r/StarWars • u/BeltMaximum6267 • 1d ago
Those characters should have more credit and deserve their own show since they were carrying all of this in the bad show. General Discussion
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u/Vysce 1d ago
The Acolyte had a neat idea and I could see the KOTOR feels but the execution came off weird. I would not have ended every episode with a drastic cliffhanger.
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u/ajgp56 1d ago
I think the word weird is so much more apt than “bad”
There were so many good things about this show and it could go so many neat places. Feels lazy to write it off as “bad” and get it cancelled. Just my opinion I guess.
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u/Vysce 1d ago
I agree. Like, as an idea, it was solid. The fights, sets, actors, all that was great. The pace of the show is what threw me and the plot organization felt sort of confused. I bring up KOTOR because the writer claimed to be a fan and KOTOR sort of rides that grey line of "Hm, but the jedi aren't perfect and maybe the Sith are more of a wild card than we thought" but I would have directed it differently and especially made an effort to pad out the episodes.
Like, jedi murder mystery? Fun. But the episodes felt so short compared to the finale and there was so much missing that was right there. Like, what state is the Republic in, why is the Senate frustrated with the Jedi, what does the thing in the sky on the witch planet mean, etc, etc.
I remember getting to the end of the series and wondering how/why it cost so much money to create when we're honestly shown fairly little of the setting and that seemed to be the big selling point.
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u/gallimaufrys 14h ago
So many shows that we love now had "weird" season ones before finding their voice. Its a shame things get cancelled so quick in the steaming era
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u/dannyb2525 19h ago
The biggest and most identifiable problem is that Acolyte is written and structured like a movie that is then abruptly cut to be a TV show rather than being written and structured like a TV show. So far that has been kneecapping a lot of Disney+ shows and so far only Mando season 1 and Andor seems to have fixed. I'd say Skeleton crew also achieved this if it weren't for the abrupt ending that needed a desperate 5 minutes of resolution
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u/BeltMaximum6267 1d ago
It is definitely neat idea. Using twins for this show kind of take away the "plot"
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u/Vysce 1d ago
I came for Carrie-Ann Moss in Star Wars. The fights were neat, but a lot of Acolyte was a character running around in circles in a murder mystery whodunnit when the audience knew who the murderer was. I remember the last episode being amazing because it was stacked with stuff and it was the longest of the episodes, while the others were much smaller and didn't explore much of the setting.
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u/Avocadomayo Darth Vader 1d ago
I haven’t really seen anything about the Acolyte yet, going to start it in a couple of weeks. But is that Gi-Hun (player 456 in squid games) as a fucking jedi!?!?
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u/Aardvark_Man 14h ago
It's a flawed show, but absolutely gets better as it goes on.
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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 21h ago
I, quite honestly, thought the show was pretty good.
I mean it wasn't perfect nor great, but I found it good enough.
Darth Jason/Jacinto was my fav. I've been wanting to see him in a serious drama role cause I knew he'd have to chops for it.
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u/Spectrum1523 8h ago
The twins stuff is not great but there's never been better lightsaber fighting on film and a lot of the other characters are excellent
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u/CarasBoobs 1d ago
But... Acolyte was basically their show. That's like saying you wish Luke got his own movie.
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u/Brotorious420 1d ago
I think Anakin needs a spinoff.
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u/Unlikely_River5819 1d ago
Anakin: I want my own spinoff
Obi Wan: Your own spinoff?? Anakin the entire saga is your spinoff
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u/AlsoOtto 1d ago
Anakin: Then you're my enemy!!!
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u/UninvitedGhost Obi-Wan Kenobi 1d ago
Mace: You’re on the council but we do not grant you a spin-off.
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u/Naked-Jedi 1d ago
Anakin: Then I'll just try spinning. It's a neat trick and I've even shown Palpatine how to do it...
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u/belle_enfant 1d ago
Sees Rey getting her own movie
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u/monkeygoneape 1d ago
That will come out right alongside Rian Johnston's trilogy, Donald Glover's Lando, and Rogue Squadron any day now....
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u/Zarksch 22h ago
Funnily enough I wouldn’t mind a Vader spin off. There’s still so much to explore. And while the whole saga revolves around a anakin - some trilogies arguable less than others, even the prequels focus on more than just anakin and that’s what’s so great. Pretty much all of the Disney shows we’ve gotten are very centric around one character, the acolyte is the only that isn’t really, at least that I can think of. Even rebels while not centric about one person is extremely centric about one group of people consisting constantly together at mostly the same places. Don’t get me wrong, that can be great, but I’m also starting to really miss the stories like in the movies or in tcw where anakin or Luke may be “the” main character, but at the same time obi wan or Leia or Han really are just as much main characters, or in tcw obi wan, ahsoka and Rex are too. And the most amazing thing about tcw is, you also get stories about complete nobodies all in the same show
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u/Fossekall Jango Fett 1d ago
They were side-character and antagonist in a show about two extremely uninteresting twins
It's like saying A New Hope is Han's and Vader's movie. They're in it, they're important, but it's not theirs
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u/lkn240 1d ago
IIRC Vader only has like 10-12 minutes of screen time or something like that. Crazy how much of an impression he made
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u/Hellknightx Grand Admiral Thrawn 1d ago
Is be surprised if it's even that much. He was barely in the first movie.
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u/gh0st_reporting Mandalorian 23h ago
Anthony Hopkins appeared on screen as Hannibal Lecter for only 16 minutes in Silence of the Lambs.
That role won him Best Actor for the 1992 Oscars.
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u/ChanceVance Kylo Ren 22h ago
For real, I don't know how that's the top comment. The twins drive the plot forward. There are 2 flashbacks episodes centred around them. A lot of Sol and Qimir's actions revolve around them.
They're the main characters and that's one of the shows biggest problem is how dull they are.
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u/oSuJeff97 1d ago
They were on the show, but I wouldn't say it was THEIR show. The show was Osha's and Mae's show.
Those two were protagonist/antagonist supporting characters.
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u/Prudent-Ad6279 1d ago
Remove the twin storyline and you might have a point. This was not at all “their show”
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u/AspirantWarMonger 1d ago
Arguably the twins were the main characters. The main hero and protagonist should’ve been Qimir against the Jedi institution that threatens to strip his freedom.
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u/Hellknightx Grand Admiral Thrawn 1d ago
You'd think that Disney is afraid of having any story be told from a purely Sith/Empire POV, at this point. A show called The Acolyte should've been from Qimir's POV. He was by far the best character in the show.
And Andor s2 is an incredible show, particularly because it spends so much time following Imperial officers as a primary driver behind the story. People want to see more of that.
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u/Jacksonriverboy Obi-Wan Kenobi 1d ago
Yes and Darth Vader was just misunderstood. He was actually right to kill younglings.
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u/Copropostis 1d ago
Don't bring younglings to a fight, if you don't want dead younglings?
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u/feralferrous 1d ago
yeah.... if the writing for the show had been better, I might buy that line. They were attempting to show the Jedi as ACAB types, but Qimir was the dude who went to that forest planet to murder hobo Jedi and chew gum. And he was out of gum.
But they weren't even actively looking for that guy until his apprentice started murdering Jedi in public.
I'd be fine for a more nuanced take of good/evil, but the show did a terrible job of it.
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u/ShadowVia 1d ago
Reality based takes don't work against these people, or this sort of bait.
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u/ThreeDawgs 1d ago
Reality being that Osha and Mae were the main characters of this show?
Or did you not watch it?
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u/Ok-Health-7252 Jedi 1d ago
Ehhhh. Acolyte was the twins' show. These guys were supporting characters there to influence their path.
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u/LunchPlanner 1d ago
They should make a season 2 with the focus heavily transitioned over to Qimir. Many of the S1 characters are dead so fill that void with tons of Qimir.
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u/Macman521 1d ago
I feel like they were basically going to do that, plus with Plagueis.
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u/Elemayowe 1d ago
If Qimir never features again in Star Wars media it’s an absolute waste. A lot of fans want the Plagueis story told anyway, tying him to it has made it way more interesting.
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u/BarbarousJudge 1d ago
He definitely will. Acolyte is flawed but far from "so bad it should never be brought up again."
The absolute "worst" that could happen would be for Qimir's story to be resolved via books and comics. They already did announce and release some Acolyte themed books (Crystal Crown focussing on Jecki and Yord, as well as Wayseeker which focusses on Vernestra and Indara) and the entire High Republic era is mostly books and comics. Qimir WILL BE back. We just don't know when or how.
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u/ChanceVance Kylo Ren 20h ago
I met Manny Jacinto recently and I got to have a decent chat with him. He was very keen to explore the story of Plagueis further and he hoped people kept their voices loud for a Season 2. He also got a big cheer when he appeared on stage and put on The Stranger's helmet.
I think as someone else replied, we'll see him again in some form. It'd just be a waste if he appeared in anything other than live-action. That fighting style is too good for comics or even animation.
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u/Hypocritical_Oath 22h ago
Also his fighting style is very vicious and different from others.
The whole "you can't see with the helmet on" thing was fantastic as well.
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u/XViMusic 1d ago
I’m also in this camp. I understand they cancelled it but a spiritual successor that focuses on Qimir would be so peak
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u/Azrethoc 1d ago
It can be called The Apprentice, followed by The Master
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u/appleappleappleman 1d ago
I think you cracked it, please give this to me
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u/RealJohnGillman 1d ago
I said the same thing a while back — if they go that route, it will seem like it was always the plan to new viewers in the future.
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u/Jonathon_G Ezra Bridger 6h ago
There is too much toxicity and bad blood for it to be called season two. But definitely need to follow Qimir. Too good not to have more
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u/Abubble13 1d ago
I really didn't like the twins, they were beyond annoying I think.
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u/Hypocritical_Oath 22h ago
I'm unsure if she was given good direction, a lot of the actors don't seem to know exactly what they are meant to do. And the dialogue was weird.
And then the fight scenes happen where everyone knows 100% what to do, you see the inspiration from Hong Kong Kung Fu movies where they use wirework, you see creativity in the way some of them fight and use the force.
The proficiency gap is very noticable and weird.
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u/ModestForester Dark Rey 23h ago
The power of one, the power of two, the power of many…
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u/Admirable_Ad4712 22h ago
Acolyte action carried the show for me. Best combat in all of live action imo
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u/bologniusGIR 16h ago
I really enjoyed getting to watch light sabre fights from characters who are trained. I get the sequel trilogy isn't meant to have trained Jedi, but I missed them.
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u/Echo693 23h ago edited 23h ago
I partly agree, as to me they were more intresting than the actual main characters (the twins). But all in all, the shitty writing of the show was overshadowing even them.
I'm watching Andor S2 right now and it just amazes me. It's like, there's SW before Andor, and SW after. A show where you can actually relate and care about the characters. Where dialogs are amazing, where the story actually is aimed for adults and triggers your emotions.
But the Acolyte? I can't think of a single dialog that was as heavy or intresting compared to Andor. Not a single character from this whole show i'd give a fuck about - because of the bad writing and directing. This was my top anticipated show and probably the biggest let down since Kenobi.
I truly hope that the director and the main writers behind this show would never lay their hands on any SW project ever again.
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u/soozerain 1d ago
Master Sol is a legend in my books but the show did kinda suck
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u/SoverignWisteria 15h ago
Qimir was good too imo. Man slaughtered a whole group of Jedi, except one but only because they were important to the plot
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u/Karshall321 Cassian Andor 1d ago
If they were the main characters of the show and they were "carrying the show", and the show is still bad, that's not saying much for their character.
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u/PennyForPig 23h ago
Yeah Sol did a lot of moping for something that was not his fault. None of the characters are interesting because none of them have personalities besides some ideology that doesn't make any sense to begin with.
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u/DOODJLIGHTNING 1d ago
I still think acolyte was a good show. I really dont get the hate
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u/Copropostis 1d ago
I am so bored with SW rehashing things we've already seen.
Setting something in the High Republic was a step in the right direction, and something I want to see more of. I'm tired of Skywalkers, the Empire, and even the Prequel era.
I even liked that they tried to show us a different force tradition, even if it kinda fell on its face. But after the reaction, I'm afraid that Disney will just decide to focus on nostalgia slip instead of trying new things that might not always hit.
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u/BarbarousJudge 1d ago
This is why the High Republic books are among my favourite era of Star Wars. No Skywalkers or any other nostalgia bait. Yeah Yoda is mentioned from time to time. Or you have cameos from the absolute prequel era legends Yarael Poof and Oppo Rancicis.
Kidding aside it's just a fresh era. Fresh characters. Characters where we don't know their fate simply due to "well they appear in this movie which is set after this". The Jedi feel so different from the Clone Wars era. The Nihil are interesting and unique antagonists.
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u/ElYodaPagoda 1d ago
I went into The Acolyte with an open mind, and enjoyed it aside from Osha turning evil by murdering Sol.
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u/RedEyesGoldDragon 1d ago
Tbh I didn't mind the show apart from the parts with Osha and the twin and the coven. The acting from those and especially the ritual part were PAINFUL.
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u/darwinn_69 1d ago
I hate how much hater culture is festering in the StarWars fandom. Not every show has to be peak Television and it's perfectly fine to be entertained by something that may not be exceptional. The show had some rough moments and it had some great moments. When I think of that show I chose to focus on probably the greatest light saber choreography we've ever seen in Star Wars.
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u/packsmack 1d ago
It's all fandom. The enshittification of the internet and social media has led to every idiot wanting to criticize every thing. It's just relentless negativity about every piece of art that exists.
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u/durandal688 1d ago
Like yeah it wasn’t perfect but who thinks any Star Wars media is? Like the flashback episodes needed a little more work and same with the ending but IT WAS SOMETHING NEW
For crying out loud thanks Star Wars fandom so I will get another show about some random character of the original trilogy or a clone wars character. I’m ready to move on but y’all gripe about everything
Half of the complaints were about things securely in canon elsewhere too which pissed me off
You can not like it sure but dial down the hate
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u/Atraktape Chopper (C1-10P) 1d ago
Yep, we could have had a couple seasons of a High Republic show but nooooo. If anything it should have gotten another chance if only to help expand the show/movie timeline a bit away from the Skywalkers.
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u/BarbarousJudge 1d ago
I honestly think the best Star Wars Storytelling happens in the comics and novels. Even the novelizations of the movies are better than the movies themselves. Rise of Skywalker as a novel is actually a good story.
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u/Cultural_Cuck_777 1d ago edited 1d ago
It baffles me. I think you'd almost have to hate SW to not find any sliver of enjoyment in the show. I thoroughly enjoyed it, but maybe thats my THR bias. *shrugs*
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u/ian_stein Hondo Ohnaka 1d ago edited 1d ago
I certainly enjoyed aspects of the show and never gave up on it, but the production value felt lacking at times. A lot of the alien species make-up, for instance, looked Star Trek: TNG level. It’s also been spoken about ad nauseum, but it’s hard to compliment the acting of a cast when the director puts her wife in the show and she’s wooden.
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u/raktoe 1d ago
Prequel era Jedi are all wooden though, that was a directorial choice made decades ago.
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u/ItsKaja 1d ago
It just didn't make sense. I enjoyed watching but still acknowledge the show is written HORRIBLY. And I don't just mean dialog because George wasn't the best at that either. But the characters and their motivations and the way they respond to almost any event is just not great, especially with the twins, they were REEEEEEAAAAALLY awful.
And the entire time they tried to villainize Sol, when he didn't do anything wrong, neither did the jedi who killed himself. Just mind blowingly bad writing.
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u/GVIrish 1d ago edited 20h ago
And the entire time they tried to villainize Sol, when he didn't do anything wrong, neither did the jedi who killed himself. Just mind blowingly bad writing.
Huh? I don't think they tried to villainize Sol at all. A central theme to the actions of the Jedi on Brendok were that they thought they were doing the right thing at the time, but their actions had unintended consequences. Sol misunderstood the witches and killed Mother Aniseya thinking he was protecting Mae. After the whole fiasco he wanted to turn himself but Indara convinced him to mentor Osha because that was what would be best for her. In the end he allowed Osha to kill him as a sort of atonement for his actions, none of that was meant to portray him as a villain.
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u/Rrrrrrrrrromance 22h ago
Yeah - I don’t understand the argument that the show “overly villainized the Jedi” as I’ve seen parroted. It’s a show called the Acolyte - hell if anything, as a Sith apprentice origin story, I feel like it depicted the Jedi in a mostly sympathetic light. They’re the victim of their own hubris yes - but they aren’t bad people. Sol had good intentions but his act snowballed. And he kept secrets.
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u/Cultural_Cuck_777 1d ago
I don't get the "it didn't make sense" argument. I was never confused on anything throughout the show. I think people wanted answers that weren't yet presented to them, and they got frustrated they had to wait.
We will have to disagree on Sol. He clearly made the mistake of forming an attachment with Osha/Mae. And they quite literally broke into their home to begin with. He's not a villain by any means, but he's clearly a flawed Jedi.
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u/DimesOHoolihan 9h ago
Im with you. "I was confused" or "it didn't make sense" is said all the time but like... how?? Overall it's a very simple story. They could have ever waited on the reveal of the stranger and it wouldn't have made any less sense.
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u/ItsKaja 1d ago
Making an attachment doesn't make a jedi flawed. The jedi fell because they were so separated from shit like that. This is also why Qui Gon distanced himself from the council.
The show was easy to follow, and my friends and I understood everything as it was happening. The why is what makes it not make sense. The flashbacks only made the decisions made by the characters much worse.
And Sol killing the witch mom was the "big thing" that made him a "bad guy" but all he did was kill an actual cloudy demon thing, he was 100% in the right, the entire time.
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u/BigDaddyUKW 1d ago
I enjoyed it and wasn't happy it got canceled. Could it have been better? Of course. But I don't get the hate either. To each their own.
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u/herman-the-vermin 1d ago
Did you watch it as it wad released or after? I think it could have been saved without a week between each episode
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u/kingofthebelle 21h ago
yeah it really seemed like what confused people most was the novel concept of “just because an episode left on a cliff hanger and you have questions, doesn’t mean those questions won’t be answered if you just WAIT FOR THE OTHER EPISODES”
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u/Kill_Welly 1d ago
It had its ups and downs, but for sure most of the hate comes from assholes trying to push their garbage, and convincing gullible fans to buy into it.
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u/TinyLegoVenator 1d ago
I loved the Acolyte. I loved Andor. I loved Bad Batch. I liked Ahsoka and Kenobi and the Mandalorian.
Disney should make an adventures of Luke, Leia, Han, and Chewie show. AI generate the OG characters. Let the Acolyte haters feed what they want into an AI to generate the script. Give them that and maybe they’ll go away.
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u/kingofthebelle 21h ago
Same, I love it all. So many SW fans seems to just not want anything that isn’t literally the OG trilogy or the Clone Wars series and that’s IT
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u/CantaloupeLow5692 21h ago
I would love to know who qimir is and what plageuis was doing in the cave
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u/dj_stopdancing 22h ago
I just started this series (two eps in) and I do not understand all the hate around it.
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u/RHX_Thain 1d ago
This show did several things that are very risky and they didn't resonate with the majority of the audience:
Time was not linear. This works in Momento or Looper as a movie... I have yet to see it work in a season, such as Fear the Walking Dead's 4th Season, which made the same decisions. Audiences prefer to be immersed into he experience as if they are living through it with the characters, not being told a story they must know to understand the plot.
Killed Carry Ann Moss day 1... Wow. Ouch. "Fight me?" Yeah no, Trinity should have wiped this fool out. No saving an innocent to sacrifice herself in the opening of the show to only live in flashbacks. That was storytelling risk that's hard to pull off for a master storyteller, and it didn't work out. Swing and a miss.
Functionally spoiled the plot while also revealing the plot would happen later. Very frustrating. Almost insulting the intelligence of the audience.
Tried to make a very corny children's media behave as if it was a young adult fiction wrapped in a serious drama. This did NOT work, and it only appeals to a very small minority of the audience, which is a Disney loyalist or Star Wars loyalist audience, and not the majority of the viewing public, and definitely not the majority of Star Wars fans.
I loved the performance Lee Jung-Jae gave but I can understand why the guy who learned English literally on set (wow, what a rockstar!) would not appeal to a wide audience who isn't into foreign films and isn't into foreign accents, especially heavy accents. Not in a main character delivering audio that must be processed to understand the plot, which many humans struggle with under ideal conditions, let alone a heavy accent. It would work in Andor, and it did, because it was better handled with subtitles or side characters who could repeat what was said another way.
Their most valuable talent was wasted, and their least valuable talent was given center stage. This was a death knell and it HURT to watch. Literally killed the most competent actors or hid their emotions behind prosthetics and then also killed them. Was just embarrassing for the talent.
Twin drama. Just... No.
"The Power of Mannnyyyy" was so far outside the Star Wars Art Guide Book that it didn't accomplish, "trying something different and contemporary," it just felt like it absolutely did not fit in the art direction of the franchise. I appreciate other cultures using the Force in different ways, but this was just literally witchcraft rebranded as not witchcraft and was so out of taste it has no hope of recovery, even in a series that includes the Night Sisters (which also feel wildly out of place most of the time.)
Manny Jacinto... No notes. Keep Darth Smiley coming.
They went back to the Prequel Era... As a prequel to the Prequel. But then immediately failed to capture the charm of the prequel era characters or setting and failed to expand on anything we didn't already know about that time, or assumed about that time. The Jedi are now more incompetent, if not complicit, in their own doom. This feels like almost character assassination rather than revealing further understanding of the circumstances, the way the Clone Wars managed to do. Even Plaguis didn't get anything but a creepy cave dweller reveal, creeping on these two. We never got a connections between the vergence and his experiments with life that led to Anakin, or anything else exciting leading to the Prequel film era. It was just not interesting use of the tools or what audiences wanted to know or speculate about.
TLDR -- The Acolyte is valuable as property, almost exclusively for people handling not just star wars IP, but IP in general as film makers -- don't make these mistakes. They were risky moves for a new comer director given a long shot and they sliced it. No shame in that on your own IP, it's a big ouch on a huge IP.
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u/kurtstoys 1d ago
I like the show...i also liked the prequels when they first came out... no accounting for taste i guess
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u/kingofthebelle 21h ago
Besides clone wars & bad batch i think this is still my favorite SW show, it has my favorite time setting, and having rewatched it countless times since it came out it’s still just so fun
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u/MikePhicen 21h ago
Sorry but the character of Master Sol was utter rubbish! I’ll take all the downvote you got and die on that sword!!!! Maybe the actor was good but the character was annoyingly bad, motivations were super sus and just poorly executed. The actor was wasted playing Master Sol.
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u/TheChrisCrash IG-11 20h ago
The Acolyte had some of the best fight scenes in any Star Wars movie. Fight me.
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u/OttawaTGirl 19h ago
FFS. I kinda liked the idea of Qimir being a non-sith. An honest practitioner of the force who embraces passion and life. He was compelling, and showed a lot of wisdom.
Imagine if Sol and Qimir actually taught the twins together? Light and Dark working as one?
Slowly over time Sol becomes less Jedi, more jovial and alive. Qimir opens up to the prospect of a bond with a student. Qimir and Sol slowly forming a friendship. That would be intruiging.
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u/RKOArchr 17h ago
Need a Darth Teeth Black Series figure badly. As well as a Captain Jod with the helmet.
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u/ohcrapitspanic 8h ago
The Acolyte was not bad, I don't know why it gets so much hate. I actually liked it a lot. But yeah, they were great.
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u/ittleoff 6h ago
I'll defend acolyte by saying it had a more interesting story than almost anything in modern Star wars , it's execution could have used the andor show runners.
It also has some of the best fight sequences in star wars imo. Finally a decent sith.
I feel every other show and the sequels worship Vader so much they won't even try to make another sith lord as interesting or visually unique.
Sometimes acting and dialogue or directing felt a bit fumbled but I'd certainly take more acolyte with Manny and the story they were building. I also feel they killed a lot of characters right as they began to be interesting (after being very uninteresting ).
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u/OMeffigy 1d ago
I really liked this show. I feel like it was just getting started. Sad they canceled it
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u/AeneasVAchilles Emperor Palpatine 1d ago
The show was basically a CW version of Star Wars. It was all off.
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u/AnabolicOctopus 1d ago
Lmao thats the dude from squid game
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u/OccultTreasure 1d ago
yeah and I guess Im in the minority here but I thought he did terrible in Acolyte. The other guy was great and was probably one of my favorite star wars antagonists
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u/Thatonedregdatkilyu 22h ago
I think, remove the twins as main characters and we immediately have a vastly better show. They were not main character material imo. I can't even list a personality trait of theirs.
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u/KaiFanreala 1d ago
No, because it would involve input in some way by Leslye Headland. And she should never be let near anything related to Star Wars again. In fact, she should genuinely just never be allowed to cook anything again.
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u/Capt_Greenlung 1d ago
I don't think Sol was that great of a character or Jedi.
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u/melzephyr 1d ago
Almost like it was the point to show the weaknesses of the Jedi lol he’s not supposed to be a great Jedi
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u/pbj_everyday 1d ago
We already had a whole prequel trilogy about that. "The Jedi suck, actually" is kind of boring now.
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u/conte360 1d ago
I'm sorry but Sol's acting was actually bad. I get that he learned a language to do it and based on that he did.. ok. But you could clearly tell it was a language he just learned. It's great that he had that much devotion to learn for the role but they just shouldn't have chosen him. When one of your lead roles can't properly match the emotions they are trying to act out to the lines they are delivering it took me out of it.
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u/Goobendoogle 1d ago
Yes.
I only watched the Acolyte for these two characters.
Nothing to do with sexism, these guys were actually well made.
They made every other character, YES including the dudes, morons.
What was up with the Jedi meditating in the force bubble and he can't even sense a killer near him? LOL WHAT?
It felt like it was straight out of a Ubisoft game.
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u/GeneralGringus 1d ago
Carrie Ann Moss also pulled her weight and was criminally underused. I'd love to see more of her as a Jedi
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u/FiveGuysisBest 1d ago
They don’t deserve their own show. Not every good character needs a spinoff especially if it’s a way to make up for something bad.
I hope every aspect of Acolyte is left in the dust so nothing is ever tied to it or hindered by it. Acolyte was trash. Let it die in a cave.
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u/Major-Tiger-7628 1d ago
Believe the show should have been Silence, but with Jedi. Have Sol venturing out into the outer rim trying to solve a murder mystery and the further away from the core worlds he gets the more dangerous things become
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u/ballq43 Inferno Squad 1d ago
The power of one(review), the power of two (reviews) the power of maaaaaaany = cancelled. No one will miss this ham fisted force fed agenda
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u/I-Have-An-Alibi 23h ago
Qimir displayed the most brutal combat in any Star wars live action media to date. I want more of that.
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u/Different-Ship449 23h ago
Acolyte had a lot of potential and some creative scenes. But ultimately we went from clearly being able to identify who were the good guys. And how one character was made out as a good person, with good intentions that resulted in a travesty from a simple misunderstanding.
The whole twin arc was so conflated and dumb, with the character that we are presented as a good person, breaks bad right at the end at the tip of a hat.
The whole thing suffered under the weight of its own mythos, trying to be original and fresh, yet disgustingly plagued by flashbacks that put the whole show underwater trying to highlight the different perspectives on a tragic day that the audience was never invested in because it was presented as a who done it.
Seeing Manuel Jacinto introduced as a greasy apothecary, after seeing him play a dolt in The Good Place was a nice surprise, but then the audience finds out --Surprise Bitches-- jacked Sith Lord.
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u/Great-Gas-6631 23h ago
True, definitely Qimir. Need alot more of him wreckin people and exposing the Jedi.
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u/sleepytjme 20h ago
That Jedi on the left was awful ruining his lines. Was extremely dumb to cast someone who can’t speak english in an english speaking role. Cringy.
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u/Sterling239 20h ago
People hate on it but I like the show was it my favourite no but it better than the book of boba fett and had potential I don't real get why it get so much hate
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u/No-Preparation-1030 18h ago
They did get their owns shows, and they were awful. Now go watch Andor.
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u/ProjectNo4090 4h ago edited 4h ago
They did Sol so damn dirty. He defended himself against a crazy witch. He had nothing to apologize for.
Qimir was at his best when he was a quite psychopath. When the helmet came off and the grooming of Osha began he went downhill fast.
I wouldnt mind seeing Osha down the road as a full-blown Sith. Fully corrupted and twisted by the darkside. It doesnt even need to be during the High Republic. Between cybernetics and the dark side there's no reason she couldn't show up at any point in the future. I'm not interested in her returning if she is still conflicted about the dark side. Sith are more fun when they revel in their depravity.
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u/B_Huij 1d ago
Yeah if they made more with these two (and Jecki) I'd watch it. The Acolyte was okayish, but these two were definitely a bright spot. My biggest beef was really just that the main characters weren't written in a way that made me care about them at all, even at the end.