THE ACOLYTE ENDING EXPLAINED: Major Cameo, Season 2, Lingering Questions!

Spoilers ahead!
The Acolyte ends with an appearance by DARTH PLAGUEIS, the Sith lord referenced by Palpatine in Revenge of the Sith! Erik Voss explains what Plagueis' plan is, and all your other remaining questions after this finale of The Acolyte! What does Yoda know? How were the twins created, and why?

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Written by: Erik Voss
General Manager: Zach Huddleston
Head of Production: John Costa
Director of Programming: Brandon Barrick
Senior Producer: Jessica Clemons
Post Production Supervisor: Riley Auskelis
Staff Editors: Drew Coombs, Joshua Steven Hurd
Editors: Cody Kenner & Kelly Joule
Camera Operator: Dashiell Hamingson

PATREON PRODUCERS:
Rick Denmon
RXJedi

[NewRockstars]

Do you think Qimir knows that his master is watching them? Or has this master not yet taken on Qimir as an apprentice?

[pizzazombie]

Bazil sabotaging the ship is the most frustrating unanswered question of them all. Darth Bazil? 🤔

[salawinborn]

Plaguis is the #1 Qimir/Osha shipper. Just chillin in that cave hoping they kiss. 😂

[TimeBombRosette]

He didn't wipe Osha's memories. He wiped Mae.

[fivefive]

The line about the Jedi being unchecked power posing as a religion is something that needs to be explored more.

[yogibert]

My biggest question was how would someone kill a Jedi master without a weapon? It might’ve been very obvious, but a force choke never came to mind. I don’t know why. Such a duh moment for me

[PUDDI]

I feel like a lightsaber whip would not just lightly scar someone

[chrisfatecj]

I was MORE confused by the end, than I was during the season...😂😂

[jeffreycarman]

6:18 the Force cult with Mother Aniseya was obsessed with balance and yin yang type symbolism. Clearly Osha and Mae are meant to represent that balance.

[adamjones-ps]

Something never really explained is how Qimir came to know and train Mae.

[Etrigan]

"You dozen, form a perimeter" Does perimeter mean something else, cause they didn't and were all traveling in a massive group.

[iKYo]

I think Qmir is Plagueis's proxy so that Plagueis can hide behind the scenes, I think Plagueis was trying to create an apprentice that would faithfully serve and protect, and I believe he was the reason Anakin exists.

[DreameroftheDark]

I have to agree with Eric. I may go a little higher with a B- grade just because that choreography was 🔥 and I'm okay with *some* of the mystery being left unresolved. Tbh my main issues were pacing and editing. So many episodes felt like it cut off almost at random.

[Beanballer]

What of Plaguis is like Vader as in he has a secret apprentice Qimir while currently being the apprentice of Tenebrous, like how Vader had Starkiller while under Sideus, and he is finding out the Qimir had a secret apprentice as he was sneaking around the caves

[DIzzFOo]

THIS IS HOW PLAGUES is finding out about the way to make life right now...

[nicholasgarrick]

The best part of the episode seeing the kyber crystal bleed red gave me goosebumps.

[jonahbea-taylor]

As someone who just enjoys watching Star Wars and your analysis, I thought this was great. A little more complexity in the world of good versus evil, plus some great saber fights!

[seanj]

Today was always covering things up. He didn’t tell the Senate about Maul. He didn’t tell Luke about Vader. He didn’t tell Luke about Leia.

[philclark]

So here's my theory on what's going on based on the premise that Disney (as shown with Ki Adi Mundi's retconned age) aren't afraid of tweaking things.

The shift Vernestra felt was the death of Tenebrous at the hands of Plageuis.

Qimir is an adaptation of Darth Venamis, Tenebrous' secret apprentice from legends with a name designed to invoke the word venom. The first time we see him, he's handling poison.

When we see Plageuis in the cave, he's just tracked Qimir/Venamis down, that's why he's looking out the cave in the way he does, and as per legends has the intent of killing him. Plageuis is stronger in the force, and can mask from Qimir/Venamis, whilst also being able to gain some grasp of the situation playing out around the events on Brendok and the twins origin

Venamis had a grim fate in legends. It's likely a version of that may play out as he's now more valuable "alive" than dead

[fraliexb]

I don't think Mother Aniseya intended to create twins, but was just attempting to create life and the force made them twins.