Don’t be concerned Dagan Gera – I have not forgotten you.
This text incorporates spoilers for The Acolyte and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.
There’s a lot to speak about within the season finale for Star Wars‘ newest live-action entry on Disney+ – whether or not or not you have watched the episode of The Acolyte for your self now that we’re a number of days out from its premiere, it is extraordinarily probably you are conscious of the dialogue across the sequence. One of many reoccurring subjects has been the live-action depiction of a lightsaber’s supply of energy, the Kyber crystal, being “bled” to alter from its sensible blue shade to the sinister pink that conjures up worry throughout the galaxy.
Star Wars audiences have been listening to concerning the idea of lightsaber bleeding because the launch of E. Ok. Johnston’s Ahsoka in 2016 and have seen the method occur visually for the primary time a 12 months later in 2017 with the discharge of Marvel comics situation Darth Vader #5, information which can be being persistently included in discussions this previous week. What’s being missed, forgotten, and hopefully simply not merely ignored is that Star Wars audiences – a minimum of those that crossover from watching or studying content material into gaming – is that now we have already seen a lightsaber bleed be carried out on the display screen…simply not in live-action.
Star Wars: Jedi Survivor celebrated its first birthday in April, and it was really Respawn Leisure’s recreation that introduced this course of to screens for the primary time in 2023. When the sequence’ protagonist Cal Kestis finds a mysterious Jedi from the Excessive Republic period submerged in a bacta tank and rescues the stranger from his suspended state, the Jedi wastes no time in giving into the hatred and anger he feels as a result of Jedi of his time leaving him within the tank for 2 centuries – it is right here that we see what was as soon as a shining yellow blade grow to be pink.
It is Dagan Gera (splendidly portrayed by Cody Fern) that enables Star Wars followers to see the primary lightsaber bleed carried out, so if you happen to’re desirous to see this course of happen elsewhere exterior of The Acolyte, you are in luck – even more-so as a result of Dagan’s scene will can help you see this course of carried out in a really totally different means than with Osha. For Dagan, it’s a clear and intentional resolution that he actively bleeds the crystal himself, knowingly and intentionally turning his again on the Jedi Order that turned their backs on him. Provided that these two scenes are so totally different it is going to be fascinating to see how Star Wars makes use of the method sooner or later, and the way extra Power customers’ lightsabers grow to be the fear-inspiring glowing scarlet.
Largely, I simply could not let Dagan Gera be erased.
