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The Acolyte: Season 1: Episode 7: Choice

What is it ? : 16 Years Before, Sol, Indara, Torbin and Kelnacca are on Brendock, Torbin is impatient as he though being a Jedi would be excitement and heroics, but they've been here surveying a planet for some time. Indara and Sol explain to him that the world was devastated in the Great Hyperspace Disaster, but now there is life where none was before. He doesn't understand, and they continue to explain that this could be the sign of a Vergence, a point where the force has concentrated to such a level it could create life.
Sol explores and encounters Mae and Osha as we saw in episode 3, he sees them use the force and follows them back to the Fortress, sneaking inside and observing them being trained in the force and the conversation revealing they were conceived using the force. He returns to the Jedi ship and tells Indara, Torbin asks if the witches are Nightsisters, to which Kelnacca responds unhappily. Indara wants to inform the Jedi Council, but Sol says they should react quickly while they wait for a response from the Council.
They head to the Fortress and encounter the Witches as we saw in Episode 3, but we see how Aniseya controls Torbins mind, by exploiting his doubts and wants, he wants to be done with this mission and to return home to Coruscant. They agree to allow the girls to be tested, and the following day we see Mae being tested this time.
Torbin takes a blood sample, but Mae fails the test on purpose, and Indara asks about the ceremony the girls are to take part in. Mae tells her that it will lead to the twins leading the Witches, but it involves sacrifice, which alarms Sol.
After the testing, Torbin reports on the blood tests, which show the girls are both extremely force sensitive, and they are identical, more than twins, and Sol realises they are one consciousness split into two bodies, and only a Vergence could be powerful enough to do such a thing.
Torbin still disturbed from being controlled the day before, and still compelled towards his want to leave this planet and return to Coruscant, takes a speeder bike, saying the girls are the evidence they need to complete their mission.
Sol follows him on another Speeder bike, to rescue the girls from their "sacrifice", and Indara and Kelnacca follow in the starship overhead, with Indara finding nowhere to land, so dropping Kelnacca off.
We see Mae start the fire, but this time from her point of view where it is more of an accident than on purpose, and we see Sol and Torbin confront the witches who tell them to leave.
Aniseya argues with the Jedi, when Mae races out to tell her about the fire, and Aniseya and Mar begin to turn into a black mist, but Sol stabs Aniseya killing her, and she tells him she'd intended to let Osha go as it was her will.
The witches concentrate to take control of a mind, but Torbin is prepared this time, but Kelnacca attacks the two and nearly defeats them when Indara incapacitates him, and uses the force to free his mind, upon which all the other witches collapse.
Sol rescues Osha, as Mae falls into the exploding building as the fire reaches the reactor, and they return to the ship. As Osha lies unconscious, Sol decides to tell the council, but Indara tells him he has already taken everything from Osha, he should raise her and not leave her totally alone. He agrees and as Osha awakens and asks what happened, he tells her that Mae started a fire which destroyed the Fortress. . . .

High Points : So we now see the full story, and it's not quite as I envisioned. I thought we would see the Jedi being far more of the villains of this story, using their "right" to take children to try to take the twins by force. But instead we see Torbin have his weakness exploited, and Sol misunderstanding, leading to the death of only Aniseya. So the situation is very different to what we've seen, the rest of the Witches are simply hiding, and likely are being Qimir and his training of Mae.

Low Points : The misunderstanding is a bit silly, why the witches insist on using terms like sacrifice for their rituals which just leads to Sol thinking they're going to kill the twins. And then turning into black smoke, which just seems evil, they kind of got what they were asking for.

So what do you really think ? : Back to a really solid episode, we finally discover what happened on Brendock, and it's not the Jedi being evil as was predicted, and I though was perhaps likely, it's just a series of failures which haunt the Jedi. Sol fails to recognise that the witches aren't going to harm the twins, Kelnacca fails to resist mind control and attacks his fellow Jedi, Torbin fails to resist his own desires and makes rash decisions, Indara fails to tell the truth, and the witches fail to see that aggression is met by aggression. Everyone here is wrong, and contributes to the disaster.
Although, the witches collapse when beaten fighting for control of Kelnacca, is that them just unconscious, or did being beaten by Indara kill them outright? If they were just unconscious, then the disaster on Brendock is just the death of Aniseya, which is tragic for the twins, their mother is dead, but has been more than paid for by the deaths of many Jedi so far (the Masters who were present on Brendock, plus all those that died on Khofar). Lots remains to be revealed, as the mystery isn't completely explained yet.

Final Words : I wonder if the revelation that Osha and Mae were created by the force by creating twins out of a single being, rather than totally created by the force from nothing, will shut up all the people who were complaining that it stopped Anakin being so special when we thought we'd learned where the ritual to create Anakin had come from?
This series keeps getting complained about, and then if you wait it explains that the complaints aren't valid, such as Qimir being a Sith (and no Sith has been seen for a thousand years according to Ki Adi Mundi in The Phantom Menace), and then he reveals that he's not actually a Sith, the Jedi just like calling people Sith. And the whole birth date controversy for Ki Adi Mundi, when the same source as gave his birth date also says he's a Jedi Knight serving on the Jedi Council, when that is contradicted by Episode 3 and Anakin's failure to be made a Master while serving on the Council.
So many of these complaints just disappear if you wait for the entire story to be told.

Score : 9/10

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