The Acolyte Episode 7 Reveals Major Insights About Osha and Mae
This week, The Acolyte episode 7 arrived with some shocking reveals. Fans finally find out what happened to Brendok 16 years ago and about Mae and Osha's (Amandla Stenberg) history.
In the third episode, "Destiny," we discovered that Mother Aniseya (Jodie Turner-Smith) created the twins using the Force. However, it turns out their origin is even more unique. Sol (Lee Jung-jae) and Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) found that a vergence (a unique concentration of Force energy around a single location) was used to split one consciousness into two, making Mae and Osha more than just twins.
The Acolyte creator, Leslye Headland, discussed Mae and Osha's connection and the potential link between their creation and Darth Plagueis in a recent media event.
"I would say I would leave that up to future chapters of the story," Headland teased when Screen Rant asked if Osha and Mae could live without the other. "But what I can say is that I believe that because Aniseya utilized this power, which is I think all of Aniseya's power is very potent, but a lot of it is unknowable ... She knows the extent of what she's capable of, but not exactly sure when she experiments with it, what will happen."
"So for example, she's playing around with powers that could create life, that can create life, and instead of creating one life, it ended up being two lives," Headland continued. "So I think her intention, and one of the reasons the Coven is so obsessed with keeping the twins together, is that they believe that this very special miracle that was able to happen under their roof, it could be broken if the two of them are separated. Now in our story, they are separated, and they're separated for a very long time."
"So it seems unlikely to me that if one of them came to harm, the other one would drop dead," Headland added. "But I do think that because their power and their essence has been split, they both feel incomplete without the other one. And whenever another person notices one of them as different, or their whole selves, the way that Sol responds to Osha, the way that the Stranger responds to Osha, I think that also means that while they're split, they are not solely dependent on each other as one half and one half, even though that's what their family of origin would say. And I think it's the way that the Jedi understand their creation to make sense."
Are Osha and Mae's Powers Connected to Plagueis?
Darth Plagueis is a familiar figure in the Star Wars universe, primarily due to Palpatine's monologue in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. In the film, Palpatine describes "Darth Plagueis the Wise" and his ability to create life using midi-chlorins and conquer death. During Headland's roundtable, she elaborates on how Plagueis' pursuit of life-giving power relates to the creation of Osha and Mae.
"Of course they do. I am surprised more people haven't asked me that question. I'm like, 'Obviously,'" Headland said when asked by Screen Rant if the twins' powers are connected to the powers of Darth Plagueis. "The Sith are looking for the atomic bomb, they're looking for 'What's the card that we can have over the Jedi? What is the Force power that the Jedi do not have?' And so, as far as the Sith are concerned, they're in an arms race, and the Jedi don't even know that arms race is happening because the being that can get the power that Aniseya has started playing with will start the Manhattan Project."
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