How I realized I was over Star Wars completely

[Diabolical]

The "exclusive look" they had after Episode I rerelease was a few minutes of a fight scene with her.
It was cool, but it's going to draw a shitload of Matrix comparisons because of her fighting style.

[anarky]

I didn't realize Trinity from the Matrix was in The Acolyte until today.

I have a feeling she's dead meat in the first episode. I think she's only been shown in the one location in all trailers.

[Tom Foolery]

I’ve been watching a docu series called Icons Unearthed, which has done several seasons each focused on a different major movie franchise. I’ve been watching the SW one and my wife remarked that it’s been a very long while since she actually watched the OT all the way thru, so we started A New Hope last night and are gonna watch ESB tonight.

During ANH I latched onto one line by Vader where he says ‘The power to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force’ and kept doing MST3K lines about it for the rest of the night. Like having Tagge respond ‘Oh yeah? Then lets see it? C’mon, bitch. Lemme see you blow up a planet with the force…I’ll wait. No? How about just a moon? No..pffftt. Fuckin poseur.”

And later on I’d give Vader lines like ‘Yeah, I just blew up another planet with the force, but you missed it because she goes to another school.’

My wife(who’s a different generation) also said she thought Vader was dumb when she was a kid. And she thought Anakin was a dumb in the prequels, but she said the connective story like Clone Wars and the Kenobi show is what finally made the character more interesting than either versions of him. I thought that was an interesting take.
We are the only generation who only got to experience Darth Vader as unfiltered bad guy and not the tragedy laden baggage backstory end result of being Anakin.

[anarky]

Acolyte is fucking amazeballs. It's like they said "Let's do a show that feels like Andor. Only that one had no lightsabers and only a few EU references that set designers could sneak in, so let's go way the fuck deep into EU and have ALL the lightsabers."

It's fucking insane that the haters, who were all "bring back EU" are too fucking fixated on Amandla using they/them pronouns (they could call themselves Walrus Shit and still be pretty hot) that they miss that this show is like a 2008 Dark Horse comic come to life.

Also Headland seems to be a huge EU fanatic so no doubt the mysterious Sith is Darth Tenebrous. Okay, only a little doubt. Very little.

[Tom Foolery]

Eh. The best thing about it so far is the music. The set design is pretty cool. It’s hard to be new and be even more retro than the 70s aesthetic of the original movies, but they found a nice balance. I liked the pilot droids that are also seats.

The acting is bland and some of the dialogue is downright amateurish. The only interesting character so far is Mae. All the Jedi are annoying as fuck.

I’m not hating it, but neither am I excited to keep watching.

[anarky]

If I heard you say this in person, I'd respect your opinion.

However, this is the internet, even if just a secluded filthy rest stop, so internet rules apply, and I am required to tell you that you are fucking gay and most likely a pedophile.

[Diabolical]

Eh. The best thing about it so far is the music. The set design is pretty cool. It’s hard to be new and be even more retro than the 70s aesthetic of the original movies, but they found a nice balance. I liked the pilot droids that are also seats.

The acting is bland and some of the dialogue is downright amateurish. The only interesting character so far is Mae. All the Jedi are annoying as fuck.

I’m not hating it, but neither am I excited to keep watching.

I'm in agreement for the most part.

Why are these Jedi so bumbling and incompetent? They are nothing like the Jedi we saw in the prequels.

I'm not digging Mae or her sister, at least not yet. Besides the played out evil twin cliché, I'm not feeling her performance. Maybe it's the dialogue. I'm not sure. At least her performance is better than the chick that played Sabine.

I still enjoyed the show overall.

[anarky]

Okay, you sort of disagree and sort of don't so I think under internet law, I'm required to say you're flamboyantly gay, but the sort of gay that doesn't offend conservatives, and definitely isn't a pedophile, and do so using an image to imply it's a picture of you.

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[Ran]

First of all, why use that weird text at the beginning instead of a short opening crawl?

Sol is ok. The rest of the Jedi are annoying, but Yord is the worst. This is the hokey religion that Han Solo talked about. Hopefully it gets better over the next 6 episodes.

[jjreason]

I'm leaving it alone for now. I didn't watch Andor until it was about 9 episodes in & loved it. I'll see how long I can hold out this time.

[Tom Foolery]

The more I think about it, the less I’m enjoying it.

None of the dialogue and acting flowed like real people conversing with each other. They all seemed to wait for the other person to finish speaking their atrociously written exposition. Or It’s like they filmed the rehearsal. Or the editor sucks at editing conversations. Or a combination of all of the above.

Now that we are getting good shit like Andor and Fallout, I’m less willing to sit thru shitty stuff. My standards have risen. You can’t just slap Star Wars on the front of any old thing anymore.

[Tom Foolery]

A counter-argument is to be made however.
Here are two reasons to continue watching.

[vynsane]

i'd attack her with all my strength.

[vynsane]

holy shit, just found out she's Rue from Hunger Games!

[Tom Foolery]

holy shit, just found out she's Rue from Hunger Games!

Totally unrelated, I just found out director Alex Garland who made the films Ex Machina, Annihilation, and Civil War(and also basically directed Dredd) is also the guy who wrote the novel The Beach which was turned into a movie with Leo DiCaprio back in 2000.