While some celebrated the end of The Acolyte due to its controversial approach to certain ideas in the Star Wars Galaxy, many fans were disappointed to see the Disney+ series scrapped\u00a0without getting a proper conclusion.<\/p>\n
In the finale, The Stranger, a.k.a. Qimir, enlisted\u00a0Osha as his apprentice, though Darth Plagueis\u2014the Sith Lord who we know eventually served as Emperor Palpatine’s Master\u2014could be seen watching them from a distance.<\/p>\n
We recently learned that the plan had been to reveal that Qimir was not a Sith, but\u00a0the first Knight of Ren. As you’ll recall, the Star Wars sequel trilogy established that Ben Solo\/Kylo Ren was a member of that Sith-adjacent group, but failed to ever really explore what that meant or who they were (one of many frustrating plot holes or unanswered questions from the movies).\u00a0<\/p>\n
TV Insider<\/a>\u00a0(via SFFGazette.com<\/a>) recently caught up with actor Manny Jacinto and asked for his take on The Acolyte showrunner\u00a0Leslye Headland’s remarks about scrapped plans to link Qimir to the wider Star Wars Galaxy.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I did run into an article about, and I think Leslye cleared things up a little bit,” he started.\u00a0“That a possible path was that Qimir was one of the first Knights of Ren, so that was a possibility to explore.”<\/p>\n Jacinto added,\u00a0“I think there would\u2019ve been maybe more of a Master-Padawan relationship with [Qimir and\u00a0Vernestra Rwoh in Season 2], but who knows? I don\u2019t know if we\u2019ll ever see it.”<\/p>\n The revelation has led to a renewed interest in The Acolyte, the only Star Wars TV series that Disney made a point of publicly cancelling. For Jacinto, the door remains open for a return if Lucasfilm comes calling.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I am always ready, and I would love to run it back if they\u2019d have me,” the actor\u00a0confirmed.\u00a0“That was a role of a lifetime, and I\u2019m incredibly proud of what we did in The Acolyte and with Oshamir, with that whole relationship.”<\/p>\n “I feel like with a lot of the franchises that we currently have, it\u2019s missing the romance. It\u2019s missing a lot of love and relationships. We have the big fight scenes and the origin stories of these heroes and whatnot, but they don\u2019t really have a relationship with other people. It\u2019s such a weird thing.”<\/p>\n “And that\u2019s why I loved the Qimir and Osha relationship, because we were taking it back to having a relationship in this big world. I think we just need more of that,” Jacinto noted. “I think that\u2019s what made the characters and the story more compelling as opposed to just having big fight sequences, which I loved.”<\/p>\n The Acolyte Season 2 doesn’t look likely, and with Lucasfilm moving on from The High Republic Era in both live-action and publishing, the fate of this show’s characters will likely remain a mystery to us.<\/p>\n The Acolyte is now streaming on Disney+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While some celebrated the end of The Acolyte due to its controversial approach to certain ideas in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,25981,2839,2591,23793,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-238409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-manny-jacinto","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-star-wars","12":"tag-the-acolyte","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}