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Spoilers The Acolyte

I'll be honest, my only real exposure to the old comics was owning a couple of "Classic Star Wars" trade paperbacks in the mid-90's, which I think mostly collected the old newpapaer comic strips, not Marvel's main run. I don't think Dark Horse started republishing those until the late 90's, by which time I wasn't really keeping up.

I was not an avid comic book collector. I had a few here and there, but nothing special. When Star Wars came out, I was seven. I was enthralled. My mom got me the Marvel trade paperback that covered the movie. Since the comic was rushed, the art was pretty bad as I recall and some of the writing was really awful. I ended up subscribing to the comics, I think in 80 or 81. I think I got about two year's worth. Some of the art got really good, which some of the others was pretty cartoonish.
 
I think I actually have that comic in a box somewhere in the garage. I subscribed to the Marvel Star Wars comic for a while back then. Time to go hunting!
I had a sub to Star Wars (which I still have!) and GI Joe when I was 7 or 8. From what I remember the GI run had a cool story about Snake Eyes origin. I remember his face in bandages. The Star Wars run I remember for a Stormtrooper from Alderan with an Aldyrock necklace and Luke getting his ass kicked by a Darthy Dame with some kind of lightsaber whip. I was all WTF! when Luke got whooped.
 
I've seen people complaining about the fire on the ship in the first episode

1. Fire can burn in space IRL as long as there's a proper fuel source. I.E. THE SUN, but there's also been experiments with fire in a vacuum.
2. We have seen fire in space in pre-Disney Star Wars media (like the Executor was burning in space in ROTJ)
3. Star Wars is FANTASY. They have sound in space, ships fly and turn like they're in atmosphere. Fire can burn in space if it wants.
The sun isn't fire....


But yeah, just a show.
 
I was not at all interested in this show, but I gave it a shot anyway, which is not something I did for ADNDOR, AHSOKA, and THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT.

I… liked it. It’s fairly solid, with two leads that I’m actually interested in. I think it’s much better paced than THE MANDALORIAN. One thing that really helps this show is that because it’s so chronologically far removed from the other shows, there’s no legacy characters so there’s none of the baggage that the other shows had. I’m sure it’ll somehow tie in, but it doesn’t feel beholden if that makes sense.
That depends on what exactly makes a legacy character, Vernestra Wroh
Hard to see how “started a fire and accidentally killed some people” gets to “better to isolate myself for ten years and drink poison than to confess my crime.” There has to be more to it than that.
It depends on how the fire started.
This Lesley person is my new hero.
Lesley Headland is the creator and showrunner of The Acolyte, and also created Russian Doll on Netflix.
 
Sighs...I must, I must...
The sun isn't fire....
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It depends on how the fire started.

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This was probably obvious, but I realized, I think Mae is taking the challenge of killing the Jedi without a weapon too literal.

I think her Master wants her to kill them metaphorically.

Convince the jedi on her list to admit the truth to what ever happened in her village in the past, whatever this cover up is. To damage the reputation of jedi in the eyes of the public.

Maybe this season/series will end with the Jedi retreating from the wider galaxy to just the temple on Coruscant as seen in the prequels, or at the very least be the next domino to lead to that.
 
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I seem to recall something about a Sith Apprentice needs to kill a Jedi in order to gain that Jedi's kyber crystal in order to bleed one for their own red lightsaber.
 
I seem to recall something about a Sith Apprentice needs to kill a Jedi in order to gain that Jedi's kyber crystal in order to bleed one for their own red lightsaber.
Yeah, that was in Charles Soule's 2017 run of the 'Darth Vader' comic. However that same year also featured a Maul comic where he supposedly encountered a Jedi for the first time, and already had his double-blade in-hand. So it's dubious whether or not this was a real Sith tradition that they all followed, or a very old pre-Bane tradition that Palpatine decided to resurrect after Order 66, or if Palpatine was just making it up. (I still more than half suspect that that whole 'Tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise' story was 90% BS to manipulate Anakin, with only a grain of truth for his own amusement, so I'm not given to taking Sidious at his word.)

Honestly, I think it would be doubtful (though not impossible) that the Sith have been secretly offing Jedi over the past thousand years and taking their kybers. While it's certainly possible to obfuscate the circumstances of a murder to make it look like an accident, or the result of pirates, assassins or what have you, or even simply make them disappear . . . each time that happens makes discovery more and more likely. Patterns might emerge over the centuries to raise suspicions, and then all it would take is for one slip-up, and one Jedi investigator with a talent for psychometry and the lid would get blown off the whole thing.
 
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I really think that the SW fandom is the most toxic one. I just watched the first two episodes. I enjoyed them, even I don't think they are some kind of masterpiece. Well, on YouTube three are a lot of video which explain what a kind of artistic, financial and even moral disaster is The Acolyte (obviously I didn't watch them, I don't want to give these people views). I really don't understand these level of vitriolic hatred.

Perhaps it's time the SNL does the equivalent of the "Get a life" sketch for the Star Wars fans, because these people scare me.
 
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