Star Wars: The Acolyte - Disney+ - (***Spoilers***)

he full on panicked and just killed her

Yeah I have to agree, the show has been a bit of a dud. Could have been an interesting show with Qimir turning a Jedi Padawan into his apprentice and showing the failures of the Jedi (in a different way to how Palpatine turned Anakin), but there's been so much superfluous fluff in the show between the Nightsisters or whatever they are, the fact the girls are twins rather than just having one character teeter between the Light and Dark side, them being born through the Force like Anakin was (which a lot of SW fans are giving out about because it makes Anakin less special since he was born the same way. I don't have any issue with that, I just think it feels pointless and redundant for Mae and Osha). The whole show has been a convoluted mess.

Can't see it getting a second season.

I think Episode 7 was more of a repeat of a previous episode than anything else. I didn't even care when any new snippets of what we didn't see in the other episode were shown. Still, it only lasted about 37 minutes. I expect episode 8 might be a lot longer.

It's still getting crucified on IMDB, and some of the high-raters are really getting angry with the low-raters who think that it's complete crap. 😛

if jedis are not allowed to have feelings or wants when they do they are very easily manipulated…

Why do you think Jedi aren't allowed to have feelings?

Absolutely not true, the Jedi do and of course have feelings and encourage them. They're encouraged to be caring, empathetic and loving. What they're specifically taught is to be careful with their emotions, and to not form attachments.

Obi-Wan himself has romantic affection with Satine and is honest about it. He actively gets annoyed and even angry with Anakin, he gets frustrated with Qui Gon and Luke forms strong friendships with Han and more.

They're not Vulcans, they do have and express feelings, just told to be very careful about them.

The path to darkside isn't love itself, it's not being able to let go of potential loss and hurt.

Oh I'm not contesting that they're pompous and all that, they often are. I'm just saying the idea that they're emotionless and don't or not allowed to have feelings is simply wrong.

The Jedi, like a lot of other fantasy/sci-fi type heroes are really more considered to be stoic, in that they they do feel strong and normal emotions, but choose to act rationally and logically over letting their emotions control them.

That's one of the things I think The Last Jedi got absolutely right and was the best path forward for Star Wars; the Jedi are human (well, humanoid aliens…). They're fallible, they're prone to mistakes, and it was their own hubris and hero complex that keeps allowing evil to rise. They don't own or control the Force, the Force is there regardless. They can wield it, but it can also wield them. The Force doesn't belong to powerful families or lineages, it belongs to everyone. It's why it chose Rey and was giving her the power to defeat the Dark Side even though her parents were nobody.

Then because of the backlash to the film because Luke wasn't completely heroic throughout the entire film, they brought JJ Abrams back in, Rey is a Palpatine and somehow Palpatine returned, Rey decides to be a Skywalker, and Finn thinks he's Force-sensitive but doesn't say anything because obviously the Force only belongs to powerful families.

Not saying The Last Jedi didn't have problems. But if they properly followed up on it they could have explained how Luke was manipulated into seeing Ben as a threat, who Snoke was (easily could have made him Darth Plaigus) etc. Even for those who didn't like it it could have became a strong second part of a three-part story. But they overcorrected and undid everything done in The Last Jedi (Oh yeah, your parents were nobodies. But your grandfather was one of the most powerful men to ever have existed. Forgot to mention that. Now where's the helmet I destroyed in the last film that I suddenly need again for no good reason.)

This show could have tapped into more of that. How Qimir and Sol are both two sides of the same coin and showing how easily one could be swayed from the light to the dark rather than how massive Anakin's shift was.

Even when it comes to Luke himself, there's such a hero fantasy about him because most people who saw the films did so when they were children. Whereas the truth is Luke was always flawed, impulsive, and teetered on the edge of the Dark Side himself. In Empire he left Yoda's training because he sensed Leia and Han were in trouble even though Yoda explicitly told him not to go. He lost badly against Vader. In Jedi, he fell right into Jabba's trap. When he was with the Emperor and Vader, the Emperor goaded him into trying to attack him and give in to his hatred. When Vader taunted him about going after Leia, he again gave in to his anger and took Vader down, only pulling back at the last minute. And then it was Vader who took down the Emperor, not Luke.

So for Luke to become victim to his own hubris of being the hero credited with taking down the Emperor, of being the one to rebuild the Jedi Order, leading him to see Ben as a threat for whatever reason (again, could have been further expanded on in Episode 9), it makes perfect sense.

A lot of fans just couldn't see Luke as not being completely heroic, even though by the end he beats the First Order, helps the others escape, renews hope in the rebellion and beats Kylo Ren. He was a far more interesting character in TLJ and Mark Hamill gave his best on-screen performance than any of the original trilogy.

But I think once he threw the lightsaber over his shoulder, some fans were just never going to accept anything after that. Star Wars needs to evolve past Jedi V Sith, Light V Dark, Blue/Green V Red lightsabers go vhissh.

Could be, companies like Disney have made the process of finding out what is profitable/loss making so opaque that financials barely register in decisions of what to back? but it will catch up with them at some stage

saw someone on reddit say that the 7 weeks of waiting to be told what they doing is a message from the show runner to us, no coincidence that the padawan said 7 weeks in the 7th episode...

I actually didn't mind it. Still a weak show overall with too much focus on the wrong things, and Amandla Stenberg just wasn't great, but it had enough throughout to keep some interest, decent performances from others, and I enjoyed the dispelling the myth of "Jedi = Always the good guys". David Harewood's short scene with the Jedi was exactly what I was looking for and was the kind of thing a lot of us discussed further up this page.

Assuming the figure in the cave was Darth Plagueus who may have been pulling the strings the whole time, which would be interesting to start following up in if they got a Season 2.

There were one or two moments during a lightsaber battle where they looked a bit floaty and obviously on wires, but they were using the Force to land from a fall so it made a reasonable amount of sense for why it looked like that. The lightsaber fight as a whole was pretty good.

didn’t think the finale was too bad. But I don’t know where that $180,000,000 went, the show looked cheap. Overall a poor show but had some interesting dark narrative choices. I would watch a second season purely for darth plagueis, but they will probably waste the character. Also I have had enough Yoda, all he does is talk shite.
Anyway looks like the show is neither well liked or viewed by many so will be canceled.