Apparently the Jedi are idiots? "The Acolyte" New Trailer Review & Discussion

When writers are smart, they create smart villains. When writers aren't smart, they create stupid protagonists.

Imagine writers that actually care about consistency in canon. How nice that would be.

I think the most laughable thing in this trailer was the "The studio who brought you" bit. I actually burst into laughter when I read that. Is that supposed to impress us?

I mean sith adopting victim mentality to portray themselves as the secret good guys is kinda the sith thing to do. From their objectively evil point of view the Jedi are evil oppressors. However anyone who actually believes that is either a person with darkness in their hearts themselves or useful idiots. I think the general concept of Sith being subversive is an interesting premise, but I do not have the confidence in the writers to pull off the nuanced idea that just because someone cries victim does not mean they automatically gain the moral high ground. And I don’t think the show runners’ (LH & KK) politics would allow it.

Interesting how the Phantom Menace re-release is doing so well, showing that people will show up to the theatres for good Star Wars

A small part of me wants to give this series a chance. A greater part of me doesn’t want to have anything to do with it.

So WTF is up with the Zipper Mouth Gimp Suit Sith in the Acolyte Trailer? Disney are such weirdos now.

The Disney Sequels and Kenobi proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, Disney does not care about canon.

Disney has screwed up continuity in the Star Wars universe. So whatever they wanna call this acolyte, it doesn’t matter since Disney doesn’t care about the lore.

I'm pretty sure "Star Wars fans" like Headland are as much fans of Star Wars as I am of Twilight. They know it exists, maybe they saw one of the movies once for shits and giggles, but they don't know anything beyond that. Generally, these normies just get various pop culture franchises confused in their head. "Jedi? That's those guys who aren't allowed to have feelings, right? They can read minds, too, right? Vulcan Mind Melt or something? So we'll have one of them read Rey's mind for torture" They don't understand the meme that shows a picture of Gandalf, calls him Dumbledore and has him saying "May the Force be with you" because, for all they know, that's exactly correct, isn't it? Disney-Lucasfilm already thinks the Jedi are meant to represent the dreaded "Patriarchy" and everything they see wrong with it. I'm all but certain Hedlead is confusing the Sith with the LGBT reading of X-Men and thinks the Sith are intended to be a misunderstood stand-in for LGBT people like herself.

The real question is, what’s with the modern 2024 frat boy broccoli cut the padawan has in the trailer? So weird…

My biggest gripe with the Disney canon is that they keep having inconsistencies with their lore and retconning their material doesn’t seem to bother them.

Yarael Poof - a Quermian who could like to around 200
Oppo Rancisis - A Thisspiassian - 300 years
Zabraks - 150 years

so there would have been some members of the council who were definitely old enough to remember this event beyond just Yoda

I’ve commented something similar earlier, but I really think the Jedi will be sort of bait and switched by this new witch coven. I think the ones seeking revenge and trying to tip the scales are actually them with a sith manipulating them. The Jedi will conclude it’s the witches. I’m gonna come back to this comment when I’m inevitably right…

If this was 12 years ago, I'd have been so excited

I bet you any money that Darkside figure with the Anime-styled mask/helm is Amandla Stenberg's character. I'll guess she hangs back, allowing her "Master" to escape back into the shadows; while she holds off the Jedi. She will typically be all OP (like REY!!!) and take on all those Jedi, including her old Jedi master. He then asks - "What are you" and once she's defeated, he and the other Jedi there eventually find out when they remove the helmet/mask.

So this series will end basically where these Jedi learn "The Acolyte" was indeed one of their own but they don't know who it was who corrupted her. "But of which was destroyed? The Master, or the Apprentice?" And from there this whole event is brushed under the rug by the Jedi Council.

It's much worse. The writers are idiots.

In the Phantom Menace, Yoda knows about the Darth Bane’s Rule of Sith.
Yoda:
“Two there are, a Master and an Apprentice. No more, no less.”

The Legends EU explanation was that about 200 years earlier, a Sith Lord brazenly exposed themself, allowing the Jedi to feel a disturbance in the Force. The Jedi sent out Sentinels to investigate. Most either didn’t come back. And those that didn’t found little to nothing. So the Jedi Council largely ignored it. Two centuries later, Qui-Gon brings up that by the way, I saw a Sith Lord. Mace Windu gives Yode a look like, “is this possible?” And later at Qui-Gon’s funeral, it turns out that Yoda had brought Mace along in secret and spills the beans that he knew that the Sith were still around, because he had been a Jedi Grand Master back when they first revealed themselves.

It’s hard to see the future since it’s always in motion, but I have a bad feeling about this.

That jedi has those generic unreal engine dreadlocks