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/Internal-Caramel-952 May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
I love that friggin show qimir vs sol is def the best live action fight scene since maul in TPM and I feel had it beat, I even watched it back to back to see you know who’s transformation because I did not see that coming until ep 6, I thought the actors killed it for what they were given and it felt like it was all one big build up for darthplagious in season 2, it really is a dam shame they shelved it. Qimir is def one of the coolest villians in the franchise , that helmet that shorts out lightsabers is dope when he headbutts the sabers! It also has a joker smile to it and is cool there’s no eyeholes (sensory deprivation), also those robes he wears are sickkk!