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The Acolyte's latest episode felt like obvious filler. Despite being very short, it felt extremely slow and boring. There were too many scenes of ships taking off and landing, wasting irrelevant time that could have been better spent on advancing the plot or developing the characters. The dialogue was abundant yet contributed nothing meaningful to the story, making it feel like the writers were simply trying to fill the runtime. The episode was riddled with problems related to distance and travel times, which made the pacing feel inconsistent and disjointed.

Once again, a character's sudden change of heart came out of nowhere, feeling rushed and nonsensical. This change lacked proper buildup and context, making it hard to believe and undermining the character's development. The ending was entirely predictable, failing to deliver any real surprises or emotional impact. After all the filler, there was just one interesting minute before the episode ended, leaving viewers feeling unsatisfied and disappointed.

Overall, this episode did little to advance the overarching narrative and felt like a missed opportunity. The potential for engaging storytelling was overshadowed by poor pacing and irrelevant scenes. Hopefully, future episodes will address these issues and bring the series back on track.

Explain to me how a TV episode that has a budget of 22.5M, has a runtime of 26 minutes actual content (32 length, 1.5Min repetition into and a 4 Minute credits ).

So far we learn that director her wife is the strong leader (its so cringe). Why are we not surprised by a bit of nepotism.

We enjoy leisurely walks and i do not mean Alucard walks, i mean the boring kind ... from that 26 Minutes, about half is walking, and walking and walking...

A surprise plot twist that again, makes no sense (its in the trailers so its not a spoiler!). How did the baddy get there, why did the baddy perform Mai her tasks, why does it all make no sense.

When your seeing a movie like Invasion USA that is just a bad movie but made on a 6Million budget (22.5 Million today with inflation) actually has more action, actors, tons of explosions, and has a more interesting story despite it being a rubbish story/movie. And yet, that movie last almost 2 hours with shorter intro / credits! O and more famous (at the time) actors so bigger pay. Where does the money go in this series???

There is really something wrong with the whole dialog. Even 4 episodes in, the dialog is wooden.

The characters act out of sequence, like actions are taken that make no sense for any timeline. Like they needed filler material (see blaster scene), to pad the episode even more.

The plot convinces are just bad and again make no sense.

The whole episode can be characterized as: Somebody gets a asschewing from strong nepotism director wife, they traveled, walk, walk, walk, add minor BAD CGI action, "bad" person made a turn around that is again out of character from episode 3 (and 2, 1)), and they "fight" (see series trailer). Technically, see the trailer of the series and what you saw in 2 scenes is this entire episode!!!

22.5 Million??? On what, catering?

Half way into the series and there is still very little to truly grip you. While some of the performances are captivating, locales and effects sometimes inspiring and the show has its moments of brilliance, mainly in the action department, it is all drowned in slow pacing, amateurish script, baffling camera choices and unfocused dialogue. Overall I feel disappointment, mainly because it is a breath of fresh air into an old saga and some of the actors seem like they could do so much more given the chance. The show feels rushed, dull and without any tension. It is a shame, because I just feel the potential. I would love a new take on this era, with the same actors and stronger production, but unless something dramatically changes in the second half of this show, I am afraid that this is what we are going to get.

This is a spoiler-free review.

I read all the user reviews before writing this, and I'm confounded by how many people will write a review where the most complementary thing they say is, "well, at least it wasn't entirely terrible for the entire episode"... and then they'll give it an 8/10.

Some of you are being far too generous with your scores, simply because you want to believe that the show will get better and/or because this episode wasn't as terrible as the previous episode (which would be pretty hard to accomplish, honestly).

The only reason I didn't give this episode a 1/10 is because the final scene was kind of cool. Will I continue watching this show? Probably. It's like watching a car crash- you can't look away, even if you want to.

This episode spends the time to retread the exact scene the last one ended on without any real significance.

The episode continues to feel more Star Trek like based on acting and script. Trite conversations that are uncharacteristic of Star Wars. I can only think this is because the desired audience is 12-15 years old. Which then means the show is excellently made as it is on par with other Disney and Nickelodeon shows.

The real standout acting wise is the fumbling helper for Mae. Which is probably the Sith Lord in disguise...yoda style. And those two characters are the only ones that are entertaining.

The ending was pretty cool but again was a whole episode leading up to almost nothing. Then a trailer defect reel starts and then stops dead in its tracks.

28 min show, 5 min credits.....Im thinking this is another whimsical Filoni episode of "what if", but ultimately leads nowhere like ahsoka or BoBF.