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Last nighttime , Lucasfilm’sThe Acolytewrapped up its eight - sequence debut time of year . The series , created byRussian Dollco - creator Leslye Headland , went out with an action - pack sequence that brought many of its storylines to a skinny and at the same time set the stagecoach for a magnanimous and potentially darker next chapter . The finale wasn’tThe Acolyte‘s worst sequence to engagement , nor was it the show ’s expert . rather , it ’s a mixed bag — much like the serial itself — of impactful - on - paper moments and twists that do n’t all ground with the weight that Headland and party clearly intended .
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The episode raises multiple questions aboutThe Acolyte‘s time to come , though , and it also sheds some further light on the problems that have dragged its first time of year down these past few week . With that in judgment , here ’s whatStar warfare fansshould know aboutThe Acolyte‘s time of year 1 finale , how it set up up another chapter of the show , and what the likelihood is that it will even be renewed .
What happens in The Acolyte’s season 1 finale?
In the final human action ofThe Acolyte‘s 8th episode , the Sojourner Truth finally come out and Mae ’s ( Amandla Stenberg ) charge is fulfil , though not by herself . The episode ’s climax fitly takes place in the smash fortress of Mae and Osha ’s former coven , and it ’s there that Sol ( Lee Jung - jae ) lastly include out loud for Osha ( also played by Stenberg ) to hear that he killed her mother , Aniseya ( Jodie Turner - Smith ) . As Sol tries to defend his actions , Osha tells him , “ Stop talking . ” Her request becomes an order when she uses the Force to halter him — killing her former Jedi Master without a weapon system , just like Qimir commanded Mae to do beforeThe Acolyteseason 1 began .
In the aftermath of Sol ’s death , Jedi Master Vernestra ( Rebecca Henderson ) get on Brendok with a routine of other Jedi and at once detects Qimir ’s presence . Despite knowing that Sol was likely killed by a dark-skinned Force exploiter , though , Vernestra cover up the consequence ofThe Acolyteseason 1 by pinning all of the deaths throughout it on Sol . She secernate the Galactic Senate that Sol ultimately killed himself out of guilt feelings — effectively kick - startingthe Jedi Order‘s transformation from a good-hearted religious order into a politically given , tainted organization .
Osha , meanwhile , demands that Qimir ( known formally as “ The Stranger ” ) let Mae hold up in exchange for her taking her sister ’s shoes as his new prentice . Qimir agrees and wipes Mae ’s memory of both him and Osha — go forth her to be find and questioned to no avail by her eventual Jedi captors . He and Osha subsequently return to his Sith hideaway with Sol ’s lightsaber , which Osha turned red when she unwittingly used her negative emotion to make the kyber crystal within it phlebotomize . The Acolyte‘s season 1 coda then ends with Osha and Qimir shifting their regard to the time to come together .
Darth Plagueis and Yoda: How The Acolyte’s finale sets up a second season
WhileThe Acolyte‘s latest instalment wraps up a lot of its first season ’s overarching plot threads , it also introduces several new plot line for the show to follow moving forward . The episode ’s biggest reveal come early on in its runtime when it cuts away from Qimir and Osha to show a mysterious alien figure find out their ship set off for Brendok . The character ’s name is not express in the episode , but given his Muun - corresponding coming into court , The Acolyte‘s setting , and the ominous mood of his introduction , he is almost sure enough none other than Darth Plagueis , the brawny Sith who goes on to teach and be killed by Emperor Palpatine / Darth Sidious ( Ian McDiarmid ) .
Plagueis ’ brief appearance inThe Acolyteepisode 8 suggest that he is probable Qimir ’s Sith Master , whom Star Wars buff had already begin to speculate had n’t been killed yet . Either manner , the part ’s live - natural action introduction opens the door for a second season ofThe Acolyteto potentially play off Osha and Qimir against Plagueis , which is a conflict that presumptively would n’t go well for the two younger characters . It wo n’t , after all , be another 100 years from whenThe Acolyteis currently set that Plagueis is ultimately get the better of and killed by Palpatine .
In addition to its Plagueis Easter egg , The Acolyte‘s time of year 1 finale also reassert that Qimir is an old pupil of Vernestra , who seems greatly unnerved by her discovery that he ’s still alive . The episode ’s last scene even sees Vernestra volitionally seek out Jedi Master Yoda for advice . Taking that into business relationship , it seems dependable to assume that — ifThe Acolytedoes return with new episodes — its 2d time of year will split its focus between Qimir ’s training of Osha , Plagueis ’ behind - the - fit Sith machinations , and Yoda and Vernestra ’s ongoing investigation into the violent return of the latter ’s former bookman .
Is The Acolyte season 2 happening?
As of this composition , Lucasfilm has neither renewedThe Acolytefor a second season , nor has it canceled the series . unluckily , it may be a few days , weeks , or even months before we learn more about the studio ’s plan for the show . The Acolytehas certainly issue as a divisive talk point in late week , but it ’s unclear whether Lucasfilm views the series as a winner or not yet . While it was initially met with positivist reviews from critic , the show ’s most late episodes have n’t been received as well . The critical conversations surrounding it have , therefore , been an intense mixing of both plus and disconfirming .
Lucasfilm ’s decision may , therefore , come down solely to the studio apartment ’s belief in Headland ’s visual sensation forThe Acolyte . If it does fall back , here ’s to desire that the serial contend to unbend out some of the pacing , tonal , and structural issues that chevy its first season . At dissimilar points , The Acolyteseason 1 felt alternately like a two - hour movie that had been stretched to accommodate eight episode and like a 13- or 20 - chapter idiot box season that had been cut down to its plain ego . Its finis did n’t do much to fix that yield . The climactic installment institutionalize the season out with a handful of largely predictable confrontation and twists , virtually all of which only work half as well as they could have if they had been prepare more soundly and execute more intensely .
With all that said , The Acolytestill has the electric potential to reach some truly smashing heights — even if its first time of year decidedly did n’t . Only time will secern whether or not it ’ll get the chance to examine again .
The Acolyteseason 1 is pour now onDisney+ .
