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The Best Moments From 'The Acolyte'

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The Acolyte recently ended its first season. While a second season hasn’t officially been announced, many fans are campaigning for the show to continue. The show takes place during the High Republic era and follows twins Osha and Mae. Both are force-sensitive but on different sides. It also follows the Jedi, who are a bit different from the ones we’ve seen before. The show kept getting better with every episode and had some pretty cool moments. Let's take a look at some of the coolest moments from the season.

5. Sol Fighting Qimir/Osha& Mae Fights

Since it was the finale, there was a lot to wrap up, and fights were to be expected. One of the coolest fights seen in the show was during the finale when Sol was fighting Qimir and when Mae was fighting Osha, at the same time. It gave us cool and seamless transitions between the two fights and was a great way to feature both fights. Sol and Qimir’s fight was the cooler of the two and had some martial arts vibes too.

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4. Lightsaber Fight (Episode 5)

This was one of the first lightsaber fights we got in the show. This was also the first time the Jedi encountered Qimir. He is a powerful Sith, or Sith-adjacent, and had the Jedi struggling against him. Yorde and Jecki, who were fan favorites, unfortunately, met their end at the hands of Qimir. Before she was killed, Jecki was able to show off what she learned, and held her own against Qimir, until she couldn't.

3. Jedi Fight (Episode 7)

Episode 7 was another flashback and showed us a different perspective of what happened on Brendok. Unfortunately, this showed that the Jedi were not innocent of what happened to the compound, especially Master Sol and Padawan Torbin. The four Jedi confront the witches in the compound, and it does not go well. Mother Anaiseya uses her powers and possesses Kelnacca, which causes him to fight against his fellow Jedi. It gave us one of the coolest fight moments though, because at one point, Kelnacca swings his lightsaber to hit Master Sol, and Sol jumps above it. It’s such a cool moment and one of my favorites from the show.

2. Lightsaber Bleeding

The Acolyte showed us lightsaber bleeding for the first time. We have seen red lightsabers before, but we’ve never seen them turn red. Bleeding a lightsaber was primarily used by the Dark Side, where they would bend a kyber crystal to their will, using their anger and hatred, and turn it red. During the finale, we saw Osha take Master Sol’s lightsaber, and turn it red. The scene showed us just how it was done, and in my opinion, it's one of the coolest scenes in all of Star Wars.

1. Darth Plagueis Cameo

This cameo was one many fans were waiting for. The finale of course delivered, and we got a glimpse of the wrinkly old Dark Sith Lord. Even though season 2 has not been announced, hopefully, we get one, so we can explore more of Darth Plagueis in live action. There has been some debate around the cameo, as his age would put him at about 15 years old, according to his Legends book. However, that is not canon, so the creators are allowed to change it up a bit. His cameo worked great in the finale and was an exciting moment. I was definitely excited when I saw him appear out of the cave.

The Acolyte was a fresh and exciting Star Wars show. It gave us new characters and the first live-action show in the High Republic era. Various threads were wrapped up, but many more were introduced as well. Let’s hope the show gets a season 2 because it deserves it

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