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The Acolyte was actually pretty good.
I think I'd actually rate it as maybe the third best season of televised Star Wars, behind Mando s1 and Andor.
I have some gripes about a few details, like the Force Cult's fortress being built out of old Enterprise helm stations, but the main gripe I saw floating around without context, that it makes the Jedi the villains, is clearly way more complex. They're flawed, hubristic, and way more capable of rationalizing problematic actions than they like to let on, but at the same time this is also a story of rogue Jedi. Time and again, cooler heads - whether its Carrie Anne Moss' character or the High Council - tell some of the more impulsive ones to knock it off, to be careful and cautious.
Its also kind of a vindication of the Jedi doctrine on attachments. Like Anakin, you have several examples of Jedi who cannot handle attachment or self regulate in other ways and it leads them to ruin.
Checkmate gray side fans. The evidence just piles up with every twist that people to whom much power is given, much is expected, and for darn good reason. That power in the hands of people who are obsessed with protecting their padawans from unpleasant truths, convinced they know how to live better than others, obsessed with covering up damaging information about what happens when Jedi teaching does fail: it leads to doom.
Osha and Mae's coven I think does have an alternate regulatory method that works well enough for them, that being intense devotion to one another. Which is fine if you're an insular group largely interested in exploring the Force set apart from broader society with minimal potential for collateral damage.
Sad that Disney pulled the plug, I would have liked to see what happens with these characters next. The details of how the scheme to cover up the existence of the Sith blows up, if Mae regains her memory and how, how The Stranger turned: I'm actually intrigued.
Having said that, I think the meta is clear. The fallout from this will lead to the Jedi becoming more politicized and directly accountable to the Senate. A thing the Jedi will resent and will make them easier to demonize as the hatchet beings of a failed regime and traitors who engineered a war on false pretenses as part of a power grab. It will also likely limit them from poking around looking for relics and places of power that have been misplaced over the millennia, allowing our favorite evil antiquarian to dabble unchecked.
Crucially I do think this series proves both theories about Anakin's birth: he could have been a natural product of a verge or a product of the Sith utilizing a verge to try to create life. Although I suspect its meant to lend weight to the idea that Sidious or Plagueis willed Anakin into being: I don't know where current Disney canon lands on this and I'm pretty sure Disney doesn't either considering the questionable canon status of its own EU. Oh sure its officially canon, but....who buys that as the de facto policy?
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And to you all, I wish pleasant dreams.
I wish you all a good night.