Mini Series The Acolyte 1.07 - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

That was just beyond awful

literally no reason to stretch that “mystery” out an entire season, in fact you could’ve revealed the “truth” with the third episode and it would’ve made subsequent episodes hit more heavily

They essentially re aired the third episode with some added context and now they have 40 minutes to deliver a not rushed finale, which we know won’t happen based on Disney plus’s track record

 

Maybe ... Korill is possessing Qimir. Training Mae, her chosen twin out of the two, because she always thought Osha was weak. Maybe the black-eyed thing only comes on when she wants .. I dunno.

But then she/Qimir realizes that Osha was more powerful and Mae wasn't all in it.

Just spit-balling.

 

So how did the generator explode?
lol
How did a fortress made out of stone go on fire in mere moments? I guess it was a mad, magic space fire?
I guess Trinity was powerful enough to kill 30 people with the power of her mind? That's a thing now, I suppose.
Sol stabbing the mother really came out of nowhere. I was just laughing my ass off at that moment.
Dialogue was terrible.
Wookiee fight was cool and delivered, for sure.

Overall pretty bad. The only good episodes were the first two. Everything went downhill from there.

 

After weeks of Sol ALMOST telling us what happened the reveal of the mystery did not make all that waiting worth it.

 

So after that whole Osha and Mae are two halves of one...I am going to say the last episode will have them merge.

 

Mother Koril is definitely not a Sith. She was easily out matched by Sol.

 

Absolutely loved the episode we all new it was coming a flashback episode to show what really happened surprised though a little that they didn't end it with the Mae Sol scene from episode 6 him finishing the story about what really happened. Buy I still really liked it..the visuals were beautiful the camp in the forest when they showed the multiple moons eclipse! Did they say in the beginning the planet creates life? Also I didn't mind the song to end it it was different and that's ok IMHO

 

Meh. Some interesting stuff once again buried under so much stupid and cringe. Just some really dumb things going on. At least we got some more cool light sabre stuff but man one of those mothers really acted great and the other was just awful, goodness me.

I thought the two twins though were fantastic in this episode, to me really highlights how bad the 'modern day' versions of Osha and Mae have been even more.

There is a lot to cover in the last ep and I don't have confidence it will be done in a satisfactory way.

 

We still don't know how the twins were created.

To be fair, Sol beat Qimir too.

 

We’ve seen a Padawan survive a lightsaber to the gut. We’ve seen Maul being cut in half and survive. There’s no reason why Mother Aniseya couldn’t survive what we see happen in this episode.

Qimir put up a hell of a fight before being overpowered. Koril was no threat at all to Sol.

 

Might there be more then 1 season though?.

 

A few negatives for me but it's 3am here and I need to watch it again when I'm fresh. I mean, we've just got to see a possessed Jedi wookie fighting with a lightsaber so it wasn't all terrible. But I did spend a fair amount of it thinking 'oh hell they're making us watch this scene again but from further away'. I was hoping for a more mind-bending twist. Homesick Torbin and pining-for-a-padawan Sol made it feel rather soap opera-ish and weirdly pedestrian. The possession scene was very cool though.

 

Some interesting bits (the witch effects were cool) but ultimately it was too tame and predictable. We all knew we were headed for Jedi mistakes, coverup, Mae not being as “evil” as first presented etc etc. And not showing immediately how this truth affects our leads in the present totally undercuts the weight of that truth.

And maybe it’s just me but I think they really had the opportunity to blow our minds with something related to greater Sith machinations, Qimir etc, or just something more surprising. Like what if episode 3 was what Osha (and the viewer) was mindtricked to believe what happened (“your eyes deceive you”) to truly show us the “Sith” POV of why they value their freedom (and shielding their eyes from a world they cannot trust).

Though there’s still another episode to elevate this, at the moment I feel like the show just played its unimpressive hand after a long bluff.

 

Also...why are wookies unable to speak english when tons of other aliens do.

I know it's part of the charm of the characters which is why they probably do it but..

Lol.

 

I definitely liked this episode quite a bit, but really makes Sol seem unnecessarily reticent to divulge the truth. It didn't seem that bad at all. Certainly a terrible situation where they made huge mistakes, but not the kind of thing you won't share when you know your days might be numbered.

Really loved the witches using the special power to control Kalnacca and that having the drawback of if someone pushes you out of it before you are willing to you die. Or at least that was my interpretation. Torbin was definitely a dummy, but Sol is the one who made the final choice to head in there with a clearly ill prepared Torbin. He could have been patient. Honestly it's kinda a shock Torbin ever made master. Kalnacca definitely showed how big a difference extra wookie strength makes even vs other Jedi.

I think it's perfectly reasonable that Wookies don't have the vocal cords for basic. If they change that at some point I will be furious because it would imply that Chewie is dumb when he is actually quite smart.

 

They can if they have a speech impediment

 

Doubtful. Not with the current numbers trending the way they are. It's getting less minutes of viewership than Ahsoka and it's been trending steadily down since week 3. According to Variety.

 

Just always been that way in Star Wars may be it's there vocal cords

@dick rodgers
The media doesn't like it Fanboys and Fangirls seem to love it especially on here!

 

Not as bad as I thought it might go...but still pretty bad. The cover up is always the thing that makes it worse.

 

Sol beat him pretty quickly in hand to hand combat.

 

If this was all aired as one episode weeks back, you could play off Sol and Osha with a ton of dramatic irony. We are aware of what happened, Osha doesn’t.

Literally no reason to drag this on other than typical JJ Abrams mystery box non storytelling “wow guys, the twist is there is no twist! The twist was the twisting you twisted on the way! The characters are more important!” Such an infuriating and outdated method of storytelling and star wars needs to ********* ditch it immediately.