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So without further ado, we're gonna be talking about the Stars Acolyte trailer
here. But I just want to get your thoughts Kirkling on this on the
show and general on this trailer overall, and you can touch upon like the
previous teaser that we got as well. Mm hmm. Yeah. My hype
levels for the show are I feel like they're they're pretty, They're higher,
They're higher. After seeing this trailer, for sure, I feel like there
were someone in the middle, like just kind of mediocre. It's a month
away now, I think it's is it June fifth, It's like just started
just a month away, so something like that June fourth or fifth. So
yeah, I'm I'm getting more excited, especially after seeing a trailer like this.
I think that this trailer was a step up from the first one.
I think maybe I also feel that way because that first Teezer, I think
I just had super super high expectations and then what I saw it wasn't bad.
It just wasn't as crazy and as wild and exciting as maybe I was
hoping for it. I still think there is really exciting things in here,
Like the whole idea of you know, a Jedi died last night, there's
someone hunting jedis like fuck yeah, fuck yeah when I hear that, like,
let's let's do it. I love that story. So I thought.
I thought some of the action sequences in here were sweet. I like the
the antagonists is looking pretty deadly. So yeah, I think there's lots in
here that definitely getting me excited. But I'm nowhere. I'm nowhere near like
ten out of ten hype level. I feel like I'm maybe like, after
seeing this, like seven and a half, seven and a half out of
ten on the hype scale, not super super high. Yeah, I don't
know, that's just I guess that is what it is. I think I
would have been seven out of ten if it weren't for the Tales of the
Empire that also increased my hype slightly. That's fair. My hype is through
the roof on this. Oh I cannot wait. I am so ecstatic for
this show. Uh. Just the fact that we're outside of the normal time
period of Star Wars as well, getting the end of the Higher Public is
going to be wonderful to explore that live action and getting a plethora of Jedi.
I've been craving this for so long. We're going to get just that
different style and mind of Jedi as well, which I really really appreciate.
I really really like. I think that the the idea of what we've seen
Jedi being in the original trilogy, just with Yoda, Obi Wan and Luke,
It's it's it's a fallen and redeemed vibe of Jedi. It's a very
different type. But then when we get the sequel trilogy again, it's it's
just a very isolated and and not really coping, but more so like an
enduring type of Jedi mindset. And then you have the prequel trilogy where it's
just episode one, it's it's one type of just kind of I feel like
like a blind type of Jedi. You could say it's just not obliviousness,
but there's just something there because they're not the same Jedi that we're going to
see in this show. They're so they're disconnected by like one hundred years of
time, and there's just something that is different here. And then these are
the same Jedi that I've turned into Generals of the Galactic Republic, the Mighty
Army of the Glac Republic. It's just such a transition. So to see
these characters and just to get them talking a little bit, and this trailer
really got me excited just to expand upon that and getting to see a little
bit more of the storyline that's going to unfold here. Because Travis reminded me
that we're gonna be dealing with this this actress who's playing two characters there twins.
One is a dark Side user and one is this light Side Jedi formerly
Jedi character. So it'll be interesting to see how that's gonna unfold and exactly
how and what we're gonna have connected here in regards to the Sith, if
we're going to see plague us, because that was my question to try and
Travis is saying, I'm kind of speaking on behalf of him here. He's
saying, well, maybe this was like a follow apprentice of play a guest
or something like that, and then that's what she's branched off on her own
and trying to bring her sister into the fold now and to join her.
There's a lot of different potential storylines here that really get me excited. But
at its core, this trailer emped me up so so far up into the
sky and the villains reveal gave me mouth of sourn vibes very nol. Like
the helmet, just it's not a helmet that I like. I don't.
I wouldn't cosplay as it. I don't think I would ever want to like
dress up as this character. But just like seeing it from a distance.
I fucking love it. I love the design, I love the look look
at the character. It looks terrifying. So I cannot wait and I can't
wait to see how this is going to expand the story a little bit.
So yeah, absolutely, I see you bought, bought, brought the trailer.
Oh I brought it with me. You beat me to it? Oh
yeah, A nice try. Maybe next year. Oh so we're gonna coast
the trailer and coast through with us right now if you want. We're at
the good old zero colon zero one. That's the audio for you. Oh
yoh is good. That's the first scene where we see her actually use the
force, because we saw her in the first first Rice teaser, but here
she's using it. So it's such a sweet sequence too. M hm.
Grabs your little knighte like it leaves out book a Boba Fett leaves out obi
Wan. Yeah, it does. Interesting. It'ska and Or and just the
men hop off shows. Yeah, this is cool because again this is this
is Jedi temple. Looks very it looks very different kind of too from what
we've seen. Different era for sure. Hey m hm, Just like the
overall infrastructure of just the surrounding buildings and everything. It just seems like it's
it's funny. It doesn't seem like old timey, but like it kind of
does in comparison to just like the prequel era. I guess of like highlating
it, but yeah, always great to see. Its great. Yeah,
the Jedi Jedi beauty scenery that was my questionable character is a lie. Oh
beautiful. She is your I'm really excited for some of this fight choreography.
She just like doing these agile flips and stuff. I'm hoping for some badass
sequences. Yeah, and that's a beautiful shot you just paused on, just
the destroyed lightsabers sticking around. That's gorgeous. So the story that they're kind
of exploring here, yeah, right there, she was my student. So
the idea here you have this Jedi master who's feeling compromised obviously, and they're
going to go and try and find their former apprentice. This is such an
entice storyline. Oh yeah, It's kind of like if if the whole Republic
didn't fall and Anakin had turned to the dark side down the last and Obi
Wan still was with the Republic and still is with the Jedi, and the
Jedi were alive and he ventured out to go and figure out like bring Anakin
back. But this is obviously just a different storyline. In comparison to that,
the Mastered Apprentice dynamic is such a rich one that's so oh yeah,
wonderful to explore. Oh yeah, nothing, nothing beats too, that's for
sure. I'm gonna I'm gonna make my prediction right now. I want to
say, this guy gets fucking killed this this season. I don't think he's
making it out. Uh yeah, I don't know necessarily by her, but
I'm gonna say zero percent chance he makes it through. That's my early predict
hero chance, I'll go, I'll go, there's a twenty five percent chance
he uh he lives, Okay, so pretty high chance he dies as well.
For you, I think so, I think you can get the similar
situation to Qui Gon and Obi Wan. I think you have just the the
dynamic there where Qui Gon dies and Obi Wan just continues and moves up in
the Jedi ranks. And here you're gonna have he dies and she's just like
fuck the Jedi and just falls to the dark side. It's the opposite effect
up in obi Wan. He also gets chopped in half though, yeah by
student. I trained her. Let me be the one to bring out ad
lots of good fight stuff. That was a full ship design. Yeah,
I don't know if I've seen one like that before in the Star Wars universe.
No, we're just breaks in half like that. I've never seen it
before. Well, actually, like we've seen the like the little attachments that
I remember. It happens. I think in episode two perhaps where obi Wan
is like going to check out the comino ins and yeah, could be something
similar note fair Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a fair point. Actually
knew what it was right away. Yeah, a larger plant. Oh,
I don't Yeah, to tip the scales is that? I mean the way
the helmet looks and everything's lined. Yeah, I feel like this is absolutely
uh the bad guy would see at the end of the trailer. Oh yeah,
the fucking mouth mouth. Unless you think it's someone different, I have
no idea. No, I don't know. The looks like some horns up
there. Could be as a brock perhaps, but yeah, exactly, it's
probably who you said the chap at the end. Okay, June fourth,
it's time. I like the little crystal she had on her neck. I
didn't see it. Was it a kind of crystal or was it a vial?
It looks like a violet. It's like the ooze from Ninja Turtles.
But I mean, who knows what is in there? Really, no one
is saying not even true. Destiny is not decided for you by an anonymous
force. If you want to pull the thread can change everything. Like that's
fucking terrifying those two. Yeah, just like the I would love it if
we got like everything is all quiet and it's it's the dark scene here and
yeah, it's just the fucking eerie. Oh what is it? What is
it? The insidious violin? Like yeah, which they kind of have it
a little bit here. He's just Yeah, I was gonna emphasize the music
here. It totally is is like a sinister type just like disturbing, high
pitched something. Mm hmm. That really is looks like the zipper just fell
off of his face, like he can't zip his mouth closed. Yeah,
he lost he lost the zipper time even just like the fucking pun shot like
Jay that's terrifying from the Smile movie. Yeah, honestly looks like it's it's
cool. This is a good shot that you froze on because you can see
distinct lines kind of going down the sides, and then obviously you see where
the visor is where this character can look through. Yeah, it's it's every
All these characters have their helmets, Kylo Wren, Darth Vader, all these
characters, even says Acolytes from the the Old Republic online games. Just it's
it's a very thing, reven To and Malick, all these characters. So
this is no different, but this it's unique how they make them so to
marry to customary, customized to these characters, and just terrifying, very terrifying.
Yeah, I'm convinced this is the the chap that we saw earlier,
the silhouette, just just from this comparison. Mm hmm. What what saberstance
was that? Can you recognize it? The saberstance? Your saberstances, the
fucking hate Jedi stances. I don't know my stances. A bad guy's stance,
I do not know. I know the Obie one one where he does
like his his fingers like, yes, I know, the Douku the Douku
blade style it's like curve slightly mm hmmm. So what what what do you
think going through there one last time? Yeah, I think it's uh,
I think it's a good trailer. I think it actually having like another Kylo
Ren like just mask type character to have on there is super exciting. I
feel like there's it's one thing to have a terrifying design on a character which
we have already here, but also just I think it's so much scarier also
just not knowing like who is behind the mask and like not knowing their voice
or anything. Like, it's just it's it feels more sinister than the knowing
of like an Anakin behind the Darth Vader mask for example, in my opinion.
So I am excited to see kind of what I guess what that identity
of that character is or maybe so just a little bit more backstory on it.
And yeah, just even like our our main Accolyte type character like that
assassin check, Like, I'm excited to just visit some of that and I'm
hoping that they really do a good job at really putting emphasis on the master
apprentice aspect, like amongst our our Jedi character that's trying to find this Indivi
that's hunting down Jedi, Like I want to feel some like some heart strings
being pulled when they interact, Like I feel like there is something super special
about like that bond that like an apprentice and a master would have, and
I think that if they aren't able to really show that or emphasize that,
I think I'm going to be seeing the show a lot lesser. So yeah,
I hope they pull through with that. But no, I thought this
was really really good and great score with it. All of the action looked
really good, all the light tabers and everything. So yeah, I'm really
looking forward to this now. I think I just went up half a point
actually on my hypescale with I love that. Ah, yeah, I can
agree more. Again, like I said earlier, this show is definitely just
top tier for me. I cannot wait, very very stoked for it,
and I think that everything that they're doing here hopefully is just slopped properly when
the show comes out and that they don't fumble it. I think the start,
the start of the show's could be really really strong, but it's always
the final and the ending that kind of makes me worry. So hopefully my
worries will not be of any concern one this releases and it's it's shocking that
we're finally here, the show is here, because I remember at that what
was it the Disney's Investors meeting, investors call, Is that what it was,
and they were unveiling all these new Star Wars things and a lot of
it didn't come true, but this one, yeah, that's true. That
was like the one title too that really like stood out of like something that
just feels so different than what they've done in the past. And it's it's
nice that we're we're getting close to the end here, we're actually possibly going
to be seeing it, so yeah, it's wonderful. But yeah, so
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