“Star Wars: The Acolyte” episode 3 seems to be showing us where the Jedi started to make the mistakes that led to their eventual downfall in the prequels.
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Star Wars: The Acolyte Finally Explains An Unanswered Prequel Question
The road to hell is always paved with the best of intentions, and that's the moral of a lot of fairy tales. It's something George Lucas hammered home pretty directly when he wrote the prequel trilogy, as we watched Anakin Skywalker's slow descent into evil. However, as we witnessed in "The Phantom Menace," the Jedi were already becoming victims of their own hypocrisy and hubris. Now, "Star Wars: The Acolyte" may reveal the beginning of the eventual downfall of the Jedi.