Star Wars Tales Of The Arcolyte

[PolymerSkywalker]

And that’s a way to kill interest in your franchise even faster. I’m really ready for Iger to go. His time has come and gone.

Agreed, let’s take out KK and Iger at the same time and start fresh with some young blood that has winning on the brain.

 

[PolymerSkywalker]

So what’s next for Star Wars, is it Skeleton Crew? Who can tell me what my required watching / reading is before that?

I have watched very little of the animated stuff.

 

[mdmost]

Yeah, Skeleton Crew and then Andor season 2. That's it until 2026. No reading required for Skeleton Crew. It's a wholly original story as far as I can tell. Created by Jon Watts of the Tom Holland Spiderman movies.

 

[BrianL]

So what’s next for Star Wars, is it Skeleton Crew? Who can tell me what my required watching / reading is before that?

I have watched very little of the animated stuff.

Skeleton Crew is not animated. It takes place around the time of Mando and has at least one character, one of the pirates that attacked Nevarro. I doubt it will heavily tie in to anything else, though there is a character/species from Captain EO in it!

 

[gsdweller]

This is just insane. They're deleting it from existence?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1826388381036917219

Now if they just declare it non-canon they can start fixing all their monumental screw ups.

 

[mdmost]

Acolyte merch is back on the Disney store.

 

[BrianL]

Acolyte merch is back on the Disney store.

It's probably selling so fast that they had to replenish the stock.



Okay, maybe not, but at least that's a little less fodder for those hoping that Disney actually will erase the thing.

 

[Skywalker3]

I don't think it should be removed from canon. I didn't get the sense it broke canon in any way. I just look at it like the comics, which I don't read, or the video games. Like ok, they're there, if they're canon, they're canon. It's all good.

 

[BrianL]

I don't think it should be removed from canon. I didn't get the sense it broke canon in any way. I just look at it like the comics, which I don't read, or the video games. Like ok, they're there, if they're canon, they're canon. It's all good.

Oh yeah - and some of the comics have been WAY worse than The Acolyte, even back in Legends! They certainly didn't break anything or ruin any known characters. Of course, the lack of the familliar is probably mostly why it failed.

 

[TwoMisfits]

I rewatched the finale, which has been helpful with this show when it comes to understanding, thoug that's not exactly a rigining endoresement of it's narrative structure. Still....

I find that I understand it a little better. What seem like quick character turns really are not, if you look at it from a certain point of view (an important concept for Star Wars). It had seemed like Osha kind of abruptly changed, as did Mae, but if you do take them as the same person, then it makes more sense. She says she is not her sister, but basically if Mae would do it, then Osha would do it. Mae seemed like "the bad one" but in reality, all of those things - from torturing small animals to killing for The Stranger - Osha would do those things too. She seems to be annoyed by Mae, but don't we all have aspects of ourselves that we don't love? I think that really works if you just picture every scene as Mae OR Osha - it could be either and work. I wish they had explored that a little more, but wrapping my head around it helps the narrative.

What I still don't like though, and this is more of a commentary than a critique, but treating it as if Osha has done the right thing here. It is not and never will be the right thing. Sure, it's what she wants, but what she wants is selfish and evil. That is not to be celebrated. Some have called her journey "triumphant" (I'm looking at you Leslie), but it is nothing but a failure. It's a failure to do better. I am not sure it is a "fall to the Dark Side" so to speak, as it seems that Osha has always been dark. I believe she was born of the Dark Side, that the coven practiced the Dark Side - even if they didn't call it that - and she has always lived with that hate and rage. You see her trying to overcome that though, but in the end she couldn't. Maybe it wasn't possible at all. The vilification of Sol makes that even more of a bitter pill to swallow. I am not on Osha's side here.

So, that's my final take on it. As a whole it wasn't bad or anything, but it left too many things up int he air. Unless that actually get a second season, I feel the story is woefully incomplete. I mean, it's always one thing to leave a few open doors, but this is more like not finishing an entire wall. I would like a second season too, but I'd like to see some changes made.

So, I watched the show...it completely falls to pieces in the last 2 episodes, and the character turns were ridiculous. You can't say Osha and Mae are the same person at age 24 when they had 16 years of different experiences.

So, Osha just "wham, bam, thank you ma'am" assassinates the character who she'd seen as her dad after 30 seconds of confession? Never.

And Mae deciding to destroy her own life and memories for Osha to be free when she's supposed to lead the coven - Never.

I won't get into the jedis' motivations, but I do not buy some of them either...

All in all, a B- show through episode 6 and then Fs for the last 2 episodes (I'm reminded of the sequel trilogy here), giving the show an overall D+ for D+.

Andor and Mandalaorian (even in its subpar season) are WORLD'S better...

PS - I'm glad they canceled season 2...the only character at this point worth following is probably Mr. Sith...and he can probably pop onto other shows in the future (he was well done, even if I saw him coming a mile away)...I would have followed Sol's 2 followers (his knight and padawan), but they killed them way too early...