Spoilers The Acolyte

[kirk55555]

Hm, was that Darth Plagueis in the cave?

I literally didn't see that (I was eating when I was watching the episode, so I must have looked away for a second). Holy shit, that really does look like him. That's huge, I didn't think I could want a Season 2 more but I really, really want Season 2 to get made.

 

[Captrek]

I like to keep track of how things fit together chronologically. I hope that The Acolyte will continue, but as it stands right now, Ep 8 is immediately followed by Tales of the Jedi: Justice.

In the former, Osha kills someone with a Force Choke and turns to the dark side.

In the latter, Dooku begins to do the same, but Qui-Gon snaps him out of it before he kills, and he doesn’t turn (yet).

It’s a neat little contrast.

 

[Commander Troi]

Ooh! Thanks for pointing that out!

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

So it was Osha in the end who killed a Jedi without a weapon.... Not so impossible it turns out.
In both senses of the phrase. She didn't use a weapon and he didn't have one , she had it.

 

[CaptainWacky]

I found the show frustrating overall, not because it was outright bad or anything, but because it could have been so much better. It had many good ideas, some very strong moments and visuals, but the execution and lack of consistency stopped it from reaching greatness. It had very strong lightsaber fights (that is important in a Jedi-centric Star Wars show!), some great sets (Sol's ship!), a cute robot...but it rarely made me feel much. Sol's story came the closest to succeeding for me. Sadly I think Osha and Mae's story was the biggest failure. Osha turning should have felt like a big emotional tragedy, but I never got enough sense of her character before her turn to feel all that sad that she's Bad Now. It just felt inevitable. Say what you want about how Anakin's fall was done in Episode 3 (it's certainly not perfect!) but the part where he's crying with his newly changed eyes after murdering the Separatist leaders and Obi-Wan shouting "YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!" at him stuck with me in a way nothing in The Acolyte will. (The lightsaber bleeding was cool though.) I feel like maybe it would have been better for acting purposes if they Osha and Mae had been played by actual twins rather than the same person as all their scenes together never quite convincef me. Yeah I know they're supposed to to be the same person in different bodies (whatever that means) and that's why they're both Amandla Stenberg but whatever I'd have liked it better if they hadn't been.

Throughout the season there's just so many sloppy moments that don't work how they should. Last week alone for example: Aniseya turning into scary looking mist then just saying "we were going to let Osha go!" after Sol stabbed her (probably shouldn't have turned into scary looking mist at that exact moment then), no one even asking what happened to Koril. This week: whatever the fuck the point of Bazil was. I'm sure someone can come up with a reason why he pulled out those wires on Sol's ship in the final, but he'd had no characterisation before that except running around sniffing stuff so it felt completely random to me.

And yeah this wasn't a satisfying self-contained story. So many obvious set-ups for season two: look it's Darth Plageius in a cave! Look it's Yoda! But even if we get a season 2 (and I think the chances are about 50/50) it'll be like 3 years away because of the way Disney+ make shows and I won't care at all by then if I'm even still alive. So that's a downer.

 

[Tuskin38]

This idea came from a comic a few years back

It was mentioned in the Ahsoka novel first


Leslye confirmed that was Plagueis, in case some were still skeptical

https://www.indiewire.com/features/...-reveal-confirmed-leslye-headland-1235026659/

The Plagueis cameo was originally going to be the final shot of the show, but Leslye says she didn't feel right ending it on something sinister.

 

[Captrek]

And yeah this wasn't a satisfying self-contained story. So many obvious set-ups for season two: look it's Darth Plageius in a cave! Look it's Yoda! But even if we get a season 2 (and I think the chances are about 50/50) it'll be like 3 years away because of the way Disney+ make shows and I won't care at all by then if I'm even still alive. So that's a downer.

It had some teases for what’s to come, and it would be unfortunate if those teases never pay off, but it’s still a much more complete story than Ahsoka S1.

 

[JD]

I don't think Vernestra is supposed to have fallen at this time.

Haven't got a clue who she's talking to, though.

Has it been established somewhere that she'll fall at some point?

It was a decent finale, my biggest complaint was that I was hoping for more of a definitive ending, since we aren't 100% sure we're getting a second season. This really felt more like a set up for a second season than a potential end to the series.
I'm disappointed they killed Sol, I was hoping he'd get a chance to redeem himself, and reconcile with Mae and Osha. He obviously massively screwed on the day of the fire, but I really think he had good intentions.
I was also really disappointed in the mind wipe with Mae, I thought there was a pretty decent chance we'd see Mae and Osha flip loyalties at some point, but I think it would have worked better if Mae had made the choice voluntarily, rather than only doing it because of the mind wipe.
The Darth Plagueis and Yoda cameos were a fun surprise.
The big fight was fantastic, the actions scenes have definitely been one of the series highlights.
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one was confused by Bazil sabotaging the ship when Sol was chasing Mae. I was trying to figure the whole time if Sol was even aware Bazil was on the ship, he never seemed to even acknowledge his presence.
Vernestra calling Sol corrupt and blaming everything on him was kind of messed up. I understand she was doing to try to protect the Order from the Senate review, but I still didn't like it.

 

[cooleddie74]

[Charlie Hopkinson Qui-Gon, eating from a bag of snacks]: "Told you. PLAGUEIS." [/Charlie Hopkinson Qui-Gon]

 

[JoseNoodles]

I literally didn't see that (I was eating when I was watching the episode, so I must have looked away for a second). Holy shit, that really does look like him. That's huge, I didn't think I could want a Season 2 more but I really, really want Season 2 to get made.

I hope there's a second season so we actually get resolutions.

 

[Ithekro]

Basically this is the ending of the High Republic as an era and the beginning of the Fall of the Jedi.

A second season would focus more on the Sith side of things, I would hope. With maybe Vern making an effort to find her lost Padawan and Osha. But quietly. Might see her end if she manages to get close to Plagueis. But I do want to see more of this fighting style. And I want to see a fight with her purple light whip.

 

[Yistaan]

It's crazy how similar this show ended up being to Rings of Power, complete with a hunky dark lord seducing the female protagonist, only in Acolyte he succeeds whereas in Rings of Power he fails. Vernestra and her bureaucracy fits right in with Gil-Galad's cluelessness in Rings of Power too. We even had dark side witches in both (the Sauron groupies trying to mess with the wizard in ROP).

 

[Scout101]

Fun lightsaber pew pew, but otherwise pretty disappointed by this show now that we’ve seen it all. What was the point? What story was trying to be told? Darth Jason was kinda fun, but otherwise really don’t know what we were supposed to get from this. Entirely meh. ‘Mystery box’ that wasn’t must of a mystery and didn’t mean much.

 

[Galaxy]

But why not his?

You need to take a saber from a foe you defeated for it to turn red. Vader used the crystal from Kirak Infil'a.

• who/what was the thing in the cave on the master's ocean base?

Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?




Overall I enjoyed the series (except for Episode 7) I do wonder why it cost $180 million. On a per Episode basis it was more expensive then Andor, someone really padded their pockets.

 

[Captrek]

Overall I enjoyed the series (except for Episode 7) I do wonder why it cost $180 million. On a per Episode basis it was more expensive then Andor, someone really padded their pockets.

You really have to pay a guy a lot when he’s the Sol survivor after all the other contestants died trying to get the role.

 

[JoseNoodles]

You really have to pay a guy a lot when he’s the Sol survivor after all the other contestants died trying to get the role.

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[Crewman6]

She definitely knows him well.

Oh, right. Duh. I forgot he was her padawan.

Also, Yoda didn't seem that certain the Sith were extinct in TPM IIRC. I think Windu was more vocal about that.

Nah, the whole council thought the Sith were long gone. Ki Adi Mundi actually had the line, "the Sith have been extinct for a millennia", but it's not like anyone jumped in to disagree with him.

 

[Happy Hopping]

so when they green head lady ask "Help me find a pupil of mine?", who is she referring to?

and what's the time era of this entire Acolyte series?

 

[Toril Toran]

Overall, a very disappointing series. Only number 5 and 8 were any good.
The twins switching places from good to evil was predictable.
The appearance of Plagueis and Yoda was interesting.
The thing I found most interesting about this series was the introduction of the idea of the vergence.
Overall the show was slow paced, contrived in a most obvious way, and boring.
I seriously hope this series is not renewed.
Bring back the Kenobi series. Even Ashoka was more interesting.

 

[DigificWriter]

so when they green head lady ask "Help me find a pupil of mine?", who is she referring to?

Qimir.