THE ACOLYTE Episode 4 BREAKDOWN! Qimir Explained & Star Wars Easter Eggs!

welcome back to new rock stars I'm Eric. Boss and this is a breakdown of Star. Wars the acolyte episode 4 which offers. even bigger clues about our mystery Sith. or at least bigger questions about kimer. let's break down this episode scene by. scene for all the Star Wars Easter eggs. and details you missed and please. support new rock stars by grabbing one. of our exclusive Star Wars designs from. nerd. shop like I gave this great May. the fourth themed Han shot first shirt. that I'm going to be wearing all summer. long okay this episode opens on kofar. the remote planet where we ended episode. two where the wooki Jedi Master Kel Naka. has taken Exile the show's production. filmed on Madera island of Portugal an.

island off the coast of Morocco never. used in a major production before it has. a variety of terrains used for several. different planets on this show there's. just something about the hills of this. shot and the Sea layer clouds and Mist. that matches the hiking trails that you. can take on the island where the ocean. is obscured like this if you're up high. enough and I think that mist in the way. the sun dips beneath it is used to. excellent effect in this episode Kel. Naka returns to his Shrek like Abode and. before going inside he gives one last. look over his shoulder perhaps sensing. some presence watching him because he. will end up dead when we find him this. episode The sign we saw outside his.

house in episode 2 read keep out in The. Wookie language of sharok but if you. notice in this shot that sign has been. taken down maybe Kel Naka doesn't expect. any scavengers after those hes speakers. in episode two were scared off or maybe. he knows that mystery force user is. coming and like torbin Kaka has been. plagued with guilt and welcomes death. like as he prepares his meal I am. getting Vibes of Thanos on the garden in. the beginning of Avengers endgame you. remember that classic new Rockstar's. thumbnail what was he cooking and Kaka. is just waiting to be found and to die. and kaka's home which which looks like.

it might be a crash to ancient Starship. he has covered the walls in markings. that match the spiral figures on the. foreheads of mother anesa and may one of. them a spiral that meets in the middle. in a yin-yang configuration two dots on. either side the two dots most likely. represented the coven's worship of the. power of two The Power of One the power. of two The Power of many many jinto just. many and I must say that they do match. the one dot on ind's eye on brenock that. became two dots when we saw her on ueda. one Revelation I would like to share. here the coastline where May met with. the mystery master at the end of episode.

1 which I thought might be OA is. apparently that original Planet of Eda. where indara was supposedly killed in. the Lomi USI noodle shop it is listed as. the same planet on the wiki at least I. wonder if that does anything to Rouse. our suspicions that indara might not. actually be dead and could be involved. with this conspiracy I just wanted to. mention it here why is Kaka drawing. these symbols though clearly whatever. happened on brenock the trailer shot of. him igniting his lightsaber and leaping. at torbin to give him that scar maybe. even kaka's eyes having turned black. from the dark Forces influencing his. mind that night stayed with Kaka after.

all these years plaguing his dreams. every night with these spiral images. that he just wants to bore out of his. mind on to corant where we once again. see that it is lesser developed and is. overall lower to the ground when. compared to the way it looks in the. prequels where it's built up all around. the temple Jackie lawn and the other. Padawan train in saber combat using. these wooden training Savers reminding. us of the combat training Ahsoka put. Sabine through on the Ahsoka series. Master lshe played by Paul bullan. instructs keep each movement tight yet. subtle.

diminish areas of. vulnerability maximize your defenses. without need to strike these are all. combat approaches that we've seen Soul. and endara apply also a movement tight. yet subtle is also what the mystery. master uses on OSHA and the other Jedi. in the final scene yet they do the exact. opposite they are not keeping their. movements tight yet subtle they are not. diminishing areas of vulnerability they. are not even maximizing their defenses. and they are insisting on striking and I. think that's why they get wiped out in. the final shot of this episode but at. the end of this class notice how the.

kids do the synchronized flourish with. their Sabers which I suppose is the kind. of thing youths do in a kindo class at. the end of the class to show respect for. their weapons but just given the themes. of the show I can't get around the fact. that these Jedi are training child. soldiers to send them out on deadly. missions like I was glad to see the. Ahsoka series touch on the subject. specifically in the Clone Wars era. flashbacks and the world Between Worlds. like when this is in live action played. by actual Flesh and Blood young actors. it just hits differently OSHA tells. Jackie goodbye and there definitely. seems to be something going on between. these two young women don't tell me. you'll miss.

me next time I'm on corant though I'll. look you up and we'll go to a Cantina. and trade stories about master soul. we'll see if this goes anywhere like. based on the exchange and the glances it. seems like there might be some chemistry. but it also feels like in the edit. someone might have given the note to. tone this down and they just ended up. going with the actor's least emotive. takes May and kimer land on kofar I know. bounty hunters won't set foot in these. forests oh but you have yes I have to.

find the wi and it was hard so we got to. keep an eye on kir right now I'm not. sure if this character is an example of. mystery or confusion like you kind of. see this divide between mystery or. confusion early on in a series that has. a central mystery to it or like in the. First Act of the film when you're trying. to gauge how confidently the mystery. will actually be structured by the end. of it all like are we headed to a. masterful conjoining of all the loose. threads in the story where it will all. make perfect sense in the end or are. only some of these threads going to pay. off actually and the rest is just going. to amount to really confused.

storytelling as a result of like the. studio just giving way too many notes. and the people running the show like I. don't know what to do with it like right. now I'm not sure if Manny jino's. performance is just the actor bringing. his wonderful bumbling comedic energy. from the good place to liven up what is. otherwise a very very serious and stoic. series or if we are meant to look at his. performance as performatively oish like. professor quirrel and Harry Potter or. verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects like. after all chimer is someone who knows. the Sith code by heart he bruised poison. he was able to locate K Naka by himself.

and he is mysteriously offscreen for a. critical moment in this episode so are. we waiting for a big reveal moment like. in the good place where Kim's face is. going to twist into an evil laugh does. this not kind of feel like the infamous. Sith Lord Darth jarar Theory or are. really all these observations just going. to amount to a red hering character to. distract us from the actual villain who. was there all along like Sith are. obviously capable of theatrical. masquerades in plain sight Darth cidus. used the double identity of the senator. from nabo she Palatine I just wonder to.

cast Jason from the good place and that. kind of double identity role hey I'd be. excited to see what Manny jento could do. with that because this series would be. resting a lot on that dark turn sticking. the landing and Manny jento legitimately. scaring us with how evil he can be now. Manny jento did say that he wrote a. two-page essay on how he would play the. character two pages doesn't seem like a. whole lot when it comes to the. psychology and the tactics of a. character the show wants us to see as. the verbal km/ Kaiser so of the high. Republic era but you know what actors. are also Masters at saying a lot with a.

little they're artists of action and. movement not text and words either way. the show definitely wants us to see kir. as a suspect you went in there and. risked your life for my master no I. risked my life to help you you know your. sister being alive doesn't change. anything you need to kill the wook you. made a deal he also says that OSHA still. being alive doesn't change anything and. you think that it would change something. to a Sith Master but maybe this is just. a signal that kimer always knew that.

information and may is really on this. Mission because she's still one half of. a forc diad or whatever this show will. call this twin relationship through the. thread and later on we get this exchange. what kind of deal did you make with him. I didn't we didn't exactly I I just owe. him you know how he is he collects. people I've never seen his face have. you you know I haven't so at the end of. the day either this mystery master is. kimere himself or chimere is someone. else the master has manipulated into. helping this plan with his own story.

with how the Jedi screwed chimer over. for the master to gain leverage over kir. and kir is just kind of playing his own. angle when it comes to his relationship. with may I should also point out that at. the end of episode 2 when may found kir. in that Alleyway on Olea before they. left for kofar kir was able to sidestep. and break free from May springing on him. with some pretty quick moves like our. man can break ankles faster than he lets. on meanwhile in the Jedi Temple a. meeting led by vestra analyzes May's. combat style when Soul confronted her on. olega there Master Holden played by.

Indra o who played A first order officer. in the rise of Skywalker but the serrian. Jedi is confirmed to the credits as. Master Kad Mundi played by Derrick. Arnold Derrick Arnold is a longtime. Puppeteer and actor who worked on the. force awakens playing lanir velicham the. luggabeast and vber Dand and then in. Rogue one he played Po and puppeted Bor. gullet I have to appreciate the dag on. kotti Mundi giving him this brunette. drop of hair on the back of his binary. brain conical head but yes of course. kotti Mundi will later be a member of. the high Jedi Council during the prequel. era he appears at vanta Menace in Attack.

of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith in. which he was killed on the planet Mito. when Order 66 went out his appearance. now 100 years before those events is. likely to bring even more controversy to. the show because this character famously. said this impossible the Sith have been. extinct for a millennium and that line. is what some corners of the Star Wars. fandom have harped on on the outside of. the series like if kotti Mundi thought. that the Sith had been extinct for 1,000. years how could the Jedi 100 years. before the prequels Jedi that now. include Kad moodi himself see a force. user that this show is calling a Sith.

and still be as obtuse as they were when. kotty Moody says that line in Phantom. Menace perhaps this show could lead to. some disagreement among the Jedi that. the villain that they're facing is. actually a Sith or if it's just a force. user affiliated with these thread. wielding witches from brenock someone. who got their hands on a red lightsaber. somehow and that once this threat is. vanquished kotti money and the rest will. be like w good thing that killer wasn't. a Sith and the Sith are still extinct. and they'll never know that that killer. was actually serving or seeking to serve. a real Sith that will remain in the.

shadows by the end of the season Kad. Mundi says an apprentice who doesn't. know their Master it's absurd yes. punctuating his sentences with. interjections like impossible and absurd. this seran is always quite dramatic and. despite that big old Cranium he'll. always be incapable of seeing the Sith. ways meanwhile the Jedi Wonder could. this be a splinter. order or something worse so while the. Sith returning is Unthinkable to them. the Jedi have had other short-lived. Splinter orders over the years breaking. from the Jedi order that they have been. able to handle Berra Roose says turns up.

all these years later trained by one of. our own you think a Jedi T her even a. hologram can tell me that H moments like. this are why I'm still holding on to the. chance that the mystery master could. have been a Jedi like indara or Soul or. maybe a twin of Soul who's also played. by Le Jung J I will say that Soul seems. just a little Shifty in the scene. specifically the moment Vern says. trained by one of our own and leading. into this meeting he was very resistant. to have to meet with Vern in the council. at all K Mundi wants to kick this up to. the high Council and Vern is like dude.

we don't have the budget for Yoda in. this show but really she's saying the. High Council would have to alert the. Senate and they don't want a political. Scandal on their hands shortly after. this when Vern says Soul should have. told her there was a chance may survive. we get these inserts of Masters Holden. and Mundy side eyeing them and then Soul. steps in closer to Vern and lowers his. voice like he's trying to hide from. those two's gaze and then Vern says I. fear May is only a small part of her. master's larger plan a plan that is. difficult to see some sort of shift. something to tip the scale yeah Vern.

starts averting eye contact with him but. then Soul breaks her concentration by. saying hold and neutralizing may will. mean the trail would go cold it's just. odd that he wants to keep May Alive by. using OSHA as bait like Soul's got some. explaining to do meanwhile kimer. questions May's test to Kill a Jedi. without a weapon you engage unarmed but. can use their saber if you disarm. them or is that cheating I suppose this. explains why when fighting indara and. soul we got those close-ups of May. reaching for their lightsabers but it. seems like once her knives came out she.

must have failed that part of the task I. have a lot of questions about what. exactly May's task is that we'll talk. about later but there also seems to be. some manipulation on kier's part when he. tells may this about OSHA she seemed. really fond of that one Jedi Master what. was his name again. so anyways let's get going H when you go. back and watch Kim's one scene with OSHA. in episode two in the Apothecary OSHA. never says anything or does anything to. indicate that she was particularly fond. of soul I don't know where kimri is.

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saw him better back in episode one is a. cell cath race which is an aquatic. species from the planet Manan they were. originally introduced in kns of the Old. Republic game and then the cell cath. Bounty Hunter Chata hyoki shows up in. Clone Wars season 3 episode 11 Pursuit. Of Peace but the cell cath also come up. during the high Republic novels as. possible culprits of the great. hyperspace disaster because one of the. systems affected produced baa which. would have been bad for their business. but this guy in the temple is the first. liveaction cell cath we've gotten and. this is really fun so soul convinces may. to come along but then this scene.

commits a screenwriting Trope that. drives me nuts. fine but I'm not wearing that civilian. robe I will not do that thing I will not. cut Tu I'm doing that thing I just have. to remember I'm a sometimes cranky. Millennial who just watched too many. things but one of the Jedi on this. mission is a kelor race the same race as. plun and I got super excited when I saw. this guy in the trailer because plun. would be alive at this point in history. but then later this Kor ignites a green. saber in plun lightsaber it's blue.

unless you play the Jedi power battles. video game where it's an awesome shade. of orange but yeah I'm sorry PL Bros. this ain't PLO but pip gets into it with. basil spraying this tracker with water. which seems like a lot of water for pip. to be carrying even though the Jedi like. spruced them up but then remember pip. was able to extinguish that fire. remember the space fire basil is a tanan. race which is a sentient bipedal Beaver. likee species known for their Mastery at. bureaucratic planning first introduced. in Han Solo's Revenge a 1979 novel by. Brian D now considered non-canon but the.

tant were confirmed Canon and Catalyst a. rogue one novel I got to say the fact. that the Jedi are using him as a blood. hound seems pretty offensive for a race. known for being brilliant bureaucrats. and' be like having Ben Wyatt on your. team and making him play fetch you know. like heandy DWI I just kind of feel like. a lurka hound would have been the better. species for this task the Jedi shuttle. splits off from its back end which. presumably contain the hyperdrive. reminding us of the Jedi technology in. the prequel eras that use hyperdrive. Rings Jackie law interviews a local on. kofar who might be a Cru that's the same. race as unar plut from Force awakens but.

unar plut could speak the common. language this guy can't he needs a. translator but translator devices like. the ones built in masks and collars that. we've seen Star Wars before like in. Clone War season 4 episode 16 and then. in the season 7 Clone Wars ARC following. the bad batch but translators have been. specifically cited in high Republic era. stories like path of Vengeance and light. of the Jedi and Jackie's device kind of. works like a talk boy you know the. device every '90s kid wanted after. watching Home Alone too similar to what. may and chimer sens before soul and the. other Jedi sense a mysterious dark in. the tree line Kaka is in.

there this Trek into a misty tropical. wooded terrain is meant to feel like the. 1987 Sci-Fi Action film Predator. starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and grief. carga actor the late Carl Weathers the. series Creator told us in the Press. Roundtable that there would be a. predator themed episode and I feel like. this is the closest we're going to get. it's a jungle Mission we got deadly. creatures hiding in plain sight clinging. to trees the hunters become the hunted. and then you know there's that moment. when Soul was like get to the chopper.

just kidding he never said that but y. gives basil a scrap of kaka's robes to. smell for tracking what is this article. of clothing like did the Jedi keep. pieces of kaka's clothes from before his. Exile was this one of his grease Rags. from when he got all sweaty while. working on that Speeder Bike OSHA pulls. y aside to say so uh Soul's a little. nuts right soul thinks that may can be. saved Master Soul is a wise Jedi you. must have reason to suspect May will. listen to what you have to say OSHA. gives y permission to basically kill her. sister if it comes to it while yord.

began the season as a stiff rule. follower dimmed the pitfalls of Jedi. thinking if Soul ends up being. compromised in some way we're all going. to have to look to yord to be you know. kind of that character like the TSA. agent rod from get out like the. uniformed inside man who could end up. saving the day or maybe they're just. setting up y to be killed off sorry y. horde then they pass a Grobe with these. bulbous creatures latched to the trees. these are umbre moth according to the. Clos caption while these seem to be new. to Star Wars Umbra is a Latin root. meaning shade or Shadow so sh Shadow. moths or shade moths cuz like maybe.

they're always talking I'm just. surprised that only OSHA and none of the. Jedi could sense these living creatures. in their midst like maybe they. attributed those vibes to just there. being this weird fungi on the trees and. all their senses are dialed up on this. Dangerous Mission I just think the Jedi. are clouded by fears that OSHA isn't. necessarily clouded by they learned that. the umms are attracted by the light of. their lightsabers which might tell us. something about why Kaka chose this. Forest to hide behind was he equally. Afraid by anyone in this world currently. who we thought would be using lightsaber. like his former Jedi companions soul and.

indor as he would be afraid of anything. else out there OSHA tells Jackie that. she was still forc sensitive enough to. sense the Uber moths and feels bad that. it's now dead Jackie says this it's. always an honor to get to witness. anything or anyone transform into the. force that's quite an odd sentiment. considering it an honor to watch. something die regardless of the. circumstances but it is a similar. sentiment to what Yoda told Anakin and. Revenge of the Sith Rejoice for those. around you who transform into the force. for the Jedi to ire each other to not.

properly grieve the death of a loved one. to see it only as a celebration of their. now Unity with the force it's such a. denial of basic human instinct in our. body's natural healing process it's like. skipping directly to Acceptance in the. five stages of grief no wonder why ocean. Anakin bristled with a Jedi Order on. this point they were right to feel the. way they did May explains to kimere more. about her master's directive To Kill a. Jedi without a weapon he calls it the. final lesson he says your final lesson. is when you teach yourself you will kill. a Jedi without a weapon attacking a.

defenseless person goes against. everything the Jedi stands for so wait. is the lesson that may had to be unarmed. when she kills the Jedi or that the Jedi. has to be unarmed when she kills them. again it's a bit of like mystery versus. confusion in the writing I'm just going. to assume that the master wants both may. and the Jedi she attacks to be unarmed. at the time and that the idea is that. may has to defeat them by beating them. to death or maybe by using a force choke. but failing that may so far has just. resorted to knives or resorted into. talking them into drinking poison and. that's why may sees this next task as.

impossible especially facing a wook but. kir insists it is not impossible and. notice how the deeper they go into this. jungle the more Kim's hair obscures part. of his face and the wider his smile gets. and it just makes me distrust him. especially when we last see him he's. caught in May's snare and then. disappears from the episode but only. after May says that she will surrender. to Kaka and join her sister to turn in. their Master the Jedi will put you in. prison not after I tell them who I know. he'll kill you m he'll kill you is the.

darkest we have seen kir get on the show. but it's just hard for the actor to be. intimidating in this moment because he's. literally hanging upside down so we. don't really know if we should read his. helpless struggling as sincere or just. an act for May to not suspect him but. the Jedi lose basil and soul senses some. darkness in the woods ahead you're not. going to face her you're going to face. your PO both of us will he promises that. once they get May safely to the ship. he'll explain everything further. evidence that the mystery master will be. personal to soul and what they did on.

brenock which will likely be reexamined. in next week's episode 5 presumably the. Rashon themed episode that the. showrunner has been talking about where. we'll see multiple unreliable accounts. of what really happened is where those. answers will actually come some have. pointed out that we did not see mother. Coral among the bodies I don't know if. those zabra horns would fit Under The. Helmet May trips in front of kaka's home. in front of these fungi that we saw in. episode two that released these. interesting green spores but basil Roars. to alert the Jedi May finds Kaka already. dead from a fresh fresh lightsaber wound. it's still smoking around his chest and.

a dramatic red light from the Setting. Sun is cast across his chest marking him. in the same red light that vestra Rose's. hollow screen marked in Dar and torbin. so this whole idea of a race to the next. Target just to find them already dead or. indisposed is a classic step in a. mystery story structure from Ryan. Johnson's knives out when Marta and. Ransom rushed to find the housekeeper. Fran just to find her drugged in a chair. and Fran shortly after this dies or in. Glass Onion where the midpoint of the. film is what we think is Helen's death. or in the movie clue when the guests go. rued by room finding the bodies of IET.

and the policeman and the singing. telegram girl having all been killed. around the same time when the lights. went out three. murders six all. together this is getting. serious Leslie Headland cited Ryan. Johnson as an influence a fellow Star. Wars director turned murder mystery. Storyteller because headland's first. writing job was on the FX series. terriers in which her first script was. an episode that Ryan Johnson directed. and we should not that new Rockstar's. resident science expert Berg actually. appeared with his fellow improv team.

members of Convoy as the recurring. characters on Terriers how he ended up. here I don't know but I bless that he's. part of our team now but since then Ryan. Johnson and Leslie hedin's careers have. followed these interesting parallel. trajectories because Leslie Hedland. Charlie Barnett and Rebecca Henderson. worked with Natasha Leon and Russian. doll and the Leon went right from that. to a cameo and Ryan Johnson's Glass. Onion before starring in Ryan Johnson's. episodic mystery Series of Poker Face. which is awesome so why would the master. need to finish the job on Kaka before. may could even have a chance at it did. Kela off himself did kimer just do this.

after he learned what may was going to. try to do or did kimer alert the mystery. master that may planned to betray them. so that that Master who would have had. to be hiding nearby could swoop in and. make the kill before May got there may. realizes that her master is already. there and I love how the Setting Sun. disappears and everything goes dark in. this moment the Jedi surround kanaka's. home to force May to come out but when. may doesn't show herself out of fear. Soul instinctively turns around and sees. this terrifying shot of Osha who y. instructed to stay by behind them now. the closest among them to this.

nightmare the mystery master floats down. from above like a freaking ghost or the. Predator camouflaged in the tree line. it's so creepy the shot and as this. mystery master stands before OSHA Jackie. and Y don't even know what it is this. Sith ignites their red saber from behind. OSHA's head in this profile shot and. then brings it in between them slightly. lighting the helmet this helmet is. cracked and corroded and large enough in. the back to accommodate a number of.

different head shapes and it has a. curved metallic opening in the front. that looks like a wide toothy smile this. is the mask of someone playing all of us. laughing at us this figure doesn't stand. that much taller than OSHA though and. matches the height of ker and Moss or. Manny jinto when either of them are. standing beside amandela Stenberg and. cast photos but the other Jedi ignite. their lightsabers seeing a mix of blue. and green and yellow and again the Kors. is green it's not plon the master raises. two humanoid fingers skin darkened and. tosses OSHA aside like a rag doll.

interesting that in this moment it seems. like they don't need OSHA and then. quickly they turn their helmet back to. the charging Jedi and adits this blast. that blows them all back so let's look. closely at these fingers this episode. did give us a closeup of Manny jino's. fingers when he was going to get water. Le Jung Jay's fingers were covered in a. glove when he placed them on OSHA's. shoulder I think they want us to look at. these characters's fingers and do this. analysis obviously the Sith cannot be. Soul himself because soul is right here. can't be in two places at the same time. I will just say that these hands just. look a bit more male to me than they do. female whether this mystery master is.

chimere a twin of Soul a not actually. dead indara coral or someone else we. know that they must be humanoid someone. not that much taller than May and OSHA. and probably not pagus or tenebris. themselves but someone else trying to. get the approval of one of those Sith. and that based on kiotti Moody being. aware of this incident someone that this. show will write off as not a Sith by the. end of the series so that they can sweep. this under the rug by the time we get to. kot Mundi in the prequels comment down. below with your thoughts and starting.

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