Main cast: Amandla Stenberg (Osha Aniseya, Mae Aniseya), Lee Jung-jae (Master Sol), Lee Jung-jae (Master Sol), Charlie Barnett (Yord Fandar), Dafne Keen (Jecki Lon), Manny Jacinto (Qimir), and Joonas Suotamo (Master Kelnacca)
Director: Alex Garcia Lopez
Night continues from, duh, Day, with more pew-pew and fighting designed for kids, I guess, or just for plot reasons.
For example, Osha doesn’t try to kill anyone even to save Master Sol in what seems like a critical moment, because this is classic infantile lawful stupid morality for kids, similar to how the Batman always send the same criminals to prison over and over, even when he knows that those criminals will just break out before the week is out to continue wrecking more havoc.
It’s a filler episode riddled with eye-rolling deliberately cryptic scenes, such as Master Sol telling Osha not to trust him but never explaining the reason. Such scenes are amateur mystery meat writing in display, designed in such a contrived manner to string viewers along. That or the screenwriters are channeling their inner vaguebook social media posting tendencies, believing that this is how actual folks communicate on a daily basis.
Oh, and it looks like Qimir’s lightsaber is going to find its way into Osha’s possession, if you know what I mean. Then again, maybe he thinks she is Mae, or maybe not. Who cares.
Meanwhile, the whole thing continues to look so cheap, making me wonder once again whether this show is just a front of Lucasfilm’s latest money laundering front. I really can’t get over how much each episode is said to cost, when each episode continues to look like it’s part of a fan-made mini-series made on a super tight budget.
Wait, maybe I shouldn’t have said “fan-made”, when it’s clear that nearly everyone involved in this show has contempt for Star Wars that they don’t even bother to conceal. The Acolyte continues to chug along as a mountain-sized turd defecated by barely capable diversity hires that are genuinely convinced that this turd doesn’t stink.
Anyway, here’s one more episode down for this really ineptly executed series, so that’s a weekly cause for celebration until this turd is permanently done and gone. In a way, it’s a damn shame, because I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: there is a potentially entertaining and even charming young adult fantasy show bubbling just underneath the whole excretable display of ineptitude, hubris, and unearned sense of entitlement that is this cringe-mode show.
