Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[Hussar]

/edit to realize that this was a boring conversation anyway.

 

[Zardnaar]

ESB Luke hits Vader and doesn't lop his arm off.

That was retconned as Cortosis weave. Onscreen in acolyte I thought it was beskar initially.

KotOR game sold millions. Cortosis weave is in that. Legends Easter egg like the E-Wing in Ahsoka.

Better than ripping off legends and doing it badly even when the Legends original wasn't very good (Dark Empire/RoS).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

ESB Luke hits Vader and doesn't lop his arm off.

That was retconned as Cortosis weave. Onscreen in acolyte I thought it was beskar initially.

KotOR game sold millions. Cortosis weave is in that. Legends Easter egg like the E-Wing in Ahsoka.

Better than ripping off legends and doing it badly even when the Legends original wasn't very good (Dark Empire/RoS).

There are also Easter Eggs from Brian Daley's Han Solo Adventures* in The Acolyte. CorpSec is mentioned, and the tracker** is a tynnan, a species from that source.

*Good, IMO

**His name is Bazil, which I suspect is a Fawlty Towers joke.

 

[damiller]

That's not logic.

I absolutely cannot believe that I'M having to defend canon. Good grief. It's bad because there was no way for anyone who hasn't read a thirty year old book to know what this stuff is. It's just there. For no reason. Light Sabers suddenly sputter out. Something that's never happened EVER in ANY Star Wars movie or TV show. And it's given ZERO explanation. None. The characters don't even say, "Hey, WTF is that?"

i simply do not accept the premise that something must be telegraphed in prior material to be introduced into current media. You do. I guess I have to leave this part of the discussion to well established in canon and famous Chocolate v Vanilla case.

 

[damiller]

I Jedi first appearance, Thrawn duology featured it. McGuffin in Thrawn trilogy was those force bubble creatures.

oh, thanks, i tried to look it up and got confused. I have not read the duology. nor the I jedi

 

[Paul Farquhar]

oh, thanks, i tried to look it up and got confused. I have not read the duology. nor the I jedi

Apparently it was Nelson Mandela who first appeared in Heir to Empire.

 

[Kaodi]

If Qimir turns out to be "self-trained" that would be about the stupidest thing ever. I do not think he will be. But you do not self-train yourself how to build a lightsaber, use rare lightsaber resistant material in your armour, and what the eff a Sith is.

I am late to this because I was a bit occupied this week. Sad that Jecki AND Yord are dead. Manny Jacinto is doing great with what they give him though.

 

[Hussar]

i simply do not accept the premise that something must be telegraphed in prior material to be introduced into current media. You do. I guess I have to leave this part of the discussion to well established in canon and famous Chocolate v Vanilla case.

Explained maybe?

I mean, if someone suddenly uses a Transporter in Star Wars, I would expect some explanation. Star Wars quite famously doesn't have teleportation. So, if that suddenly popped up, I'd expect more than a shrug.

Maybe they'll explain it in a later episode? Fair enough. As it stood, it wasn't remarked upon at all. By anyone.

And, to be fair, if this was the only thing, then I'd probably let it slide. But it's not is it? It's not just this. It's a rather extensive shopping list of inconsistencies and stuff that makes very little sense.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

If Qimir turns out to be "self-trained" that would be about the stupidest thing ever. I do not think he will be. But you do not self-train yourself how to build a lightsaber, use rare lightsaber resistant material in your armour, and what the eff a Sith is.

I think that is based on the idea that Qimir came across a cache of Sith artefacts and records, possibly including a holocron. Not that he worked it all out from first principles.

At this stage it's only an idea anyway.

 

[Belen]

And this is why you fail. Stuff does not have to be shown on screen for it to happen. Otherwise we would be regularly watching the characters taking a poop.

Show, don't tell has been a primary teaching tool in creative writing for decades. I have 2 degrees in it.

He is making a valid point that the writers are being lazy or that Disney is refusing longer episodes/ the editing room floor floor is littered with relevant material.

It may not bother you, which is fine, but it does bother a lot of people as adding small scenes or lines to clean things up would not be that difficult.