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SPOILER: The Acolyte -- Disney+ Star Wars -- begins June 5, 2024
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Disney Irish
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mysto
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Nice, so soothing! Big fan.
BTW who has the best numbers on that? Either accurately collected but not reported, or widely reported without any possibility of accurately being collected.
Serpico Jones
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Stargate Atlantis, a low budget show that aired Friday nights on the Syfy channel, looked more professionally made than this. It was also more exciting and had better acting.
The lead actor literally can’t speak English.
The lead actor literally can’t speak English.
Andrew C
You know what's funny?
I thought it was about to get good...then it ended...So… I actually rather liked this episode.
Excited for more!
BrianLo
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Ya, it was notably short. I like that there is indeed more nuance going on to the characters motivations.
Disney Irish
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Shhh, don't talk about nuance around here, its too complex of a concept for many to handle. They only want surface level characters that are clearly identified as good or bad, no shades of gray.
doctornick
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I actually did too. Far better than the last episode though was disappointed it ended so abruptly when it was getting good.So… I actually rather liked this episode.
Excited for more!
Also kinda disappointed not to see Wookiee Jedi in action.
Screamface
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Stargate Atlantis was a good show. That's from the era of TV where writers came up on TV shows with long season orders, learning how to tell actual stories. They'd have an idea for a story and efficiently tell a complete and satisfying story in less than an hour. Mentored under show runners who knew how to tell stories.
Now it's the era where people have an idea that would have been a single episode of a show like Atlantis, not know how to tell a story and spread it out over a few hours with lots of padding and call it a series.
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MarvelCharacterNerd
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Too short but great cliffhanger. 
Disappointed we didn't get more of the Wookiee Jedi but I'm sure they struggled with "what can he do besides roar and swing a light saber?"
Disappointed we didn't get more of the Wookiee Jedi but I'm sure they struggled with "what can he do besides roar and swing a light saber?"
sedati
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The music continues to be perfect- both fresh, but very John Williams. The characters are compelling. I loved the process of using a sundown so dramatically. The last moments were perfect. The production design hits a good note between familiar, yet different. Live locations were gorgeous. The sets are detailed and amazing, but not expansive. The one failing would be scenes like the one with Jecki. I think the volume could have given us a proper "walk and talk" but with sets, they did just stand there a bit too long. A gripe or nitpick, but not something I actively rip my hair over. (the best solution to the problem of a long conversation was when James Cameron realized he had two long scenes in the original Terminator. One was Kyle Reese giving Sarah pages of plot and the other was a long car chase. His genius was putting the two together.)
I still don't know how any conclusions can be arrived at yet (good or bad)
I still don't know how any conclusions can be arrived at yet (good or bad)
rd805
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1) Killing Kalnacca (SP?) off screen, when everyone was hoping to see them was a huge joke.
2) How come none of the Jedi's could tell the shadow man approaching Oshaa was a Sith? Why can't they sense things? (Why couldn't they sense they were surrounded by leech flying bug monsters?)
3) Some of the acting is really, really bad.
4) They ended the episode when it was about to get good.
5) Some of the dialogue is straight up "let me tell you what happened in the past, to let the audience in, even though you were there" -- not great.
6) How is this Sith that much stronger than those "jedi master's"?
7) Plo Kloon & Ki Adi Mundi were cool cameos, but, the timeline has me confused.
I'm not even a huge hater of the show so far, I kind of enjoy it and the new universe. But they are doing A TON of weird things.
2) How come none of the Jedi's could tell the shadow man approaching Oshaa was a Sith? Why can't they sense things? (Why couldn't they sense they were surrounded by leech flying bug monsters?)
3) Some of the acting is really, really bad.
4) They ended the episode when it was about to get good.
5) Some of the dialogue is straight up "let me tell you what happened in the past, to let the audience in, even though you were there" -- not great.
6) How is this Sith that much stronger than those "jedi master's"?
7) Plo Kloon & Ki Adi Mundi were cool cameos, but, the timeline has me confused.
I'm not even a huge hater of the show so far, I kind of enjoy it and the new universe. But they are doing A TON of weird things.
rd805
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Eh - we are all clearly Star Wars fans. The production value itself is worth tuning into, and the expansion of the universe. We can still be critical of the choices they are making at this juncture though, and some of the lazy story telling / lazy attention grabbing tactics being used.
"WOOKIE JEDI"!!!
erasure fan1
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Yea that was bad. They kind of made it seem like he was going to be a big deal. Then Bam! He doesn't matter.
That was the absolute worst part of the episode. You sit through a fairly boring episode, and right when you think, here we go! Something really cool is going to happen! And it cuts. Very lame in my opinion.
It's been like that every episode. It's pretty frustrating to watch really.
sedati
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So we get the genuine shock of the WOOKIE JEDI being slain, and the promise of more with him in flashbacks. Somehow this is a bad thing whereas to me it’s a having your cake and eating it too scenario.
Also a lot of weight is put on Ki Adi, a Jedi who is twice confronted with claims of active Sith and can only shrug or refer to them as political idealists.
Also a lot of weight is put on Ki Adi, a Jedi who is twice confronted with claims of active Sith and can only shrug or refer to them as political idealists.
Prince-1
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Not that it changes your point but my guess is that Darth Zipper is not a man at all but is actually one of the mothers of Mae/Osha.
Wendy Pleakley
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If the villain isn't a long lost relative, is it even Star Wars?