Even for a saga that deals a lot with sex and attraction, this is Star Wars Actually seeing people’s naked bodies is designed to evoke feelings of intimacy and desire. But the latest episode of “Teaching/Corruption” acolyteOsha did just that last week when she found herself in the lair of the series’ mysterious antagonist, the Stranger, and discovered she’d seen more of him than she bargained for.
Early on in The Teaching/Corruption, we see Osha – who was left to replace her sister May in the previous episode’s climactic twin sister switch – wake up in a mysterious island world. Follow the stranger, played by Manny Jacinto, down the beach to a nearby pool. Osha and the audience hid behind a rock and picked up the stranger’s lightsaber in case of a fight. When he makes it clear to Osha that he knows she’s there, and as they talk about the stranger, the stranger continues swimming, then reappears from the pool and walks towards Osha to correct himself: completely naked again, revealing his muscular Scars on his body, but also as he begins to prove his faith to wary guests, he appears completely defenseless in front of her.
While we as viewers don’t see everything Osha sees – there’s no full frontal nudity. Star Wars Not yet – we get the hint that she herself saw the stranger nakedly laid out before her, and Osha’s scenes with the stranger are filled with a frisson of energy after this moment, scenes that speak to the seductive desire for power and power. function together. For showrunner Leslye Headland, this sensuality, and the inclusion of strangers naked in it, was an important element of the episode’s intent. “Lucasfilm really believed in my vision. From a narrative standpoint, it had to happen. It have arrive. He moves like Steven Seagal’s neck was snapped [previous] episode. How do you get from this to humanity? The only way to do that is to put him in an extremely vulnerable position, and it has to be visual,” Headland recently told Collider in a wide-ranging interview about the episode. “I can’t think of anything more vulnerable than holding a lightsaber to someone so exposed. I just don’t know. I felt like he was so ruthless in the last episode that he had to stand in front of her and say , ‘You can definitely kill me’.
According to Headland, it was important to contrast these scenes between Osha and the Stranger with what she had seen of him in the previous episode—he was ruthlessly cutting his way through the Jedi ranks like a silent monster. Blood Road – and showing this by having the stranger completely naked (reminding us and Osha that, yes, when we’re not watching Manny Jacinto skewering The Apprentice, he’s a very handsome man) is The episode needed visuals that showed the changes in their relationship. “After what he did, the dynamic had to be like this [Episode] 5. He can’t look like an alpha male and be intimidating – we know he’s capable of that [the last episode]——But this can’t be his motivation [Osha],” Hedland continued. “It doesn’t make sense! We have to see another side of him, we have to see specifically the way he’s with her. He never lets May see his face, he lets her see his naked body. You know What I mean? The character design is very, very thoughtful.
With the general family audience in mind Star Wars Typically, nudity and titillation aren’t something we often see on screen, even as the series expands on the stories it tells and offers more mature, adult content in terms of violence, language, or the way violence, language is handled , or, as is the case here acolyte, or at least acknowledge that this palpable sexiness exists in a galaxy far, far away, just like our own. certainly, acolyte Still tiptoeing around it and viewing nudity not just as sexual tension but as an act of physical vulnerability. But it’s still a step toward something we rarely see Star Wars on screen – maybe even include some hint of a lightsaber hilt at launch.
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