Current Events > The Acolyte Episode 8 Finale Topic *SPOILERS*

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Comes out tonight at 9 PM EST/6 PM PST.

Tons to wrap up in the last episode.

I've enjoyed most of the show and the mysteries so far, so I hope it's a good end.

Been a good run. Let's see how they end. Hope not everyone dies. D:

CyricZ posted...

Hope not everyone dies. D:

I have a feeling at least Ki-Adi Mundi will survive.

Kinda hoping for a Yoda appearance, hed be alive at this point and they might as well use Frank Oz while hes still kicking.

But I dont want it to just be a shoehorned cameo, Im sure theres something meaningful he can do.

Definitely cant wait for the new episode, this show has been very enjoyable.

I am sad to see the show end; I really enjoyed the videos of people dunking on the show after each episode. No way in hell this gets a 2nd season though

B18Champ posted...

No way in hell this gets a 2nd season though

It's their second most popular show, so there's a decent chance of a follow-up. Leslye Headland says she has ideas for more stories in the time period.

Frankly I'm all for us leaving the Empire era.

rexcrk posted...

Kinda hoping for a Yoda appearance

I'm of the opinion it would be equally great if he didn't show up and equally great if he did show up for the final episode for a few minutes.

CyricZ posted...

It's their second most popular show

Pretty sure that is not true. It had lower viewership than Ahsoka, which was lower than Mandalorian. Not sure about Obi-Wan.

I know Andor did not do as well :(

bsp77 posted...

Pretty sure that is not true.

Ah you're correct. It was on track for that but lost viewership over time.

Where are you guys getting viewership data from? There should be next to nothing reliable on the Acolyte yet.

Compsognathus posted...

Where are you guys getting viewership data from? There should be next to nothing reliable on the Acolyte yet.

From Wikipedia:

Disney announced that the series had 4.8 million views in its first day of release and 11.1 million views across its first five days, marking the streaming service's biggest series premiere of 2024 so far. The five-day viewership was below that of the previous Star Wars series, Ahsoka, which had 14 million views across its first five days.

Now I can't speak beyond the first five days but considering the very mixed reaction, especially compared to Mando and even Ahsoka, I doubt it improved.

Yeah, I don't take any numbers from Disney (or any other streamer) at face value. They have reasons to manipulate that data.

We have Nielsen data for the first two weeks.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d7ae9d80.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5c6c1b68.jpg

Nielsen's historical data is a bitch to find so it will take a minute to pull other Star Wars shows.

https://x.com/TVGrimReaper/status/1707508883479285834?s=19

It had a comparable first week to Ahsoka but it's second week had a drop compared to Ahsoka staying flat. What's interesting is Ahsoka actually started to climb in week 3 and continued to do so until the series ended. Hopefully Acolyte pulls something similar.

CyricZ posted...

It's their second most popular show, so there's a decent chance of a follow-up. Leslye Headland says she has ideas for more stories in the time period.

Frankly I'm all for us leaving the Empire era.

I'm of the opinion it would be equally great if he didn't show up and equally great if he did show up for the final episode for a few minutes.

I want to see more Indara and Sol before the events of Acolyte

Almost forgot about this tonight.

Excellent episode and it would be really awful if they don't give the show another season.

Surprised we actually got a Plagueis sighting. I figured he'd be a character that everybody always brings up but then he never shows up in anything.

Compsognathus posted...

What's interesting is Ahsoka actually started to climb in week 3 and continued to do so until the series ended. Hopefully Acolyte pulls something similar.

That was a show that truly got better as it went. I can't wait for more of Ahsoka.

I haven't seen The Acolyte, but I'm gonna watch it eventually.

Yeah I'm also surprised we got Plagueis.

Anyway, I hereby deem it a great show. Not my favorite, but it feels just uncomfortable enough in it's message to keep the tension going to a second season. Vernestra lied right to the Senate, Osha and Qimir have their uncertain future, and Mae kinda hangs around I guess.

I hope we really do get a season 2. I want more Qimir.

Was that Plagueis? I couldn't tell if that was a Muun or not.

Enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdu8I1gWqk4

Sol u dummy

Compsognathus posted...

Was that Plagueis? I couldn't tell if that was a Muun or not.

Definitely was him.

Kinda surprised. The show pretty much stuck the landing and I was expecting to be more disappointed in it despite not hating it as much as others. I also see they're making the "bleeding" kyber crystal thing officially canon which is also a bit of a surprise.

It was still somewhat clunky overall but when it finally got to the good shit it was great. The last episode also showed a bit of what the overall show was missing. Jedi getting their shit pushed in by the Senate lol. I loved the Senator calling them out. And while I felt Sol was a weird creepy asshole lusting after kids to fulfill his dream of being a dad or whatever, they sure did him dirty in the end just so the Jedi could cover up their nonsense. Funny how everyone expected the "big bad thing" the Jedi did to be what happened on Brendok but it really turned out to be what happened mostly at the end of the show with the double coverup.

I want to know more about this Senate investigation of the Jedi. How do we get from here to TPM? The Jedi Order seems restored by the time TPM starts

Kaitouace posted...

I also see they're making the "bleeding" kyber crystal thing officially canon which is also a bit of a surprise.

I hate it, but I think it was already canon through Ahsoka's new sabers.

I'm also not happy with the implication the Jedi are right to bury their emotions by having the whole situation be caused by Sol caring too much.

Cartoon_Quoter posted...

I hate it, but I think it was already canon through Ahsoka's new sabers.

I'm also not happy with the implication the Jedi are right to bury their emotions by having the whole situation be caused by Sol caring too much.

Ah I haven't seen too much on the Ahsoka front. Plus apparently it happens in one of the new Jedi games (Jedi Survivor?) but I haven't played those. I just know it from some of the recent comics.

I feel that the implication isn't really that. It's more in the middle. The show definitely went out of its way to show that while Osha eventually "did the deed" by embracing her anger, she seems to be somewhat more of a "healthy" person because of it. All the stuff with her, Mae and Qimir near the end seemed pretty positive to the point of having them seem like the "heroes" despite being evil.

Plus if this ends up pushing the Jedi more toward bottling their feelings and so on, that's what eventually leads them to becoming total assholes and getting worked in the Prequel Trilogy. It's a balance and both light side and dark side kinda fuck it up. Of course Lucas says the dark side is just bad and needs to be eradicated for balance so who knows? Seems like it works best when someone goes "screw all this nonsense" and just becomes a space wizard with a cool sword.

Compsognathus posted...

Was that Plagueis? I couldn't tell if that was a Muun or not.

If you listen closely to the music it's the same as Palpatine telling Anakin the tragedy of Lord Plagueis

So all the complaints about canon breaking were BS.

Shows good. I think it's very much safe to say that.

And showing off plagueis almost guarantees a season 2

Was ok. A lot of it felt really boring to me. Lightsaber fights were dope as fuck though.

What a bitch! Selling Sol out like that, tell me how the Sith are the evil ones again?

008Zulu posted...

What a bitch! Selling Sol out like that, tell me how the Sith are the evil ones again?

I mean the sith in this show killed like 10 people including children. Wasnt self defense either.

Theres a few bad eggs in the jedi thats nothing new.

nice finale looking forward to a second season to wrap up this timeline and i hope we get more shows like this that dives into other timelines like the old republic give me live action kreia

So Yoda knows about all this shit, yet in The Phantom Menace he's just as clueless as the rest of the council when the prospect of a potential sith is brought up even though Smilo Ren walked out alive with an apprentice. I know The Phantom Menace is a horrible, horrible movie, but some basic continuity would be nice.

Oh, and imagine blaming everything on Sol like that and not the stupid witch cult that accidentally started the fire causing the entire show to essentially happen in the first place. And imagine drinking the Sith kool aid even easier than Anakin's dumb ass.

dancing_cactuar posted...

So Yoda knows about all this shit, yet in The Phantom Menace he's just as clueless as the rest of the council when the prospect of a potential sith is brought up even though Smilo Ren walked out alive with an apprentice. I know The Phantom Menace is a horrible, horrible movie, but some basic continuity would be nice.

Oh, and imagine blaming everything on Sol like that and not the stupid witch cult that accidentally started the fire causing the entire show to essentially happen in the first place. And imagine drinking the Sith kool aid even easier than Anakin's dumb ass.

It's worth pointing out that Vern actually has very little information about the situation after Sol and his team left on the mission.

All she basically knows is a lot of Jedi died by lightsaber, Mae has some Jedi training and killed two Jedi, Osha is gone, Sol is dead and a Jedi thought dead is actually alive and involved somehow. Anything else is conjecture and force readings. She has no idea there are Sith involved. She doesn't even know who killed who. Like she did lie to the senate because she knows that Sol didn't kill the first two Jedi, but beyond that she clearly had Sol as a suspect for the other killings. Her believing that Sol killed nearly everyone else isn't an unreasonable conclusion for her to draw.

I must have been distracted or something, when did Plagueis show up?

Edit: I found the scene. That's dope, I can't believe I missed that the first time. Overall I liked it and hope it gets another season. Even though Sol made some really bad choices, I really liked him as a character. All of the light saber fights were great too, especially the possessed Kelnacca fight. A Wookiee Jedi bearing down on you would be downright terrifying.

one thing i liked about this show showed is how we saw mae didn't bottle up her anger so she at least had some control over her emotion and was willing not to kill sol and let justice system be the judge of him and her as well for her crimes while osha was raised in the jedi way and had to bottle up her emotion and once she found out the truth her dam broke showing why the jedi code is flawed

Literally just been watching people dunk on this show, that's where I've been getting my entertainment.

I barely seen an episode of star wars, or a movie >_>

SpiritSephiroth posted...

Literally just been watching people dunk on this show, that's where I've been getting my entertainment.

I barely seen an episode of star wars, or a movie >_>

no one is really doing that here

maybe go back tothose places that are

dancing_cactuar posted...

So Yoda knows about all this shit, yet in The Phantom Menace he's just as clueless as the rest of the council

Feigning ignorance. Later, Windu suggests going before the Senate and informing them that their ability to use the Force was diminished. Yoda countermands him saying that if they did, their problems would multiply. Compartmentalizing information and even outright lying seems to be the order of the day at the Temple.

CrimsonGear80 posted...

no one is really doing that here

maybe go back tothose places that are

Where in my post did I say I was watching that here? lol

I have little interest in a season 2 of this tbh. I didn't hate it, but I just don't see the point of it. We started the season with a twin who's memories might be faulty and the other being an apprentice to a Sith and we ended with a twin who's memories are faulty and the other being an apprentice to a Sith.

This was a show with great ideas, but some really bad filmmaking. The flashback episodes were the worst, but the entire thing struggles with inconsistencies, unclear character motivations, cheap set design ($180 million, seriously?), and leaving too much setup for a season 2 that may never happen.

Honestly surprised anyone thinks it is great, unless you are only focused on the story in broad strokes (the moral ambiguity is nice), and some admittedly cool fight scenes.

There's some theory going around that Mae completing Ascension and Osha not completing Ascension had some effect on where their characters went.

The only good thing about this show was the fight scenes

Why did Bazil sabotage the ship? I didn't get that.

tankboy posted...

Why did Bazil sabotage the ship? I didn't get that.

he feared sol was about to blast mea and kill her there so they stopped him given how unstable sol is his fear is warranted plus after hearing the truth

Yup that's what I got out of it. Bazil's like "this dude about to do something stupid".

Bazil's the only one left alive with the Republic who knows just about everything that went down.

dancing_cactuar posted...

So Yoda knows about all this shit, yet in The Phantom Menace he's just as clueless as the rest of the council when the prospect of a potential sith is brought up even though Smilo Ren walked out alive with an apprentice. I know The Phantom Menace is a horrible, horrible movie, but some basic continuity would be nice.

We didn't see/hear Venestra tell Yoda anything. You're making an assumption that Venestra was going to spill it to Yoda rather than just lie to him the way she's lied to/about everyone else

CyricZ posted...

Bazil's the only one left alive with the Republic who knows just about everything that went down.

Bazil is Darth Jar Jar's sith master, confirmed!