[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for season 1 of Star Wars: The Acolyte.]
Darth Plagueis has made his reside motion debut because of the season 1 finale of The Acolyte. The present didn’t make a lot point out of the Sith Lord, deciding as a substitute to easily present him peering out from behind a rock in commentary of the Stranger (Manny Jacinto) and his soon-to-be-padawan, Osha (Amandla Stenberg). Even nonetheless, it’s a fairly monumental second for longtime dorks who know the story of Darth Plagueis the Sensible by coronary heart.
Plagueis was first launched by way of a then-Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, who advised the Sith Lord’s legendary story to Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith. In accordance with Sheev’s story, Plagueis was a highly effective grasp of the Power, who finally turned so robust that he gained the flexibility to make use of the Power to control life itself and grant himself immortality. This immortality got here with a bit of an asterisk, nonetheless. It solely got here by transferring Plagueis’ consciousness into a new vessel, slightly than serving to his personal mortal physique reside ceaselessly.
After all, what Sheev (often known as “Future Emperor Palpatine”) doesn’t inform Anakin is that Plagueis was additionally Sheev’s grasp, and Sheev realized all of the Sensible grasp’s tips and even improved on them — as an example, Plagueis transference is how Palpatine retains himself alive for the occasions of The Rise of Skywalker.
Much more importantly, Anakin himself was a pure creation of the Power, and it’s by no means formally been revealed who was behind that. Perhaps it was the Power itself. Perhaps it was Sheev trying to craft Anakin into the proper apprentice. Or perhaps it was Plagueis himself, which may clarify why he reveals up in The Acolyte.
The Acolyte’s complete plot revolves across the twins Mae and Osha, who’re two components of one soul, a lifeforce created seemingly roughly created utilizing the Power by a coven of witches — with a little assist from a vergence. However with the eleventh hour reveal that Darth Plagueis was hanging round, it appears awfully attainable that the Sith grasp was secretly working behind the scenes to create a good vessel for himself.
In spite of everything, what might be higher to switch your consciousness into than a clean slate that’s robust in the Power? Or perhaps Mae and Osha had been his dry run at creating full life earlier than he crafted Anakin to be his true successor?
Both method, not less than a few of these questions are certain to be answered in The Acolyte season 2, ought to that ever occur. However for now, Star Wars tremendous followers will simply need to be content material (or extraordinarily discontent) about lastly seeing Plagueis in the flesh.
