#indara

The best thing about The Acolyte is how the Jedi were murdered. Indara dies because her compassion is used against her, when Mae threatens an innocent bystander, Indara focuses on saving them, instead of watching Mae. Torbin dies because his heart breaks for whatever happened with Mae in the past, 16 years ago. She can't touch him until she weaponizes his heart against him. Sure, you can kill Jedi with overwhelming numbers against them, but if you don't have numbers, how do you get under a Jedi's defense? Use their compassion, use their care for others, use their connections to wanting to help others against them. These Jedi died because they cared.

I love how in The Acolyte, the older and wiser Jedi rarely use their lightsabers. Indara only pulls it as a last resort, and Sol and Torbin haven't used theirs at all. Meanwhile, Yord, who's younger, seems much more keen to draw his weapon. I just really appreciate that it's showing the gradual changing of the Order's beliefs through the different generations of Jedi as they move toward the prequel era

I’m glad that this wasn’t a one sided ‘the Jedi did bad thing’ - everyone handled that situation badly, witches AND Jedi. It had nuance, thank god and makes the following conflict once it’s revealed much more interesting.