The fact that The Acolyte won’t return to the world of Star Wars has many downsides, but few are as painful as the story of the Stranger. Season one’s main villain, played by Manny Jacinto , was a fascinating, complex character whose views on the Force, the Jedi, and the Sith were poised to change everything we knew about Star Wars and more. And while we are now unlikely to ever see it, there was a loose, tentative plan to keep his legacy around for a long, long time.

Early next year, Abrams Books is publishing The Art of Star Wars: The Acolyte by Kristin Baver, and this weekend, a few pages came to light that revealed some of Acolyte creator Leslye Headland’s plans for the character. “[The design of the mask] felt like it foreshadowed a possible connection to the Knight

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