First, lets acknowledge the dialogue was painful. Shouting character names should not be dialogue unless its a romance, or very rarely. This show suffered from overload of "Mae" and "Osha" and a smattering of others.
The action was amazing. And the acting and cinematography was a mix of ok and bad.
Highlights - Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) as a Jedi!
Manny Jacinto as an early Sith. Wow
Witches of Dathomir - interesting, curious, but not spectacular. Amuxing for sure.
Problems - Many, lets look at a few.
Amandla Stenberg as Osha and Mae, twins. There were a lot of problems here, but to summarize - the tension and arc were not very interesting, and there was no logical payoff at the end.
I like the Meka-Nek idea and Mae's mission to be turned dark, but I feel like they were positionee as essential to the story & then unresolved.
The little bodiless droid (a first) was mind-wiped without even a tear.
Flips Star Wars genre on its head - don't know if they broke canon, but they definitely ignored some accepted Star Wars premises:
Jesi Sol was messed up and did things that should've had him booted from the Jedi. He wasn't booted, tho, and as a result a lot of people were killed. Sol was sort of the bad guy.
Manny's 'the Stranger' was great at killing herds of Jedi with his weird helmet -- hopefully the helmets will get more explanation in future as helpful vs Jedi -- but couldn't kill Sol.
Why not? Didn't make sense to me.
Osha flipping to Dark - how could she not? Sol's betrayal would be enough to infuriate anyone, no? Destroying her family, separating her from her sister, etc.
The force-choke death was a cool end, but didn't think would work on a Jedi, tho.
Loved the light saber color change, had no idea the alignment affected the color. Cute.
And then there was the Leader Green Jedi with strange makeup, Vernestra Rwoh, played by Rebecca Henderson. She reports to Yoda, she's handling & misrepresenting Jedi intrigues, and literally shows that Jedi can't be trusted. That was the final flip for me.
Summary - I enjoyed the show, but I dunno -- I feel like Acolyte didnt exactly understand what it was doing.
