Allan NAILED exactly what the problem with the show is. It's vague with no values,morals and no motivations

@SaviorCross

23 күн бұрын

So true, so true, signed, 18th banner!

@davidjacobs8558

23 күн бұрын

When people say there is no good or evil, deep down they know that they are evil.

@333QQQZZZ

23 күн бұрын

This was indeed a revealing and reasonable explaination.

@SkywalkerOne1977

23 күн бұрын

Just like the showrunners, writers, and producers. It finally makes sense!

@Tomyum19

23 күн бұрын

@@333QQQZZZIt’s quite true. As a Christian I agree.

"Ninja fighting" The term you are looking for, Alan, is the goon shuffle. Where everyone not attacking shuffles around until it's their turn to attack.

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

Was lame in TLJ and they still did it again

@SkywalkerOne1977

23 күн бұрын

So D&D?

@dreasdwolfox3435

23 күн бұрын

this was their one chance to save the show by having Jean Claude Van Damme under the mask. it would have made all the sense as to why they were attacking one by one

"I just dont care." Sums up my feelings on all disney star wars products

@333QQQZZZ

23 күн бұрын

The twins and the mystery don’t make me care either.

@G-Blockster

23 күн бұрын

Still waiting on Andor season 2.

No one cares about any of these characters. There is no one to root for or care about. Way to go writers…

@lunarmodule6419

23 күн бұрын

Go buy the action figures quick! Lol

@denvan3143

23 күн бұрын

“That isn’t writing, that’s just typing.” - Truman Capote 😅

@xancypillosi9497

23 күн бұрын

I liked the little girl Who played x-23.

@LuizBarrosPoa

23 күн бұрын

​@@xancypillosi9497Me too. Aaaaannd is gone! 😂

@Madeoftea

23 күн бұрын

Sol is the only one I care for because the actor learned English for the role and for how hard that is, he is fluent and the acting he conveys in spite of just learning the language is good.

A child elbows a guy's helmet, it breaks and falls off. 💩

@Johnsrage

20 күн бұрын

Right. Why would anyone pay $100.00 for something that breaks so easily?

I get excited every Tuesday/Wednesday each week, not for the premiere of the newest acolyte episode but all the content in reviews that follow 😂

@Doutsoldome

23 күн бұрын

I adopted this strategy after The Last Jedi. I didn't watch anything else since then. I skipped both Solo and The Rise of Palpatine, and didn't watch any of the series, either. But I feel well informed through the reviews.

The Smylo Ren helmet looks exactly like Jabba’s robot processing droid from Return of the Jedi! The one that calls R2 feisty, I think?

@PeteONeillBass

22 күн бұрын

YOU ARE A PROTOCOL DROID, ARE YOU NOT?

Interesting that the padawan does better than 8 Jedis. Whats about the power of maaaaaaaany?

@catherinehubbard1167

23 күн бұрын

Well, she’s female…

@Bellasguy

23 күн бұрын

And gay female beats all.

@Doutsoldome

23 күн бұрын

@@catherinehubbard1167 Good point. But so was Trinity, or whatever was her name...

I remember hearing that this story was based on a TTRPG campaign that headland wrote and DM'ed in the past. Knowing that, certain scenes feel like it: "You finally make your way through the thick forest... to find (Wookie Jedi).... but... HE'S BEEN KILLED!" "You hear a large group of your sisters, screaming above you... but you do not know what caused them to die..." Maybe it's just me, but the whole thing feels very D&D mystery... heck, there's even a potion shop!

@Dazgul

22 күн бұрын

Yeah, I've been saying this myself from the beginning. When Jord gives his plan about the apothacary and Jecki say or we could not do that and she can talk to the guy instead. It feels like that's been pulled directly from a game session. Just one example.

@guyvizard549

22 күн бұрын

@@Dazgul Yep. Ugh, I hated that line so much, too... "or, we could not do that..."

@station7thedoor

20 күн бұрын

Headland said in an interview that the show is based on fanfic she wrote when she was younger.

There are some Jedi who call me... Tim?

@SamtheBravesFan

23 күн бұрын

Greetings, Tim the Sith.

This is the result of DEI...merit isn't considered, therefore we get a high school production play with a Hollywood budget.

@bigdreams5554

23 күн бұрын

There are plenty of very talented diverse and underrepresented actors , writers and directors out there. Somehow Disney tends to pick the most unqualified ones while the good ones are still struggling to get jobs.

@Doutsoldome

23 күн бұрын

Yes, that's what "Didn't Earn It" means.

@ericzommer5581

22 күн бұрын

I just view Star Wars and Disney to be an LGTBQ brand property now. They continuously shove the queer message into shows with young viewers. Sorry, it's not the choice of a blue-haired gender studies major to force me to have a conversation about sexuality with my children who have no business dealing with it. I don't care if any of the characters like to suck p3n1s or not.... I want good story writing.

@Johnsrage

20 күн бұрын

@@bigdreams5554 Disney hires only the people that pass the Wienstein style job interviews.

If you pre-order now you can pay $100 for the Smilo Renn Helmet Fall 2025. If you don't pre-order you can pay $22 for it at Ollie's, Winter 2025. Just like we did for the Sheriff's Black Panther Helmet, the Jane Foster Thor Hammer and the Captain Carter Shield. Oh and the X-Wing helmet from the guy nobody had ever heard of.

@bigdreams5554

23 күн бұрын

Or not buy it all because who cares!!

I’m pretty sure the bad writing comes from incompetent screenwriters being hired for jobs they aren’t qualified for? But what do I know? Lol

@kendallandrews8691

23 күн бұрын

Lol when has star wars had good writing? Have you watched the prequels? Peak cringe.

@ViperChief117

23 күн бұрын

@@kendallandrews8691 Original Trilogy.

@bladeduffer

23 күн бұрын

​@@kendallandrews8691No, not by a long shot. Peak cringe in Star Wars has been under Disney's watch with The Acolyte being a perfect example of this.

@bladeduffer

23 күн бұрын

Which speaks more about the show runner who likely hired them.

@marccreation1052

23 күн бұрын

Star Wars never had great writing. The dialogue was always atrocious. But Lucas had a strong imagination filling this world with wonder. Disney SW is just a skinsuit made by shallow hacks.

Thank you for watching this so we don’t have to!

Killing everyone in your plot has been historically bad for toy sales. Apparently the interns in charge of reminding the writers... are still on a mental wellness coffee break.

@fishjones4618

23 күн бұрын

Transformers: The Movie is a good example. For Hasbro, it was a “clearing of the decks” of all the G1 Autobots and Decepticons, not realizing that the show’s writers, which included comic greats like Marv Wolfman, infused so much character and personality that it became so much more than a “half hour toy commercial” for a segment of children and Optimus Prime became this moral compass on par with Superman. “Freedom is the right of all sentient beings” rung true with them. When he was killed off, it devastated a generation of kids and took Hasbro by surprise. The one saving grace is that Optimus went out in a way you’d expect him to. Unlike what happened to Luke, Han, and Leia.

@RockOfLions

23 күн бұрын

Hire a bunch of writers who believe that capitalism is bad and watch how they 'improve' the value of you merchandising and your franchise over all.

@SkywalkerOne1977

23 күн бұрын

I'm sure he was fired for some 'ist' or 'phobe' label for speaking common sense.

@natey3455

23 күн бұрын

​@@fishjones4618and Duke didn't die in GI Joe the movie haha

@fishjones4618

23 күн бұрын

@@natey3455 He was originally supposed to. But after the backlash from the Transformers movie, hasbro and marvel productions did an immediate course correct and re-wrote the script to say that he was in a coma and at the end of the movie General Hawk saying that he came out of it okay. Of course his recovery was off-camera because there was no time to animate a hospital scene or something.

“Leave if you care”, spoilers; no one leaves.

@Doutsoldome

23 күн бұрын

Yeah, this is a good way to get to know what happens in a show that isn't worth watching. The spoilers are welcome.

How are people not noticing that light saber throw was Vader's light saber throw? Also, the trees that are sliced fall in the wrong direction. They also lift lines that Leia and Anakin say and give them to the sisters.

@xipheonj

23 күн бұрын

I noticed that the trees weren't cut all the way through, they fell that way because they were still connected on that side. It still doesn't make sense but they at least gave an excuse besides rule of cool. I'm glad you pointed out the saber throw, that's a staple of the series and has existed since the beginning. Every single game has a saber throw. Force users are always shown using the force to pick up their lightsabers, it's just a force pull to make it go back to them once it hits the target.

@somarriba333

23 күн бұрын

@@xipheonj The beginning as in Vader being the first to be shown to do that in "Return of the Jedi". From the Emperor's reaction at that moment, it was like he had never seen that move before and was actually impressed with Vader's ingenuity. Gooooooooood! I didn't mind seeing that move in comics or video games but it just seems like this show only exists to say "FIRST!" because it's a prequel series.

If Discount Ezra Miller is so bad ass why doesn’t he just go kill “All” the Jedi? All the Jedi in the universe. Clearly he’s invincible to win a fight against 5 Jedi with one light saber

@bladeduffer

23 күн бұрын

But against one Padawan girl? Remember, the Force is female

@hectoraccented5312

23 күн бұрын

He needed 1.25 lightsabers to win against a padawan tho

@star-warsien

23 күн бұрын

For real, and if he starts to lose just toss your lightsaber aside and then the Jedi can't do anything to stop them... Awesome stuff...

@fishjones4618

23 күн бұрын

Count Dooku and Darth Maul, both legit badasses, had a tough time dealing with only two and three Jedi.

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

Another issue is his armour. Unless he's a virtuoso blacksmith, it stands to reason many others could manufacture it.

I guarantee that some Star Wars influencers and sycophants will order that Smilo helmet and completely forget about it, and the show, before they receive it.

The head of toy budgeting knew what they had on their hands and knew better than to pre-produce anything

@Doutsoldome

23 күн бұрын

Ah, good point.

Alan: "Queero"... I died lol

Smilo Ren isn’t just Palpatine, he’s all the Palpatines! 16:47

Totally random, but I just rewatched Jackie Brown and Reservoir Dogs and they're so damn good. I miss 90s movies...

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

I know the feeling, I watched Terminator 2 last night. As I'm older now, I appreciate so much more the thought and effort they put into the characters, story, and effects. Linda Hamilton is a real boss in that movie and the contrast to her in the first film is impressive.

@lighthousefilms5530

23 күн бұрын

@Valen-mh9fh Yep, there's actual growth and depth to her character. It's not hard to write it just takes effort and some real world experience.

Don't tell me Fat Jedi is no longer among the living. That would break me utterly.

@wafflesarelove

23 күн бұрын

He had a heart attack during the hike

@Xucalfer

23 күн бұрын

He's okay. He couldn't fit in the shuttle.

@JH______

23 күн бұрын

Pretty sure his name was Jedi-abetes

@RonCondon

23 күн бұрын

Back of his neck looked like a pack of hotdogs

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

He was giving a talk on body positivity and couldn't make it.

Smilo Ren is the sith apprentice, and one of the "mothers" is the master.

"Dallas" story line all the dead characters, suddenly wake up in the shower a year later.. Wondering why everybody looks shocked😅🤣😂

So Smylo can use the force to move all sorts of object and people around but can't use the force to remove a light from his back?

I commend you guys for pushing through this lol

That helmet looks like a xenomorph face

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

I thought that too, just without the banana coning at the back 😂

@Doutsoldome

23 күн бұрын

I see where you're coming from, but the resemblance is very vague, to me. However, you did make me wonder what Giger would have come up with if he were to design a Sith mask.

6:36 I truly hate that stupid ass Fortnight looking helmet.

Disney has made protagonist and antagonist fluid. Mystery box!

Theyre breaking it down like it's The DaVinci Code..😂😂😂

The Helmet purchase is basically a 'go fund me' / 'kickstarter' page. 😂

Execute Order 69 ♋️

@lunarmodule6419

23 күн бұрын

Lol

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

Probably get a larger audience, albeit not on Disney Plus 😂

@moneymikz

23 күн бұрын

@@Valen-mh9fh without inside out 2 Disney would probably be looking to start an OF account right now

I SWEAR TO GOD if Jecki lives through that im gonna scream. 🤬

@leoeldude

22 күн бұрын

the hard part is that nobody is giving her first aid, Sol was like "F this" and left the planet

Why didn't the bad guy move the light saber around INSIDE Jeki to destroy her insides instead of just poking her?

You know what is weird? That after so many years this fight scene was kinda the best we have had since episode 3, and it is not that amazing, you see things Infinitely better in anime.

@XEVN7

23 күн бұрын

Since episode 3 is sad smh get it together Disney

@xancypillosi9497

23 күн бұрын

I liked the fighting. This show is pathetic. A competent writer could of made a great show out of this time period of the jedi

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

It's because the shows and movies don't have characters many fans don't care about. It's just spectacle for the sake of spectacle. Consider the duel in RoTJ, not the flashiest or longest but one of the best due to the emotion behind it and having characters that people cared about, crafted over three movies.

Star Wars: The Parent Trap

I love how everyone involved with making show forgot that only one twin has a forehead tattoo..

Giant bugs carried away the Sith Lord who just killed multiple Jedi with ease SMH Disney

I cheered when someone told me some of the dorky jedis died!

We all got it wrong. The Wookie is fine, he will recover. Just a minor light saber hair cutting accident. He heard it was a thing now.

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

Tis merely a scratch! 😂

Disney would’ve been better served just releasing the fight as a stand-alone product.

I suspect AI writing not actual human beings. - Ne-o

I've never watched the Acolyte, nor do I want to, but I'm here to support the channel.

@dbapto6994

20 күн бұрын

I've never seen Gilligan's Island and will never watch it but I want to support it to the max.........see how stupid that sounds......🙄😳

I think you may be on to something with the "It's all a dream" prediction. Mother Anastasia (or whatever her name is) was shown to have "mind control" powers, so - as terrible as it would be - I can see the writers having the witches use this as a "this is what happens if you think you know more than we do". The witches died way too easily without any reason, and resetting everything right at the end allows the writers to get away with "not breaking canon", because the Sith never really returned. Also, it excuses any bad writing, because none of it had to make sense in the first place. Seeing so many of the "protected class" characters die, and knowing they referenced "Fight Club" as similar to what they ended up writing, leads me to believe that a reset of some type is a strong possibility.

Who would have thought the first episode not written by a woman would actually be good?

Wait… *The Stranger’s helmet* You can buy it and receive it in Fall 2025? I’m calling it: Smilo Ren survives and he’ll be back in The Acolyte season 2 for 2025.

Come on Chris, there were more multi-color glow sticks than a Jeff Mills rave at the ol’ Packard Plant. 😂

its almost like some kind of poison that infects everyone it touches with endless toxicity

All of the effects and action doesn’t matter if there’s no character building. We don’t care on a human level. My wife and I just watched Godzilla Minus One. She has never seen a Godzilla movie in her life. At the end of the film we were both crying and she was looking up Godzilla lore on her phone. That’s how you do it.

Somehow feels like a classic Daytime soap drama.

It's "slush pile" level writing that never should have seen the light of day. This is what happens when you hire people based on DEI instead of ability and talent. Not at all surprised. This touches on the larger issue of these companies being "infected" with woke ideology at the highest levels. The ONLY way you can fix this is by firing all of the people that have been hired to write woke stories. This, of course, will never happen. Not at Disney. Even if Disney just changes their policies, and tells their writers, directors, etc. to stop with the woke shenanigans, they still have a pile of untalented half-wits who don't know what they're doing. Disney is basically on a collision course with an iceberg, and they're too rigid (and stupid) to course correct.

@furrygecko

23 күн бұрын

You need to remember that both JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson are both white dudes, and they created two of the worst movies ever made. Shittiness knows no boundaries.

I wanted to watch it for Carrie Ann Moss, died in the first 5 minutes. Ok I'll watch it for Dafne Keen, no she's dead. Master Squid Game? No, he's being set up to be the bad guy.... so who am I watching it for? I don't care about the others.

"but you may call me Sith".... Yeah, yeah, I now know everything with my mind reading thingy and all that

The Palaptine prediction is so far off base and insane that I totally agree with Alan. :)

Where did the $180,000,000 go? I suspect something shady.

@lunarmodule6419

23 күн бұрын

Me too!!!!

@matthewbowen5841

23 күн бұрын

Aren't the tax write offs and benefits from the various governments relating to production locations based on "budget?"

@Valen-mh9fh

23 күн бұрын

​@@matthewbowen5841presumably you can only claim the tax back against actual, evidence-able, expenditures. The degree to which those numbers are audited for their veracity is a slightly different question. 😂

By Fall 2025, no one will remember Smilo Ren or the Jacolyte, let alone be watching them.

Do not confuse Skany and Pretty. Very different concepts, outer veneer is similar, but do not be decieved.

@darthlaurel

22 күн бұрын

Now that we know what is inside, there is no way this chick reads as pretty. At all. Poison. Btw, did you mean skanky? Because skanky is also *never* pretty.

The writers are dumb and they think everyone is dumber

The acolyte has done one thing good. To quote the simpsons, it is paying a lot of youtubers kids through college!

This was their attempt at the red wedding. It's now frozen meets kill bill then kisses game of thrones.

I like Darth Teeth. Lol

@matthewbowen5841

23 күн бұрын

Darth Dentures. Darth Ortho. Darth O'Dontics.

The boomerang thing is from the video games and it looks fkn great....

These shows have the values of the people that make them.

The writing holds up.

Yeah when the singular value of the creators is “I want to make money in Hollywood” and then they don’t bring any more than that to their show… why would I want them to get my money? I get that everyone wants money and success, but they don’t put in any effort that merits either

The one mothers name is literally means resurrections in Greek

Im with Chris. He is Darth Plaegus (i know prob didnt spell that right). Just to smash that Lore some More!

The Acolyte's set gave me a flash back of 1974's Land Of The Lost

I don't know why but it really made me laugh when Chris turned off the camera instead of the mic when he coughed.

It feels to me like this series was written backwards. The part about how the witches died should have been revealed early - with possibly one hanging mystery point to be revealed later - so that the character’s motivations would be clear the rest of the way.

Attack on Titan’s Female Titan arc had a great moment ki**ing multiple characters. But they built up the characters.

Look at the showrunner. The majority of us not in showbusiness knew about Weinstien as far back as '97 with McGowan coming out and saying what kind of person he was. Everyone knew. This woman chose to go work for such a man. It's hard to project human values when you have none yourself. Scum rises to the top.

I can see it now…smile-o ren “ I will be a plague on the Jedi. From now on I am Darth Plagueis!!! 😱😱😱😱🤣🤣🤣🤣

You guys need to watch Kalki 2898. If you like RRR you will like this one.

The Jedi are all in bacta tanks and will be fine in the morning lol

after seeing master sol's journey before the acolyte when he was in the squid games got me interested in his character 😂

Settle the twin dispute like House of the Dragon.

"writers" write what they know... All these current writers have little to no life experiences out side of the college that indoctrinated them.. so this is where it's all falling apart in all forms of entertainment

Cliffhanger plot line

If force users can just will themselves new names and identities, then was Vader ever Luke's father?

Smilo Ren is the acolyte. His master is yet to be revesled..

@furrygecko

23 күн бұрын

It’s either shrek or the witch queen. So, everyone loses either way.

I'm sorry but when I look at Smylo Ren's helmet I see a xenomorph.

A re-animated chihuahua with a tiny paper party hat would be a better show than the Acolyt.

"I admire that they killed of the characters!" I agree! But who the H cares at this point? the characters seemed like bland planks of wood! The fights looks like it could have been cool! but how much is accualy seen on screen?

Fairly certain all the dead Jedi will stay dead.

Talk about entitlement... Disney expects, no demands, people tune into watch the whole series "just because". No, you are supposed to write a compelling story that keeps us coming back week after week.

All the Jedi got killed by Darth zipper head and I don't even know what their names are because they were not important

Darth Plagueis, _the wise..._ 🤣

Dont those trees fall on the wrong side?

Darth Twinkus

I noticed that too! (The switching clothes). Homegirl is sleep, have you ever tried to lift a sleeping body and put clothes on it?! I hate to agree with you Chris...but i do think they'll bring them back to life. They won't go full Game of Thrones by killing the main characters...

Also, the reason they all died was because the powers that be decided on NO season 2, so it wasn't any problem to dump them.

I can't agree this is the best episode. The insane, nonsensical decisions and ineptitude of the entire jedi team just made me want to tear my hair out. Plus the lore inconsistencies AGAIN... they're jedi, they're supposed to be able to block other force users attempts to push/pull them in combat. It's why we don't see it in the other movies. Yet here we are. I don't think it's better than the other episodes.

Ah-Choo! Sorry! I turned off my camera and muted my mic, but forgot about 'speech to text'...

I call them June and Fema.

Dave did the same saber throw with Marrok in Ahsoka

Jedi are not allowed to kill even in self defence? Why Sol did not kill Smiley ?

I chuckle every time I hear "Keymur"