If you are a first-generation convert to Star Wars, you have the same feeling of missing the references and being constantly lost in the various films, series, and books that followed. Without a certain chronological order, or maintaining logic in the story, I personally do not demand or expect coherence from anything in the franchise. That doesn’t stop me from liking it anyway.

Of everything that came after the first trilogy (films 4, 5, and 6 in order of Star Wars time), I only really loved Rogue One and Andor, with an extra affection for Rebels, consequently for The Mandalorian and Ahsoka. What we can see is that we are in the densest phase of the franchise, a la Marvel, with increasingly complex stories. The Acolyte, which is before everything, almost a ground zero, is a good series and ended its eight-episode season driving fanatics crazy. I thought it was ok.

The proposal here is to reverse the roles and place the leading role with the Siths, leaving the Jedis almost incompetent and even suspicious. The Osha/Mae clones/twins are the target of interest from both the positive side of the Force (Jedis, in theory) and the dark side (Siths), and the dispute between the two and for the two is what drives the plot. They have a past of pain, with the traumatic death of their mother and many doubts about the circumstances of how it all happened.

Osha, the good and talented one, is all love with the Jedis, but Mae, spiteful and impulsive, wants to kill them. The two’s reunion calls into question what they believe in and they obviously switch sides. Among them is sweet Sol, who even with good intentions, was the one who created the problem and who SPOILER will end up paying with his life. When Osha discovers that he killed her mother, she immediately embraces the dark side of the force and becomes Qimir’s acolyte (and girlfriend?)

Those who read the books, saw the series and memorized the books were thrilled with the appearances of Darth Plaguies and even Yoda, but when the text still paraphrases entire dialogues from other films, it only flirts with the boring. Even though trying to bring empathy to the dark side (we already had this with the Anakin/Darth Vader saga, equally scratchy), the word that sums it up is: confusing.

For those who don’t remember, the great villain of six films – Emperor Palpatine, who was Darth Sidious – was trained by Plaguies and kills him when he considers himself better than his master. Therefore, if the series continues, we will bump into young Palpatine and say goodbye to the protagonists of The Acolyte. I can’t see them being missed. Basically, we are in the prequel of Anakin’s birth, as well as the twins, a being who was born directly from the Force.

But the question remains, after three trilogies, one that shows young Anakin, another that shows him as a monster and a third that ignores his salvation with a grandson idolizing his grandfather’s criminal period, why see him as a child again? The answer is no, no, no! Leave the Skywalkers alone! The only series that deserves attention and development is Andor, the prequel to Rogue One, which focuses on “ordinary” people. The true heroes of the Saga.

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