Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[John R Davis]

Isn't very nice being called a bigot, is it?

Perhaps there is a lesson there...

Is it ensuring you are 100% correct before you start giving people labels?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

got told I was a bigot

Alex I'll take "Things that didn't happen" for 100!

A general comment about SW criticism was made by Paul. You decided, on your tod, to take it extremely personally - you literally said it was like the most insulting thing ever. Like it's funny how people make generalized criticism of behaviours of people like me, and generally, I do not take them personally because I know that's not what I'm doing, and it doesn't really touch a nerve. I've been noticing this since I was a kid, oddly enough. Like, if someone says "Most gamers are misogynists!", I don't immediately think "OMG I AM SO INSULTED!", I think "Sadly that's often true, but I know it's not true of me, so I don't need to be defensive of about it". If the shoe doesn't fit, don't jam it on your foot and say how much it hurts mate!

 

[damiller]

Well, watched EP 4 for what it was worth. That was ... not good. I'm very willing to give a lot of leeway to stuff, but, wow, that was pointless. Let's introduce a really cool Wookie Jedi and then kill them in the most boring way possible. As an added bonus, we get to watch the characters traipse through a forest for most of the episode and.... kill a big moth.

That was an episode that was pretty much entirely skippable.

well i can say when I read this, my attitude was there is nothing here to discuss. You didnt like it. What is there to debate? You spoke your mind. I read it. I'll not engage. No arguing taste.

 

[Older Beholder]

This theory occurred to me, and I have looked for clues to support it, but they seem to be at least physically separate. Sol did seem to be telling the truth when he said Mae could not possibly have survived the fall though, so she could be some kind of astral projection (see Luke).

I would also like to put forward that because of the circumstances of their birth, some characters believe they are the chosen one of prophecy.

Yeah, there are plenty of holes in it.
I can’t shake the feeling that there’s something to the Mae is dead theory part of it, though.

 

[Hussar]

well i can say when I read this, my attitude was there is nothing here to discuss. You didnt like it. What is there to debate? You spoke your mind. I read it. I'll not engage. No arguing taste.

Which is an entirely reasonable response. No problems with that whatsoever.

Meh. This is just went to a weird place way too fast. And since no further explanation seems forthcoming I’ll let this drop.

So much healthier to let things drop than let them fester for years don’t you agree?

 

[damiller]

Im rewatching Ep4.

Im at the part where Mae and Qimir are on Khofar. It seems like the scene from ESB. Yoda training Luke. Giving him impossible aphorisms: Zen Koans. Making here doubt herself and her commitment. As Alan Watts would say: Putting her in a double bind. Till she realizes that it is impossible to do both, and resolves how to solves it.

In the scene she says "You will kill a Jedi without a weapon".

I think this might be a koan, like what is the sound of one hand clapping. But I also had the thought - what if it is the Jedi who is unarmed? Mae assumes SHE will be unarmed, and the Jedi do not attack the defenseless.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I can’t shake the feeling that there’s something to the Mae is dead theory part of it, though.

Yeah looking at that theory, I don't think it can be straight-up true, but it does feel like there's something going on there. Something weirder than what we're seeing directly is happening.

Also it would be a genuine and good subversion if an antagonist who fell off something in SW actually died for once!

But I also had the thought - what if it is the Jedi who is unarmed?

Yes that was my immediate thought also.

 

[Ryujin]

Im rewatching Ep4.

Im at the part where Mae and Qimir are on Khofar. It seems like the scene from ESB. Yoda training Luke. Giving him impossible aphorisms: Zen Koans. Making here doubt herself and her commitment. As Alan Watts would say: Putting her in a double bind. Till she realizes that it is impossible to do both, and resolves how to solves it.

In the scene she says "You will kill a Jedi without a weapon".

I think this might be a koan, like what is the sound of one hand clapping. But I also had the thought - what if it is the Jedi who is unarmed? Mae assumes SHE will be unarmed, and the Jedi do not attack the defenseless.

The, "Take it! Strike me down!" energy is strong.

 

[MarkB]

In the scene she says "You will kill a Jedi without a weapon".

I think this might be a koan, like what is the sound of one hand clapping. But I also had the thought - what if it is the Jedi who is unarmed? Mae assumes SHE will be unarmed, and the Jedi do not attack the defenseless.

Yeah, I thought the same - it's a test of her commitment, to attack a defenseless target. I expect that's how it will go against Sol.

 

[damiller]

Yeah looking at that theory, I don't think it can be straight-up true, but it does feel like there's something going on there. Something weirder than what we're seeing directly is happening.

Also it would be a genuine and good subversion if an antagonist who fell off something in SW actually died for once!

Yes that was my immediate thought also.

i just checked. in the scene when Mae goes to see Kelnacca. He has no lightsaber attached to his belt. His lightsaber is at his side in a previous scene in this episode.

I wonder if he is saying that the to get the "drop" on the jedi and beat them before they have a weapon, is the ultimate show of strength.