This encapsulates everything wrong with the frothingfash that shit on “woke” media. Gets the name of the show wrong (its called The Acolyte), pulls the “oBJecTiVeLy BaD wRiTiNg” card, dramatically misunderstands every point made in the show and in almost all SW media since the prequels (the Jedi are not a perfect lawful good force, they are deeply arrogant and flawed, also “the thread” is just the force by a different name) and acting like an overall mediocre-to-decent show is the literal worst thing to ever be created when it’s painfully obvious they didn’t even watch it ancrap

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if you don’t understand or care about any of this you are blessed smedly-exhausted

  • The Free Penguin@lemmygrad.ml
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    4 months ago

    Side note: The way that the Sith are written… I don’t like it. They are clearly written as the MWAHAHA WE ARE EVIL characters and responsible for everything bad happening. The Empire? The Sith did it. The First Order? The Sith did it. From the origin, the Sith are Force-sensitive people who don’t want to become monks. But then the writers go and dump all the bad stuff onto them. All this whole “divine power + desire = bad” stuff has been going on since BIBLICAL TIMES and it’s driving me insane. Aight screw it, does anyone on the grad wanna start a Roll20 campaign? I’ll be playing a Good character that believes in an LHP faith.

  • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Isn’t the Outcast the new Ubisoft game coming later this year?

    Anyways:

    Trying to replace the force with the thread. Framing the Jedi as objectively bad people.

    Fake fan hasn’t watched any of the animated shows or even the prequel movies lol. Force users that engage with it differently have been in Star Wars for such a long ass time. That, and the formal pre-empire Jedi order has always been shown as a dysfunctional group of fart sniffers. I know this is all low hanging fruit, but Jesus Christ do shitty Star Wars fans have awful media literacy.

    • LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Isn’t the Outcast the new Ubisoft game coming later this year?

      Pretty sure it is. The Acolyte is the show. I watched the first half of the first episode before beind distracted, but it seemed fine. Just fine.

      • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        I haven’t watched all of it, but it gets worse after the first couple episodes. Say what you will about the rest of the show, but the writing is not good at all.

        • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          4 months ago

          Austin Walker pointed out that it feels like a YA Riverdale kind of thing, and that put me in the right headspace to handle the goofy ass writing.

          I haven’t seen the last episode yet, but the show is just kinda ok I guess. It’s no worse than Obi Wan or Mandolorian S3, but that’s not saying much. It feels like they had too much they want to do with the amount of time they have in the show. I feel like they would have made a better show if they had more episodes to work with or pared it back a bit shrug-outta-hecks

  • Darth_Reagan [they/them, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Did nobody actually watch the prequels and instead pretend the Jedi of that era are uncomplicated good guys and not deeply compromised political agents? C’mon, the series is basically a prequel for the prequels. They’re setting up the Jedi’s eventual downfall due to their failures to realpolitik and look past their own religious dogmatism.