Lost/Found

Ep 1 attempts to set the stage for a new Star Wars adventure, but it feels more like a stumbling first step than a grand beginning. The narrative pace is sluggish, making it difficult to stay engaged. The characters, though diverse, come across as flat and unmemorable, lacking the depth one would expect from a Star Wars series. The visuals, while impressive, can't compensate for the underwhelming storyline and wooden dialogue. It's as if the creators were more focused on ticking boxes than delivering a truly compelling tale. Perhaps the series will find its footing in later episodes, but this debut is more of a misstep than a triumph.

I saw it in the theater on the big screen and with amazing sound surrounded by other Star Wars fans. It was boring. I was bored.

It was an obvious set up that made me feel really disappointed. I didn't care about any of the characters. It really feels like fanfic writing.

The cold open have me hope, but the interesting cold open just makes you feel manipulated. If the big screen can't save it, I don't know what to tell you about seeing it on an average 70 inch tv.

The writing was below what Star Wars fans expect. The story was thin and at 8 episodes is nothing more than the tv version of a short story.

Very much enjoyed the first episode, the action is well choreographed, sort of reminds me of the matrix and it does well to create intrigue with mystery and many different points of view. It does leave me unsure at this point in time what the necessity of this show will be, what it wants to tell us that we haven't discovered through previous projects, but I imagine in time we will find that out.

Lee Jung-jae fits so perfectly into this universe and his line delivery has you hanging to his every word. You can feel Master Sol's regret and sympathy for Osha and whatever the situation was and it will be interesting to see exactly what those details are. Yord comes across as a bit of a people pleaser, desperate for approval at the moment, I'll be curious to see more to better understand him and also his connection to Osha which so far we only know they had from their first on screen interaction.

The beautiful thing about The Mandalorian and Andor was the discovery. "Here's a character, watch what they do, and you'll figure out the rest as you go along." They left us almost constantly in suspense, wondering what was going to happen next. What's this person's goal? Why are they doing this? What's their next move? The first episode of The Acolyte has decided to do away with all of that.

Right off the bat there's text on the screen explaining exactly when in the Star Wars timeline we are, and the plot is immediately laid out. What follows are 40mins of unsurprising, wildly cliché events with dull, obvious characters that are trying so heavy-handedly to make you feel something they alienate the audience completely. Sorry writers, but giving me less than 5mins to wonder why someone dislikes fire before flat-out telling me is super boring.

The episode's dull writing can't be saved by the mediocre acting, and it leaves me feeling disappointed that a project that could have been so promising and so interesting is off to such a soulless start.

Episode was prettig okay. I know people who already saw the whole series and the most of them liked it. It is simply a nice story during the High Republic era of the Jedi, nothing more and nothing less. It will let you see the purpose of the Jedi and what they did during the many years of peace.

I am getting fed up with all the so called Star Wars fans who think they have the right to burn down every Star Wars movie and series and only think the first 3 movies are the holy grail. Some actually ventilate their opinion as they are talking on behalf of all "so called real" Star Wars fans. Well, I just want to say, speak for yourself. I like most of the series and movies, also the ones created by Disney. And I am a Star Wars fan since the first movie back in the seventies.

Give this series a chance and you will see it is pretty okay. A nice story in the Star Wars Universe. I want more of this!!