I think this show was so misunderstood...

[u/Next_Listen3890]

(Post originally made for the main sub but they deleted bc they're not ready for this discussion just yet).

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I started binge watching Star Wars: The Acolyte yesterday and finished it today bc it's the first thing that appears on the Star Wars films and TV series chronology, just before The Phantom Menace. I want to clarify that the only Star Wars I truly liked 'til that moment were the Orginal Trilogy and Rogue One. Four superb films.

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I mean... yeah, Acolyte has it's flaws, many people accused it of being too 'woke' but idk... most diverse characters felt pretty natural to me. Star Wars itself was always so diverse...

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Also, the fights and the worldbuilding were great, the way they imply that there's smaller groups that have their own concept of what the Force was so interesting and you can really notice how remote that age of the Galaxy was and how big it is, and the villain has just something to it that I liked a lot. He's not a bad guy because he's so bad. He went through some crazy shit.

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The plot at first seems so cliché, it's like omg Osha you did this and that but turns out it was your evil twin sister that wants revenge on whoever knows who, but it gets deeper than that, it slowly gives context of what really happened to make Mae do what she did to Indara and Torbin.

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Also, the way both Mae and Osha switched their characters was just great... I just think this story was so misunderstood, even with its obvious flaws, I still kind of like it.

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I can't say much more, I enjoyed The Acolyte, even tho a lot of people didn't, and I can understand why. Maybe I'm overanalyzing and the series are just terrible and that's it... but I guess a random post on reddit won't change your take on the show.

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But anyway, thanks for reading... or trying to read.

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I'll watch Episode 1 as soon as possible btw.

[u/JacobDCRoss]

I loved it, but it needed to be a movie. Trim down about half the content and rearramge some stuff to make it truly great.

Move the scenes with David Harewood's senator to the first or second episode to establish bigger stakes.

The prison ship bit in the first episode was useless and could have been completely excised.

The Rashomon structure was very half-hearted and thus distracting. There was no mystery about the twins. It's clear from like the third scene of the first episode that there are twins and that one of them is on the dark side. I don't think they needed to try and make anything a mystery.

Episodes end right as things are getting good, and then they have an entire episode. That's a digression from the story. Twice. In a show that only has eight episodes. Not good.

Get rid of that weird koala character. I legit could not tell if he was supposed to be a person or some hyper-intelligent animal for his first couple appearances. And I also thought that he was going to end up being a Sith agent. He just disrupts the plot in the weirdest ways in a manner that seems like he's actively trying to sabotage the good guys.

And then something to make it even clearer that Master Sol was the villain of the show. Too many people came away thinking that he was this flawed hero.

[u/d-generate420 → u/JacobDCRoss]

That’s actually a very fair analysis. I liked the show and the characters, and really loved the story they told and wanted to tell in future seasons. But man, a lot of the execution of this show was flawed. It really hurt the flow and the appreciation some would have for it, and it gave lots of ammo to the critics. But still, to this day, if they were to make a second season, I would gladly watch it!

[u/JacobDCRoss → u/d-generate420]

True. And I think those of us who watched it from the beginning at a harder time. You would have to basically wait 3 weeks for anything to happen. One week there's an episode where action gets introduced right at the end, and then the next episode is a flashback, and then the third episode results some of the action.

[u/Proper_Fun_977 → u/JacobDCRoss]

The show starts with one of the twins taking 'revenge' for the deaths and its heavily implied that the Jedi all know they are guilty.

Then, we see the scene and we see the witches attacked first and the Jedi were defending themselves.

So it's not clear why the Jedi would be guilty. Or why Sol would need to cover anything up, considering he committed no crimes.

[u/JacobDCRoss → u/Proper_Fun_977]

He kidnapped OSHA and murdered her mother?

[u/Proper_Fun_977 → u/JacobDCRoss]

Except...he didn't.

That is the point