Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

[John R Davis]

Despite not liking it as I mentioned I am more than willing to be utterly amazed by a super plot twist in episode 7.
For a million dollar per minute programme some of the space CGI looked shonky

 

[pukunui]

Hey, remember that Star Wars is, and always has been, space opera.

 

[Ryujin]

Hey, remember that Star Wars is, and always has been, space opera.

And yet they continue to refuse to have a rotund woman, in a horned helmet, sing the closing themes.

 

[pukunui]

And yet they continue to refuse to have a rotund woman, in a horned helmet, sing the closing themes.

They sort of did in The Last Jedi.

 

[pukunui]

I will say one thing that kind of irked me is the whole "meknek" thing. It just sounds like people are mispronouncing "mechanic".

 

[Paul Farquhar]

She works on a ship, not a planet, and her friends remark on her not having joined them on their trip to Na Shadaa, which indicates that (a) she and her friends do have access to transportation to other planets, and (b) she does not, in fact, have an established alibi.

I think the point here is to show that the jedi order is corrupt. They have no interest in carrying out an investigation to determine the truth, they simply want the suspect brought in so it can be hushed up. That's why they sent the order's biggest idiot to do the job (who is also expendable if it did turn out to be a homicidal jedi killer). The idea that the order wants to hush up it's mistakes almost certainly relates to the events of 16 years previous.

But it's a big freighter, it's sure to carry launches/ships boats/cargo landers, etc.

Transporting prisoners is what those transports do.

More to the point, the jedi are still supposed to be subject to civilian law enforcement. Yord was simply being even more lawful stupid than the order intended, and following procedure to the letter. And actually, he was right. Osha had no intention of escaping, and had nothing to do with the crash. That was caused by the other prisoners, and would have happened anyway, had she not been there. It's just one of those weird coincidences that are all to common in the Star Wars universe, thanks to The Force.

But it's easy to find "plot holes" in anything, if you hate watch. Even reality. That's where conspiracy theories come from.

 

[pukunui]

The idea that the order wants to hush up it's mistakes almost certainly relates to the events of 16 years previous.

Yes. The idea that a Jedi would willingly die by suicide because of what happened then is really quite damning. (As an aside, that impenetrable Force field effect was pretty cool.)

 

[Zardnaar]

Yes. The idea that a Jedi would willingly die by suicide because of what happened then is really quite damning. (As an aside, that impenetrable Force field effect was pretty cool.)

Oma guessing they're involved in May's family deaths. Eitherer they screwed up or blamed themselves for a darksiders actions.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I am clearly thinking too much about this:

The whole crashed prisoner ship subplot really feels pointless and way too random.
Maybe it will become important later, so we know the prisoners, or the hack-the-droid-seat-pilots, or the weird prisoner mask - Someone is going to wear it later and comes back off and she knows what's going on?

The logic of putting her in a prison transport to Coruscant is really odd. She is a suspect for Jedi murder, doesn't she need some serious constraints or heavy guard, just in case? It's clearly not a high security transport, with some random criminals staging an escape. And the two Jedi were just there with her, why couldn't they take her aboard their own transport, they're all heading for Coruscant anyway!

And story-wise, nothing much happened that couldn't have happened with her on the ship. Need to show her saving someone off ill repute like that criminal with the mask? Just have some guy on her ship being mean to her and when some mechanical gizmo blows up and traps him in some fire, she runs out to rescue him despite all that. And she could still have some weird visions of her sister in response to the events (hey, a fire breaking out aboard a ship she is serving on probably is a great reason to trigger a flashback to her family dying in a fire).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

She is a suspect for Jedi murder, doesn't she need some serious constraints or heavy guard, just in case?

The show makes it clear that this was Yord's decision. The show is also keen to make the point that Yord is an idiot* (and also knows Osha, and therefore has some idea of what she is capable of).


*I believe this is intentional, to explain why the Jedi Order has become so stupid. Idiot Yord is fast tracked to jedi knight, whist far more intelligent Jecki is still a Padawan. Yord does what he is told and doesn't ask inconvenient questions. This through-line goes all the way Qui-Gon Jinn, who, Obi Wan points out, would have been on the council if he did as he was told and didn't ask questions.