The Acolyte Has INCREDIBLE Story Beats. It Has INCREDIBLY Intriguing Themes That Deserve Thorough Exploration

the acolyte has INCREDIBLE story beats. it has INCREDIBLY intriguing themes that deserve thorough exploration and discussion. the characters introduced have INCREDIBLE roots to be some of the coolest, most complex characters in star wars.

and yet it just fell short of all its potential to me. it has all the ingredients of a fantastic show, with a lackluster end result. i was told everything and felt nothing. where's the depth. where's the connection. where's the FLAVOR.

Omw to rewrite the whole thing before Qimir shows up because Leslye what have you done-

the problem is. the concepts in this show are good in theory. but the path taken to the end result is just the dumbest most clunkily-written stuff i've ever seen. girl please go back to writing 101

The Acolyte: Spoilers

That's all I'm gonna say about that final ep, for now because I am grieving and way too salty about what happened and genuinely baffled by Leslye, and not in a good way. I hope it was "worth-it" to get your enemies-to-lovers thingy after all that happened.

Me after watching episode 4

Probably the biggest problem with The Acolyte is what really bit it in the ass in the finale--its main characters did things because of the plot, not because they were organically built up or made sense. I could mostly overlook it in previous episodes because it felt like there was still more time to reveal the characters' motivations, but now that we're at the end, there's just so little throughline for either of the twins' characterizations. Mae makes the most sense, you get why she was so angry, she always wanted Osha to stay with her, of course she'd drop everything when Osha was alive, but then suddenly she's just completely okay with Qimir erasing her memories of Osha? Of giving up that relationship that drove her the entire time--and Qimir says this was permanent, I doubt Mae had reason to think otherwise--in half a second flat, not just physically separating her from Osha, but erasing her entire relationship with her?? And Osha makes even less sense, we all joke that about how hot Manny Jacinto is and how he ~seduced her to the dark side, but honestly her motivations just seemed utterly gone in the previous episode, she's 100% ready to drop everything she believed in and go with him just because? And up to this point she's barely shown any interest in her connection to Mae, it's all "tell not show" that Osha cared about her, we're told that it was her biggest wound, we're told that she felt that connection, but we don't really see it until suddenly she's running away with Mae because apparently all along she felt that pull towards her? Intellectually, there are reasons given in the show, but I didn't feel any of them, it was more "Osha behaves this way because the plot needs her to behave this way." It's the same reason Sol can't say, "It really looked like your mother was going to kill you when she started Force-dissolving you, so I reacted without realizing what she was doing." because if he's allowed to explain, then the plot falls apart. The plot demands that he half-ass his explanation rather than because that felt natural to Sol's character. Things happen because the characters need to get from point A to point B, so point C can happen, rather than because the characters felt like they would actually do that. And it's worse because these are your main characters, the entire plot of the show is set around them.

"Of Blood and Bone" Update 2:

Okay so hi peeps!! So I have decided that this Witcher AU fic for the Acolyte characters will have 2 endings.

One for Oshecki (Osha/Jecki), and one for Yorsha (Yord/Osha).

Once we reach this part of the fic, the end, there will be 2 chapters.

Basically you'll be able to take your pick! Also, before some get their gears going, no, there won't be Oshamir/Oshimir (Osha/Qimir) in this one. There is no need to comment, request and all, I just cannot stand this ship. This is visceral, it just makes me want to throw up, like genuine disgust.

For the chapters containing violence, blood and all, I'll update the tags, ratings and all and put notes before each chapter so you can skip if you want/or not!

So you can read the first chapter here:

And you can get access to the playlist here (if you want to get in the mood to read it!):