Warning: This text accommodates spoilers about Star Wars: The Acolyte episode 5.
Okay… you possibly can breathe now.
However you’re forgiven in case you discovered your self holding your breath all through episode 5 of Disney+’s The Acolyte. Your complete installment was primarily one prolonged motion sequence — full of shocks, lightsaber battles, and plenty of useless Jedi. It was as if Star Wars channeled Mad Max: Fury Street. The one factor lacking was a Doof Warrior spraying streams of fireside from a guitar-shaped laser sword.
The massive reveal was the unmasking of Mae’s (Amandla Stenberg) mysterious grasp, who turned out to be Manny Jacinto’s goofy apothecary Qimir, as a result of there may be merely nobody higher than the previous Good Place star on the subject of taking part in one character pretending to be one other character. (BORTLES!)
Lee Jung-jae in ‘The Acolyte’.
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However that was not the most important shock of the episode. The true shock was what number of Jedi the Sith Lord killed upon his introduction. Certain, there have been the rando Jedi that accompanied the principle characters to Khofar and had the phrase “Expendable” virtually tattooed on their foreheads. However Jacinto’s Sith didn’t cease there. He lightsaber-stabbed Dafne Eager’s Jecki Lon a number of instances to her dying, brutally taking down the Padawan proper earlier than his face was revealed for the primary time. And he wasn’t achieved. The massive unhealthy additionally effortlessly snapped the neck of Jedi Knight Yord Fandar (Charlie Barnett), killing a second main character in a mere matter of minutes. (And let’s not overlook about poor Kelnacca, rotting away in his little hut with a lightsaber slash throughout his furry chest.)
Along with all these fights, the action-packed episode additionally featured a lightsaber battle between Jacinto’s Sith and Lee Jung-jae’s Grasp Sol — with Sol virtually placing down the unarmed opponent earlier than being stopped by his former Padawan Osha (Stenberg) — in addition to a rollicking back-and-forth brawl between Mae and Jecki.
Dafne Eager as Jecki Lon in ‘Star Wars: The Acolyte’.
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And the installment additionally included the primary prolonged interplay between twins Mae and Osha, who got here nose to nose close to the top of the episode. After Mae advised Osha the Jedi had brainwashed her and turned sister towards sister (“I really like you. Don’t select them once more. Please select me. Select us. We each survived. All now we have is one another now.”), Osha tried to arrest her sister, main her twin to knock her out.
After which, a little bit of deception. Mae took a lightsaber and lower off her personal hair to match Osha’s, after which assumed her place to go undercover amongst the Jedi. Whether or not she plans to kill Sol (the final of 4 names on her hit checklist) or acquire info that can be utilized towards them stays to be seen, however that was just one aspect of the switcheroo. On the very finish of the episode, Jacinto’s unnamed villain got here throughout a handed out Osha, placing his cape over her as a blanket whereas noting, “What extraordinary beings we’re. Even within the revelation of our triumph, we see the depth of our despair.”
Yord Fandar (Charlie Barnett), Jedi Padawan Jecki Lonà(Dafne Eager) and Grasp Sol (Lee Jung-jae) on ‘The Acolyte’.
Lucasfilm
Despair is actually apt for the Jedi, who simply misplaced a number of members of their order to an adversary they don’t even seem to completely perceive, due to the Sith hiding within the shadows for hundreds of years because the days of Darth Bane.
The episode qualifies as essentially the most savage and brutal prolonged motion now we have but to see within the streaming Star Wars galaxy of live-action exhibits, by no means letting up for a minute. It additionally raises the stakes for a sequence that already set them fairly gosh darn excessive after murdering a Jedi within the very first scene of its premiere.
And now, with Mae and Osha having swapped spots, the items on the sport board have been fully reset, main one to marvel what number of extra will fall over the following three episodes on their solution to Valhalla. WITNESS!