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Spoilers The Acolyte
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Not always, people were pretty quick to pick up on Qimir being The Stranger, and I can't remember who, but one of the people involved with the show said that it wasn't a coincidence that the used some of Kylo Ren's music last week.
And I know I've seen articles with Headland or others involved with the show calling him a Sith, but people in those kind of positions have been know to twist things, and on rare occasions have out right lied to hide twists or spoilers.
Some of the stuff he said in this week's episode seemed to imply that there's more going on than him just being a Sith Lord like Maul or Vader were. The impression I got was that he had been trained as a Sith at some point, but isn't one any more. I'm assuming there's some significance to the fact that he's looking for an "acolyte" rather than apprentice, like most Sith have.
And I know I've seen articles with Headland or others involved with the show calling him a Sith, but people in those kind of positions have been know to twist things, and on rare occasions have out right lied to hide twists or spoilers.
That was an ok episode. I'm glad Sol wasn't a complete idiot, although I'm still not sure if he worked it out for himself or Bazil spilled the beans.
The Qmir/Osha scenes were nicely done but nothing we haven't seen a million times before (still a better 'seduction' scene than Palaptine/Anakin of course!)
I am intrigued about Qmir's backstory, and hope this isn't just cast aside and it turns out he is just a regular aged human, though I do like the notion that he was Vernestra's padawan.
The Qmir/Osha scenes were nicely done but nothing we haven't seen a million times before (still a better 'seduction' scene than Palaptine/Anakin of course!)
I am intrigued about Qmir's backstory, and hope this isn't just cast aside and it turns out he is just a regular aged human, though I do like the notion that he was Vernestra's padawan.
It was a deliberate design choice to echo the aesthetics of Ahch-To but still be a completely separate planet.
There were a lot of lemons in the early Star Wars EU.
Once we got to NJO I basically tuned out.
Same here. Did some high school book reports on the Zahn trilogy (complete with artwork), stuck around till about 100 pages into the first NJO book and quit. Lots of lemons and best forgotten.
I got though Star by Star in the NJO series. There were just too many novels coming out at the same time to keep up with at that point. Plus, I think that is when I finished college and started working. Between working and the advancements of the Internet, I have less time to read than I use to have. From Heir to the Empire to Star by Star I read basically everything as they came out.
I found that as a general rule of thumb; the further the EU material got from the core movie characters in the post OT era, the better it generally was. The worst stuff was always the mainline books and comics centred on Han, Luke, Leia and their various kids.
The better material by contrast was either stuff like TotJ/KotOR, the X-Wing novels, or even some of the A.C Crispen Han Solo books, and the Kenobi novel. I can't speak to it personally since I've never read them, but I've also heard some people swear by some of the old (pre-animated series) Clone Wars novels that came out between AotC & RotJ. I've seen the Medstar duology mentioned more than once as a high point of the whole EU. What they all have in common was that they either went somewhere entirely new, or took a single familiar character and put them in an unfamiliar scenario . . . which to bring things back on topic; is what 'The Acolyte' is doing, and why it's really working for me.
Something that often annoys me about certain fans is that there's a common complaint that goes all the way back to when the PT came out; that is whenever anyone tries anything new they whine "but it doesn't feel like Star Wars!" and defining that as literally just like the first movie, or the OT as a whole (a decidedly nebulous definition, to be sure!) Hell, I've seen that complaint in fan letters dating back to 1980! Some people were mad that Empire wasn't exactly like Star Wars. That Lucas dared to do something different from before -- and continuded to do so every damn time -- is to me what makes something feel like Star Wars.
That expansion into the unknown, the risk taking to tell a new story. Look at the best stuff that's come out over the last 15 years from Clone Wars to the High Republic publising inititive; that's what they all have in common. And the worst stuff? Mostly it's been the most risk averse project; the most counched in nostalgia and determined not to just honor the past, but repeat it almost verbatum. Something Lucas never liked to do.
The better material by contrast was either stuff like TotJ/KotOR, the X-Wing novels, or even some of the A.C Crispen Han Solo books, and the Kenobi novel. I can't speak to it personally since I've never read them, but I've also heard some people swear by some of the old (pre-animated series) Clone Wars novels that came out between AotC & RotJ. I've seen the Medstar duology mentioned more than once as a high point of the whole EU. What they all have in common was that they either went somewhere entirely new, or took a single familiar character and put them in an unfamiliar scenario . . . which to bring things back on topic; is what 'The Acolyte' is doing, and why it's really working for me.
Something that often annoys me about certain fans is that there's a common complaint that goes all the way back to when the PT came out; that is whenever anyone tries anything new they whine "but it doesn't feel like Star Wars!" and defining that as literally just like the first movie, or the OT as a whole (a decidedly nebulous definition, to be sure!) Hell, I've seen that complaint in fan letters dating back to 1980! Some people were mad that Empire wasn't exactly like Star Wars. That Lucas dared to do something different from before -- and continuded to do so every damn time -- is to me what makes something feel like Star Wars.
That expansion into the unknown, the risk taking to tell a new story. Look at the best stuff that's come out over the last 15 years from Clone Wars to the High Republic publising inititive; that's what they all have in common. And the worst stuff? Mostly it's been the most risk averse project; the most counched in nostalgia and determined not to just honor the past, but repeat it almost verbatum. Something Lucas never liked to do.
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We don't really know anything about the Knights of Ren to say what they are. Sith are/were the ultimate dark side users and wielded the dark side of the force in the most powerful way possible. But then Kylo Ren comes along and has just as much control over the dark side of the force. There's little to differentiate them. There was the Knights of Ren comic that came out a few years ago but that didn't shed any light on them. In fact, they seem to share the same practices as the Sith, things like making their kiber crystal bleed so it becomes red.
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To see the full symmetry of the titles, you need to arrange the episodes in chronological order:
- Destiny
- Lost/Found
- Revenge/Justice
- Day
- Night
- Teach/Corrupt
- Accept/Honest
- Doom
Wasn't the whole place coming down around them? There really wasn't time to go get a body, and afterwards there was probably too much debris to go digging through.
Accept/Honest turns out not to be accurate. I wonder where that came from.
"A hundred years ago this planet was catalogued as lifeless, because of a hyperspace disaster..."
It's a shame they made Trinity one of those dull, by-the-book Jedi with no personalities like Mace Windu. I would argue those type were the reason the Jedi fell.
Didn't quite understand why Sol killed the mother. Just because she became gas doesn't mean hostile intent. I get that he's a flawed Jedi but that was just silly.
The pop song at the end was also strange for Star Wars but I suppose if Star Trek can have one, so can Star Wars.
It's a shame they made Trinity one of those dull, by-the-book Jedi with no personalities like Mace Windu. I would argue those type were the reason the Jedi fell.
Didn't quite understand why Sol killed the mother. Just because she became gas doesn't mean hostile intent. I get that he's a flawed Jedi but that was just silly.
The pop song at the end was also strange for Star Wars but I suppose if Star Trek can have one, so can Star Wars.
In fairness, Indara seems to have been right in this particular case. It's everybody else going off-book which causes things to go off the rails.
I think the general point is reasonable, though. I've always been with TLJ Luke.
Really? A depressed, given-up Luke? EU Luke was way better.
That's literally the whole point of the show and the PT. The Jedi lost their way. They were so rigid in their ideology that they couldn't see past the tip of their lightsaber.
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