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When the episode ended abruptly just as the action was about to begin, even my mother (who isn't a Star Wars fan and just happened to be in the living room at the time) reacted with shock.

Sol in the first episode : “Your eyes can deceive you.” Osha in the fourth episode : “I saw her (Mae) with my own eyes.”

Alright, I wasn’t sure when the theories started, but Mae’s master is absolutely Qimir. He talks like a Sith Lord, he can fight as well as a Sith Lord, he changed the subject very quickly when Mae asked if he knew the Sith’s identity, AND he disappeared from the episode right before the Sith master shows up out of nowhere and kills Kelnacca even though the master would have no way of knowing Mae betrayed him unless he was Qimir. I get that it’s very obvious but I can’t imagine any other explanation making sense considering all that

For what it’s worth, we’re all assuming The Master is a Sith, but we don’t actually know that for sure… there’s any number of dark side wielders in Star Wars that aren’t specifically from the Sith order. And even if The Master does turn out to be a Sith, there’s no saying whether the Jedi will learn that or not, they could just say, “well, that was a dangerous force user, thank goodness that’s dealt with!” without finding out his true allegiance… It’s also worth keeping in mind, the last known confirmed appearance of verified Sith was around 900 years before this show, so while we’re used to seeing them, for these Jedi, they’re closer to being a myth, and not something they’d immediately jump to.

Craziest theory out there is that Venestra is Darth smile. Show runners said the 5th episode is the craziest one to break the internet.

I am so used to “hello mcu fans” this I was very taken aback when he said Star Wars instead lol

Quimir is definitely maes master but the real question is who is his master thats hiding in the shadows

I need more of this Sith Lord. He’s quite chilling. And it's not just by his looks. He’s also quite powerful. I don’t think I’ve seen a Sith Lord this powerful in years.

Always like the Star Wars tradition of We know it happened and the question is HOW. Hopefully this doesn’t break canon or stretch it any further. Great breakdowns as always! Love the analytical approach to shows!

The only character we have seen with bizarre passion for ancient rules and a reason to want to kill the four Jedi is Mother Koril.

Man, what an episode! As for the whole "killing a Jedi without a weapon", I really like the idea put forth by Alex, from the channel Star Wars Explained, who basically said that, because in the High Republic the Jedi Order is at the height of their power in the Galaxy, what she needs to do in order to pave the way for the eventual return of the Sith is to, metaphorically, "kill" what the Jedi care the most for: their reputation. So, in this interpretation, killing a Jedi without a weapon doesn't mean to physically kill them, but rather to "kill" their image in the public eye, maybe exposing the truth about what truly happened in the fire or something else along that line. And in fact, going back to the prequel trilogy, what eventually leads to the downfall of the Jedi is exactly a combination of the corruption within the Order and the manipulation that Palpatine is able to do on their image during the Clone Wars. This would be a perfect starting point to connect with that part of the canon.

based on last ep, my theory is the master is one of the witches. just like they thought mae died, they THINK all the witches died but they didnt........

1. The only way the line in Phantom Menace works is if the jedi group gets killed by Qimir/Darth Venamis, OR if the survivors decide to keep it to themselves and never tell the rest of the Order. Even though Ki Adi Mundi was in the meeting here they never mentioned the Sith in fact they thought it was "one of their own" aka a Jedi or Dark Jedi. Also the jedi are hardheaded and stubborn so ofc Ki Adi Mundi wouldn't even consider the Sith here. 2. As to how Yoda and the high Council knew about the rule of two but not that the Sith were still around well it's easy, somewhere throughout the 1000 years they probably figured this out through Sith holocrons or artifacts, but still believed that eventually they went extinct. Assuming that the acolyte prevents this Sith from being discovered by the rest of the order, it should keep canon intact. 3. As to who "The Master" is, it's one of 6 options. The least likely is Darth Plagueis and Tenebrous. More likely than that is probably one of the Witches (Aniseya is credited for 6 episodes so likely her but Koril only credited for one so prolly not). After that my biggest theory is that it's Qimir, and my hot take is that Qimir is Darth Venamis, making his actions an attempt to overthrow Plagueis and become the only Apprentice to Tenebrous or even kill Tenebrous himself.

The way some people are reacting to Ki-Adi Mundi being in this episode is insane. Showrunners should not have to abide by a minor detail in a 25 year old reference book.

Love that ending! Really liking this show so far

Hi, first time watcher here! I LOVE this channel so much. I’ve been trying to watch videos about the show but most Star Wars channels are so focused on spewing hate comments towards Disney rather than just breaking down the content - it’s hard to endure - the irony of Star Wars fans acting so hateful. Thank you so much. I can tell you are truly strong in the force ❤✨

And as usual my comment is not posting. But I will say that my biggest issue with the episode is how the Wookie is unalived off-screen and then just as the Sith arrives ... the episode ends. I'll post my full comment on Discord.

3:11 theory: she can’t k1lL a Jedi without a weapon, but she’s not the apprentice HE is. He’s the one who has to complete the mission and he’s using her need for revenge to complete the task. It seems like a Sith skill is infiltration while masking their identity and true purpose…

It goes beyond just making sure Mundi doesn’t exactly learn that there’s a “Sith”. Remember, in TPM, the only evidence Qui-Gon gives for why he immediately (and correctly) clocks Darth Maul as a Sith is because he was trained in the Jedi arts and attacking a Jedi. At this point, since we know Mundi survives, there’s basically no way to reconcile these differences. Unless I’m missing something (always a possibility). It’s gonna make the Jed and Qui-Gon sound dumb for not considering a “splinter order”, but obviously they didn’t consider that bc they didn’t exist lol.

The main witch is the dark side user. She is the only one with the personal motivation to kill those particular Jedi.

Thank you for your insightful breakdown. I really enjoy this series.

definitely some Osha and Jecki tension

Lets not forget. Even nightsisters had children. One of the witches was probably his mom too

I think the younglings that Yoda was training were using special "training" lightsabers that just light up to look like real lightsabers, but aren't actually destructive. Maybe such devices just weren't invented yet at the time of the Acolyte, so that's why they were using sticks. (This raises a general side question I've had in my mind: Do we ever really see technology advance in the Star Wars universe? The level of technology always seems about the same, no matter what time period we're seeing.)

I think the reason that the younglings in The Phantom Menace were most likely given Lightsabers is that they were extremely powered down versions suitable for younglings. Perhaps in the centuries before the Phantom Menace, though, the phrase "Never bring a stick to a Lightsaber fight" hadn't caught on yet.

The only way to kill a Jedi without a weapon is to turn them Sith My guesses: Vernestra is the Sith Lord, Qimir is the apprentice Mae and Osha can fulfill the Doctrine of the Dyad which is why four (!) Jedi were stationed on Brendok

Nice breakdown

I really want to love this series but I’m finding it hard to care about the characters, they are usually the most important element to a good show or movie

Thanks for the breakdown ❤👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I think the master is Darth Jar Jar

I think Mundi and the rest of the Jedi will think they are just a splinter group that uses the dark side, maybe with ties to the Witches. If you are keeping your plans for an eventual return to dominance a secret, you don't say "BTW I'm also a Sith"

Ngl I’m kinda worried about the mysteries with this series, halfway through barely anything has been answered. I’m still not judging it yet, this all can be answered but I don’t want it all to be rushed at the end. Really cool cameos too it’s nice to see Jedi council members like Ki Adi Mundi and at least a member of plo koons species

Great analysis! I think the show is doing a great job presenting the mysteries, giving us a little bit of information at a time and keeping us intrigued and guessing. I really hope the questions are answered this season. And I’m extremely curious how they’re going to handle the Phantom Menace/knowing about the Sith dilemma. Because I just can’t think of a solution.

I think the Mai that set the fire was a mind trick and she wasn’t really there or the one that set the fire

I think Star Wars canon always had too strict a definition of Sith. And the creators keep using it as an excuse not to call dark side users Sith. The inquisitors are one example. If those dark side users do most of the things that the 4 Sith examples we have seen then they really should be Sith. In this show one character even said a Sith tenet.

i know they arent gonna destroy canon, but im really interested in how they are gonna go about doing that

There's definitely more with Kelnacca we just don't know about yet, we'll see something more in another flashback from what I've heard, even something from a trailer, but I really don't remember. There's no way Qimir isn't Mae's Sith Master at this point. And as for collecting people, this is clearly stuff to get into her head, or the Sith Master actually does collect some kind of memento from other Acolytes. And when it comes to killing Jedi without a weapon, that seems very metaphorical, but also, people need to know that the Jedi can be harmed. Unfortunately though, I don't see how killing Kelnacca would help show that because he's all alone in the woods, it's not like the other two where people were around to see it. There is a stun setting on lightsabers, we see it at the start of the Season 2 episode of Rebels, Mystery at Chopper Base. The blades do look and sound different than what was in Attack of the Clones though. At the same time, in Young Jedi Adventures, the kids in that show do have solid blades, but they don't seem to be able to cut through anything while anyone older with their own lightsabers can actually do anything with them. The kids literally have training sabers, so at best they may be able to deflect a blaster bolt if they can't only just absorb it into their blade. Now obviously it's a preschooler show, there's no reason for them to be hacking anyone to pieces, but they're no older than the children with Yoda, so I think we can reasonably assume that they're working with training sabers. Ki-Adi-Mundi being in the show bugs me only because I don't feel like he should have been in that room. I personally like it being that he was completely in the dark about the idea of the Rule of Two, that he blindly believes that the Sith truly are extinct. Now of course, they never outright say the word in the show, there's only speculation, but I'm still not a fan of his inclusion in that scene. It doesn't break the canon (yet), but there are also just so many Jedi that are being clued into what's going on, too. If it was just the people from the first two episodes, it could be manageable, but we've got too many people learning about these killings now with speculation that it could be worse than some offshoot of the Jedi that's gone rogue. For me, the episode really became interesting in those last five minutes. Bazil and the Umbra Moth didn't really do anything for me, but I do like the grunty, growly dude that Jecki's taking to. Sometimes the pulp works, sometimes it don't, and unfortunately a lot of this episode was just a miss. I do like that Mae's losing interest in her task, the reason she's doing anything is void to her, and then the Sith Master just floating down like Dooku in the Clone Wars Microseries was rad. I'm curious to see just who makes it out of the following fight alive. It could easily be another flashback episode, but I'd say probably another week from now. We really need to know what happened 16 years ago, and there is the potential that with Mae turning away from the Sith, that Osha may actually be turning toward the Sith depending on what happens and if she gets the full story of what happened.

So the first half of the show created many questions, it only makes sense for the second half of the show to answer all of these questions. We do not need any more questions presented in this series.

I'm not bothered by whether or not Legends material is canonized. It's not like Mundi's age was declared in one of the movies. I have no issue with his presence either, because he may never even know about the Sith practitioners. Maybe Mundi can't see what is right in front of him just like he can't in the prequels. I welcome him because he speaks to the overconfidence that contributed to the Jedi order's collapse, given that we are now witnessing the origins of that decay in Acolyte.. I would be more than happy with Qimir being the masked dark side user, As this video mentions, his scenes with Mae are a dark parallel to Yoda's playful yet creepy deceit of Luke on Dagobah. Still, I have my suspicions about Koril. I don't recall seeing her dead body in the third episode of this series. Whatever Qimir turns out to be, Manny Jacinto's performance is unreal. The performance seems to be flying under the radar to some extent, but I see it as equal to Lee Jung jae's Sol. The Sith practitioner's eerie descent in the final scene of this episode felt like something straight out of a Universal horror movie.

Awesome seriee so far!!

It's Indra behind the mask was obvious from the first episode. Carrie Anne Moss said on a interview she had to be secretive on set and her wardrobe has to be hidden, also her figure is the same in size and height of the masked Sith. It's classic noir you could tell from her first shot on screen it was her.

Great video, thank you for being positive about the show… This was fun to watch. You have a new subscriber!

I think that possibly might have been Ploo Koon,but maybe Filoni nixed it lol.

I’m just saying… Darth Bazil?? Haha

Qimir is the apprentice of a rogue Jedi. Probably Indara. Which means that when the Jedi learn the name of the Master, they accept that the Sith haven't returned. Yet. Until the Phantom Menace. Problem solved

i think i agree with u that its too obvious to be qimir. at least i have some faith that its not gonna be that in your face, but who knows

Sith ❌Shit ✅, whenever i see that mask only 2 things come to my mind - Kylo Rens mask + Skinwalking smiley mutants from the new mutants movie

Great vid. Ep 4 was really good.

That aint Jedi plo koon ,cuz plokoon has blue saber this dude has green one, could be bros or this plokoon jedi with high republic can be father of plokoon.

I didn’t know you were into Star Wars too! High five! I’ll see y’all on Discord!

Did you use subtitles only cause of this video ? I guess so because they are distraction on a content where spoken language is english 🙂 I'll restream S01E04 late this evening via D+ 🙂 Many good points you brought up here. Big yes indeed for the part where Younglings used Lightsabers in training room 🤭 Better way introduced in The Acolyte S01E04 🙂 I like Prequel Trilogy so that won't ruin it. I also like The Acolyte so far & dislike Sequel Trilogy ✅ I dislike Kenobi (had big expectations) & mostly like rest of the Star Wars Telly shows that have come so far. 👌

So, who's behind the sith mask...? According 2 me its 1. Qimir 2. Evil twin of Sol 3. Zebarack mother koril 4. Me

There's no way they make the sith ki adi mudni, right? 😂

Oh man, this is MY SHOW! I always knew the High Republic was such a cool era, I just didn’t know it was the COOLEST! That Sith is CRAZY STRONG. I really hope it’s not Qimir… Also I need to see more of that Jedi Wookie! I’m so mad he’s dead already mannnnn

One of Osha’s mothers is the Sith Master. Watch me be right.

We should be happy we get to see kia mindi. Screw canon if u ask me, this is all fantasy anyway

"how do you kill a jedi without a weapon?" r u serious? she killed 2 jedi already

The master is 3 droids in a trench coat

It’s because the Sith have not returned. It’s a witch with a lightsaber. Momma is back. Look at the height of Kylo Grin next to Osha. He’s taller.

What does the clue for?

Hope Disney doesn't make season 2

Jecki is too competent. I think Mother Koril made two Jecki's. One is a Jedi and the other a Sith. (It will somehow be a third Osha/Mae, tho)

Theres a picture i have of qimir wearing the sith robes he probably loses his helmet as seen in the trailer

Qimir is The Apprentice in the mask. Sol is the Sith Master. Rewatch episode 3, when Mae is falling, Sol puts out his hand, pushing Mae clear. That's why she survived.

15:43 Can't you see how that in of itself is just cynical, it's these people, Disney basically just choosing what they want to take from "Legends" and make their CANON. I mean it's like James Gunn, choosing to decanonize everything he doesn't want from the DCU, except only HIS stuff, like "Peacekeeper". Did they really need to use Ki Adi-Mundi here!? Why couldn't they have simply used Yaddle?? She's already a fairly mysterious character. the fact Lucasfilm and Leslie Headland's story group specifically chose to bring Ki Adi-Mundi in this show knowing full well what he says in Ep1, really kind of shows us these people running the *Star Wars* franchise today are actively trying to do the opposite to what us fans like, they're trying to spite us, and throw things in our face; like almost dictating to us exactly what they deem *Canon*. Way to pi** off Fans and alienate them. Meanwhile look at the writers at Amazon who worked on the recent "Fallout" live-action series. Just look at how much they cared about that lore from the games, and the attention and detail they put in to bring that world alive and feel exactly like the Fallout games. See the positive reaction and huge praise that show got from fans and the audience in general? It's not hard, stop messing around with the lore, and changing, twisting it into whatever you want it to be!? Hey guess what!? Leslie Headland, Pablo Hidalgo, Justina Ireland, Krystina Arrielle, KATHLEEN KENNEDY! these people running starwars right now won't be here forever; eventually they will ALL leave, one by one and move onto other things. But guess who will still be here, supporting the *Star Wars* Franchises that's right - US FANS!!!

Also I do not recommend watching this when you’re high bc if you’re like me it just makes me overanalyze everything even more and it makes it much worse😂

Duh use the force 😂

Yord sounding like a Chad Cop 😂

There's a mystery?

I think the sith is female, tall, thin, with a shaved head and a skin tone that wouldn't look out of place on a Scottish ogre. I hope I am wrong.

It's the mother 🤦‍♂️

Lol. There's no mystery here,not really. I'm not even watching the show, and know smilo Ren is 1 of 3 characters.

It must be hard pretending like this isn’t the most heavy handed, poorly written dialogue ever written.

Mae could kill the Jedi without a weapon this time by going on a strike which made the master to kill the hairy Jedi for her lol

If she randomly does a 180 and turns, Now professing she’ll turn herself in, what is the point of tying him up? Why does she trap him?? Can’t she just leave the quest? It seems so completely immoral. She’s a horribly written character, imo. Everything Mae did leading up to that moment was completely inconsistent with what she does. She is also unnecessarily cruel to him. So so weird this show.

It would be sad if Venestra turns to the sith. It would undermine the work of the person who created her as a strong female jedi

The fact that you could come up with so much to say despite all that horrible writing/dialogue is impressive. You were almost more descriptive than the actual show. I just hate how this could be a cool series but the plot, writing, everything really is just so bad, it’s almost like a Hallmark Star Wars show

This show is actually dookie

It can't be plo koon because this useless character will die

This show is GARBAGE. None of it matters. These “theories” are a waste of time.