Star Wars Doomed The Acolyte Hero From The Beginning
Now that The Acolyte has been canceled, we can only speculate about where the show might have taken different characters and what their final fates would be. Regarding one of the main characters, though, it seems like her own fate was sealed from the very beginning based on everything we know about her and the Force. Osha in The Acolyte ultimately turns evil, but since she was created due to a vergence in the Force, her own fall to the Dark Side might have been an early attempt to bring balance to this unseen energy force.
The Anakin Connection
This theory about Osha in The Acolyte is going to draw on several threads from Star Wars, so you may want to buckle up for this fairly bumpy ride. It all begins with the twins’ creation: the show eventually reveals that both Osha and Mae were created by the Force, something made possible due to the planet Brendok being a vergence in the Force. This revelation angered many fans because they felt like it made Anakin Skywalker (who was himself created by the Force) less special, but my theory is that the twins may be more connected to Anakin than anyone suspected.
A Recurring Balancing Act We’ve Seen Play Out Before
Now, decades before Osha or The Acolyte was a twinkle in a Disney executive’s eye, George Lucas introduced the idea of Anakin Skywalker being “the Chosen One,” a prophesied Jedi figure who could bring balance to the Force by destroying the Sith. At least, that’s how the Jedi always interpreted this prophecy. From the beginning, though, fans have pointed out that the prophecy might have been bleakly literal: after Anakin becomes Darth Vader and purges Jedi across the galaxy, the main players left are two Sith (Vader and Palpatine) and two Jedi (Obi-Wan and Yoda), which sounds pretty darn balanced to us.
There Can’t Be Good Without Evil
Now, aside from the Force helping create all of them, what does all of this business about Anakin from the prequels have to do with Osha and Mae from The Acolyte? My theory is that just as the Force keeps creating children from scratch, it is trying to continuously bring that level of balance. At the beginning of the recent series, that balance is already in place: Osha plays the role of the good girl and Mae is our bad girl, trying to impress her Dark Side master, The Stranger, by taking out her Jedi targets.
A Sealed Fate
However, Osha and Mae effectively swap roles by the end of The Acolyte, with Mae having been abandoned and nearly murdered by The Stranger while Osha ends up joining him after murdering her former mentor, Sol. My theory is that this switch was effectively ordained by the Force: this mystical energy field wanted to have balance, causing one Force twin to be good and one to be evil. Even as Mae began to redeem herself, then, Osha was effectively doomed … a victim of a mystical energy field that, regardless of what Han Solo says, really does control your destiny.
We’ll Never Know For Sure
We’ll never know whether this theory about Osha and Mae is true because The Acolyte has been canceled. It seems many fans aren’t exactly crying over said cancellation, but it is truly sad that the show left so many threads that the franchise may never return to again. Of course, given Disney’s shotgun approach to creating new Star Wars content, we’ll probably be getting another half dozen half-baked ideas and prematurely canceled series to push this particular mystery right out of our minds in no time flat.
