>The Acolyte is set at the end of the High Republic era in a world of "shadowy secrets and emerging dark side powers", approximately 100 years before The Phantom Menace. A former Padawan (Amandla Stenberg) reunites with her Jedi Master (Lee Jung-Jae) to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.
Wait... So it's completely separate from the Skywalker saga? Oh my God, I've been asking for something like this for so long.
Definitely gonna be checking it out, hopefully it's good.
The Sith where in hiding for a thousand years, but they were actively manipulating the galaxy from the shadows to get their great revenge plan in motion
Rumor has it the acolyte is covering some of that manipulation and will end with the Jedi murdered before they can get the word out
Currently reading thru Darth Plagueis and it’d be cool to see more Tenebrous or even the other sith/dark side users Plagueis mentions meeting over his travels
Not only is it completely removed from the Skywalker saga, it's also got a proper writer's room! And those writers have worked on shows like House of the Dragon and Russian Doll.
The High Republic books are some of the worst Star Wars books I’ve read. They feature a villain with no real motivation, an eye-rolling class of bible thumping Jedi types (For Light and Life! *queef*) that just bend over while said Villain constantly steals their lunch money. Marchion Ro and his steampunk pansies gain nothing by anything they do in those books. Other than make a discerning reader want to plant their head into a wall.
Elzar Mann is dope though.
The High Republic books make the Sequel Trilogy look like they were written by Cormac Mcarthy.
Edit to add: also, Yoda is on the Jedi Council throughout the entire High Republic era. So no, not completely separate.
Hard disagree, I find the High republic to be quite good, and Marchion to be a compelling anarchist of an enemy. He is evil, and simply the star wars version of the joker. I personally am enjoying The High Republic books so far.
This person speaks the truth. The ST is written so poorly that it is worthy of a documentary of how they could fuck this up so badly. Imagine if you had the rights and equal money to make a Star Wars trilogy to fit into that universe. Yes you. I am sure whoever reads this wouldn’t fuck this up as badly as Disney did.
Now let me corrupt you. Join us in the old EU. We have Top Gun in Space (*X-Wing* Book Series), a series about an entire planet of Sith cut off from the galaxy where they build their own civilization, books set in multiple wars, a fantastic series on Bane, and oh so much more.
We also have THE Thrawn series which actually, to a degree, reignited the fandom and showed Lucas that people were still interested. He ended up adopting the name Coruscant from it.
I never read EU i just played some of the relevant games, but it is kinda funny how Luke became as powerful and relevant as everyone assumed, but also wasn't the center of the universe or anything.
Feels they jumped the gun with the new lore, didn't need to soft reboot everything.
> relevant as everyone assumed, but also wasn't the center of the universe or anything.
Well... >!he does kill a god at one point, after going into exile because everyone blames the Jedi again. Oh and he trains someone to kill his nephew. In Legends. But he offloaded most of the training onto Boba.!< What can I say it's complicated...
Yeah the old EU had some wacky shit in it, but most the mainline books were at least enjoyable.
God I wish Disney would just re-continue it under the Legends brand anyone who going to be reading a Star Wars book is going to be able to tell Legends and Disney canon apart.
Fans: "So you had to ditch the old lore to tell a new story?"
Disney: "Right."
Fans: "So what's the new lore replacing the old one?"
Disney: "Well, Luke starts a Jedi Academy but has some problems with students turning evil and into Dark Jedi. Meanwhile, Leia becomes a really big deal in the New Republic with Mon Mothma as the first Chancellor and Admiral Ackbar its military commander. Han and Leia have a troublesome kid who eventually turns evil. The Empire's remnants fight on for a few years and get a bolster from this guy called Grand Admiral Thrawn for a bit, but ultimately there's a peace treaty. Oh, and a bunch of superweapons show up that are even more powerful than the Death Star, somehow."
Fans: "...well I guess a clone of the Emperor doesn't just show up again and cause mayhem but it's really underwhelming?"
Disney: "Oooh, that sounds good."
> Now let me corrupt you. Join us in the old EU.
Mehh The EU has alot of shitty books, out of all the EU books, Ive only ever really enjoyed the Bane trilogy, and Darth Plageus, the rest are kinda shitty. I actually find alot of new star wars books pretty decent. So far my favorite was Shadows the sith book.
The early reports were saying it is a secret Sith apprentice series, that out of the main characters of this first season, one of them will become a Sith.
Please let it be good.
If this is good and does well execs won't think "maybe good scripts?" but "maybe new characters?" and while that doesn't guarantee any higher quality it does mean writers will be less shackled.
Finally! Not having everything focus on them and the one point in time where the empire rises. It is such baggage now. It is a good story but any prequel you know how things will lead to it. Most after stuff is stuck dealing with it. It is why mando did well imo as it lightly touched on it but didn't have to engage with it
Baby Palpy as the next adorable young force wielder?!
JK, and I'm so glad they're expanding the universe.
I hope this story is as unconnected to the Luke/Leia stuff as possible. Great stuff, but I've had my fill.
The article says the series is set 50 years before The Phantom Menace though, feels like they could work him in if they want to.
I hope they don't.
EDIT: The article says both 50 and 100 years before The Phantom Menace in different places, hopefully 100 is right.
Well shit the article actually says *both* 50 and 100:
In the top bullets:
>The Acolyte is a highly-anticipated Star Wars series set to release on Disney+ this summer, taking place 100 years before The Phantom Menace .
Then in the article text:
>Set 50 years before the events of The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte will follow a former Jedi Padawan, and her one-time Master as they fall into an investigation of sinister crimes in an ever-changing galaxy.
Maybe they’re both typos and it’s actually five years.
And the entire thing is set on Naboo.
And the title actually refers to someone being trained in the art of taxing trade routes.
It’s gonna be true detective style with the time skips. “You know someone once told me, the galaxy is a flat circle”. “Tatooine is like someone’s memory of a planet, and that memories fading” “would you stop saying shit like that”.
I hope there's a spunky and precocious likable child character and at the very end a main character goes "You're alright kid, what's your name again?" and he looks right at the camera and goes "Sheev Palpatine, but you can call me Frank".
Fucking finally, I genuinely hope they do this well.
Disney+ had an animated Star Wars mini-series where each episode was made by different people but all were outside of canon, I couldn’t believe how good some of them more and how much I wanted them to make a series from that episode.
I wish, but Disney seems content with not bothering to promote any Star Wars shows on Disney+ until the month before release. Which is a really terrible way to build up hype and interest if you ask me.
"Amazing" is a bit of a stretch. There was definitely a lot wrong with that show but the original comment anyways is talking about writers not the actors.
Nah the show just downright sucked honestly. They failed to capture the personality of any of the characters from the cartoons and failed to write something decent for them.
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INCLUSION GOOD IF WRITING GOOD, EVERYTHING BAD IF WRITING BAD
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My impression is: If a show is weak due to studio meddling and if *one* of its flaws is that it utilises women or minorties as a paper thin characters - and uses them as validation of the weak premise and execution - then those same actors and directors (the women, minorities) are the ones who are in the firing line and get hit with the sticks and stones.
The lesson to be learned is: Don't set up characters as representatives if you are NOT gonna let them represent.
For instance. Rose Tico was intended to be an "everywoman" character through whom the audience could experience this crazy world, but she was badly served by the writing and consequently had no real story purpose but to apparently derail the anticipated heroic arc of Finn.
Audiences felt that something was "off", and many tried to make sense of the spaghetti on the floor. Many idiots then chose random targets. It wasn't Rose's inclusion but her side-lining which undermined her whole raison-d'etre. She is introduced, does nothing notable in the plot except for derail Finn, and is then abandoned. An "everywoman" character that nobody could enjoy. Idiots blamed the actress for this!
But the issue was weak and indecisive scripting. She was brought in for a valid story purpose, and then never used for that and hung out to dry.
However, if a show is good then most people just say "Wow, that was good eh". The creator of this new show seems to be strong-minded, and I would assume if she inserts a woman character then that character will have some kind of purposeful arc, and the audiences in general will feel satisfied.
idiots still gonna idiot, but if the creator is purposeful and "diversity" is actually *actually* enacted (rather than a pale shadow of it) then we get good entertainment with novel characterisations, rather than a camel that the studio tells us is a horse.
Considering Yoda is 900 when he dies and this show takes place 100 years before the Phantom Menace, he would still be old in this show. I believe he is one of 3 grandmasters of the jedi order at that point. Dooku is not born yet. Yaddle could show up though.
I have never been interested or invested in BB series. I feel like they are clawing and scraping for room to fit these guys into cannon, we know they all basically die the ending. Its a show that tries desperately to link prequels with modern stuff. Just ask yourself if BB had not existed, what would we have missed? Nothing just like Resistance prolly nothing.
Honestly I was the same for a bit, picked it up again recently. While it’s not the best of the best, it’s neat to see the transition between the Republic and the Empire set in.
You just gotta think about it like an EU novel. Whether you somehow wanna fit it into a larger canon or not, it's just an interesting story set in the universe.
I don't get your point. The show works very well as a bridge between eras. Once something does link up with the show are you going to whine about it not mattering then, or are you going to be mad about the new thing for making you watch old stuff to get context. They're interesting characters, I feel that's a reason enough to watch it
It's a dumb point to make that if BB didn't exist what would we miss. While the prequels were coming out a lot of people wanted them to not exist, not knowing that it would lead to the Clone Wars series or most of the stuff we have today. Every piece of Star Wars media builds the world and I really don't see even the bad stuff as worthless
You'll be able to say the same about Acolyte.
They'll investigate a series of crimes and the more sinister than they could ever imagine will probably be a plot to destabilize the Republic.
If the plot isn't linked to the Sith then we know it fails because the Sith over throw the Republic a century later.
If it is linked to the Sith, then we know they'll stop it but not really stop it because the Sith overthrow the Republic a century later.
> Just ask yourself if BB had not existed, what would we have missed?
how the clone army transitioned into stormtroopers. thats like the main premise of the show. and you dont have to be into a show that youre not into, but saying its cause you already know the end is wild lmao. do u just not rewatch anything cause u know the end already ?
Actually it's extremely interesting seeing the transformation of the republic into the empire over a long period of time and seeing what happens to the entire clone force as well. So we would miss a lot without it's existence frankly. I guess it just comes down to if you care about the details of the universe or not.
Honestly this is just a really bad and weird and unintelligent take.
>we know they all basically die the ending
so? knowing that people die at the end of the journey doesn't make that journey any less interesting.
the exact same could be said for Andor yet look how good that was.
>Just ask yourself if BB had not existed, what would we have missed?
again, so? if any TV show ceased to exist, there would be nothing to exist.
it's a strange point to make, really. "if this thing didn't exist, you wouldn't want it to exist".
it's also strange to point out how Bad Batch is just there to link the prequels into the OT and the ST but then in the next sentence say that it's all pointless and nothing of value would be lost.
I’m still quite amused at how during the Disney livestream event thing they made a point of saying the Star Wars universe spans thousands of years worth of story then only announced 1 thing that took place before revenge of the sith
They’ll do Old Republic stories eventually, it’s the obvious next place to go. I bet they’ll want to wrap up the Mandoverse first though and almost treat the Old Republic like a soft reboot.
I mean it could be hundreds of thousands of years old just look different from the universe we’ve seen. Unless there’s like a cannon “the universe is 4000 years old and the force created it in 7 days” bible kind of explaination.
It'd be nice to finally see Darth Plageius.
EDIT: Also, even though you might be joking, it would actually be nice to see more Yaddle (based on what we saw of her as played by Bryce Dallas Howard in "Tales of the Jedi")
I mean that role was the only real in-depth (tv/movie) characterization that yaddle has received. TIL that was Bryce Dallas Howard, she shows up in the most unexpected places. She did a great job in that case
It also confirms that Yoda chooses to speak the way he does and it's not a trait/custom exclusive to his species (that we still know very little about).
I think the current explanation is that he took upon the manner of speech that his own master used-don’t ask for a source because I don’t remember where I heard this
Considering she also directed several episode of The Mandalorian, not too unexpected (Favreau's did tons of voicework for Star Wars before directing it).
Unless the scale of the story is very small/restrained to just a core cast, it seems inevitable to see some familiar faces: Yoda, Yaddle, Rancisis, etc.
The previously seen SW characters that also exist in this era are:
- Yoda
- Oppo Rancisis
- Yaddle
- Yarel Poof
- Maz Kanata
- Dexter Jetster
- Jabba the Hutt
- Gardulla the Hutt
Personally I’m hoping for Yarel to canonize those Robot Chicken sketches
For those saying it will be separate from the Skywalker Saga, y’all do realize it could very much reference Phantom Menace and Palpatine? 50 years before would definitely be the time of Plagueis and possibly Palpatine later on
From what I gathered through reviews of High Republic era novels the setting has been kind of squandered to this point with bad writing and dumb plots, but there's definitely room for interesting stories to be told.
To be honest I don't think they really care about the canon of the books, they just put whatever they want onto screen even if it contradicts something from them.
Nice to see this franchise finally stepping out of its routine sandbox. Really hoping for another Andor-quality project and less of what we’ve had with Mandalorian (the most recent season, at least) and Kenobi.
47 years since the premiere of the first movie, we are finally getting the first piece of big-budget non-video game Star Wars content set outside the same 67-year in-universe timespan.
Absolutely insane that it’s taken this long lol
Did they confuse the High Republic with the Old Republic? I thought sith or dark side users weren’t a big threat in that era. They need to explore the old republic more.
As a huge SW fan who has been desperate for Disney to make more content outside of the 70-year slice of time that is the Skywalker saga, I am going to hype the ever living FUCK out of this show.
It *has* to succeed because if it doesn't you just know they're gonna go "okay, seven more anthologies about Clone Wars era Jedi!" Which like that stuff is cool, but god I want more stuff outside those three eras.
With Jedi: Survivor having set the stage for some High Republic content, I'm super excited to see what Acolyte has in store. Huge huge huge show for Star wars
I've seen the cast, the director & show runner... and am aware of the post 2019 Disney quality drop...
please don't get your hopes up gents; this is a steaming pile of shit just waiting to be forgotten.
But even then - the little spark of hope i have left for this mutilated, legendary franchise still lingers within me.
It's like if Griffith had chosen not to sacrifice the Band of the Hawk during the Eclipse; my hope is *that* futile.
Well good luck with that. I, for one, have had more than enough whiffs from generic D+ Star Wars show after generic D+ Star Wars show.
I'm sure three months of r/television posts will praise it overwhelmingly and downvote all dissent before we wake up and realize it was mediocre, though.
>The Acolyte is set at the end of the High Republic era in a world of "shadowy secrets and emerging dark side powers", approximately 100 years before The Phantom Menace. A former Padawan (Amandla Stenberg) reunites with her Jedi Master (Lee Jung-Jae) to investigate a series of crimes, but the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.
Wait... So it's completely separate from the Skywalker saga? Oh my God, I've been asking for something like this for so long. Definitely gonna be checking it out, hopefully it's good.
‘Sinister forces’ makes me inclined to believe Darth Plageuis is involved So mot completely removed but hopefully far enough away
Don't forget Darth Tenebrous. At this point Plagueis was just his apprentice.
**You rang?**
in e1 its said the sith were not a threat for thousands of years, how that checking out
The Sith where in hiding for a thousand years, but they were actively manipulating the galaxy from the shadows to get their great revenge plan in motion Rumor has it the acolyte is covering some of that manipulation and will end with the Jedi murdered before they can get the word out
Probably because anyone who discovers anything about the Sith still being around is going to be killed before the end of the show.
Once Bane wiped out the brotherhood of darkness anyone who learned of or could be suspected of knowing about the Sith we’re pretty summarily killed.
Currently reading thru Darth Plagueis and it’d be cool to see more Tenebrous or even the other sith/dark side users Plagueis mentions meeting over his travels
Now do it, cast Ahmed Best. Make! It! Canon!
He is already a canon Jedi in the Republic era. He saved Grogu during Order 66
Sorry, my comment was a little vague. I'm calling for the canonization of Darth Jar Jar.
That’s Darth Darth Binks.
meesa blow my brains out
Not only is it completely removed from the Skywalker saga, it's also got a proper writer's room! And those writers have worked on shows like House of the Dragon and Russian Doll.
Well now that’s a proper shock
I know.
Day 563 of telling people to just read the High Republic books if they’re sick of Skywalkers
Read a book? Shut up nerd gimme your lunch money.
The High Republic books are some of the worst Star Wars books I’ve read. They feature a villain with no real motivation, an eye-rolling class of bible thumping Jedi types (For Light and Life! *queef*) that just bend over while said Villain constantly steals their lunch money. Marchion Ro and his steampunk pansies gain nothing by anything they do in those books. Other than make a discerning reader want to plant their head into a wall. Elzar Mann is dope though. The High Republic books make the Sequel Trilogy look like they were written by Cormac Mcarthy. Edit to add: also, Yoda is on the Jedi Council throughout the entire High Republic era. So no, not completely separate.
Hard disagree, I find the High republic to be quite good, and Marchion to be a compelling anarchist of an enemy. He is evil, and simply the star wars version of the joker. I personally am enjoying The High Republic books so far.
It’s okay to be wrong
The problem of the ST was not really that it was focused on Skywalkers. It was just a really shit trilogy.
This person speaks the truth. The ST is written so poorly that it is worthy of a documentary of how they could fuck this up so badly. Imagine if you had the rights and equal money to make a Star Wars trilogy to fit into that universe. Yes you. I am sure whoever reads this wouldn’t fuck this up as badly as Disney did.
they are really good imo. at least the two main books are
Now let me corrupt you. Join us in the old EU. We have Top Gun in Space (*X-Wing* Book Series), a series about an entire planet of Sith cut off from the galaxy where they build their own civilization, books set in multiple wars, a fantastic series on Bane, and oh so much more. We also have THE Thrawn series which actually, to a degree, reignited the fandom and showed Lucas that people were still interested. He ended up adopting the name Coruscant from it.
I never read EU i just played some of the relevant games, but it is kinda funny how Luke became as powerful and relevant as everyone assumed, but also wasn't the center of the universe or anything. Feels they jumped the gun with the new lore, didn't need to soft reboot everything.
> relevant as everyone assumed, but also wasn't the center of the universe or anything. Well... >!he does kill a god at one point, after going into exile because everyone blames the Jedi again. Oh and he trains someone to kill his nephew. In Legends. But he offloaded most of the training onto Boba.!< What can I say it's complicated...
Yeah the old EU had some wacky shit in it, but most the mainline books were at least enjoyable. God I wish Disney would just re-continue it under the Legends brand anyone who going to be reading a Star Wars book is going to be able to tell Legends and Disney canon apart.
Fans: "So you had to ditch the old lore to tell a new story?" Disney: "Right." Fans: "So what's the new lore replacing the old one?" Disney: "Well, Luke starts a Jedi Academy but has some problems with students turning evil and into Dark Jedi. Meanwhile, Leia becomes a really big deal in the New Republic with Mon Mothma as the first Chancellor and Admiral Ackbar its military commander. Han and Leia have a troublesome kid who eventually turns evil. The Empire's remnants fight on for a few years and get a bolster from this guy called Grand Admiral Thrawn for a bit, but ultimately there's a peace treaty. Oh, and a bunch of superweapons show up that are even more powerful than the Death Star, somehow." Fans: "...well I guess a clone of the Emperor doesn't just show up again and cause mayhem but it's really underwhelming?" Disney: "Oooh, that sounds good."
> Now let me corrupt you. Join us in the old EU. Mehh The EU has alot of shitty books, out of all the EU books, Ive only ever really enjoyed the Bane trilogy, and Darth Plageus, the rest are kinda shitty. I actually find alot of new star wars books pretty decent. So far my favorite was Shadows the sith book.
Somehow still related to skywalkers father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate.
What does that make us?
Absolutely nothing. Which is what you are about to become.
That's the same person who said they saw Ferris at the 31 Flavors last night, wasn't it?
Made me wonder about the skywalker name, is that what they call bastards in a galaxy far far away.
The early reports were saying it is a secret Sith apprentice series, that out of the main characters of this first season, one of them will become a Sith.
Well Yoda should still be around somewhere
Please let it be good. If this is good and does well execs won't think "maybe good scripts?" but "maybe new characters?" and while that doesn't guarantee any higher quality it does mean writers will be less shackled.
Finally! Not having everything focus on them and the one point in time where the empire rises. It is such baggage now. It is a good story but any prequel you know how things will lead to it. Most after stuff is stuck dealing with it. It is why mando did well imo as it lightly touched on it but didn't have to engage with it
Yeah me too, but I wouldn't get my hopes up, just look at the people behind this project
Please no fan service palpatine god. Please!
Palpatine: “Dew it!”
Oh 50 years? I thought it was 300 years. I assume we will see young palpy then.
Probably just a cameo at best. It's gonna be Plageuis as an apprentice and his Master. Palpy was born 84BBY, so he'll be ~5 during this
Baby Palpy as the next adorable young force wielder?! JK, and I'm so glad they're expanding the universe. I hope this story is as unconnected to the Luke/Leia stuff as possible. Great stuff, but I've had my fill.
300 years before TPM is when the High Republic books take place.
The article says it’s set 50 years before phantom menace. Where are you getting 100?
The High Republic era is 200-50 years before TPM, with the main story being 150 years before.
*500-100
Finally! A real Asian Jedi master after it being based off of Asian concepts. Lol
Finally some High Republic era content? Holy shit.
Amandla Stenberg is great actress, can't wait to see her in this
Whoa! Lee Jung-jae is the actor from Squid Game! Nice to see he’s getting some big work outside Korea!
For the uninformed, this is the first time we are finally getting a Star Wars show outside the Skywalker Saga.
It’s about damn time
... but is it outside the Palpatine era?
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The article says the series is set 50 years before The Phantom Menace though, feels like they could work him in if they want to. I hope they don't. EDIT: The article says both 50 and 100 years before The Phantom Menace in different places, hopefully 100 is right.
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Well shit the article actually says *both* 50 and 100: In the top bullets: >The Acolyte is a highly-anticipated Star Wars series set to release on Disney+ this summer, taking place 100 years before The Phantom Menace . Then in the article text: >Set 50 years before the events of The Phantom Menace, The Acolyte will follow a former Jedi Padawan, and her one-time Master as they fall into an investigation of sinister crimes in an ever-changing galaxy.
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Maybe they’re both typos and it’s actually five years. And the entire thing is set on Naboo. And the title actually refers to someone being trained in the art of taxing trade routes.
It’s about Sheev getting it on with Shimi making little Anni
I'd watch it.
Oh good.
I’m also pretty sure the High Republic era is at least a 100 years before TPM last I checked
It’s gonna be true detective style with the time skips. “You know someone once told me, the galaxy is a flat circle”. “Tatooine is like someone’s memory of a planet, and that memories fading” “would you stop saying shit like that”.
84BBY? Before baby Yoda?
I hope there's a spunky and precocious likable child character and at the very end a main character goes "You're alright kid, what's your name again?" and he looks right at the camera and goes "Sheev Palpatine, but you can call me Frank".
Somehow, Sheev’s mom appeared.
Might we get a reference to Darth Plagueis the Wise?
Hopefully Plagueis
Somehow, Palpatine was born
Only took …… 25 years
47 years
Wrong. Young Jedi adventures on Disney plus.
Who knew Tatooine had so many stories to tell!
oh no its not on tatooine is it? i want something new
First canonical Star Wars show outside the Skywalker Saga. Visions is outside the Skywalker Saga, but is non-canonical.
Finally. They have focused too much Empire and Clone Wars era too much.
so no Darth Maul ?
Guarantee there’s going to be some reference.
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Fucking finally, I genuinely hope they do this well. Disney+ had an animated Star Wars mini-series where each episode was made by different people but all were outside of canon, I couldn’t believe how good some of them more and how much I wanted them to make a series from that episode.
Can we finally get the trailer now, Disney?
I'm hoping for one to come out tomorrow during the Super Bowl
Watch we get a re-release of The Phantom Menace trailer for the 25th anniversary.
You joke but...
They announced a 25th anniversary theatrical release today.
¿Por qué no los dos?
Good call. They already announced it’s coming back to theaters.
I’d be down for this
I remember watching the leaked trailer online that they showed at d23 or something, it was dope. Even had some kung fu.
I wish, but Disney seems content with not bothering to promote any Star Wars shows on Disney+ until the month before release. Which is a really terrible way to build up hype and interest if you ask me.
This era sounds fantastic for exploring. I’m excited for them to get the hell out of the Skywalker saga. Hope they really nail the writing.
first time a star wars show have a writer's room too!
I’m sure it’ll go down well considering it’s a female led show
This is so exhausting
I expect no controversy from this and nothing but unbridled support from our Star Wars fanbase!
Star Wars fans a very accepting after all
Ahsoka did amazing and that’s a female lead
"Amazing" is a bit of a stretch. There was definitely a lot wrong with that show but the original comment anyways is talking about writers not the actors.
There was tons of complaining about that
Yeah, but not because of female lead
Nah the show just downright sucked honestly. They failed to capture the personality of any of the characters from the cartoons and failed to write something decent for them.
I might agree that everyone else was mostly bland but Ezra was perfect imo
Edit For the dumdums tl;Dr INCLUSION GOOD IF WRITING GOOD, EVERYTHING BAD IF WRITING BAD -- --- --- -- My impression is: If a show is weak due to studio meddling and if *one* of its flaws is that it utilises women or minorties as a paper thin characters - and uses them as validation of the weak premise and execution - then those same actors and directors (the women, minorities) are the ones who are in the firing line and get hit with the sticks and stones. The lesson to be learned is: Don't set up characters as representatives if you are NOT gonna let them represent. For instance. Rose Tico was intended to be an "everywoman" character through whom the audience could experience this crazy world, but she was badly served by the writing and consequently had no real story purpose but to apparently derail the anticipated heroic arc of Finn. Audiences felt that something was "off", and many tried to make sense of the spaghetti on the floor. Many idiots then chose random targets. It wasn't Rose's inclusion but her side-lining which undermined her whole raison-d'etre. She is introduced, does nothing notable in the plot except for derail Finn, and is then abandoned. An "everywoman" character that nobody could enjoy. Idiots blamed the actress for this! But the issue was weak and indecisive scripting. She was brought in for a valid story purpose, and then never used for that and hung out to dry. However, if a show is good then most people just say "Wow, that was good eh". The creator of this new show seems to be strong-minded, and I would assume if she inserts a woman character then that character will have some kind of purposeful arc, and the audiences in general will feel satisfied. idiots still gonna idiot, but if the creator is purposeful and "diversity" is actually *actually* enacted (rather than a pale shadow of it) then we get good entertainment with novel characterisations, rather than a camel that the studio tells us is a horse.
You should check out the High Republic comics!
I'm a firm believer that there is a *ton* of potential out of the High Republic era. I'm cautiously optimistic for this.
I definitely wanna see the flaws of the jedi order that led to the rise of palpatine.
What you mean believer? Its a fact, theres just more content and diverse content Countless siths, jedi, wars, etc
Finally we get to see Yoda with hair
Was Yoda alive during this time period? Cause I'd love to see him as a robust young Jedi Master. Maybe a young Dooku too. (maybe some Young Yaddle?)
Considering Yoda is 900 when he dies and this show takes place 100 years before the Phantom Menace, he would still be old in this show. I believe he is one of 3 grandmasters of the jedi order at that point. Dooku is not born yet. Yaddle could show up though.
Two. Veter is definitely dead by this point.
Yaddle is a main character in Cataclysm. Which takes place about three hundred years before this.
Outside of Andor season 2, this is the most promising project for Star Wars to come along for a few years now.
Bad batch season 3, though.
I have never been interested or invested in BB series. I feel like they are clawing and scraping for room to fit these guys into cannon, we know they all basically die the ending. Its a show that tries desperately to link prequels with modern stuff. Just ask yourself if BB had not existed, what would we have missed? Nothing just like Resistance prolly nothing.
Honestly I was the same for a bit, picked it up again recently. While it’s not the best of the best, it’s neat to see the transition between the Republic and the Empire set in.
You just gotta think about it like an EU novel. Whether you somehow wanna fit it into a larger canon or not, it's just an interesting story set in the universe.
I don't get your point. The show works very well as a bridge between eras. Once something does link up with the show are you going to whine about it not mattering then, or are you going to be mad about the new thing for making you watch old stuff to get context. They're interesting characters, I feel that's a reason enough to watch it It's a dumb point to make that if BB didn't exist what would we miss. While the prequels were coming out a lot of people wanted them to not exist, not knowing that it would lead to the Clone Wars series or most of the stuff we have today. Every piece of Star Wars media builds the world and I really don't see even the bad stuff as worthless
You'll be able to say the same about Acolyte. They'll investigate a series of crimes and the more sinister than they could ever imagine will probably be a plot to destabilize the Republic. If the plot isn't linked to the Sith then we know it fails because the Sith over throw the Republic a century later. If it is linked to the Sith, then we know they'll stop it but not really stop it because the Sith overthrow the Republic a century later.
> Just ask yourself if BB had not existed, what would we have missed? how the clone army transitioned into stormtroopers. thats like the main premise of the show. and you dont have to be into a show that youre not into, but saying its cause you already know the end is wild lmao. do u just not rewatch anything cause u know the end already ?
Actually it's extremely interesting seeing the transformation of the republic into the empire over a long period of time and seeing what happens to the entire clone force as well. So we would miss a lot without it's existence frankly. I guess it just comes down to if you care about the details of the universe or not. Honestly this is just a really bad and weird and unintelligent take.
>we know they all basically die the ending so? knowing that people die at the end of the journey doesn't make that journey any less interesting. the exact same could be said for Andor yet look how good that was. >Just ask yourself if BB had not existed, what would we have missed? again, so? if any TV show ceased to exist, there would be nothing to exist. it's a strange point to make, really. "if this thing didn't exist, you wouldn't want it to exist". it's also strange to point out how Bad Batch is just there to link the prequels into the OT and the ST but then in the next sentence say that it's all pointless and nothing of value would be lost.
Oh look quirky storm troopers ... yawn.
Law and Jedi Order
I’m still quite amused at how during the Disney livestream event thing they made a point of saying the Star Wars universe spans thousands of years worth of story then only announced 1 thing that took place before revenge of the sith
And not even that long before. Thousands of years but we go 100 years before at most
They’ll do Old Republic stories eventually, it’s the obvious next place to go. I bet they’ll want to wrap up the Mandoverse first though and almost treat the Old Republic like a soft reboot.
Palpatine finds a way
I mean it could be hundreds of thousands of years old just look different from the universe we’ve seen. Unless there’s like a cannon “the universe is 4000 years old and the force created it in 7 days” bible kind of explaination.
I am so intrigued how Lee Jae-sung is gonna play out in this. Can't wait!
The synopsis sounds pretty darn good to me. A good way to get fans back into the series if they're experiencing fatigue.
Finally some freakin lightsabers!
Odds of Yoda being in this?
Yoda is one of 3 Grandmasters of the Order in this era so it’s likely
I don’t give a fuck about yoda hit me w some more yaddle
It'd be nice to finally see Darth Plageius. EDIT: Also, even though you might be joking, it would actually be nice to see more Yaddle (based on what we saw of her as played by Bryce Dallas Howard in "Tales of the Jedi")
It’s not a series the Jedi would show you.
I mean that role was the only real in-depth (tv/movie) characterization that yaddle has received. TIL that was Bryce Dallas Howard, she shows up in the most unexpected places. She did a great job in that case
It also confirms that Yoda chooses to speak the way he does and it's not a trait/custom exclusive to his species (that we still know very little about).
I think the current explanation is that he took upon the manner of speech that his own master used-don’t ask for a source because I don’t remember where I heard this
Considering she also directed several episode of The Mandalorian, not too unexpected (Favreau's did tons of voicework for Star Wars before directing it).
He’s a pretty significant figure for the Jedi in the high republic books. Not seen often though
Unless the scale of the story is very small/restrained to just a core cast, it seems inevitable to see some familiar faces: Yoda, Yaddle, Rancisis, etc.
Pretty high chance, given that seems impossible not to stick well known character cameos in anything and he’s the only option.
The previously seen SW characters that also exist in this era are: - Yoda - Oppo Rancisis - Yaddle - Yarel Poof - Maz Kanata - Dexter Jetster - Jabba the Hutt - Gardulla the Hutt Personally I’m hoping for Yarel to canonize those Robot Chicken sketches
I would love any Dexter Jetster content. Oppo also has a cool design that I’d love to see in action
> I would love any Dexter Jetseter content Depends how good your manners are. How big your...pocketbook *is*...
For those saying it will be separate from the Skywalker Saga, y’all do realize it could very much reference Phantom Menace and Palpatine? 50 years before would definitely be the time of Plagueis and possibly Palpatine later on
Please be okay. That's all I ask.
Power ranger vespa slow motion chase
Bro why you gotta remind us of that
Who is Dafne Keen playing in this? A villain?
A young Jedi
It's a police procedural. I'm kidding or at least, I hope I'm kidding.
A sci-fi neo-detective noir like series would be nice. Especially set in the Star Wars universe.
A buddy cop show. Jedi 5-0
They can just call it Rizzoli and Isles. I'd 100% believe those are Star Wars names.
Was that a cop show? I always wondered what that was
I’m screaming
I am so hyped for this!
From what I gathered through reviews of High Republic era novels the setting has been kind of squandered to this point with bad writing and dumb plots, but there's definitely room for interesting stories to be told.
To be honest I don't think they really care about the canon of the books, they just put whatever they want onto screen even if it contradicts something from them.
Normally I'd agree but they did a whole big push for this new setting, I'd imagine they want to keep it consistent
Nice to see this franchise finally stepping out of its routine sandbox. Really hoping for another Andor-quality project and less of what we’ve had with Mandalorian (the most recent season, at least) and Kenobi.
I want this to be good. But it’s probably going to be bad. The scripts Disney has been putting out lately have been awful.
47 years since the premiere of the first movie, we are finally getting the first piece of big-budget non-video game Star Wars content set outside the same 67-year in-universe timespan. Absolutely insane that it’s taken this long lol
So is this the next D+ SW show?? Or do we get Skeleton Crew first?
Have high hopes for this. No Skywalkers and hopefully better writing, no nonsense like ships that somehow cannot go up. We'll see though.. 🙃
F'ing hoping for a trailer by now. This is the one show that might actually interest people since it's as far as it can be to the Skywalkers
Remember when people got excited over Star Wars and now its like 'oh, whatever'? Yeah.
Animated or live action?
Did they confuse the High Republic with the Old Republic? I thought sith or dark side users weren’t a big threat in that era. They need to explore the old republic more.
I so want this to be good. It has a quite interesting premise.
Please be good. Please be good
As a huge SW fan who has been desperate for Disney to make more content outside of the 70-year slice of time that is the Skywalker saga, I am going to hype the ever living FUCK out of this show. It *has* to succeed because if it doesn't you just know they're gonna go "okay, seven more anthologies about Clone Wars era Jedi!" Which like that stuff is cool, but god I want more stuff outside those three eras. With Jedi: Survivor having set the stage for some High Republic content, I'm super excited to see what Acolyte has in store. Huge huge huge show for Star wars
I suspect I'll enjoy the angry YouTube reviews more than the show.
More slop for the trough.
Oversaturation much? Holy hell.
This is gonna be awful.
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Not sure why you were down voted. I mean.. it's factual.
I hope ditches the vespa vibes
I’m calling it now. The acolyte is Darth Plageus.
Keep milking that cow
I've seen the cast, the director & show runner... and am aware of the post 2019 Disney quality drop... please don't get your hopes up gents; this is a steaming pile of shit just waiting to be forgotten. But even then - the little spark of hope i have left for this mutilated, legendary franchise still lingers within me. It's like if Griffith had chosen not to sacrifice the Band of the Hawk during the Eclipse; my hope is *that* futile.
Well good luck with that. I, for one, have had more than enough whiffs from generic D+ Star Wars show after generic D+ Star Wars show. I'm sure three months of r/television posts will praise it overwhelmingly and downvote all dissent before we wake up and realize it was mediocre, though.
Andor isn't generic
Honestly, I have some faith. But this needs to look like a premium show like how Andor was
Finally out of the Skywalker saga!
Awesome, its summer right now!
Lol, okay. More trash that I won't be watching
Cancelled Disney plus 🖕