Watching: The Acolyte S1

2024, Disney

I really should have more thoughts about this series, but... I don't. I even ended up delaying the watch-through for a few weeks. I guess I am just not as Star War-sian as Kent is, these days. Or maybe its just that I continue to really not give a flying fuck about Jedi. That said, my delay in watching was reflective of the general audience, so even if you ignore the toxic fanboy outcry, the show still didn't draw in a lot.

What 100.  In a galaxy long long ago, approximately 100 years before the start of the prequels, a young woman is killing Jedi. After a brief investigation they arrest ... her twin sister. But wasn't her sister dead, killed as a child when a small group of Jedi came to their planet to save them from Witches? Also, who is the mysterious darthy guy in the helmet with a red light sabre? What really happened on the witch planet? What exactly did the Jedi do that makes her want them all dead?

1 Great. Not Dark, not Light but gray, so very very gray. Even if you didn't enjoy the characters, the actors, the setting or ... anything (?) you can at least appreciate that the entire season (now entire series) was about things not being cut & dry, not being just Light and Dark. Osha begins as our heroine, our nice twin, our good twin but as truths are revealed, as options and choices are offered, she ... changes. 

1 Good. Its Star Wars, so any bit of world building on the screen is fine by me. I love the idea that despite there being fewer visible droids in the series, they state loudly that jobs such as Osha's are generally not done by living beings but legally relegated to droids. Also, her name is Osha, a long running joke about how "their" presence is lacking in the Star Wars universe, and considering she's doing a job considered unsafe for the living... snicker. Also, chair droid pilots ! 

1 Bad. You know, there wasn't anything in particular I didn't enjoy about it. I found everything to be just serviceable. It was fine. The performances were fine. The story was fine. But nothing grabbed me, nothing wow-ed me, nothing made me go "ooooo".