Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

It seems unlikely
Unless dark side.
only Sol seems to even have seen the bodies, and he just just rushed over them - he didn't check any of them.
Seems unlikely he wouldn't have noticed (or sensed in the Force) if anyone was still alive.
We literally see the Jed and sith push people all the time. There's always a reason they aren't smart tactically. I miss the days Jedi were powerful and smart, as implied in the original shows.
Definitely not smart tactically to push someone back, away from safety!
Just to be clear, though, the witches are not locals. The place was lifeless a century prior, and the witches came there after being banished from somewhere else.
Indeed, and the accident referred to occurs in the first High Republic novel.
Double-especially Koril who wasn't even with Team Mind Control. God knows where she was.
Possessing someone, such as Indara, perhaps?

Notice the was talk of the twins achieving their full power through sacrifice? I can't remember the exact line, but maybe the coven was the sacrifice that was required?
 

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Seems unlikely he wouldn't have noticed (or sensed in the Force) if anyone was still alive.
My brother in the Force, this is Sol we're talking about. I would absolutely not even slightly put it past him to either:

A) Just have missed that they weren't dead.

B) Not missed it, but lied about it, especially if he left them to DIAF.

Plus one of the actresses on Twitter (who I will not name in case they get in trouble with Disney) vaguely implied that this might not be the last time you see their character.

Just to be clear, though, the witches are not locals. The place was lifeless a century prior, and the witches came there after being banished from somewhere else.
That's immaterial. They were there first. They are from a totally different cultural tradition, and their presence has returned life to the planet, and the Jedi act exactly like the usual pith-helmed European colonial types, who know their religion/science/ways of doing things are right, and these other people are obviously backwards and hurting children (because the Jedi separating kids from their parents and indoctrinating them into their weird cult and then using them very literally as child-soldiers certainly doesn't hurt children right). The Jedi (especially other than Indara, and she just seems like she's being diplomatic in case they're dangerous) clearly have contempt for their ways.

Also, I 100% don't think his killing of Aniseya was deliberate. He thought that she really had discorporated and was no longer standing there, and was igniting his saber to defend against an attack.
You're literally just wrong, sorry. It's not even up for debate because it's on Disney+ mate.

Just open Disney+ back up, go to 14.52 left to go and watch. Sol not only pulls his lightsaber, but turns, draws it back and THRUSTS directly and intentionally into Aniseya's chest area.

Watching it once I can understand how you might misinterpret it, but simply re-watch it - it's incredibly obvious because that sequence is in slo-mo. Sol draws back and strikes with quite a clean thrust. Whether he expected it to work is a separate question - he seems possibly surprised (or perhaps just regretful) when it does, but it's an intentional killing. A murder. He wouldn't have thrust like that if he thought she was gone for sure. If you fire a shotgun at a bush you think someone might be hiding in, and a dead body falls out, you might well immediately feel guilty/sad or just realize, like, y'know, you're about to be prosecuted for murder or the worst kind of manslaughter (which in the UK has essentially the same sentence as murder), but you can't say you weren't taking an action that was potentially going to lead to a dead body.
 
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Also, I 100% don't think his killing of Aniseya was deliberate. He thought that she really had discorporated and was no longer standing there, and was igniting his saber to defend against an attack.

Watching it once I can understand how you might misinterpret it, but simply re-watch it - it's incredibly obvious because that sequence is in slo-mo. Sol draws back and strikes with quite a clean thrust. Whether he expected it to work is a separate question - he seems possibly surprised (or perhaps just regretful) when it does, but it's an intentional killing. A murder. He wouldn't have thrust like that if he thought she was gone for sure. If you fire a shotgun at a bush you think someone might be hiding in, and a dead body falls out, you might well immediately feel guilty/sad or just realize, like, y'know, you're about to be prosecuted for murder or the worst kind of manslaughter (which in the UK has essentially the same sentence as murder), but you can't say you weren't taking an action that was potentially going to lead to a dead body.
I don’t think either of you are quite right. Sol’s reaction doesn’t indicate he thought she was no longer standing there. And I think it was pretty clear he interpreted her action as a hostile one, an attack. So he responded. In a world where people can use weird force powers and your group has been subject to hostility before, it’s not an unreasonable reaction, even if you feel guilty about it later.
 

I mean these ones might not all even be dead.

The clearly got "taken out" by the backlash of their mind-control being turned off, but did that kill them? It seems unlikely. More likely they're all seriously unconscious. Now, there's a lot of fire and smoke, so they may well die of smoke inhalation and so on, but I didn't see any evidence that the Jedi actually checked they were dead. Indeed, only Sol seems to even have seen the bodies, and he just just rushed over them - he didn't check any of them. He presumably then reported back that they were dead, but Indara is just assuming he was right or "right enough" that it wouldn't cause a problem with the Jedi council.

The only one we know is dead almost for certain is Aniseya. Any of the rest could potentially turn up again. Double-especially Koril who wasn't even with Team Mind Control. God knows where she was.


No.

Flatly no.

The Jedi decided to interfere and to act like colonists/empire-builders who decided that they "knew better" than the locals. Sol followed some kids, and instead of reporting back, literally broke into a fortress to sneak on them, and then came back and gave Indara a lurid depiction of what was going on, something Indara clearly knew, but decided to kind of go along with anyway.

The Jedi as a group then, instead of negotiating or make any attempt whatsoever to peacefully contact the locals, broke in en masse and armed, and barged into the middle of a ceremony, intending to and succeeding in causing a problem. This is the equivalent of a bunch of armed members of one religion breaking into the church of another during a coming-of-age ceremony and attempting to the threaten them. The idea that the Jedi presence there was in any way legitimate is laughable. Only the colonial mindset of the Jedi and their concerns about "witches" and so on even gave them the excuse to do this home invasion.

Frankly Aniseya was incredibly reasonable. She found one weak Jedi and messed with him, but hoping to make him force them to leave and to show her power so the Jedi didn't just start pushing them around further. Her actions did unforeseeably contribute to the tragedy that unfolded, but there was one individual who actually caused the whole thing!

So let's be clear, this is 100% Sol's fault, because it all stems from his obsession with this little girl (which seems to stem in part from feelings of insecurity and a desire to be part of a bigger story), and he had several opportunities to "throw the brakes" here and unnecessarily committed murder in someone else's house because of his obsession with that child (a child he couldn't even tell apart from her twin, I note). The most notable opportunity to throw the brakes being that when he reached the fortress after the padawan did, the padawan had no idea how to get in, and Sol could easily have said "Well, let's wait for the ship to get here", but instead, showed the padawan how to climb in and cause a problem. He then murdered Aniseya because he decided that him not understanding what was going on was a good enough excuse for murder (absolutely leaning into the worst ACAB stereotypes), even though he had absolutely no right to be even be in that place (and was directly disobeying multiple layers of orders) nor interfering with those people, and had been told very clearly to stop the padawan, not help the padawan.

I can't blame Indara for whatever she did with the mind-control of the wookie, she'd probably never encountered force-magic like that before so was freestyling in how to stop the mind-control. Also, as noted above, I rather doubt that the sisters died from that. More likely the ones who are dead died from smoke inhalation and/or fire and/or falling debris. But Indara became frankly a criminal when she decided to lie to the Council in order to facilitate essentially kidnapping a child, and essentially for the sake of the very sentiment she condemns Sol for - "You can't destroy her dream" (note: Indara doesn't even really believe it is Osha's dream only hours earlier, she thinks and even says - correctly - that Sol, a grown man, manipulated Osha, a little girl). So instead of even following protocol, she just makes up a story, essentially condemning all four Jedi to "live a lie", which is just a completely terrible decision on every level, even that of Osha's future. It's really a self-serving position on Indara's part. If Sol threw himself at the mercy of the Council she'd also look like a complete dunce who had no control over the situation and let herself get pushed around by an emotional non-Master Jedi, so might have faced some pretty bad consequences. Again, very colonial of her.

This.

Jedi are idiots writing strikes again. They escalated a situation they created and was 100% optional to be in.

Republic didn't even have jurisdiction iirc.
 

I don’t think either of you are quite right. Sol’s reaction doesn’t indicate he thought she was no longer standing there. And I think it was pretty clear he interpreted her action as a hostile one, an attack. So he responded. In a world where people can use weird force powers and your group has been subject to hostility before, it’s not an unreasonable reaction, even if you feel guilty about it later.
That was my read. He reacted to what he viewed as a hostile action - shot first so to speak - and then instantly regretted it.
 



I'm starting to think that the Jedi are the least interesting thing about the High Republic era. I really didn't need an entire show to tell me how flawed, rigid and doomed they are.
 

I'm starting to think that the Jedi are the least interesting thing about the High Republic era. I really didn't need an entire show to tell me how flawed, rigid and doomed they are.
Agreed. Every show. Give me something new, like other force users, or a new story.
 

Koril is a Zabrak. The Dathomiri nightsisters (and nightbrothers) are Zabraks, although the sisters don't have the usual horns on their heads. Could be a connection there.
 

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