Summary
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The Acolyte’s
showrunner, Leslye Headland, reveals that Osha and Mae’s powers are indeed connected to Darth Plagueis the Wise. - Headland also details how “the Sith are looking for the atomic bomb,” so they will have an advantageous weapon to use against the Jedi.
- Headland compares the seemingly magical power that Mother Aniseya “played with” to that of the “Manhattan Project.”
Warning! The Following Contains SPOILERS for The Acolyte, Season 1, Episode 7, “Choice.”
“Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?” Supreme Chancellor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) posed that very question to Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) at the opera while trying to seduce the young Jedi to join the dark side of the Force. In the story, Palpatine revealed that Plagueis could manipulate Midi-chlorians to “create life.” Today, in the quite divisive new Star Wars series, The Acolyte, it’s now clear that the magical twins Osha and Mae (Amandla Stenberg) “obviously” are connected to Plagueis, according to showrunner and creator, Leslye Headland. Headland said (per ComicBook.com):
“The Sith are looking for the atomic bomb, they’re looking for, ‘What’s the card that we can have over the Jedi? What is the Force power that the Jedi do not have?’ And so, as far as the Sith are concerned, they’re in an arms race and the Jedi don’t even know that arms race is happening because the being that can get the power that Aniseya has started playing with will start the Manhattan Project.”
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Star Wars series that take viewers into a galaxy of shadowy secrets and emerging dark-side powers in the final days of the High Republic era.
Seasons 1
Studio Disney+, Lucasfilm
Franchise Star Wars
Number of Episodes 8
Streaming Service(s) Disney+
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During the latest episode titled “Choice,” Master Sol (Lee Jung-jae) arrives to find both Osha and Mae on separate sides of a dangerously dilapidated bridge. It seems that the structure’s collapse will surely seal the fate of both girls, but Sol reaches out wit the Force to keep the twins from falling to their deaths.
However, as the Jedi realizes he cannot hold them both safely forever, Sol makes the decision to let Mae fall! As Mae cries out, Sol focuses all of his power on Osha to ensure her survival. For cinephiles who have ever seen Se7en, it seems attachment is Sol’s sin — his connection to Osha. In fact, even a Gray Jedi might call what Sol did very Sith-like, indeed.
Can Osha & Mae Survive without One Another?
Star Wars fans finally saw the Jedi Wookie Kelnacca (Joonas Suotamo) use his lightsaber in battle, even if he was being mind-controlled by Mother Aniseya’s (Jodie Turner-Smith) coven of witches to try and destroy his fellow Jedi. But that awesome lightsaber duel did little to keep fans from critiquing episode seven of The Acolyte. One thing that certainly came to the forefront was whether the twins (Stenberg) could actually survive if something happened to one of them. Showrunner Leslye Headland addressed the issue in the same roundtable interview:
“One of the reasons the Coven is so obsessed with keeping the twins together, is that they believe that this very special miracle — that was able to happen under their roof — it could be broken if the two of them are separated. Now in our story, they are separated, and they’re separated for a very long time.”
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Headland continued (below):
“So, it seems unlikely to me that if one of them came to harm, the other one would drop dead. But I do think that because their power and their essence has been split, they both feel incomplete without the other one. And whenever another person notices one of them as different, or their whole selves, the way that Sol responds to Osha, the way that the Stranger [aka the Sith warrior portrayed by Manny Jacinto] responds to Osha…
I think that also means that while they’re split, they are not solely dependent on each other as one half and one half, even though that’s what their family of origin would say. And I think it’s the way that the Jedi understand their creation to make sense.”
Hopefully, the full potential of Osha and Mae will be revealed in the eighth and final episode of The Acolyte. The no-name Sith warrior, aka the Stranger, was a complete no-show in episode seven’s flashback storyline. And there are a lot of questions still to be answered by the Disney+ series which continues to score with critics on Rotten Tomatoes (81%). However, the majority of fans (audience score of only 14%) remain quite upset by some of the canon-killing the Star Wars show is arguably responsible for.
The Acolyte’s
final episode of Season 1 drops Tuesday, July 16 at 9 p.m. EDT on
Disney+.
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