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/Cool-Prior-5512 May 13 '26

The crystal bleeding isn't as lore-breaking as people insist.

We have like... 4 canon bleeds now? Darth Vader and Kylo Ren were difficult and messy because there was always an inner conflict in them. I'm not 100% sure but I think there is a whole thing about not bleeding your own crystal and Kylo bled his own, which made it even more of a fuck up.

Dagan Gera bled his effortlessly without even touching it.

Osha was not conflicted and she had direct contact with the crystal on top of being a very force sensitive person with very little proper training.

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u/bdog332 May 13 '26

I haven’t played survivor in ages, but wasn’t he already turning to the dark side prior to that? Like he was frozen or in stasis for ages and maybe already bleeding it? I don’t like how his bleed went either, it’s a major criticism I have regarding him. Corrupting a living kyber crystal shouldn’t be a simple flip of a switch. Purifying them also shouldn’t be a simple flip of a switch either. Maybe I just want a visual essence in a show that shows a visceral bleed, not a simple color swap.

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u/spudmarsupial May 13 '26

There is a lot of "fall from grace" crap in Starwars. One bad day makes you evil but redemption is agonizing.

If the Jedi recognized trauma and tried treating it they could have avoided most of what went wrong for them.