Its not a moment of high drama, or a particularly shocking reveal about the story were watching unfold.
If anything, its seemingly almost entirely disconnected from everything else in the finale.
And yet, its a moment that potentially has huge ramifications for currentStar Warscontinuity.
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Flying away in the Strangers vessel, we dont follow the duo.
Is It Actually Darth Plagueis?
Turns out, if it looks like a Darth Plagueis, it probablyis.
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But the showrunner has now explicitly confirmed that the figure is indeed meant to be Plagueis.
Plagueis was always in the finale, in every version, the showrunner toldIndieWirein a new interview.
However, their alliance was not to last.
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An interesting point to note, givenThe Acolytes own on-screen debut of the ore!
And I would say I think its pretty complicated and messy.
And then theres the whole Rule of Two deal.
Four, of course, is a larger number than two.
We know there can only be two, Headland added in her interview withIndiewire.
We know Plagueis is there.
We know that these two are doomed in some way.
So to me its a bittersweet tragedy, this foreboding ending.
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