is my second favorite live action show. Andor is far and away the best.

The best about this channel it’s how with calm exposes the sithy views on other YT channels

This show is only building on the disillusionment of Luke in TLJ. You look back and the Jedi aren’t the gleaming beacons of hope they were built up to be.

I think Qimir is Darth Venomous manipulated by Tenebrous from a Bith to a human looking being.

I really like the show, and hope that Sol isn't blamed and buried. No, it's not as good as Andor, and it's a good Star Wars show. I'm really glad to get to know Yord and Jeki. to see such variety among the Jedi, and I am looking forward to seeing how they finish it. I have high hopes.

I like your take on this. I'm liking this show more than, Kenobi, and Ahsoka.

I’m really liking The Acolyte. I think the set up has been great, I really hope they can stick the landing.

Thank you for validating my love of this show. Its really good and different Disney needs more shows like The Acolyte. (I also love mysteries in general.)

Master sol has better change at surviving Squid game then Disney star wars

I agree with you Alan and great video and content as always

Thanks Alan 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

It's still so weird to me that this show gets more hate than Book of Boba Fett, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka when The Acolyte is better or at least definetly not worse than most of those other shows.

In Episode 4 Vernestra does tell Sol in that briefing about Mae is that she’s concerned that something is happening that could tip the scales.

I believe qimir is the former padawan of master roh.

I'm intrigued about what kind a reception Skeleton Crew will get.

Plot twist, Sol becomes Qimir’s acolyte

This is one of my favorite series theyve done so far and I think your take on it is spot on. It seems like theyre building up steam and popularity with completely new fans to Star Wars so im hopeful for more seasons.

You skim through the crazy comments so we don't have to. Thank you for your service.

I just really despise how so much of the constructive feedback is burried by legit assholes on youtube/twitter. Cause like how is lucasfilms suppose to even see anyone trying to help them improve . But its all just TWISTING/YELLING anger HATRED , why is people who hold starwars up to religious levels seem to break the foundational rule starwars taught ? Hyperbole has truly killed off discussion