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Episode 149- The Acolyte Recap Episodes 1 and 2
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Welcome to The GALactic Podcast! In this episode, Andrea and Lauren chat about The Acolyte two episode premier! Is this a show that general audience will get behind? Are we team Sol? Team Yord? They talk about these topics and so much more. Go listen and enjoy!
Reminder to rate and review where available! And as always, May that force be with you!
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Introduction & Podcast Theme
00:00:10
Speaker
um Hello everyone and welcome to the glad to podcast. I'm Lauren Romo with me as always my cousin and fellow nerd Andrea Gutierrez. Yo, yo, yo. Bright suns. What's going on cuz? Feeling under the weather. When you when we go out and do activities, sometimes it hits us back. Yeah, I just feel really like measly and like sore throat ish so I might sound different and I really try not to like do like a snort.
00:00:45
Speaker
as we do that now. Oh, yeah, we will. We'll get through this. Oh, yeah, we got it. We got to talk about this. We got to talk about today, because this is our acolyte conversation. So we're going to get down to brass tacks. So ah if this is your first time listening to us, welcome. We are Star Wars podcast discuss anything and everything within that galaxy far, far away. Each episode we will dive into one or two topics to have a general discussion on them. Topics could be movies, TV series, books, comics, a specific character, you name it. And
The Acolyte: Initial Thoughts
00:01:18
Speaker
we talk about it. All right, Ang. Ooh, wee, ooh, wee, Accolite, Premiere, two episode drop. Wowie, wowie. I'll kick us off, man, because I enjoyed the hell out of these two episodes. It was just a good setup to, I think, what they're doing for the show.
00:01:43
Speaker
Let's just start off. I mean, I'm just going to go surface level and say the acting is great. I love the casting is pretty much perfection to me. I love it. Production. You kidding me with this. This is great production with all the different alien types with all like the the lived in feel of it. It's just so good and it's so Star Wars. like This is like prequels times 100 as far as the different species, the different just costume designs, props. just it's It's just really, really freaking great, man. The score is unbelievable, I think. That feels very Star Wars to me. Leslie Hedlund knows her Star Wars. She knows her Star Wars. This is a good start to the show.
00:02:40
Speaker
I love that it's we're in a time where we don't know a lot.
Setting & Story Dynamics Discussion
00:02:48
Speaker
Even if you read, I think, and an maybe you can speak to this ah you know when I kick it to you, there's not a lot even in the high republic books that really gives us anything for this show, other than maybe just Vibes I guess if I want to call it that way just of how maybe the Jedi are and what it was like back then like Maybe to get a sense of stuff. But other than that, I don't think again This is kind of brand new territory for everybody really, you know and I love that and I love the little like nods of showing how
00:03:31
Speaker
Early we are in this in the Star Wars lore, right? We see the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and it's you know It's not built up as what we have seen it right in like revenge of the Sith and in the prequels ah just again the the planets the environments that we're in are fantastic the The mystery of this whole thing. I really dig the story like that's what's catching me is the story itself and
00:04:03
Speaker
the character I mean, again, we'll talk about the characters as we go to, but I love all these characters. Yord is great. Soul is my favorite right now, but I love his Padawan Jekki too. It's fantastic. And then again, Amandla Semberg. they are killing it doing two different characters. Like I love this. Like I liked how we're doing in like the reveal of it. And I will say, and you and I talked about it kind of, I think offline and we might talk about it though on an episode like previously when we were talking about the trailers and stuff, but I think it was kind of hinted that they were twins and I don't know if they're really trying to hide it because
00:04:48
Speaker
Like when they dropped that one poster, they had her character on there twice. So there's always kind of, there's already like rumbles of like, oh, this is a twin or whatnot. We kind of talked about that. And then it was really, I think confirmed when I think it was the second trailer had Oshi and Mei in captions. So people caught onto that. So that was a little bit like, I guess that revealed to me was maybe if I didn't pay more attention to it, I would have, it would have hit me more. But even still I was like, okay, like ah i'm I like the story. Like what's what's going on? Because I think the mystery of, and we'll we'll dive into that a little bit later, but like the mystery of,
00:05:39
Speaker
what happened on Beredoc, their home planet with Sol Indara. Yeah, Master Indara. We'll talk about that whole opening scene is fantastic. We'll dive in. you know but There's just so much to talk about, but like that the whole mystery of all of what happened, I really like, and I really like that this is a slow burn. Varied to me again. It's kind of a And or ish a soca ish like slow burn at the beginning, but I think it will ramp up Towards the end is my my thought process. So Yeah, dude, I love it I love it. This is this is really good Star Wars
Community Reactions & Episodes Analysis
00:06:23
Speaker
to me. I like the storytelling especially so Andrew I'm here from you man thoughts feelings what you think about these two episodes and
00:06:31
Speaker
Who's your favorite? Are you team, your team, team soul team? I'm team everybody right now. So what you got though, pal, let's talk about it. Yeah. Um, I loved, uh, the premiere being able to just watch it in the evening. Everybody's watching it at the same time. That's always so fun. Cause when it gets finished, you get to either text your fellow star wars people or look on social medias and see everyone's reactions. So that's always really great. um I think these first two episodes were excellent in establishing the story that happened beforehand and what is going on with these characters and then establishing the mystery, just like you said, of what did these Jedi do on Brendok 16 years ago. So that
00:07:28
Speaker
is just excellent. It's great storytelling. It's great directing. it's It's so established. I think it's awesome. So now when we move into the rest of the stories, we're were catching up with the past still, but we understand ahll where these characters were at in in specific times. Uh, the casting is awesome. Honestly, like it is so good. Um, and soul is my favorite, like hands down. He is, you know, I know they did interviews with the actor that's playing him right now. I don't have his name pulled up, so I'm not even going to try if you can get it pulled up for me. It's a Lee Jong J. I think is how it's pronounced.
00:08:09
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Yeah, and he was the main character in Squid Game, right? And he the fact that he learned English to play this role is unbelievable because... Insane. That is insane. Like, English is not easy to learn um at all. And a lot of, like, I'm heavy into the K-pop fandom. So a lot of K-pop artists try to learn English to be able to communicate with fans in in other areas of the world. And some of them like flat out just say like, it's hard. English is hard. And he does like such an excellent job with it. It's so great in his tone and his facial expressions. And he said in and an an interview, he really relied on um like
00:09:00
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emulating like what Qui-Gon was, and I think that that's just like so excellent to see that kind of- It shows too, yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely. To see that kind of Jedi in this time period, so getting back to like what you said about the High Republic, does it really like give you beats from from that? kind of, but not really. um What it does well with ah Vernestra and with Yord, not that Yord's from the High Republic, Vernestra is Yord's not
00:09:31
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But it does a really good job at establishing what the Jedi are about to become. They're really stuck in the dogma. They're stuck in the rules of the Jedi. like We need to reconvene and like discuss with the council. like ah You should have her under custody, like all that kind of stuff. right So those two are really good representations of like what the Jedi are going to become, which I just absolutely love. um Jackie is great. You know, she reminds me of like a younger Obi-Wan with Klygon. So good.
00:10:07
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um And Amanda Lowe's performance um as Osha and as May is just outstanding and her ah fight work is so good. um It's just, it's, it's great. It's been so great. These first two episodes, I'm really just happy. I'm happy for the people that were involved in this project. I'm really happy for Leslie Hedlund and everybody that wanted to tell a part of Star Wars that hasn't been told yet, so that was really cool. Yeah, but i've I've loved everything, like the pulpiness of it, right? There's these really strange moments where there's just like some whacked out stuff, like the prisoners, like that stuff is super cool. um It's still Star Wars though too.
00:10:54
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and There's been some really just great Star Wars moments and Star Wars species like you were saying. um So ah it's it's been really good. ah i i'm I'm excited to see what happens. I'm really intrigued on what did these Jedi do. Uh, so that's pretty much like where I am right now. And the whole thing, like May and Osha being twins, like for a moment, like I was watching it with my mom and I was like, do you think they're twins or do you think it's like a, ah like a split personality, like type thing? And my mom was like, oh, like a Sybil. And I was like, yeah, is it Sybil or is it Parent Trap? Like, where are we?
00:11:36
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So you trap i love there was a part where she like came out of a sleep and I was like, maybe she like loses time and you know it's the same person. I was like, yeah, Sybil. But then like when she went after or broke into that Jedi temple while Osho was in custody and I was like, nope, parent trap, that's where we are. So it seems like they were twins. I agree with you.
Star Wars Timeline Clarifications
00:12:01
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I don't think that they were hiding it and they were trying to get us to like catch on from the beginning. Um, but I don't know. ah My mind's still kind of.
00:12:12
Speaker
So the one thing that really makes me think like, I don't know if they're in on it together, cause I know Yord brought that up. There's a couple of things that are like questionable, like when she went to go shoot her with the Taser, like, did she miss on purpose? So there's a lot of, still there's a lot of questions, right? And there's a lot of things you're not certain on. So that's the best part because it just has you in in anticipation for the next episodes. Yeah, no, I understand agree. I think they have set this up to be a very compelling story because there's so much mystery like we're talking about. Like, what the heck did these guys do? Like, what did Indara, what did Soul, what did Kalnak, like Torben, Torben had to took the Borashi, Borashi Vow, because he felt so bad.
00:13:08
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Yeah, that was crazy. Yeah. I never even considered like a Barash Vow could be taken in just deep meditation. and yeah i like you think ah I think of the Barash Vow, I think of when we were first introduced to it in the Darth Vader comic. Yep, from um whos who was the- Charles Soule did that one. Charles Soule, yes. And you think of like this Jedi like up on a mountaintop, just like farming and training with a droid. He recognized that order 66 happened, but because he took the Barash vow, like he can't do anything about it. So like that's what I think of the Barash vow. And then you also think of like where the origin of it so but origin origin of it is from the higher republic. So Porter Ingalls adopted sister or she adopted him? I can't remember.
00:14:01
Speaker
um Her name was Barash. That's where it comes from. So um it was just really interesting to see a different perspective of how it can be taken. I was surprised. And that was so cool of how his meditation And just his force kind of bubble that he put himself in was hella cool. Like that was one of the cool scenes. Yeah, that was cool. Like when that scene ended, I was like, oh, he's going to tell them that she was in there. But then like when it seemed like they weren't really sure like what was going on, and then they said, oh, he doesn't speak. He's singing the brush vowel. And I was like, what?
00:14:43
Speaker
It was a, again, it was a nice little, it's not one of those things where like, I mean, it is and isn't like, if you know, you know, but even if you didn't, you now, you know, like now you know what that is. Right? Like they, it was cool that Leslie brought it in to live action to show like, yeah, some of these Jedi take like these silences, you know, like a monk, right? Isn't, uh, it's kind of similar, I think in that, um, in that way where they take maybe like a vowel silence and everything like that. So I like how she showed that with this show and and to introduce it into a more of a general
00:15:32
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general population for fans, right? Because it's a very cool concept. And again, like you're saying, we first, and that's a great point, we we as fans first read about it in a comic book that Charles Slow did, ah ah Vader too, which was freaking amazing. And then like you're saying now, but they even hark it back to the High Republic era, which again, Charles So is a part of that whole crew that has done these fabulous books of the High Republic, and now they're doing a show within that era. So did here's a ah quick question, because I do want to keep discussing the episodes themselves, and and then I have some couple questions. but
00:16:18
Speaker
very beginning of the show we get like a a crawl ask type of thing I thought that was cool I love that I know some people are are slightly because it said like a hundred years before the rise of the Empire I believe is what what it said at the very beginning That that's like the one sentence sentence I didn't write down. Nice. nice But I think but I bring it up because I think a lot of people are like, well, I thought this was like 100 years before Phantom Menace, right? I again, maybe it's ah maybe i I am completely like making this up in my own head and it 100 percent could be what what is what what this is. But when they started doing those different eras
00:17:07
Speaker
right? Because it was like the the High Republic era. And then the one that the famous Phantom Menace falls under, isn't it called the rise of the empire? Yeah. So like for me, that's because everybody's like, well, well, does it really take place 100 years ago? Or is it like 77 years ago? Because like, I think people are equating the rise of the empire as when Revenge of the Sith after the Clone Wars. Right, right. But i I took it as, no, this is literally the rise of the Empire begins with Phantom Menace. like that's That's how I always took it. And I think that is what they have in that era, right? I think is how they have it. um
00:17:52
Speaker
Yeah, they do have Phantom Menace categorized in the Rise of the Empire oh um timeline. right And i thank you I agree with that because Palpatine is already establishing himself as the only leader in the Republic, right? So he becomes chancellor. He was a senator and then becomes a chancellor, the chancellor. literally the rise. So that is rising.
00:18:24
Speaker
to the empire that was building. But but i do I understand what people are coming from though, where it says like 100 years before, like if you didn't know that or again, you can take it. I see where people can take it in the way that they are saying where it's like, what do they mean after the revenge of the Sith? Like I get it, like clarification or just specifics. Like I get like i get it. I get it. But yeah, I just take it as, Literally, they're saying this is 100 years before the Phantom Menace like without saying this is 100 years before the Phantom Menace. Right. That's their way of saying it is in, you know, like the empire. I can understand why people would want to be picky about that because there are so many years, established years in Star Wars where just tons of events happen. So to like.
00:19:15
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not take into consideration the Clone Wars time and the Revenge of the Sith time, Attack of the Clones time. Like a lot happens like 10 years between the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones. So there is, you're raising your hand at me. I know, I Continue, continue. And I'm keeping this in, go ahead. Perfect, perfect. But I can understand why people are like, where are we, right? And if you are also like an EU reader, you kind of want to know as well, because you're trying to identify like who who could be the the dark side threat as well to not saying that any of that holds true with what we're about to see, but it could. So that's why people maybe want to know like, where are we? So
00:20:07
Speaker
No, I yeah, I'm 100% I'm with you because it's ah you do kind of want to know like, okay, are we 70? Are we 100? Like where are we? How much time do we have to play with? Like you're saying because are we closer to that event? Right. I think that, and I get it. Yeah. Clarification. I get it. But I just took it as how I read that is just that we're a hundred years before the Phantom Menace. Like that's when the rise of the empire begins. Again, according to this new kind of like saying timeline thing that we have that they brought out, um,
00:20:42
Speaker
It was like a couple of years ago, maybe, you know, something like that. Yeah. If you buy a Star Wars canon book, you'll see it. Yeah. And I think it was post celebration London, I think is when that dropped. Maybe I can't can't remember exactly. But but yeah, that again, I like the crawl or whatever, you know, whatever you want to call it. Like that was cool. I like how they kind of are setting the scene. I appreciate that. I appreciated them naming the planets of where we are. I love that. Every time I watch Rogue One, I was like, I wish this would happen all the time. Again, I, it's just, it's just cool. Cause I just want to like, Oh, cool. Cool. Cool. Like new planet. Like that's awesome. Like I don't mind that they don't do it, but right. I prefer that they do. Like it just makes it easier. Just makes it easier for us nerds to know. Okay. We're on this planet. We're good.
Character Roles & Significance
00:21:35
Speaker
We got it.
00:21:36
Speaker
But yeah, I again, I love the first episode was a good like just set up to. OK, here's the characters. This is what's going on. A Jedi was murdered and we see that. Were you surprised? Like again, I know this was this is a thing I saw people, some people. More so upset that they killed in Dara so quickly, I'm like, well, first of all, a. We don't know the rest of the story, so I mean, I'm assuming flashbacks. We're gonna see her again. But was I like, oh my god, they killed, you know, ah Moss's character so quickly. like Dude, but we're kicking off the story. A Jedi was murdered.
00:22:24
Speaker
This is the Jedi that was murdered. like right I don't think the writers and the directors like say, oh, we have Carrie and Moss. we We have to put her in a role that is whatever. The entire series. The entire series. We cannot let her go at all. She cannot die. I think they casted her. were the type of Jedi that they needed, and I think they did it very appropriately so far. Yes, I also think that ah there are going to be flashbacks, because even in the trailers, we see Carrie and Moss in a different scene, and you also see the guy that plays Torben younger in a different scene. So there is all of that. And in the trailer, they even said last night a Jedi was murdered and
00:23:12
Speaker
It just like you knew it was going to happen. Like I did. I was just like, she's going to die because that's where we're starting. A Jedi got murdered. We got to start it somewhere. And Carrie Maza's character was unfortunately the first Jedi, but I like how it's set up and then like you're saying we will get more. like We are clearly there. we will part of Part of the story is learning what had happened back 16 years ago. And I think we're obviously gonna get pieces of that as we go throughout the series. So yeah, Carrie Anne will pop in maybe a few more times for sure.
00:23:54
Speaker
And again, yeah, like you're saying, it's not like, oh, yeah, we're going to hire Carrie and Moss, and then she's going to like be in all the like every episode. No, you you picked Carrie Anne because you identified her as this character. You think she will fit in the story that way. And, you know, clearly Carrie Anne was like, cool beans. Yeah. I'll be a Jedi slash, you know, matrix. temper Like I'll do it seem was so good. and Yeah, the fight choreography in these so in the show so far, it's fantastic. I love the hand-to-hand stuff. We talked about that in Bad Batch when Asajj fought the Bad Batchers straight up hand-to-hand and just like overpowered them. like It's cool. like I think that is way under underused.
00:24:49
Speaker
Right, because we have seen Jedi mostly with, you know, lightsabers, right? This is what we grew up on. This is the stories that were told at those time and those timelines were, you know, lightsaber fights. But it's cool to see the Jedi in a different light now. But they don't go straight for the saber, right? They go straight for the forced, forced karate martial arts. It's awesome. It is wicked awesome. And I love it. I love that they're doing this, you know, this type of choreograph fighting. I think it works. It works. The first time I saw like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, and I saw them like,
00:25:35
Speaker
walking up trees and walking up walls and utilizing space on the side to to traverse and and fight on. I was like, I'd love to see that in Star Wars. And then like you also got to see it in Kill Bill. And I know there's a clip going around that Leslie Hedlund, one of her favorite movies are is the Kill Bill series. Right. And that little homage of Carrie Ann Moss like walking up to the balcony um is just exactly from Kill Bill Volume 1.
00:26:08
Speaker
um It was cool to see that in a Star Wars space, right? To see that kind of fighting and then and then at the end, I hear a lightsaber. Then you're like, oh my God, like this this is so great. This is the coolest. This is the coolest ever. It's awesome. It's just a new way of showing how powerful the Jedi are, right? Because, yeah, we know like they can move rocks and do all this mind wiping and all that stuff, right? But this is just another thing to kind of add to the repertoire of a Jedi. And it's fascinating that they, again, with time, they don't use it as much. Now, again,
00:26:54
Speaker
This is all, you know, Star Wars was set in 77. George wasn't thinking martial arts Jedi. So, but it's just cool to see again, the different eras, right? Cause it could be like a very era thing that these Jedi were more of a, you know, hand to hand combat first. But you notice that like Yord, he's very quick to turn on his lightsaber. And he's a younger Jedi too. And he's a younger Jedi and like I said earlier, he's a good rep representation of what the Jedi be become. 100%. Man, I just lost my train of thought. You keep going. No, but no, you're very right though, because I think it's just, you're seeing that transition.
00:27:42
Speaker
of these older, you know, soul in Dara, even Torbin, how, and maybe we'll see it with Kellenek too, how they use the force, what they thought their responsibilities were pushing forward to now this generation with Yord of, follow the book, right? And pull out the lightsaber and start asking questions. So I have a question for you. Yeah. How did you feel like they represented Vernestra Rowe? Because I was watching it with my mom, right? Casual viewer. And my mom was like, she's a bad guy.
00:28:26
Speaker
I've heard people say this. and I was like, she is so far from a bad guy. like i like If you are a Star Wars book reader, right yeah it's already
Character Dynamics & Motivations
00:28:39
Speaker
established. She is so far from turning to the dark side or being deceptive within the Jedi Council. right like What you know about her in the High Republic is she is also really strict about the rules She also gets very upset when she does something incorrectly She's afraid of what she will look like to the Jedi Council when she was a knight and when she was a knight a Jedi Knight so I think like
00:29:09
Speaker
people that don't know that, I can see how they think like, oh man, she's kind of weird and like sus, but really she just wants to play by the rules. Like she really holds herself to that standard because she really is influenced by what the other Jedi think of her. And that is established like all throughout the High Republic books. So, um and I'm like, She's going to be like, wait till you see the whip. Just wait, just wait. And I'm like, no, she is like a true to the bone Jedi. Like, and ah it's interesting that some people feel a different way about her. Yeah, no, it is fascinating because I've seen that.
00:29:56
Speaker
when I've watched some ah YouTube reactions to it, some people um that might have not read The High Republic and and they they say that. They're like, hey, we're not. We know this is part of you know an era and there's books we have, you know, and they're very upfront about that. But it's just, yeah, I've seen a couple people that have said that and I'm like, it's interesting. I even ask, again, I've read some of the higher public. I have not read all of it, as you know. Like I've only read phase one. I am not even in phase two. I know who Vernestra is, you know, because obviously people have talked about her and I see it online. So I know how integral she is to this era and how popular she is and how much of a straight, right, like,
00:30:46
Speaker
straight shooter Jedi, she could be like that she is. So yeah, with like I don't, I'll be interested cause I'll have to talk to my mom and dad and see what they say too to see if they pick up on that. But I just, I just thought they, how they represented her was just a, Very similar to the Phantom Menace with the Jedi Council, right? those like Like a Mace Windu ask where it's by the book, right? And this, this, and this. Like, yes, that's the vibe that I got from her character. But it is, it's fascinating that some people are like, ooh, is she the real baddie? I'm like, what?
00:31:30
Speaker
Where do you get this? Like, are you guys really just trying to be the the gotcha? Like, I call the people like who gives a shit like it? Like what? Stop. Let the story play out. Like, there's another character that we're going to bring up that's way more sus than she is. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. But yeah, I first episode, I loved it. I loved the set up. I love how they are. how they're showing the Jedi like you've talked about in a very different light and then I like how they the story of like this mystery on 16 years ago and what happened and why is May going after these four Jedi in particular which we kind of get a little bit more
00:32:19
Speaker
Um, in episode two, but not much that there's still kind of like, uh, uh, ah big question for me for sure. So what'd you think of the end of episode one with the reveal of not even a reveal, like, uh, at a distance reveal of this red stranger, as they put it in the captions. Right. Will wielding, um, being like, how did you feel about that? was fine with it I know people are like all up in arms about it like I've seen and again this is from people that i've watched on YouTube reactions like they're like what the hell was that I'm like
00:32:57
Speaker
I think establishing something right there establishing that there is like you can either have a master or an apprentice right if you're in the dark side of the force and That to me that's either or right That's either the master or that's either the apprentice and I feel like he was establishing in that moment Like what an acolyte is, right? Exactly. And because I feel like that needs to be told. So he is one or the other, and what May and Khmer are, and what other followers, because if you look up Webster's dictionary definition of acolyte, it means follower, right? Usually a religious follower.
00:33:40
Speaker
And the term acolyte has been used throughout Star Wars before. So if you think back to Return of the Jedi when the Emperor is coming off of that shuttle, um and those guys dressed in the purple and the maroon, those are those are acolytes, right?
Role of Acolyte in Narrative
00:33:57
Speaker
That doesn't mean that they're dark side users. That doesn't mean that they have red lightsabers. It just means that they're followers of the dark side and the Sith, right? So that's what, to me, Mei and Kamir are, right? They are acolytes, or they're trying to achieve acolyte status and being able to to follow um these leaders of the dark side that are hiding in plain sight, just like they were in the prequels. As Papeltine did. Right. so
00:34:29
Speaker
Like, I think like, okay, well, who else could have been like an acolyte? I think ah Ventress was, honestly, like she was being groomed to be maybe Dooku's apprentice. And Palpatine cut that really quick, right? She did have a red lightsaber. So that's like, like, where are we with that? But whatever, I don't really care. Right? it's It's just like, I don't know. it I just thought it was a really cool subtle way to be like, hey, there is this larger looming figure out here. And then these other characters have access to them, but not completely, right? And they even say that as well too, like maybe in episode two where they're like, you don't even know who he is. So whatever. but And I loved it, right? Like who doesn't love it?
00:35:22
Speaker
all dressed in all black figure holding a red lightsaber. I mean, that's cool. It's my wheelhouse. I love seeing it. So we're big fans, big fans, big fans of guys dressed in black. with threat like I mean, what can we say? We're easy to please. Like it's amazing. Yeah. I don't, I, again, I've seen, ah Couple, again, more more on YouTube reactions. and and i like It's fun to watch reactions. again i've I've talked about that before. but yeah People have brought up that ending and they're like, what the hell was that? They're establishing that there is a larger figure behind May.
00:36:06
Speaker
And again, people, if you read the scroll, like it said, like people are learning, basically learning about the force. I mean, you might have the exact quote, Ang, but like basically people are learning about the force in secret. Yeah. They say in dark corners of the galaxy, a powerful few learn to use the force in secret. And then it says one of them risks discovery for revenge, which is me. So. Right. So again, a powerful few are learning in secret. And who are they learning from? This freaking acolyte or an act or more than this could be more than just this one acolyte. Again, this is part of the mystery. So, yeah, I don't understand why people were again, some not going to say all, but some people were like slightly confused on why that how the episode ended, which i get it was kind of a an abrupt ending, kind of like a
00:37:02
Speaker
a choice to end it on that, too? Like, I get it. Like, okay, if you want to talk about, like, maybe not end the episode there, okay, that's discussion we can have. I was fine with it, but I get, okay, I could get maybe where people wouldn't ah be a little more confused on that and how these episodes are ending. But the choice of ending it on that, I was fine with. Because again, you're establishing in the first episode that she is following somebody. Right. And then I know people are a little bit confused on what he was saying. Like an aculite doesn't do this, this, and this. That they, you know, if you try to kill a Jedi with, you know, a blade or a whatever, like you're going to fail. Steal or whatever. Right. Right. That, you know, an aculate kills the dream. I, that line, I love an actual like kills the dream. So like.
00:37:59
Speaker
And I know people are like, well, then why is she killing these people and not, you know. because what he says is that you know you you can't kill them with a weapon that's not like their way, right? And again, but that we go into episode two, that's talked about where- Exactly. um ki Was it Quagmire? Come here. Come here. Sorry, Quagmire. Quagmire. Come here. Come here tells May that like the master wouldn't be pleased if he found out
00:38:31
Speaker
that she's killing these Jedi, not in the way that he wants her to, right? Right. And she says, let me do this my way. And then the other two, I'll take care of like his way without a weapon or however she's going to do that. And then like that one part where OSHA comes back to come here to pretend like she's me and he was like, you killed Torben without a weapon. Um, which would, I guess, would mean like she maybe transitioned over to what Khmer was, but we don't even really know what Khmer is. Right. so We'll talk about him in a minute, but yeah.
00:39:10
Speaker
yeah so It's all just, it's just like, I don't think we're supposed to get answers. We're definitely not supposed to get answers right away, right? We just get little pieces of things and it keeps us intrigued and and sucked into the ah story. That's called storytelling, kids. Yeah. like And we've misunderstood what storytelling is now. like I don't get it. like be i Whatever. That's a whole different discussion on media literacy altogether. but
00:39:42
Speaker
Yeah, K. Meyer, I think that whole character is very fascinating, right? Like he's very sus. I just have his name and I just put sus on apps. Oh yeah, he's sus to me. And well in I want to talk about that, but so so I want to stick a pin in that. But yeah, episode two, I really love because again, we go to a new planet, one that has a Jedi temple, which was very cool. Right. We see again, we talked about Torben and the Barashuvau and all that stuff. And then, you know, we learn more of, you know, um, master soul and how he was obviously, again, they, the more the story of, he knew Osha had a sister, but it wasn't in her files as Jackie and your both point out. So again,
00:40:36
Speaker
What the hell is going on 16 years ago? What happened? And I like that. I like how they're just kind of like feeding us a little bit of that mystery. Cause I think that's the bigger picture. And I think that's where this, you know, maze, obviously revenge is coming from for sure. Right. And then again, the, the conversation between soul and, uh, OSHA about you know, trust me and trust me, like he got to have faith because, you know, he sees that she wants revenge on her sister almost for killing, you know, her whole family, which I do want to point out that in that episode, that first episode, and again, that ah into episode two, he brought up the fact that
00:41:34
Speaker
May's ah OSHA sister, which he wasn't aware at the time, but he said that, you know, her mother's plural and sister died. Right. That's what's on file, basically. Right. I find it interesting that it's mother's. It was captioned mother's plural. So like, are we talking Coven? Like, are they like a witchy? Where where are they coming from? Because I get like Coven vibes, witchy, maybe more witchy Star Wars. uh like village that they were living in what's your thoughts uh yeah i kind of i can go there or i kind of like when i saw that i kind of just thought lesbians and i thought of i immediately went to
00:42:23
Speaker
America and Marvel, right? when Oh, yeah, that's a good call. And then I also like ah went to like Furiosa and then like her mothers as well, too. So I kind of thought of it as like this um society that just kind of maybe like broke away from men completely. Right. Yeah, it could be. um No, I'm not kind of joking about that. But um you never know. you never But you never know. Or Wonder Woman. Right. So the Amazonians. So that's good that's kind of that's where I took that. I didn't I didn't take it as Night Sisters. No. And the only thing I i bring that why I think Night's history is because Wynn and Dara was looking at May and there was like marks on her.
00:43:14
Speaker
Again, right it's not a straight like, oh yeah, but I'm just like, hmm. It gives more of like a coven tribal type of thing. Right. But that could be an aculite thing, though, too. Does May have it? It doesn't seem like May has that sign. You mean Osha? I mean, yeah, it does Osha. Yeah, no, no, right. we Because we haven't seen that yet. And I also think like there was a fire. So maybe that was like a burn that happened on her and
00:43:46
Speaker
there's that to maybe maybe yeah yeah yeah so there's maybe some explanation i just and i know i guess too and in the in the trailers we see a i think we see her like mothers yeah where Yeah, I mean, on the show poster in the in the trailers, um you see a figure, a mother type figure that's leading this this group of people. Right. These few, who knows? Maybe like referring back to the crawl, the few. Ooh. Yeah, yeah. I like that. I like that a lot.
00:44:24
Speaker
Yeah, I just found it very interesting. They said mothers because I didn't pick that up at the first time. So I'm like, hmm. So that gives me again, that just gives me like, ooh, obviously, like we're talking like a tribe or like a coven of some sort. ah But I'm hope I I hope more witchy stuff give me more witchy Star Wars cuz right I mean we're both big Dathomirian fans. Yes, Knight sister stuff. So yeah, I mean It all has to stem somewhere right? I mean, obviously we know from other Star Wars that the like that type of
00:45:00
Speaker
magic slash, you know, force users have been around for a very long time. So this, you know, this could be like a part of, a part of that whole kind of
Dark Side Hierarchy & Training Speculations
00:45:13
Speaker
thing. But I just found that interesting. I think that would be really cool if they are, but if they're not, that's fine. But again, when it comes to Kmart, I, He's sus. He knows more than what he is saying. Do you think he is a Sith? I don't know if he's a Sith, but he knows more than what he's telling obviously May, right? And clearly May has talked to him a lot.
00:45:48
Speaker
Like I don't know if they like work in tandem, but like he knew about the sister because she tells him at the end, like, you know, OSHA is alive. And he's like, yeah, I know. So like he was aware that she had a sister. And then when he saw OSHA, when they did the old kind of tried to do old switcheroo, which I would talk about that. I thought that was a really fun stuff, but he was like, God, you literally, you look a lot like her. So again, he wasn't surprised that, you know, wasn't caught off guard that this was somebody else trying to pretend to be May. Like he he knew, he picked up on it pretty quick. So he knows more than he leads on. And then when she kind of like snuck up on him too at the end, like he was, he kind of held his own, like he blacked her and everything. like um
00:46:44
Speaker
Yeah. I think he is just equal to Osha. like yeah I think in the beginning, like when she thinks he's drunk, he's not really, right? like He kind of just placed that stuff there. Oh, when Mei walks in on him, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or tends to be passed out. um I think when she says, what are you wearing? Like, I think he normally wears what she's wearing, right? Like that dark and that armor looking stuff. Okay. Ooh, I didn't pick up on that. That's a good point. So I think they're more like peers. They're both doing the same thing. They're both attempting to become a part of- These acting like howlers, yeah. Right.
00:47:27
Speaker
so But he could he could also be like he could be hiding in in plain sight with her. Like he could actually be like the master or the apprentice trying to find another apprentice is like what I think he could be. Or I just think he's a peer and he's trying to do the same thing that OSHA is trying to do. And again, maybe that's what this stranger is kind of putting team them up together maybe to accomplish these goals because he knows that she wants to kill these four Jedi. Yeah. Right. So like he's aware of what she's trying to do. And clearly like he knows that this stranger, the Acculite wants her to kill these Jedi.
00:48:21
Speaker
and a nonviolent, like no weapon, whatever, like this is this is how it has to go. ah okay I go back to like the EU and Darth Plagueis, right? So Darth Plagueis had a master, Darth Tenebris. And Darth Tenebris was also training Darth Venomus or Venomus, however you wanna say it. Venomus knew about Plagueis, but Plagueis did not know about him. Right? So it it could be the same situation here where someone is training both of them and only one of them knows the end game, right? And he's trying to see, they are trying to see who's going to so survive the this thing so that whoever, who's actually deemed worthy. Like it could be something like that.
00:49:11
Speaker
No, I got, and I like that. Like if that's kind of where we're going with it, I'm cool. That's a great, that's a great storytelling. Like I like that. I like that, um that they would kind of pull A from EU, right? A little bit. And then B to kind of really throw in more of a mystery of like, right, who is, who is he, who is, you know, is, is K. Meyer and May on equal terms? Is he a lesser? than her, like, speaking of who is he, when they say that and he goes, I thought he was with you, that part that was great great. That was a great Star Wars, like, I thought he was with you. Yeah. Like, that's just a good little Star Wars, like, tro I have a trope, but just a good Star Wars joke. Like, it's a salad solid, solid joke. But I, and then again, like, she has him make that poison that she takes to Torbin.
00:50:12
Speaker
after not being able to you know ah penetrate his like force-fielding meditation thing. He's very knowledge knowledgeable the way he's trying to teach like her a lesson like in the moment as well, too, as he's creating that potion. He does bring up you know Pieces of Lie, which is in the Sith like i guess mantra or however you you want to describe it. like um so To me, they're students almost, right? So that's kind of like how I see it. They're students of the dark side. Do you because I know some there's theories about him. Like you're saying, maybe he is the actual stranger. I don't know if I buy that one yet. I can see where
00:51:00
Speaker
the theory comes from, right? Like I can see it. I just don't know if he's the the true masked figure that we will eventually, that we saw, right? But obviously we know from the trailer, we will get a better, better, you know, full view of of them. we don't we We don't know if they're a male, female, to be honest, who knows? ah But I don't think he is. Do you think he could be the actual dude? I don't- I would be disappointed if he is. Fair. Fair. I think I would be too. I feel like that's just like a...
00:51:39
Speaker
But it also, I'm lazy writing, but that controls you, right? It's not though, because again, like the Sith hide in plain sight. Yeah, that's a good point. That's what, that's how they penetrate um the Jedi and the light side of the of the force. So for him to... Which I mean, it's it's kind of like Osha's not being that what's I mean, May's not being that whatsoever. She's flat out going out and like identifying herself as someone that can use the force and is killing Jedi. Right. So she's not trying to hide in plain sight. She's out there. So the fact that he could be um utilizing that technique um is is very Dark Side Sith esque.
00:52:25
Speaker
yeah I want the person that's in the mask to be a bith, and I want it to be Garth.
00:52:35
Speaker
Again, I can't wait to- But I don't think the way the helmet fits, it would be a bith. So I'm like, I should kind of like lay off of that hope and dream. You never know. I mean, hey. You never know, right? You never know. I'll i'll let Leslie Headland surprise me with with that one, because that would be amazing though if it was. like It would be. It'd be very, very cool. But i yeah, i again, with this up with the second episode too, like when they find out that Torben took it like willingly right when she presented him,
00:53:16
Speaker
this whole like, either you tell the Jedi council your crime, which again, what the hell happened 16 years ago? This is going to be insane. I can't wait to find out. But again, he felt so bad.
Jedi's Past Actions & Misunderstandings
00:53:31
Speaker
And that A, he took the brashi and then B, he took that poison willingly and then a but like said, sorry to me, like. We thought we were doing the right thing. Like. What did these Jedi do? Like this is I don't I can't even speculate. I don't even know if you can. I can't even speculate. I kind of a little bit. I kind of initially I'm like, oh, wow, they must have did something really bad. But then again, I think it comes down to every situation has like three different points of view. Right. Like what each of them thinks and then like what really happened.
00:54:12
Speaker
So I could see like if everyone died blaming the Jedi on their death, not necessarily them being the cause of it. ah And I can understand someone taking responsibility for it as well, even though they weren't truly responsible and just not coming to terms with it. So to me, do I think the Jedi did something horrible? No, I do not. I think it was somewhat of a misunderstanding, a very terrible misunderstanding. Clearly very terrible misunderstanding, right, right, right. And people died. Right, right.
00:54:54
Speaker
I just I just don't like if what you know from what the Jedi were prior to this and what the Jedi become I I just don't think I think they made a mistake or something happened right but I don't think they touch intentionally murdered a tribe of people no it and it has to do something with May doing, well, we think, because I want to talk about that in a second, but it from what from what we're getting at this point, the story seems like May started this whole thing.
00:55:30
Speaker
with a fire that just got out of control. Yeah, I think that was established in the first episode with that little padawan that even said fire and that caught soul off guard as well too. But even in that moment, he said that You know That the forces like fire or the ocean and should be respected, right? He didn't like immediately be like that's a bad one right there. So um And I think that's probably what he was trying to do with with me as well, too. So It's gonna be interesting to see yeah what what actually happened like Did was it them not doing enough was it them
00:56:18
Speaker
again, not directly causing, but like what? Yeah, I, again, like I can't even, for me, I can't even speculate like what, what could have went down. The only thing, again, the only thing that we get at this time, no, is that supposedly may started it and then everything, they kind of put the blame on her. But that seems like the story and clearly there's more to it, right? Because anytime that it gets brought up, right, either soul kind of like hesitates and Dara was very like, how are you, like basically like shocked that it was May. And then Torben was just waiting for her, like for his as, as
00:57:09
Speaker
As he said like basically she gave him his absolution like he was waiting for that So like yeah something It is very interesting how all four of them were living out their lives different ways, right? So yeah So was back at the Jedi temple teaching and our was like out on a Jedi outpost for some planet Just hanging out at the local bar um Noodle shop do and then Torben took the brashfowl and he wasn't speaking to anybody and then Kalnaka is like off on this planet so um
00:57:49
Speaker
It's interesting how they all have gone separate ways and done so different things. Some seem to be remorseful and some seem to have moved past that. But I also want to bring up that the reason that OSHA left Indira was part of recommending that she stop her Jedi training. right So I want to hear a little bit more about that as well. Right. And I mean, part of that is because they some of them felt that she was too old because she was eight. And then obviously we know Anakin was what 10? Yeah. Oh, he never had a chance. No, no, no, he never had a chance at all. Unless, you know, until Qui-Gon was like, and no, I'm going to do it. So bye.
00:58:38
Speaker
it But I think that ah a couple of things for me too in this last episode before ah kind of maybe start wrapping it up a little bit. um We see that there is, again, in this episode, in the first and that and then in this episode, of the second episode, there's this kind of connection between, we think, Osha and May. i I was talking to a friend of mine on Twitter and They they brought up a very interesting idea which I kind it kind of makes sense because At at the end or in this episode the second episode It's clear that May was not aware that OSHA was alive and I mean, yeah, and vice versa, right but with with that connection
00:59:35
Speaker
that these visions, I guess maybe were're what we can call them, the visions that Osha was getting, it kind of gave the vibe of May found out or May then knew that Osha was alive. But in this episode, in the second episode, it's basically established that no, she had no idea. So then now that leads me to the whole, kind of question and thought process of who is she communicating with or who is communicating with her? Is it the strange figure? Is it what's his name? Because he's around ah May? Is he doing all this wacky stuff? Like what's what's the deal? Where do you go with that mystery of it all? Yeah, I thought that was really fascinating that they both thought each other was dead, right? So
01:00:33
Speaker
At some point, she was told that her sister had died and then Osho was told the same thing. so um And then it's also very interesting that Soul said, no, I saw her die. I saw Mei die. um So it's all just like, I found that so like intriguing. And I still go back a little bit to like, maybe it could be like a split personality thing where they like, relinquished one of them from the other. um But now that's just not true because of you know the representation of how different they are with one has longer hair, one has chin length hair. But it is interesting. And I don't want to go too much more deeper into that because I know that that's going to get explained to us. I don't think I need to speculate over it.
01:01:29
Speaker
Yeah, I just find it it's a very interesting kind of adding to the mystery of it all, right? Because again, you would think that within the visions that it's kind of like, oh, okay. So then May knows that, or Osha knows that May's alive. So then you would think vice versa, but then when, May Caesar and says Oshi, which was super cute because obviously that's like her right. That was a good touch. Yeah. She was super shocked. And then I know you brought it up earlier, too, and did Osha miss on purpose? I think she did. I think she missed on purpose. I think she was just. Again, all the all the feelings, right, probably went through in, but she knows that's still her sister.
01:02:23
Speaker
right And I think that she just couldn't do it. And I think she missed on purpose for sure. And I think Soul knows that too. Yeah, I think he had that look of, well, there's that. Yeah, that happened. And I guess we'll have to deal with that later on. But yeah, I, I, you get the vibe, right? I think I got, I get the vibe that he definitely feels that she missed on purpose. And I, I think she, she missed on purpose too. Cause I think she wants to, I, again, I think a she's just, again, oh, she was just overwhelmed with just all the feelings that, you know, that she remembers of that day, right? 16 years ago. And then to,
01:03:18
Speaker
to realize that it's not true, right? And that her actual her sister, her twin sister is alive. like That's insane. So I don't know if it's a dyad-ish type of connection, but...
Future Predictions & Collaborations
01:03:36
Speaker
I again, this is where again, this is where I will go into speculation just for a ah quick second. I do think that they will of maybe eventually they will actually connect. And then I think they will work together. I think in the end to bring down this this figure, that's my again, that's just my prediction.
01:03:59
Speaker
I will be happily ah be okay with being wrong about it, but that's just where I go with it, where I think it's you're establishing a connection, right? That clearly isn't between them. I think we find out who it will be, but then I think they will work together. I do, i just that's just my gut. That's just my gut. Yeah. um ah A dyad? That's pretty cool. ah
01:04:30
Speaker
and And then the fact that they're twins, right? So Luke and Leia. So there's there's that as well, too. So um I can't wait to like hear the rest of their story, you know?
Episode Credits & Performances
01:04:47
Speaker
Right, and to find out what what really happened all that time ago. And then, yeah, again, the and then the last shot of the of this episode, the second episode, which real quick. So the first episode was called Lost and Found. And then the second episode was called um Revenge and Justice. ah Both were directed by Leslie Hedlund. Leslie Hedlund did the writing for the first episode. Second episode, the writers were Jason Metcalf and then Charmaine Degrate.
01:05:21
Speaker
Uh, so those were your writers and directors for those two episodes. Really good stuff. Obviously. Great job by the entire crew overall. Uh, but this second episode ends with a scene. Is it Kalnak? Is that how we pronouncing it? I believe the Kalnaka. Kalnaka. Thank you. Kalnaka. We see Kalnaka on this planet of fo, was it Fodar? Kofar. Kofar. Thank you. And he's just randomly at a broken down ship, it seems like.
01:05:54
Speaker
Yeah, and I don't know if he's I don't know if he's just hanging out or if that's like his Jedi post I get the guy get the feeling he's just out there by himself It's not really a post per se. Yeah, I get the feeling like he's somewhat secluded himself and I mean he's definitely not around other Wookiees. You don't you didn't see other Wookiees in that scene so Um, I think maybe that planet might have a space where it's connected to the force somewhere. So that, that, that's why he's maybe there to find resolve for what they did. Um, so who knows? Yeah, it's going to be, but that was cool to see like ah a Wookiee use the force like in live action. Yeah. My mom was like, is there really a Wookiee Jedi? I was like, yeah, there was one before him too.
01:06:51
Speaker
So there were some after too. Yeah. So I was like, gee, and then my boy Aga. Yeah. So there's again, yeah, there's definitely established Wookiee Jedi that we have seen in Clone Wars. And then like you're saying, read in the high Republic, but now seeing a live action is pretty cool. Pretty cool. And then it's cool that it's Jonas. and yeah I love that love that for Jonas love that he gets to play like a wookie again But a wookie Jedi like that's gotta be so cool ah For him to like be a wookie Jedi like that's that's pretty freaking cool. That's pretty fucking cool Yeah, ah real quick. Yeah, so we had soul was played lie by Lee Jung jae and
01:07:37
Speaker
Yard was played by Charlie Barnet. Oh, Baronet, Barnet, Barnet. And he's a Bad Batch fan. Yeah. That clip, that was really cool. I love that for him. I know people were giving him crap because he said, advocate like Who cares? How many times have you, like, well, I'll speak for myself. I screw up. Oh, me too. I screw up all the time. Sometimes I can't even remember Chewbacca's name. What is that? Yeah. I don't like that hairy thing. Here's my fandom card. Dink it. Like, get the hell out of here with that stuff. And then Padawan Jackie is played by Daphne Keene, who was X-23 and Logan.
01:08:19
Speaker
So good. She is a great Jedi, a great Padawan. She's a great Padawan. I love her. She's like my second favorite next to Sol. Yeah, she's up there for me too. Her and Yord's back and forth is great. It's one of my favorites. But yeah, they're doing us a particular job. And then, as we said, Mandala Stenberg, absolutely smashing it as May and Osho right now and that's gotta be really fun for her to play like two very different characters Right in a show like that's cool like that's very very cool for sure and ah and you know my final thoughts too I on this entire again these on the premiere I Don't know about you Ang but it gives me Clone Wars vibes and the best way like I mean that in a great way like I
01:09:15
Speaker
This feels because, and I say that because Leslie has, like you said, in even interviews said like using Kill Bill as a reference. She's even said before in interviews that it's, you know, her pitch to Kathleen was frozen in Kill Bill. So you kind of get it now where like frozen sisters, and then Kill Bill with all the hand, hand martial artsy stuff. And then she also mentioned that, you know, one of her favorite like Clone Wars like episodes or like influences was the whole Ahsoka trial stuff.
01:09:59
Speaker
So you get like the murder, like the mystery, like the murder mystery. And I feel like it's a it does kind of follow that Clone Warsy kind of like, it's an arc, right? Like we're following like Ahsoka's, like that Ahsoka arc, right? We're following this arc. So it feels to me in that way, Clone Warsy.
Storytelling Style & Audience Reaction
01:10:16
Speaker
I don't know if you got those vibes either, but I got like Clone Warsy vibes with with the story and how like it's being told. I kind of just got its own vibes, right? It just has its own vibes. it's It has a little bit of like prequelly vibes to it, especially when I saw the Nemoideans. Right. Yeah, that was cool. We are obviously very close band in this house, right? Yeah, we're very close to the prequels.
01:10:45
Speaker
um I don't want to say this in like a bad way. It's definitely not a bad way in what I'm saying this, but it is, to me, it feels very Disney Star Wars. That's all I'm going to say. No, i feel no i and I see what you're saying with that, and I and i agree. It is this new era, yeah right? It's this new era of Star Wars. like in And or felt like it was this film school Star Wars, right? It's it's a different. man Sophisticated Star Wars. This gives still gives me the Star Wars is for everyone vibes. Yeah, no. and and that And again, I don't think I don't take that as saying in a bad way like it is like I think this show will be. A better watch for general audience.
01:11:42
Speaker
I agree. In my opinion, because again, you have, you establish a couple, you know, you establish things like Jedi. Okay. Check that off. Lightsabers. Check that off. Um, you know, again, a mysteriously dark ah figure with a red lightsaber. Check that off. Like you can pick up that at Star Wars, but then you don't have to know anything. going into this so like if you're watching this and then you ask your Star Wars buddy what's all this mean they're gonna tell you I don't know I'm learning just like you right we have a little bit of information that we can like give like this is the High Republic era this is kind of what the era was about a little bit right
01:12:27
Speaker
and then say like this is before Phantom Menace and this is what it you know what it could be like saying but we don't right as far as like this character this character these are all new all new characters besides right these are all brand new characters so I think it's gonna play well and I think this will be and I saw ah Laura Kelly ah from Forst to say this I think this is going to be a very good binge series, too. Oh, yeah, I agree. Yeah, I think this is going to be a very good, like, watch it all in one sitting. Right. Because I think just how they wear and how they end these episodes, it's just it's going to go straight into the next, straight into the next. And I think that's where I get Clone Wars vibes. Again, not again. I don't mean that in a bad way, like where those, you know, like those arcs, like the Mortis Arcs and.
01:13:25
Speaker
ah Those each ah episodes ends and you just go into the next one you go into the next one. It's just this continuous kind of thing Whereas and or you had that right, but it was like in in parts like the first three episodes and those episodes and those episodes So yeah, and that's where again. That's kind of where I get where I say it's Clone Wars Z in Like how they're setting up the storytelling It's just it's just how I feel but And any final thoughts on these first two episodes? Because a lot to discuss, obviously. But anything anything else you want to bring up? No, nothing else. I'm really excited for just tuning in every week and and then jumping in and analyzing what's going on and ah and learning about these new Jedi.
01:14:16
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I'm just, I think it's, I can't wait, I think it's great. Yeah, no, it has, I think it has everybody's attention. Like I think the story, right, I think is really selling it, for me anyway. and been off of work so I haven't got work perspective of it yet because that's usually a very telling perspective that's usually general audience perspective right um some people that kind of want it to fail some people that like have that opinion of what new Star Wars is so I i have not come across anyone yet that has given me that perspective so
01:15:00
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Definitely, yeah, we'll report back, because I'll have to ask my parents when they watch it to see what they thought about these first two episodes. and like But um my journey my sister, when she called me about it, the first thing she said is she's like, what is what are the Jedi's problem? What did they do to, right? like What did they do? And I'm like, man, they're Jedi.
01:15:26
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They did some stuff. They do stuff sometimes. They make mistakes. Yep. They were sometimes problematic. And then eventually they like to hide them. Right. They like to try to sweep it under the rug. That never happened. Way too much. They said they haven't been around for a hundred years. Centuries, whatever. Yeah, but again. That line does not it's not gonna matter again, and we don't even know if this guy's a Sith this is great a light So no one has said Sith in this show yet, right? There has been a line that is a Sith like mantra or code But no one has said Sith soul did ask Does may have a master which I found very interesting. Yeah, but no one has said Sith. I Right, and I think and that can even be attributed to him, again, seeing that she's trained in the Force, like, okay, she has to be trained by a master, who's the master, right? He's not assuming that they are Sith, he's just assuming that she's being trained by a Force-wielding person that was obviously trained in the Jedi arts. Doesn't mean, right, like you're saying, doesn't mean that he was thinking Sith either, so.
01:16:44
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Yeah, love the mystery, love where this is going. I am 100% on board and I can't wait. I can't wait for Tuesday evenings now. I love that it's a 9 p.m. drop on the East Coast. Yeah. ah Jealous of my 6 p.m. West Coasters, but 9 p.m. is good. I like the 9 p.m.s. I'll take it. ah It's better than 3 a.m. for us, but it's usually that would have waited anyway, so. But like you're saying, it's more fun, because then we get to see reactions. Right. Right. I love seeing that. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Me too.
01:17:22
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All right, kids, that's it. That's the show. I hope you enjoyed our Acculite breakdown of episodes one and two of the show. If you like what we're saying and you want to hear more, you can follow us at The Galactic Podcast on all the social media. You can follow our show on all the major platforms, Apple Pod, Google Play, Spotify. And then you can follow me, Lauren Romo, and Loro Knows, on all the social media platforms. You can follow me, Andrea Gutierrez, at r2d2step on X, Twitter and threads and Instagram. Jungkook released a song for ARMY on June 7th. It got mixed feedback and poor Jungkook had to get onto social media and explain to people who don't understand the concept of different genres and of music what was going on with that song. And he like took the blame for it. I hate that. I feel so bad for him. You know what? Don't do that. These people that just don't understand house music or different electronic music, forget about them, Junko. Just do your thing. You do you, buddy. I love the song. And that's our K-pop BTS update of the week. All right, kids. that knows And as always, may the force be with you.
01:18:48
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Always. Always.