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The Acolyte Series-Premiere Recap: A Long Time Ago
The premiere could be a lot snappier, but it’s a promising start to the Japanese- and Hong Kong–cinema-inspired series.
This is the era known in Star Wars lore as the High Republic: The galaxy is mostly at peace, governed by trade federations and the quasi-religious, quasi-militaristic order of Jedi knights, with a lot of labor provided by the hyperintelligent robots called droids. There’s a cockiness to the Jedi in this era, seen early in this episode when the swaggering Yord (Charlie Barnett) arrives on a starship to question Osha and immediately starts barking orders at citizens, capping things off with a curt “Thank you for your cooperation.” Later, on the primary administrative planet of Coruscant, the Jedi pooh-bah Vernestra (Rebecca Henderson) strides with authority into Sol’s classroom — with an imperious hand wave, using the mystical power of the Force just to open a dang door — and tells him Osha needs to be brought to justice as swiftly as possible to set an example. In fact, in that same opening text that describes how “the Jedi Order and the Galactic Republic have prospered for centuries without war,” we are warned, “But in the dark corners of the galaxy, a powerful few learn to use the Force in secret.”
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