I've done episode reviews for "Star Wars" shows before, notably on "Book of Boba Fett" so perhaps I don't have the best track record with it - but, I have free time so I might as well do it again with "The Acolyte" which I started last night. As with quite a few first episodes of shows, this has too much to establish to really form much of an opinion about it.
A century before Republics would shift to Empires, Osha (Amandla Stenberg) is arrested for the murder of a Jedi Master. She protests her innocence to the crime but is identified by a witness and set for transport to Coruscant. The transport vessel is taken over by the other convicts and crashes on an ice planet. Earlier in her life Osha was a trainee at the Jedi academy and her former master Sol (Lee Jung-Jae) leads a team to recover her. At the crash site, Osha sees a vision of her twin sister Mae, long thought dead and apparently the true perpetrator of the crime.
I'll keep this review a spoiler free as I can, but perhaps the most notable thing that the show does is kill off someone who you might have considered one of its key characters, from the advertising if nothing else, in the opening scene. Perhaps flashbacks will give us another opportunity to see them, there is certainly some story to be mined in how Osha left the academy, if not exactly why, but still it's a surprising twist. Her relationship with the Jedis pursuing her is interesting, Sol clearly wants to save and clear her; Yord, played by Charlie Barnett from Headland's hit series "Russian Doll" warily draws his sabre and Jecki - played by an unrecognisable Dafne Keen in prosthetics curiously watches on.
Interesting to see the usage of Neimoidian's in the series and the Jedi temple looks like it has in previous incarnations. No other links to the preexisting Star Wars story, which I'd suggest is probably the right way to go.
As I said, hard to really judge the episode as it's got so many characters to introduce as well as the inciting incident, but I'd describe the episode as being fine. I'm not particularly blown away, but neither am I considering not watching the next one.
A century before Republics would shift to Empires, Osha (Amandla Stenberg) is arrested for the murder of a Jedi Master. She protests her innocence to the crime but is identified by a witness and set for transport to Coruscant. The transport vessel is taken over by the other convicts and crashes on an ice planet. Earlier in her life Osha was a trainee at the Jedi academy and her former master Sol (Lee Jung-Jae) leads a team to recover her. At the crash site, Osha sees a vision of her twin sister Mae, long thought dead and apparently the true perpetrator of the crime.
I'll keep this review a spoiler free as I can, but perhaps the most notable thing that the show does is kill off someone who you might have considered one of its key characters, from the advertising if nothing else, in the opening scene. Perhaps flashbacks will give us another opportunity to see them, there is certainly some story to be mined in how Osha left the academy, if not exactly why, but still it's a surprising twist. Her relationship with the Jedis pursuing her is interesting, Sol clearly wants to save and clear her; Yord, played by Charlie Barnett from Headland's hit series "Russian Doll" warily draws his sabre and Jecki - played by an unrecognisable Dafne Keen in prosthetics curiously watches on.
Interesting to see the usage of Neimoidian's in the series and the Jedi temple looks like it has in previous incarnations. No other links to the preexisting Star Wars story, which I'd suggest is probably the right way to go.
As I said, hard to really judge the episode as it's got so many characters to introduce as well as the inciting incident, but I'd describe the episode as being fine. I'm not particularly blown away, but neither am I considering not watching the next one.
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