Spoilers The Acolyte

[Set Harth]

come on now

 

[The Nth Doctor]

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.

Sadly, insane YouTube vitriol is far from limited to just Star Wars. Any popular show or film series that dares to be progressive in any manner drives these folks out of the woodwork. Star Wars, Star Trek, Doctor Who, the MCU, the DCEU (or whatever it's called now), Sandman, Game of Thrones, Rings of Power, Dune, Stranger Things, Ghostbusters, Wednesday, Good Omens, the list goes on and on and on...

 

[Set Harth]

I don't get how someone can say that a streaming series is a financial disaster.

 

[Skipper]

I don't get how someone can say that a streaming series is a financial disaster.

They know.

 

[Captrek]

since the 1st episode release date was a bit vague, exactly when is episode 3 being release?

Tuesday, 6PM PT, 9PM ET.

 

[Jedman67]

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.

In the Legends/Old EU, any natural diamond-type gem could be used as a focusing crystal. I imagine that the Sith could find/make their own kybers in secret

 

[cooleddie74]

Inside knowledge. Or whatever their hangover tells them the day they shoot a new YouTube video.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Inside knowledge.

More like the voices inside their head.

 

[Reverend]

In the Legends/Old EU, any natural diamond-type gem could be used as a focusing crystal. I imagine that the Sith could find/make their own kybers in secret

Yeah, I prefer Lucas's idea of living Kyber over "just shove a diamond or whatever in there" anytime. Makes lightsabers a little more special, difficult to counterfeit, and a more literal extension to a Jedi's connection to the force. The idea of synthetic crystals never felt right to me either.

That said; Sith being able to lay their hands on kyber isn't really much a a mystery. Kyber is rare but not *that* rare. Also given home many Sith killed each other in their infighting, and their wars with the Jedi; Bane's inheritors are probably sitting on an enormous stockpile of relic sabres and crystals; some already bled, some Jedi bonded, some still in it's natural clear state.

The whole thing about claiming an bleeding Jedi's crystal has little to do with scarcity and everything to do with exerting power and dominance.

 

[Ithekro]

If there are only two Sith at a time, it would be a reasonable ask of the Master to want the future apprentice to actually kill a Jedi to prove their worth. Doing it to gain their own personally crystal to bleed from one's enemy is a flex.

 

[Reverend]

I really think that the SW fandom is the most toxic one.

That's the thing though; it's not the Star Wars fandom, it's just a bunch of loud, obnoxious disaffected gobshites on the internet. There's a difference

If there are only two Sith at a time, it would be a reasonable ask of the Master to want the future apprentice to actually kill a Jedi to prove their worth. Doing it to gain their own personally crystal to bleed from one's enemy is a flex.

I get the symbolism, but like I said; in that Maul comic Sidious was VERY adamant that he stay the hell away from the Jedi, lest he risk exposing them. And since he already had a sabre, he couldn't have gotten his crystals that way.

 

[Tuskin38]

Hm a Zabrak with pointed ears. I think that’s new.

The young actress are uncanny to the adult actor

 

[thribs]

They took a blood sample but we never found out what the midichlorian count was. Was it over 9000?

 

[Nerys Myk]

They took a blood sample but we never found out what the midichlorian count was. Was it over 9000?

It was enough. What more do you need to know?

 

[DigificWriter]

@JD My speculation about what happened on Brendok is that the four Jedi who were present there had some kind of involvement in the starting of the fire that Osha (and likely Mae also) believed killed her (their) family members and that that involvement was covered up.

That would explain why Mae is pissed off at all four of them and also why Torbin willingly poisoned himself in front of her.

Quoting myself here in order to acknowledge that I was completely wrong.

 

[thribs]

It was enough. What more do you need to know?

An actual number would be nice.

 

[thribs]

Quoting myself here in order to acknowledge that I was completely wrong.

I'm guessing the Sith were there and they killed them; trying to frame the Jedi into doing so.

 

[Nerys Myk]

An actual number would be nice.

Irrelevant. Either the count is high enough or it isn't.
You keeping a tally or something?

 

[thribs]

Irrelevant. Either the count is high enough or it isn't.
You keeping a tally or something?

You're a barrel of fun aren't you?

 

[Nerys Myk]

You're a barrel of fun aren't you?

More that than a barrel of meaningless stats.