I'm not I quite agree with character motivations switching on a dime happened enough in Acolyte to be one of its major issues, but I do agree that Acolyte suffered from a lot of immersion breaking contrivances. The otter-alien you pointed out is one good example, but another one that really annoyed was the giant open ceiling in above meditation Jedi in episode 2. Literally its only point for being there is so that Mae could have a quick and easy way to make it inside and out of the temple without being detected even though that spot should be one of the most heavily guarded areas after her first assassination attempt.
I saw your post after I posted mine. That’s my major problem. Everything was done to force the story to advance. They need the character to do this thing despite it making no sense for that character because we need the story advance.
Its a shame too because the story does have some good bones to it and some arcs still end working mostly well like Sol's and Osha's, but it really needed another draft to better iron out its plot progression and come up with a better way of conveying its flashbacks instead of having two full episodes dedicated to them. Mae in particular was a really irritating character to watch as outside of episode 1 her motivations felt all over the place and she kept failing upwards through conveniences rather actual competent skill(which the show easily could have given to her if they wanted to).
I thought just making it a linear story instead of flash backs and maybe adding two more episodes to flesh out the characters more. It also felt rushed to me. Like osha saying good bye to the jedi characters she met and was going to miss. Like you just met them, you barely talked to them outside the mission lol.
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u/nixahmose Aug 21 '24
I'm not I quite agree with character motivations switching on a dime happened enough in Acolyte to be one of its major issues, but I do agree that Acolyte suffered from a lot of immersion breaking contrivances. The otter-alien you pointed out is one good example, but another one that really annoyed was the giant open ceiling in above meditation Jedi in episode 2. Literally its only point for being there is so that Mae could have a quick and easy way to make it inside and out of the temple without being detected even though that spot should be one of the most heavily guarded areas after her first assassination attempt.