Doing our usual deep analysis and delighted squealing as we cover this week's #TheAcolyte episode on the pod:
💕 Manawee & Power of Two
👐 Handless Maiden
👑 Shadow Queens, Sick Kings
👶🏼 Torbin is babie
☯️ Jedi & their Missing Feminine
🌒 Healing the Wounded Masculine
🐍 Sister Snake
📖 THE SACRED TEXTS!
Dear Acolytes: Do you have Questions for @fangirling0nly.bsky.social & I?
We will be recording tonight, but don't worry if I don't get to your questions on the show I'll answer them over the next few days💜
Come join us as we break down the h0rniest 🍆💦 Star War since The Last Jedi!
🩹 Wound of the Jedi
🌊 Fem symbolism on the island
🍷🗡 The Chalice & The Blade
🚿 Bathing in folklore
🥣 Food of the Underworld
❔️ Vernestra, what did you do?
😈 Corruption of the Maiden
#TheAcolyte#Oshamir 🐀
In our spoiler-filled discussion of the shocking, shattering 5th episode of Star Wars The Acolyte, we explain:
💔 Why [redacted] died
🐺 How the Predator is NOT the Animal Husband (still sexy tho)
🐍 How the Jedi are cursed (House of Atreus, again)
🌒 Who is going to go Dark
JOIN US 😈
Their loss, but if you like Star Wars and you like liking Star Wars and you want to listen to some other people who also like Star Wars, check out @wtforce.bsky.social coverage of all the shows!
The Acolyte was brutal tonight. This is straight up the Darth Vader show everyone complaining about this show has been asking for, but they’ll never watch it because some random, uninformed YouTuber brainwashed them into saying “woke” a bunch
Finally catching up on @thunderquack.bsky.social Acolyte episodes and I'm so glad! @arkwulf.bsky.social and Joe have so many insights I didn't think of, and then at the same time we're totally in sync on many things.
Can't wait for Ep5 tonight!
I'm behind on podcasts, but I had a long drive today so I finally listened to this episode. Obi-wan telling Luke about the Clone Wars is my favorite scene in ANH. I'm also drawn to the themes in the prequel era that seem to undermine Obi-Wan's nostalgia. There's balance in understanding nostalgia.
I realized listening to this (which I always do to make sure I know later WTF I said) that we start off pretty normal and then get this burst of energy in the last 30min or so.
It's like the more mythic the episode gets, the more @mariecgould.bsky.social and I just start shrieking and giggling. 🤪
We're Star Wars-ing hard on our Acolyte analysis this week:
☯️ Light in the dark, Dark in the light
🏞 Into the Woods (Underworld/Subconscious)
🐺 Predator of the psyche, Bluebeard, Red Riding Hood
🏳️🌈 Loniseya supremacy!
🦋 Shadow-Moth as omen of death
💀 Sol is doomed, sorry
👀 Yord is sus (and a cop)
If you're looking for a summer podcast, give @wtforce.bsky.social some of your time. @mariecgould.bsky.social and @fangirling0nly.bsky.social continue their episode discussions of The Acolyte, but there is also a vault of discussions on so many great topics related to story. You'll learn a lot!
There's a REASON Star Wars holds the place it does in modern culture, and it's not because it's mental fast food. It's because the mythology speaks to our subconscious and we RECOGNIZE what is true about it, even when packaged imperfectly with stilted dialogue and cutesy robots.