Why The Acolyte Introduced That Iconic Star Wars Character

One of The Acolyte‘s biggest strengths was that it was astir wholly devoid of immoderate legacy Star Wars characters. The High Republic clip period dictated that for the astir part, arsenic did creator Leslye Headland’s story, which dove into aspects of the franchise that had yet to beryllium explored.

There was 1 quality who everyone knows and was live during the clip play though, and the amusement waited until virtually the past imaginable 2nd to present them. It was a determination that wasn’t made lightly.

After lying astir what happened to Sol and the remainder of the dormant Jedi, Jedi Master Vernestra Rwoh decides to archer her superior astir what’s going on. “Sorry to disturb you, Master,” Vernestra says. “We request to talk.” As the country ends, we spot the unmistakable greenish ears of Master Yoda perk up.

“There were some, I’d accidental astir spiritual conversations astir utilizing specified an iconic character,” Headland told Inverse. “I felt powerfully astir it due to the fact that I felt that to me, Vernestra was successful a concern that was truthful heightened and truly needed to beryllium taken attraction of internally. She was already feeling this unit of, ‘If you don’t person a suspect, past we person a existent problem.’ Rayencourt suggests the interior reappraisal of the Jedi, evidently astatine the tiny council, but Chancellor Drellik doesn’t doesn’t corroborate oregon contradict that request. It felt similar she had to study to her superior and fto him cognize what’s up, and astir apt archer him astir what happened betwixt her and her padawan.”

So that’s the communicative reason, but Headland and Lucasfilm knew that bringing successful specified a fashionable and well-explored quality could person greater ramifications too.

“I was besides conscionable funny successful Phantom Menace,” Headland continued. “When helium instantly is like, ‘There’s ever a maestro and apprentice.’ It’s not similar helium was live during the New Sith Wars, truthful I conjecture there’s a accidental that it was a portion of accusation that was passed down done the generations. But due to the fact that I had the accidental to enactment successful Star Wars, I conscionable deliberation a much absorbing mentation of this is that helium has immoderate benignant of knowing of what’s going on—and it’s not similar it’s the archetypal clip Yoda has hidden thing from the Senate and the Republic. In The Clone Wars season six it’s revealed that helium covered up the instauration of the clone service and asked everybody to not accidental who was down it. So it conscionable felt to maine that determination was thing amusive to research determination if we were allowed to speech about, and to bash much seasons. There was a large speech astir including him. But I conscionable thought… I mean, it’s my show.”

Yes it is. And present we’ll, hopefully if a play 2 happens, get to spot what Yoda does with this accusation astir a brace of murderous acheronian broadside villains. Will helium hold with Vernestra’s lie? Will he, himself, question them out? Come connected Lucasfilm, renew this show!

Watch Yoda’s cameo over connected Disney+ and work much from Headland astatine Inverse.

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