The Acolyte S1E04 Watch A Long
Added 2024-06-21 19:50:13 +0000 UTCHey Peaches! With the flashback over, for now, we catch up with Mae and her friend (who's totally not the BBEG) as they hunt our Wookie Jedi. Meanwhile the Jedi assemble a team to save their comrade. Will they make it in time?
Comments
I'm enjoying this show and the mystery, but even I felt there wasn't enough in this episode. I'm also worried that all the mysteries in the show will be very obvious and unsatisfying, and Mae's heel-turn in particular won't have a purpose. We'll see.
Chris J
2024-06-22 12:48:23 +0000 UTCalso just make it a movie, it already is just 8 20 min episodes. Who takes 6 to 8 weeks to watch a freakin movie. still love Star Wars just frustrating i guess
michael denny
2024-06-22 04:27:00 +0000 UTCi think disney needs to srop it all at once for this show, the wait a week and "ooo isn't that mysterious." is just annoying, I think it;s because every show does this now. at least for me.
michael denny
2024-06-22 04:24:04 +0000 UTCLooove Sol. I’m worried about what he did and didn’t say. Oh, I heard Bazil’s a Tynnan. Immediately love Bazil. Species apparently came from “Han Solo’s Revenge,” by Brian Daley and apparently one appears in the Rogue One Prequel, “Catalyst.” So we can thank James Luceno for canonizing them. 🙂 I think it might be that young Mae isn’t really jiving with her older self. Based on a few comments, if Mother Koril IS the master or she’s being manipulated, it stands to reason what we were presented about the twins might be awfully unreliable. Adult Mae seems to genuinely be avenging Osha, ergo having her alive would change everything. I’m also fond of all the puns this episode. You took Jay out, laughing, which took me out. Warn me next time! 😉 And agreed. I wouldn’t mind a few minutes more of even an extra hint or two.
Kate L.
2024-06-22 03:03:52 +0000 UTCI’m not sure I took it as a reincarnation. I think I assumed the Force had come up with other ways of balancing at some point. This time, it was about a person. But yea, I didn’t see him as space Jesus. I wasn’t even certain the prophecy was correct.
Kate L.
2024-06-22 02:57:41 +0000 UTCI actually think it’s too obvious to be Mother Koril. I’d be really disappointed if the angry witch one is merely just a “bad guy.” It doesn’t feel like what these creatives would do. It’s too easy. I think she’s probably being manipulated. For a master, she also is also weirdly vocal against the Jedi. One would think she would hide it much better. I’m thinking it’s Quimir because we don’t know for certain he wasn’t there. Or maybe he’s an assistant to the big bad. Part of me thinks we all missed them completely. If it turns out that he’s merely playing klutz, there must be a reason. Sometimes the important part of a mystery isn’t the who, but the why. I think Mother Koril’s animosity is a red herring. And Manny Jacinto isn’t going to be cast to be a nobody. He’s at least working for the bad guys, whatever this is.
Kate L.
2024-06-22 02:54:14 +0000 UTCBefore making any conclusions or further speculation I feel we need to see the other episode on Mae & Osha's home planet. For the 4 Jedi to be targeted in the first place, it would seem odd if Qimir was the Master because he wasn't present on their home planet, or at least that we know of. It makes much more sense for Mother Koril to be the Master as she was more harsh and aggressive compared to anyone of the Coven, we also didn't see her die. It would be more personal to her to want the 4 Jedi which were stationed on their home planet to be killed based on the events that we haven't yet seen, potentially to come in a future episode. She also had reasons to hate the Jedi from the get-go because they were going to take the twins away to become Jedi. If it is Qimir, they're doing an incredibly poor job trying to hide it, how he acts, his behavior and responses, knowing certain bits of information, faking being clumsy when he proved to be capable of disarming Mae in an earlier episode, how they relate to the Master as 'He'. But again, this could be a massive red herring because they've never seen their face.
techagek
2024-06-22 01:44:14 +0000 UTCI assumed the I'll kill you thing was her way of saying she was going to fake her death so the jedi would leave but they had to say it that way for dramatic purposes :)
FalcorDragon
2024-06-21 21:46:39 +0000 UTCHaha well, y’all didn’t exactly hate it, but I think y’all had some reasonable concerns
Jason Marbach
2024-06-21 20:51:08 +0000 UTCI think Mae’s turn in this makes more sense if one examines it through a couple lenses: 1. The scene of her setting the fire and saying “I’ll kill you” was not actually her. She was possessed, or it was an implanted force vision for Osha at someone else’s doing, something like that. The show, as y’all acknowledged, is holding back information and presenting part of the tale so far as “unreliable narrator” stuff in some fashion. 2. The show gave us a glimpse of Osha doing almost the same thing with the little bird thing - holding it in place with the force. The difference was in the music sting and in how Osha reacted to the moment in the show. 3. Mae’s adult motivation has always been about avenging her sister. Once she found out her sister was still alive at the end of ep 2 (the last time we saw her in the present before this episode) everything changed for her. The struggle (and I understand this being a bit of a beef, personally) narratively surrounding us, as the audience, not getting more insight into her mounting doubt from then til the turn in this episode is simply an exposition issue: she’s *only* been with Qimir, who she knows is not someone she can confide in with her doubts and concerns. All told, I get the gripe about it feeling a bit quick, it settled a bit odd on my shoulders the first time I watched it too, and that’s what a reaction is: y’all’s first watch. Having re-watched the episode multiple times now (3 times watching the full ep in D+ and then all the reactions) it has settled in a little better for me as a point I get, personally. I do understand why it’s rubbing some folks a little weirdly on first watch, though.
Jason Marbach
2024-06-21 20:50:41 +0000 UTCRe: "The Dragon re-born" Fwiw, that's indeed what Anakin has *always* been, to me. He was *never* one of a kind. The idea that one guy (who was, canonically, created by the force itself) who lived a bare 45 years out of the 25,000+ years of recorded galactic history was the *only* time the force ever had to course-correct itself that way...seems nearly impossible, to me. Like, it's a near-mathematical certainty that Anakin has happened before - and either way, whatever DID happen on this show IS different from Anakin, because Osha and Mae were created by the choice of beings (Mothers Aniseya and Korril), not *by* the Force itself. Anyway, thanks guys.
Jason Marbach
2024-06-21 20:00:03 +0000 UTCSo, SO excited to watch with y'all. I really hope y'all enjoy it, the toxicity and just blatant misunderstanding (intentionally, for the most part) of this series across the internet has been so disheartening. (Of course, I'm typing this as I'm hitting play, so if y'all end up hating the episode, well, RIP to me I suppose lol)
Jason Marbach
2024-06-21 19:53:38 +0000 UTC
