Spoilers The Acolyte

[Yistaan]

Limited in stock--Bazil stuffed toys! Buy now before they're sold out!
Bonus AI feature--the Bazil stuffed robot will randomly sabotage and deactivate your tech devices (computers, phones, etc.) without any explanation why!

 

[Tuskin38]

and justified killing her mothers on the basis that "she was meant to be my apprentice"

He killed Aniseya because he thought she was killing Mae. Koril isn't dead, just assumed to be.

 

[Yistaan]

Willow's a verb now in the streaming era with few physical releases meaning a show's cancellation can also mean complete removal with no legal way to watch: https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/star-...illow-as-fans-petition-for-shows-return-a8351

Bob Iger: I'm not just canceling Acolyte, I'm Willow-ing it!

Leslye Headland: No. NOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Bob Iger:

 

[The Nth Doctor]

It does feel that way sometimes. I think the other side of it is the lack of engagement with the story and they just don't follow along the characters.

I did my second rewatch just to see what stood out. I saw a lot of comments of "people change motivations for no reason!"

Well, what I saw on screen was that they had reasons, but they were more than just what was spoken. Everything for Osha and Mae was predicated on the idea that the Jedi were either saviors or villains, and their role in the loss of their family. That's the point of view, and suddenly that view is completely upended as they both find out the other is alive. Everything is driven by that desire to be together again, and finding out some very painful truths.

Sol is crushed by his immense guilt as he finds out that the lies he's been telling are coming back to haunt him in the worst possible way.

All of this as other Jedi masters try to navigate the difficulty of hanging someone hunting Jedi, and the mistrust that is coming from the Senate.

You have all these different actors trying to manage and consolidate power, while others are trying to do the right thing, and still others are struggling with harsh truths.

I'm sorry of the producer's comments around it make people annoyed or whatever "identity politics" are being added in but I just don't see it as coming through in the story. And, in this instance, the story is more important.

Agree 1000%. Well said.

Willow's a verb now in the streaming era with few physical releases meaning a show's cancellation can also mean complete removal with no legal way to watch: https://sffgazette.com/sci_fi/star-...illow-as-fans-petition-for-shows-return-a8351

Damnit, that's fucking stupid. I hated it when they did it to Willow and I'll hate it if they do it to The Acolyte, too. Stupid, garbage idea that follows the coattails of vaulting. Fuck that shit.

 

[cooleddie74]

Tragically, The Stranger and Jecki aren't among the announced figures. And now the odds of getting them have obviously plummeted and those are easily the ones most in demand.

Ah, Hasbro. Both collectors' good friend and blood enemy.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Ah, Hasbro. Both collectors' good friend and blood enemy.

It is if you're the host of Youtube's Retroblasting. That guy cannot stop digging up new rants about Hasbro.

 

[fireproof78]

Ah, Hasbro. Both collectors' good friend and blood enemy.

Well, I don't consider myself a collector so I guess I don't worry about Hasbro too much.

 

[cooleddie74]

It is if you're the host of Youtube's Retroblasting. That guy cannot stop digging up new rants about Hasbro.

The Retroblasting guy is usually an unpleasant guttural sound no matter what his video content.

 

[Tuskin38]

I can afford some of the cool Hasbro stuff, I just don't have the space to display it lol

 

[Set Harth]

I'm sorry of the producer's comments around it make people annoyed or whatever "identity politics" are being added in but I just don't see it as coming through in the story. And, in this instance, the story is more important.

I can't recall any annoying producer comments offhand, but before this thing came out I did hear a rumor that someone in the writer's room knew nothing about Star Wars. So that was like a huge red flag to me. However, anyone who saw the final product can attest that it was made by people who know quite a bit about Star Wars. Also, alt-right social media accounts were blasting around a public statement from the lead actress saying something needlessly incendiary, but it turned out to be about a 2018 movie and had nothing to do with Acolyte or SW.

 

[fireproof78]

I can't recall any annoying producer comments offhand, but before this thing came out I did hear a rumor that someone in the writer's room knew nothing about Star Wars. So that was like a huge red flag to me. However, anyone who saw the final product can attest that it was made by people who know quite a bit about Star Wars. Also, alt-right social media accounts were blasting around a public statement from the lead actress saying something needlessly incendiary, but it turned out to be about a 2018 movie and had nothing to do with Acolyte or SW.

I have no idea what was said, only that other posters (not here) were complaining about the producer's needless comments about Star Wars and the fan base.

My attitude is, "I don't care." I don't agree with Lucas on all his thoughts on Star Wars so why am suddenly going to give a hoot about an artist's comments? I feel like people are actively trying to cause damage to their ability to enjoy stuff nowadays?

 

[JD]

Tragically, The Stranger and Jecki aren't among the announced figures. And now the odds of getting them have obviously plummeted and those are easily the ones most in demand.

Amazon has a Black Serie Jecki figure listed for release on October 1st.
https://www.amazon.com/STAR-WARS-Pa...2041&sprefix=star+wars+the+ac,aps,269&sr=8-13

 

[cooleddie74]

Oh, she's already out. I've seen her multiple times already at GameStops.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

That figure looks fantastic!

 

[Ithekro]

I hope for a continuation of the era/storyline. Maybe not use the same writers or directors but keep the setting and characters if possible. The setting is good.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I agree. There’s a lot of untapped potential in the High Republic. I hope it won’t be wholesale scrubbed.

 

[Yistaan]

I agree. There’s a lot of untapped potential in the High Republic. I hope it won’t be wholesale scrubbed.

There actually isn't. The whole premise is a contradiction--High Republic is supposed to be the Republic at peace, yet the stories are still depending on war to drive the plot (the Nihil, the Path of the Open Hand etc.). This then places writers in a bind where the threat has to be meaningful to the Jedi, yet not THAT big that it's galaxy-disrupting and destroys the whole premise of a galaxy at peace. That's why so much of the High Republic has just been filler so far.

There's a reason why Legends set their stories during the Sith wars of the Old Republic. Fans asked for that almost a decade ago and instead LFL community figure Pablo Hidalgo went out of his way to mock the idea:

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. Well, now they ignored the fans and what they got is a canceled show.

For High Republic to work on tv, it needs to go full TOS or TNG where they have episodic adventures in a galalxy at peace. The High Republic we've been getting is trying to be DS9's Dominion War while at the same time claiming they're in a peacetime status of TOS and TNG. The whole premise is a mess without serious changes.

 

[Hartzilla2007]

For High Republic to work on tv, it needs to go full TOS or TNG where they have episodic adventures in a galalxy at peace.

I mean Phase II pretty much did that since all the Path of the Open Hand seemed to be doing was starting or exacerbating problems on planets outside of or on the fringes of the Republic.

 

[fireproof78]

I agree. There’s a lot of untapped potential in the High Republic. I hope it won’t be wholesale scrubbed.

Agreed. I think we could a lot more of the Republic. One of the things that drives me nuts about the PT is that it doesn't show us why the Republic should be saved. Just that "Empire equal teh sux, m'kay."

Show me the good it does!

 

[cooleddie74]

That's one thing the loss of the AOTC Deleted Scenes from the narrative of that film does, show how even during its twilight years the Republic engaged in sizeable humanitarian rescue efforts to save entire species from extinction, or at least attempt to even if it failed. Between her term as Queen of Naboo and being a Senator Padmé served in a Senate apprenticeship program that sent her to the homeworld of an endangered species as part of one of those rescue programs.

When George cut out the exposition scene in Padmé's home bedroom we were robbed of the knowledge that the Republic engaged in those kinds of endeavors out of humanitarian concern and a desire to help those in danger, which I imagine were factors that drove teenage Padmé to volunteer for that mission.