The Acolyte

Just stumbled across this – more entertaining nonsense with a vague Star Wars connection.

It’s killing an hour or so quite pleasantly

Need to give it a try, getting very mixed reviews but Star Wars always does.

The IMDB rating is disappointingly low compared to other Star Wars series but maybe it’ll improve when all episodes are released. Maybe. I remember the first two episodes of Andor being slow hard work and I almost stopped watching, but everyone said it picked up Ep3  – they were right. In summary I plan to watch it anyway.

It’s OK so far. It’s Star Wars !

I quite enjoyed the first two. Not great but I’ll watch more.

The IMDB rating is disappointingly low

That’s just the incels hate bombing the reviews because it’s a Disney production with a heavily female cast

Its falling well short of Andor and Ahsoka   .. if I were to liken it to a Star wars caractor  is would be Jar Jar binks .. Disney need to have a word with itself .

Star Wars meets Crouching Tiger is probably the best description.  It’s no Andor. Or Mandolorian.

Its falling well short of Andor and Ahsoka   .. if I were to liken it to a Star wars caractor  is would be Jar Jar binks .. Disney need to have a word with itself .

So far I’d say it’s fine, maybe on par with Ahsoka (time will tell),  it’s different not better or worse than all the other series, but to paraphrase Yoda:

‘Clouded by hate and lacking a spell check, is your post…’ 

I’m enjoying it, it’s Star Wars.

The IMDB rating is disappointingly low
That’s just the incels hate bombing the reviews because it’s a Disney production with a heavily female cast

From what I read, they were doing that before it had even been released!
Bunch of mouth-breathing neck-beards who can’t tolerate a female in any rôle where they aren’t submissive and subservient.

My ten year old is enjoying it and that’s who it is aimed at I reckon. Seems okay, just very predictable and way too much exposition so far. As a grown up Andor and Rogue One are the best Star Wars things in my opinion. The only stuff I’ve not enjoyed watching with Funk Jr are the prequels, the last film (still haven’t seen all of it as I keep falling asleep), Book of Boba Fett and the Kenobi series.

Have to say, i haven’t even thought of watching this, same with ashoka, i did watch Andor and it wasn’t that good, and i won’t mention the mandolorian or the boba fett stuff, it’s just meh. I think at the age of 47, i kind of understand that the Star Wars universe and shows aren’t really for me anymore, i look at the movies, even the original ones and they’re pretty much not great either.

There’s a lot better out there in terms of sci-fi on other platforms these days, so i kind of just stopped watching this stuff.

It’s alright, I guess it’s going to be like the others, a slow burner. Wish the episodes were an hour long rather than the short episodes with 15 minutes of credits at the end.

Star Wars meets Crouching Tiger is probably the best description.  It’s no Andor. Or Mandolorian.

This sounds about right. It’s also no Book of Bobba Fett either! I’m enjoying it a lot more than the crappy series recently (as in BoBF) and maybe as much as the good ones

Hmm that was slow and boring, probably needed the back story fleshing out a bit but that was a bit dull

Two lesbian witches   magicly make a pair of twins using some form of Force but not called the force but the Thread   and chant in an ritual that can make moons align and children get strange tattooes .       What utter horse ****

Wanted to give it a chance but for me its off to Paramount for a few months.

That’s a bit Lesbian Witch-ist of you.

Useful background now we know both twins are alive.

The twins are played by Rue from the first hunger games film all growed up

Two lesbian witches   magicly make a pair of twins using some form of Force but not called the force but the Thread   and chant in an ritual that can make moons align and children get strange tattooes .   What utter horse ****

Whereas the rest of the Star Wars canon is absolutely rationally coherent, and not at all, at it’s core, based on a story about magical space wizards.

Wanted to give it a chance but for me its off to Paramount for a few months.

Careful, @stevedoc that you don’t watch Star Trek Discovery. You may implode from the wokeness. May I suggest some good, old-fashioned, clean family fun like Dr Who or suchlike?

I’m willing to forgive the lesbian space witches and the slow storyline.

I’ve never been able to get my head round the faster than light travel, advanced technology yet half of them live in caves with poor lighting.

I can forgive the plot  wokeness and franchise cash cow .. but for the love of all that’s good in the world ..please let the acting be better than a 1990s Aussy soap drama .

Andor season 2 may return my subscription but this tosh …..im out .

It’s very wooden, isn’t it. First of the TV Star Wars series I wouldn’t recommend to anyone… so far. Will keep watching in the hope it comes to something…

Part of the problem is all Jedi are a bit wooden, they’re not meant to be emotional. Put a wookie in it, that helps.

I would have liked them play on the Osha did she / didn’t she a bit more before they revealed her twin. There’s still a bit of mystery brewing, I don’t think the witches died because of the fire and Torbin had enough guilt to top himself.

The girls playing the young twins are some of the worst actors I’ve ever had the misfortune to watch. God knows how bad the ones were that failed the auditions

It’s very wooden

More wooden (woodener?) than Natalie Portman in the prequels? 🤭

Way worse.

How do we know that the two girls are the protagonist and her sister? They have the same haircut obvs…

I don’t want to join in with the Star Wars incel on line trolls, but this time, they’re mostly right. This really is terrible. I mean I don’t mind the thread stuff, it seems obvious to me that different societies would call it different things, but this is clunky, the storytelling is naff, and it makes no sense within it’s own universe. It’s worse than the Bobba Fett one, and that’s saying something.

Its a a pass from me.

Anyone else stuck with this? Definitely getting better as more unfolds.

Yep, not the best but ok, pulls on the idea of flawed Jedi.

Last episode this week.

I’ve stuck with it as something to watch on the turbo trainer as it again rains outside…… but its not good is it? Picked up a bit for the light sabre scraps in the woods, but just dull.

This is 8 episodes that has just enough content to make a short film which should of been aimed at young kids.

Agreed Scud, not inspiring at all, personally I’m bored of the whole flawed Jedi thing and was hoping going back in time might have been more uplifting. Last weeks episode felt like a Simpson clips episode there was so much repeated footage.

Still not watched it, as i’ve pretty much stopped with the Star Wars universe, it’s nothing to do with the acolyte, or being like the mentalists who hate all things ‘woke’, whatever that means to them, but i just find it’s very narrow, they have such a vast universe to play with here, but it always seemed to end up on a dusty planet, or in some space western scenario, or with Jedi/Sith stuff that was just made up with the antagonist/protagonist being emo like mood characters, with so much available, i just find Star Wars has little imagination now.

Thankfully there’s a lot more out there though, so for those who still enjoy it, crack on, for those who don’t like me, there’s loads of sci fi done the way you want it out there.

It’s been ok, something to watch with my son. Can’t say I really give two shits what happens next though.

Well, that was shit.

Agree with Scud it should have been a film a 2 hour film at the most. The only thing I took away from the Acolyte is that the Jedi are crap, liars and die pretty easy.

Started to get interesting in the last 10 minutes, probably setting up for season 2 which given the viewing figures has a good chance of not happening. 2 episodes worth if story dragged out over eight was painful, some much potential wasted.

Again I kind of enjoyed it, but still couldn’t give two shits what happens next.

Better than Kenobi and Book of Bobba Fet but that is pretty insulting considering how bad those two were. I think the Jedi are a bit shit and boring to be honest. Apart from Ashoka as she does her own thing.

Just seems a waste when there’s a whole universe as a sandbox yet they keep repeating the same plots ad infinitum. Special twins, dark and light, conflicted monks, Yoda etc. At least Andor tried something new. At this point I’d take a series that just follows the average daily life of an Ewok or a Scrap Heap Challenge/Storage Wars crossover but with Jawas and Tusken Raiders.