The Acolyte 2024
“Fear, is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.“
“You must learn to let go of what you fear to lose.”
Yoda, Star Wars Episode 1 and 3
“It is no accident that the greatest commandment is to love. Authentic love leads us outside ourselves to affirming others, to devoting oneself to the cause of man, to people and above all to God.”
Pope St. John Paul II, in a letter
to Teresa Heydel, December 1956
What is right and wrong? What is choice? What is love and what is selfishness? These are all questions that we must in some way answer ourselves every day. Choices allow us to grow, to hopefully be better people than we were the day before.
In many varied ways The Acolyte asks these questions. It asks us to be honest, to really take stock of what it means to be an upright human being. Certainly, they do not answer or ask these questions perfectly. Though they do try to comprehend them within the context of the Star Wars universe. In other words they ask, what does it truly mean to be a Jedi?
Here though, that question and its answer is murky at best.
At the time of The Acolyte the Jedi are the prevailing forces in the galaxy. They are the beacon of truth and justice throughout Republic systems. Often, a power that has reached its pinnacle must also take into account the possibility of a fall. That fall into complacency and fear, starts here now.
It is not easy to see our heroes suffer and fail. Though The Acolyte takes this downturn with care and precision. It illustrates the antithetical side of the Star Wars universe in a way that the choices that lead to this dark point come across as valid. Though as the show suggests from the outset this is not true. None of this is the Jedi way.
We often try to cover up our failures by hiding them behind illusions of compassion and understanding. We should instead own up to our failings and face the consequences of our actions. If we do so we may be able to find the truth that we so often miss when we think only of ourselves.
The Acolyte deeply understands these truths and the thematic inner workings of the Star Wars universe. More precisely it understands, and tries to convey what happens when we misunderstand the choices that we make and why we make them. It is true The Acolyte presents a Jedi Order that is broken and lost its way. Though isn't that possible in all the journeys that we take? We just need to stop and reorient ourselves towards the truth.
At the end of The Acolytes first season the Jedi are not in a good position. Though it is a position of change, of change, and possibly realization. Either way, creator Leslye Headland and her team have given us a lot to discuss as we continue our journey to uncover the Phantom Menace of the Jedi order.
Rated TV -14 for Violence
I found The Acolyte’s first season to be thought-provoking, engaging, and thematically transporting to its particular place and time in the Star Wars saga. I hope in some way you do too.
to Teresa Heydel, December 1956
What is right and wrong? What is choice? What is love and what is selfishness? These are all questions that we must in some way answer ourselves every day. Choices allow us to grow, to hopefully be better people than we were the day before.
In many varied ways The Acolyte asks these questions. It asks us to be honest, to really take stock of what it means to be an upright human being. Certainly, they do not answer or ask these questions perfectly. Though they do try to comprehend them within the context of the Star Wars universe. In other words they ask, what does it truly mean to be a Jedi?
Here though, that question and its answer is murky at best.
At the time of The Acolyte the Jedi are the prevailing forces in the galaxy. They are the beacon of truth and justice throughout Republic systems. Often, a power that has reached its pinnacle must also take into account the possibility of a fall. That fall into complacency and fear, starts here now.
It is not easy to see our heroes suffer and fail. Though The Acolyte takes this downturn with care and precision. It illustrates the antithetical side of the Star Wars universe in a way that the choices that lead to this dark point come across as valid. Though as the show suggests from the outset this is not true. None of this is the Jedi way.
We often try to cover up our failures by hiding them behind illusions of compassion and understanding. We should instead own up to our failings and face the consequences of our actions. If we do so we may be able to find the truth that we so often miss when we think only of ourselves.
The Acolyte deeply understands these truths and the thematic inner workings of the Star Wars universe. More precisely it understands, and tries to convey what happens when we misunderstand the choices that we make and why we make them. It is true The Acolyte presents a Jedi Order that is broken and lost its way. Though isn't that possible in all the journeys that we take? We just need to stop and reorient ourselves towards the truth.
At the end of The Acolytes first season the Jedi are not in a good position. Though it is a position of change, of change, and possibly realization. Either way, creator Leslye Headland and her team have given us a lot to discuss as we continue our journey to uncover the Phantom Menace of the Jedi order.
Rated TV -14 for Violence
I found The Acolyte’s first season to be thought-provoking, engaging, and thematically transporting to its particular place and time in the Star Wars saga. I hope in some way you do too.
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