The Acolyte - Episodes 1-4

[00:00:00] Hello there, my name is Corey and I am a Star War. And my name is Corey and I am a Star War. And my name is Jim and I am a Star War. And we are a Star War. And that's Avi. And that's Avocado.

[00:00:19] She had also been a Star War. She's a Star War. Today we're gonna talk about the Acolyte episodes one through four. We are on the back porch at Casa de Torres. We're getting a little work done in Mos Eisley Cantina. A.K.A Mos Torres.

[00:00:33] Yeah Mos Torres' Cantina is out of commission so we're on the porch. So you hear birds chirping and dogs frolicking. And I gotta be honest with you for an Alabama June day. Could be worse. It's kinda nice out. Could be worse, I'm sweaty. Also the porch.

[00:00:49] You're wearing it. One of the best Pearl Jam songs. That's true and you're also wearing a Jedi robe. You're fully dressed like a Jedi. May we ask why? Just cause it's a Star War. Cause it's an audio format and no one can see it.

[00:01:04] Seemed like a good ass thing to do at the time. Yeah big smile. I just thought you had a secondary thematic reason. No I asked for these for- Like he has jury duty? Yeah.

[00:01:16] I put these on the Christmas list that I wanted and Jamie got them for me so- That's reason enough to wear them. I will wear them. I mean I got them to show up here one day and surprise you guys.

[00:01:26] So we're talking about the acolyte which is silly with Jedi. Just absolutely silly. So I'm taking these off before I record our next episode. He's gonna record the rest of it naked. No I didn't say that. So we are talking about the acolyte.

[00:01:38] Jim you wanna give us a brief rundown of episode one? I would be happy to. According to Emdiba, the summary for episode one which was called day is not good. Racing to the next target, the Jedi head. That's not right. That's episode four. Listen Linda. Oh no.

[00:01:59] We're already off to a great start. Welcome back to We Are A Star War. It's been a couple of months. What we've been doing this whole time is just research, hardcore research on the topics that we plan to discuss for you. Okay here we go, here we go.

[00:02:15] Alright here we go. Are you ready? I'm ready. A shocking, a shocking crime occurs in a distant galaxy prompting the Jedi order to hunt for the prime suspect. Not the secondary suspect, not the tertiary suspect but the prime suspect. A shocking crime occurs. Awesome.

[00:02:39] Now just for the people at home what was the shocking crime? Because I remember but you tell me like I don't. Say it like I don't remember it. What is the shocking crime that happened? Somebody gets killed. The Cary and Moss's Jedi.

[00:02:52] They roped and doped everybody into thinking that Trinity was going to be a Jedi and then they were like psyched. They drew Barrymore in her. They screamed her. Yep they screamed her. But yes so that was the shocking crime that occurred. That was shocking.

[00:03:06] By a force sensitive, force wielding person. Ninja assassin. Ninja assassin. So Oshie gets framed, or not framed but she gets taken in because she looks a lot like this person right? They're like Oshie did it. Oshie. Oshie that's right. Occupational safety hazard. Health administration. Health administration. Okay.

[00:03:27] So she gets taken in. Her twin sister's name is Teema. Sister. You have a twin sister. So she's taken in because she looks like the murderer and she's also force sensitive. We don't even need to touch that joke. Former Jedi. Right?

[00:03:43] Yeah so she was a Jedi but then she quit. Correct. Because she wasn't feeling it. She was working on like a boat as a mechanic. Now she's a mech neck. She was taking the job from an R2 unit or do they not have astro droids?

[00:03:57] No they were saying, they were saying like oh you're not supposed to have mech necks anymore. You're supposed to have droids. Like the droids are the new thing coming in and taking over for the mech necks. The mech necks. She's currently a mech neck.

[00:04:09] I've been told she was a mech neck. Yeah. Okay. So all right. I only watched the episode once when it came out so it's been a couple of weeks for me. Same. And my first impression was it didn't care for it.

[00:04:29] I kind of grouped one and two together because they rowed through each other. They did. They dropped them together. I don't remember which scene it was, which episode this scene was in. But my favorite scene was the prison break when she's on the prison ship and the other

[00:04:44] prisoners on the ship try to convince Osha to join their little mutiny and to break out. I thought that was a fun scene. That felt like fun Star Wars and then that one dude is in the jail cell and

[00:04:56] he's got that weird animal that's slapped over his mouth. Face sucker. Yeah. I thought that was neat but that was it. That was good. I thought episode two was good where Jason from the Good Place is hiding in that apothecary and she's trying to get poisoned.

[00:05:14] She being May. Yeah. Remember that? That's Jason from the Good Place. Yeah. That's Darth Bortles. IMDB. I didn't laugh at your text because I didn't know. I didn't. I thought it was just a quarterback joke and I was like I don't know what he's talking about. BORTLES!

[00:05:30] It's also not my joke. That's OK. It's your joke to me. The whole episode I was like he's somebody that I know and I couldn't place and I had to go to IMDB. Is he just going to be the main bad guy also? IMDB. Yeah, I think so.

[00:05:44] They're just going to pull that stupid helmet off that guy. I know we're jumping around but we don't have to take this episode by episode because no no no we're discussing all four. OK. Screw it up. No you didn't. No it's fine. Trust me.

[00:05:57] I only remember four things about the show. And what are those four things? Get him. I think had a big smiley on it. Yes, it's got like some crooked teeth. They're twins that don't have a daddy which I think is like annoying to you know.

[00:06:11] I feel like we have a virgin birth in this universe already. We should just stick with the one virgin birth right? Either that or it happens like. He was the chosen one. But then there was the one earlier. There was the chosen earlier.

[00:06:26] I think the sixth episode we're going to find out that oh no that bad guy is your dad. We've already had that's your dad. I think and honestly it's not going to be that's your dad.

[00:06:36] I think it's either going to be Bortles or it's going to be that's your mom. I think it's going to be one of the one of the mothers is this is not really the Sith Lord but is operating with the Red Saber. That's what I think.

[00:06:49] I seem kind of wack that that little girl threw a tantrum and the whole coven was dead. I feel like they are purposefully more withholding shots from that to prolong the mystery because it really did seem like earlier in the episode when they're

[00:07:05] earlier when earlier when they're showing kind of like how the coven works and the Jedi may not have shown up yet but they're kind of showing the way that they're living in this space and the girls have come back from being out in

[00:07:18] the woods and they're kind of getting reprimanded for being outside the barrier. There's a shot of that power unit whatever it is that blew up. There's a shot of it in the background and it looks like it's malfunctioning

[00:07:30] like it was a it was planted it like foreshadowing that kind of thing. Yeah. So I'm not sure anybody actually did something wrong. I think there was suspicion on both sides between the witches and the Jedi and the Jedi certainly aren't helping their cause because they're spying on

[00:07:47] kids they're spying on kids and stealing kids which is not a good thing but I don't know that anybody actually blew up the place on purpose. Maybe May did. I don't know. Maybe I missed it.

[00:07:57] I told Kurt Corey earlier before you came out here earlier that we don't have to do that every time like she literally was like not you know what. I'm a burn this motherfucker to the ground. She did and she did it. Yeah. People talk about that a lot.

[00:08:15] I hate my job. People don't follow through. Burn this mother of the grail but you never see. You never see someone actually burn an entire motherfucker. She pulled a Milton. Maybe besides Milton I burned this place to the ground. I haven't been receiving my pay.

[00:08:28] We told I would receive a piece of cake and then there was no cake. So yeah I mean I think she burned it to the ground whether or not they're one of their moms survived though like I hadn't thought about that theory.

[00:08:44] Jason from The Good Place said something in episode two where I was like he shouldn't have said that because that made him sound like he was. But then in episode four he's like you know you really shouldn't be walking that way. The mission is over this way.

[00:09:00] Hint hint. Yeah the whole time he's like you know the boss man if he was here would tell you to go over there. Yeah yeah I was like OK that's a little too on the nose and then OK wait

[00:09:10] a minute he disappears for five minutes when she sets a trap and then all of a sudden wait a minute here's this guy in this suit with a red saber. So I want to I want to I want to pull the avocado.

[00:09:22] What do you think in that helmet. It's genius. So I want to I want to pause I want to pause just for a second and I want to go back to two minutes before the episode one started.

[00:09:33] The preview for the not the preview not the Disney plus lineup but like our expectations my expectation for this when they first announced the title and the subject matter was misaligned. I was expecting something in the same tone as Andor that was possibly a

[00:09:56] little darker that might have been you know the Disney Star Wars version of a David Fincher story like of seven right. Like I thought it was going to be a straight up murder mystery. Oh so it's not that it's not that at all. It is a cartoon.

[00:10:14] It is 100 percent a live action cartoon made for 10 year olds. It is I saw the Clone Wars I can make you some of those. Yep. You can clone some Clone Wars. I can clone that Clone Wars. I made a copy see. Yeah I don't know what I expected.

[00:10:29] I like the show. That's not a dig at the show. I like it. I've got a couple of problems with it but I don't know that I knew because I didn't know until a week or two ago when we were talking that

[00:10:37] the High Republic was it's a line of like you young adult books. Yeah yeah I didn't know that I just thought they were just I mean let's be honest guys all of them are most of Star Wars is for.

[00:10:50] Yeah you know it's not written for 48 year olds but still like it's kind of a weird show right. What what's your favorite part about it Corey Martin so far. Let's just dig into some of the some of the controversies and the things that people have been complaining about.

[00:11:08] First of all people are saying this is the woke it's bullshit. It's what we get into what other people are complaining about it. I want to hear one thing that you like about it. One thing that you like about it.

[00:11:18] One thing that you don't like about it and same for you sideburns the opening credits when it's like a crescent moon and then that turns into the oh an acolyte and that's how Andor started too. It was like that was the D was like a thing right.

[00:11:36] Is that like all their shows and like the same maybe maybe a Boba Fett have like a little thing and then it turned into Boba. I don't think so. I don't think so either. I don't remember.

[00:11:46] So are you saying the one thing you like is the title treatment for the show. I love seeing a yeah. OK Corey Hannah what's the one thing you like about the show or give me one thing that you like about the show.

[00:12:00] The obvious is that it's a Star Wars and I like it because it's a Star War but we won't say that but I just did with my mouth hole. I just think it's a bunch of fucking Jedi on screen.

[00:12:11] I like seeing a bunch of fucking Jedi on screen. Many Jedi. There are a lot of Jedi. I like Saul. Soul Saul. I read say it better call soul. He's fun. I like him. I like you. I like this character.

[00:12:24] He's not the one with the good hair that took his shirt off. No that's saved by the bell yard. Yeah. The shooting day yard. All right. What's what's one thing one thing that you don't like about it.

[00:12:41] I can already like this might be just my stupid brain but now when I'm watching these shows I can feel the formula and I can feel things falling into it. And so I had watched the first two episodes like three times because I

[00:12:55] couldn't bring myself to put my phone down. I just couldn't get locked in. And I think it's because I know that most of what happens in the first three episodes of these shows is worthless. Doesn't matter.

[00:13:06] It's all going to be red herrings and they're gonna be like oh this was really the bad guy. So I'm just going to wait there. They've literally done 180 degrees on the two main characters by episode four. Right.

[00:13:17] Like the thing that I was most surprised by an episode for wasn't that they killed the Wookiee Jedi off camera which was lame. Was that may as like I'm a good person. I've always been a good person.

[00:13:31] I'm a good angel and I don't want to be bad anymore and we're not going to do this and the evil master can just go be bad somewhere else on her own time. That was like I got whiplash watching that shit happen.

[00:13:43] What's your what's one thing you don't like about it. We kind of discussed earlier but some of the set pieces look fake as hell and I guess I don't know maybe their budget was not big. It was big. That was the Jedi that took the poison. Torrin.

[00:14:05] Do we. Yes I think it was Torrin. Master Torrin. His beard looks so fucking fake and then the last thing is beard looked about as convincing as Obi Wan Kenobi's beard in Attack of the Clones. Well maybe a little worse. Little worse.

[00:14:20] And the last thing is what you said was we get a Wookiee Jedi a grown Wookiee Jedi we got a Wookiee Jedi and a couple of like Clone Wars or Rebels what you want to all these Jedi that are teased and like I knew the

[00:14:35] story was about people getting killed but I was like can we have this Jedi on screen for more than three minutes. But they did the same shit with Carrie and Moss. And that's you know the fact that they're billing that is the shocking

[00:14:51] thing it's in the fucking trailer. Yeah right. Like someone's killing Jedi. Well here we never meet off camera that you know we just happened to show up in a cantina somewhere on Moss Plutplot. I would have prepared that to just a little tease with the Wookiee Jedi.

[00:15:11] But she got to come back in like flashbacks and stuff. So far we're going to see her more. I think she might they might be cutting back and forth all through the show. We're halfway through and we just found the first guy with a red light.

[00:15:25] So now there's one person there's one of the four left. That's the thing. His his mask is stupid and looks like a DJ. Oh I like it. No it looks like a bad wrestling luchador mask with the now I like it even more.

[00:15:40] It looks like something I could make. You could make something better than that. I asked not not not me saying you're going to get me. Yes get that. Corey could really make it a lot better. He could. Yeah. He's been known to make a man.

[00:15:55] I didn't know what was bothering me. I'm working on a life sized matrix of leadership. I didn't know it's as big as a Chevy van. I didn't know what was bothering about it bothering me about it but it is the smile like something was just registering.

[00:16:07] Yeah because you don't see it at first. It's kind of like the venom grin. You know it was like when he went when there was like the red light from his saber was hitting his face and it like lit up kind of like big smile.

[00:16:18] I was like oh that's goofy. That's I don't know about that. I don't know. My turn out to be great. I thought Kylo looked stupid at first but I like his. Yeah. Dread. It doesn't bother me. I like it. Elite drip.

[00:16:33] The one thing that I don't like the overarching one thing that I don't like about the show so far is exactly what I said to you guys. I wasn't going to like about it is that it's just a string along.

[00:16:44] There's no there's like the third episode had a little bit of a story because it was kind of a bottle episode with it being like the kids and the origin thing. And I actually the third episode was my favorite of the four so far

[00:16:57] because it told a story. The rest of them are just setups to a cliffhanger and last night's episode is literally nothing but leading to that cliffhanger like the the the sith lord if it's even a sith lord ignites its red lightsaber

[00:17:16] and then everybody lights and then they cut to the credits. Can I can I get you guys to explain some things to bring it. So this is 100 years before Phantom Mentis Phantom right. And at the time of Phantom Mentis they were like hey there's a sith

[00:17:36] and and they were like there hadn't been a sith in a thousand years. Please there ain't no siths right. So now we're going back 100 years to find siths. Well and they did make a point in the episode last night to say we're

[00:17:51] not going to tell we're not going to tell the Jedi Council we can do this on our own. When they said that I was like because you don't want to show Yoda yet. You're saving that for the eight episode.

[00:18:00] But they show Kal-Al Fal-Mundi who apparently is that he was you know forehead the old forehead. But now he has hair on the back of it. Did he always have hair on the back of it. Yeah he had a mullet back then.

[00:18:13] I thought it was all a big cone. No he had a he had a skull it back in the high republic. He's got like four ponytails on the back of it. Love that. He's got some style. I didn't know if that was the same guy I'd ever seen.

[00:18:23] But he's the one that says we haven't seen the sith for a thousand years in the Phantom Mentis. And he's literally right there when they're talking about the set. Maybe we got a fake ass sith lord.

[00:18:36] I'm telling you it's either Bortles or it's one of the moms and it's it's. There was a lot of things last night where I was like Bortles know a little too much about what's happening. Yes this is the guy or either he's like closer. I don't know.

[00:18:54] So when they how it's not him. So when they pulled out that red saber all the Jedi were they all like oh shit I have no one's had a red lightsaber in a thousand years because there's no baddies left because we're so good at this. But they're not.

[00:19:10] Yeah that's something else right. I want to talk about that but yeah. But anyway where are we at now. Back to the woke. Yeah yeah so I think we covered but we each said one thing that we like one thing that we don't like.

[00:19:21] Yeah we clearly have a lot more than we don't like but let's get to the woke and he woke in the woke woke. Yeah I don't think anybody can ever do anything now without people being like right. Why is there a woman.

[00:19:31] This is woke like they're just so mad for nothing. Fuck those people. Like I kept waiting. Fuck them. For something to happen on this show where they come out and they're like as long as there's no white men because I hate white men.

[00:19:45] They're the worst but they haven't said that. No. So I don't think the white people mad because there was an interview with the actress and from like four or five years ago before she was a star

[00:19:59] war she was in The Hate U Give which was a massive selling book and apparently in a press interview somewhere along the line she said yeah we want to make white people cry. So that's the clip that's been circulating.

[00:20:15] Somebody got quoted out of context it got twisted blown up lied and made into a controversy online over nothing to promote a show by a marketing department and the corresponding bots on the other side of the argument.

[00:20:27] If she wants to make white people cry then she's done it because some of them are out there crying and all she did was put a black lady on TV like there's never been a black lady on TV before.

[00:20:41] Like there's never been a black lady in Star Wars. There hasn't been Lizzo in Star Wars before. Right. That's all bullshit. It's all wide open. And it's also the tiniest bit of nobody that so much of that is

[00:20:55] being I think propagated by bots which is it's not real. Sure there are probably some people out there and they're wrong. Yeah. That feel that way. But all of the genuine angst and conversation I bet 95 percent of the

[00:21:13] things that are engaging in those kinds of comments online and you know posting on any social media platform it's fucking fake. It's not real people. My complaint with the show has nothing to do with the diversity of the cast.

[00:21:31] I was expecting something a little more mature in its format and the more I've kind of come around to the fact that this is a cartoon it was really obvious in episode four because the set looked like Fraggle Rock.

[00:21:46] What was going on in one scene where there was like fire raining down and it was like it was like coming down in these little twirls. That's when their temple was when their temple was burning and they were like running away from it. I was like what's that.

[00:21:58] I do have a question about Nintendo 64 back there. I do have a question about that the temple burning scene because the one thing that I've read that at least seemed like it was coming from a human about that particular episode was that there's more to what happened that

[00:22:15] night than what we've been shown and that the witches likely did engage in a fight with a Jedi. And this person's reasoning for that was that the way they showed the bodies in that wide shot they've been kind of placed. It's not like they just fell dead.

[00:22:36] They've been like like they were killed somewhere else and kind of gathered and placed somewhere. I mean I don't know that I agree with that but what do you guys think about that. Did the Jedi go on there and mow these witches down like a my life

[00:22:50] massacre or or for the Jedi have they been blamed for something else. Yeah I'm thinking I mean looking back at it that makes sense like the witches probably started it. The Jedi would just finished it right.

[00:23:05] I mean I could see that if that's if that's how it went down if the witches started it. You know the thing though is why did they feel so much guilt 16 years later. The Jedi well that ain't the first time Jedi have killed a room full of people.

[00:23:19] No. Or stolen babies. So it just makes me wonder like you know who knows. I mean like why are they guilty if they did. I'm we're led to believe that they started it in some way.

[00:23:31] So like the the Wookie goes off and lives in the woods somewhere by himself is that like him. NECA is that him being all like sad and I'm not. I think that was the thing was that we do we should have done that.

[00:23:42] I want to be a Jedi and kind of like the man kind of like like old fake beard taking the bow sitting in the meditation bubble like Cain and the Kung Fu walking the earth which by the way if you're a Jedi

[00:23:54] you did some bad shit and you feel bad about it and then you get an assignment and you're like you're stationed at Jedi Temple Zanzibar. And you're one of the Jedi's at this post. Yeah. And then you spend your entire post in the bubble.

[00:24:08] That's like two wrongs not making it right. You're shirking your responsibility sir. Yeah I mean go Jedi. Master soul is there at the school still teaching. Yeah I'm also chilling at a bar. She was just drinking. That's how come she got took. Oh she didn't stay sharp.

[00:24:26] No she got the sharp end of the knife. Hey oh boy people on the Internet. Goodness boy a lightsaber in the stomach won't kill you but a three inch blade in the heart will. A Jedi.

[00:24:41] Yes motherfucker you take a three inch blade to the heart and tell me how you're feeling at the end of the day. We bring that character back. They'll be back with robot legs. She'll be back with a robot heart.

[00:24:55] My problem that is this is a thing I've never done and I texted you guys because sometimes I would like see content that would come across my feet or whatever but I specifically got on tick tock and was like acolyte three or acolyte episode three last week.

[00:25:11] I was like oh this is the biggest mistake I've ever made in my life. Did you do that before you watched it or after. But because I've been watching it like within a couple of minutes of

[00:25:19] when I was on but my my the funny thing is like there's a lot of people out there defending it but for the people defending it there's three people sitting on it. Yeah so the part that was most controversial and even you had to say

[00:25:31] something about it about episode three about the two witches conceiving baby. There's nothing in that episode that says they used midichlorians to make a baby. They just said I did this and you carried it.

[00:25:48] She said I carried this and she said I created her and then she says and you don't want them to find out how you did it. Right. I was like just fucking say it. Why do we have now it's six episodes later.

[00:25:59] I mean for all we know she had a bad night and moss turtle. Yeah. Found a feller that she was momentariously moment you just in that moment there was a good jizz song on and things happened one blue milk led to two milk blue milks.

[00:26:16] Next thing you know it was a rough night. The sun's are going down. Right. It was romantic and I figured why not. I'll try it once. Right. Yeah. And then you know you never go back you never go back but because she's a

[00:26:31] human or humanoid she couldn't carry a snorak to term right. And so she has to give her lover and her life mate who is a different species who's stronger from Dathomir and that's right. Somehow somehow. She have Palpatine shift Palpatine there is him.

[00:26:52] That was where he came from seven year old shift Palpatine walked up to her and a bar and said Are you an angel. Somehow did I actually send the video to you guys. Yeah. Of the TV I just happened to be sitting there how and it flipped the

[00:27:09] channel and Star Wars was on somehow helped teams returned. I feel like I have to snapshot it every time I just run across it. I do think I do think that there's a strong argument for Jason Mendoza to be

[00:27:29] at least the apprentice the true Sith apprentice if not the Sith Lord because he's not there. They Lucas set up the precedent with what he wanted to do with Jar Jar right. He wanted Jar Jar to have been the goofy misdirect.

[00:27:46] Nobody would suspect that this guy was working with a Sith Lord to bring about a massive downfall of the Jedi and blah blah blah blah blah right. And when we all hated Jar Jar so much so that I'm at best had to go to

[00:27:59] therapy because Star Wars fans suck. Blame that on George Lucas. I'm blaming him too. No I'm blaming on the fans. I'm not blaming it on my best. He did a hell of a job. Yeah that's not his fault. But what I'm saying is there was an arc there.

[00:28:12] Sure. That didn't that was not fulfilled. Right. I think they're putting it in this show with the with the doofus and the buffoon as the misdirect but it's really not that effective or that covert because in episode four we're like you're the bad guy.

[00:28:28] Things go over my head a lot. Because there's only like three characters so I'm like well it's either you or somebody I haven't met yet why would we have you if it's not you. If you're not if he's not the Sith or the apprentice then he's what they're

[00:28:40] like PA. He's like they're the I'm the Sith's. He's their nurse practitioner. Sith Lords. Yeah. My problem is like subtle things go over my head and he can't write prescriptions twists always get me like I never see him coming right.

[00:28:53] And on this one unless that unless they're just trying to beat you over the head with it it's pretty obvious it's him. Yeah. So unless this is the twist is it's not him. Yeah. That's the only thing I know the show hasn't been that subtle.

[00:29:05] The dog got my microphone. That's a Beastie Boy song isn't it. If it's not him then they've got me. But I think it's the mom. I think it's one of the mothers. Yeah it could be.

[00:29:17] Unless she was in the pile of bodies at the end and I just don't remember that it was only for a half second. Like he said Corey Martin who's your favorite character. Zoloft. You sure it's not Paxil. Was Paxil the little sniffer dog. No that's Basil. Oh yeah.

[00:29:36] That was a fun that was a fun character. He was pure Star Wars. He can smell things because he's a rodent. And he yells. That makes sense and then when he finds it he screams. I love that guy. I like that guy. Thanks.

[00:29:48] Yes if I have any problems with the color and shape of the characters is that they're all humans and there's like one person where they're like let's make this one just green. Oh do you want to have like a no just yeah just green and like shave her

[00:30:04] head green. Cool. Cool she's an alien. From the planet of green humans that look just like us. That's all I'm saying there should be more slugs. Did you answer. He said Basil is his favorite Paxil. Yeah yeah he will henceforth be known as Paxil. Paxil.

[00:30:24] Yeah the rodent tracker. How about you. And who's your favorite character sideburns favorite character. I like Master Soul a lot saying that's your answer. Yes final answer. Are you finished. We need deposit. Oh oh let's take a quick break.

[00:30:42] Oh commercial we have commercial do come over and do a commercial on this one. Yeah we'll be back. We'll be back Alicia. Sunday Sunday Sunday if you're on Tatooine get your hut down to Mos Espo pod race circuit.

[00:31:00] We've got Subulba young Skywalker pit droids nonstop action will pesky Tuscan Raiders murder your favorite pod racer. Will the Jedi cheat you out of your favorite slave. You'll find out this and more on Sunday Sunday Sunday. Oh grace and we're back and we're back. We're back.

[00:31:23] Quick break for Star Wars. All of us are we are each and every one of us. But let's let's get back into it. Tick tock. We were in the break we were talking about tick tockers and their takes on it and this that and the other.

[00:31:39] And I think it was one I sent to you guys in the group chat that you wanted to talk about. Yeah. There's a guy that brought up something that I like I thought about this a lot in

[00:31:49] the prequel movies particularly where it's like I've always wondered are we supposed to think the Jedi are incompetent or did George Lucas just write them making mistakes and it just kind of looks like they're incompetent now in hindsight because it's that's kind of become the narrative. Right.

[00:32:06] Is that this whole saga is about how stupid the Jedi always were. And so then it was like oh we're going to get this show and it's a hundred years before and it's in the Republic and everything's great.

[00:32:15] And then you go back and they're like oh the Jedi are a bunch of like corrupt people that come and steal babies and they're kind of assholes and people don't like them. So the dogs almost pulled the mic out of your hand. The dogs want to talk.

[00:32:28] They almost got mine earlier. So like the point I guess is like is there ever a time where it's just like hey the Jedi are like this force for good and it works and they're good at it and it's great.

[00:32:39] And I guess to quote Obi-Wan Kenobi from a certain point of view what's good. Right. So like the witches in episode three they're not the Nightsisters or at least they're not confirmed to be the Nightsisters but they are a

[00:32:54] coven of witches right that clearly have magics which are their version of the force or their relationship with the force and it's their own culture wrapped around it right. Like I do have kind of a hot take about that. Bring it. The thread and shit. Yeah.

[00:33:14] I kind of dig it was basically it's a completely separate religion if you will if the force is like Methodist versus Baptist. Right. It's like we all are touching parts of the same elephant thing where it's they believe in the force and to them they think it's threads

[00:33:33] that pull us all together and you can use the threads to pull this and that. Pull the string. Pull my finger. Yeah. And the force before we were just like well no we all have tiny

[00:33:44] bugs in our blood but it's kind of still the same thing but there was a blood test in this show so there was obviously kind of the same thing they are into it. A different version of the one they did in one of the prequels. Right.

[00:33:56] That was something I saw in. Yeah. So they're still looking for midichlorian counts when they're looking at for sensitive children to abduct. But I dug the idea that well the force is out there and it's a real thing that people can feel and everyone's not going to interpret

[00:34:11] that to be the same exact may the force be with you. Right. Set of dog. The thread be with you. Yeah. I think there should be an opportunity to put a Weezer song in there in that episode right. Want to destroy. Thank you. The heckled I. Oh no.

[00:34:29] Oh this Jedi has I walk away. As I walk away see me unravel. I'll soon be naked. Light on the floor. Light on the floor. I'm coming down. Sorry guys. It turns out that these two.

[00:34:50] It turns out that these two are in fact the Lord of the Rings. Turns out this is the last podcast we're doing because we're going on the road. You guys are gonna hit the road to hear those pipes. Hell yeah. Unbelievable. You guys have a horse.

[00:35:03] Nah I got three beers in me is what I knew. There we go. Felt like someone pulled my thread. I want to play this because we spend a lot of time talking about wokeness and stuff and people's interpretations of things.

[00:35:17] I sent this to you guys the other night and it's on TikTok. It says if Star Wars fans in 1983 behaved like Star Wars fans in 2024. Hashtag or the user's name is stand out steal. Look that up. It's funny as shit.

[00:35:35] He's got he's like a woman killed job of the head. Stuff like that. It's it's real funny. So look that up when you get a chance. I would try to play it but I'm afraid I might fuck it up right now.

[00:35:50] So what else do you guys want to talk about? We've got like a little bit. So we're halfway we're halfway through the season. Do we know if it was always intended to be multiple seasons or is this a limited series kind of thing?

[00:36:04] I was under the impression it was a one and done. So they got four episodes to kill Saul because he's the last of the four. Yeah. That apparently were did wrong. And. And then what. Yeah. What happens if you kill all four somebody just.

[00:36:25] Well I mean he's he's going to die because of what he said last night. He's like now I'm gonna do this thing no matter what it takes. I'm like OK he's going to quite gone Genesis and he's going to die and he's going to sacrifice

[00:36:34] himself to save both the daughters and or both the sisters and. OK. So they can. Corey pointed out before we recording that one of them is a witch. One of them missed it by this month. Yeah they were like she reached in the sky.

[00:36:50] She reached in the sky and was like I'm going to pull down the blue thing on your. Oh my God who's at the door. It's the Jedi here to give you a test and change your life stamp on your like it happened to write that.

[00:37:03] I do have a question about that episode. Who were the witches hiding from. Was it the Jedi people or was it just you know they were afraid of other factions. Come get their kids is what I thought right. Well I mean that'd be the Jedi then but.

[00:37:19] Yeah but because they had they were on differing sides of it I mean that says something if you've got whole communities that are living in fear and creating you know subterfuge to keep their children from the view of the Republic.

[00:37:34] I mean that's not a hard door to want to push down in terms of that's wrong. So it's kind of like a Waco situation and it also burnt down and did burn down They did have a David Koresh in there. I'll be damned we solved it. It's Waco.

[00:37:54] So that means John Leguizamo is going to be the good guy at the end of this. Oh my God is John Leguizamo the guy wearing the smiley mask. Fuck yes he is. But is it John Leguizamo as the clown from Spawn. Probably not no.

[00:38:09] I really wanted to do an imitation of him but I forgot what his clown sounded like. Quite all right. It's not a good movie. Yeah it's not. 30 years ago. And Todd McFarlane is not letting that die. He is going to make another movie. He's making another movie.

[00:38:23] He is you know at this point he could just use AI to make it. I mean who'd have thought that at any point in our lives Rob Liefeld would have more box office panache than Todd. They marketed Deadpool a certain way. That's true. They did.

[00:38:43] I mean they got it right. They sure did. You've read the comics ever. That's the only movie I care about this year. Same. Yeah. Yeah. Star War. Oh I mean and Star War. I like Star War. We don't have a Star War movie this year though.

[00:38:58] When do we get Star War movies? What's the next movie? The Rey movie is the next one to be theatrically released and then the Mandalorian. They haven't even written it. Apparently they're going to do it. Apparently the script is written. She was on the Smart List podcast

[00:39:12] recently and it's actually a really fun interview to listen to. And the only bit of Star Wars info that she was willing to to mention was that she's supposed to be reading the script soon and that she has to go somewhere to read the script. Vatican City.

[00:39:29] Vatican City. The Pope wrote the script. It's going to be the wokest Star Wars ever. Sent up the smoke signal when he was done. It is writ. All right so do we have any boilerplate to take us out of this beautiful episode of the Acolyte Summary 134?

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[00:40:24] It's in line with our sex episode. Look we got a sex episode coming in the in this pod but it's not yet. We need to know that there is. A lot of. There's a lot of there's a lot of meat on that bone. As it were.

[00:40:39] There's a lot of sex in Star Wars and we're going to talk about it. I think next time. Not next time. Not next time but in the future. Yeah so do we have t-shirts. Where can people get t-shirts. And we've got new stickers don't we.

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[00:41:15] They don't have mouse pads. That's some bull shit. Sorry I interrupted the boilerplate take it away. Go. That's it. I didn't know what you meant by boilerplate so have that broadcast journalism. Yes have some. And on that note we're done follow us on Instagram and

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