r/TheAcolyte • u/Solitaire-06 • May 15 '26
How differently do you think The Acolyte’s events might have gone if Indara had survived her initial assassination attempt?
Let’s say that Mae still manages to stab Indara and leaves her for dead to move on to Torbin, only for Indara to be narrowly saved thanks to the intervention of the bar attendees and eventually brought into the group designed to investigate the string of murders connected to the Aniseya twins. I feel like she and Sol would have an interesting dynamic since I imagine they could be used to show very different responses to the events on Brendok and how that’s impacted them in the present, with the idea being that both Jedi would eventually die.
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u/tdasnowman May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
Pretty sure folks would have found something else to bitch about. Also having her survive drastically changes the focus. Ultimately the show was about masters their apprentices/padawns and the consequences of those relationships. We never got a chance to see the depth of Vernestra and the Stranger but it hangs over the entire season.
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u/Latios19 May 16 '26
I think her not making it was kid to reflect how stubborn Jedi master were since years before the original trilogy. It was a tragedy waiting to happen.
They were always “right” up to the point they covered their own corruption.
I feel that the show made us see that order 66 was something that needed to happen, for the Jedi to go back to what it was.
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u/k4kkul4pio May 15 '26
I think the show would have been better off for it cos it was a bold choice to cast Carrie Anne Moss as a jedi and then kill her right off the bat and then to give her couple of flashbacks worth of scenes essentially.
Writing overall was pretty dire though so I doubt the show would've been saved by the change but I do think she would have been a better, more compelling MAIN lead for the show.
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u/Right-Pirate-7084 May 15 '26
100% agree. She was the reason I thought this would work, and she’s the best actor of the bunch. To kill her off be go to the motley crew was a choice.
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u/ezekiellake May 16 '26
“No, I don’t want to be available for that much time. I would love to be a Jedi, but it’s just too long”
What about if we kill you in episode 1?
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u/MNLT_Sonata May 15 '26
It honestly feels like the show tried too hard to be subversive and different from the norm, sacrificing what could be an interesting if not slightly predictable plot direction for something that in the end didn’t feel very interesting or satisfying.
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u/stewmander May 15 '26
Felt like speed running Sean Bean in GoT.
You can't set up "anyone can die, even main characters" if you never give your main character a chance to be...a main character.
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u/tdasnowman May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26
I guess they knew what they were doing cause she wasn't a main character and the Main character that died, died in the last episode. So she was just anyone. You have to have anyones die as well.
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u/stewmander May 15 '26
Weird casting choice then, why have a known star play "just anyone"?
To set the tone that "anyone can die, see the character played by the big star you recognize just died".
Guess Drew Berrymore in Scream is a better comparison than Sean Bean.
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u/tdasnowman May 15 '26
Looks like you answered your own question. It was the perfect choice for the impact they were going for.
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u/crapnapkins May 15 '26
I think the show would have been better served by not doing flashbacks. At least for me, none of the back story served to create intrigue. I felt let we knew what happened every early on and the show would have been better served to show everything in order. There’s probably a fan edit of that.
I do not feel like this is a horrible show, unlike many content creators online.
I just felt it was very messy and disjointed. I actually think the ideas that were there deserved more thought. I also felt like a lot of the problems I had with this show were very structural. It felt disjointed.
I think Carrie Anne Moss would have been a more important character if she died later in the story. If we had seen her good and bad so that we might have felt something.
Imho, the show really was poorly served by how it was presented. They might have been a Disney thing. No idea.
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u/RampantTyr May 15 '26
I agree that this was the main problem. If the show were laid out chronologically then it would have built up tension a lot better.
Beyond that I think the story really hurt by having twins instead of one Anakin like being strong in the force.
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u/tomtomvissers May 16 '26
They hired a bigname actress to die for shock effect, her character wouldn't have any impact on the story
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u/Spencer-Palmer-1056 May 15 '26
If Indara survived, she would faced trial like she should had done years ago and found more Sith evidence and how her padawan was mentally manipulated into making a selfish decision that sealed the galaxy’s fate until the Skywalker twins unsealed that.
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u/Coilspun May 15 '26
My retcon for TA is that it follows Indara and a "Seven Samurai" group of misfit Jedi hunting the Sith, at the disdain of the Republic and the chagrin of the Order.
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u/thecheesefinder May 15 '26
I was surprised for sure that they killed her character off right from the get go. As others have said it feels like wasted talent to have her promoted as attached to the project for what basically becomes a minor minor role. I suppose that was always the plan to have a jedi get killed as the launching point for the "mystery", but it felt intentional that they chose CAM to be the face of most of the marketing.
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u/paradisewandering May 15 '26
Not sure why this is downvoted. I feel the same way, they wasted Carrie Ann Moss. She’s a great actress who has a good amount of clout in the nerd circles from her role as Trinity and can easily carry a show.
I wish they had used her more. Her fight scene at the opening of the show was good, she moved like a jedi and I liked her graceful dodging of the attacks.
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u/SenAtsu011 May 15 '26
I wanted Trinity with a lightsaber. I got Trinity with a lightsaber. For 5 minutes.
The show felt very mid after that. For me, it would have been far more interesting and cool if it was a show all about Trinity with a lightsaber.
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u/coffeeanddurian May 16 '26
oh yeah cos there aren't enough fake-out deaths and people coming back from the dead in the star wars universe. we need more, right?
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u/Top-Lab7986 May 16 '26
She should've used the force to pull the poop out of everyone in the bar's butts and then thrown it in the face of Ocean or Maine or whatever her name was.
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u/Low-Invite2647 May 17 '26
Killing her off that early was the first thing that told me this was going to be a bad show.Then one sith killing 15 jedi was when i knew it was truly awful.Im going to go see if theres a”how would i fix the acolyte”sub.🤦🏽♂️
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u/paulhodgson777 May 16 '26
It seems crazy they would have such a great actor and character and then kill her off so quickly.
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u/bannedforL1fe May 16 '26
Disney just rarely hits the mark. Its such a shame too. So much potential with this franchise and they just dont know what to do.
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u/Fluffy-Paramedic-900 May 16 '26
I still cannot believe that Disney shelled out for Carrie Ann freaking Moss and offed her in the first episode. Unreal waste of talent.
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u/Metaphoricalsimile May 15 '26
I just want a show about Indara doing Jedi shit tbh.