The thing about “always two” is that it’s an adversarial relationship. The goal of the apprentice is to replace the master. The goal of the master is to replace the apprentice.

Look at Anakin, Palpatine takes an interest in him early on. He begins to shape him, give him ideas, gain his trust, all while having Dooku as his apprentice. Once Dooku is useless he tells Anakin to kill him (Dew it!).

Dooku in that moment is shocked. What makes Palpatine the Master is that he was able to convince Dooku that he was the apprentice. Sure that may have been true at one point, but Dooku should have seen this moment coming. Especially since he replaced Maul.

One of the big things Maul comes to understand during the Clone Wars is that he is just a piece, a pawn. He may have been a Sith Lord, a Darth Maul, but he was never even close to becoming a Sith Master. We even see this play out with Savage. Maul thinks he can be a Master, he and Savage take on Palpatine and get destroyed.

Also look at Luke. Both Palpatine and Vader know about him (as of ROTJ). Both want to recruit him. If he could be brought to the dark side, then what? Vader says they could rule the galaxy as father and son. Maybe that means challenging Palpatine, someday. And Palpatine? That’s a free new apprentice he gets to test out. And as we see in ROTJ he essentially does to Vader what he did to Dooku, his new apprentice is about to replace his old one.

Looks like a lighthearted space adventure, could be fun just to explore the galaxy.

However, that excitement soon faded. “HR said they wanted fresh ideas from young people, but that was not really happening,” he says.

His marketing manager, 13 years his senior, often found his content unclear or unconventional.

In the first two weeks, each 300-word post required over five rounds of revisions. Eventually, all his original ideas ended up being altered.

Hire someone for a creative job. Committee the creativity to death. Wonder why employee is unhappy.

I’m not saying you have to give your employee free reign but you hired someone and then ignored them, maybe the company is wrong.

Perhaps even funnier, this year marks the 25th anniversary of The West Wing. The reason I know that is a new West Wing YouTube celebrating the anniversary just appeared and starting posting videos of the highlights.

If you visit this channel and look at the top video, you find the exact video he plagiarized the speech from. https://youtu.be/sZ_Q-3AhoAs

So this wasn’t a speech he likely remembered and plagiarized, this is likely just a helpful YouTube recommendation.

Lol, ok technically you’re right they were the same person, but unless they intended to force merge them at some point I think different actors would have been fine.

Sure, but it had other messages too. I’m not sure Acolyte had the one.

I do agree they were hard to tell apart. Twins is a cool idea, and their similar appearance could be explained as the force guiding them. However I think fraternal twins might have been better in this situation.

Actually ignoring the ragebait is easy. It exists for everything. The problem is when a TV show/film is weak. It makes the ragebait easy because now they are “right”. The issue with the show has nothing to do with it having a black female lead. The story just wasn’t that good. The story is still not that good if she were a white dude. It’s not end of the world terrible, just mediocre.

Anyway, back to my point. Shitty people have shitty opinions, it’s not worth listening to. OMG did you hear what the bigot said? No, was it shitty? It was? I’m not surprised. Stop giving them attention.

He could have explained it still and it would have been fine if Osha just doesn’t accept it, but you should at least get the truth out there & make sure your communication is clear.

In fact having her deny it may have been more interesting. Have it clearly show how revenge or hate were clouding her mind from logic and understanding.

There was a good show in there somewhere, but what we got wasn’t it.

I’m not sure walking away from the season what I was supposed to have learned. It’s ok to kill people sometimes as long as you’re pretty sure they messed up your life?

Mando is about found families and learning to trust.

Andor is about how war/strife changes people.

Obi-wan is about relearning to believe (in yourself/the force) and what’s worth fighting for.

Ahsoka is about students and teachers, how they each can learn from one another.

Even if you disagree with my interpretation, you can at least agree it’s a possible interpretation.

But Acolyte… I just don’t know what I’m supposed to get out of it. The dark side ain’t so bad? Jedi don’t like others using the force?

In terms of dislike Ryan George does a good job, https://youtu.be/PqwEE6G6zaU

But in more detail there are a lot of decisions made by characters that are fun in the moment, but don’t really make sense.

The twins are angry at Sol because he killed their mother, but Sol doesn’t clarify that she was turning into a shadow monster?

Osha was a bad Jedi, fell out of the order, but then switches to dark side real quick and kills Sol.

We have to leave your sister behind and mind wipe her because there is no room in the ship? Also the mind wipe is clearly just a “we need a reason to stretch the story” move and if they had made a season 2 would have been undone quickly.

Why did the beaver man mess with the ship? He stopped Sol, but was also an ally?

I’m sure there are more but in general this show just didn’t really tell a story I’m interested in.

Don’t get me wrong it has some great things I want to know more about. The era of Star Wars is fun to explore and new. Space witches and how they compare (or are?) to the night sisters and their magic/force use. Possessing a Jedi. New Dark side users and origins.

The interesting story to me was/is Qimir, so I hope we can pick that character up again.

Lol, I didn’t watch the video but it’s from a clickbait/spam channel.

They are?

• Filoni & Favreau have Mando/Ahsoka and the related era.

• Andor is Tony Gilroy (newish, new with Rogue One), and Andor is a new approach.

• Obi-wan Kenobi was someone new, but an old concept.

• Acolyte is someone new, but with a new concept.

• I’m not sure the plan with the Rey films, but that is likely someone new. (Although I expect a traditional concept.

I’m happy to have some execs move aside, but I think we’ve got new folks coming in.

The Torbin scene/timeline was confusing.

Sol says he’d like to talk to Torbin.

Sol is taken on a long indirect path to Torbin.

Long enough that Osha can get there first.

The mind trick on the crazy/unstable man was great, just stop babbling nonsense and tell me the truth.

I’m bummed that streaming shows on Disney premiere at “primetime”.

I’d love to watch during lunch or after work but nope… Gotta wait till 9pm (EST)

I know HBO does it but they also have a real TV channel, but also I hate it there too.

I’m a big Dave Filoni fan but I’ve been iffy with the handling of Book of Boba/Mando season 2/Ahsoka.

The darksaber storyline had so much build up but then just sort of fizzled out.

The Mando reunion happened in a different show.

Boba had weird motivation.

Ahsoka was all set up with new questions, but then just swaps character locations and fizzles.

I’m still in, but they need to take a moment.

It’s a 4-part miniseries, although I would expect more if successful.

Darth Jar Jar is alive.

Agreed, the Morgan episodes were too late, her story is over. I do think in a grand sense of the universe these stories are cool, but they needed to come out years ago.