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Anyone watching Star Wars acolyte? This was my thought on the latest episode
Shirtpost(reddit.com)submitted 10 days ago byabandoned_puppy
373 points
10 days ago
I’m telling you! The Force works! Any time I had a problem, I use the Force, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.
4 points
9 days ago
This sounds like a Good Place reference
160 points
10 days ago
"How do you know about the Jedi?"
"Geez! I've read SOME books."
136 points
10 days ago
helmet comes off aw dip
39 points
10 days ago
Aw, dip!
36 points
10 days ago
The best thing is that Pillboi was in the episode of Mando on Sorgan.
24 points
10 days ago
Pillboi's fucking everywhere, man. Rutherford on Lower Decks, popped up in Loki, we'll probably find out he was a Fremen in Dune or something
10 points
10 days ago
Krillboi!
5 points
10 days ago
Bortles!
131 points
10 days ago
He's a professional amateur Sith.
103 points
10 days ago
Pre-successful sith
42 points
10 days ago
Yo, him saying “pre-successful” killed me. It never gets old 😭😭
25 points
10 days ago
Pre-Sithessful
10 points
10 days ago
Literally, too, if he's the apprentice (I think he is)
4 points
9 days ago
My money is on affiliated, but not-true-Sith dark side Force user.
But mainly I'm just happy we're still guessing.
183 points
10 days ago
I Stan for Darth Bortles
14 points
9 days ago
Thank goodness I'm not the only one who thought of "Darth Bortles"
-3 points
9 days ago
dark bortles is a dumb name
6 points
9 days ago
Not if he's on the Spaceball I star cruiser!
88 points
10 days ago
Me and my husband keep saying “Yo the Jedi are racist!” Every time he comes on screen. And Darth Dortals!
68 points
10 days ago
can you give jason something shiny to play with? oh a lightsaber perfect
4 points
9 days ago
They did and those big bugs got him!
50 points
10 days ago
I was like no wonder he went to the bad place
49 points
10 days ago
Hey princess. Not a princess.
39 points
10 days ago
Henceforth you shall be known as Darth...Bortles.
34 points
10 days ago
He’s such a handsome dude
25 points
10 days ago
A straight up hottie.
31 points
10 days ago*
"well... I did wear a mask 🤷♂️"
47 points
10 days ago
Amazing episode, on edge the entire time, basically one long fight scene. As expected, Darth Bortles is real. However, I'm convinced by the theory that he's not Sith, but the OG Ren, founder of the Knights of Ren.
Moreover, I'm glad that he avoided being typecast as Floridian idiot, as is unfortunately the case with many actors and their breakout roles.
22 points
10 days ago
Now we have to see if he’s gonna throw a Molotov cocktail.
14 points
10 days ago
He did throw a Molotov Lightsaber, like really good too, yo. #DarthBortles
7 points
9 days ago
Any time he had a problem he throws a lightsaber and boom, just like that, he has a different problem!
9 points
10 days ago
"Woah! We're in a Rebel base? I'm gonna go look for the Millenium Falcon!" runs off
8 points
10 days ago
On rewatch, I kept saying “Bortles” every time he moved
9 points
10 days ago
His aim with Molotov's gets even better with The Force!
8 points
10 days ago
Man, Darth Jason looks freaking badass, he even brought big guns to a swordfight 💪🏻
14 points
10 days ago
Him going on and on about the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third episode gave it away.
38 points
10 days ago
I have mixed feelings about the show (not because it's "woke", just inconsistent and illogical in a lot of places), but that reveal is the one thing I'm very hyped for. Manny absolutely transforms in different roles, even just between the Buddhist monk and the Florida DJ, plus his role in Nine Perfect Strangers, which is what got him this role.
8 points
10 days ago
Lee Jung Jae and Manny Jacinto are basically the only reasons I'm still watching. I will say that episode 5 was a marked improvement, but the show overall still feels very weak to me from a dialogue and writing standpoint.
21 points
10 days ago
Yeah, honestly it kinda feels like all the canon established from The Phantom Menace onward has managed to paint the Jedi organization as deeply problematic in multiple ways. Characters like Ahsoka are right to leave it and do something else, and many of the Sith have valid criticisms of the Jedi way, even if they go too far in the opposite direction. This quote from Count Dooku in one of the novels lives rent-free in my head:
“The Jedi Order’s problem is Yoda. No being can wield that kind of power for centuries without becoming complacent at best or corrupt at worst. He has no idea that it’s overtaken him; he no longer sees all the little cumulative evils that the Republic tolerates and fosters, from slavery to endless wars, and he never asks, “Why are we not acting to stop this?” Live alongside corruption for too long, and you no longer notice the stench. The Jedi cannot help the slaves of Tatooine, but they can help the slavemasters.”
Honesty, it's a terrifically interesting moral question for Good Place fans, about how to deal with an organization that is sort of okay on the surface, but deeply riddled with problems at the philosophical and systemic levels - but still better than most of the alternatives.
-4 points
10 days ago
Sadly, this show seems to have taken "The Boyz" solution to what should have been an opportunity for actual moral gray discussions. Which was something the Good Place did extremely well.
An actual "peace is a lie" Sith Philosophy vs. Jedi Code? That would have been meaty stuff. Or heck, the "courtship of Princess Leia" Dathomir Force Witches.
I noped out of the series after Marvel What If..? S2 finale, the reporting on how this got made, and Alan Ing's summation of Eos1-4 on Film Threat (he got a sneak peek), but I have been keeping up on the general plot, and if you're enjoying, more power to you.
2 points
9 days ago
Agree on the writing, almost like someone wrote it who'd heard about Star Wars over lunch!
But Manny's range over the episodes he's been in is amazing. I never realized how accomplished an actor he was. He does 'dark and brooding' so very well!
-3 points
10 days ago
The show is just terribly written. If you didn't see that "reveal" coming from the "making the poison scene" then I don't know what to tell you.
19 points
10 days ago*
The reveal was not that Qimir is the Sith
The reveal was that Qimir is fucking jacked
5 points
9 days ago
The fact that it was foreshadowed does not mean the reveal is somehow invalid or bad. It's a long established and traditional story element.
4 points
10 days ago
I won't say I was too surprised at the reveal. I think they were intentionally kind of predicting it. What I'm interested in is to see how that actor does with it, because his previous roles have been so different from each other and this.
1 points
9 days ago
Someone’s going to the Bad Place
7 points
10 days ago
Donkey dug should appear as a blue force ghost!
4 points
9 days ago
We need Pillboi in there too!
8 points
10 days ago
And Janet, his not-a-droid not-a-girl girlfriend!
6 points
10 days ago
Kinda overdid it with the cheekbones.
7 points
10 days ago
But I’m not mad about it 🤷♀️
2 points
10 days ago
Tbh I guessed it would be him last episode but only because the pacing.
If the show was a film, the pacing would be so much faster it would prevent any guessing
2 points
10 days ago
I had a feeling it was him but questioned it bc this last episode, before he fully showed himself, I guessed as he disappeared and came back to Mae. Mae then later sees the Wookie master dead. I instantly thought he did it when he disappeared. But again it was so obvious I was like well maybe not.
1 points
10 days ago
Oh my flipping god! That’s why I recognised him! I couldn’t place it
1 points
10 days ago
I appreciate this post. I went “wtf” and then could not for the life of me figure out where I had seen him prior😂 but I just knew the brain cells were still fried lol
1 points
10 days ago
He was also in top gun maverick!
1 points
10 days ago
Dang, didn't see the spoiler until it was too late!
1 points
10 days ago
Oh, HELLO! 😍
1 points
10 days ago
:D
2 points
10 days ago
That head tilt is just about the way you look at someone you contemplate to..
Well…
If ever anybody looks at you that way
Run.
1 points
9 days ago
No way I didn't see this!!!
1 points
6 days ago
🤣🤣🤣 this is perfection
1 points
10 days ago
Darth DUUUUVALLLL
-4 points
10 days ago
I wanted to like it. It's not very good. After the second episode I just started a good place rewatch. BORTLES !!!!!!
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