The Acolyte 1x7 Reaction: Choice

what is up homies welcome back to another reaction from Heroes reforge we're reacting to the penultimate episode of the acolyte very excited to be here excited to see where the story takes us and what New Revelations uh we will learn but before we get into the reaction of course if you want to see the reactions for the entire season uncut plus all the other Star Wars shows that we've been watching over the course of the last four years starting with the Mandalorian season 2 they're all on our patreon check them out there's it's a really fun time going through the entire Star Wars stories over the course of the last four years also we watched and now we're discuss Deadpool on the ckins podcast and we're going to throw a little bit of curveball in between Deadpool and Deadpool 2 we're going to go back and we're going to revisit twister in anticipation of the release of T greatest movies of all time yeah I just rewatched the 4K it's it's really really great and I can't wait to dive into the special features and uh yeah so that'll be a whole lot of fun so we're doing all kinds of stuff we're also releasing reactions for the boys and Fallout and we're literally having a meeting after this talk about some stuff that we're going to be doing in the future which I won't tell you any of it because if I tell you one thing you'll hold us accountable for the end of time so you get to know nothing yes you know nothing you know nothing you'll know when it drops on patreon yeah I'm just excited guys I'm excited for this show to to come to its end not because we'll have all the Mysteries solved we'll know what the heck happened in the the night 16 years prior yeah lot stuff is fine I'm excited for them to release the soundtrack to the show so that I can buy it download it put it on my iPod and listen to that while reading High Republic books and comic books that's the thing I'm most excited about there's about three people in the comments right now that are like me too and everyone else is like that's too nerdy for me I'll never do that well you're missing out it's the ultimate way to read Comics I feel like there's so many great superhero or just any any there's so many great scores just for so many of these like huge franchises you you'd be a fool to not do it hell I might one day go back and reread the Halloween comics and play Carpenter steam through the whole thing it'd be great Halloween Comics hell yeah dude you want to learn some other origins of some other Halloween characters I got you baby anyway I don't think anybody on the planet besides you Adam knows there's Halloween Comics yeah I didn't know that that's so funny I know that's great all right you guys ready I'm ready to go here we go in 3 2 1 go never good one it's for boing music bendock and 16 years earlier so this is them searching for coins in the ground and also they're metal detecting as a hobby hey is that that Ghostbuster catcher thingy like this grass has the dark side in it we need to study it 100 years ago this planet was cataloged as lifeless because of a hyperspace disaster yet this planet brenock is thriving the hyperspace disaster is covered in the high Republic novel concentration of force energy centered around a location interesting a virgin could create life life like what we see on this planet oh so this is was a lifeless Planet so they're like wait a minute how did this life spring up over 100 years do not confuse torin's feelings with your own I do not tell him answers to ease his mind I teach him to seek the answers for himself she's a great effing Jedi dude seriously I love keran moss and her performances and master indara that's why I have a pan and you do not dang so follow the river we haven't covered the Northlands yet meet us back at the camp so I wonder if they're studying the ground to see if they can sense the energy in all of the objects around think you're right Adam murans or whatever whatever technique they have they're they're they're literally just studying life on this planet mhm for seven weeks and then this fool sees little kids oh this tree and then we get to this wow maybe that's the virgin when I can't find you I look here yeah quins he's like what so beautiful this is incredibly interesting to the Jedi straight up using the force out in and they see them use the force y always absolutely following them home and being like where's your home oh that scared the beesus out of me did y'all see that Lord yeah that's like that shot in the movie Signs that's what I was thinking that was sign shot right there we are not alone in can you reap me yeah so now he's like what the hell is happening on this planet how come there's people how come we didn't know there Force users his brain is spinning I mean judging by that they've been there for a while yeah totally [Music] mhm but what is what is all they thought that this planet was lifeless and this was all the structure has been here and within the past 100 years stru right yeah well actually it could have it could have been before it must have been because the hyperspace accident just made it so that the planet was inhospitable I think not that there was never life on it ever get up and then the and then these witches moved in block me I would yeah we just draw a podcast from a planet that nobody else in habits would' be great I expect more dude yeah we get a whole planet to ourselves it's great yeah oh oh go to your room interesting it's interesting seeing seeing all this from a completely different perspective yeah mhm the whole time soul is just thinking he witches are crazy these witches are tripping they do not treat the girls like children we should return to the ship ask the council for guidance I feel for the girls safety O The Witches prepare for a ceremony tonight and he has no clue like what they're doing yeah yep yep makes sense oh I'm going in alone Master we must escort you they are over 50 of them and only two children I'm K and [ __ ] M brother you ever seen The Matrix brother and she wanted to go by herself but so was like we should go as a team he's making a lot of assumptions yeah not that great of a Jedi there's a reason why he does not have a pad one and she does we thought this planet was uninhabited we all knowing Jedi were ignorant of their surroundings I find that hard to believe oh she's in his mind already you've traveled so far only to become trapped on this planet this is pretty messed up though to go inside his head like don't do that no way dude they broke they broke in that's what happens do you wish to escap I can help you I can help you can help do you wish to escape this planet oh did he do it why not ask me ask me ask I want to return to Gant oh Neil whoa oh there go his eyes if you want your part one return to his right mind I suggest you all leave now mother Ana you messed up I want to show them what you taught me you shouldn't have done that please let me take the test no they shouldn't have broken in you cannot deny that Jedi have the right to test potential padawans with your permission of course you are correct they should not have broken in I feel a connection to OA I feel she's Meant To Be My podan Oh all of a sudden ceremonial markings are customary in many cultures in the galaxy oosa did not have one she may have resisted being marked which is true there's no way to know that that is what happened I believe she wants to leave with us like I said in do not confuse what OSHA wants with what you earlier episode of this the Jedi could just be like I sense that she should be my Padawan and then the other Jedi have to be like well [ __ ] man okay if you sense it because of the horse like what if torbin was just like I sense that I should be home on corusant what is andara going to say like no you need to be here on this Mission but I sense that I'm wanted in corusant and then you have to go shut up man you're lying [ __ ] I also think it's interesting that torbin like this one long OSHA tried to May triy to kill everyone with torbin he killed himself there's a I feel like there's a story reason for that yes is okay and I feel like we're slowly getting or next week or next week ow the readings off the chart over 20,000 what' you see a spaceship a necklace the image hasn't appeared yet what was everyone doing in the courtyard Ascension didn't mother Ana tell her or no her sister tell her to F the test is your marking a part of Ascension well this is me this we see may we never saw May's test Ascension means ocean I will lead the coven but your children how can you become the leaders mama said everyone must walk through fear everyone must be sacrificed to fulfill their Des I don't like that I don't either can I go now I do not either mama said life was like a box of chocolate like no no that's [ __ ] nope there are other children there thousands like us I want to be a Jedi then you must have the courage to tell the truth we should continue the test this is what we saw I think right mhm yeah yep oh look at that face I love Soul he seems very trustworthy yeah but is he going off of bad information or is he is the show going to say that he was right that the that the coven were planning to sacrifice these girls correct she was checking his work I will meet you at the camp when I hear their answer oh man it's the waiting game feel these characters I feel for these characters and I don't know what Kaka wants I just want him to be happy I just feel for these Jedi Kaka just Dead Homie something is wrong no oh oh oh damn Cil said no what wow oh but there's something dangerous about those women you saw what they were capable of you can feel the twins are not safe they say that we have interfered too much already will they let us come home at least just get me home God damn it I hate it out here I hate it I hate doing this field work it's not funny I just want to go home I want to do what's best for OA you don't get to decide oh he's emotionally invested already yeah yeah twins blood test results you're never going to believe this right it's like a lot of bloody M CLA M count M count very false sensitive yep there it is even Master Yoda doesn't have an Mount that high Sy are the same they are twins no no exactly the same oh even identical twins would have different they're clones they're not twins the Twins were artificially created Maybe by tapping into a power density disit one Consciousness into two bodies oh interesting only a virgins could create all right now they are jumping to conclusions map you know what it might be no way they have proof don't you they have proof that they're clones we just need proof of a virence and those girls are the proof don't take it home God torbin are you crazy okay now I see why torbin healed himself I must discuss the situation with everyone here but we will consider your wish when we do so I love when actors do that very quick almost embarrassed that they're crying and they do the one quick white I it gets me so good I love it War before they attack ah I knew I knew it I knew that this I knew this character had something to do with it get mad yep now I'm even more convinced that she's working with kir her wish must be considered you may be their mother but you are also our leader right now I choose mother yeah I think mother n gets killed yeah by the coven you can't go we're stuck here now follow me oh my god do something Co hey do something cool do something cool hey take [Music] back oh damn so she she did Start the Fire yes that we saw she definitely did I mean I was like I was like did she do it was it her choice was she influenced to make the choice yeah oh let me guess she didn't mean too come on she kind of panicked come on yep kind of wish they would have just committed to her being like yep yeah well I mean I think they did both right they're showing that this little girl just like moli cooken and the good son she she had some evil Tendencies were encouraged by mother Coral but also she's a kid and it got out of like it got bigger than her the twins where did they come from uhoh I want one of these women I want one of these women so bad to say my P that's where they came from get out of here mama help o help [Music] me oh and this is how oh god oh Torin gets froggy who what the hell huh [Music] oh too late Master Soul killer oh wow ah Soul did you hear that and and may what was going to let was that kylo stee again oh maybe go oh no oh [ __ ] well mother going to say you could have led with that yeah you should have started there so this is so this is obviously why may hates the Jedi mama and also now he realizes that's not so called her OSHA he didn't know oh Christ oh okay okay I mean he's doing a pretty good job deflecting all those homeboy's getting down we saw that are going to jump trying to save their friends oh I don't like that I don't like that I don't like that at all she can do it too oh so she got away so she's going to be she's got to be the one I'm telling you happening you're right she's going to be the one working with Kier yep yeah I really think so that's you oh so she's still there oh please Shea's body oh she's taking over Kaka I didn't want to see him like this they oh my god well I none of them die oh right none of them die cuz they're all in the episode five so Kaka the one swipes torbin in the eye hell yeah let's go wow this is pretty sick this is crazy y yep at Jedi how strong as a wooky force push oh I would not want to know I wouldn't want to know how hard that swing is oh my God oh my surpris he didn't put him through the wall oh my God Lord okay so he already scratched him Jesus yo yo yo yo Kaka chill out homie oh my God the fact that he can even do that against Kaka yeah yeah yeah so got some skill now it's a hand to hand fight oh dang yeah you're done oh my God yes Here Comes Trinity oh wow Trinity Mind Trick oh my God that's dope there you go man I I'm very happy with how this episode is is sort of paying off this mystery yo she going to tap into oh wow she broke the whole coven that's why they burn they pass out no I think they're passed out get them now now don't ask questions just go yo they got rocked and soul like messed up bad yeah yeah so here we find we don't know what happens to May after this we just know OSHA gets souped up where's Mama Mama's dead dang dude May saw that oh okay okay see none of them were burnt oh we didn't see [Music] this he picks one over the other doesn't he oh god oh man I mean he did say he felt a stronger connection to to OSHA that's messed upow potentially lose them both or have to make that choice this is the good son this is a good son this shows the movie The Good Son I can't okay so now we're probably catching up right probably just told everything oh not yet no no still I would like to go back to the planet and see May yeah damn he got rocked send a message to corusant tell him we [ __ ] up y not cuz I that's what happens so what happens when you don't listen homie I warned both of you yep I wanted the to to be safe you led with emotion I had to make a choice jeez the guilt that torbin must feel it it makes sense what will we tell the council yo they going to lie listen I didn't see I didn't see nothing I didn't touch nobody I talk to no one were already dead when I got there I was pick some berries in the forest we were picking berries witch foress like you told us and all of a sudden out of nowhere these witches yep they just made up that lie after everything this little girl has lost and it wasara who was like her dream you have to raise her you have to be her master at the mercy of the council ask yourself why you made this choice so they all decided to keep the lie to basically help OSHA mhm have some normal life we way to cor yep you're right Augustine jeez may start to the fire o it was always burning since the world's been turning is that it oh D God that's it damn okay wow all right all right all right what a heartbreaking final couple of moments yeah yeah I think this is some of the most complex and interesting the Jedi have ever been depicted in a Star Wars thing I really like those four characters I really even the way how much like a often not a whole lot but the that he was manipulated and had to fight these other he was the one who hurt torbin like I guly you were like oh it must have been mother NSA because she had a claw hand we're like trying to figure out how did he get the scar must have been claw hand and it was the wook and this is like a sad and somber thing I think they do a good job of infusing them with the good intentions that you can totally understand how this complication arose you know the Jedi are to be better than this but you know what these four messed up and you can you can see and understand why so I think it's very interesting and I really like that line that mother anaa said where she goes your good intentions are going to end and kill every Jedi someday and you go damn you know what that's Liam niss that's Liam niss people don't talk about enough everybody loves Qui-Gon Jen he is a great character and a great mentor but he pulled the same thing here he had this connection he had his instincts he wanted to save the boy didn't save shme did you know all the stuff that everybody has talked about and really if Liam niss did not pick up little Anakin the Jedi probably would not have been killed they were the way they were probably who knows will will will have Palpatine have found somebody else another Darth Vader some you know would have been AJ Ventress and she would have wiped out all the Jedi in order 66 I don't know but that was a great line that connected it to the prequels and the sort of tradition of how the Jedi have been depicted going forward so just the most complex for a kid show for a Star Wars show it's still relatively simplistic but really really enjoyed that episode for that attempt at that complexity I was going to say something actually very similar and I think that to me is what makes this show so interesting is that it's it's taking those Concepts that we came to know in the prequels and it's maybe trying to do something a little bit deeper with it a little bit more nuanced and because you know Star Wars the prequels they are so much about the universe they're so much about like how this one decision to take this boy from the desert to become a Jedi changes the outcome of everyone's story in the entire universe this is similar but I don't think it's going to as of now as far as like I feel about the last episode I don't think it's going to have that same implication but I think that these little events this small little event that involves these four characters and their their jump jumping to conclusion has long lasting effects that we see repeated and as we know with Star Wars it's it's like George Lucas jokingly says it's like it's like poetry you know they rhyme see the same sort of conflicts come back and bite people in the ass again in the future and that's kind of what happens from the prequels to the original trilogy to the sequel Trilogy so it's nice to see that there is that there is sort of this like um consistency throughout the stories that similar things happen and I feel like in some in a lot of ways it's kind of true to our real life you know we go through situations where there's war and then it goes away and then it comes back and then it evolves and it changes and it becomes more sophisticated and things that happen in like some of our parents lives maybe might happen to in our lives so you know it's it it's all cyclical but I like that that this show and I and I there's so many conversations about the Jedi online and it's you know it is what it is but I like the fact that the Jedi at the end of the day are still human or they're still beings with feelings and their whole thing is we suppress those feelings so we can make very crit very tactical decisions on what we're doing but at the end of the day that that human element of you or that that emot element of you is always going to bleed through in some way and I believe that it bled through in Qui-Gon when he decided to take Anakin from tne I believe it bled when Ben Kenobi decided to actually you know take on Luke as his Apprentice even though he wasn't really like doing it in the traditional way because he felt like Luke could defeat Darth Vader restore balance into the force you know all these sorts of things or turn him from the force from the Dark Side of the force no matter what Jedi always have a piece of them that leads them and it's a little bit of an emotion whether it's good or bad you know so I like that I like that the show is kind of putting a spotlight on that and saying the Jedi aren't perfect and that's okay because they're like us they make mistakes like we they're not robots they're not you know built in a warehouse and programmed to just have one line of thinking they're going to have they're going to have their their ways where they're going to Teeter back and forth a little bit and it's going to be dependent on the character whether or not they they decide well I'm going to I may lead a little bit with my feelings but I'm not going to let the those feelings consume me like they do people are users of the dark side so I I like that we're playing with all these elements and stuff it's I'm enjoying it it's working for me and I'm curious to really see like there's one episode left and if it's going to be you know within the 45 minute range damn you got a lot to wrap up and see where where the where the cooking is going to be right I uh I'm glad you said that Adam about the Jedi not being perfect uh because it definitely leads uh and lends more solidity I will say to Luke's decision in The Last Jedi uh where he's not a perfect man he's not the perfect guy everybody thought he was going to be and he made some bad decisions and he made some emotional calls and it led to some bad choices and this is just this is just doubling down that's the other cyclical thing that I saw here as well like the Jedi do not make the best decision at all times as much as people like to think that they do and just because they say that they want to do that doesn't mean that it always happens in practice like there's always mistakes that happen just like with everybody right they're humans and I think bringing that Humanity to the Jedi is really important because it it lets you connect with him a little bit more we all would like to strive to the principles of being a good just person and sometimes we don't uphold those those those ideals right and that's exactly what they're showing us here even the best of us could like yeah make mistakes and it happens and we got to learn from them and and and make other decisions based off of that so totally yeah I think this show is the show's writing is really um it's it's really showing what it's been up to at this point as much as like some of the Cliffhangers have felt a little too Cliffhanger uh there's been some episodes that were less strong than other episodes but I think the writing in this episode in particular really stands out and it almost made me forget about camir honestly I'm just like we we just had homeboy killed several Jedi two episodes ago and now all I'm thinking about is Soul's decision to let one of the girls fall you know that's crazy that's crazy to me and then up hold this lie yeah that's so crazy dude this writing this writing definitely has connected all the strings here and now it makes complete sense yeah and even like to your point about you know Luke even before the Last Jedi like look at the way he defeats Darth Vader and Return of the Jedi he gets aggressive he leads with emotion that's how he defeats Darth Vader you know he gets angry he gets upset because Darth Vader threatens the life of his sister so he leads with emotion that's how he defeats him and then he has a moment of realization and it's one of the greatest in Star Wars where he's standing there looking over Vader's body he looks at his robotic hand he looks at Darth Vader's robotic hand and he realizes if I go down this path I'm going to become exactly what my father became and so I'm going to I'm going to say no [ __ ] that so he realizes the the lesson of Star Wars which is hurt people hurt people and he want to continue to like propagate that cycle of violence you know and that's that's another thing about what I love what they did with Luke later is because every time somebody goes well why did he just quit why did he just dip out I go because he's now the mentor he's not the hero of the story anymore and that's okay he's you know we we are what they grow beyond that is the gift of being a mentor if people were upset that Luke decided to take himself off the board because they're like because he was like too many people are looking up to me and I'm not perfect like you're saying Augustine and I had a moment of weakness and I can't believe I did that I am taking myself off the board I'm going to go and study the ancient Jedi text on this remote island and if any fans were mad at that it's just like well that's what Yoda did and that's what Obi-Wan Kenobi did the the best characters in Star Wars that's what they did they both went exile to learn they were they were they were hiding and they weren't hiding and they had to be because the Empire had risen and d d I'm like that's that's fine but that's not what the story of Star Wars is the story of Star Wars is that they were in those positions to be able to help Luke on his journey and that they realized they messed up at the height of the Jedi power or whatever right but if the story of Star Wars treated Yoda and obiwan the way that some fans wanted Luke Skywalker to be treated then 5 years after Revenge of the Sith Yoda would have teamed up with Obi-Wan Kenobi would have teamed up with bale Orana would have teamed up with all the heroes of the growing Rebellion been Infinity War all over yeah just come back and just like we did it like okay but that's not what the the story demands that's not what the story needed yeah I I just to go back to your guys's points about like how interesting this story has unfolded I'm such a fan of the story I'm such a fan of the different little mystery seeds that we got throughout the episodes and I am really looking forward to seeing how they are going to handle the landing and whether there will be anything left up for like we could maybe do season two of these characters I don't know but no idea it's been really fun watching this show and I like that this show has attracted like a like a you know one of those bug zappers a lot of those real pieces of [ __ ] who who have been in the discourse far too long and that we the rest of us needed to like excommunicate them a long time ago and it's really frustrating and it's a big problem and it's not just in the Star Wars fandom it's in most fandoms it's in every fandom it's good this has now become kind of like the Last Jedi another litmus test for me where it's just like if I meet somebody and I'm like I like Acolyte and if they go I don't know breaks Cannon I'll be like why am I talk to you in this bar F you you suck I'm out of here like I just know I'm like that's the red flag like whatever [ __ ] you know with your paring from the internet that's the nope I'm not interested and you for letting me know yeah and I think for me as a Star Wars fan it when people are like that and that's their immediate reaction for me it's way more interesting to sit with someone who's like well I didn't like it but let's let's talk about it let's let's see like I want to know your perspective here's my perspective you know then I think when you can talk about those things because I think at the end of the day when it comes to any of these properties everyone has their own idea of what a character should be or what a group of characters should be and you know maybe they just interpret the text differently but if people are willing to have a ation about it then great but if you're going to be immediately like you're saying like then no I don't have anything to do with you it's a waste of [ __ ] somebody who doesn't like the show can criticize it without saying the word woke then I may be able to listen to them like if you can if you can present a valid criticism because every show can be criticized right but if you throw in that word poof be gone [ __ ] be gone [ __ ] I don't turns into he's like yeah yeah exactly if I if I take that same criticism that they're talking about which could be very valid and I go yeah I could apply the same thing to Revenge of the Sith or attack of the Clones or Phantom Menace right and if they go yeah absolutely totally and we're good but if they go well no because that's different I go n hang on you got to be consistent you got to be consistent hang on I know you saw it when you were eight we all did but you got to be consistent you know anyway TR trth good episode an interesting episode let to a good conversation yeah absolutely and I think I think to me that's I think for us all three of us like I think that's the the the content is important but also the conversation is equally as important otherwise what the [ __ ] are we doing here why are we making videos about any of this stuff it wouldn't matter we're like all right great see you next week bye okay literally just Star Wars swinging Sabers and using the force then it would be boring but the concepts that they're presenting are very human and very relatable and that's what really really is the the meat and potatoes of this show for sure for sure but like was saying we'll see them next week if they stick The Landing or if we're going to walk out of with more questions than answers who knows but let us know your thoughts in the comments below what did you think about this episode what do you think is going to happen in the finale I'm so curious if we're going to learn next week that mother Coral actually train chier and or has something to do with this part of the story that'll be very interesting to know but let us know your thoughts and theories jump into the Discord let us know as well we'll see you guys next week for the finale bye bye [Music] la

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Length: 33min 47sec (2027 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 10 2024