Star Wars: The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland confirms that cameo within the finale is strictly who you assume it’s
SPOILERS for the season finale of The Acolyte. After eight episodes, The Acolyte has come to an finish with loads of surprises, but it surely additionally left a lot of dangling threads that can hopefully be picked up in a second season, together with a sure cameo from a personality who has by no means been seen in a Star Wars film or TV present till now.
A mere 12 minutes into the finale, The Stranger (Manny Jacinto) and Osha (Amandla Stenberg) depart seeking Mae, however they’re watched by a mysterious determine lurking within the shadows. Whereas talking with IndieWire, The Acolyte showrunner Leslye Headland confirmed that the cameo was none apart from Darth Plagueis, the longer term grasp of Sheev Palpatine. The character was first talked about in Revenge of the Sith when Palpatine tells Anakin Skywalker about “the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Clever,” a Sith who was so highly effective he had the facility to create life.
Headland all the time needed to incorporate the character in The Acolyte. “Plagueis was all the time within the finale, in each model,” she mentioned, however added that Plagueis was initially set to look within the last moments as a substitute of the episode’s different cameo. “There was a model the place he was the button of the finale [instead of Yoda],” Headland mentioned. “[But] You need to really feel Osha’s triumph. You need to really feel her becoming a member of forces with The Stranger. Plagueis stepped on [that moment].”
Plagueis is understood to be obsessive about reaching immortality, so you possibly can perceive why he can be enthusiastic about Osha and Mae as step one to his plans. Given what we all know of the longer term, his presence additionally probably spells doom for Osha and the Stranger. “Although [Osha and The Stranger] are standing there, type of searching on the sundown, prepared to beat the world, the tragedy is we all know they don’t,” Headland defined. “We all know there can solely be two. We all know Plagueis is there. We all know that these two are doomed ultimately. So to me it’s a bittersweet tragedy, this foreboding ending. However that’s as a result of I do know concerning the Sith lineage and all these different issues, whereas I believe a unique subset of the viewers might be like, ‘They’re married!’“
Regardless of a reasonably divided response, The Acolyte has confirmed to be successful for Disney+ because it was the streaming service’s largest collection premiere of the 12 months. You possibly can take a look at a evaluate from our personal Alex Maidy proper right here.
