New Star Wars series The Acolyte

Yes, there are some truck sized plot holes going on here along with characters conveniently not being there/appearing at the right time. Very shabby writing.

I felt the exact same thing about Sol not immediately noticing and calling out Mae. Maybe he's playing along to see what she's about, but as bad as some of the writing is, I have my doubts. Again, why would Darth Teeth, without Jedi understanding of the Force, immediately notice he's been left with Osha and Sol not immediately notice that's Mae who with him?

At one point, Darth Teeth suddenly has a second light saber, which he uses to kill Jenik, but then when he returns at the end he only retrieves one. What happened to the other one?

Why does not have a mark on him from the moths when they clearly were biting and tearing at him when they lifted off with him?

How is it Darth Teeth has more Jedi fighting skills than several Jedi knights when he appears to have had no trainer?

And why does he have much more trouble against a single padawan than half a dozen knights? The knights were like cardboard cutouts simply present in the story to have some people Darth Teeth could cut down "to show the audience how powerful he is" without losing anyone important.

What's up with the line about Darth Teeth wearing the mask so Sol "can't see into his head?" Did he have Magneto build him that helmet?

What was the stupid line Yord (or whatever his name is) said about how Darth Teeth doesn't fight logically or whatever and "he gets into your head"? He hadn't even fought with him yet. He'd just been knocked over, then told to high-tail it with Osha.

What's this goofy thing where Darth Teeth hits the light sabers with his fist and they short out? And then the Jedi were shocked by it with a "how is this possible" look on their faces. No explanation of any kind ever offered, of course, even when he did it to Sol and they were blabbering at each other. That might have been the dumbest part of the whole episode.

No, take that back. The reprise of the witches' "Bad Broadway Chorus Line" anthem when Mae did whatever to her face/hair/something to make herself look more like Osha (huh? they already looked exactly alike) was the dumbest, cringiest, and worst part of it.

I note they tried to get around the established "no Sith for a millennia" by having Darth Teeth say "I don't know what I am, but you Jedi might call me a Sith." Lame, but okay, I guess. Then again, if there've been no Sith for 900 years, how does he even know the term?

While the lightsaber fights were well choreographed, they were hamstrung by the stupid light saber short outs and the constant switching away to other scenes of "blah, blah, woof, woof" with other characters.

In some ways, this was the most interesting episode, but in other ways, it was the worst episode.

I keep finding myself less interested every week because the writing defies sense. There is no sense of the characters' traits, no sense of Star Wars lore, no sense of spatial awareness, and no sense of cohesion or timing (like breaking up the fight scenes with blabbering).

They better have some really good explanatory writing upcoming or the whole endeavor will have been just a mess.

Not that most of the Star Wars films and series aren't without their gaffs and mistakes, but for me this is rapidly heading to a senseless train wreck.

Also, I get the feeling we're going to be led to a conclusion that the Jedi did something awful and then covered it all up to save face, so they "really aren't the good guys we think they are after all because there are no actual good guys in real life, everyone is selfish and therefore inherently bad to other people." I think that's a mistake, much too "current PC," (also, that line of thinking is a total lie perpetrated by people who want to excuse their own selfish hatred of others - I know many people who actually are altruistic "good people"), and I'm pretty sure George Lucas will be upset by it. Again, not that George is a great writer, but it's his creation, even if it is just a conglomeration of other sources, so he's entitled to be unhappy if they start tearing up the foundation of his story.

Okay, end soap box.
The Star Wars world (the "Force" in particular) is so much larger than Jedi v Sith and once you are able to open up to that, you might be more acceptant to some of the revelations this show has presented. With the introduction of Bendu, they tried to show their audience that what they understood about the Force was just a small sample.

As for the Lightsaber fails: CORTOSIS