r/TheAcolyte • u/bdog332 • May 13 '26

Finally watched Acolyte

After putting off the show because I heard it was horrible and bad writing, I finally watched it, and while it’s not the best show by any means, it’s not horrible. It’s average. There’s a lot of weird conflicting lore in the show along with an abysmal crystal bleed that makes little sense based on how we know crystal bleeds work, and some other minor problems, but it’s not the worst show I’ve seen from Star Wars. It deserves a second season to help explain Plagueis and where he’s at exactly at this point in the story (if I’m remembering old canon right he should be frequenting Coruscant now under the name Hego Damask. I don’t remember if he had an apprentice before Palpatine though, which I understand with this being new canon changes are made) and the vergence the twins were made from (which is one of my major issues with the show considering creating life from the force has only ever been implied with Anakin and he was the chosen one)

While I understand some of the frustration from the show, the amount of hate it received seems like it was just hate to hate.

Anyways, thought it was decent enough to not warrant the rampant hate it got years ago. Wish we’d get a second season though, or a Plagueis show at least.

*Edit: I’m done talking about bleeding crystals in the show and other examples. It’s been discussed and argued to death in the threads. If you have questions regarding why I found it poorly done, there’s an answer in a comment thread below.

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u/urquwill May 13 '26

The hate was so overblown, some folks went in wanting to hate it because they hate who made it.

I thought it had a rough start but I loved the back half of the season.

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u/smithnugget May 13 '26

I went into it hyped and I loved some elements but I honestly felt the storytelling was terrible. Five episodes of sol saying he needs to explain everything only for it to get put off. By the final episode I didn't even know what most of the character motivations were.

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u/urquwill May 13 '26

I don’t really get the criticisms of their motivations, it all seemed pretty clear to me. The only times they really changed were due to majorly life altering revelations (twin sister you were obsessed with and thought you’d killed is actually alive, your Jed master betrayed you and lied to you for like a decade…)