Star Wars THE ACOLYTE - Fight Scene Autopsy

This is the best choreography of all time! In britsh accent

And the force? Could they not just throw him into a wall for a second?

First you have to understand that cortosis is super rare and so finding enough to make a single piece is incredibly difficult and would be ridiculously expensive but you are right there is a cortosis WEAVE in alot of blades in the old republic era but even there it's still not common enough to outfit an army with. The pure cortosis could do that in the old cannon though Vader ran into a jedi who used a pure cortosis sword and was almost killed by him.
Please do not take this as me defending Disney in this I just wanted to talk about cortosis in relation to the old true cannon.

Feel like this was from either People trolling Shad or a lot of extreme leftists/(fans of The Acolyte) who don't know how (GOOD) swordfight choreography is SUPPOSED to look.

If you don't like the bind here, you've gotta love the fight in the last episode.

My issue with the trees isn't the angle of the fall so much.
But what do you call a glowing red hot tree?
On Fire.
They treat them like they're metal poles. In this world stone burns, metal ships in the vacuum of space burn, but not wood.

honestly I have never watched acolyte, why do I watched shad critic them? because shad criticizing modern starwars franchise has become more enjoyable and entertaining and worthwhile than watching starwars itself. when I watched the latest trilogy it turned me off and lost my intrest in starwars completely

Looks like the jedis new diversity quotas are lowering their standards

The only reason I can think besides being too prideful to deactivate light sabers at the start of fights, is if it isn't a guarantee, and there's a chance it'll cut through the armor anyway, so you'd only do it because you're already losing, or just done with everything, wanting it to end quickly. I HIGHLY doubt that's actually the case, but if by some miracle it is, that could explain why it didn't turn it off that one time in this fight.

Disney really thought they were clever naming the Korean actor Seoul

Best fight we’ve seen from disney sw? Easily. But better than Obi-wan v Maul? Who said that, I want names…

nice video

Its a small thing, but nothing makes me happier than watching a Nerd nerd out and play with something cool
Seeing Shad play with the lightsaber presets was the best thing I've seen all week

I just want to know who said this was the “best” Star Wars fight scene of all time.

I agree with a lot of what Shad is saying, BUT the ineptitude of the jedi in this fight can be chalked up in-lore to pure inexperience in fighting an opponent who is wielding a lightsaber with deadly intent. Almost no-one in The Order has encountered a Sith in centuries, and the most lightsaber on lightsaber combat experience the average Jedi has is from training manuals and sparring with training sabers, nothing involving your opponent actively trying to kill you. Theories and training is all well and good, but there are no rules when your life is on the line, Qimir knows this, based on the scars on his body, he trained with an actual saber, he knows the pain and fear of dying to a lightsaber.

On the use of cortosis. Yes, it is EXTREMELY rare, moreso than beskar, but that's not the only reason it's almost never used. The reasons you almost never see weapons and armor made of cortosis is:
1: it's extremely rare and finite.
2: it's extremely brittle and fragile (hence all the cracks/welds on the helmet and vambrace).
3: it is incredibly difficult to work with and still maintain it's lightsaber-shorting properties, it can't be used in alloys and still retain that ability, it has to be pure cortosis, which, when paired with it's scarcity makes it not even worth the trouble of trying to forge anything with it.

When Shad talks about the use of cortosis in SWTOR I don't think he's taking into account the fact that it's a video game. Technological limitations of the time aside, if the cortosis in SWTOR was totally lore accurate it would completely break the game.

I also think it's kinda stupid to try and compare it's rarity to kyber crystals, because, despite what Shad says, kyber crystals are plentiful. In canon, they can be found throughout the Adega System, as well as on 12 other planets across the galaxy, including Tatooine. The planet Ilum, where the Jedi go for their trails and to build their sabers, is so plentiful in kyber crystals it's ridiculous. The whole planet is a mine for crystals, it's core itself is a giant kyber, that's why it was converted into Starkiller Base in TFA. There are also synthetic crystals which, while not as powerful as a real kyber, means that there will never be a lack of available lightsaber crystals.

Ok, nerd rant over.

As someone who practices some form of defense I agree with most ... Except the hand to hand it was looking ridiculous to me

So, idk why I am choosing to bother defending this, but whenever in a written form they do mention you generally need at least a second or two to gather your force energy to break through the passive telekinetic barriers most force users are taught to erect in fights. So it makes semi-reasonable sense that they've not gone crazy with telekinetic attacks here

This is exactly why the acolyte was cancelled 😂😂💀🤡

To be perfectly fair with some of Smilo’s telegraphed moves, the fact that he has Cortosis means that some of them could have been feints to try to make an opening to deactivate the Jedi’s lightsabers. Everything else is inexcusable

Why did Smilo even dodge the attacks aimed for his head in the beginning, when his fucking helmet deactivates lightsabers.

Trees could fall like that.

Do review of the 2003 clone wars show Gen grieves intro next, unlike Acolyte its freaking awesome

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I agree. The writers of Disney SW put very little thought into what they introduce into the SW Universe. As far as this anti-lightsaber metal.... I would take a buckler plus light armor made of the stuff, please. Imagine being in a swordfight and you could shatter your opponent's sword just by blocking once with the buckler, or wearing armor that literally destroyed any swords that struck it. Just dumb unless introduced in a well-written way that includes clear and obvious limitations that prevent this metal's common use.

Like make it super dangerous to carry on your person, like it maintains a permanent EMP field that shuts down electronics in a radius, is very brittle so virtually impossible to use to forge traditional bullets, emits radiation deadly to ALL biological entities, and can be easily detected by ANY force-user.

This would require very specialized and extensive preparation to use, would mean forfeiting the element of surprise vs Jedi, and would literally be putting the wielder's life AT RISK just for trying it. It could still be exploited, it just would have strong restrictions to go along with its strong qualities, making it more of Secret Weapon or key plot component than as a Villain Cheat Code.

Maybe use a mechanical (no electronics) sliver shotgun-esque device that has to use compressed gas as its propellant, so short range, small blast radius, but shuts now all electronics & lightsabers in that radius, potentially poisons biological creatures struck (or who inhale any of the stuff), and merely carrying it would give away your proximity to any nearby Force Users. A protective apparatus of some sort would be necessary to protect the wielder when not in use and to minimize exposure.

I can see a Mandalorian Jedi Hunter having something like this, maybe even in grenade form (maybe better, but the trigger would have to be very basic).

ok virgin

Michael I hated the twirl

Killing smilo isn't the jedi way

I think people just liked watching lights in a completely dark screen. I mean; cool, but this is trash. Maybe these people are The Last Jedi shills and obviously, this is the best they've seen. I actually came to see this because there's this SW Fan channel where, this guy who is a ''super fan'' says that he didn't like this series, but it had some of the best lightsaber fights we've ever seen. I was like ''Really?. Gotta see 'that' now''.

Of course, I should've known better when the same guy said that he loved Solo and, there are idiots who just love hating on star wars for the sake of it.

Just watched this and I love these videos. Seeing how bad they are is laughable. I'm so grateful to Shad for going through these. I agree they can be flashy but they also need to be good. Sadly this shows the Disney Star Wars standard. These people need a Shad on the team to put them right

Take this, the my face to your arm technique! Yai Yai Yai!

Can you do a fight scene autopsy on the "Star Wars the Old Republic" trailers?

They are so good, and i think it would be ready cool to see you review them. (They aren't live action, but they are 100% better and more realistic than any Disney fights)

Your thoughts about the Padawan vs smilo fight are exactly what I thought about the first Rey vs Kylo fight on the bigger Death Star planet thing. No way she should have been able to hold her own against him, let alone beat him

sad to see that dumb people are at the reigns of the iconic culture of star wars and producing crappy content.

idk how shad has the patience to breakdown all this crap xD

You should do one of these for the knife/cane sword fight in Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning.

Who thought it was a good idea for a lightsaber to say ‘power on’ ? 😅

For the first four deaths, I can kind of understand why all the spins and kicks and misses happen, as well as why he doesn’t use the cortisol yet. Smile-o was fighting several Jedi at once, and all of these Jedi want to hit this one target, but don’t want to hit their fellow Jedi. Smile-o is doing all these spins to keep them at bay, but he doesn’t have the restriction of not hitting colleagues.

Then, when they get to the two-on-one fights, the kicks and stuff without making the lethal blows are to stun one of them while keeping his weapon on the other.

As for why he held back on the Cortosis, my best guess is he was trying to concentrate on defending against the half a dozen Jedi attacking him at once and is just looking for an opening. But, as the numbers start to thin, he’s able to use all the tools available to him. This also applies with using the force during a battle. It’s actually really uncommon to use the force during lightsaber battles because they’re channeling the force into wielding their lightsabers first and foremost. When it’s one on one though, idk. Maybe Smile-o’s toying with them or something? He knows that none of these Jedi have ever fought, let alone seen, a sith and is using that to his advantage. Adding onto this, the sith use a forbidden lightsaber technique that Jedi aren’t even allowed to read about, let alone study and train against it.

There’s honestly a lot that happens in these larger scale lightsaber battles aside from just swordplay. In terms of swordplay, yeah there are mistakes, but there’s reasons behind some of them

To be fair Maul not only had a red lightsaber, he also had the yellow eyes and he was covered from head to toe in sith tattoos given to him by Sidious himself. Pretty easy to tell he was a sith. Qamir was wearing a helmet that blocked his thoughts and hid his eyes(he didn't have sith eyes but still)

Can you do an autopsy of the fight between Obi wan and Anakin fighting Dooku on the Invisible Hand?

Bro you have to do an autopsy of the dark Maul fight.

I'll remind everyone of the scene from episode 3 where several jedi masters just stand in place and slowely get killed off by palpatine. and people will genuinley tell you that episode 3 is one of the best star wars movies so take that as you will.