As Sol confronts the masked figure, we get a closer look at her mask, and to no one’s surprise – this franchise is extremely good at wearing evil villain masks – this is what she looks like extremely Cool. The metallic piping looking rows of teeth in a skull, the cracks across the visor, the flared Vader/Kylo neck guard, it’s just awesome. We know full well what it looks like, but our heroes don’t: this may be the first time most living Jedi have encountered a Sith at this point.
It could almost certainly be her last. There was a lot of uproar when the first trailer was released The Acolyte was somehow contradictory war of stars Canon, based on a line from Ki-Adi-Mundi in The Phantom Menace where he confidently explains that the Sith had been invisible for millennia before Qui-Gon’s encounter with Maul on Tatooine. The thing about this line is that we already knew it wasn’t true, as Maul and Sidious had apparently been operating in the shadows under the Council’s noses for a while dark threat Despite it. It reflects the attitude of the Jedi at this point war of starsthat they have become so unruly and so immersed in the political hostility of the Republic that they cannot see or refuse to see the return of their mortal enemy.
But how can this masked figure be a Sith Gok with a red saber and this line? There are several possible answers: The first is that they simply kill all the Jedi they see in this jungle and then it will never be known. The second and equally likely possibility is that these Jedi either defeat them or escape in some way and then immediately decide that the possible return of the Sith is so dangerous that news of this encounter will never reach the people who were there. can go beyond informing the Jedi Council, who then maintain the pretense that everything will be fine down here for the next century.
Given that The Acolyte is all about exploration the institutional deficiencies of the Jedi Order, a cover-up that would come back to bite them in the ass in about 120 years would be very interesting. At the moment, however, no one knows what will happen – but there are many ways to connect this moment and Ki-Adi’s dialogue, rather than necessarily contradicting each other. After all, as a certain Jedi told us, your eyes can deceive you… we must not trust them.
We’ll find out how much we can trust our eyes The Acolyte begins streaming on Disney+ on June 4th.