The Acolyte was not good. However, the tease of Plageus and Yoda at the end actually had me hyped to see what happened and thought maybe they could redeem the first season.
I don't mind going back to the well with old characters if there is a story to tell.
The Acolyte was not good. However, the tease of Plageus and Yoda at the end actually had me hyped to see what happened and thought maybe they could redeem the first season.
I don't mind going back to the well with old characters if there is a story to tell.
If they had continued the story line, with Yoda knowing of the return of the Sith, it would have made him a bit of a liar in the PT.
I did like the glimpse of Plageus, but I was hoping that they would go with the angle that he saw Qimir as a rival to be taken out. If you think about it with what we know about time lines. Palpatine was not the Phantam Menace, Plageus was.
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If they had continued the story line, with Yoda knowing of the return of the Sith, it would have made him a bit of a liar in the PT.
I did like the glimpse of Plageus, but I was hoping that they would go with the angle that he saw Qimir as a rival to be taken out. If you think about it with what we know about time lines. Palpatine was not the Phantam Menace, Plageus was.
That could have been where this story went, they really could’ve dug into Plageus and a young Palpatine, Jedi arrogance, though the Yoda thing would have had to be ironed out
That could have been where this story went, they really could’ve dug into Plageus and a young Palpatine, Jedi arrogance, though the Yoda thing would have had to be ironed out
I kind of feel like 'the Yoda thing' was a Hail Mary.
I've never worked in Television Production and I often wonder if the people working on a project know their work is crap?
So it kind of feel like the Acolyte writers were just like:
"Boys and Girls, this drivel is borderline unwatchable...if we want jobs for another season we've got the throw the audience a series bone here...."
- "Throw Yoda in there! We dont have to pay anyone and its Star Wars Royalty!"
Done.
Audience: "This doesn't make any goddamned sense!"
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The Acolyte was not good. However, the tease of Plageus and Yoda at the end actually had me hyped to see what happened and thought maybe they could redeem the first season.
I don't mind going back to the well with old characters if there is a story to tell.
We wouldn't have liked Leslye Headland's version of whatever that was going to be. It's better that it didn't happen.
The cameos were to keep people watching, not to tease an uptick in story quality.
So Star Wars rebuild the Galaxy dropped today on Disney, uploading all 4 episodes. It takes place after the Sequel Trilogies, and it features two brothers who are nerf herders, one brother who is cool and awesome and the other brother that is happy being ordinary named Sev. We find out that Sev is Force Sensitive and through happenstance they discover a jedi temple and a glowing brick. Dev the cool brother wants the brick, so his brother Sev uses the force to pull it out of the wall. It turns out that this was basically the corner stone of the galaxy that holds everything together and when it gets pulled out the whole galaxy changes.
Spoiler!
We get a new Galaxy where evil reigns and the Sith under Darth Dev rule the Galaxy and has been searching for the corner stone so he can reorder the galaxy.
We also get a lot of great hilarity.
The Clone Troopers are the main troopers of the Empire, but the template for the cones was a slightly idiotic version of Admiral Ackbar.
All of the hero's of the ST and PT are now Sith, so we see Darth Jar Jar (Who's over the top thuggish, Darth Rey, Darth Rose, Darth Kit Fisto and Darth Nub.
Like at the end of the PT the Jedi have been wiped out, but the new Jedi are lead by Jedi Master Palpatine and his apprentice Jedi Vader (Even when Palpatine is a good guy, like in all of the other Lego show he's an unapologetic ahole who treats vader like dirt. We also get Jedi like Cade Bane, Grievous, and Jedi Lucas.
We see that the Ewoks have become like the Mandolorians a race of brutal bounty hunters, and C3PO has replaced Boba Fett as the best bounty hunter in the Galaxy.
We also get a nifty betrayal in the third episode.
For some weird reason animated Star Wars continues to overshadow the Live action shows and this is no exception. The voice acting is terrific, the story is fun and at times ridiculous but never treats itself too seriously, and its well animated in the lego style.
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Has anyone seen "Obi-Wan Kenobi: The Patterson Cut?" It's a fan edit of the show into a 2.5 hour movie. Greatly improves the story imo. Cuts all the fluff/embarrassing/cringe moments and keeps the story tighter.
I really enjoyed it. Wish Disney would give us more Ewan McGregor.
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Absolutely no one was there for Reva's pointless arc. Every one behind the last 3-4 live action releases (save for Andor) should be fired into the sun.
They've put what was star wars six feet under and continue to defecate on its grave.
The Acolyte was not good. However, the tease of Plageus and Yoda at the end actually had me hyped to see what happened and thought maybe they could redeem the first season.
I don't mind going back to the well with old characters if there is a story to tell.
I just rewatched it, still don't think it's as terrible as some are making it out to be. I do see how hardcore SW purists would be turned off by it, but I don't think that those types are necessarily the target audience. It's a shame that they made enough noise to get it cancelled.
I share your view that the teasers made me excited for season 2 and now we won't get to watch that.
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I just rewatched it, still don't think it's as terrible as some are making it out to be. I do see how hardcore SW purists would be turned off by it, but I don't think that those types are necessarily the target audience. It's a shame that they made enough noise to get it cancelled.
I share your view that the teasers made me excited for season 2 and now we won't get to watch that.
Shows don't get cancelled because a bunch of internet weirdos made noise. There weren't enough eyeballs on this for it to make a profit for Disney. That's it.
Shows don't get cancelled because a bunch of internet weirdos made noise. There weren't enough eyeballs on this for it to make a profit for Disney. That's it.
Star Wars has basically plowed their own brand in the ground trying to appease a bunch of random internet weirdos, so I think it can have an impact.
The Acolyte was an OK story, constrained by the fact that they can't break free of the need to connect everything together, they didn't need to drop a bunch of names we've herd of they could have just told the story they wrote. But importantly it was so poorly edited that it was hard to feel invested as you followed it. If you were going to tell the same story from 3 perspectives commit to it and run the same episode over and over again. If you want to tell a linear story the don't show the same flash back episode after episode. It just came off like they had two different ideas for how to tell this story and instead of making a choice they just put half of both on the screen.
Star Wars has basically plowed their own brand in the ground trying to appease a bunch of random internet weirdos, so I think it can have an impact.
The Acolyte was an OK story, constrained by the fact that they can't break free of the need to connect everything together, they didn't need to drop a bunch of names we've herd of they could have just told the story they wrote. But importantly it was so poorly edited that it was hard to feel invested as you followed it. If you were going to tell the same story from 3 perspectives commit to it and run the same episode over and over again. If you want to tell a linear story the don't show the same flash back episode after episode. It just came off like they had two different ideas for how to tell this story and instead of making a choice they just put half of both on the screen.
I agree for the most part.
In my opinion The Acolyte was an interesting premise but the execution was a giant fumble.
The whole thing was just an incoherent mess.
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In my opinion The Acolyte was an interesting premise but the execution was a giant fumble.
The whole thing was just an incoherent mess.
Hence it got cancelled. I'm pretty disappointed at the overall quality of most of these Star Wars spin-offs given the budgets. Tha Mandalorian was good for a few seasons and Andor was pretty good but the rest are just so meh.
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In my opinion The Acolyte was an interesting premise but the execution was a giant fumble.
The whole thing was just an incoherent mess.
I was looking forward to the Acolyte, I'm big into the whole Sith Lore concept when it comes to Star Wars.
And they had these really tantalizing pieces. A really powerful Sith lord, the mystery is always going to be, was he the master or the apprentice. And when we saw what I expect was Darth Plageuis who would eventually become the master of Palpatine, I was really intrigued.
I could also get on board that the Jedi were deeply flawed, they were human wizards with elite powers, but they would be corrupting. I wanted more of that.
Instead we got the twins story which was terrible, the thread, and the main storyline dragged down the really interesting stuff.
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Its been a while, but I finally found nu eu Star Wars books that I actually like.
If anyone hasn't read the certain point of view series of books, they're really well done. There is one for each movie in the OT. They're a collection of short character stories, from the view of back ground characters in most of the scenes in the movie.
We find out why there are no droids allowed in the Mos Eisley Casino.
You get to live the last few minutes of Geedo's life.
The heroic self sacrifice of the little red R5 unit at the Lars farm.
A email from Admiral Motti to the other senior members after Vader choked the crap about them.
The stories range from really funny to quite tragic or sad. The last thoughts of Aunt Beru.
The stormtrooper that helped to capture princess Leia on the Tantive 4 after watching his commanding officer get gunned down.
Captain Antilles in his first and last encounter with Vader.
They're a fun casual pick up book.
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