What did I just watch? 'The Acolyte' Episode Eight (Finale) Review

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[Highskillr]

She simply chokes an unarmed man who has been her friend all her life and then spends a happy time with her new friends, complete with upbeat, emotional music that's meant to make us identify with her. This show is so absurd.

[mxvega]

She goes to brief Yoda. She either a) tells the truth and he helps cover it up, which makes him complicit or b) tells a lie, and he doesn't sense it, and is therefore a fool, presiding over a farce of corruption and darkside influence.

How on earth is the audience supposed to buy that? BOTH options are catastrophic for his character.

[peace_love_unity]

Osha: Spares the life, listens to and joins forces with who she knew only since he murdered her closest friends before her eyes 1 day ago.

Also Osha: Learns that her master, rescuer and almost stepfather killed her mother 16 years ago by accident and murders him on spot without a question.

[capybaruscapybaris]

Yoda: "Tired of all this sh*t, I am. Overdose on deathsticks, I am going to. Forget about everything that happened, I will."

[AllanRamires]

She also blamed Sol for killing Indara, a murder that happened in front of multiple witnesses.

[GrayFox]

At this point Spaceballs is more Star Wars than Disney Star Wars

[paulab]

What kind of moral compass does Lesley Headland even have? Osha joins Quimir (who murdered Yord and Jecki) she force chokes Sol to death when a better choice would be to hear him out, and as Mae (of all people) suggested, make him confess the truth of what happened on Brendok to the Jedi council. Also Osha and Mae "love " each other but agree to separate and essentially lobotomize Mae so Osha can go be a Sith, leaving Mae with the mind of an 8 year old and in the jedi's custody. So the twins, knowing the truth and finally reunited, instead of exploring this decide to separate again. Mae never faces consequences for the murder of Torbin and Indara (who did nothing wrong except to free Kelnacca from mind control and accidentally kill the coven). The witches themselves are never held to any accountability. Vernestra, who was Quimir's jedi master, lies about the whole thing and frames Sol for crimes he never committed. He screwed up and acted impulsively on brendok, he was not a butcher, and he did not kill the other Jedi. I hope there is a backlash to this show so Headland and the other creators can see where they went wrong.

[LumVaughan]

So many online now think it was so 'cool' when Osha's Lightsaber blade changed color when she apparently (and seemingly unconsciously) bled the Kyber crystal. Anakin chops off Mace Windu's hand, leads a battalion of troops into the Jedi Temple to kill everyone, personally kills a bunch of Younglings, Force Chokes Padme and has a long fight with Obi Wan, all the time, his lightsaber remains blue. Osha force chokes her former master and immediately she bleeds it and it becomes red. This is typically stupid effects to get the easily excited and mentally dull viewers excited without any thought to continuity to other events. If the 'Chosen One' couldn't quickly turn a Kyber Crystal red unconsciously, why would Osha be able to? Because she (and Mae) are a Vergence in the Force? Anakin was as well. Continuity, Lucasfilm, continuity!

[drdoomskywalker]

This show makes Solo look like The Godfather.

[ternel]

The fact that so many of the disney writers seem to identify more with the Sith really seems to tell you about the character of the writers of the disney era

[DarkMayhem]

The Acolyte is like the ‘Last Airbender Movie’ for Star Wars fans: we all agree it never existed, and if someone brings it up, we act like they’re talking about a bad dream.

[ironjehoshaphat]

I like how Mae forgets to say that her mother started to turn into a ghost thing and turn her into a ghost thing too. This caused Sol to kill her mother to save Mae...

[dereklopez]

So let me get this straight. Yoda can sense Anakin slaughtering the Tuskins and the Jedi getting wiped out in Order 66, yet couldn't sense Smilo Ren slaughtering the Jedi left and right from the very beginning?

WTF is this?

And to add insult to injury, Vernestra and The Jedi covered up all evidence while Sol died like a chump and then they blamed him for all the deaths that was caused by Smilo Ren?

Unbelievable.

This entire show went from stupid to disgustingly insulting, its mind boggling.

[jamesc]

How the fuck did he get accused of Torbin's death when he was with the group that found his body. He didnt even sneak off with Osha and get there before everyone. WTF!

[noah_body_cares]

The last thing I wanted the show to do was drag Sol's reputation through the mud, but they dragged it through No Man's Land.

Probably the most compassionate Jedi the order has had for decades, he gets pinned for murdering his best friend, a defenseless meditating man, a wookie, and 6 other jedi including his own padawan.

And now the history books of Star Wars will forever shit on the name Sol without knowing the truth

[MichaelJosephSonger]

No actual Jedi were harmed in the production of this show.

[kellingc]

I'm sorry, every time I hear the name Osha, I keep thinking "Occupational Safety and Health Administration". I don't think Star Wars.

I remember when Lucasfilm was making "Return of the Jedi". The original title was going to be "Revenge of the Jedi", but George felt that revenge was not in line with what a Jedi was supposed to be about. Thus, it was renamed to "Return of The Jedi". When that announcement came out, I remember my 15 year old self was thinking that make perfect sense.

This - this just doesn't seem to make sense.

[mrsoandsoso]

Well, it looks like the acolyte broke Thor's spirit, and it's not hard to see why...

[NefariousSpecter]

This show set out to make the audience question the Jedi Order and left the audience questioning the IQ level of everyone behind this show

[davechan]

I was waiting for Spock to beam in and start slapping everyone while saying “This is completely illogical.”