The cancellation of The Acolyte has drawn mixed reactions from Star Wars fans across the internet, but the most vocal are frustrated with the show’s Darth Plagueis tease. The Acolyte infamously featured the live-action debut of Darth Plagueis , a character who had only appeared in novels and been referenced in Revenge of the Sith. Plagueis is the master of Darth Sidious, who would become the franchise’s chief threat, Emperor Palpatine.
The Plagueis tease is incredibly brief, and it’s not even entirely clear if he’s really there or just a Force-fueled hallucination. It was clearly a tease of something more, but the sudden cancelation of The Acolyte means we’ll likely never find out what. Now, frustrated Star Wars fans are mad that the tease was seemingly meaningless, feeling that The Acolyte’s cancelation has ended the plot before it could truly start.
“So I guess this is going nowhere now,” one fan said in a post on the Star Wars subreddit , sharing his frustration with the tease. Most aren’t frustrated so much with the Plagueis tease as they are with the promise of what it meant for a Season 2, with one fan saying, “The sith stuff was very interesting, Qimir was cool, and they chose to focus on the twins and the witches and now we probably won’t see the sith stuff for a long time.” Others are thrilled he didn’t show up more, with one fan saying, “Considering the meandering and dry writing and acting, thank goodness.
I’d love to see Plagueis. The.