Twenty minutes of padding qualified last night's Acolyte to be considered an episode of a television series. Creator Leslye Headland co-wrote the episode so what little did happen is extra official.
It's official, Qimir is eye candy for the female audience Lucasfilm has been desperately courting for some reason. Qimir gets naked for Osha which convinces her to hear him out despite his history of murder and manipulation. Can you imagine if male screenwriters so blatantly insulted women?
By contrast, Sol ties up Mae when he finds out about the switch. Apparently he couldn't just sense she was a different person, he needed Bazil the sniffing alien to tell him. How does that effect my theory that one sister is a Force projection of the other? Well, the fact that they smell different certainly makes it less likely. The fact that Sol couldn't sense a difference between the two seems like it should make it more likely. Whatever happens, I'm sure it won't make any sense.
Mae takes a moment to bully Osha's droid. I feel I should take a moment here to note that the cute little comrades, Bazil and the droid, aren't very endearing. I remember the droid on Andor contributed so much to the show's tension because of his vulnerability and the sense that he depended on Andor and his mother. The little fellow on Acolyte is just kind of a gimp. I think we're meant to feel bad every time he's hurt but it's like screenwriters with no maternal instinct are trying to inspire maternal instinct. It comes off weird.
I feel like we're supposed to be thinking Venestra is really cool. A picture of her head is the thumbnail for the episode, green and bald, looking very Star Trek: TNG. Like, "Come for the Carrie Anne Moss, stay for . . . uh, Rebecca Henderson!" Anyone excited by her purple lightsaber whip? Maybe she'll use it on Osha's droid.
The Acolyte is available on Disney+.
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