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Our review of the latest episode of The Acolyte…
This Star Wars: The Acolyte review contains spoilers.
Sols entire arc has been building to this, the most convoluted, head-scratching episode of the series yet.
The second-to-last episode of a season is supposed to be explosive, revelatory, climactic!
Butas with the Stranger last week, the show continues to undermine its greatest assets.
The material never quite matches the level of gravitas Lee Jung-jae injects into his scenes.
The crux of the episode is that Sol isnt as virtuous as hes appeared up to this point.
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On paper, in broad strokes, this makes sense.
But that is not how its played onscreen.
Instead, the show tries to have it both ways.
Sure, Sol insisted on manipulating Osha to fly to Coruscant with him.
But he was just trying to keep her safe.
Okay, so he murdered the twins mom.
But it wasnt premeditatedit all happened so fast.
Yes, he let Mae fall to her doom.
But what else was he supposed to do?
His Force power wasnt Force-y enough to save them both!!!
If youre going to turn Sol upside down, turn him upside down.
Its as if they were all but forced to make the bad choices they made because theyretoo compassionate.
Sure, good people sometimes do bad things and vice versa.
Indara killed the coven, but sheesh, they were trying to kill her friends.
How are we meant to feel about all this?
Do we hate them?
Do we love them?
Scratch that: Thatsaproblem.
Sol claims that nothing could be more important to the Jedi than protecting and researching a vergence.
Okay, so a vergence can create life.
But guess what else can?
Isnt the Jedi Orders mission to keep the peace and protect people?
How the hell did this vergence thing skip to the front of the line?
At least we finally get to see Kelnacca in action.
The result looks a bit stiff onscreen, but theres a definite cool factor.
But even in that case, the show wants to have its cake and eat it too.
We were led to believe Mae had burned the Coven to the ground.
This made us feel some pop in of way about her.
Now we find out the fire was an accident.
Instead, we feel less when we should be feeling more.
Choice is a convoluted mess.
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Rating:
2 out of 5
