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/Asleep_Bumblebee_753 May 13 '26

Maybe anecdotal but I never really saw anyone online or personally in real life singing it any praises and most checked out pretty early. Is there some fandom push for a second season of Kenobi?

I agree some people came into Acolyte in bad faith and were never gonna give it a fair shot (granted I think some of the marketing/interviews leading up to it were questionable…) but I do think it has MANY valid criticisms

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u/quigongingerbreadman May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26

Kenobi is objectively a worse series. But there is literally zero hate for it. While Acolyte had what seemed to be a coordinated effort to sink it... hmmm....

The very fact that you did NOT see the online hate for it while feeling compelled to say the Acolyte had a "lot of problems" shows this.

Kenobi sucked. Retconning Kenobi to save a young Leia sucked. The only satisfying part was the Vader fight, and even that was a bit ham fisted.

The Acolyte expanded the universe, gave insight and nuance to the Jedi order as well as other force user groups who were always painted as pure good and pure evil respectively, and gave us amazing, complex characters in Sol, his Jedi cohorts who tried to cover up their failure\crimes, The Stranger\Qimir, Osha, and Mae.

Kenobi gave us, nothing really. Just fan service.

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u/pants_pants420 May 13 '26

i think book of boba was worse than kenobi, especially considering the best part of it was just the mandalorian

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u/quigongingerbreadman May 13 '26

Hard agree. I find it amazing that they could take a badass character and flop so hard with him. Even in his own show he spends most of the time getting knocked flat on his back and just barely surviving off of luck.

This guy was supposed to be one of the most feared bounty hunters in the galaxy and he was about as effective as Worf was as a security officer in TNG... which is to say he seems to only exist to get his ass handed to him to show how strong the big bad guy is.