Plo Koon is in The Acolyte because Dave Filoni remains a Star Wars phantom menace

Plo Koon is in The Acolyte because Dave Filoni remains a Star Wars phantom menace

Polygon·2024-06-19 12:01

Lucasfilm’s new Star Wars series The Acolyte has earned praise for simply existing outside of the Skywalker Saga — after 47 years of stories set in the same stretch of timeline, a jump back “100 years before the rise of the Empire” to the shinier High Republic era is enough for aching Star Wars fans. But even with a prohibitively old setting and a cast of characters divorced from Anakin and Luke, The Acolyte creator Leslye Headland is still finding ways to pepper the drama with Easter eggs. Episode 4 gave those in the know a whopper: Plo Koon.

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