The Acolyte (Star Wars, Disney+) TV Show • Page 18

I'm hoping we finally find out what happened on Brendok.

Nice.

 

I can't imagine anyone thinking that mask is anything but straight gas

 

He's a boy

 

I am hearing a lot of people speculating now that they're doing the origins of the Knights of Ren with Qimir stuff and honestly I kind of hope it's not that.

 

i could be wrong, but i also don't think having their origins start here would match with the timeline. Wookiepedia cites TROS Visual Dictionary to say that there appears to be a distinction between the original Knights of Ren, and the Knights of Ren as seen in the ST, with the latter supposedly adopting the namesake of the former, and the former primarily active in centuries past. the way that reads "centuries" feels like several hundred years, whereas the time between The Acolyte and TFA is about 170 years. maybe at most there's some sort of offshoot or later iteration that Qimir is a part of? but i doubt it would come to that. the choice of interpolating Kylo Ren's theme might be more thematic than anything else? idk.

 

TFA? The Force Awakens?

 

yup, since that was pretty much everyone's introduction to them

 

Love the on-screen introduction of cortosis which is a metal that feeds back the energy of energy weapons, even being capable of shorting out lightsabers for a short time. It's also the reason the stun bolt didn't work on him. I've thought it was a really cool idea ever since reading I, Jedi.

 

I just recently read Thrawn: Alliances where it plays a big part in the plot as well.

 

someone on TikTok mentioned the plot of that novel and i find it a fascinating premise

 

It was alright but probably the worst of Zahn's canon Thrawn trilogy. Thrawn (the first novel) was the best of the three.

It goes Thrawn > Treason > Alliances

I still need to read The Ascendancy trilogy

 

Also I am reading A New Dawn (prequel novel to Rebels about how Kanan and Hera met) right now and the villain in this story has a Cortosis mesh skin graft where he can deflect blaster bolts.

 

So I guess Qimir’s final line was basically a Jordan Peterson quote.

Did The Acolyte Episode 5 Really Quote Jordan Peterson? - Looper

 

Those lightsaber duels were probably the best in all of Star Wars

 

i think Manny Jacinto might be my favorite Sith

(if you consider Kylo a Knight of Ren and not a true Sith)

 

I remember them being very clear that Kylo was not a Sith when TFA came out. But I feel like Palpatine kind of says he is in the legacy in TROS? I don’t really know what they finally decided on for him.

 

An angry boi

 

A sad lonely boi

 

Also, I really enjoyed this. It’s actually far less about the show (though they do talk about it) and more about looking at the themes from the writers/directors of different generations and how the events they lived through shape what they write about.

 

I'd be surprised of this doesn't get picked up for another season even with all the negative bullshit around it, but it is nice to see Headland is taking this approach of making season 1 feel like a self contained season.

 

honestly figured this was just gonna be a single season by design, but I'd definitely watch more seasons of it

 

I don’t see this getting picked up for a second season.

 

What makes you say that?