Trailer for "Star Wars: The Acolyte"

[jlw]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/05/04/trailer-for-star-wars-the-acolyte.html

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[Otherbrother]

@jlw

Set around 100 years before the Skywalker’s story, this series seems to set up all the problems with the Jedi in general.

Apparently they’ve always really sucked at knowing when Sith are around, not just in that one movie.

Ki-Adi-Mundi: Impossible! The Sith are extinct! They have been for nearly a millennium.
Mace Windu: I agree. The Sith would not have returned without us sensing it.

[snigs]

Maybe every generation, the most powerful Sith breezes into the Jedi academy, gestures and says “The Sith have been extinct for a millennium”, the Jedi agree "the Sith have been extinct for a millennium ", the Sith points out that they never saw him, the Jedi again agree and the Sith is on his merry way.

[Brainspore]

@jlw

this series seems to set up all the problems with the Jedi in general

The most obvious problem with the Jedi wasn’t their classism or their incredible hubris, it was the whole “literal cult that uses children and slave armies to fight wars” thing.

[PartTimeZombie]

My most obvious problem with the Jedi is their incredibly humourless portentousness.

[smulder]

Cheddar Monks should’ve stuck to making cheese

Monastery Cheeses

[gatto]

traditionally, i think “acolytes” only light candles ( and carry wine. maybe. )

i guess that would be a cool, yet so far unseen, force power: to light candles with your brain rays. maybe it’s a sith thing. though honestly, i can’t imagine them sitting through sermon

[Surprise_Puma]

Manifesting wine would be a pretty cool Jedi power. And opens the door to Jesus with a lightsaber.