A Look At Sol's Choices Seen In 'The Acolyte' Episode 7

Star Wars

Jul 12

This week's episode of The Acolyte gave us a different perspective on what happened to Brendok. Fans saw what happened that night from the Jedi’s point of view. Unfortunately the Jedi, namely Padawan Torbin and Master Sol were the biggest perpetrators of what went down. No one came out unscathed after a series of bad decisions and misunderstandings. Master Sol is a great character and Jedi, but he did have some very questionable decisions in this episode. Let’s take a look at those choices, and see how they played out.

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The first one is what set everything in motion for the episode. Torbin wasn’t himself after getting his mind infiltrated by Mother Aniseya. At one point, he realizes that the girls are the vergence they were looking for, and goes off to the compound. Instead of stopping Torbin, he helps him to get into the compound and get the girls. Of course, the Coven does not take this lightly and perceives them as a threat. A fight breaks out between the Jedi after Kelnacca is possessed. This whole event leads to the downfall of the Coven and leads Sol to make an impossible choice of which girl to save.

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Next, is killing the twin's mother. In his defense, however, she was turning into smoke and had no idea what her motive was. He was under the impression that she wasn't going to let Osha leave. This was not the case, but by then it was too late because Sol had already stabbed Mother Aniseya with his lightsaber. Even worse was that it happened in front of Mae, who already didn’t trust the Jedi. Communication would've been key here, and even though the Jedi weren't welcome, a lot less blood would've been spilled if they just talked it out.

When it comes to choosing Mae or Osha, he is always going to choose Osha. We all know Jedi can't form attachments, but it seems that Sol never got that memo. He has formed one with Osha, but it could be argued that he may have formed one with the wrong girl, as he has mistaken them, and called Mae by her sister’s name a few times. When the compound is burning, the girls are facing each other on a collapsing bridge, and Sol does his best to suspend both of them in the air. However, his force isn’t as strong, and has to make the impossible choice as to which girl to save. He chooses Osha and lets Mae fall to what he thinks, is her death.

We always knew there was more to Sol than he was letting on, we just didn't think it was going to be this bad. He made the choices he had to, and I don't hate him because of it. The Jedi have never been perfect, and have made their fair share of mistakes. We have seen this in the prequels as well. At the end of the day, they're human, and bad things are going to happen. This doesn’t mean they all deserved to be wiped out, and that they're worse than the Empire because they're not. The Empire is still leagues worse than the Jedi ever could be.

Lee Jung-Jae has done an amazing job as Master Sol. The character is amazing and reminds me a lot of Qui Gon Jinn. There's only one episode left, and I am terrified as to what is going to happen to him. I hope he somehow survives, but it's more realistic that he won't., and if you’re familiar with the High Republic novels, you should never get too invested in a character, because most of them don’t make it out. Whatever happens, we as Star Wars fans were lucky enough to have him on our screens for one season.

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