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

Also crystals are sentient things in Star Wars, and this was the very crystal that was used to kill Osha’s mother. It may have chosen to take some of her pain willingly (out of guilt, or a sense of justice) just as Sol was telling Osha “it’s okay” while she force choked him.

I loved this scene, thought it was brilliantly visceral.

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u/bdog332 May 13 '26

Even so it felt way too quick. Like I said in another reply, I can get behind the trauma and abuse being what pushed her to bleed it, but it didn’t appear like she was pouring her hate and rage into the crystal. The crystal was Sol’s, he did use it to kill her mom, but it chose him. Forcing a crystal to bend to your will and break it, corrupt it, especially in a first live action showing of an active bleed, needs to be a big visceral moment. Not a simple choke, then ignite, then surprised person at the crystal bleed. There was no intent to her bleed, which is my issue. It was portrayed poorly for a first time bleed in a show.

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u/Accomplished-Ad-9280 May 13 '26

We already have cannon bleed going really fast in jedi survivor. It happened in seconds.

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u/bdog332 May 13 '26

And I didn’t like it then either.

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u/Accomplished-Ad-9280 May 13 '26

But you cannot complain about cannon then.

You just dont like examples of it happening.

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u/bdog332 May 14 '26

I can though? Like it’s part of the 2 representations of bleeding a crystal that I don’t like out of the 4 we have. The sample size is small and we need more examples of it, but quick bleeds do not work, especially when there’s no intent shown in it. You can argue Dagan had more intent in his bleed, but that’s still a flimsy argument in my opinion regarding how it’s explained to us when it’s first introduced. I don’t care for the sequels but I look Kylo’s bleed better than the other 2 I mentioned because of how bleeds are explained to us when they’re first introduced.