#turn away if you like reylo or whatever qimir x oshas ship name is LOL

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acolyte finale reactions / general thoughts on s1 (i'm kinda crabby about it so maybe avoid if you liked the finale a lot lol)

i wanted to like this more 😭😭😭😭😭I was so hype at the beginning of the season 😭😭😭😭😭How'd we go from that start to Reylo 2 man 😭

It just felt like once Jecki and Yord were killed like the heart of the show was gone, Qimir/Stranger was set up to be this huge villain and then suddenly Reylo 2 UGHHGHHGHHGH. Then Sol turned into Joel from the Last of Us and I was just like whatever. I love SW and I'm absurdly easy to please with SW so it takes a lot to get me feeling like this.

Next season is gonna be Darth Rhysand being all "I'm super evil and murderous and powerful and regularly commit atrocities, but I respect you, Osha, I put you on equal footing and am honest with you" and then if it's like the other romantasy stuff like this I've read he's gonna get treated like he's the best person ever by the narrative and the audience and UGHGH i'm not looking forward to that. throw in One Bed and a bunch of other booktok tropes too probably.

RIP jecki lesbian icon gone too soon I won't forget that qimir murdered her even if osha did immediately

Overall there were a lot of highs but with how uneven and super messy it got, it really felt like they needed a few more drafts of the story to make things pop more and be more coherent. For example Sol being a kind person but deeply flawed who did this terrible act leading to his demise would have worked a lot better for me if some of the bits weren't so clunky. In the back half it just felt like the major events just kinda happened making him into Master Joel, and the dialogue not feeling natural a lot of the time for it, just characters saying vagueness to get everyone mad at each other so Osha could kill him at the end. sol felt like a completely different character at the end and not in a good way.

If this is the The Jedi Suck / Sith POV show (and going by that senator's speech and qimir being all "uhh you actually TRUST the jedi lol" I get the sense that was a big part of the mood writing this) like make it less clunky I guess??? the jedi order is a majorly flawed institution with PLENTY to go in depth on but by the end of this show did we need like five characters going like "yep you're gonna get genocided and you deserve it 😏" conversations like what was that?

I kinda wish we just had a majority of the POV time on the Sith from the jump instead of starting with "Mae is the evil twin who is on a murder spree and had serial killer tendencies as a child, Osha is the good twin who helps everyone she can," and just kinda dinking around with the Jedi for 5 eps before killing a bunch of them, shifting to osha being all "hey that sith guy who killed all those jedi is so hot i am seduced by the dark side alright lolol" and then "this is all sol's fault, time to die, i am a sith now" happening on hyperspeed because they spent 5 episodes waiting to get to what they really wanted the show to be about. It kind of reminds me of the structure of a netflix show in that regard where the first season is basically the prologue to the main story which blehg.

Mae just kinda felt pointless by the end, the stuff of her torturing animals with the force and starting the fire just kinda got brushed away because Master Joel and she spent most of the finale just like standing off to the side going😳and that's even before she got her mind wiped.

Again I just feel like this is one of those particular romantasy stories where the logic just isn't there for me or I just am too stupid to get it. it's always like "here are what are traditionally the good guys. just kidding they suck. here's a large evil man. he's actually good because he respects women!!!!! we stan a king in this household who lets his wife make the decisions!!!" but they make the evil guy too evil so I don't want to root for him, the lady lead falls for him way too fast, and her doing evil is treated as liberated and triumphant, and to top it all off it's straight too so i'm like whatever.

I'm just whatever about this whole show i guess LOL. i could go on and probably will have more later but I should prolly stop here.

I did like seeing a kyber crystal bleed in live action, really all the deep lore pulls were my fav part, the glup shitto of it all.

this was supposed to be the lesbian star wars show and then every lesbian died and we ended on deluxe straight reylo 2