[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for season 1 of Star Wars: The Acolyte.]
Darth Plagueis has made his stay motion debut due to the season 1 finale of The Acolyte. The present didn’t make a lot point out of the Sith Lord, deciding as a substitute to easily present him peering out from behind a rock in commentary of the Stranger (Manny Jacinto) and his soon-to-be-padawan, Osha (Amandla Stenberg). Even nonetheless, it’s a fairly monumental second for longtime dorks who know the story of Darth Plagueis the Smart by coronary heart.
Plagueis was first launched by way of a then-Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, who instructed the Sith Lord’s legendary story to Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. In accordance with Sheev’s story, Plagueis was a robust grasp of the Drive, who finally turned so robust that he gained the flexibility to make use of the Drive to govern life itself and grant himself immortality. This immortality got here with a little bit of an asterisk, nevertheless. It solely got here by transferring Plagueis’ consciousness into a brand new vessel, relatively than serving to his personal mortal physique stay without end.
In fact, what Sheev (often known as “Future Emperor Palpatine”) doesn’t inform Anakin is that Plagueis was additionally Sheev’s grasp, and Sheev realized all of the Smart grasp’s methods and even improved on them — as an example, Plagueis transference is how Palpatine retains himself alive for the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker.
Much more importantly, Anakin himself was a pure creation of the Drive, and it’s by no means formally been revealed who was behind that. Possibly it was the Drive itself. Possibly it was Sheev trying to craft Anakin into the right apprentice. Or possibly it was Plagueis himself, which may clarify why he exhibits up in The Acolyte.
The Acolyte’s total plot revolves across the twins Mae and Osha, who’re two components of 1 soul, a lifeforce created seemingly roughly created utilizing the Drive by a coven of witches — with slightly assist from a vergence. However with the eleventh hour reveal that Darth Plagueis was hanging round, it appears awfully attainable that the Sith grasp was secretly working behind the scenes to create an ideal vessel for himself.
In spite of everything, what may very well be higher to switch your consciousness into than a clean slate that’s robust within the Drive? Or possibly Mae and Osha have been his dry run at creating full life earlier than he crafted Anakin to be his true successor?
Both method, no less than just a few of those questions are positive to be answered in The Acolyte season 2, ought to that ever occur. However for now, Star Wars tremendous followers will simply need to be content material (or extraordinarily discontent) about lastly seeing Plagueis within the flesh.
