Spoilers The Acolyte

[Reverend]

And always engage brain. Why would they release a teaser for the show AFTER the next one, when the next one has had basically bug-all promotion? Why would such a teaser not be posted on the official channel? Why would an official anything use what is obviously fanart in it's thumbnail when they have perfectly good archives of specifically prepared promotional photos & graphic media, and a marketing department that gets paid a lot of money to produce things like this? (And if anyone is taking this as anything but rhetorical, then I just don't know what to tell ya . . . )

 

[Happy Hopping]

what's the latest update on the rel. date?

 

[The Wormhole]

If there were an update, someone would already have posted it.

 

[Reverend]

Yeah, it's not like people are liable to keep that to themselves.
We're not likely to hear anything more on that (or any) upcoming show until probably around May 4th, when Bad Batch ends. Early April at the very earliest IMO.

 

[Tuskin38]

Looks like Acolyte is aiming for a summer release
https://collider.com/the-acolyte-release-window/

 

[JD]

I'm surprised it's only set 50 years before The Phantom Menace. I had assumed it would be closer to The High Republic Phase I & III books and comics , which are set from 232 to 229 since it has one of their characters in it. The character, Vernestra Rwoh is Miralan, so I guess they must live a really long time.

 

[The Wormhole]

I don't see how fifty years prior to Phantom Menace can be considered "High Republic." By that point, wouldn't the Republic already be well on the way to a state of decline?

 

[Set Harth]

Yeah, I had assumed the same thing.

I hope they understand they gotta be consistent with TPM.

 

[Reverend]

Honestly I could have sworn it was said to be close to 100 years before; but I could be mis-remembering,
I suppose it's not like we have a solid idea of exactly when and why the High Republic era came to an end. Such thresholds tend to be fairly arbitrary even in real history. Fifty years pre-TPM puts it right around the time Dooku & Sifo Dias would have been padawans, and IIRC right when Sifo Dias' prophetic visions start. Given that this show seems to deal with the Sith infiltrating the Jedi; perhaps for the first time getting a purchase on some real power and leverage within the Republic, these might not be mere coincidences. Indeed this is also roughly around when Palpatine was born, or at least recruited. So if nothing else it would seem to all but guarantee an appearance by Plagueis.

Side note: One thing that I've been curious about is what would the names of the eras pre and post High Republic be called? Early Republic & Late Republic? Low Republic & Middling Republic? Either way, this all sounds like something they would get applied much later in history. Seems like the height of hubris to name a period the "high" anything while you're still in it.

 

[Set Harth]

So... the characters in this show who find out the Sith exist have to die, right? At the end, Rogue One style. or are they just going to be like "continuity shmontinuity"

 

[fireproof78]

So... the characters in this show who find out the Sith exist have to die, right? At the end, Rogue One style. or are they just going to be like "continuity shmontinuity"

Everyone dies.

 

[evilchumlee]

So... the characters in this show who find out the Sith exist have to die, right? At the end, Rogue One style. or are they just going to be like "continuity shmontinuity"

It's what, a century prior to Episode 1? They probably die anyway, just because... time.

I have a feeling that nobody would believe them when they claim to have discovered a Sith.

 

[Set Harth]

Everyone dies.

I meant "die before reporting their discovery to the Jedi Council".

 

[fireproof78]

I meant "die before reporting their discovery to the Jedi Council".

I mean, either it's not reported, they die, or it's disregarded. JAG had a great exploration of this idea with the USS DOLPHIN sighting the Japanese fleet heading towards Pearl Harbor, but ended up sending their report, but it was misfiled.

Lots of options. It's going to be interesting. I enjoyed the TPM novel for the reason that it actually gave a full understanding of the Sith, vs. the "We shall have revenge" plot cited by Maul. Anakin meets up with an old pilot and talks about finding a hologram Anakin found talking about the Sith, and the pilot looks panicked that they might return and try to take over the galaxy. It's nice to have that sense of dread around it, rather than this weird random name.

 

[Skywalker]

Side note: One thing that I've been curious about is what would the names of the eras pre and post High Republic be called? Early Republic & Late Republic? Low Republic & Middling Republic? Either way, this all sounds like something they would get applied much later in history. Seems like the height of hubris to name a period the "high" anything while you're still in it.

I've been calling the last century or so prior to TPM the Late Republic ever since the High Republic was first announced. It just makes sense. I sort of treat the whole millennium of the Republic's (Second Republic's?) existence as sort of a Middle Ages between the Old Republic and the New Republic, so I guess for the sake of consistency I would refer to the period between the Old Republic and the High Republic as the Early Republic. A time when it was still getting back on its feet after the Old Republic's collapse, before the splendor of the High Republic.

It's been ages since I read any HR material; do characters in those actually refer to their time as the High Republic? If so, while it makes them sound a little full of themselves, it does make sense as part of the Republic's eventual downfall came down to its arrogance.

 

[Ithekro]

It is also possible that the Jedi doesn't believe that they are Sith. Just some random dark side user. And they believe whomever died, so not much to report. Dead Darksider, no follow up. Case closed, whatever happened with that attack on the Wookiees?

 

[fireproof78]

Side note: One thing that I've been curious about is what would the names of the eras pre and post High Republic be called? Early Republic & Late Republic? Low Republic & Middling Republic? Either way, this all sounds like something they would get applied much later in history. Seems like the height of hubris to name a period the "high" anything while you're still in it.

That's probably a retroactive naming of it. Only after it falls they can look back and say those different eras as the High Republic, and then the decline of the Republic.

 

[Set Harth]

Anakin meets up with an old pilot and talks about finding a hologram Anakin found talking about the Sith, and the pilot looks panicked that they might return and try to take over the galaxy.

Is it possible you're thinking of another book? I just reread the meeting with the pilot and there's no mention of the Sith or any hologram.

 

[fireproof78]

Is it possible you're thinking of another book? I just reread the meeting with the pilot and there's no mention of the Sith or any hologram.

I'll have to reread it. It might be Anakin's Journal.

 

[Reverend]

It's been ages since I read any HR material; do characters in those actually refer to their time as the High Republic? If so, while it makes them sound a little full of themselves, it does make sense as part of the Republic's eventual downfall came down to its arrogance.

No, but I think they do refer to is as that in the OT era comics, so given the unlikelihood of the Empire labelling any period of the Republic in an idealised way, the term probably came from the late Republic era.