The Acolyte...Episode 1

The Acolyte starts off a hundred years before the end of revenge of the Sith.

The premise is that the Jedi have lived in peace for hundreds of years, until now, where a dark side user grows their powers in the shadows.

The show begins with Mae, the evil twin hell bent on killing 4 Jedi masters on some crusade for reasons we don’t know yet, enters a village bar and challenges carry Anne moss to the death, she is bested until she throws a dagger at the bar keep to which Jedi trinity saves, leaving her guard down to die by a dagger.

I was surprised to learn that daggers are more lethal than lightsabers after the Kenobi show and how Anakin’s lightsaber through Reva’s chest wasn’t effective, and then Vader’s lightsaber through adult Reva, as well.

We see Mae’s lightside twin, Osha who wakes up on a ship, when her buddy brags about the wild night he and the crew mates had on Nar Shaddaa, nar shaddaa is like Star Wars Vegas. Not much law, crime world ran by the Hutts.

Neimodians no longer have their asian accent that George Lucas had all throughout the prequels, maybe these guys are from a different part of the galaxy…

The Jedi arrive on the ship and led by Jedi knight Yord and another Jedi, who fills the audience on what the story is. Osha left the order 6 years ago, she was found in a fire when she was around 8, and then they accuse her of killing a Jedi master. But of course, it was her twin.

They take her in a prison transport for questioning to Coruscant.

It’s nice to see coruscant again, as Master Sol trains younglings, when he speaks with Master Vernestra.

The backstory is, that Sol saved Osha and saved her from a fire on her home on Brendok as a kid, he doesn’t believe that she killed the Jedi Master Trinity.

They decide to keep this possibility hush hush as if it were to leak, their political enemies could use it against them.

Osha is on the droid ship, it eventually goes down, and she escapes, after saving one of the last inmates, he takes the last pod and she crash lands on some ice planet.

As Master sol observes his former apprentice’s hologram, we see how he still has attachment to her. He’s like a very weak version of Qui-Gon Jinn. Kind of does his own thing, but not as confident or stoic as Qui-Gon. He recognizes the Jedi aren’t always right.

Osha wakes up and she has a vision of Mae and herself when they were young, during the fire on their home of Brendok. They speak with each other and I feel like there’s some force connection dyad thing going on between them to facilitate this.

Sol gathers two other Jedi, Yord and dafnee keene’s character Jecki, who is a Padawan which is indicated with her braid.
He tells the story of Osha and Mae, revealing that they are twin sisters, and that Mae started a fire when they were kids, this fire killed their whole family.

They find Osha on the ice planet, she tells them she didn’t kill the Jedi Master, Sol believes her, and they take her with them.

Mae walks by the beach as she comes to her master, who is saying a Jedi is essentially invincible to metal or lightsabers, except against an acolyte, who fights without a weapon, and just stealths their way through everything.
An acolyte kills the dream.

Overall I thought was meh, I’m not invested in the characters yet, so it’ll take some time. You can’t just start killing people off and expecting the viewer to be totally invested in the death of these characters. You have to spend an episode or 2 to get used to them, build their story, let us connect with them, then in episode 3 or 4 or something, they start dropping like flies, and everything just takes off super fast because of the exposition from the first 2 episodes.

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[iheartlofi]

I don’t care what they told you in school. Anakin Skywalker blew up the Death Star.

[jumbot]

I laughed when the first Jedi died within a few seconds by a blade to the chest. i guess i'm haunted after seeing BOTH Reva and Sabine surviving a lightsaber going through them!

[MisterDanger]

I specially loved the part where Neo said, Trinity if you die in the Matrix, you also die in Star Wars. Best line ever.

[apelincoln]

" You know, if OSHA seen that, it's a $10, 000 fine and they can shut down the work site "

[serafin]

Tell me how Trinity dies by a small knife to the boob and Reva can take a full on lightsaber to her midsection! Do these people at disney understand anything?

[Nutterbutter]

That knife is the secret to stopping Palpatine from somehow returning

[djenime]

Them: "You're not a real Star Wars fan."
Also them: "Remember that time when Anakin destroyed the Death Star?"

[John_Locke_]

Lightsabers aren't deadly but god forbid you get stabbed in the chest by a tiny dagger.

[theberch]

Oh, smart .... let's send a regular jedi knight to apprehend someone who killed a jedi master. Makes alot of sense.

[cheeseburgersuperior]

**Palpatine saw the interview**
"Anakin. I told you it would come to this! The Jedi are taking over!!" - Palpatine

[runisa]

What I did like is that, they got to the point where osha was innocent and had a sister that was still alive causing the murders instead of stretching that out for multiple episodes

[OldBaldWookiee]

How much you wanna bet disney got rid of the niemoidians accent because they thought it was "offensive"

[paularrowsmith]

Osha : Hi I'm OSHA I would like to see every one's PPE and safety paperwork.

[SoranotRoxas]

*ANAKIN AIN'T BLOWING UP THE DEATH STAR IN THIS ONE* 🗣💯🔥😫🙌

[belindagriffin]

Carrie-Anne Moss was probably the only reason I had to watch this and they kill the golden goose in the 1st episode. WTF

[clintballard]

Force using, twins, huh? Never seen that in Star Wars before.

[loveoffilm]

I enjoyed watching the guy from squid games act circles around the diverse high school drama club around him

[trevinormandy]

Reva, didn't die because she wasn't struck down BY A THEORY saber !

[Neeono]

As much as I like to hear some youtubes bash and complain about Star Wars for entertainment, I always come back to you to cleanse the pallette.

I feel like you look at these works and actually give them a fair chance, and fair review without bashing or negativity. Keep up the good work!

[MorbidGod]

7:03 clearly the death of trinity is meant to be the launching point of the story. They did not treat it as something to be sad about but more of a mystery.