The Acolyte - The Acolyte 1.02 - Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed) (2024)

Another 8 for me, love this show.

Surprised no one’s commented on a genuine laugh out loud moment when Sol asked who is he and Qimir replies I thought he was with you. Good stuff.

That and the Neimodian grunting/ disgust at the Jedi arrival were the funniest moments. Followed by “Nothing, he’s…Yord.”

Slow start but it got better. The core mystery is intriguing enough and they're pacing things well enough to keep me hooked.

Sol's cool and I really like Jecki. Her and Yord work well as two padawan's with a slightly competitive edge.

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Session 54: Interview with a Fiend, part deux

The score is excellent, although I was half-hoping it was going to be stylistically different to the OT/PT to reflect a different age. Korngold as opposed to Zimmer, if you take my meaning.There was more than a bit of AOTC in the orchestration and harmonic movement.

A part of me wonders whether to wait until all episodes are released and then have a binge. The only thing keeping me from doing this is I can't put up a score vote if I do that!

7/10 - very good. Kenobi level but not yet up there with the best of Mando or Andor.

I see it as yet one more step toward the dream of a world where the entire system of Reviews is obsolete because the inherent worthlessness of the entire concept is finally laid bare.

Even though on the other end it may mean that if i like it very much, audience hates it and critics like it very much... I may not be "mere audience" anymore but I must have ascended in the Olympous of recognized critics right?

EDIT: BTW they are also severly bombing Doctor Who who has a critic's score of 96% and audience is 35% too bad I cannot extract data from the RT database to compare angry reviewers because I am almost sure these are the same people for both shows...
...here again I am with the critics

The audience score is definitely worthless when sites allow review bombing.

Better than Kenobi. No logic fails and people actually die from being stabbed. Even if it's just a knife.

No matter what, we have evidence of someone higher up the Sith ladder firing off mental projections of people who are not really there. It certainly hasn't been Mae sending images of her younger self to a sister she didn't even know was alive.

It's definitely the most esoteric thing to come out of D+ so far and I'm really curious about how general audiences are receiving it too. I know that from speaking to some of my very casual-fan friends and coworkers, the timeline-jumping of the different shows and movies can be pretty hard to keep track of and this is the biggest jump backwards yet, completely unanchored by any familiar characters or iconography save the presence of Jedi and lightsabers. Like Andor, I think word of mouth is going to end up being the biggest driver of the show's success (if it ends up actually being WoM-worthy as the weeks go by).

Well, yes, I’ve been saying that for years in that you should like what you’d like and really not form real opinions on something unless you have watched it

My first mental comparison to that closing scene was Leatherface dealing with his 2 intruders and then walking into his inner sanctum and slamming the door in Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But my reference points almost exclusively tend to be horror films.

Most engaged I’ve been with a SW series since Mando season two. The quality jump from Ashoka to this show is absolutely staggering.

So far the series is off to a good start I feel like this is the closest live action Disney project done in the style of the Prequels which is great because I love the PT.

+ I was made up to see Neimodians return and they didn’t disappoint
+ Zygerrian Jedi - correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this the first time we’ve had a species from an animated series appear in live action?
+ The shark guy, please tell me it’s a Karkarodon (Riff Tamson’s species)?

- Too many human characters that’s probably my only complaint up to now.