#no The Acolyte today

[notyourmoon4528]

I'm up but at what cost

[wannakissrobits]

I normally would never have been interested in House of the Dragon or Star Wars: Acolyte, it’s just not my thing.

But here I am watching them.

I have to.

[crosshairslongasslegs]

osha really said hush up pretty boy, i’m taking over

[prncssguya]

apparently qimir’s hair was inspired by toshiro mifune in snow trail. are you kidding me ??!

[feykiller]

Fiiiine I’ll paint the hot Sith

[the-bensolos]

What it feels like when you win the Star War.

[jewishcissiekj]

I'm going to be so annoying about her. starting right now.

[pickypickypeak]

“Oh I like this movie” “wHaT? iT’s ObJeCtiVeLy bAd” “tHe WriTiNg Is sHiT”

Me:

[brother-genitivi]

Jedi Padawan Torbin on Brendok // The Acolyte 1.03 - Destiny

[fredmundo]

how can you hate me when i'm ✨a writer✨

[i-didnt-hate-it]

Okay I've just gotta talk about The Acolyte for a second. Potential spoilers for episode 7.

I'll be honest, this last episode wasn't as cool as the previous few for me. The flashbacks just aren't doing it for me, I'm not sure why.

But one "issue" that I really thought a lot about episode 7, that I feel like people are probably gonna complain about (because "fans" will complain about anything), is how what the Jedi do doesn't make any sense.

Because yeah, it kinda doesn't. But I'm not saying the writing doesn't make sense. Honestly I'm not talking about the writing at all. In universe, what the Jedi do om Brendok doesn't make sense. But it's also EXACTLY what the Jedi would do. They're just too high on themselves to realize that they're doing something crazy until it goes as bad as it possibly could.

This is the High Republic era. The Jedi are so incredibly untainted that they think they can do no wrong. They only begin to think about how taking children away from their homes might be a bad thing when it results the destruction of the entire community and almost the loss of their own.

Like the only reason this particular kidnapping by the Jedi is noteworthy is because a bunch of people died because of the Jedi interfering. And considering how the counsel covered it up, who knows how many more times "accidents" like this happened?

The Jedi really look at a completely alien culture, see kids that they can manipulate, and say, "is for me?"

I've seen things comparing Sol to Qui-Gon Jinn, but... no? Sol is like Qui-Gon, if instead of making a deal to free Anakin, he just said "hey Shmi, you know I have a right to test your kid, right?" and then killed Shmi, and blamed the destruction of Mos Espa on C-3PO after he started a fire. Like if in the Phantom Menace they just flew away with Anakin while Tatooine burns behind them, that's pretty much what Sol did.

The only reason Sol seems so wisened in the "present" is because he's had 16 years to think about what a big mistake he made.

[imadetheline]

cannot believe I was convinced to watch the acolyte when I haven't watched anything star wars in over a year on the strength of my friends' recommendations and how hot Manny jacinto is but here we are I guess

[bereft-of-frogs]

ugh I think I have another #Theory, this time to the solve to the 'how to kill a Jedi without a weapon' riddle, I truly must be stopped --

I think people are off-base assuming it's with the Force, because I feel like Mae would have already figured out choking/lightning or whatever, I believe the Force counts as a 'weapon', and clearly the poison was a weapon (see: Qimir after 'so you did it, you killed the Jedi without the poison) so I do think it's metaphorical rather than semantic. I believe the theories that it's about corrupting a Jedi to the dark side and 'destroying the dream' are closer than any 'it's because she's meant to do it with the Force/her bare hands' or 'it's about killing an unarmed Jedi' (though that second one has potential, why else is she grabbing for the lightsabers but leaving them after they're dead?). But another solution could be destroying the Jedi's legacy.

I think they're going to frame Sol as the rogue Jedi who trained Mae.

I have like, so little textual evidence for this. This is probably as out of thin air as the 'Vernestra/Indara is the Sith' theories so maybe I who live in a glass house shouldn't be throwing stones about how much I dislike those theories after proposing this one. But I'm really thinking that only Sol is going to make it out of the forest battle alive next episode, aside from Osha and the Sith crew, and there's going to be some kind of chase that leads them away. So Vernestra shows up on Khofar (the lightwhip scene in the trailer is almost certainly Khofar) to find the bodies killed with a lightsaber and everyone else gone.

I think they go off and unpack whatever happened the night of the fire on Brendok, there's all kinds of confrontations/fights/reveals/etc in episodes 6 & 8 (episode 7 is definitely the Jedi POV of the flashback) and the season's going to end with at least Sol dead (maybe Mae too) and Osha turning to the dark side to become the true acolyte. It was already set up last episode that the Order doesn't suspect the Sith, they're pretty convinced it's a 'rogue Jedi' who trained Mae, and Sol did some kind of shady stuff during that meeting. (Not including himself on the list of targets, keeping Mae and her survival a secret.) Even I sort of started to suspect him, but I think that's a red herring, just to set up why Vernestra might end up distrusting him. So Vern's feeling kind of weird about the secrets Sol's kept about Mae (because it's more than just 'he thought she died', Yord said even the existence of Mae didn't end up in Osha's file), but she still trusts him and there are innocent explanations for all this she writes off, so she sends him off with a bunch of other Jedi to go get Kelnacca. But now the whole crew she sent out is dead, clearly killed with a lightsaber (they know Osha doesn't have a lightsaber, and reasonably suspect Mae doesn't either considering Indara was killed with a knife, Torbin poison, and she left their lightsabers behind), and Sol's gone...I think it's fairly reasonable suspicion especially if later Osha turns up as the acolyte.

(There were a couple early things that seemed to deliberately set her physically apart from Mae, the marking on Mae's forehead and her tattoo. Why would they do that if the Jedi believed the identical twin thing right away? Why would they need some proof of their identities unless there's a second role reversal and they need some other way of telling it's Osha and not Mae?)

So yeah in this Sol -- ray of literal sunshine, good Jedi, kind person -- gets his legacy destroyed (one apprentice dead, because I'm pretty convinced Jecki doesn't live out the season, though I'll be happy to be wrong -- the other turned to the dark side) and his reputation tarnished by accusations of being a rogue Jedi training dark side assassins. There you go, you've killed a Jedi without a weapon.

And I feel like this would fit the kind of meta narrative they've got going on, as sort of a mirror of what happened to the Order as a whole at the end of the PT, heroes transformed into traitors.

I have no additional evidence for this. My theories are not spiraling at all. I love weekly releases and am being very very normal about having to wait between episodes. :) so normal *vibrates intensely*

[sydneyadmu]

coloring HDR footage for the acolyte is so hard omg please check on your fellow gif makers now we’re struggling

[nightmarefuele]

. im so fucking mad at that finale

(go RATE IT WELL even if u dont watch it pleeeease. we need any and every chance we can get for an s2.)