Why Vernestra Rwoh is So Important to The Acolyte 

Vernestra was so surprisingly judgmental toward Elzar Mann at the end of Defy the Storm-a Jedi she believed had wrongly killed someone-that I found her reaction to the situation in the first episode of The Acolyte to be right in character for her. Or at least not outside the scope of how she might react to hearing a seemingly believable report that a former padawan had murdered someone.

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I think it’s (Vernestra and Osha) similar to how the council was ready to blame Ahsoka for the bombing of the Jedi temple…

The High Republic books have been good, glad to see someone from the books make it into live action.

I enjoy the channel, Disney bought star wars, and produce new content, some are good, some are not, I am always happy to have a open view on new stories.

They should have kept the purple hair for the show. Great backstory recap.

I never knew Miralans can only live under 70 yrs unless theyre tuned in the force and can live past over a century.

I was abit let down seeing her in the acolyte....I felt she wasn't the character i knew from book's. But alot must have happened in 100 years... But am still hopeful she hasn't had much screen time and there is still a few episodes to go! 🤟

Anyone else find it weird that someone on the crew (not sure if it's concept artists, designers etc) decided to make her bald?

she's a cross between Mace and Yoda. "it's like poetry. it rhymes."

WiTCH you knew " known only as The Master " was your old Padawan ! using the twins, Sol, and all those Jedi as bait to find him 🤔

According to Canon

She was very concerned with OSHA violations in the first episode. Refreshing to see some Jedi are concerned with occupational safety.

Light Whip sounds like a terrifying weapon to face. Imho it's a perfect Sith Weapon

I love Vernestra in the books. Not so much in the Acolyte. She seems more concerned about image and politics. Such a shame.

She’s meant to illustrate how the Jedi have become focused on the wrong things. I appreciate her purpose in the story. Because she’s doing well at her roll I hate her.

The Sherminator shaved his head, sprayed himself with green paint and became Vernestra.

Was so excited to see her appear in love action, and can’t wait to see her use the light whip. Also need to know more about what seemingly changed her attitude to where it is in The Acolyte!

Ive been seeing some comments of disappointment regarding Vern being far from what she used to be and so different, not a complete 1:1 transition from book to show. While its understandably frustrating, I think many forget that its intentional and is like what happened with Mando Ahsoka VS TCW/Rebels Ahsoka. Not only has a lot of time passed, but she has undergone massive upheaval as of Defy the Storm, with Temptation of the Force and the next century likely doing more before she becomes what we see in the Acolyte. If they want to bring book Vern to the screen, they can always do so in Young Jedi Adventures. Preferably voiced by Noel Wells (Tendi in Star Trek Lower Decks & Lord Dominator in Wander Over Yonder).

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Do you think she’s going to ask to talk to the manager

I can't believe my 3 favorite Jedis are in live action/had shows now. Ahsoka Tano, Vernestra Rwoh, and Obi-wan had his show.

On dogma and political enemies: Being concerned about “political enemies” is not necessarily any different than being concerned about “physical enemies.” That is, they are threats, and it does not mean one is dogmatic for being aware of them. Real world example: The Iranian government, as we all know, if functionally ruled by a fundamentalist faction within Twelver Shi’i Islam. The Sufi Orders that remain in Iran are under constant *political* threat from the government, which can sometimes boil over into violence. The Sufis in Iran being aware of this, and taking steps to do their due diligence to avoid harm is not a sign of dogmatism or corruption. So, in the case of Vernestra being aware of political enemies, and wanting to take steps to avoid giving them ammunition, is not necessarily a sign of dogmatism or corruption. To be sure, the Jedi in this period are not a persecuted minority (yet!), but that doesn’t change the actual existential danger represented by political enemies. Particularly given that the Jedi Order is nearly and primarily completely destroyed *politically* before it is nearly destroyed existentially (the Sith nearly “killed the dream”), Vernestra’s concern is actually rather astute and even prescient.

Is cool to see her in live action

Not so important anymore....is she? LOL

The make up in this show is so bad. They all look like cosplayers.

Are we sure she ain’t the traitor that feed May the inside scoop.

As someone who listened to the audiobooks I love the actress perfomance, she really sounded like Vern. I see some comments complaining about her personality changing a bit and I think that's totally on purpose. The events of THR are supposed to show how the Jedi changed from their golden age to how we see them in the prequels. And this show takes place 100 years after those events, of course Vern is not going to be the same from when she was a teenager. Not only did she grew up but those events changed her and the Jedi as a whole

Never really liked Vernestra in the books/comics. And I really don't like her in Acolyte lol. I was hoping the show would turn me around on her, but the opposite happened.

Having now seen the episodes I can see why Justina is distancing herself from this version of Vern, she’s always seemed like a Karen in the making imo, but I don’t think Justina wants to look at it that way.

I feel like a lot of people that don't like the Acolyte aren't high republic fans. I've read the phase one comics and I'm reading light of the jedi, I'm really invested in the show because it feels like the high republic. I think people love to hate star wars nowadays. A lot of it is bad but the high republic is some of the best storytelling we have got in a while.

I think this is being WAY too hard on Vernestra and the Jedi in general. The've been presented as very human and understandable in this show, something I'm grateful for. For Vernestra specifically, we haven't seen a lot of her so we don't really have a proper grip on how she has changed over the years but we have seen that she isn't rigid and inflexible. She isn't being dogmatic, she's being realistic. Just because she has expressed some concerns over how it might look to have a former Padawan killing Jedi for the Order, which is a valid concern because the Jedi need people to trust them in order to do their jobs but that doesn't mean her priority isn't also getting real justice for Indara and Torbin and getting to the truth. That's a very black and white lens to look at her with TBH. These are things she has to consider in her new role within the Jedi. She isn't a Knight taking instructions anymore, she has to give them now and look at all the angles. You can't approach those two roles the same way. She's grown up and is now acting accordingly. That's really all there is to her I don't think so far that the Jedi have been presented in a way that is anti institution so to take up that mindset to go into the rest of the show with doesn't seem like a good idea to me

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So what's confusing me is this, is Vernestra Rwoh a Mirialan like Lumanara Unduli & the 7th Sister?

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Great video as always. Good to pin-point a character like that and give her the credit she deserves.

I think she is going to be the reason why the Jedi do not know about sith

YAY

She's probably the Dark Jedi, or Sith, that' why the jedi covered these events up to the time of the phantom menace... :)

Or, maybe they could write her character to better reflect her true spirit.

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So I'm saying this without having read anything from phase 3 of the High Republic yet. But I get the sense that maybe she went through something similar like Stellan, they were both prodigies and became poster figures of the Jedi Order. And I can see how that pressure overwhelmed them and made them lose a little of that free-thinking nature. And I can also understand that the Jedi are very cautious with this matter, where already two members have been killed and that it is related to some choices they may have made in the past.

I get the feeling she is going to be quite annoying and stubborn in this series.

It's a shame she's gone stoic and totally unable to use gramatical contractions. There are a LOT of stoic characters in the Disney+ shows, personally I prefer characters with a personality, or even a hint of emotion.

I'm curious as to her position within the order. Is she part of the council or is she more of a middle manager?

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Thank you for this video.

Thank you, Alex! 📖

Is she as flat, bland, and humorless in the books and comics?

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Honestly, I wasn’t disgusted by this or anything like most of the stuff these days but it was pretty mediocre which I guess means it wasn’t that bad, but it wasn’t really that great either

I hope you're right, she felt very off in THE ACOLYTE, Star Wars has been pretty good these days in showing us characters from different eras in different shows to show how they've changed, so maybe we're getting a strong hint that Vernestra is headed for some drastic character development in pre-acolyte stories. If not then it's just bad writing.

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She's the Sith

I love this channel! Just star wars content without the so called agenda

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She is important because she's the partner of the R2-me2 director, that's all

They should cast someone who actually looks good bald…

“she”?

Who gives a sht

this shows is terrible, bad writing and acting

The Acolyte is a good TV series.

Still a cringe show though one the worst rated one even worse than last jedi.

Acolyte blows I won’t bother watching going forward

Too bad the person playing the character got the role due to nepotism, being the significant other of harvey weinstein’s right hand woman.