Quick Reaction To The Acolyte Episode 5 (Spoiler)

The Acolyte. John gives his quick first reaction to watching Star Wars' The Acolyte Episode 5.

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Translation: John has tapped out of the show

[jaredvester]

You can have a great lightsaber fight, but if you don't care about the characters then it's just visual noise.

[KalvinPatel]

feels like the characters don't know how to communicate lmao

[ClarkwBrunson]

I think since the master was there she scraped her plans since she knew he would kill everybody. She went fight or flight and chose flight 😂😂

[zuzauramek]

Acolyte was written by 30 people who did not talk to each other about the plot in the series and the studio mush all writings together.

[glasercorey]

That was the plan until she realized her master was there

[olivierl]

She was ready to surrender before jecki dropkicked her lol

[FatboyMario]

As soon as her master showed up she got scared and decided to start running. That's why she stopped trying to turn herself in. her master showing up changed the situation

[have_studs_will_travel]

The plan changed the moment she knew that the Sith Master was there.

[jurassicparkfan]

I think Mae didn't try to explain things to Jecki is because she's not going to believe her since she is known to be a Jedi killer. Jecki seemed very convinced that Mae killed Kelnacca.

[luisdavidmunoz]

Mae’s fear got the best of her, the actions of a dark side user

[Drewid]

the choreographer is carrying the show. its only good when the characters aren't talking.

[jonathanalverna]

I'm pretty sure "The Master" actually being on that planet changed her mind completely...

[deewolf]

Mae is entirely motivated right now out of fear of the dark master's retribution.

She only agreed to become an acolyte in order to hunt the four Jedi whom she thought were responsible for murdering her sister, Osha. But once she found Osha was alive, her motivation switched to figuring out how she could safely escape the master without dying. Multiple times she expressed she wanted to escape the dark master but couldnt because he would kill her.

That's when she had the plan to turn herself in. At the time, Mae thought she could be protected if she turned herself in and told the Jedi what she knew. She thought the Dark Master had no idea where she was because they were on a remote planet.


But when she found Kelnacca dead, and then saw the Dark Master was, in fact, there, the fucking plan changed man. Her plan to turn herself in doesnt work anymore.

The Jedi think she killed Kelnacca. Qimir set her up to ensure she had nowhere to run to.

So at the end, she switches places with her sister so she can survive.

Listen, you don't have to like the show but damn at least pay attention if you watch it.

[shortstuff]

The reason why Mae was running, was because she knew the moment they saw a dead Kelnaca she is 100% not going to talk herself out of it.
Qimir baited her.
She traded place with her sister, because she realizes she cannot escape Qimir, so she will kill Sol to prove to him that she is the true acolyte, though...
Osha is going to be shown what Sol did 15 years ago, and Osha will be the end season true Acolyte, and will kill Mae at the end.

That's my theory.

[bmcperformancecoaching]

Agreed on all points…also, it sucks that there really was no audience connection to the Jedi who were killed, so their death scenes, as great as they were, were like “whoa!…meh, ok”

[michaelfoster]

Had Mae figured out Quimer was the Sith master? Had she thought of a plan to manipulate him and the Jedi?

[darthstryk]

I think that plan went out the window when she witnessed Qimir reveal himself and then proceed to kill all the Jedi.

[RickiMinaj]

Because she said he wouldn't make the trip. But since he was already there everything changed.

[gerardcrabb]

She wanted to be in custody to protect her from the Sith Lord but that went out the windows once he was there...