The Acolyte
Warning ! This clause contains SPOILERS for Star war : The Acolyte episode 8 .
Summary
Now thatStar Wars : The Acolyteseason 1 has come to an end , I ’ve recover myself wrestling with thisStar WarsTV show for one crucial reason . Like any recentStar Warsproject , The Acolytehas certainly had its ups and downs , but what clear it stand out in its own unique elbow room is the evident love forStar Warsthat sit at its core . Perhaps more than any other holding produced under Disney ’s ownership to escort , The Acolytehas brought in beloved opus of the formerStar WarsExpanded Universe , now known as Legends , and has mirror newer stories .
From the long - awaited alive - action introduction ofDarth Plagueisto the playing of Kylo Ren ’s iconic theme in multiple places , The Acolytedoesn’t battle to pay testimonial toStar Wars , but it has overleap something essential about this beloved dealership . It ’s something that I clung to throughout the serial and grasped onto week after week , even when the bad would bump to characters we did n’t even get to have or fuck for very long . The coda , however , shattered every leftover of it , leaving it fractured in my hands and my heart . This thing wasStar Wars’defining message : Bob Hope .
The Acolyte installment 8 wrapper up time of year 1 of the High Republic show by vomit the phantasma of the disconsolate side , and Darth Vader , over the Jedi Order .
The Acolyte’s Finale Has No Sense Of Hope
We Know the Tragic Fate of the Jedi Happens Because of All This
I did n’t agnise at first why I was filled with such lost frustration and anger afterThe Acolytefinale ’s credit rating started to hustle , but the more I begin to process it , the more it come home on me . Even in the darkestStar Warsstories , there ’s still a glimmer of Leslie Townes Hope at the endthat promises brighter days forward . For representative , Star war : Episode III - Revenge of the Sithshowcases the tragic downfall of the Jedi and the rise of theGalactic Empire , but it still ends with Luke and Leia ’s birthing , anticipate that they will one day spare the extragalactic nebula .
The Acolyte , however , does n’t end on this kind of note , not even for the Sith . WhileQimir ( Manny Jacinto)may have last gotten the pupil he ’s been want inOsha ( Amandla Stenberg ) , Darth Plagueis ' coming into court on their secret human beings as well as what ’s already known about the Sith ’s chronicle in canon try out that thing wo n’t cease well for the two of them . As for the Jedi , they are caught in a complicated drawstring of lies , and everyone have it away that it ’s these lie and cover - ups that will ultimately pave the manner for their future downfall . Everything feels hopeless .
The Jedi’s Deaths Have No Meaning
None of These Sacrifices Have a Meaningful Purpose in the Long-Run
What was worse for me was watchingMaster Sol ( Lee Jung - jae ) , who was easy my favourite character inThe Acolyte , receive his dying in this close and instantly become the Jedi ’s whipping boy . His expiry , however , was only the last of many others in this television show . Yord Fandar ( Charlie Barnett ) andJecki Lon ( Dafne Keen)were two other hard - hitting fates in instalment 5 , and now , they also wo n’t get their proper justice . I know that this was the point of it all , to play up the Jedi ’s hubris and flaws , but that knowledge still does n’t help my withered , aching heart .
This was the stop of it all , to highlight the Jedi ’s hubris and flaw , but that knowledge still does n’t help my withered , ache heart .
At least inRogue One : A Star Wars Story , anotherStar Warsproject where the main heroes give way , those forfeiture all end up meaning something . What the members of Rogue One died for ended up being the first , crucial whole step in saving the galaxy from the tyranny of the Galactic Empire , and that made it much easy to support and process what had happened to them . This is also the case with several otherStar Warsdeaths , let in Tech ( Star Wars : The Bad Batch ) , Kanan Jarrus ( Star Wars Rebels ) , and even Obi - Wan Kenobi ( A New Hope ) .
Here ’s everything you need to follow along with Star war : The Acolyte , from citation and trivia to main takeaways from each young episode .
This Was Intentional, But It Didn’t Work For Me
I Still Wish There Was More Hope
As I enjoin before , I understand that all of these tale choice were intentional . The interview was meant to feel frustrate by the Jedi ’s actionsand angered by the fact that these Jedi have all died because of that first , initial lie narrate about Brendok all those years ago . It was also made quite clean leading intoThe Acolytethat this was go to be a story told from the linear perspective of the Sith , which made it even more clean-cut that the show would terminate this way . Unfortunately for me , however , it still does n’t work .
My favorite part aboutStar Warsis the fact that even at the theatrical role ' dispirited period , there ’s still go for to hold on to . The Empire Strikes Backset the precedent for this with its conclusion , and that has since have a bun in the oven on into the many other storiesStar Warshas told ever since . At no point didThe Acolytereally have this kind of promise beaming through its storytelling , yet I still hold out hope for Sol to tell Osha and the Jedi the true statement and for them to work things out , but his fleet death crushed that Leslie Townes Hope .
How Could The Acolyte Have Been More Hopeful?
Is There Really Another Way This Story Could Have Been Told?
The problem is , of course , that it ’s strong to envisage how elseThe Acolytecould have tell apart this story and maintained a sense of hope . If I had to think of a style this could have been reach , I would have focused on the Jedi in this sense and not the Sith . The Sith are meant to be hopeless ; it ’s the shattering of hope that gives them their victory . I would have liked to see the Jedi be fair a little more in that they still were n’t sure of what or who was kill the Jedi , but that they would get them .
The Sith are meant to be hopeless ; it ’s the smashing of hope that gives them their triumph .
This would have forfend the crushing hopelessness and desperation of them blame everything on Sol , who , in death , had no chance of defending himself . On the reverse , I can see how this could have had the potential to raise more question and concerns about potential Sith in a way that could have gamble contradicting canyon . It would have had to mint a very soft Libra , but ifThe Acolytehad pull out it off , I think this story could have achieved the promising fondness ofStar Warswhile also stay faithful to its own key subject matter .
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The Acolyte is a television serial pose in the Star Wars universe at the last of the High Republic Era , where both the Jedi and the Galactic Empire were at the summit of their influence . This sci - fi thriller sees a former Padawan reunite with her former Jedi Master as they investigate several crime - all lead to darkness erupting from beneath the airfoil and preparing to fetch about the end of the High Republic .
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