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The Acolyte Recap: All For the Wookiee
A simple quest and lack of weighty backstory make for an enjoyably low-key, if incomplete-feeling, episode.
When the great film critic Pauline Kael reviewed Star Wars for The New Yorker back in 1977, she praised the picture’s crowd-pleasing craft but also dinged George Lucas for what she regarded as an overall flatness of style and lack of vision. Writing about the Princess Leia character in particular, Kael famously wrote, “In a gesture toward equality of the sexes, the high-school-cheerleader princess-in-distress talks tomboy-tough… (but) is it because the picture is synthesized from the mythology of serials and old comic books that it didn’t occur to anybody that she could get the Force?” In this week’s The Acolyte episode, titled “Day,” most of the show’s major characters converge on the planet Khofar in search of Kelnacca (Joonas Suotamo), the Wookiee who was stationed on Brendok with Sol, Indara and Torbin when the Jedi disastrously attempted to recruit Osha into the Order.
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