The Acolyte: “Night” (Season 1, Episode 5) Discussion

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Charlotte Errity & Caitlin Plesher

Tv & Film, After Shows, Film Reviews

4.7 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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We are back this week to talk about the insane events of Episode 5 of The Acolyte, “Night”! This week was directed once again by Alex Garcia Lopez. In our discussion we go over: Our fallen Jedi friends — so many gone! The reveal of the Stranger’s identity and motivations, who are they really? And what are the Stranger’s next moves? Kylo Ren comparisons! What is The Acolyte looking to say about Jedi Order in this time period? Mae and Osha’s relationship has a surprising twist at the end, where do we see their character arcs going for the rest of the series? … and so much more! EW Article Skytalkers episode on The Rise of Kylo Ren Listen to our Leslye Headland (showrunner/writer/director) interview here! Join our Patreon community and unlock bonus episodes + more! Our website! Follow us on Twitter/X @skytalkerspod Follow us on TikTok @skytalkers Follow us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram @skytalkerspodcast Follow Charlotte on Twitter/X @crerrity Follow Caitlin on Twitter/X @caitlinplesher Email us! hello@skytalkers.com Our theme music is by Christy Carew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Sky Talkers. Here are your hosts, Charlotte and Caitlin. Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host, Charlotte and Caitlin.
0:21.9	Hello and welcome to Sky Talkers. I'm your host Charlotte. Hey everyone. I'm your other host,
0:26.0	Caitlin. And welcome to this week's Sky Talkers, where we are talking all about the
0:30.5	Acolyte, episode five entitled Night. And boy, oh boy, was this a big episode? A lot of things. I have a, I think you tweeted
0:44.5	this morning. I'm just going to steal it. I have a Star Wars hangover from last night's episode.
0:49.9	So amazing. I knew this was going to deliver. Our friends Alex and Molly at Star Wars
0:55.7	explained told us that Leslie Headland told them that episode five was their favorite. I remember
1:00.9	commenting being like, episode five has a vibe in a lot of Star Wars TV shows, the Asoka
1:06.7	episodes, the Mandalorian episode of Book of BobaFat. There's always something really special
1:13.4	about this number. And this is this one is no different. It was so good. It was so good.
1:21.9	I feel like we have so much to impact. It was really, really good. Before we start, though,
1:27.3	everyone should know it is Charlotte's birthday.
1:29.6	So she basically got a new acolyte on her birthday last night, well, the day before.
1:35.0	But we're recording and talking about it today, which is very exciting.
1:38.9	So happy birthday.
1:40.9	Thank you.
1:41.6	Have we ever recorded on a birthday before? I'm sure we have. I know I know that I watched new visions on my birthday before. With the screener. Yeah, it was with screeners. But that's like the last time I remember having like new. No, we've definitely had new Star Wars on our birthdays I've watched a
2:02.0	bad bad yeah I was gonna say you definitely have but I don't think we've recorded on a birthday before
2:06.9	oh and crazy actually it's very special this episode is so good and I'm like really happy to be
2:14.3	talking about it on my birthday you know what I mean if? If it was a dud, which it never is,
2:19.4	I would have been like, oh, darn. But I feel like this was made for me in this weird way.
2:25.2	Yeah, so it absolutely was. So happy birthday. And I guess exciting that we get to celebrate by
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