First and last. Promise!
I was over it before. Now, its just not worth my time.
Did I miss the episode where Galadriel actually mentions that Sauron is back? Gil-Galad puts on a ring, and Celebrimbor charges ahead with "Lets make more!"?
...and the big guy in Rhûn has already encountered Istari, before the reports of the Stranger?
At this point, I just don't care. Never mind care enough to put amusing little tags attached to this.
the one we got:
The one we deserve:
The one we need:
Damn, Mae! First you let the koala-gopher dive head first into the beaver and then go for some droid bukkake? Who knew Disney would go so spicy!
Don’t move. I’ll get you a towel.
Uh… seriously?
Manny Jacinto, that is! (Qimir? Get it?)
I caved in. I watched Ep 5. Not as bad as expected, but the writing is still ugh. At this point, I think it should have been presented as two 90 minute movies. They’re trying too hard to stretch it to eight episodes.
Evidently, when Jedi are trained to fight with light sabers, the Masters have forgotten about the Doink. A doink happens when a saber contacts a material called cortosis. When struck, cortosis makes the light saber short out (and reboot?). Darth Smiley just happens to have a helmet and arm guards made of the stuff.
They’ve got three episodes left to explain this convenience.
Did Pip say “Yes, please” to having its head ripped off and used as bait?
The Force exists. The Witches call it the Thread. (Big fuckin’ deal. Don’t care). “Some” consider their use of it “dark”. Say it: “THE JEDI say it is the Dark side.”
Smilo Ren says “You might call me Sith”. Say it: “THE JEDI call me Sith”
Mae still can’t figure out what she wants. I love you. I hate you. You’re my sister. I’ll kill you. I will obey, Master. I’m turning myself in. Get back on your meds!!
The script is so spineless. Take a stance already and stick with it.
It’ll probably be two years… more than enough time to catch up in the books!
Well, up to the point where Mona Mayfair is supposed to show up. (Insert side eye at Esta Spaulding)
Is anyone else exhausted from all the hate over The Acolyte? Dial it back
Seriously? That’s the click bait the internet is going with? Gotta suggest they’re all bumpin’ uglies at midnight, instead of reasonable analysis. Misandrous or Androphobic is more accurate. This is why I hate people. Grow up.
As far as the Thread is concerned, all we know is that “some” consider the Coven’s use of it as “dark”. That’s a whole philosophical discussion summed up on one sentence, provided with no context or depth.
Gotta love the good writing.
More likely than not, but…. Yes, Darth Smiley (Smilo Ren?) is running around with a red saber. That just means that the Kyber crystal was “bled” by its owner, probably a dark side adept. Sith use exclusively crystals from defeated Jedi. Mae, however, is playing flag football, trying to pull one off a Jedi beforehand, and chose not to take Indara’s blade after her death. None of this connects.
It also appears that the entire setup of the show is not “evil twin joins the Sith to avenge her slain family”, but “confused twin does tasks from a dark master that coincidentally involve her past but changes her mind”. After all, Mae did just go all “fuck this shit I’m out” in Ep4
Right there with you, girl!
A retcon or a fuck up? Ki-Adi-Mundi is currently hanging out with Sol and company. The Acolyte takes place in the year 132 BBY, but every other source has KAM born in 93 BBY, which is almost 40 years after Acolyte. Take that, along with future KAM denying knowledge of the Sith in Phantom Menace despite possibly encountering them four decades before he was born, and you have the grand battle that went on in Wookieepedia.
Not worth the effort to sort through.
There is no such thing as bad publicity.
Regarding The Acolyte, and every other piece of media…
Many businesses have a statistic that they call “engagement”. For social media, this measures how many people interact or talk about something. This includes clicking a like button, a dislike button, a share button, or a rage filled comment. All of this is a GOOD thing in their eyes.
For movie and TV studios, watching what they make is also engagement. The Studio doesn’t care if you love it or hate it. You are now a statistic that registers as “someone watched it” in their ratings system. The Studio will then use that to help raise funds from investors to produce more.
The only way to stop them is to ignore it. Stop hate-watching. Stop complaining on social media. Just walk away.
With that said, I'm done with The Acolyte. I hate-watched Ep.4. Forty five minutes of my life I've sacrificed to Kennedy, Headland, and the rest of the Star Wars people.
They are not worthy.
I have been broken yet again. How much can one person endure??
Episode 3 of The Acolyte gives the backstory of Osha and Mae.
Yes, Spoilers.
A sect/cult of female Force (which they call the Thread) users (who call themselves Witches) have been "[exiled], hunted, persecuted, [and] forced into hiding", because "some would consider [their] power dark." So, they retreat to an uninhabited planet and create a fortress in a rocky mountain.
The leader witch “pulls” Threads to create life in another witch's womb, resulting in the aforementioned twins. Why did she do this? We have no idea.
When the twins come of age, Osha declares that she wants to be a Jedi. Why does she want this? We have no idea.
Mae throws a tantrum over Osha’a decision, threatening to kill her. Why did she do this? We have no idea.
Mae throws an oil lamp on the floor, causing the entire stone fortress to burn and collapse. How? We have no idea.
The entire coven dies, each person collapsing where they stand. How? We have no idea.
Three Jedi Masters and a Padawan show up to investigate the twins. Why so much power for a Scout mission? We have no idea.
Master Sol saves young Osha from falling by grabbing her hand instead of using the Force. ...but saves adult Osha by using the Force. Why? We have no idea.
Adult Mae seeks revenge on the Jedi over the death of her Coven/family, which was caused by the fire she created. How did she forget that detail? We have no idea.
most of these questions are answered by the show’s billing as a mystery. i imagine that more will be revealed later on.
Fair point. Will there be another flashback? Will Mae and Osha have a nice family therapy session with Sol that dumps all their Reasons on the table? We don’t know yet.
An investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a respected Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior from his past. As more clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems…
So far the “shocking crime spree” consists of one bar fight with Indara. Offering a vial of poison to Torbin isn’t really a crime, nor is throwing a dust cloud at Sol. (n.b. There only shocking crime is Torbin’s “40 year old” hairpiece and beard!!)
…and there really isn’t a mystery anymore. Two episodes in, we know the “evil twin” did it. Episode three just attempts to add the Why to the Who of it, and fails.
Perhaps all the dead witches not being burned by fire or buried in rubble is more than just bad writing?
Maybe there was an all-out brawl between the coven and the three and a half Jedi? The Jedi could have wiped the floor with the witches, with only Beard-So-Fake getting a good scar across his eye?
I’m still planning to hate watch Ep 4 before removing it from my queue, regardless.
I have been broken yet again. How much can one person endure??
Episode 3 of The Acolyte gives the backstory of Osha and Mae.
Yes, Spoilers.
A sect/cult of female Force (which they call the Thread) users (who call themselves Witches) have been "[exiled], hunted, persecuted, [and] forced into hiding", because "some would consider [their] power dark." So, they retreat to an uninhabited planet and create a fortress in a rocky mountain.
The leader witch “pulls” Threads to create life in another witch's womb, resulting in the aforementioned twins. Why did she do this? We have no idea.
When the twins come of age, Osha declares that she wants to be a Jedi. Why does she want this? We have no idea.
Mae throws a tantrum over Osha’a decision, threatening to kill her. Why did she do this? We have no idea.
Mae throws an oil lamp on the floor, causing the entire stone fortress to burn and collapse. How? We have no idea.
The entire coven dies, each person collapsing where they stand. How? We have no idea.
Three Jedi Masters and a Padawan show up to investigate the twins. Why so much power for a Scout mission? We have no idea.
Master Sol saves young Osha from falling by grabbing her hand instead of using the Force. ...but saves adult Osha by using the Force. Why? We have no idea.
Adult Mae seeks revenge on the Jedi over the death of her Coven/family, which was caused by the fire she created. How did she forget that detail? We have no idea.
most of these questions are answered by the show’s billing as a mystery. i imagine that more will be revealed later on.
Fair point. Will there be another flashback? Will Mae and Osha have a nice family therapy session with Sol that dumps all their Reasons on the table? We don’t know yet.
An investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a respected Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior from his past. As more clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems…
So far the “shocking crime spree” consists of one bar fight with Indara. Offering a vial of poison to Torbin isn’t really a crime, nor is throwing a dust cloud at Sol. (n.b. There only shocking crime is Torbin’s “40 year old” hairpiece and beard!!)
…and there really isn’t a mystery anymore. Two episodes in, we know the “evil twin” did it. Episode three just attempts to add the Why to the Who of it, and fails.
I have been broken yet again. How much can one person endure??
Episode 3 of The Acolyte gives the backstory of Osha and Mae.
Yes, Spoilers.
A sect/cult of female Force (which they call the Thread) users (who call themselves Witches) have been "[exiled], hunted, persecuted, [and] forced into hiding", because "some would consider [their] power dark." So, they retreat to an uninhabited planet and create a fortress in a rocky mountain.
The leader witch “pulls” Threads to create life in another witch's womb, resulting in the aforementioned twins. Why did she do this? We have no idea.
When the twins come of age, Osha declares that she wants to be a Jedi. Why does she want this? We have no idea.
Mae throws a tantrum over Osha’a decision, threatening to kill her. Why did she do this? We have no idea.
Mae throws an oil lamp on the floor, causing the entire stone fortress to burn and collapse. How? We have no idea.
The entire coven dies, each person collapsing where they stand. How? We have no idea.
Three Jedi Masters and a Padawan show up to investigate the twins. Why so much power for a Scout mission? We have no idea.
Master Sol saves young Osha from falling by grabbing her hand instead of using the Force. ...but saves adult Osha by using the Force. Why? We have no idea.
Adult Mae seeks revenge on the Jedi over the death of her Coven/family, which was caused by the fire she created. How did she forget that detail? We have no idea.
Wrong reasons to shit all over a movie or tv show
Right reasons to shit all over a movie, tv show, or actor
Reasons for shitting on an Actor’s performance
Never saw THIS coming. Evidently Gina Carano (a.k.a. The Mandalorian’s Cara Dune) is filing a wrongful termination suit against Lucasfilm and Disney.
The tl;dr version: In 2021 Carano posted some Conservative opinions on Twitter, and was fired and blacklisted from Lucasfilm/Disney.
Perhaps the campaign for ideological purity is coming to an end?
Your perceived intolerance will not be tolerated
Some movement with Auntie Cara. Nothing really unexpected. Just the legal system at work.
Space is actually not "cold". If heat is added, it is very slow to escape. The void is technically not a low temperature, it's just the ultimate insulator.
So the heat will be essentially what it is inside the ship, because it would take hours for the gas to get any colder.
As for oxygen, the ship is full of it. We can tell this by the fact that the people inside of it are not suffocating.
So if a fuel line and an oxygen line rupture at the same time. you get fire. The fire wouldn't look exactly like that, due to microgravity, but there WOULD be fire.
People added context they thought you should know:
Heat is the measurement of the motion of particles.
Space is a vacuum, an area with no particles.
Space is, by definition, cold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_space
If the particles aren't there, it doesn't make sense to describe them as having low movement.
Is Antarctica heavily opposed to Katy Perry? Well, we conducted a poll there, and nobody rated her as "good" or "very good". Therefore, Antarctica is heavily opposed to Katy Perry.
Readers added context they thought you should know:
If there are no particles in a space, the total motion of the particles is zero, which is, in fact, a low number.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number
Motion is a vector. Absence of particles is not absence of heat. If I pump the air out of a room, we wouldn't say I've made the room colder, I've just reduced the total number of particles in it. In fact, by your reasoning, we would have to say that the inside of an oven when it is going at maximim power is COLDER than, say, 100 square KM of alaskan tundra. There are more particles overall, even if the heat per particle is lower, so there is more TOTAL thermal energy, right? Temperature only makes sense as a measurement of energy PER particle, otherwise large things are always going to be "hotter" than small things by virtue of the fact that they have more particles! Space actually does have SOME particles, it's not a total vacuum, and some of thsoe particles are moving at extremely high speed, emitted from stars. Your odds of hitting one are low, at least over a short distance, but they do exist and they do have energy. Energy PER PARTICLE is what counts, not total particle energy.
Readers added context they thought you should know:
The way that temperature is generally measured is average particle motion per area. The inside of an oven, if you took the average temperature of all of it, would be higher than the average temperature of Alaskan tundra.
If there is zero particle motion in a given area (i.e. Space), then even if you take into account the few stray particles, the average temperature will still be nearly zero.
Space is three-dimensional, why are we talking about "area"?
Secondly, the Average as mathematical concept exists SPECIFICALLY TO AVOID POPULATION BEING A FACTOR.
If there's one particle in the volume, but it has high energy, then the average energy of the particles in that volume is quite high!
Your definition again doesn'tr work, because if it did, denser objects would always count as being "hotter" than less-dense objects. A big, warm summer stormcloud in tropical weather, vs handheld lead sphere at room temperature.
Which is warmer? The stormcloud, but if you measure by area, you'll get more total energy from the lead ball, because it has more density.
The only sensible metric is average energy per particle. And by that metric, SPACE IS NOT COLD.
Readers added context they thought you should know:
Firstly, spacetime is four-dimensional.
Secondly, average energy per particle would not work as a metric, because if a hypothetical place existed with several thousand cold particles and one very, very warm particle, that would make the mean temperature higher than it should be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)
that would make the mean temperature higher than it should be
For a very brief time, yes, that's how physics works! That particle would eventually, via collisions with other particles, diffuse it's energy. This is thermodynamics! You can't just ignore small amounts of high-energy matter, if you could, radiators wouldn't be able to heat up a room!
Readers added context they thought you should know:
If you were to pick a random point in all of space, that point would almost certainly not have a particle in it, and therefore have zero energy.
Thank you @community-notes-official and everyone who got me to 100 reblogs!
(Of all the things to hit this milestone! 😂)
