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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.

After a disastrous third episode. The fourth episode needed a lot of work to do pull the Acolyte television show out of the abyss.

Unfortunately it fails. This is simply a filler episode and not a very good one. The acting is terrible and the script is only slightly better.

Master Sol wonders which Jedi trained Mae. She has a Master who must have extraordinary powers, Mae has killed two Jedis.

Osha is asked to be of assistance for the search for her sister. They need to get to Kelnacca, the Wookiee Jedi Master who might be in danger.

The forest scenes were a tad exciting, only at the end when someone wielded a lightsaber. I just got a feeling by this point. The Acolyte should had been a television movie with better actors.

Another shrinkflation episode of barley thirty minutes. They walk around and mumble. The supposed 'clever assassin' (according to the episode description in the app) is unable to walk in the woods without looking where she is going and trips up.

Disney are taking our money and popping down the local garden centre to buy some potted ferns and passing this off as a new planet shot on a school stage. Sorry, 'new world'.

The storyline of this episode? It's a filler, laced with script and acting matching Joey smelling a fart.

I'll be there for the next episode as I smash my head at the TV. Hoping, yet again, that something will happen. But alas after doom scrolling somewhere I'll be unable to remember what happened.

I will sit and wait for Andor.

Again, the first several seconds of video are always fantastic, each episode has featured really great opening shots. But then... forests that look like they're from the old Ewok movies. The makeup and costumes are horrific. The aliens are comical.

Dialogue is atrocious. Acting is overwhelmingly flat, to the point where you wonder if the actors knew the show would be this bad and are just phoning it in.

The writing is what really sets this series apart in terms of it being bad. The characters will say something to the effect of "I like X" and then 5 seconds later say "I must destroy X". It just makes no sense. And it happens in this show ALL. THE. TIME. Also things happen that defy logic, like where a character would have to be in two places at once for what's on screen to take place. The final draft must have been written in crayon.

They got a lot of the screen wipes and musical interludes right. The music is better than in Ep3.

Ugh, what a waste of time.

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.