Star Wars: The Acolyte

 So, reviews are BAD on this latest show set in the Star Wars franchise, going as far as it kills off the series.

But I just read the line about "lesbian space witches" so yep, this is something I must watch!

 

Taking place roughly 100 years before the rise of the Galactic Empire, the Galactic Republic and the Jedi Order maintain a centuries long peace.  When Jedi Master Indara is attacked and killed by a throwing knife wielding woman, Osha Aniseya, a former padawan, is identified as the killer.  But while arrested, she denies any involvement in the matter.  She escapes with her fellow inmates and crashlands on the planet Carlac, where she experiences a Force vision showing her twin sister Mae, whom she believed dead.  Deducting Mae is still alive, and the real cullprit, she encounters her former master Sol and he believes her theory.

 

Mae tries to kill Master Torbin, but is forced by his field erected by the Force.  Meeting with her supplier Qimir, she obtains a poison to help in her mission: kill the four Jedi who where stationed on her home planet.  Sol, Osha and the others are send to investigate the attack, but arrive to late as Torbin takes the poison in redemption.  This turns out to be for events that transpired 16 years ago on the planet Brendok, where they where part of a witches coven.  But the Jedi arrived, and tried to interfere in their ritual of binding and test the girls, Osha passing even after agreeing to mae to fail on purpose.  Mae enrages and blows up the withces camp, Sol taking sole survivor Osha to Coruscant to train.

 

 

Mae and Qimir start their search for the third Jedi, the wookie Kelnacca.  But when the others arrive, they manage to stop Mae in her tracks.   Kelnacca is found dead though by Mae, and she realises her Master has arrived.  He comes to confront the Jedi, slaying them all except Sol, but not after his padawan in her final moments knocked his helmet off, revealing Qimir.  He reveals he is a Sith, as mae and Osha confront each other and Mae tells her Sol has been lying to her all that time.

Trading places after knocking Osha out, Mae boards the ship with Sol to find out the exact truth, while Osha is taken by Qimir to an abandoned planet.  Sol tells Mae the entire truth out of guilt, and he had been thinking for 16 years to how to reveal it as they return to Brendok.  The whole plan of the Jedi, who stumbled by accident on the coven, backfired due to circumstances, forcing Sol to kill the girl's mother.  The girls aren't twins, but one person born out of the force, split in two by the witches.  But Osha, despite her willingness is actually to old to start training.  However, Sol's emotional attachment to the girls clouds their judgement and an enraged Mae accidentally started the fire.  Indara decides to cover up the whole affair by blaming the fire Mae started and that story took a life of it's own.  

On Brendok the sisters meet again and the truth is revealed, resulting in an enraged Osha forcechoking Sol.  They escape before the Jedi council forces send to apprehend them arrive, and Mae her memory is wiped back to the day of the accident, as Osha joins Qimir and begins her path as his Sith acolyte.  To the outside world, the whole incident is put on Sol's shoulders, claiming he went rogue to protect the image of the Jedi to the Senate.  

So, this wasn't actually as bad as critics claimed in my opinion.  It won't be renewed, so the two main force users that made a brief cameo, being Darth Plagueis on Qimir's island and master Yoda at the end on Coruscant, won't be joining the series unfortunatly, nor will we know how Osha's story goes on (and the rule of two...).  But I can imagine that some die-hards didn't like it that much, it's just some fun generic sci-fi in my opinion.

So I got witches, I got to see space, but no lesbians though...