The Acolyte Official “The Acolyte” Series Discussion Thread (Spoilers Allowed)

make the story yess thorw in characters who make sene and are alive in that era, like Yoda, Dooku, Plagueis, you can have the wookie jedi's from the high republic books. if you wan you can oso have Oppo Rancis and the long neck jedi from TPM.

 

Considering what we know of this show, I don't think having many familiar characters appear would make a lot of sense. Any Jedi should have the potential to be killed off.

Focusing on familiar settings would be better than familiar characters. Korriban, Onderon, Dathomir, Exegol, etc.

 

I don't the only focus will be the acolyte i think there'll be focus on ther things like the jedi, so Yoda is probarly 90% a sure thing. Kinda like Andor i doubt Cassian meets with Saw or Krennic or Tarkin.

 

If the Acolyte is of the Dark Side and she is serving a Sith Lord then we won't be seeing Yoda, unless they want to paint him as the worst Jedi ever.

 

I think like some some like Andor porbarly we will get perspective of the and the jedi, mostly the sith but we willalso see the jedi and the republic. Yoda and other jedi will be in but have decent role and the sith the main role. Like we see the rebels and empire in their perspective, we could see same with sith and jedi/republic.

 

This show will be great, give me lady sith.

 

I don't think having a Sith protagonist in this show automatically makes her the "good guy", at least I hope not. We just need to care about her enough and understand where she's coming from enough to follow her story, but I think there's plenty of room to have good Jedi characters in the midst of that.

 

I think people forget, in telivision you can have more then one point of veiw.

 

I am hoping beyond hope that this will be the first show to have zero returning characters but I am expecting somehow a Yoda or Jabba cameo

 

I think Yoda and Dooku are likley with Jabba as ally to the sith.

 

Dooku would be pretty young. That would be intresting to see who they would cast there. Anyway I would still rather see all new characters

 

20 year old Dooku, so he would almost feel like anew character, and the show creator is very into the new EU. I think most will be new characters, like the lead.

 

Dooku wasn't alive in 325 BBY.

 

This show takes place at the end of the high republic. The high republic ended sometime between 90-80BBY. Dooku is almost certainly alive.

 

How so, isn’t this show taking
is about 300 years BBY?

it would probably Focus on Yoda or plagius or maybe a Skywalker ancester of Shmi

It’s just me speculating but all and all, I doubt dooku will be in it.

 

IT is 50years before TPM.

 

That’s a really encouraging interview. It’s clear she both deeply loves Star Wars (she’s a major long-term fan who’s played RPGs, read EU stories and written SW fan fiction), and also knows how to step back to make sure she’s not just speaking fan speak. This interview should be widely read.

 

I hope Leslye headland knows what she is doing because she is also bringing in a creative team to whom might not care about Star Wars itself.

 

Just like Tony Gilroy.

 

But Tony Gilroy did an awesome job with the rogue one reshoots.

 

One. It was literally one writer in the room that Leslye Headland said was new to Star Wars. And as she says in the interview, that writer cared enough to watch Return of the Jedi, or at least read up on the character revelations that happened in it. I sincerely doubt anyone Headland chose for her team wouldn't want to make something great for the franchise.

Putting aside the fact that Headland, the main creative force of the show, is a huge Star Wars fan; that there are other people in the room who also like/love Star Wars in their own way; or that you don't really need to worry about character/universe continuity for a show that is in a totally new era. You don't need to have a deep understanding of the universe to make great characters or interesting storylines, and having a writing team with fresh perspectives might allow them to create something totally unique, something important for a project that seems to be focused around the bad guys.

 

We have no idea if he did or didn't since we never saw the material the reshoots replaced. He says he did an awesome job but then he would. I think it's far more likely the material that was replaced was good in itself for the movie that they originally wanted but then they changed their minds so now it didn't fit.

I suspect the original R1 was a more coherent story but less emotional for the characters.

Where is that from? Everything I've seen says it's set in this "High Republic" era which I've not looked into at all but from the descriptions it seems odd because they talk about the final days of the High Republic era which was the height of the Jedi Order and the end of the prosperous period of the Republic. That makes no sense because that is the story of the PT.

 

She read Heir to the Empire in the 90s, got my vote! Alls I needed.

 

People are saying the series is set 50 years prior to TPM because the High Republic era ended in 82BBY with TPM being 32BBY.

However we were just told this series is set near the end of the HR era. That doesn’t have to translate into “The Acolyte is set in the final year of the era”.

Say if it was set 90BBY, that would still be near the end of the era, since the HR lasted 218 years (began in 300BBY).

Personally I hope the era has more then 1 year left when the show begins. If the series began in 82BBY and lasted several seasons, a good chunk of the series would be early Prequel Era.