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The Acolyte Is Not the Star Wars You Were Looking For
And that’s a very good thing.
After the original trilogy, Star Wars media like Phantom Menace, Rogue One, The Last Jedi, and the video games Knights of the Old Republic and Survivor explored this framing, and The Acolyte leans into that concept as the series goes on. Plus, it’s the kind of detail that helps ground The Acolyte in relatable experiences rather than, like, that time Donald Glover’s version of Lando Calrissian rejected L3-37’s desire to be independent and transferred the female-coded droid’s consciousness into the Millennium Falcon, trapping L3-37 there forever. One of the simplest things Star Wars embraces to signify the immersive otherness of its universe is making the food just slightly odd (lumpy or cube-shaped, or utterly unrecognizable); in The Acolyte, we get a sweet treat called “spice creams,” about which I have a million questions.
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