“It’s always an honor to get to witness anything or anyone transform into the Force,” young padawan Jecki Lon tells Osha in , perhaps preparing us all for the carnage that was to come just a week later , leaving transforming into the Force. But even with this brief moment of insight into a Jedi’s perspective on death, there’s one thing that’s still haunted me more than anything about ’s massacre last week. After the Stranger has through the jungles of Khofar leaving only Sol, Mae, and Osha standing, there’s an interesting beat in the climax of ’s fifth episode, “Night.
” Given a chance to escape the terror after the Stranger is carried away into the depths of the forests by a swarm of Umbramoths, Sol and Osha—unbeknownst to him, actually Mae, now disguised as her twin sister—examine the fallen bodies of the two Jedi closest to them from the carnage of the night before: the crumpled forms of Yord, one of Osha’s old friends when she was still with the Jedi; and Jecki, Sol’s own padawan learner. It’s just a quiet moment between the two of them, and before Sol tells “Osha” in a hurry that they have to leave, marching back out of the forest and to their ship. In the moment, it struck me as something odd, even with that prior conversation between Jecki and the actual Osha in the earlier episode.
Would Sol really leave the bodies of these people he cared about, who he just watched get brutally cut down, to rot on a distant world? Sure there’s som.
