YIKES.... Acolyte Episode 5 

Give Jecki credit, the actress did a great job using two sabers.

I firmly believe that the fight choreographers and tech crew in this episode did a good job. At the same time a bad script and a bad plot makes for a bad show.

"I am going to kill Jedi, unless my sister is alive, then I'm going to be friends, until I realize that I don't like my sister, but of course I think the Jedi are cool, but hold on, I hate my sister, so I'm going to actually be okay with the Jedi, but wait a minute, I'm going to become my sister."

Mae is a complete psychopath, Sol should be able to see right through it.

Disney and Lucasfilm finally remembered how to do a lightsaber fight and that lightsabers were deadly.

Mae: "Attack me with all your strength" Mae: "My sister is more important so I'm turning myself over to the Jedi" Mae: "Infiltrate the Jedi by impersonating my sister and leave her behind" I think the discount Night Sisters somehow created 3 beings from the force since Mae clearly has split personality disorder.

Respectfully, I think you guys got it all wrong. First of all, the Sith didn’t reveal himself as a Sith, he said “the jedi would call me a Sith”. Also, yes Ki Adi Mundi did say they haven’t been around for generations, but I don’t think he or the rest of the jedi will ever find out about the Sith. Sol didn’t contact the jedi about it because she doesn’t want to reveal whatever dark past he has (most likely how he invaded/killed the twins’ family). As far as the jedi know, Sol and the others were chasing Mae, and they’ll believe the jedi deaths were because of Mae. THATS why ki adi mundi believed the jedi haven’t been around… I don’t think he’ll ever find out. My guess is that Sol will die soon, and the jedi will never be informed. IF Osha does survive and/or try to warn the jedi, they won’t believe her. Save the harsh commentary for when the story is done being told!

As a person who works construction, not making OSHA a villain is a missed opportunity

The whole thing with Jecki not “acting like a Jedi”, remember when Ahsoka blindly was leading her entire platoon into a trap even after being told by Obi Wan and Anakin, and had to legitimately be ordered to stand down, AND even then Anakin and Obi wan had to go stop her themselves. Yeah, at the end of the day padawans are children and get ahead of themselves. There’s a reason Jecki wasn’t a knight yet, she wasn’t a “perfect jedi”.

The real master will cut down Qimir for breaking the rules. So lore will be maintained.

That fight has to set a record for lightsaber fight, in number of dead Jedi and broken lightsabers

I don’t see a problem with the Sith revealing himself to the Jedi. He was planning on killing them all anyway. The Darth Plagueis novel even does this. Plagueis reveals that he is a Sith to a longtime political rival before killing him. Darth Maul even does this later in the novel and Palpatine punishes him for it.

James Luceno said when he wrote the Plagueis novel he asked Lucas what race Plagueis was and Lucas said he was a Muun. Plagueis being a Muun is canon. It came straight from George Lucas.

I still think Qimir is going to be Tenebrous’ failed apprentice before he finds Plagueis

The biggest suprise of the decade. The sith is exactly who we thought it was

Stu ranting about Qimir is hilarious. "he called himself a sith!" 😂

Episodes 4 and 5 should have just been one long episode

I think Yord made a good Jedi Sentinel. Hes basically a temple guardian. A protector. Everything he did made sense.

Baxk to the good ol days. Back to the holiday special. Back to Black. Back to jack.

Well done fellas. You said it perfectly. Love your channel.

A Jedi does not draw her weapon unless she's prepared to kill...her bangs.

Smile-o Ren just won Squid Game!

Hahahaha, I love you guys! I don't know all of Legends and didn't watch much of any of the animated shows that are canon, but I really appreciate how down-to-earth you are, and you always raise great questions and make excellent points. I've learned SO much from this channel, and when I disagree, I'll bluntly tell you, but how you both get completely passionately annoyed at about 23 minutes, I'm grinning ear-to-ear!

Qimir went from skinny to buffed as hell like groundskeeper willie. 🤣

Darth Bane would have a stroke! LOL!

"Once again, the sith will rule the galaxy and we shall have peace." -Palpatine in Canon and Legends

This was the best ep yet, that "Venom" Sith is powerful AF 😂

Definitely 9 out 10, the emotions, the mystery, the lightsaber fights, the unpredictability, AMAZING !!!!!

Even if they all die. How does the council not find out or investigate their deaths?

Qimir was also raised at the Temple of Witches alongside Mae and Osha. It is hinted at in Episode 3. The conversation when Mae and Osha are having their hair braded Osha yells that they are the only kids there. The ladies braiding their hair immediately give eachother a look becuase Qimir is being trained and hidden because males aren't allowed in the coven.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="367">6:07</a> I am 100% certain they will not retcon Koril into Darth Plageuis. Yes, the Plageuis novel was written and released prior to the Disney acquisition of Lucasfilm and this perhaps means the events of said novel may not be the same and may be different now, but he as a male character is still canon. We know this because of the book "Star Wars: The Secrets of the Sith" released in 2021 where Palpatine himself says, "My master, Darth Plagueis, had served his purpose. I struck him down, claiming his place as the one true master of the Sith." This confirms that Plageuis is still male, not female, so it can't and won't be Koril.

I love the brutality of the sith in this episode and most of the fights in this episode. The cannon concerns are very valid. The biggest problem is the annoying main characters (twins) that no one really cares about.

Say what you want about the show. But manny Jacinto absolutely killed it as a Sith. His fight was probably the best one we’ve got in years. And when he used the detached blade on Jecki, I cheered! I was so happy to see that concept move from the games onto the screen. It was awesome

Take my helmet off so you can read my mind , no no no helmet comes off, and no mind read lol

Im crossing my fingers that this is just a short story about the 2 potential sith appreciates that Darth Plaguies killed 😂

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="281">4:41</a> I don't believe this "betrays" anything at all about the Rule of 2. If Qimir is indeed an apprentice to a Sith Lord, then perhaps he is a disgruntled apprentice who is sick of having to hide his dark side nature and wants to reveal that the Sith are still here so he is striking out on his own and the "acolyte" he searches for is someone who can become his own apprentice and who shares his view of no longer hiding from the Jedi. That seems like a perfectly reasonable and plausible explanation to me. Also, Sol not telling the Jedi would be his mistake but also not a mistake as far as the lore goes. It's pretty clear that he's already covered something up before, the incident on Brendok, so it's likely he'll cover this up too in some way, and he'll do it out of fear but also ignorance and arrogance, traits that the Jedi have developed during this time of peace. As Vernestra said to him, revealing a Sith has returned would cause panic and fear in the galaxy if it became known but also weaken the Jedis position of being seen as defenders against any and all force-related threats to the galaxy, so Sol would fear revealing this for this reason. He also probably would be ignorant to believe Qimir was lying about being a Sith because his arrogance would lead him to believe it's impossible for them to return.

The drug dealer being under the mask was so predictable and anti climactic. And HOW DF DOES MAE ONLY STAY KNOCKED OUT FOR A FEW MINS BUT JEDI MASTER (!!!!) SOL STAYS KNOCKED OUT FOR THE WHOLE NIGHT

I guess one might argue he tells him he is a Sith because he also tells him he is going to kill everyone there. So it won't matter. He may also be telling him to unnerve Sol because the Sith are believed to be extinct?

Alot of other people have brought up that Kylo Ren's theme plays at the end. So it's probably that Qimir is a Knight Of Ren. This will be their origins.

Mae's split personality disorder might be worse than Moon Knight's.

Sol should be able to tell the difference cause the twin he trained didn’t have a white tattoo on her head or did he forget that?

I don't think Qimir revealing himself is them disrespecting lore for the simple reason that he goes on to say how he's tired of hiding his power and hiding from the Jedi. He clearly just doesn't care about hiding, he wants to use his powers now.

Great episode. Love the series so far

Honestly best lightsaber fight sequences from Disney so far…but the writing…WHAT ARE WE DOING

That fight has to set a record for lightsaber fight, in number of dead Jedi and broken lightsabers , youngest most OP Sith ever

love coming here for two thought out and educated star wars opinions. please keep it up

Dude it was awesome

You know what I hated? Master Sols reaction to Smilo saying he is a sith. He says "Why risk discovery".... like, I think it would make more sense to be " How is that possible?" "The Sith are extinct" "Lies! Deception!" Like, he acts like he knew the Sith were out there and just in hiding 🙃

They want to be original and yet design every villain after darth vader

Thx for upload

..So after the sith blew everyone away...he's killing off the jedi...WTF was Sol?

They lost me at Yord not losing his legs with that baseball swing but then I was back when Qimir forced pulled the second Jedi onto his Lightsaber.

I don't know what you're talking about with canon vs. legends, palpatine literally says "once more the sith shall rule the galaxy." Sith having ruled in the past is a George Lucas original

This episode was what the Acolyte series should have been. Super dark episode. IMO I enjoyed it a lot. However, that third episode and bad writing overall still holds the show back.

I love this channel so much

I got WHIPLASH with the writing on this episode.

Palpatine did refer to Plaguis as HE in his story so maybe all hopes not lost

Master Giant Forehead would have wiped the floor with all of these suckers; especially with the help of Grand Master Anderson Skyscraper Even Master Yogurth said that he has the biggest lightsaber in the order, after all: "seen it, I have."

"A million dollars a minute"?! That statement just blew my mind!! 🤯

Sol is pretty much in shock and has too much trauma and guilt to tell the Jedi about Qimir. It’s why he is likely taking “Osha” to Brendock to come clean without even making a report. Sol is also too traumatized and unstable that he pretty much didn’t use the Force to know Mae is “Osha.” Plus, the wording Qimir made is kind of overlooked. He said to Sol that “you would call me a Sith.” He did not say “I am a Sith.” It’s like a racist saying that other people would call him a Nazi (ex. The Boys show’s revelation in Season 2) but he is not saying the Nazis are back. Qimir’s final plan is obvious. He is going to break Sol’s spirit by making Osha his new acolyte and kill Sol. Qimir is likely a retconned version of Darth Venamis (Venom -> Qimir makes a poison in episode 2). I pretty much advise to be skeptical until watching the Season Finale to make an authentic critique for the show. Who know? The show might end with Plagueis killing Qimir and taking Osha to experiment on her for his studies on Midichlorians. Acolyte is a horror mystery story so I expect a horrifying ending and Plagueis making Osha a lab rat is the most terrifying way to end it. What Plagueis did to test subjects like Venamis: “Traveling to Sojourn-a moon owned by Plagueis and maintained as a personal retreat-Venamis was bested in a duel and forced to ingest a coma-bloom, a poisonous species of flora, putting him into a coma. As part of his experiments with midi-chlorians over the following decades, Plagueis and his droid 11-4D kept the comatose Venamis alive to manipulate and study. Around the year 42 BBY, Venamis was eventually allowed to die by Plagueis, his usefulness finally fulfilled. Afterwards, he was resurrected and killed again and again in the presence of 11-4D, as well as Plagueis's apprentice, Darth Sidious, until Venamis' organs finally ceased to function and Plagueis finally allowed the Bith to die for the final time.”

The fight choreography was very good. Ending ruin it. He still feels like an apprentice and not the true master. Manny Jacinto in my personal opinion is doing really well with what he is given.

"This is Star Wars right now" ... i never thought a sentence like this would ever make me this sad ... I have defended Disney Star Wars through everything up until this show hit my screen for the first time ... This is too much ...

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1365">22:45</a> I've never seen him this heated.😂

Qi’mir in Sith Mode is a Beast. I personally liked this episode (Awesome Lightsaber dueling too) (Best episode in the series so far)🔥👍

Jedi acting like Reno 911. You are under arrest. 🤦🏻

Let me get this straight, mae can kill a fully trained Jedi but struggles to defeat a padawan?

Here's a crazy idea: let the show finish and play out all the way before making a blanket review?

Oh boy, if the missing witch lady is Plagueis that would be SO BAD. Palpatine refers to Plagueis as a HE when talking with Anakin in Episode 3. EDIT: See ~<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="370">6:10</a> in video for Stupendous comment I am referring to.

If they replace Plageus We Riot

Much respect for focusing on story and rational analysis. Just subscribed.

Because Darth Vader destroyed Starkiller Base to defeat Dooku. Duh

I do like how we get to see cortiors armor in live action for the first time

“Canon is like jazz it doesn’t rhyme” -Filoni. I knew he was going to be an issue and no one believed me

This was the best lightsaber fight we've seen in years in my opinion

Episode five had me on the edge of my sit, it's been my favorite Episode so far.

I think Disney has just said forget the legends or lore we’re just doing our own thing at this point.

Hey they finally did something right. That was a fantatsic fight.

For someone who works in construction, not painting OSHA in a negative light is a lost chance.

Dooku told Kenobi way more than the word Sith in attack of the clones lol. Sure they knew of a sith encounter by this point, but it was the first time they'd heard of Sidious and they went off of that information for the rest of the war, i don't get why this is so much worse. I dont even think Qimir is a true sith, more of a pretender like the knights of ren. Kylos theme motif even played when qimir was shown.

Without seeing what you have to say about it and point out the flaws I did not see. If they compressed episodes one through four into a half an hour, and then tac episode five on to it for a one hour season premier, this would be a decent start to a series.

❤ it! Comics give you one feeling! I'm looking forward what is to come from the Star Wars Universe!!! Considering the Universe, there's so much more to explore and expect!

Hearing stupendous unhinged is the best thing I've ever heard

Bane would have killed him before he even finished the sentence.

The new canon Thrawn trilogy written by Zahn includes a bit on Cortosis.

You and the archavist should do a weekly podcast or reviews on episodes it is very interestiinf to hear you both bounce ideas of each other

Osha: Don't kill him with your lightsaber!! We should somehow make these giant bugs kill him instead. What? That's the most absurd part of the episode

Everyone is jumping to conclusions about how the series will turn out before it has concluded. Lets wait and see if they do violate cannon before getting upset that they are going to. I think its pretty obvious that everyone but the acolyte (my guess is Osha) is probably going to die. That would explain why no one knows about this incident in 170 years.

left the dead jedi in the woods, we never saw Sol or Osha see what happened to Kelnacca, only Jecki saw Kelnacca dead and now she's dead, we never saw her exchange info with Sol and Osha. Maybe they'll go back and do the investigative work, collect their mates and report back to homebase

I will say the ‘you would call me a sith’ line doesn’t confirm he’s a sith he’s saying they’d call him a sith from their perspective

Can i just say how happy and excited i genuinely got when yords neck got snapped like that was fucking awesome and shows that you can kill a jedi without a weapon

Listening to this guy rant about something that the show hasn’t done yet is full on hilarious.

I’m hoping the line “you would call me a Sith” just means he’s something the Jedi fear and don’t understand, not breaking the canon in such a massive way

Great episode

If they reveal that witch to be Plagues I will burn Disney World to the ground who’s gonna join me ?

This fight sence in episode 5 was so freaking cool and so badass l love it

I think Qimir calling himself a sith just shows us he isn't a true sith following the rule of two. He has to be a failed apprentice doing his own thing or just one of the random dark force users throughout the galaxy. Maybe he stumbled upon a sith temple and gained ancient sith knowledge and is attempting to imitate the sith.

Love the honesty! Speaking facts!

maybe quimir was being arrogant, and thought he cornered sol. Also maybe he is a fanatic, a pretender, and the true sith will put him in his place in time. maybe he is a proto knight of Ren

The twins are the worse part of this show!!!!

Dang i never seen Stupendous Wave this mad XD