Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[Zardnaar]

Fun episode. Dark Helmet reveal was Scooby-Doo doo levels of writing. And a plot hole afterwards.

Despite itself kind of intriguing character potential. Fight scene was great. Went a bit further than I thought in terms of survivors.

Pacing wasn't to bad longer would be nicer. Overall fun though.

 

[damiller]

Fun episode. Dark Helmet reveal was Scooby-Doo doo levels of writing. And a plot hole afterwards.

Despite itself kind of intriguing character potential. Fight scene was great. Went a bit further than I thought in terms of survivors.

Pacing wasn't to bad longer would be nicer. Overall fun though.

Scooby doo is right!! And I loved the episode, but don't like scooby doo.

My friend (a librarian) pointed out that the Acolyte is basically YA fiction.
The Top 10 YA Tropes & How to Avoid Them

I looked at that list and said - omagosh!! It is!

No wonder I like it so much. I'm glad to have it stay trueish to that genre and not avoid the tropes.

 

[Zardnaar]

Scooby doo is right!! And I loved the episode, but don't like scooby doo.

My friend (a librarian) pointed out that the Acolyte is basically YA fiction.
The Top 10 YA Tropes & How to Avoid Them

I looked at that list and said - omagosh!! It is!

No wonder I like it so much. I'm glad to have it stay trueish to that genre and not avoid the tropes.

Heh. Looks like Dark Helmet was using cortosis armor.

 

[Zaukrie]

So stupid. Obi Wan not killing Vader all over again. Can they not come up with any new ideas? Unharmed, my butt. Great fight scenes, and I'm shocked at the body count, but so stupid. Also... I'm going to turn myself in, turns into trying to kill the first Jedi she sees. I'm unsure why I keep watching.

 

[Zardnaar]

They're just desperately trying, between this and The Mandalorian, to manifest the incompetent New Republic that will ignore the rising threat of the First Order to the extent that Leia is forced to create an independent paramilitary organisation to oppose it. Unfortunately, that goal does them no favours narratively.

Similarly to how The Acolyte needs to portray a Jedi order that's becoming increasingly political and inflexible, to eventually become the one that exists in the prequel trilogy.

Stupid Sith are now joining stupid Jedi/New Republic/Thrawn/First Order.

 

[damiller]

As I thought about it more. I can really see that Star Wars in general, currently, is YA fiction. Yea there are outliers like Andor.

And I realized that is a small but important shift. It started with pulps, and I think the pulps are the grandmother/father to YA. They both have similiar formulaic plots.

Take Indiana Jones for example. He will never die, that's baked in, but that ride in the Temple of Doom? Tension City. I want to see how much they can pile on him.

 

[Rabulias]

I was wondering if Osha and Mae would switch places philosophically over the course of the show. Now that they have physically swapped places, it seems like a more possible result.

Since he heard the word "Sith," for the sake of canon, Sol must end up either dead by the end of the show, or be given a very, very good reason to keep an account of the events on Khofar secret.

 

[damiller]

I was wondering if Osha and Mae would switch places philosophically over the course of the show. Now that they have physically swapped places, it seems like a more possible result.

Since he heard the word "Sith," for the sake of canon, Sol must end up either dead by the end of the show, or be given a very, very good reason to keep an account of the events on Khofar secret.

i figure Vernestra will bury whatever comes of the info. She seems to be very interested in hiding things that put the Jedi Order in a bad light.

I hope Sol doesn't die. But I kinda figure this is a "samurai" tragedy story.

 

[Mallus]

Much better than last episode.

Pros: fight choreography, Sith reveal was logical, if totally Scooby-Doo.

Cons: art direction, most of the characters I like are now dead.

Is Star Wars YA? I saw the original movie in a theater at age 8. Yes, always.

(except Andor)

 

[Older Beholder]

Great episode! Between this and HotD I’m having to stay off social media twice a week now, for fear of spoilers.