Always two, there are . “Star Wars” fans were treated to many things throughout Episode 8 of “ The Acolyte ,” but among them were two character cameos of legendary figures in “ Star Wars ” lore showing up in the Disney+ series’ season finale. The final shot of the season settles just above the very recognizable ears and wispy white hairs of Yoda, long-lived enough to have seen the Republic at its height before its fall.
But “ The Acolyte ” achieves balance in the (cameo) force by tucking a true IYKYK of a legendary dark side lord, too. “Plagueis was always in the finale, in every version,” creator Leslye Headland told IndieWire on an upcoming episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. Darth Plagueis the Wise is a Sith Lord referenced most notably in “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” as part of Palpatine’s (Ian Mcdiarmid) pitch to Anakin (Hayden Christensen) to join the dark side — he was, in fact, Palpatine’s old master.
In “The Acolyte,” he appears about 12 minutes into Episode 8 (also titled “The Acolyte”) as a sinister figure lurking among the rocks while Osha (Amandla Stenberg) and The Stranger (Manny Jacinto) head off to find her sister Mae (also Amandla Stenberg) who is trying to kill her former master Sol (Lee Jung-jae). But Plagueis’ presence echoes throughout the wider “Star Wars” mythology and its Expanded Universe of novels, comic books, and video game tie-ins. James Luceno’s 2012 novel “Darth Plagueis” .
