The Acolyte
This article contain spoiler for The Acolyte episode 5 .
Summary
The Acolytehas revealed the true identity of its mysterious Sith Lord , now officially called " The Stranger , " and in so doing it has prepare up some monolithic twist to protect canon . The Acolyteshowrunner Leslye Headland acquire up as part of theStar Warsfandom , and her Disney+ TV show demonstrates a deep knowledge of canon and traditional knowledge . When viewers heardThe Acolytewould introduce a Sith Lord a century before the Skywalker saga , it was always clear how this story would end : in calamity .
The Acolyteepisode 5is well described as a Jedi bloodshed , the biggest go through on - screen sinceStar warfare : Episode III - Revenge of the Sith . A squad of Jedi head to the major planet Khofar to confront the Sith assassin Mae , and unwittingly trip up across her master instead . Several Jedi were fructify up as redshirts , but shockingly this also have the deaths of major characters , as the Sith Lord cut a brutal wrapping through the assembled Jedi . He was still unmasked , though , his true identity finally revealed .
Here ’s everything you need to follow along with Star war : The Acolyte , from references and trivia to chief takeaways from each new instalment .
The Acolyte’s Sith Lord Is Manny Jacinto’s Qimir
He was exactly who we thought he was
The Acolyte ’s Sith Lord is in fact Manny Jacinto ’s Qimir . To be average , most viewers had guessed this ; there had been so many clues pointing to the ideaQimir was the Sith Lord . Speaking toEntertainment Weekly , Headland and her crowd revealed the Sith Lord was urge by the heroic " Drunken Cat " from the 1966 Hong Kong martial art movieCome drink in With Me . There , a whacky part is revealed to be a hush-hush Shaolin master;The Acolyteinverts this , reveal the true scoundrel was someone innocuous all along .
The reveal may not have been subtle , but it ’s truly satisfying , in with child part because of Jacinto ’s performance . He absolutely sells the Stranger as a personnel to be regard with , a malicious and malefic being who burn with gall towards the Jedi . There are foreign hints his hate is personal , somehow tie to those mysterious event on Brendok 16 year ago , and he even own powers interchangeable to thewitches of Brendok . Jacinto perform most of the activity himself , show phenomenal lightsaber choreography , showing just how much he ’d practiced .
Qimir May Not Be Of The Baneite Sith
But is Qimir a true Sith at all?
This does n’t intend all the mysteries surround the Sith have been let on . The Stranger ’s conversation is uneven , and his taunt do n’t seem to indicate he ’s part of an ancient Sith filiation ; he does n’t even have a formal Sith Name , which is usually cede by a master . This enkindle the hypothesis he is n’t a conventional Sith , of the line of Darth Bane , but is instead simply someone who has stumbled across Sith instruction .
This would be a smart wrench , because it raises the possibility that - should Qimir be defeat - his death would n’t make any problems withStar Warscanon . This has been the question troubling viewers since beforeThe Acolyteaired ; why would the Jedi think the Sith had been out for a millenary , if they ’d crossed vane with a Sith just a century ago ? But if they think this was just a would - be Sith , a pretender who ’d larn their shipway and turn over to the dark side , their notion would make sense .
There is precedent for this inStar WarsLegends , where Abel Peña ’s 2006 Holocron articleEvil Never Dies : The Sith Dynastiesfeatured a alike figure name Kibh Jeen :
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" The Jedi heard next to nothing of the Sith after the Battle of Rusaan . There were the vague threat by dark sider Kibh Jeen at his moment of despair during the Dark Jedi Conflict ( circa 150 years before the Battle of Naboo ) , who jabber seeming gibberish about there always being no more or less than two Sith , but few Jedi gave his crazy utterance any credence . But then the Sith cultists began emerging . These ' Sith ' were disorganize and harmless for the most part . Many were just youths in uprising , without any self-colored idea of Sith doctrine or even any Force - sensitivity . But not all of them . "
In Legends , Kibh Jeen was the grounds the Jedi learn of theRule of Two . Headland has hintedThe Acolytewill serve the same interrogative sentence , so it ’s possible she has based her Disney+ video show on this theme ; she ’s an old - school fan with deep knowledge of Legends . Far from make problems withStar Warscanon , this would turn the Stranger into the solution for a long - standing issue .
Qimir Has One Mission: To Kill All Jedi Who Know Of His Existence
The Acolyte has set up a very dark outcome
In any instance , Qimir explicitly states his mission right now : to kill all Jedi who have learn of his world . Viewers initially assumed Headland would never do anything so dark , but those phantasy were shattered inThe Acolyteepisode 5 . There , incredibly , Qimir killed even some of the most popular grapheme in the show;Dafne Keen ’s Jeckimet a grievous end , while Charlie Barnett ’s Yord had his neck snatch . Only one of the Jedi is still active , Lee Jung - jae ’s Master Sol .
Amandla Stenberg ’s twins have flip places , though , meaning Qimir now has Sol ’s former apprentice Osha as his prisoner . It ’s easy to think a scenario where he used this against Sol , drawing him into a maw and viciously killing him . If this is the case , there ’s no reason Qiimir could n’t actually be a Baneite Sith without breaking canon - becauseall witnesses are about to break .
watcher often come down persistence and canonicity to a sort of straitjacket , restricting succeeding stories , when in reality it is far more dynamic . It is true that the inclusion of a Sith in this era has the potential to cause persistence job , but the veridical inflammation comes in seeing how well it all ties together in the end . in good order now , The Acolytehas set up two stunning potential outcomes - and it remain to be seen which approach path will be taken .
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The Acolyte is a television series set in the Star Wars universe at the ending of the High Republic Era , where both the Jedi and the Galactic Empire were at the elevation of their influence . This sci - fi thriller see a former Padawan reunite with her former Jedi Master as they look into several crime - all leading to darkness erupting from beneath the Earth’s surface and train to bring about the conclusion of the High Republic .
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