Double Double, Jedi in Trouble

Episode seven of The Acolyte aired last night, an extra long episode, clocking in at at least 34 minutes, minus credits. The credits were kind of an important part this time, though, including as they do a very not-Star Warsy sounding R&B song that dishes at length about the main characters.

Seriously, I'm going to be really surprised if my "Force projection" theory is wrong at this point. First they showed Osha and Mae reciting that weird poem in the recap, then they showed them reciting it again in the episode. This comes before the reveal that their blood samples show they're a single consciousness. So, yeah. I think Mae really died and the adult Mae we see is Osha's Force projection, just like Luke did in Last Jedi, except she's doing it subconsciously.

This would all be more interesting if Osha and Mae hadn't become so wishy-washy by this point. In this new episode, we even see a bit from Mae's perspective in which we see she really didn't want to burn the place down. Just as in the present she now doesn't really want to be a Sith. You'd think killing Carrie Anne Moss and the guy with the fake beard would've strengthened her resolve.

In this episode, there's a shot where the Jedi are analysing plantlife on Osha and Mae's planet. Sol is in the foreground holding some moss and you can see Carrie Anne Moss in the background and I thought, what a missed opportunity to have Carrie Anne Moss carry a moss.

So, again, I think this is all reverse engineered from an academic's analysis of indigenous versus colonist experience. The two personae of a single consciousness, Osha and Mae, is like how a member of an indigenous culture would have two different personality modes, one to engage with the outsiders and one that holds true to the culture of the old tribe.

Colonialist encounters can be messy with disastrous misunderstandings, which would be the point of Sol stabbing Osha and Mae's mother when it seemed she was changing into a giant death bird. Meanwhile, the coven mother was merely . . . I'm not sure what she was trying to do.

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