I Can't Believe The Acolyte's Cool Helmet Is Han's Hoth Jacket All Over Again

Lots of shocking things came retired of this week’s occurrence of The Acolyte, but for me, 1 stands supra the rest. It’s the information that our caller favourite maybe-Sith, the Stranger, is wearing a bronze helmet, not a achromatic helmet.

If you’re speechmaking this, you’ve astir apt seen the occurrence already oregon astatine slightest 1 of the episodes with this creepy caller villain truthful you person an thought of what helium looks like. Well, aft the episode, Hasbro released images of its replica version of the helmet and it’s agleam bronze, which I recovered shocking. Watching the show, I thought it was black. Star Wars atrocious guys (Vader, Maul, Kylo, Palpatine) thin to similar black.

The prop replica helmet.Image: Hasbro

The presumption present is 1 of 2 things. The astir apt anticipation is that, successful the world of the show, the helmet was bronze erstwhile it was caller but has since been successful truthful galore battles that there’s important damage, hence the discoloration. Another anticipation is that the helmet is really bronze on-set but, done lighting and movie magic, it conscionable ends up looking achromatic connected screen. (We’ve really reached retired to Lucasfilm to effort and clarify this and volition update the station if oregon erstwhile we find out.)

Now, wherefore is this absorbing astatine all? Well because, arsenic astir Star Wars fans know, it’s happened before. In The Empire Strikes Back, Han Solo’s overgarment connected Hoth looks blue connected screen. In fact, it looks truthful bluish connected surface that erstwhile Kenner made toys of Han from those scenes, the toys wore blue. So, for a generation, everyone assumed the overgarment was blue. However, it was aboriginal revealed the existent on-set overgarment was brown. Debates rage to this time of which overgarment is the existent one, the 1 that was connected acceptable oregon the 1 we deliberation we see?

Perception is simply a large contented successful presumption of the Stranger too. For the archetypal 4 episodes, we didn’t spot overmuch of him and adjacent erstwhile we did, helium was ever successful the inheritance truthful helium looked similar helium was wearing each black. More Kylo Ren than Snoke. In the caller occurrence though, we yet get to spot the quality successful close-up and you tin decidedly spot a premix of bronze and black. This caller Acolyte poster is the clearest mentation of this.

Bronze? Black? Bit of both? Bit of both!Image: Lucasfilm

So yeah. It’s bronze. And Han’s overgarment is brown. But I don’t care. I similar what I deliberation I spot connected screen. Which, understandably, whitethorn not beryllium a fashionable opinion. Manufacturers thin to spell with the on-set notation provided by the workplace and if it’s bronze, that’s fine. But travel on! The overgarment looks blue. The helmet looks blackened. And I’d ne'er person known either was really a antithetic colour if not for merchandising.

Where bash you basal connected this debate? Is the Stranger’s cortosis helmet achromatic oregon bronze to you? What astir Han’s Hoth jacket? Let america cognize below.

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