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I love how in The Acolyte, the older and wiser Jedi rarely use their lightsabers. Indara only pulls it as a last resort, and Sol and Torbin haven't used theirs at all. Meanwhile, Yord, who's younger, seems much more keen to draw his weapon. I just really appreciate that it's showing the gradual changing of the Order's beliefs through the different generations of Jedi as they move toward the prequel era
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So the take goin around right now is that acolyte shows how its era of Jedi are better than the prequel ones because they're less quick to draw their lightsabers
Yeah, gotta disagree on this
1. The prequel Jedi really aren't overly quick on the saber draw (there are certainly individuals who are, but they're people like Anakin/ahsoka/etc, sucky Jedi/people taught by sucky Jedi), pretty much any time they take their sabers out its because the situations call for it, which brings me to...
2. There is a fundamental difference in the times between the prequels and acolyte
Acolyte is in a time of peace and a peace that will last another century
The prequels are a time of rising tensions and war, the Jedi here must always be on guard
And on that note
3. Personally I'd say that the fact that the acolyte Jedi aren't drawing their sabers in response to a threat shows that they're not taking this as seriously as they should, that they're treating the situation with kids gloves, in contrast to the prequel Jedi who are responding appropriately to the danger to their lives an lives of others by not hesitating and dealing with the situation as quickly and efficiently as possible
It's all so ironic, this show is very much trying to go for a "this is how the Jedi messed up and became the prequel Jedi" message, but because it's based upon a fundamental misunderstanding of what the prequel Jedi are, it actually ends up making these Jedi from a century prior to the prequels seem worse
In other words, the acolyte era Jedi are complacent and arrogant, while the prequel Jedi have adapted with the times
#wooloo-writes#wooloo writes#sw#star wars#pro jedi#in defense of the jedi#(prequel jedi)#(not acolyte era jedi)#(they suck)#jedi#jedi order#anti acolyte#anti the acolyte#acolyte critical#the acolyte critical#the acolyte#star wars the acolyte#star wars acolyte
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POV: you're thinking about all the lost potential that The Acolyte had
#Chance to have a live action look into the Jedi Order during the High Republic era: thrown away#Nice set of characters with compelling stories/personalities/relationships: wasted#The dialogue and pacing was so bad holy moly#And the overuse of the trope “person disappearing without a sound while the other is not looking” is WILD#Star Wars#The Acolyte#Master Sol#Jecki Lon#Yord Fandar#Yord The Acolyte#Master Indara#Sol Patrol#Mae Aniseya#Osha Aniseya#Qimir#Yord Horde#Sol The Acolyte#The Acolyte Critical#What is this choppy storytelling I'm at loss for words#<- clearly delusional person who is still surprised about this even after 4 other crappy sw shows#Andor not included
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Hi my favorite thing star wars does (knowingly or accidentally) is create their jedi characters and put them in the wrong era.
Like tell me jedi like Osha or Anakin wouldn't fit perfectly in with the Je'daii/Dai bendu era (being able to have attachments/families and being able to utilize both the light and dark sides). Tell me Dalien Brock and Torbin wouldn't be perfect in the Clone Wars era (Dal would have a field day with a hyperdrive and torbin would love the missions on different planets). Obi Wan just fits the vibes of the High Republic so well.
#im not gonna say anything about old republic bc i have a super limited knowledge of the jedi during that era#star wars#the acolyte#hermes screams about star wars#dawn of the jedi#high republic#theres also deeper reasons for the jedi i picked i just can form the words rn#anakin skywalker#obiwan kenobi#osha aniseya#torbin#dalien brock
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Fresh ideas will never prosper with Star Wars as long as they listen to toxic ass fans boys.
#i mean come the fuck on#the acolyte#star wars#new sith and jedi lore#asian and black leads#lore to add to everyone's oh so sacred skywalker era#like acolyte was enhancing star wars#and disney said nahhh to many black characters and people of colors
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Pro Jedi in that I'm pro Jedi being little freaks who fuck up big-time
#yes this is about the acolyte discourse#but for reals if i wanted compltely pure jedi with zero nuance id go to fanfic i guess#but like why would i want that#im as sick of the 'the jedi deserved it' rhetoric as the next asshole#but demanding all star wars engage with the jedi in the most boring way possible is not the way babes#the high republic is one of my favorite eras because there are so many jedi with fascinating views on the order#i dont understand people who insist that the high republic jedi are like flawless author ocs???#the authors clearly love their characters but those dinguses FUCK UP! a LOT!!!#and thats exciting#anyway might delete later if anyone actually sees this post#the high republic#star wars high republic#the acolyte#star wars the acolyte
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i finally started reading the high republic books! i finished light of the jedi last night, so here are a few of my (non-spoilery) thoughts:
jedi doing cool shit with the force is my favorite thing and there is SO much good jedi doing cool shit with the force content
also the way the force was described was just, really beautiful. it's been a while since any visual star wars medium has really made me feel in awe of the force, but this did the job so well.
the little worldbuilding aspects were really cool. (hypserspace travel still being developed, bacta isn't mass-produced yet, etc.) this book was just a really nice reminder about how cool and strange and fun the star wars galaxy can be (when actual effort is put into making it that way)
on that note, god it felt good to have good star wars content. like this was SO. GOOD. (and i'm so so excited to move onto the next books, but i kind of didn't want this one to end bc charles soule is such a beautiful writer. and he made every pov interesting and engaging; i was never bored)
i think maybe my favorite pov to read from was bell's. he made me laugh, and soule wrote him in such a way that was youthful but not childish, and it was just such a joy reading his pov. i felt so connected to him immediately, and was so proud of him by the end of the book! can't wait to see where his story goes. (also i love his and loden's relationship and i have SO many feelings about the end of the book like..... iykyk.)
avar and elzar. avar and elzar. AVAR AND ELZAR. they've got me down so. bad. help.....i love both of them individually, and their dynamic together is everything to me actually. (i have so many more thoughts on them, but i’ll come back to them later)
another bullet point to again say how much i LOVE jedi doing cool shit with the force, and relating it to elzar and a) how he describes the force as an endless sea.... yeah. i'm in love w that description; and b) him wanting to push boundaries, explore all that the force is capable, is just really really cool.
the epilogue. I have not stopped thinking about it. like i got yearning and terrifying force visions all in one chapter?? charles soule did that for ME <3
i'm reading the main books for phase one in order, so next up is test of courage, then into the dark. (even though i reallyyyy want to just go right to the rising storm lol)
#also i don't know any major spoilers so please don't send me any thank youuuu <33#like the only thing is that like.. [glances nervously at the starlight beacon]. but even then i don't actually KNOW what happens there#but i'm literally so excited to keep reading. like it's been a LONG time since i've just wanted to DEVOUR a book series like this#i think part of that is how starved i've been for good starwars content lol#but this is getting me more excited for the acolyte! i mean i'm still going into that a little wary bc the recent sw shows have#left a lot to be desired imo#but i'm at least excited to see more of this era#also if y'all see me webweaving later for avar and elzar - don't mind me lol#i can't stop thinking about them#like it's actually embarrassing how quickly they got me#light of the jedi#the high republic#mik reads the high republic#star wars
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Not super thrilled with the whole “Jedi as an elite, powerful institution” take that the trailer for The Acolyte seems to be adopting; although I recognize that the monologue is coming from one specific character expressing their own viewpoint within the story; likely the Sith character, so we’re probably not supposed to agree with their take. Obviously I’m going to give the show a chance and come to it in good faith with a completely open mind.
But I will be disappointed if this is ultimately the idea they’re going with. The Jedi aren’t perfect, and can’t be, and of course they have their flaws and it’s interesting to explore that, as well as the ways in which the Order declined in certain aspects before its fall. But ultimately the Jedi have to be good—they have to be a source of light and wisdom and justice in the Galaxy—or else they’re just not interesting. If they’re not good, then they’re just religious cops with a dangerous amount of power, and at that point suddenly none of Star Wars makes any sense, its entire story logic falls apart.
#text#mine#star wars#the acolyte#jedi#this is what makes the high republic era so good and so interesting#the jedi are at their peak not just numerically but at the peak of their goodness
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'But so many Jedi were killed! They can't ignore that! People have to notice this threat!'
Side eyes the Jedi killed by the Open Hand, the Jedi killed in the Battle of Jedha, the Night of Sorrows Jedi Massacre, Jedi killed in space 9/11 one, two and three, Jedi killed by the Drengir, Jedi killed in the Occlusion Zone, Jedi killed by the Blight-
I think we'll be lucky if they get an obituary in the local Khofar news
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#thief the dark project#thief 2 the metal age#yes the origins of the mechanists and city watch are fully explained#as well as the origins of the trickster and the nature of the eye#and the world's predisposition to forming citystates rather than nations and the fall of the precursors#also sorry Deadly Shadows the Keepers are not jedi and are a young Order compared to the Hammerites#go find a different series to inject your starwars fanfiction into#(I love Deadly Shadows by the way but it goes far beyond butchering the Thief story it's outright not even the same setting)#read the botany book by Constantine's bed and then play The Cathedral by the way#the nobility and barony and spiritual realm still arent fully explained though. Thief 2 Gold i miss you so much you wouldve given us it all#(T2G wouldve let us explore a noble university and the tower of the banished Hand Brotherhood acolyte)#(and also wouldve given us the actual version of Karras' story instead of the sudden ending)#Thief 3 wouldve been insane. Can you imagine the fall of the Barony and the City changing hands as the digital era approaches#oh yeah Thief is a post-electrical revolution modern setting with analogue electronics and advanced medicine didnt you know that?#you just don't see firearms often because there was little demand for them in the City compared to more versatile bows. but theyre there#theyre just used more for field and naval battle. the City is too cramped and winding for them to be effective#and there hasnt been the demand to lead to the development of advanced loading mechanisms#due to the fortification-centric nature of infrastructure (due to REDACTED) premodern structures arent torn down just reinforced with steel#yes you learn all of this if you actually play the games all the way through. the opening levels of T1 are bait and switch#portraying the world as primitive and backwards as seen through garrett's eyes#dont get me started on garrett's full character. play Ambush! and really look through his apartment
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delightfully intrigued by acolyte! but also i thought this was the one with the mirialan protag? was i wrong? was that a different one? oops...
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Tag Changes are Coming to The High Republic
Hello! In the very near future, the Star Wars wrangling team is going to be doing what people have been asking for: we’re making The High Republic novels into series instead of individual book fandoms.
These fandoms are going to be:
Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase I - Various Authors
Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase II - Various Authors
Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase III - Various Authors
Read on for more details about this decision and all the related tag changes we’ll be making to help ease this transition.
Why is this change being made?
People have been using Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi - Charles Soule as a makeshift series tag, and we want how we wrangle these fandoms to reflect actual tagging practices. Also, the High Republic books are much more intertwined than wranglers initially foresaw.
Why did you split the fandom into phases? I wanted a single THR tag. :(
The problem with making a single tag for all the books is that the High Republic era is 400 years long and if we make one tag, then every book that takes place from 500 BBY to 100 BBY would be part of it, even if they have no relation to each other. These series tags are only going to contain the novels announced as part of this initial multimedia project, ending with the books published in Spring 2025. There might not be any THR books after that, but we live in hope. (Novel about Yord and Osha as padawans, anyone?)
If it makes you feel better, you can imagine that the separation between Phase I and III is Marchion Ro's fault. The Occlusion Zone is so powerful it extends to affecting AO3.
What about the comics and Tales of Light and Life?
Due to the fact that AO3 tag wranglers generally no longer make new AO3 fandoms that mix media types, the comics will remain their own fandoms, and any books that span more than one phase (such as Tales of Light and Life, which contains stories set in Phase I and Phase II) will remain their own fandoms, and won’t be renamed. These fandoms won’t be connected to the phase tags in any way. This also extends to Young Jedi Adventures and The Acolyte as well as its related tie-in media.
What will happen if I just tag "Star Wars: The High Republic" without specifying a phase in the fandom field?
Your story will only appear under "Star Wars - All Media Types", which is what currently happens. We’re able to move the majority of tags currently synonymous with the Star Wars - All Media Types to the era that best represents the majority of the works tagged with them, but Star Wars: The High Republic remains synonymous with Star Wars - All Media Types, as its usage is too mixed between phases.
In instances where a generic High Republic fandom tag that doesn't specify a particular phase of this era is used, it’s likely that wranglers will make that tag a synonym of the fandom tag that best represents the content of the majority of the fanworks tagged with it. Consequently, there may be at least a few works showing up in a phase they seemingly don't belong in, because they've made use of a generic High Republic fandom tag.
I still want tags that tell my readers what book the fic is connected to! What do I do?
You can still keep the fandom tag currently on your works if you want! There’s absolutely no need to edit your works. However, if you want to tag the books in freeforms/additional tags instead, we’ve got you covered with these canonical tags you can put in the "Additional Tags" field:
Books now part of Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase I - Various Authors
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Starlight Stories - Various Authors
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Light of the Jedi - Charles Soule
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Into the Dark - Claudia Gray
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: A Test of Courage - Justina Ireland
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: The Rising Storm - Cavan Scott
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Race to Crashpoint Tower - Daniel José Older
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Out of the Shadows - Justina Ireland
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Tempest Runner - Cavan Scott
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Mission to Disaster - Justina Ireland
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: The Fallen Star - Claudia Gray
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Midnight Horizon - Daniel José Older
Books now part of Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase II - Various Authors
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Quest for the Hidden City - George Mann
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Convergence - Zoraida Córdova
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Path of Deceit - Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Tales of Enlightenment - George Mann
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: The Battle of Jedha - George Mann
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Quest for Planet X - Tessa Gratton
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Cataclysm - Lydia Kang
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Path of Vengeance - Cavan Scott
Books now part of Star Wars: The High Republic: Phase III - Various Authors
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Chronicles from the Occlusion Zone - Lydia Kang
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Escape From Valo - Daniel José Older and Alyssa Wong
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness - George Mann
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Defy the Storm - Tessa Gratton and Justina Ireland
Book: Star Wars: The High Republic: Temptation of the Force - Tessa Gratton
Additional canonical tags will be added as more books are published.
(From time to time, ao3org posts announcements of recent or upcoming wrangling changes on behalf of the Tag Wrangling Committee.)
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i know i'm not the first to say this, but the acolyte's cancellation has confirmed how tired i am of disney's decision-making when it comes to their content. i know nostalgia is the easiest way to a big payout, but we can only take so many spinoffs before the universe starts to feel too small. but then fresh content—content that's building on the canon by looking to old star wars lore while asking new questions—fizzles out.
it's the sequel trilogy all over again. we're promised something new, something that actually expands the canon rather than just recycling it, even bringing in concepts from legends, and then the rug is ripped out from underneath us & we're punished for ever caring about any of it. silly babygirl! palpatine was always the big bad (don't worry about the fact that this is thematically nonsense and not foreshadowed in any way), and rey isn't a nobody ("your parents sold you because they loved you"), and this isn't a story about how the force transcends human categories and dynasties (represented by a grey jedi force dyad between a legacy skywalker and a nobody orphan from a backwater planet, fulfilling not only balance between light and dark but also transcending the old to become something new). silly idiot!!! rey's a palpatine by birth and a skywalker by self-adoption and god forbid she create her own identity outside of these names our fans recognize. watch as she stands alone on a sand planet that has no personal significance to her, ending her arc almost exactly as she began. but look!! two suns! neat
i don't even know if fanservice is the right word. at a certain point, it just starts to feel like they're quaking in their boots at the thought of doing anything new. i had my gripes with some of the choices in the acolyte, but at least it was unique. it explored a new era and asked questions that star wars has only ever flirted with. like: what happens to the children who are uprooted from their homes at such a young age, yet can't find their place in the jedi order? how does one survive in a supposedly honorable system that nevertheless relies on the repression of some of humanity's most fundamental emotions? is it possible that an organization dictating exactly how one ought to interact with the very life force of the universe... could perhaps be faulty and shortsighted? what happens when the ways of that order clash with other cultures and worldviews? (spoilers: space colonialism). and that's not even to mention the ideas they play with re: the force itself (vergences! plagueis! force witches!)
i know not everyone loved the show, but a lot of people really did care about it. a lot of people, like me, were excited to see these new questions being raised. but forget it—the disney gods have decreed that it didn't hit some magical threshold of streaming hours or reach a "broad enough" audience in the two months it's been out. but don't worry guys. turn your brains off and tune in for the next spinoff 2 chewy 2 bacca
#btw much respect to the team who worked on producing the acolyte#it's not their fault#i'm just reflecting on how much love and wonder i used to feel toward star wars#and now i'm just. so jaded. and tired#and there's more that could be said#about the *really* interesting political analogies we can make between the acolyte and our world#but i need to sleep#i don't usually post star wars stuff and ngl am scared of the fandom#don't be mean guys i'm literally just a stranger on the internet#star wars#the acolyte#long post#disney#tros#the rise of skywalker#also: rip#manny jacinto#would've loved to have had you in the star wars world longer than one season#ALSO i know this is a broader issue with streaming in general#but atm i'm thinking about disney specifically#rey palpatine#oshamir#sequel trilogy#streaming#disney +
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Some of the best Star Wars content in a long time that was shaky (honestly, that's a lie cause all it needed was more episode), the best fight scenes, live action darth plagueis, and finally, some high republic era live action and it was canceled because of toxic ass fans. I fucking hate this.
#the acolyte#star wars#its really making not want to watch anymore star wars content#like we got live action darth plagueis with a chance to explore him and his experiments#high republic era stuff and to slowly watch the fall of the jedi#i mean come on#fuck this
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Remember that one time we ever saw some Jedi sent by the Senate to do something shady and cop-like (rescue a well-treated hostage being held by rebels only because they’re being oppressed) and they ended up standing with all these villagers against their Senator and the authorities?
I did not just see someone say the Jedi are cops
#it honestly shows how much this democracy is far from broken beyond repair up until the latter clone wars era#that the republic still works with the Jedi and puts considerable resources into supporting them even though they significantly#do not just fall in line and do what they’re told when it’s unjust#tales of the jedi#star wars#the acolyte
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I might sound like a broken record but I would be more interested in engaging with The Acolyte criticism if 90% of that criticism I see thrown around wasn't just hardcore bitter guys angry about "wOmEN" and "hOw daRe thE ActoRs sAy tHaT" and "noooo the Jedi would never this is worse than the prequels"
Maybe I'm just a bit bitter over it, but is frustrating when you find something flawed, and when you look around all the hate is directed at...Huh, some interviews and that it dares to show jedi characters being flawed. What a pity.
My problems with The Acolyte are mostly just the writting, characters' intentions or personalities can seemingly jump from point A to Z from one episode to the other, and then it all feels quite toothless or lukewarm because is as if it doesn't want to commit to one Main narrative which was supposed to be murder mystery, then a Revenge plot, then is political intrigue, then...whatever happened between 4 and 8, and you can do all of these, but either because the pacing or total runtime all narratives felt barely brushed and the point with a show vs a movie, is that you have more time to develop side-plots and converge many more narratives! But is as if I missed whole episodes between Ep 7 and the finale.
Sol was so interesting and he was my fav starting but somewhere down the road his shift was too sudden and too little hinted, his ...Huh..."turn"?could have been incredible well done with some more development and hints for him.
I'm actually a fan of detective/murder intrigue stories, and having one in SW had me extremely excited, and while I still enjoyed waiting week by week, and I appreciate them opening a new window of SW's era, and some interesting things, it still felt frustrating and unpolished.
(and is even more frustrating that no one else seems to agree, ppl is a bit too busy trying to drag the director and actors through the mud and hating the fact some jedi messed up)
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