Cinepals - THE ACOLYTE Episode 6 Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: July 3, 2024

In an age of light, a darkness rises. Join Jaby and Achara for their reaction to “The Acolyte” Episode 6. Set 100 years before the rise of the Empire, this gripping Star Wars series introduces Osha, a former Jedi apprentice turned meknek—a cosmic grease monkey with secrets to unravel. As sinister forces emerge, respected Jedi Master Lee Jung-jae faces off against a dangerous warrior from his past, Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games & The Hate U Give). This series also stars Jodie Turner-Smith (Queen & Slim), Joonas Suotamo (Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens), Amy Tsang (Velvet Buzzsaw), & Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix, Memento, Fido, Silent Hill: Revelation & Jessica Jones). But beware—the path they tread is shrouded in mystery, and nothing is as it seems. Buckle up for a thrilling ride through the High Republic era, where ancient enigmas collide with galactic intrigue. The Force awaits, and the stakes have never been higher.   You can watch the cut down reaction to this movie (and many others) on our YouTube channel https://www.YouTube.com/@Cinepals and the full length reaction is available on our Patreon page https://www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay   SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS ~CINEPALS~ YouTube: @CinePals Insta: https://instagram.com/TheCinePals Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheCinePals   ~ACHARA~ Twitter & Instagram: @Acharakirk YouTube: @Achara  

Senna. Hurdling forward with Star Wars Acoly. This is episode six. Teach slash corrupt. That's the nicknames that Achar and I have for each other. I am Teach, she is corrupt. Terrible, terrible. Terrible.

Terrible. Okay. Not the show. Just the joke. Just to clarify. The show's great. Here we go. you and I are going to talk

okay can we can we think about what I was say to you if I ever got the opportunity did you get it together can we start now okay is at the end of the episode is at the end of the episode

that is a cool looking mask though I love how scarred it is it doesn't end now I wonder what it smells like in there. Sweat. Bad breath. I don't know. I can barely see anything.

All you have is the force. I actually enjoyed that episode. The only stuff I didn't like was any stuff with the other Jedi. I just didn't care for it. It felt like filler. It's like, we're really hand-holding you to this scene. When you pick it up with Jackie, Jackie, yeah. On the floor, surrounded by the Jedi, it's like, I think you can put two and two together

as the audience as to how this all transpired. Right. They just go, okay, we need to go. Boom, we're there. Yeah, it's like, clearly, you know, soul has not been responding. Yeah. And you even have that moment where he shuts off the comms and all that stuff. It's like, you get it.

But outside of that, like, this, I thought this episode was pretty good. It felt kind of like what you typically would see. Like, okay, the first thing I think of was like Empire Strikes Back with Luke Skywalker and Yodo and that whole training and stuff like that. There's a lot of, it's very dialed. It's like kind of guiding him through mentally and spiritually to becoming a Jedi, right? And you had a similar-ish scene or sets of scenes in The Last Jedi with, again, Luke, but with Ray Skywalker, whatever the heck her name is. And, yeah, it's like, it's a lot of, like, understanding philosophically, you know, this path.

And so I actually thought that stuff was good in terms of the acting, in terms of the lead-up, in terms of, you know, kind of bringing OSHA. from, I guess, one kind of thinking to the other. You know what I mean? Yeah. He was leading her towards something that she probably already was inside. Right. Yeah, I mean, because we all have those feelings, right? I think the whole idea is it's balance, right?

So it's like choosing more one or the other, choosing which side to embrace. But, yeah, I'm finding him, the Sith, Mani Jacinto's character, to be the most compelling. Right now. And he's doing such a great job. with his delivery as well. Like, I have so much curiosity around him. I'm like, wait, I don't care about anyone else right now. I just want to know his backstory.

Like, what happened to him? What led him to give up being a Jedi and to choose this path instead? And he's talking about, oh, it happened a long, long time ago. I'm like, wait, okay, but how long, like, I need to know. Like, you're so fascinating to me right now. Like, OSHA and May, whatever, it's all about him. Well, I think, you know, a certain amount of things being cryptic is just a component of Star Wars, right?

Sure. As you go along. And I guess, you know, some things will get explained later, but you don't need to know everything. But the issue that happens with this show is it draws attention to itself. Like, in previous episodes, when Soul was not divulging information, it's like, okay, it's very clear there is a delay of information that is not yet divulged to the audience. And it's like, when you make it so obvious, that's when it's frustrating. It's when you slowly discover things as you go and the picture broadens as you as the audience and you get a bigger and bigger sense as to what's going on.

And there's this discovery. That's fun. Yes. You know, it's not fun when you're like, okay, well, clearly this is not everything. Right. And they keep doing the thing where they're like, I need to tell you something. Yeah. Oh, crap, but not right now.

I need to tell you something. Yeah. Or I've been working on this speech for the past 16 years and you're going to listen to it. It's like, oh yeah, what choice does she have? You've literally tied her to, of course she's going to have to listen to it, you know? Just say it. Just say it. Yeah. Like, we've all been waiting and it does feel like that. Like the show was like, this was the coolest tidbit of story. And we're just going to drag it out for as long as possible to keep people here until the end of the series or the end of the show because otherwise they would just have left. Well, they're going to have

to deliver it next week. Yeah. I mean, he's literally set up to be delivered next week, right? At least as far as this goes. Yeah. And so that's the frustrating part. It just feels like blue balls on the same thing again and again and again. It's like, just say it, dude. Yeah, I don't mind a different blue balls every week.

Or, you know, tease portions of it until we get the whole picture. Yeah. We're not getting anything. I mean, I suppose there's an argument to be made that they have teased portions of it indirectly. Right. Like, we know they did something there that was not right. We know that something went down. And they've been keeping it secret this whole time.

But it's like, what is that? And I wonder as well if maybe there's some sort of connection to the Sith there. Yeah, but it seems strange because it was all women there. So, like, what would he have done? But that would be cool. Yeah. The show has definitely improved as it's gone along. It's just that episode three and four were so rough.

You know, one and two were promising. Three and four was like, ugh. And then the last week was like really cool action. Yeah. And this one really gave us that stuff that, you know, it feels like master in Paduan, you know? Yeah. In the best of ways. I think that it's just done effectively, at least from his part.

I don't know how, I don't know if I'm 100% on board with the actress who's playing OSHA. She's got her moments. Yeah. Right? But like, there are some moments from just like, okay, whatever. Let's just keep moving forward. You know what I mean? It's like, I don't hate it.

I don't love it. It's just like it just exists. Whereas he is like, he's giving a lot of stuff. There's like a lot of layers and nuances. The Sith Lord, yeah. He's got a lot going on that's interesting. Whether he is playing like the, you know, the goobree guy or, you know, revealing himself or he's like walking her through this stuff, you know, making her his Paduan. Like it's, it's, he's got interesting layers to him that's fun to watch.

Yeah, he's making the character just so cool because, yeah, like you said, he's using everything at his disposal and he's kind of drawing. us, the audience in with this sense of enigma and mystery. It's like, who are you, though? And you're saying things that, like, makes sense. It makes me feel like I would probably be drawn to the dark side. You know, like, quite easily. I think the biggest issue with the stuff with soul and kind of prolonging this, you know, the delaying this information, I think the biggest issue with it is what could he possibly say

that makes it satisfying to have waited six episodes or seven episodes to learn. Right. You know, there was this, okay, I'm about to share something from Game of Thrones House of the Dragon episode three, I think is what we saw, right? Right. Towards the end of the episode, I won't be specific in case you haven't seen it. But towards the end of the episode, there was this, like, delay of information that was happening. And I thought that they were just going to cut off the episode before they actually gave it to us, but they gave it to us. And it was so satisfying.

But then what they did with the information on top of that made it even more interesting and they took it further in a direction that I wasn't expecting, which I should have because it's Game of Thrones. But all that to say is they didn't make us wait several episodes to get that info. Right. Right. It's like they gave it to us and they expanded on it from there to give us somewhere to go mentally, emotionally, whatever, to be excited for the next thing. Whereas it's like this, it's like, I don't think there's anything he could possibly say that makes it worth the weight of seven episodes. Right. If you are going to do that, it better be freaking mind blowing.

Like, just, psh, you know? And, yeah, I feel like, yeah, it might not be. And also, like you say, take it further. Like, keep surprising the audience. That's how you keep people coming back. Yeah. I'm guessing what we're going to learn is that, you know, he basically executed all of those witches.

Right. That's the... And then blamed it on May. Whoopsy, sorry. Oh, bad. Yeah. I suppose the idea is that Soul is, like, corrupted as well. He's a corrupted Jedi or something like that.

It's all about corruption. I mean, it's literally baked into the title. Yeah. You know, and so the question then becomes, like, who is actually the corrupt? Everybody corrupt. Everybody's corrupted. It's okay. Nobody's perfect.

Do you know what I mean? Anyway, a fun episode, or at least, like, most of it was fun. I really wish they deleted that stuff with the Jedi's. Well, okay. I understand that you enjoyed it. I'm glad you enjoyed it. I enjoyed his funny little weird moments, but you're right. It could have been taken out, and it wouldn't have changed the story.

at all. I don't know if they just decided they like this character or they like this actor and they wanted to give him a little bit more screen time or if he's going to become a more important character. I just think about what is most effective with storytelling, right? If your first realization that the Jedi are following up on things is seeing Jackie's, Jackie's head facing the camera and the Jedi behind her, that's a great shot. Like, that was a great reveal. It's like, okay, that is where you start with these characters. Because that's the most interesting place to start. Right.

You know, all this nonsense leading up to is just like faffing and it's jokes that are not funny to me, you know, to me. And maybe there's a whole bunch of audience that is humored by it. I just think it's a waste of time. Like the whole thing about her having nausea through space that didn't even come up. And I'm like, okay. Yeah, you're right. That's silly. Yeah.

Unless it comes up like in a later episode or something and then like she barfs while they're going through hyperspace. That would be me. It was played for laughs. It amused the direct. director or the writer, the showrunners, and I'm like, all right, you needed to focus group this shit because it wasn't that funny, in my opinion. But, like, I'm not a comedy writer. So maybe it was funny to the editors and to the producers and the actors and they couldn't

stop laughing on set. You know, maybe it was funny to them. It didn't tickle me. So for me, it just felt like two scenes wasted that could have been used for Soul's speech or something. Yeah. Or, like, more character building or relationship building. between OSHA and the Sith.

I've been, like, teetering on, like, which is the direction to go? And I've been holding judgment, but I'm not in love with the acting from the green Jedi lady. There's something about her acting. I'm just like, she's delivering the lines, and then that's, I don't know what to say about it. I just don't love the performance. So here's what I'm wondering. I'm wondering if maybe that performance is kind of showing us the audience that there is something else that she is hiding. We've suspected.

Yeah, that's kind of the sense that I've been getting. It's like she's not completely like 100% honest about anything. And so I'm also wondering if we're going to get some sort of reveal from her about stuff that went down. And like maybe she's not as, you know, up front and good as she ought to be as a Jedi. Yeah. And maybe that's kind of informing her acting choices. Yeah. I don't know.

Yeah. We won't know until the end. This is repetitive at this point But I think that that scene covered a lot Of what the previous two scenes were trying to do It's like they're investigating shit now And in that scene you hear like the echoes of what transpired And like her kind of figuring it all out

And what the scene tells you is they figured the shit out They got a lot of the data Except they're not exactly sure what Sol's about You know there was this sort of accusation that came up Like maybe Soul did this And that's like an interesting thought You know Right

And so the questions that rose out of that scene were interesting stuff, and then it leaves. It's like, yes, that's a good scene. Like, for the most part, like, that was, that was some decent scenes, like, in terms of the writing. So again, I must emphasize, what the fuck? Why did they keep those two previous scenes? Like, it was just a waste. Anyway, I don't want to beat a dead horse. So, uh, you guys, um, yeah, I enjoyed this episode more and it has been improving, thankfully, because I was ready to like, you know, for it to not, um, but it's been getting better. And so I'm looking forward to seeing how, you know, this progress.

How many episodes we got left? One? Two episodes. Anyway. I'm looking forward to seeing how progresses. And I'm hoping for the best. Fingers crossed. Fingers crossed.

Y'all, thanks so much for hanging. I'm Jabby Kaua. This is. Achara Kirk. Peace out.