What is the Acolyte... and why is it so important for Star Wars 

Makes sense how he got his full Beskar setup so fast. He bought the Premium Deluxe Pre-Order.

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@Spartan120that rich snob, buying all the P2Ws. Bet he’s gonna buy a mythosaur once the new mounts are added 😂

YOU LIVE IN A WORLD OF LIES!

Alien discrimination lmao

Suddenly Anakin materializes from behind, lightsaber in hand: "need help?" 😅😂🤣

Anakin: *BRR SOUNDS*

"That one alien youngling: "But sir, I physically can't"

Sssshhhh

I know they worship the movie canon, but they're not going to get everything to line up. And using a red lightsaber/the Dark Side doesn't necessarily make one a Sith; Dark Jedi are a thing (see Baylan Skoll as an example). Maybe that's semantics, but I do think it makes a difference. The Sith also just don't have a monopoly on red lightsabers or the dark side. Someone could come to those on their own, similarly to how you have Force 'sects' in a lot of species in Star Wars, the Kel Dor being a prime example. The lightsaber is a little more specialized, but the point stands. Not trying to dunk on you, more just giving a bit of hope that you can maybe afford to get attached to some of these characters.

Just because they have a red lightsaber doesn't make them Sith. Heck even Jedi Survivor introduces us to a High Republic Jedi who turned his lightsaber red without being a sith.

You think these writers have seen a Star Wars film?

Yes, any Jedi who "knowingly" faces a Sith will have to die. I'm guessing there will be a big reveal with Lee Jung-jae's character, showing him what his former Padawan has become, and then he will die, probably at her hand. I predict Vernestra will find out about the Sith and die too. But the Sith are only one specific class of dark-side Force users. A Jedi who simply sees a red lightsaber and lives isn't a problem. The Jedi believe the Sith to be extinct; therefore, their first conclusion will be that this is just a former Jedi who's gone to the dark side and bled their crystal, or one of the other dark-side Force users around at this time. By the way, there were also other groups of light-side Force users. We meet some of them in the High Republic books and comics. It's interesting when they're all at Jedha. Some Force groups are neutral too, and others, like the Path, believe that no one should use the Force.

The point of the high republic is to make a new era for Disney to franchise. An era they can take whatever creative liberties they want, and it's gonna backfire immensely. The leaked plot details about Acolyte are probably going to sink the high republic altogether.

@@KarazolaX Well yeah but that’s true of every single era in Star Wars, including the Legends ones. I was looking at that narrative reasoning. And I’ll judge whether it “backfires” for myself, these days there’s RU-vidrs that do nothing but whine about absolutely everything being awful.

@@Mr-Rinn Yeah but Disney's handling of Star Wars has been terrible. One good season of Andor, Two good seasons of Mandalorian. Everything else has been mediocre or garbage. People wouldn't complain nearly as hard if they didn't keep putting out slop. Kenobi was so terrible its hard to even believe.

@@KarazolaX Oh they would, a lot of the “hater” or “Fandom Menace” RU-vidrs out there seem to be motivated more by personal politics than anything else, an obvious example of this being how they complained about Cara Dune being another Mary Sue, only to do a complete 180 upon discovering Carano’s political beliefs. I try to avoid going into things with a closed negative mindset. Star Wars is and always has been a mixed bag writing wise, but I can always find something to appreciate, the Book of Boba Fett for instance was a fairly mediocre series, but it’s second episode where it focuses on Boba with the Sand People was among my favourite Star Wars TV episodes of all time.

@@KarazolaX Sink when its been fine for 5 years and its endingwas planned since the star lol

Idc to see any of that, i just want new characters

I hope they don't because they'll just f it up like they do with everything else

tbh im more interested in the scum and villainy aspect of starwars, would love to see more of that concept

They would ruin Revan, better they don’t touch him.

They'd ruin all of it just like eveything else they touch. Leave it alone

Disney is not trying to find a fitting product for their customer, they are trying to find a fitting customer for their product.

I'm not gonna defend Disney's schlok here or anything, but there is absolutely a very loud group of toxic, emotionally fragile fans, too.

@@erinm9445 that right, how they dare to ask for a decent story, with competent writing and at least mildly interesting characters, "we want Geode and dinosaurs now...."

@@AlessandroRodriguez Haha, you think the toxic fans are just politely asking for good stories and writing? That's the best one I've heard all day! Keep telling yourself that 😂😂😂 The writing IS mostly terrible on Disney Star Wars, AND there's a seriously toxic part of the fan bse. Two things can be true!

​@@erinm9445 Disney bought Star Wars BECAUSE the fans are emotional. That's how they earned billions. And actors/directors happily connect directly to fans on social media, but then scream 'toxic" when the criticism comes in. If you find out a double-edged sword is too sharp... stop wielding it. I'm with you that harassment should be condemned, but "toxic" is too vague, and too often includes simply criticising something you care about.

That doesn't really surprise me. Legends is more exciting than high republic.

HR is flawed from the start. Authers of it dont even understand physics. Legends... EU will always be superior

@@generaltronI like a lot of stuff in legends, but a lot of it is shit. Both High Republic and Legends have great and shitty novels

That means absolutely nothing. If you were to ask the people who work where I buy my books you'd likely get a very different answer. Personal experience is not evidence of anything.

@@generaltron In Revenge of the Sith Anakin and Obi-Wan fight over a lava lake. Star Wars have never cared about physics.

Thats sad

What isn't better than the sequels? That said, personally I prefer almost all the cartoons than movies/shows.

to be fair, being better than the sequels isn't exactly an accomplishment. I would be surprised, if anything could be worse.

It's really good! YJA takes place about 200 years before the Phantom Menace and Acolyte takes place about 100 years before, so Kai would be dead by then. Maybe some of the other characters could be alive, not sure how long Pooba and Pantorans live. (But I doubt we will see them; they seem to really be trying to keep that show separate from the darker things going on in the galaxy at that time.)

Were they? Qui-Gon kept relying on the Force to "present solutions" but he was clearly an outlier. The Jedi only relied on the Force to help the overcome the difficulty of non-lethally subduing lethal force (something real life police struggle with). The Jedi mainly relied on negotiation, understanding, and their reputations as ambassadors to solve issues. Remember, Episode 1 starts with Jedi negotiators being treated like a great thing that only failed because of Sith meddling.

Darth Tenebrous

I might be possible to "bleed" a crystal even if you're not officially Sith 🤷🏾. If anyone tried to claim the mantle of Sith, I'm sure that whoever is the current Sith in the rule of 2 would eventually destroy them.

Yes, any Jedi who "knowingly" faces a Sith will have to die. I'm guessing there will be a big reveal with Lee Jung-jae's character, showing him what his former Padawan has become, and then he will die, probably at her hand. I predict Vernestra will find out about the Sith and die too. But the Sith are only one specific class of dark-side Force users. A Jedi who simply sees a red lightsaber and lives isn't a problem. The Jedi believe the Sith to be extinct; therefore, their first conclusion will be that this is just a former Jedi who's gone to the dark side and bled their crystal, or one of the other dark-side Force users around at this time. By the way, there were also other groups of light-side Force users. We meet some of them in the High Republic books and comics. It's interesting when they're all at Jedha. Some Force groups are neutral too, and others, like the Path, believe that no one should use the Force.

@@lorigoshert6667 yes I see your point. In their arrogance, the Jedi wouldn't believe it was a sith without hard proof. Yes there were other force users and the lesser restrictions on personal studies led to some unfortunate circumstances .

If they care about the lore, they'll simply go with "not Sith but dark Jedi" or with the "at the end Yoda decides to silence it all for whatever reason".

Dude, High Republic is hundreds of years before Tenebrous was even born, it's literally impossible for any High Republic media to retcon a prequel era Sith Lord.

But the series is supposed to be 100 years before TPM. Darth Tenebrous is Dark Lord of the Sith at this time. But let's see what they do.

@@anthonyrodriguez8788my guy the show is 100 years before phantom menace. Tennabrous was born between 247- 167 bby, so he is alive and well. Don’t know where u got the “100s of years” from lmao

@@anthonyrodriguez8788I think u r thinking of the old republic

@@ryanm327 No, old Republic was thousands of years before the prequel era High Republic is hundreds of years before the prequel era.

I'm kinda struggling to find the funny part here. What is it?

It's almost as if the writers don't understand how history works. Go figure.

@ariochiv ...........what on earth are you on about?

@@anthonyrodriguez8788 I'm guessing, but what I think the original poster is referring to is how the one generation's worth of time that we see in the movies is treated more or less like our own recent history: things change quite a lot, and technology seems to progress significantly. And yet, somehow the history of the Republic is supposed to have stretched back for an immense span of time beforehand (something like three times as long as human civilization on Earth has existed), and yet the implication is that almost nothing changed during that time, or happened worth mentioning. And I'm just commenting that this is not how history works. But it's not as if history or politics was ever Lucas' strong suit... much less that of those people working on it these days. Did that answer your question?

@@ariochiv yeah. At first I thought you were making a thoughtless claim to try and trash the High Republic era as is often the case in these comment sections. Yeah technological and societal development tends to move at a snails pace in Star Wars, not quite as bad as in other scifi settings like 40k but still really slow.

All things considered it wouldn't surprise me if the prophecy of the Chosen One got referenced in some capacity given it's purpose of bringing balance to the Force. Even if the Skywalker family isn't directly involved i can still see references to them been made through dialogues regarding the Light and Dark sides needing balance to achieve peace across the galaxy.

I've read everything that's been released so far (except the most recent novel), and it's really good. There are some reddit threads that show everything in order.

Just got finished "path of vengeance" in phase 2. But yeh the high republic is great (perfectly encompassed by how awesome Loden greatstorm is). Also, I do hope the acolyte means that we get to see a live action Vector on screen!

Star wars is not science fiction its a fantasy space opera.

You sound like a bot

Hedlund already said that she wants to show that the jedi were truly evil, not the Sith. It's going to be trash.

The (lack of) passion is the problem. Nothing live action Disney has put out--outside of Rogue One and Andor--has felt driven by passion for the material and the stories that are told. Or if passionate people are involved, their voices get overwritten by studio interference. It all just feels like pandering to some idea of what a hypothetical audience would want. Ironically it's the animated shows that seem much more passion-driven, maybe they can get away with it since they have a smaller audience and are taken less seriously.

@@erinm9445 The animation, Clone Wars and Bad Batch, are pure, unfiltered Dave Filoni channeling his full passion with no studio interference. Remember how good the first and second seasons of the Mandalorian were? That was him as well, before the studio execs. saw that it was super popular and get involved. They have a guy right there that can make Star Wars for them and can probably green light other creators to make similar projects. He spent years hanging out with Lucus asking about all the little details of the setting and what the plans were for the setting, from the original concept to what Lucas had planned to do with it as a grand design. Filoni is also really into legends and has been incorporating many of the fan favorites into his works. He's why we have Grand Admiral Trawn as cannon and loose in the galaxy right now. The good news is that the CEO of Disney that oversaw the launch and success of the Marvel cinematic universe is back in charge and he has reorganized not only that part of the company, but also placed Dave Filoni as Creative Director of the studio for making all Star Wars. As I said before, the setting they have established is good and has the potential to have good stories told in it. We just have to hope that this inexperienced show runner was chosen for her talent, the story she wanted to tell, and her passion for Star Wars.

@@KnightsWithoutATable That's why I specified live action. I love all the cartoon stuff. And of the live action Ahsoka is my fave, though I think it would have been much better if it was animated, making it live action kind of bogs it down and makes it feel more serious or something, which makes it not work as well. I have never gotten the Mandolorian love though, I watched the first season and a few eps of the second and I just couldn't get into it. I've never really liked westerns much, so maybe that's the problem? But yeah, I do generally agree with you about Dave Filoni, but also agree that, outside of the cartoons, the studio seems to interfere with his stuff too much.

@@erinm9445 The problem Disney has with Star Wars live action boils down to one person, and she is a serious problem. They rewarded her for negotiating the sale of Lucas film to Disney for a really good price and she is really good at merchandising and promotion campaigns, but she should never be allowed on a studio lot in a million years. She is responsible for the mess that was the sequels and all of the problems in every live action project that Disney has done for Star Wars. They need to take her power away at the very least and firing her would not be off the table with how badly she has messed up. She nearly made Filoni quit making Star Wars with how she was messing with things on the Mandalorian and how she was trying to mess with Asoka as it was in per-production.

@@KnightsWithoutATable I'm wary of blaming it all on one person. It seems like when people like Disney Star Wars (Rogue One, Andor, Rebels, Clone War Season 7, Mandolorian), the writers and directors get credit and Kennedy doesn't; when people dislike Disney Star Wars, Kennedy gets the sole blame. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she's blameless, but it's also not as simple as "bad person messing up my otherwise wonderful things".

I'm not sure it's them either, but the Path of the Open Hand were always a fringe group, they were a cult founded by a heretic from the Guardians of the Whills and stayed on some backwater world for hundreds of years until they started resorting to terrorism and stopped by the Republic and the Jedi, so some kind of successor group of theirs can't be ruled out yet.

Basically. It's like they're past anger and are just at depression at this point

@@mentalmandolorian5723 yep, did you see how many people lost their shit at the thing that came out about George yesterday? They are screeching that he betrayed them

@@whateverwhatever4476 what happened with lucas?

@@Special_Agent_NSB he's pretty much sided with Disney and said they're doing a great job with Star wars

@@whateverwhatever4476 I wouldn’t call it a betrayal, but I can kinda see where those really down hard believers would get that idea from. George siding with Disney doesn't change they're doing a bad job in my eyes, but that doesn't ultimately matter I guess

What a mindset... A true fan I see

Enough to comment annonymously?

Idk I didn't see anything I hate

What kind of a SW fan are you, bro??

​@@comicbooknerd3570 the same kind of "Fan" that ruined Jake Floyd's life and made Ahmed question his

Sadly that is the Old Republic era and for some reason Lucasfilm doesn't like that era to the point where they created a whole new era to supplement it.

Yeah that's the OLD Republic. I would love that as well though

Wrong era bro

what a bunch of kung fu lesbuns and no white men? lol woke trash Star Wars is buried, tombstoned and grass already springing up

yea i had the same mentality going in to andor and i was blown away. I think the less lore baggage you have when creating a story the easier it is to make an appealing tale. Let's hope they figure it out

@@GenerationTech only thing is they have loads of lore to live up to that they can't contradict from the prequels. I'm also not a big andor fan so I'm not optimistic. Maybe it'll be a surprise but the creatives making this raise extreme doubts

I went into Andor with no real expectations and was surprisingly impressed however I had the same attitude when starting the other Disney+ original SW content and, aside from The Bad Batch and the first 2 seasons of The Mandalorian, can't say the same for any of the rest.

​@@dlxmarksI still don't get what everyone loves andor I couldn't get passed episode 2

@@dlxmarks idk it just came off as any other political drama like west wing or game of thrones but set in sw

Quite a lot of the time you’re only at war because you want the land, and if you blow up a city you can’t exactly claim it

Eckhart has done videos on this I think

@@RyanGoslingthestonecoldsigma yeah true but in star Wars they rely highly on command posts outside of city

@@DarkestKnightshade Ill check him out

That's like asking what's the point of having an army, Air Force and navy when you can just throw nukes at every problem.

@grayflaneur4854 I'm a fan, from standing in line for the original movie with my siblings and a parent to standing in line with my children. There have been O maaan, that kinda sucked moments through out However, overall, I'm still interested, still enjoying, and still willing to hope for the best while accepting the, that kinda sucked moments now & then. I suppose if my life was perfect and I never had / stumbled / lived thru that kinda sucked moments of my own, I could be righteously judgmental of a movie franchise, whoever is in the driver's seat; but alas, Star Wars [and other franchises] are no more perfect that I, and yeah, I can accept that while hoping they learn from their mistakes just as I have. Rogue One and even Kenobi were awesome for me and Boba Fett rocked im[one of the few]ho. There's been enough groovy over kinda sucked to give me this hopefulness. I'm with you, Looks Like it Might Be Groovy, hurray for another slice of the Galaxy far, far away!

@@katiekofemug - yes. I am with you. I know what you mean.

Alan does a damn good job talking about star wars instead of stoking moral panic of feminism and wokeism like most other creators rely on.

I like fun too.. it ruins the fun when they do retcons and change stuff that's been set in stone since the 70s... it ruins the fun when they try and push self inserts and political ideals...when they're more focused on diversity then telling a good story with good characters there is no more fun in star wars but bad batch and andor

@@ChrisPierce-y1r dude the original stars wars was literally a commentary on how imperialism and fascism is bad so don’t say it’s ruining the fun when Star Wars is pushing political stuff since they always have. Not to mention the diversity stuff wasn’t the main reason the sequels sucked..the sequels at least after the fist one were just bad they were rushed and they were only really made to sell merchandise because they where made by Disney who Is a company and company’s only care about making money and since most people in modern times are more diverse they make stuff more diverse so they get more people to watch their stuff and buy their stuff. Not because they really love politics or anything but because they really love money.

That would be cool

Doesn’t seem like kids even care about Star Wars anymore sadly…

@@FoxHoundUnit90 there will be a show that will grab em. maybe not this one but at some point it will

DEI, it's all over those books, that's why. They aren't enjoyable books they go through a checklist and a formula.

Aside from the "controversy" surrounding the apparent agenda surrounding that series some of the characters come off as totally ridiculous due to their designs and backstory like in the case of that rock "pilot" that literally looks like a block made of rock.

Why are people talking about agenda? Do you guys really mind details like sexuality and color? Like bro, those are mere characteristics 💀

​@@IejirKotharSpoken like someone who hasn't read the books.

@@javiervasquez625 so what, is star war supposed to forever locked at the OT trilogy and can't have new ideas and stuff to work? Milking the same time period for what? 50 years already? Time to try new thing, even silly things

“Neither of them can switch places” Meanwhile the entire point of tcw is that the Jedi were also corrupt and their downfall was inevitable

That’s an easy bet for sure lol. The commentary on the show before the trailer left little to be desired or expected

Yeah keep predictions to RLM. So boring

i heard that too

Yep

P.S. I had no idea the High Republic was that close to the main timeline.

Fair point Still choosing a mostly chill time period in which the main villains work behind the scenes wasn't the wisest idea

That would be amazing if they just made movies from that series. Hardest thing would be casting Luke Han and leia but hell they have the budget for it

🤣🤣

@@mysterious___1average Star Wars “fan” mentality ^

@@Squiddy-go1du average lol. Typical comment from someone who doesn’t care about what Disney has done to SW. I bet you bought a “the force is female” t-shirt.

After taking a huge deep dive into the Star Wars wiki. They appear to be Loth-wolves

Source?

@@aaronputhalath2778 look it up for yourself. If I can find it you can.