I didn’t realize this was the season finale before watching and was mostly confused that was it after tonight’s episode. Seems like they started more loose ends in that one episode, maybe in hope of another season, but it felt like it could have used an episode or two more to set that up better. Spoilers below:
The Acolyte - Episode 8 Season Finale Discussion Spoilers
- I kept expecting the Green Jedi woman to ultimately be behind the destruction of the witches fortress. It still doesn’t make sense that the stone structure could sustain so much damage from some paper burning. Maybe bad editing or something in the previous episodes, but seems like there’s still a side of a story being withheld.
- Reveal of Yoda (or yaddle before growing hair!) and who I assume is Plagueis was underwhelming. Either could have been omitted without issue. If they were going for fan service, focus on one. If it is Plagueis, does the timeline even make sense??
- Honestly, I wish there were more episodes with the Lesbian Witch Cult which weren’t all flashbacks. That conflict with the Jedi was interesting (for the two days it happened in universe) and could have explored more of that side of the force before it was killed off. I guess I’m in the minority based on the backlash that received.
- Kung fu and lightsaber battles were pretty good. Is this the first time in live action a jedi has turned off a lightsaber mid fight? I think out of everything, the choreography was the strongest aspect of the series.
What’d everyone else think?
I tried to avoid discussion about the series for most part but something is on my mind and I don’t see people talking about.
Why this season feels like nothing? Like all thing that I find interesting of “a show set 100 years before the prequels, the High Republic, when the Jedis are in their peak” will probably happens in the second season and not in the first one? Plagueis, the Sith training, the start of the fall of the Jedi and the politics of the Republic with the Jedis. We only see glimpses of this things and the show focus on characters that I not invested. This season seems like it could be the lettering of season 2.
It feels like nothing because it is nothing. The jedi are incredibly stupid and incompetent, jedi are just cops with magic, what they portray and have characters say are generally different, characters are blank plot devices with no intrinsic motivation, time doesn’t flow properly in action scenes, massive amounts of time is wasted…