It’s Tuesday evening, people, and that may imply just one factor: The Acolyte, which is both the very best news of the week or the worst news of the week, relying on the place you stand with this present. First, let’s recap all the things that has occurred earlier than diving into our The Acolyte Episode 5 recap and spoilers.
Twin sisters Mae and Osha thought the opposite lifeless after an incident years in the past. Mae turned evil and commenced looking the Jedi accountable. Osha joined the Jedi for a time earlier than stepping away to forestall house fires however reluctantly returned to the Order to cease her sister. Uh, then everybody went on the lookout for a Wookiee Jedi … Mae stated, “F— it, I’m good now,” deserted her mission, and in the end found the Wookiee Jedi’s corpse simply as our heroes arrived. A darkish determine many followers have dubbed Smilo Ren out of the blue seems, brandishing a pink lightsaber.
Maybe this episode will inject some life into the proceedings with some much-needed lightsaber motion. Let’s do that!
Star Wars: The Acolyte Episode 5 recap and spoilers
Episode 5, titled “Night,” opens with Osha mendacity amongst the comb after getting tossed apart by the darkish determine. She awakens to a ghastly sight: a lifeless physique mendacity amongst scorched earth. Beyond the timber, she sees lightsabers flailing about. Sol’s Jedi power is getting knocked round by the darkish determine who slashes and stabs everybody in sight like Emperor Palpatine on steroids.
Admittedly, the battle choreography seems to be nice.
Osha shoots a stun gun on the darkish determine, who brushes off the assault as if swatting a fly. The darkish determine then chases her into the comb, presses X, and tosses its lightsaber, which slices via a grouping of timber. Sol steps up on the final second and orders Yord to take Osha again to the ship, and we put together for battle.
Yord and Osha observe the nugatory squirrel tracker.
Smilo Ren is completely Darth Mom (Mother Koril), and she or he simply overpowers Sol.
Meanwhile, Jecki decides to take Mae head-on. Somehow, the tiny Padawan holds her personal towards Mae’s throwing knives higher than Indara. The pair throw shit at one another.
Yord hears his apprentice’s cries and says, “Eh, Jecki can deal with herself.” Wut. He pulls out his lightsaber, getting ready to homicide the foliage, after which tells Osha that the darkish determine can get everybody’s head. “You know, like Professor X.”
“My mom may do this.” Cue the Arrested Development jingle.
Now, which mom may do that continues to be a thriller. (It’s Mother Koril.)
Nearby, Jecki makes use of the Cobra Kai technique of sweeping the leg and knocks Mae to the bottom, admonishing her for taking the Jedi Wookiee’s weapon. Mother Koril, I imply, the darkish determine, arrives and tosses Jecki apart. “Mae, you possibly can study from this Padawan.” Jerk.
Luckily, Jecki has one other lightsaber and goes full-on Anakin in Attack of the Clones. Watching lightsabers by no means will get outdated. Somehow, Jecki survives, however the darkish determine runs after Mae, who flees into the woods. Sol arrives and engages the darkish determine.
Mae pulls a Luke and calls to Osah together with her thoughts. “We’ve obtained to return,” she tells Yord. “I do know the place Mae is!”
She flips on a flashlight, makes use of it to draw these bizarre tree bugs, and runs to the battle.
Speaking of which, Sol and Jecki fight the darkish determine till the evil bastard stabs the younger Padawan to loss of life (with a hidden blade, no much less) — however solely after she knocks off his helmet. Her physique falls, and … it’s Qimir.
Okay, to be truthful, I believed the present was utilizing the person as a pink herring to make us consider he was the darkish determine. He was too apparent. I ought to’ve identified the writers have been Rings of Power followers. Why subvert expectations when you may … telegraph your principal twist?
Qimir takes Mae hostage. “Who are you,” Sol asks, defeated.
“I’ve no identify,” Qimir, or Man With No Name, says. “But Jedi name me … Sith.”
“What would you like,” Sol beckons.
“Freedom,” MWNN says.
“You’re a prisoner?”
“It’s all a part of the entire Sith gig — phenomenal cosmic powers, itty bitty room to play with them.” He needs an Acolyte and an apprentice and the power to coach as he sees match. “This one uncovered me,” he says, gripping Mae more durable. “Now, I’ve to kill all of you.”
Suddenly, Yord exhibits up and does one thing value—eh, by no means thoughts. MWNN snaps his neck. Gawd, this went from a G-rated piece of fantasy sci-fi fluff to a darkish and brutal homicide fest in a rush.
Mae as soon as once more tries to run, and as soon as once more, Osha goals a stun gun at her. Except this time, she fires and hits her goal.
Sol does what he does finest: assault MWNN with out a lightsaber. He throws some nifty punches, knocks the Sith to the bottom, and is about to ship the killing blow, however Osha stops him. Imagine how a lot ache and struggling Sol may have prevented had he performed what was crucial. “The Jedi don’t assault the unarmed.” (Clint Eastwood would’ve blown the sucker away. “He ought to’ve armed himself.”)
“Do you continue to belief him, even after what he did to you,” MWNN asks Osha. Sol’s like, “Erm.”
Osha notices the tree bugs flapping above. “Sol,” she says fairly loudly and glances up. He follows her gaze and retracts his blade. Remember that MWNN is watching him the entire time however by some means doesn’t discover this very apparent little bit of subterfuge.
“You have all these guidelines, and also you assume they’ll prevent,” MWNN says, snatching his blade, prepared to complete the battle. Osha leaps and attaches her flashlight (or Pip’s head) to his again, and the tree bugs assault. Ha! There’s no approach these goofy bugs can cease a person who simply took down a dozen Jedi by hims— oh, the bugs carry him away into the forest.
I didn’t count on that.
Osha decides to confront Sol reasonably than make a run for it. “What did you do?”
“I’ll clarify,” Sol says.
Suddenly, Mae arrives and blasts him with a stun gun. “The Jedi ain’t value a rattling, everybody’s obtained a stun gun!”
Osha and Mae embrace. For a second, it’s like Frozen. Then, Osha places her sister in a headlock and we’re again to Kill Bill. “You’re underneath arrest.” Mae wiggles free, and I’m reminded of this bit from Planes, Trains, and Automobiles:
Mae makes use of the facility of the Thread to push Osha away and apparently knocks her out. That labored out properly. Then, she ignites her saber and dramatically cuts her hair. The music swells like we simply witnessed God’s return—not since Tangled have we seen a extra excellent haircut.
MWNN lastly kills the bugs and lands on his ft. Took him lengthy sufficient.
Mae, having apparently watched Sunday’s episode of House of the Dragon, returns to Sol disguised as Osha. Somewhere, Erryk and Arryk smirk.
“Where is your sister,” Sol asks.
“She’s gone.”
Ever the sucker, Sol refuses to learn her thoughts. He and Maeosha as an alternative head again to the ship. Granted, actress Amandla Stenberg has performed a exceptional job portraying every character as the identical damned individual. It’d be arduous to distinguish between the pair.
MWNN finds Osha’s physique, heals her wound, after which provides her a blankie. Ah, so now the roles have switched, you see. That’s subversion!
The Acolyte Episode 6 theories and ideas
Okay, okay. I’ve slammed this present fairly a bit during the last month, however I’ll admit, this episode was good. Not nice, however good. The motion was surprisingly brutal, the choreography was sound, and for as soon as, I may see the place a few of that $180 million price range was spent.
The Qimir reveal was dumb, however Manny Jacinto no less than seems to be the a part of a formidable warrior. His battle sequences with Lee Jung-Jae and Dafne Keen have been fairly nice, even when everybody fully uncared for Jedi Tormund’s directions final week about not losing any motion on foolish prospers.
Also, Jung-Jae is fairly nice on this present. So is (was?) Keen, regardless of her underwritten function. And yeah, I discovered Jacinto intimidating. Director Alex Garcia Lopez did a strong job capturing the chaos, and that is in all probability the primary time I’ve seen Michael Abels’ rating.
Hell, should you squint arduous sufficient, the episode even resembled Star Wars.
Still, questions stay:
- How does Qimir match into all of this? Did he kill everybody at Witch Island?
- Are Mae and Osha’s moms lifeless? If so, meaning they died in that goofy-looking fireplace, and that’s actually dumb. I nonetheless assume they seem sooner or later, possible as the primary villains.
- What did Sol and the Jedi do this was so unhealthy? It couldn’t have been worse than the facility of 1, the facility of two, the facility of many …
- What was the purpose of Yord? He has a handful of strange moments, bullies Osha, and dies unheroically. Essentially, he was a Red Shirt with a half-written backstory.
- Why can’t any of the background extras have traces? Sol arrives on the planet with a gaggle of Jedi, and so they all die with out saying a phrase. Were they NPCs? Is this all one large online game?
- So, is Mae fixing to go on a Jedi Temple rampage, or is she pulling a Talented Mr. Ripley and assuming her sister’s id? If so, why didn’t she, you already know, truly kill her sister?
- Who introduced all of the stun weapons?
- What the hell is that tracker factor doing?
- Why does Mae/Osha at all times react to all the things with the identical bland expression? Osha doesn’t even react a lot to Jecki’s loss of life. My Lord, this character makes live-action Ahsoka appear to be Daffy Duck by comparability.
Overall, an entertaining episode. It’s too unhealthy we don’t care about these individuals as a result of the motion was fairly thrilling. Unfortunately, the primary 4 episodes look even worse now. Why have been the writers padding the runtime with ineffective filler reasonably than utilizing the earlier two hours to flesh out these characters extra satisfactorily?
Episode 4, specifically, is an egregious instance of wasted time as nothing occurred. Why not spend extra time constructing Osha’s character into one thing extra, ah, something? Why not give us a number of scenes demonstrating how Mae’s evil actions have an effect on her soul?
It’s clear the writers are constructing in the direction of large story beats however are uncertain the way to fill within the gaps between them. We’ve spent far too lengthy questioning round Coruscant in boring Jedi conferences or on pointless facet quests that grind the narrative to a halt.
At this level in Star Wars, or across the 2.5-hour mark, Luke had already destroyed the Death Star and despatched the viewers packing. The Acolyte has one other 90 minutes to go!
Also, I don’t know how a lot lore the episode breaks by revealing the Sith 100 years earlier than The Phantom Menace, however I think about some followers received’t be completely happy. Still, no less than one thing worthwhile occurred this week and there have been lightsabers.
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