Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[Scribe]

That the harder you try to stop something the more it happens. Until you realize it is all a game. For the Jedi I think they need to learn that they can't get rid of emotions. That hiding from them, or denying them, isn't the path, but being aware of them, letting them be, and learning to just sit with the emotions, and not have to do anything with them. Emotions dont' require actions

That in today's climate of self help, mental health, wellness, and so on, we are not seeing the solution being Meditation/Mindfulness in a very basic sense, is kind of weird at this point.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That was excellent. Best Star Wars ever, knocks Empire Strikes Back out of the park.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Does that mean there are technically 3 Sith at once??! And assume that was Darth Plagueius

calling it now: it was Vecna.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Why did the tracker do what they did?

Sol was trying to get Mae in his gunsights. I think Bazil was worried he was about to blow her up.

Why didn't Sol ever look for Osha, instead of talking to Mae

He had no reason to think she was alive. And Vanestra turned up about the time he found out.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

My guess is that this is a fundamental problem I had with both prequels and sequels. That an evil force could overthrow the forces of good and lead to major setbacks I can accept, but that they fundamentally don't work and are deserving or even doomed to fail is a view I just don't like.

I think actually the prequels and sequels have a pretty good point that stands as subtext but frequently becomes text in EU material (including, bizarrely, The Mandalorian), which is that just attempt endless replicate old forms of government, old organisations, to maintain things as they were, or RETVRN to the past is to simply recreate the failure states of those governments and organisations.

Hell this even turned a little a theme in the original EU.

In the PT, The Jedi fall because they can't change and are fundamentally devoted to a basically unreasonable and anti-human position, which is the denial of emotion. Their static nature is part of what blinds them to the threat emerging against them.

Then in the OT, one Jedi-trained youth and an awful lot of people trying to make the world a better place succeed in destroying the Empire that rose, but we learn after that, that instead of creating something new, something without the vulnerabilities that the High Republic had, they simply re-create that Republic, with every flaw, and with huge numbers of ex-Empire people who are not happy about their diminution of status, and I suspect, don't feel quite as defeated as they might in a more conventional war. They sow the seeds of their own destruction. This isn't Luke's fault, not. You could, interestingly, argue it kind of is Leia's fault, or at least that, brilliant and diplomatic and cunning as she is, she's kind of part of the problem.

In the PT, the Empire rises again, in part from the unbanked embers that the Republic left burning, in part because of Vast Sith Powerz, destroyed the Republic once more, then falls again.

We don't know what follows. We have to hope, I think, for the sake of the people of the Star Wars galaxy (does it have a name?), that they don't just try and rebuild the Republic again, that they don't just try and bring the Jedi back with the SAME philosophy and tenets again. That they try and build something new, something different.

That was excellent. Best Star Wars ever, knocks Empire Strikes Back out of the park.

I feel like you might be trolling a wee bit here (or not!), but I really enjoyed this episode, that was easily my favourite TV Star Wars after Andor.

The fights in this series were 100% some of the best fights they've ever filmed. Great stuff for sure.

They're definitely some of the best lightsaber fights ever. Particularly this episode obviously, which absolutely shamed most other lightsaber fights. Just sick.

Sol dying. We knew it was going to happen. But man, I really liked the guy! I appreciate that everything Vernestra said about him was in fact true: His love twisted his behavior. He was acting irresponsibly. And Ki Adi Mundi's cannon is safe, for now!

Hah. I was like "KILL HIM!" and very pleased when she actually did, because it really felt like that's what she'd do. Also, screw that guy. He was terrible!

Vernestra. She is doing exactly what she said Sol is doing. Being twisted by something she loves.

She was rockin' this episode, absolutely serving face and just that glower she has - incredible! And yes quite right, she is the second Jedi to be brought down by Sol's ridiculous behaviour and liking him too much. Interesting to see how it would connect back to the character in the High Republic novels (she's pretty old), who always was playing a bit fast and loose.

me thinks that was Mother Korill in the cave!!!!

Could be. It was certainly pretty alarming, whoever or whatever it was - looked almost undead, which is I admit a common Dark Side deal. But it looked like it might have vertical slit nostrils kind of two the side of its face, which seems more Darth Plagueis as others have said.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Sol was trying to get Mae in his gunsights. I think Bazil was worried he was about to blow her up.

He had no reason to think she was alive. And Vanestra turned up about the time he found out about the time he found out.

Also I think Bazil thinks/knows they're the same person, so doesn't want either harmed because he likes one of them. Because they're not clones. They're not twins. They're one person - so they might smell, like, basically identical (I'm sure he can work out what additional scents are food, dirt, etc.).

 

[Belen]

Well, I can say that I am glad it is over.

 

[Zaukrie]

Also I think Bazil thinks/knows they're the same person, so doesn't want either harmed because he likes one of them. Because they're not clones. They're not twins. They're one person - so they might smell, like, basically identical (I'm sure he can work out what additional scents are food, dirt, etc.).

I had not considered that, and certainly not at the time.....

Still hate the Sol didn't ask about Osha and go back for her right away....

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Also I think Bazil thinks/knows they're the same person, so doesn't want either harmed because he likes one of them. Because they're not clones. They're not twins. They're one person - so they might smell, like, basically identical (I'm sure he can work out what additional scents are food, dirt, etc.).

It would be interesting to get a protocol droid to give Bazil’s perspective, but Vanestra wouldn’t like that, since he is the only one who knows what really happened.

I feel he is the veteran junior grade employee who believes he is propping up the entire organisation.

Also it did cross my mind that he could be the secret Sith Lord.

 

[Thourne]

I am a bit confused by the circumstances of the lightsaber changing colour but I was thinking last night that the fact that when Osha embraces the Dark Side it turns red does lend support to Baylan Skoll's orange lightsaber pointing to him not being just another Dark Sider. Orange, for the time being, seems to be a choice, not a consequence.

For a second while Osha is chocking Sol out they focus on the crystal through the top of the saber. During which you hear a sound. It would seem they were showing an example of the process where a dark sider "bleeds" a kyber crystal and attunes with it. This makes the blade red.