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[SW] Sitting down to watch The Acolyte for no other reason than the SW fandom's being the SW fandom about it. Potential / Likely spoilers as I go along.
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Going in with absolutely no expectations since I'm still disappointed they passed on the chance to do something focused on the craziness of the old Sith Empire
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so I've been avoiding literally every bit of news / info about it
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all I know is Ki Adi Mundi is in it because a screen of him showed up as the thumbnail image for a youtube video about it (which I didn't watch, but I mean, kinda spoiled that one for me)
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Right away it becomes immediately obvious what caused all the "woke" and "DEI" complaints about it, because somebody dared to make both the lead and the villain female POC
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so that's that mystery solved right out the gate
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Appreciate that force visions are incoherent jumbles of details even when you focus on one specific thing to try and keep it clear
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since the Force is very unhelpful with those more often than not
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Also digging that some of the Jedi robes look like they could be right out of SWTOR
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"How can something be both very plain but also weirdly garish?"
"Jedi will find a way."
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the whole order lives in quasi-seclusion and keeps to themselves, fashion sense is not something they're known for
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also YAY, yellow sabers are back
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First episode down. Not super excited by it, but so far definitely not worth the hate.
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(also I'm well aware I'm not a huge fan of Jedi stories to begin with, so it's not particularly surprising or somehow a complaint, I'm just aware what is and isn't for me)
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Biggest complaint so far is they replaced the exposition scrawl with just static text on a starry background
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which isn't exactly a huge deal, so
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Have I forgotten most of the characters names already? Yes. Is that just because I'm absolute shit with names? Also yes.
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I'll resume this tomorrow night, dinner took longer than expected and now I need to sleep
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Resuming with episode 2 now
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/ parks
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perfect jedi mediation basically doubling as a personal forcefield (literally, and pun absolutely intended) checks out
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*meditation
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as does the dark side response basically amounting to "Oh, fuck you" and doubling down
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"what if the same thing, but angrier" is kind of its whole gimmick
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lol yes
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"Any astromech can do the job, but I'm better company than a droid"

Respectfully, Osha, no you are not
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I have nothing against you but droids are fucking mechanical goblins and I love them
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RIGHT
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she's great but
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the only droid even remotely close to being competently assembled and programmed is Threepio and he's still like a gravitational anomaly of anxiety
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I need my goblins to compliment my feral gremlin-ness
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Droids are perfect because they're also disasters and they don't judge you
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also I will grudgingly give one (1) point to the more conservative Jedi hardliner faction here, they at least recognize reality and adjust their stance accordingly
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they may cause more problems than they solve for the Jedi, but at least this Mirialan master lady I've already forgotten the name of is grounded in reality
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"one person can't be in two places at the same time, fuck my preconceived notions"
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Already showing more common sense than her SWTOR counterparts who cling to hairbrained ideas like "we can totes bring the Sith Emperor to the light side"
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"Sure he's been embracing the dark side longer than any of us have even been alive, but I'm sure if we just try real hard it'll work out"
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(narrator: It did not work out)
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"you can blend in without sampling your merchandise"

Respecfully, no
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anyone selling any kind of mind altering substance is 100% having a taste (or several)
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I'd be shocked if this isn't the exact reason why like 50% of dealers get busted, minimum
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The temptation is too strong and the supply is too readily available
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Need to cut this one short due to time, didn't realize how late (or early) it was
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wanna get a decent night's sleep before going through the hell that is "we showed you a powerpoint slide, how much more training could you want???" that is work
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right LOL
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oh it's more like 80-90 tbh
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