Scrapped ‘Acolyte’ Season 2 Would Have Portrayed Yoda as a “Villain”

Just when you thought the discourse around The Acolyte was cooling down, Leslye Headland has thrown a thermal detonator into the room.

Headland confirmed that had the show been grantedba second season by Dave Filoni and his Jedi council, Yoda wouldn’t have been portrayed as the Grand Master savior fans expected. Instead, he would have been complicit in Vernestra Rwoh’s cover-up of the massacre at Brendok.

According to Headland, who revealed the plan on The George Lucas Talk Show, the move would be consistent with Yoda’s behavior as seen in the Clone Wars, referring to the Jedi Council’s occasional moral flexibility during the war; however, applying that to a pre-war era where the Jedi were at their peak is a move that would not have sat incredibly well with one of the world’s most consistently displeased fandoms.

For sure. Yeah. Don’t come at me in the comments, because he does it in Clone Wars. So I don’t want to hear about it.

-Leslye Headland

Headland’s comments  confirm that despite being set during The High Republic, The Acolyte was never interested in the  Golden Age of the Jedi. It was always about the rot and showing that it had taken root in the Order long before the beginning of The Skywalker Saga.