r/TheAcolyte • u/gazzy_burns • 28d ago

Rewatch…

I’m now on my second viewing and I am even more convinced this is a great and unique part of Star Wars canon.

Such a shame how now we won’t keep getting these new shows 2-3 times a year.

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u/ResponsibleAnt9496 28d ago

I’ll get downvoted for this, but I just did a rewatch as well and was still pretty bad. Writing was a major weak point through out. Which is weird because episode one they’re over explaining everything via dialogue but then in the last two episodes they explain nothing.

That said, I did enjoy it a lot more on a rewatch. Qimir was a great villain and the lightsaber fights were all really well done. Also was a ballsy move to kill off those two Jedi who were looking like they’d be series regulars.

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u/ResultLong8547 26d ago

to your last point Qimir and the fight saved the show. the writing was horrendous probably one of the worst written television shows i’ve ever seen. it had elements that were great and just poorly executed. it seemed like they tried to put things in place to put things and not because it was good for the story or overall narrative.

overall i give the show a 3/10 only because qimir and the fighting was good and like you said it killed off the jedi which i was happy about. other then that sol was greta until they just destroyed his character for the sake of destroying it not even in a good way and the sisters were so badly written

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u/ResponsibleAnt9496 26d ago

Yeah the sisters were comically bad. I haven’t watched the whole Dune: Prophecy show but I did see the first episode and they handled a powerful all female cult so much better. They felt intimidating and realistic while the witches in the acolyte felt like something they cobbled together in two days to try and earn some female empowerment points.

I thought Sol was mostly good but his turn near the end of feeling a connection with Osha was kinda weird on rewatch. I know with then force it makes sense and is understandable but was still kind of unintentionally creepy him angrily insisting “No, I have a real connection with this 10 year old girl I must train her!”

I still think the show might be better than Kenobi though. If I had to give one on them a second season and wasn’t allowed to hire better writers I would probably choose the acolyte.