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The primary three episodes of The Acolyte served as the primary act of this story, getting us acquainted with the characters and the scenario and basically catching us as much as the place we’ve roughly the identical quantity of key information about what is going on on as Mae and Osha do. With this week’s Episode 4, the plot is getting began in earnest as each main character races to the identical place: the planet Khofar, the place the Jedi Kelnacca has been residing reclusively because the Jedi incursion to the witch coven on Brendok went so badly.
Warning: The next accommodates main spoilers for Episode 4 of Star Wars: The Acolyte. In case you’ve not caught up, you could wish to cease studying now.
On the one facet of the race you’ve got the Jedi and Osha, and on the opposite you’ve got Mae and Qimir. Qimir, whose circumstance stays murky, has apparently personally scouted the place and located Kelnacca, and now he is serving to Mae navigate the risks from the jungle and Kelnacca’s personal traps which are littered about.
However Mae is having a little bit of a disaster. Her secret grasp, whose face Mae has by no means seen, will kill her until she carries out her mission as described: she should defeat one in every of her Jedi targets with no weapon. Mae weighs her choices and decides her finest probability at survival is to desert the hunt, and her grasp, and attempt to crew up with Osha. So she traps Qimir, and runs off.
Mae arrives simply earlier than Jedi do, and he or she calls out to Kelnacca when she enters, however he would not reply as a result of he is lifeless, with an enormous lightsaber wound in his chest. Since Mae did not do it, the offender turns into clear in a short time: Mae’s grasp is right here, and able to throw down. The grasp comes up behind the Jedi exterior the home, and has a short stare-down with Osha earlier than casually tossing her apart with the Pressure, after which doing the identical to the Jedi because the episode ends.
It is a pretty packed episode of TV. On prime of what I simply described, we received our first look on The Acolyte by a film character, and a number of other actually attention-grabbing Easter eggs to interrupt down. Let’s dig in.
Ki-Adi-Mundi
We might been teased {that a} acquainted Jedi would seem, and it turned out to be the cone-headed Ki-Adi-Mundi, who apparently sat on the Jedi Council for greater than a century. Oddly sufficient, there is no precedent in Star Wars lore for a personality of his species, a Cerean, residing that lengthy, so it feels kinda random, however perhaps we’ll have a purpose for it by the tip of the season.
Mirialan Jedi
There is a inexperienced Jedi on The Acolyte known as Vernestra who’s a member of the mirialan species. The primary main mirialan characters we hung out with had been Luminara Unduli and her apprentice Barriss Offee on the Clone Wars show–Luminara was additionally killed throughout the Order 66 sequence on the finish of Revenge of the Sith. Since then, the online game Star Wars: The Outdated Republic has a really heavy mirialan presence on the Republic side–you can create a mirialan participant character, and different mirialan of us present up just about on a regular basis within the Jedi and the federal government throughout the sport’s huge story.
And this is one other utterly random enjoyable reality: Vernestra is performed by Rebecca Henderson, who’s married to collection creator Leslye Headland.
Completely different Jedi robes
For a lot of the collection to date, Jedi on The Acolyte put on the conventional robes that we’re accustomed to from the films. However Yord had a scene within the premiere episode the place he was sporting a really totally different (and far cooler) fashion of gown, and within the Jedi temple scenes on this week’s episode we see numerous different Jedi carrying this different style–it’s a really Nineteen Seventies, retro futuristic house wizard form of minimize, deliberately calling again to a number of the extra artistic Jedi robes described within the current Excessive Republic books and seen within the comics, to not point out evoking the look of a number of the extra artistic Jedi outfits from the outdated Expanded Universe tales from this period, together with the video video games. It is good that they added this variety–the regular Jedi robes are fairly boring after practically 50 years.
The Jedi wanna speak issues over first
One of many Jedi Order’s conventional massive weaknesses is that they haven’t any sense of urgency–they’d quite await a menace to totally emerge than be proactive, and when one really does pop up, they’ve to speak about it endlessly earlier than they will determine what to do about it. On this episode, Grasp Sol desires to go on to Khofar to assist Kelnacca, however as an alternative he is recalled to the temple on Coruscant to debate the general scenario with the bosses in an in-person assembly that completely might have been finished on holo. The outcome: Kelnacca is killed as a result of they did not get there on time. Good work, boss.
It is the basic Jedi drawback, particularly within the Outdated Republic period. Take Revan, for instance, from Knights of the Outdated Republic–whose armor appears to have partially impressed Mae’s look. Years earlier than the occasions of that recreation, when Revan was an everyday Jedi, the Mandalorians invaded the Republic only for the sake of it–they wished the most important, most superior struggle ever, and so they tried to impress the Jedi into motion by massacring billions of cathar individuals and practically driving that species to extinction. However the Jedi had been so hung up on the small print they did not reply quickly–they did not perceive why the Mandalorians had been doing what they had been doing, and they also had been frightened of dealing with it improper. So Revan defied his masters and joined the Republic navy with a gaggle of like-minded Jedi, combating in opposition to and finally defeating the Mandalorians whereas the Jedi institution watched, inflicting a serious schism that might finally result in a Jedi Civil Conflict.
These Jedi do not appear to have it collectively any greater than these of us did.
Grasp Holden
Earlier than we transfer on from this scene, yet one more bit: This Jedi standing subsequent to Ki-Adi-Mundi on this shot is Grasp Holden, and he or she’s performed by Indra Ove–who additionally performed a First Order officer in The Rise of Skywalker.
Pip spraying the furry man
There is a unusual scene in the midst of this episode the place a furry mechanic man reveals a wierd curiosity in Pip, Osha’s little droid pal. Pip, apparently postpone by the staring, sprays the house ferret within the face for no purpose. Effectively, no in-universe reason–this is a nod to the proud Star Wars custom of droids doing random bits of slapstick comedy to entertain any babies who could be watching.
These big tree bugs
Because the Jedi discover Khofar, they encounter unusual, massive growths of some sort on the bushes in all places. It seems these growths are massive, predatory bugs. Whereas I do not suppose we have ever met these critters particularly prior to now, these are at minimal a nod to why Kelnacca, a wookiee, would discover a place like Khofar to make house. It is not simply because stuff like these bugs are a pure protection in opposition to intruders–the forests of Khofar appear to be simply as inhospitable and filled with bizarre threats as Kelnacca’s house planet of Kashyyyk is. For a wookiee, Khofar could be very homey.
