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Yeah, the coven seems to use a mixture of dark and light side force stuff and witchiness. But you (jedi) literally went into their home 3 times without permission, thought you knew better with respect to how the kids should be raised, without any understanding of their culture or what they were really doing. Big "stolen generation" vibes. I am not sorry

I can't believe after everything that went down on Brendok, even though they covered it up, *someone* thought it was a good idea to not only give him a padawan, but to give him Osha. Crazy. That said, he's a very interesting character.

Also crazy with Sol's kind of weird attachment to Osha instantly- it's actually more about him than her, which seems to be a problem. Indira even comments about him never having a padawan thus far- perhaps hinting that the order knows Sol has attachment issues. But then Sol, after all this mess, becomes Osha's Master? Crazy. I honestly found Sol to be totally unhinged in this episode.

Qimir helpfully says in a previous episode he "collects people"- As soon as Mae decides, once she knows her sister is alive, to turn tail and not do what her "Master" wants- what is Qimir's reaction?: "He'll kill you"- where is the freedom in that? Why shouldn't Mae be able to leave. So Qimir's notion of "freedom" is a bit of a lie. Qimir/The Stranger says to Osha "Mae was a mistake"- so where is Mae's "freedom"? Do we really think The Stranger won't kill her for her betrayal if he gets the chance? So while I totally appreciate a more nuanced approached to dark side users (and again, Manny is killing it here!), much of what he says is vague or outright terrible

If Qimir was 300 pounds and not conventionally attractive we wouldn't be having all these amazing gifsets and discourse. Just saying

I'm kind of bummed Vernestra hasn't had more to do, i hope that changes in the next two episodes. I do think it's very plausible that Qimir has used something related to the dark side so he's much older than he appears and maybe Vern was his master at some point in the jedi order. That would be super interesting. If Vern did cause his scars on his back via light whip, i think it would be likely that they confronted each other after he moved to the Dark Side, but we'll see. Vern clearly can sense that something terrible happened and I think she suspects it was her former pupil. It would be very out of character for Vern (in High Republic writings) to just attack her pupil.

First of all, let me say Manny is killing it, he's amazing. Also, i think this spin on dark side users is fascinating. I still believe the growing relationship (?) between The Stranger and Osha is totally toxic. He is seducing her- and yes, he seems to respect her more than he did Mae (that is also a problem- he "collects people" and then tosses them aside)- but this is still a seduction to the dark side. He knows her vulnerabilities and he has his own agenda. I know there are a lot of Reylo comparisons, which i also thought was toxic, but lets not forget, despite his arms and abs, he literally killed a bunch of Jedi and wanted to kill Mae as soon as she left him (where is the "freedom" in that?). Again, unpopular opinion but I'm not loving the shipping between Osha and Qimir because Qimir is literally playing on her vulerabilities.

I also think there's the possibility that Koril is somehow involved. I'm not buying that Mae burned down everything, maybe nothing other than her book. I'm wondering if someone else was there on Brendok that was helping to manipulate events? Just thinking out loud. There is more to the coven than meets the eye.

So I now think Sol makes it out of the next episode (#5). I think darth zipperface will take Osha as a prisoner/kidnapping situation. I think quite a few Jedi will die in episode 5, but not Sol.....yet. I think Zipperface will sow doubt in Osha- because that's the best way to kill the "dream" of the Jedi. I think Sol won't get the opportunity to tell Osha what he planned to tell her once they got back to the ship, because she'll be taken. So the Sith apprentice (or whatever he/she is) will tell his version of events that happened on Brandok which may or may not be true. Also, there appears to be something from one of the trailers where either Mae or Osha is holding a knife to Jeki's throat? I don't think this has already happened? From the hairstyle, I think it is Osha, which is so sad. Just my thoughts