Star Wars: The Acolyte<\/em> Is Doing A Different Kind Of Fan-Service, And It Rocks<\/a><\/span><\/p>\nBefore this latest episode, we knew things were more complicated than that. The Jedi didn\u2019t seem wholly innocent, plus Mae survives and is on a mission to kill all four of them who were there that day, and Osha eventually leaves the Order for reasons unknown. But now we know exactly what happened on that fateful night, and it paints a stark picture of the Jedi\u2019s fallibility, the dangers of assumption, and the flaws of tying a religious group to a governing body.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n
Image: Disney \/ Lucasfilm<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nThe illusion of choice<\/strong><\/h2>\nSol, who first spotted young Mae and Osha in the forest on Brendok and followed them into their coven\u2019s safe haven, believes the witches are a dangerous, dark-aligned group who could be sacrificing children\u2014and to be fair, his perspective is somewhat damning. Their behavior could certainly look strange when, since childhood, you\u2019ve been part of a group that believes only its own version of praying or practicing religion is valid. Naturally, you\u2019d be freaked out by 50 or so women chanting in front of a giant, scary hole in the ground.<\/p>\n
But Sol\u2019s misunderstanding of what is clearly a much more complicated situation than \u201cwitches bad\u201d leads him to believe that he must save the girls, especially Osha, who he thinks is meant to be his padawan. Though Carrie-Anne Moss\u2019 Master Indara tells him not to meddle in these affairs after the girls take the Jedi test, and warns him of the dangers of getting involved, Sol refuses to listen, essentially egging on her frustrated padawan Torbin (Dean-Charles Chapman), who hops on a speeder bike to \u201crescue\u201d Osha and Mae so that he can go back to Coruscant.<\/p>\n
Things go downhill fast, with their arrival kicking off a massive fight during which Osha and Mae\u2019s mother, coven leader Aniseya, is killed by Sol as she begins using magic in a way that clearly scares him. The witches then possess Wookiee Jedi Kelnacca, who beats the hell out of both Sol and Torbin, only for the coven to be presumably knocked unconscious by Indara, who Force-shoves them out of Kelnacca\u2019s head. Sol, still desperate to save the girls, discovers them on opposite sides of a broken, teetering walkway, and chooses<\/em> to save just Osha, as he can\u2019t physically hold both sides of the walkway up.<\/p>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/span><\/p>\n
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