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re: 'The Acolyte' Megathread: The Grand Finale is now streaming

Posted on 7/13/24 at 6:48 pm to
Posted by Corinthians420
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 6:48 pm to
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What traveling along what lines?

If you burned your light socket with a torch, do you think your local power plant is at risk of exploding?

THESE LINES

That looks like a fuse to you?
This post was edited on 7/13/24 at 9:45 pm
Posted by Madking
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 6:51 pm to
Electrical wires burning, causing a giant stone fortress to explode? Hmm…
Posted by Corinthians420
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 6:53 pm to
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Electrical wires burning, causing a giant stone fortress to explode? Hmm…

no they caused this thing to explode

Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 6:54 pm to
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That looks like a fuse to you?
No.

Then why do you think they would carry fire along them?

If you burned your light socket with a torch, do you think your local power plant is at risk of exploding?
Posted by Corinthians420
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 6:56 pm to
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Then why do you think they would carry fire along them?

because we see fire running along a path in the wall




This post was edited on 7/13/24 at 10:34 pm
Posted by Madking
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 7:19 pm to
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Posted by SammyTiger
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 9:19 pm to
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What happened with that, btw?


She had a disastrous reunion with her sister.

Remember they meet and Mae is like “the jedi have poisoned you against me”
or some shite like that.

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Guilty enough to kill themselves.


idk say so. their broke into a coven they knew didn’t trust them and then Sol stabbed the leader. “oh she was turning into a smoke monster” That’s a great point if they hadn’t already broken into their home with no justification.

The Mom I thjnj was trying to transport her and Mae out of that situation. Not her job to warn the home invaders what that might look like.

Sol and Torbin were like Florida Child Services breaking into a house in canada with no court order and stabbing a parent.

Then the rest of the family died in the very reasonable violent aftermath.

They should feel guilty.
Posted by SECSolomonGrundy
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 9:24 pm to
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Sol and Torbin were like Florida Child Services


I think you're dead on with your analogy. And that is perfectly illustrative of the problem.
Posted by SammyTiger
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Posted on 7/13/24 at 9:48 pm to
I get why people have an issue with the characterization of the Order in the show.

I think it is fair to say you just don’t like the jedi not being 100% noble or moral.

I like Jedi but always found the order itself just a mess.

But this is supposed to be the Jedi’s at the peak of their power and who is at their best morally at their peak?

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Posted on 7/14/24 at 7:10 am to
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Remember they meet and Mae is like “the jedi have poisoned you against me”
or some shite like that.

But knowing that, I was turning myself into them. Now I am not, for no real reason.

But that isn't changing on a dime for no reason.

Osha in episode one:

Trusted the Jedi. Refused to escape because she trusts them. 5 minutes later. snow planet. runs from the Jedi

But that isn't changing on a dime for no reason.
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idk say so. their broke into a coven they knew didn’t trust them and then Sol stabbed the leader. “oh she was turning into a smoke monster” That’s a great point if they hadn’t already broken into their home with no justification.

The Mom I thjnj was trying to transport her and Mae out of that situation. Not her job to warn the home invaders what that might look like.

Sol and Torbin were like Florida Child Services breaking into a house in canada with no court order and stabbing a parent.

Then the rest of the family died in the very reasonable violent aftermath.

They should feel guilty.
They should feel guilty for behaving like idiots. . .Sol behaved like a depraved pedo.

Nothing suicide worthy. Just a mission gone cross-eyed due to Jedi incompetence.
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 7:12 am to
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because we see fire running along a path in the wall
So what? Magic?

That's your answer?


If you burned your light socket with a torch, do you think your local power plant is at risk of exploding?
Posted by Crimson K
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 7:50 am to
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The Mom I thjnj was trying to transport her and Mae out of that situation

That may be true. I’d argue that the audience having no clue what she was doing made it less than stellar writing. At the very least it was stupid of her; if the Jedi are really like home invaders as in your analogy ( just pause for a second and realize how bad that is from a SW story perspective), then this was the equivalent of lunging at the person holding a gun on you.

This was the second flashback episode to 5he same events, but it is still unclear what happened. I’ll grant you that Sol should feel bad, but Tommen’s arc is really weak. He may have impetuously gone off to get the girls, but Sol leads him in. Sol does the stabby stabby, Trinity kills the other witches and leads the cover up.
Posted by TideWarrior
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 8:07 am to
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I think it is fair to say you just don’t like the jedi not being 100% noble or moral.



For me it has nothing to do with being noble or moral. The Jedi will and have always done what they believe is in the best interest of the universe. Those actions can always be questioned.

The issue for me though is these Jedi are full of emotion and conflict. Something that until now we have never seen on a large scale.

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But this is supposed to be the Jedi’s at the peak of their power and who is at their best morally at their peak?



Best morally again I disagree with. But at their peak they believe what they are doing is justified and have the authority to do it in the best interest of all. They were not known to struggle with their decisions. It was not really until Anakin that their actions from within were questioned.

The order was a mess because of their arrogance not their doubt. Their arrogance blinded them to the Sith but until this show there was never really doubt in their resolve moral or not.
Posted by nicholastiger
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 9:39 am to
Does anyone care with this last episode or some stupid ending they gonna try and spin
Posted by SammyTiger
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 9:47 am to
Yeah I mean every jedi we’ve focused on has had issues

Qui-gon and Obi-wan ignore everyone’s better judgement because of their attachments to Anakin.

Anakin has all sorts of issues.

Luke shows attachment to his friends and runs off to fight vader. but I dont think that counts because he wasn’t raised in the order.
Posted by Corinthians420
Iowa
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 9:59 am to
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So what? Magic?

That's your answer?


If you burned your light socket with a torch, do you think your local power plant is at risk of exploding?

Somehow in show logic that fire started an electrical current that sent a charge to the thing that blew up. They show sparks traveling the same area as the fire.

Also maybe one of those lines is a something akin to a flammable fuel line that caught on fire and carried fire throughout the facility. A mining facility could need some kind of fuel.

I don't know why you keep asking what would happen if you lit a light socket on fire in real life. What would happen if you gathered a circle of witches and started chanting the power of one, the power of many and held your hand up to a childs head in real life?
This post was edited on 7/14/24 at 11:01 am
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 12:26 pm to

Power decreases the farther down the line it travels, so you would not see greater impact (explosive release) than what you see at the source of the issue (light sparking). Because even conducting materials like wires have resistance. That is why circuits require things like transformers and caps to maintain voltage levels across distance.

You know what? this is my last post to you on the matter. It seems telling you facts is fruitless, as you will bend them or ignore them to "not lose" the point. It is a level of dishonesty I will not tolerate or entertain further.


I am beginning to think that educating you is like trying to explain to a Biden supporter that prosecuting and assassinating political opponents is more of a threat to democracy than a protest at the capital.
Posted by TeddyPadillac
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 12:30 pm to
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Qui-gon and Obi-wan ignore everyone’s better judgement because of their attachments to Anakin.


Attachment to him, or firm belief that he was the prophesied chosen one? There’s a difference.
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 12:31 pm to
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Does anyone care with this last episode or some stupid ending they gonna try and spin
I think they reveal Darth femboi's master as the Zabrak mother.

Then they will make allusions to Plagueis or Bane, trying to hype you for a 2nd season,

We know Femboi is going to live, because Headband said she moved up some of his planned 2nd season shirtlessness, because women on set got moist.
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 7/14/24 at 12:33 pm to
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Attachment to him, or firm belief that he was the prophesied chosen one? There’s a difference.
Well. . .Ben quoted the prophecy when they fought in Mustafar. He didn't say he loved him or anything. He made a small appeal to his friendship, but mainly prophecy and his position as his former master

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