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I know we're on the tail end of things, but I remember that when we first heard we were getting a show set in the glory days, I was really hoping for something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb8M5P1QKX8&t=52s
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The Acolyte isn’t good, but it’s better than that
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Jul 16, 2024 15:39
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The big where everyone turns and looks at the guy in the big-dickhead hat is very funny.
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TyrantWD posted:The show doesn't actually bother to comment on anything. We were told that we are going to see the Jedi at the height of their power, and we are going to see how their hubris allowed the Sith to rise. Sure I guess if you completely ignore everything said so far by Qimir Man, people have a lot of sweeping opinions about a show they even seen all of
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Hazo posted:Sure I guess if you completely ignore everything said so far by Qimir Qimir has said nothing of substance. He doesn't like the Jedi because of their dogma and rules. He obviously has a grievance but the show has actively danced around revealing what he actually believes other than in his own power, which just makes him a regular dark side force user. Likewise the show has deftly steered away from really revealing what the witches believe in and how that differs from the Jedi.
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lmao this guy thinking Sol was a proper wrong 'un  
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Alchenar posted:Qimir has said nothing of substance. He doesn't like the Jedi because of their dogma and rules. He obviously has a grievance but the show has actively danced around revealing what he actually believes other than in his own power, which just makes him a regular dark side force user. The entire philosophy difference between the witches and the Jedi comes down to the line from Hot Fuzz: "Official vocab guidelines state that "force" is too aggressive."
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lmao this guy thinking Sol was a proper wrong 'un insol
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NoneMoreNegative posted:lmao this guy thinking Sol was a proper wrong 'un 
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Alchenar posted:Qimir has said nothing of substance. He doesn't like the Jedi because of their dogma and rules. He obviously has a grievance but the show has actively danced around revealing what he actually believes other than in his own power, which just makes him a regular dark side force user. The claim was “The only commentary the show makes about the Jedi institution is that they are a seemingly decent bunch willing to allow the witches and their force sensitive children to live in peace.” This is false. Qimir has had multiple lines directly making a commentary on the Jedi as an institution, such as his note on “semantics,” and “they think they can decide who gets to use power” and “they say I can’t exist.” What all that means specifically isn’t quite clear at the moment. But holy moly, the mystery drama looks like it’s holding on to the mystery until the end? What a crap show! THAT SAID: if they pull an Ahsoka and completely fail to explain anything in the final episode then yeah I’ll absolutely jump on board with the “neat concept, botched execution, bad show” crew.
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tonight is the finale right?
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HootTheOwl posted:tonight is the finale right? Or at least the end of the first season as the case may be, yeah
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Finally time for Bazil's flashback episode.
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If nothing else, hats off to someone achieving peak nerd glory: https://x.com/StarWarsExplain/status/1812948827391029292
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Tender Bender posted:Cannot co-sign this in a universe where Kenobi and Book of Boba Fett exist  I'm way too much of a sucker for this kinda thing.
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DaveKap posted:I can't co-sign because the fantastic Wuxia fighting scenes, as limited as they sadly are, automatically make Acolyte better than some of the more pointless bits of Star Wars media. Yeah the thing about the Acolyte, a show I don't actually like all that much but have spent a lot of words defending, is that it has a story in mind that it is committed to, and it has respect for itself and its audience. The execution is way off but at least it's trying. That's more than I can say for the lower tier Disney+ stuff (and yes it's a low bar).
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I will watch any old trash if it has some good fight scenes.
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The fight scenes have been top tier - maybe that’s where all the money went.
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Vintersorg posted:The fight scenes have been top tier - maybe that’s where all the money went. I agree. I also agree with an earlier poster that I wish there were more of them. I can think of 3 great fight scenes off the top of my head? (The one quoted above is good for character work, but far too short.)
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thrawn527 posted:I agree. I also agree with an earlier poster that I wish there were more of them. I can think of 3 great fight scenes off the top of my head? (The one quoted above is good for character work, but far too short.) By the second episode I thought the hook was gonna be a Jedi assassination to start each episode - the fight in the first one, the force field poison puzzle in the second, etc. But those dreams were dashed.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:In Episode 7, Han is introduced delivering some probably-extremely-illegal bioweapons to a king somewhere - because of course he is. Bulky Bartokomous posted:I’m almost done with episode 7 of the Acolyte and this is some of the dumbest poo poo I’ve ever seen. Who am I supposed to be rooting for? Halloween Jack fucked around with this message at 22:49 on Jul 16, 2024 |
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Vintersorg posted:The fight scenes have been top tier - maybe that’s where all the money went. Hoping for more good lightsaber fights tonight.
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Halloween Jack posted:I choose to believe that the animals aren't bioweapons, any more than a tiger or a hippo. Han is doing sleazy Joe Exotic stuff. This is definitely plausible, but I do think it's noteworthy how much of a regression this is for Han either way. He's back to smuggling crap for petty dictators, he just has better optics doing it for a king rather than a Hutt.
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Doing a rewatch of ep7 before the finale. It really does sound like “virgins” when Sol says it. Edit: I liked this episode better, the 2nd time around. Marsupial Ape fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jul 16, 2024 |
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Vintersorg posted:The fight scenes have been top tier - maybe that’s where all the money went. ungulateman posted:This is definitely plausible, but I do think it's noteworthy how much of a regression this is for Han either way.
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MMAgCh posted:If I were to recommend The Acolyte to someone it would mostly be on the basis of the fight scenes, which indeed have been very good throughout. It does feel a little like damning with faint praise, though. I've been telling people to wait until it's done, because, while I think it's pretty good, it's paced poorly, so I think binging it would help a lot.
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thrawn527 posted:I've been telling people to wait until it's done, because, while I think it's pretty good, it's paced poorly, so I think binging it would help a lot.
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sup Plagueis
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I hope next season the new Sith team up with a different coven of space witches and take down some Jedi spice dealers and Jedi slavers!
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Guess we got our Yoda cameo after all, curious how Season 2’s going to work seeing as most of the supporting cast is dead and the twins lost their some of their memories and effectively swapped places (assuming the show gets/has already been picked up for one that is). Also we got confirmation that Lady Shrek was Qmir’s master (though that was kind of obvious) Larryb fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Jul 17, 2024 |
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What a terrible show. That last episode was extremely stupid.
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At least we got a banging remix of Power of Manny in the post credits.
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Yeah, I like this show a bunch.
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i liked that they brought in the kyber crystal changes from visons i thought the cgi swapping for osha and mae during their fight was very clean i did not like that they are drawing out the vernestra/bortles thing instead of giving them the encounter. they brought like 10 jedi but then we didn't have some epic fuckin fight, lame i did not like that they did not just have mae come with osha and bortles, instead of this really bad excuse to drag out a season 2 teaser e: also lol sol bye bitch
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Dexo posted:sup Plagueis lmao this rules, I can't believe they stopped short of confirming and we have to wait a year (?) of speculating about exactly how mad they're going to make everybody when they reveal Darth Plagueis learned everything he needed to know from The Acolyte.
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I particularly like the poetic justice of Mae, having factory reset Pip, getting factory reset herself
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Dexo posted:sup Plagueis
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FlamingLiberal posted:Isn’t that supposed to be Tenebrous Tenebrous was Plagius' master, Timeline wise it makes more sense if it's Plagius. Also considering the "creating life thing" it lines up more with Plagius
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The scene with that Senator feels like something that belong in episode 2,and they ended up cutting that whole story line, but they wanted the reporting to the chancellor scene as a segue to the Yoda scene, so they introduced the Senator earlier. . The action was good - everything else, not so much. Don’t think this will get a season 2.
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Dexo posted:sup Plagueis i mean that was definitely palpatine's voice right? so sheev's like 500 years old?
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