A thread to discuss The Acolyte.
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The series was created by Leslye Headland (Russian Doll) and will be set during the High Republic.
Edited by Mrph1 on Jun 28th 2024 at 8:46:10 PM
Being that the director said that Rashomon was a big influence on the series, I think it's a given that 1- we've not seen the whole story of what happened. 2- who is doing the recollecting is coloring how each side is portrayed 3- this first time through is NOT what 'actually' happened. I'm mostly worried that the fandom is going to be stupid about it, since The Last Jedi showed that a large portion of the fanbase doesn't 'get' Rashomon plots.
I'm sure in the surface it's meant to look like the Jedi swoop in and kidnap children and get other force cultures killed for not being Jedi - because that has to be what Mae can grow up to believe, but the truth is definitely going to be more complex than that.
We don't know what the coven's history with the republic is, how they made the children,or what killed them during the fire which is a huge amount of unknown factors.
Worth noting that the coven knew they had enemies, because they were training Mae and Osha to defend themselves against those enemies. Be that due to some history with the republic, or a third party.
There's definitely some lesbian coding present with this coven, so I understand the desire for them to be able to have children without it possibly being an afront to the force.
Star Wars is always going to be weird about queer fantasies though, as those narratives will always have to be a small minority inside a wide universe given how utterly not present they were until half a decade into the Disney acquisition.
Hopefully there are.
On that note I have seen people speculate the Coven is connected with Yacombe
, formerly Dark Side cult which has taken neutral stance in the Force, though it is still pretty unpopolar on Jedha. Desing wise I see similiarites, especialy with Mae’s Acolyte outfit, but from what we see in High Republic comics Yacombe also precticed vow of silence, though ic could have easily been dropped by the time of series.
Edited by EmperorGeode on Jun 13th 2024 at 9:49:10 AM
Yeah, I get the feeling the witches are a similar situation to the Yacombe and the Canon version of the Sorcerers of Tund (which got Adaptational Heroism, but have a negative reputation In-Universe because of one apostate in the past).
I wonder if the Jedi now being more invasive with other Force faiths (after cooperating with them at the Convocation of the Force on Jedha 250 years earlier) had something to do with the Path of the Open Hand's activities or Baron Boolan kidnapping people (including children) from those Force faiths and brainwashing them into Jedi-hunters.
Victoria Monet has released a new track for the series.
Yes. An actual song. For Star Wars.
Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Jun 14th 2024 at 6:18:50 AM
You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.Ok, I came across this on the characers' trope pages, and I wanted to check to see if I made some sort of cognitive leap here.
Basically, there were tropes added to Osha and Mae's pages saying they are hybrids who only resemble their human parent.
But I got the impression that Koril only carried the children. I don't see any reason to think she contributed any actual DNA, or she and Aniseya probably would have mentioned that.
Am I off base?
We don't know yet, unfortunately.
We definitely know that Koril carried the twins, specifically, but whether there's any genetic contribution there is completely unknown. We don't know how the twins were created, and it's implied that some very bizarre, possibly eldritch shenanigans are afoot there.
Idk, i think if Koril had any hand in actually making them, that probably would have been brought up (you dont forcefully say "i carried them" in an argument if you've done more than that)
Thats just how carrying a child works. There wouldnt be any genetic material going from Koril to the twins.
Add that to the fact that they have zero Zabrak traits and it seems pretty clear to me they're 100% human, just conceived under strange means. I took this as being very obvious, so I was surprised by tropes calling them hybrids.
Edited by ArthurEld on Jun 15th 2024 at 8:18:37 AM

Something to note is that while Jedi say they will only test girls with premision of their mother, everybody acts that if they pass tests they will have to go, except Sol it seems. Why would their mother othervise said to girls to fail if she could simply go “yeah, I no you cannot take my daugthers to train” if they pass tests.