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Star Wars: The Acolyte

A tad disappointing, some family good fights ruined by a slow mo shot that looks like it was filmed in real time with the actors pretending to move in slow motion.

Only good part was seeing someone bleed a lightsaber in live action.

More questions shunted over to a second season it probably won't get.
 
I found the show frustrating overall, not because it was outright bad or anything, but because it could have been so much better. It had many good ideas, some very strong moments and visuals, but the execution and lack of consistency stopped it from reaching greatness. It had very strong lightsaber fights (that is important in a Jedi-centrix Star Wars show!), some great sets (Sol's ship!), a cute robot...but it rarely made me feel much. Sol's story came the closest to succeeding for me. Sadly I think Osha and Mae's story was the biggest failure. Osha turning should have felt like a big emotional tragedy, but I never got enough sense of her character before her turn to feel all that sad that she's Bad Now. Say what you want about how Anakin's fall was done in Episode 3 (it's certainly not perfect!) but the part where he's crying with his newly changed eyes after murdering the Separatist leaders and Obi-Wan shouting "YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE!" at him stuck with me in a way nothing in The Acolyte will. (The lightsaber bleeding was cool though.) I feel like maybe it would have been better for acting purposes if they Osha and Mae had been played by actual twins rather than the same person as all their scenes together never quite convince me. Yeah I know they're supposed to to be the same person in different bodies (whatever that means) and that's why they're both Amandla Stenberg but whatever I'd have liked it better if they hadn't been.

Throughout the season there's just so many sloppy moments that don't work how they should: like Aniseya turning into scary looking mist then just saying "we were going to let Osha go!" after Sol stabbed her (probably shouldn't have turned into scary looking mist at that exact moment then), no one even asking what happened to Koril...and whatever the fuck the poing of Bazil was. I'm sure someone can come up with a reason why he pulled out those wires on Sol's ship in the finale, but he'd had no characterisation before that except running around sniffing stuff so it felt completely ranom to me.

And yeah this wasn't a satisfying self-contained story. So many obvious set-ups for season two: look it's Darth Plageius in a cave! Look it's Yoda! But even if we get a season 2 (and I think the chances are about 50/50) it'll be like 3 years away because of the way Disney+ make shows and I won't care at all by then if I'm even still alive.
 
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I think he’s kind of like, “What is going on with this guy?” I love Bazil, I wanted to give him a hero moment. I wanted Sol to be completely on edge. I think that Bazil has witnessed the handcuffing, you know what I mean, because he's hiding in the ship. We don't cut to him because that would slow down this very important scene between two of the main characters, but I kind of liked the idea that he came in and was like, “What's going on in here?”
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That was not a "hero moment."
 
They should have fired the show runner and gave the show another chance with someone better.
 
At least it had a happy ending with the main character turning to the Dark Side, holding hands and making gooey eyes with the unrepentant murderer who killed two for her freinds a couple of episodes prior.
 
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