Mini Series The Acolyte 1.04 - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

So Ki-Adi Mundi is in this?

 

I am really annoyed we have not had a good look at Mae's ship yet.

 

Holy Sith!

 

Loved everything about this one -- 10/10!

I'll be watching this one a few dozen times.

 

The ‘Sith Lord’ and the assistant assigned to Mae, are they the same person?

 

So Mae and Qimir get separated and the Sith Lord just happens to show up a few minutes later.

 

Agree that weaving last weeks flashbacks in with this weeks trek through the jungle would have been ideal. Sucks having to wait another week to finally get to some plot forwarding but at least it appears we’re finally there.

 

There’s not enough meat on the bone to justify the weekly release schedule. All 8 episodes should’ve been dropped at once.
This episode got good 5 minutes before it ended.

 

Initial assessment a 7 there were some great moments, but it was down weighed by some clunky CGI and some very stale acting. At some points. Also Mae’s about turn was really out of nowhere.

also this was only 25 minutes which is ridiculous

 

And was that Plo Koon?

 

I was on the same line of thought about the time they stopped for her to rest.

 

Pretty sure Qimir is the Sith. And pretty sure "kill a Jedi without a weapon" was his final lesson - and he was using Mae to do it. And then once he realizes she aint ... he goes and just does it himself i suppose.

I liked the journey of this episode, but yeah, would have liked to have seen maybe 1 more minute at the end there. Just a few clashes with sabers.

I think they did well with making the world feel real and expansive, even when shooting on small sets. Although I think the forest sets should have been way more uneven. Like they should have been jumping down 25 feet here and there. It did feel like a set at times.

 

Yeah, it felt like filler. Just walking from point A to point B. And man, that pacing is something else. It sometimes feels like a disjointed collection of scenes mashed together with powerpoint transitions. It's so rushed, and yet felt so dragged. Really weird stuff. And the transitions are really overused. You don't use them to transition between literally every single scene.

Mae not wanting to be the Acolyte anymore came out of nowhere. Another defector story. No one in Disney Star Wars can simply commit to being a villain, I suppose. Oh well.

I loved Qimir, though. Obviously, he's the Sith Lord. But I like his bumbling, clumsy fool persona, when he's actually a ruthless Sith Lord. Darth Jar Jar if he real, I guess. His smiley face mask makes sense now.

 

My WiFi is back on I'll watch after the Yankees game Yanks game is in the 8th!

 

Lee Jung-Jae’s accent really stood out in this episode. He was difficult to understand at times.

 

It was a magnificent cliffhanger. I wouldn’t change a thing about it. I’m dying to see what happens next and that’s a good thing!

 

Pacing issues I can see. But filler? Filler would be a random episode about something else. Like in true X-files sense. It would watching another Jedi on some non-related mission.

I think in the end, this series would have been better released as a whole. Just let people binge it at once. I like the once a week approach more when episodes are in the hour mark, that way enough happens each week to warrant the progression. Here we just get a bit ... and then boom, we have to wait another week.

 

After all the jokes earlier, there actually was a kind of hamster in the episode! The CG on that looked a bit ropey to me. Otherwise, I enjoyed it. Mae's change of heart seemed a little sudden, but I'll let that go. I read the first couple of paragraphs of a review earlier and it teased that the episode ended on a cliffhanger .. and it certainly did! That's a whole bunch of Jedi who have now encountered a masked figure wielding a red lightsabre. In the words of Ki-Adi-Mundi in TPM: “The Sith have been extinct for a millennium.” So, I wonder what happens to all these Jedi if the TPM-era Jedi still believe the Sith to be extinct. Do they die at some point, Master Sol included, before being able to alert the Jedi Council? Hmm.

 

I had no trouble understanding him.

 

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Ditto. No problem with understanding him. I'm pretty sure that I read that he doesn't speak great English, but he's doing a great job and is still the stand-out character for me in this series.

 

It has been suggested.

 

Felt like an episode of a web series. Reminded me of that Dragon Age series I watched on YouTube like ten years ago.

 

I think he learned english just for this role. He wanted it that much.