Welcome back to the blog readers. I do have to admit that The Acolyte has not been the best show, and the quality of the show has been dipping in my opinion. Last episode was the straw that broke the camel's back for me, and I am left to now hope for a good episode. With my hope dwindling, and my patience running thin, would this episode, titled "Night," written by Kor Adana and Cameron Squires, and directed by Alex Garcia Lopez, put us on the right track or completely doom us? Stick around to find out.
NOTE: I will be using spolers for my thoughts, so DO NOT read ahead if you have not seen the episode.
Last week's episode was kind of a painful watch. The script was all over the place, the story was mind-numbingly bad, and the decision for Mae to abandon her quest was dumb as shit. Now I am going to break this review into two parts: what I liked about this episode, and what I did not. I want to do this because this episode is a mixed bag for me. There is one thing that I loved more than anything, and things that were just as bad as last week's episode.
The one thing about this episode that I absolutely loved was the lightsaber action, and just the action in general. Now don't get me wrong here; the action in this episode is absolutely nowhere near the quality of John Wick, but I did not need it to be at all. I needed the action to be engaging enough and compelling enough to keep me invested, and I believe that is what I got. It was fast, fluent, gorgeous as all hell, and masterfully done, all to the minute details. I want to point out the fight between Qimir and Sol, and his fight against Jecki. Those two fights were electric and made me feel like the saber action was a bigger deal than it was. Now I have a very high bar for the action in this series, and I hope the final three episodes can meet that bar. Just no cutting in between fights, that shit took me out of it.
Unfortunately, that is where the episode's positives end in my eyes. I want to talk about Mae and her ass-backward motivations in this episode and the last Last week, she told Qimir that nothing mattered anymore now that her sister was alive and wanted to turn herself in to the Jedi. Now that the Sith master, conveniently revealed to be Qimir, is hunting the Jedi and looking to end them, and when a Jedi actually tries to arrest Mae for killing Masters Indara and Torbin, you mean to tell me that her first instinct is to evade arrest and kill the Jedi? Who, if anyone, was she trying to fake out or lie to? Please someone make this make sense. And then she wants to convince her sister to go bad and join her, and stuns her and replaces her because she won't? These writers need to be demoted to Days of our Lives (1965-) or something.
I did just think of one more positive in this episode, and it conveniently is the positive of every episode thus far. That is Lee Jung-jae. This fucking guy has been a revelation to me in this series. Every scene he is in and every line of dialog he has is just so compelling to me. He really knows how to hit all the emotional beats in an episode, although his ending in this episode was kind of baffling to me. I really hope that we get some closure in these next few episodes as to what darkness Master Sol has been hiding from Osha. And I hope we can get it soon, because I am starting to run out of patience.
While this episode was a slight improvement over last week's, The Acolyte is still missing the things that make it a good show. Thank you all for reading, and I will see you for the next post.
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