One can all the time carbon date the period of any “Star Wars” challenge by way of the look of a lightsaber. “The Acolyte,” nevertheless, options unostentatious weapons that may trace that all the Jedi group is performing a special form of thoughts trick on these watching them – a easy gesture of visible shorthand to verify to evildoers they imply enterprise and are a pressure to be reckoned with, because of the navy nature of their sabers.
“The Acolyte” takes place roughly round 132 BBY (Earlier than the Battle of Yavin), many years previous to the primary occasions associated to the Skywalker Saga. The lightsabers brandished by the Jedi in the course of the first few episodes of the present are notably plain — which is stunning, as a result of 132 BBY is smack dab in the midst of an period of common peace for the galaxy. Normally, in instances of peace, lightsabers are usually flashier in look versus highlighting type and performance.
This may be due to the place “The Acolyte” sits on the galactic timeline. In 232 BBY, the Jedi participated within the Nihil Battle. Performed beneath the Guardian Protocols, this struggle has the Jedi appearing as an armed pressure, and so they have moved in a navy style for the reason that struggle ended. It has been 100 years, and but the lightsabers utilized by the Jedi who confront Osha (Amandla Stenberg) in Episode 1 nonetheless replicate this mindset. It is value noting, nevertheless, that lightsabers positively change once more over the following 100 years.
Later lightsabers are flashier
Evaluating the lightsabers brandished by the Jedi in “The Acolyte” to those we see in films like “Star Wars: Episode II — Assault of the Clones” and different movies within the franchise is fascinating. Evidently a few years sooner or later, characters equivalent to Darth Maul (Ray Park) will brandish flashy purple multi-bladed lightsabers. There might be sabers that are brightly hilted and are available in a number of colours that replicate the character of their customers –or within the case of Samuel L. Jackson’s Mace Windu, he wields a purple lightsaber simply because the actor thought the thought can be enjoyable.
They are a bit plainer by the point Darth Vader (voice of James Earl Jones, amongst many others) and Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) collide with the Jedi order in ruins, and much more so when Ray (Daisy Ridley) and Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) meet face-to-face, however nonetheless fancy sufficient to be notable.
As Mae (Amandla Stenberg) notes, Jedi solely ever take their lightsabers out in the event that they intend to kill with them. That is a indisputable fact that Osha shortly learns — and forces her to confront the previous that binds her again to her twin. Whether or not that confrontation will contain lightsabers or hand-to-hand fight stays up within the air — however it positively will not be a Power-related trick.