Disney Plus’ latest Star Wars show, The Acolyte, asks: How do you kill Jedi without a weapon? And this latest Sith (maybe) plot is the best mystery in the show.
The Acolyte, Disney Plus’ latest contribution to the Star Wars universe, is a murder mystery. At least, that’s what we’ve been given to understand by its marketing. But now that we’re two episodes into the season, an entirely different puzzle has become the brightest spot in the show to me.
It’s an irresistibly Star Wars-y question, but more importantly, it’s a perfect frame for exactly the kind of action cred that was briefly, thrillingly, core to the Star Wars franchise.
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for the first two episodes of The Acolyte.]
How do you kill a Jedi without using a weapon?
This is the challenge posed to Mae, our erstwhile apprentice, by her master, who looks like a Sith and quacks like a Sith, but as yet has not had much time to espouse his alliances or philosophy. As the final lesson in her training, Mae has to kill at least one Jedi without using a weapon, in order to kill “the dream.
