A number of surprising issues got here out of this week’s episode of The Acolyte, however for me, one stands above the remaining. It’s the truth that our new favourite maybe-Sith, the Stranger, is wearing a bronze helmet, not a black helmet.
In case you’re studying this, you’ve in all probability seen the episode already or at the very least one of many episodes with this creepy new villain so you could have an thought of what he seems like. Nicely, after the episode, Hasbro released images of its replica version of the helmet and it’s vibrant bronze, which I discovered surprising. Watching the present, I believed it was black. Star Wars unhealthy guys (Vader, Maul, Kylo, Palpatine) have a tendency to love black.
The belief right here is one in every of two issues. The most definitely risk is that, within the actuality of the present, the helmet was bronze when it was new however has since been in so many battles that there’s important harm, therefore the discoloration. One other risk is that the helmet is definitely bronze on-set however, via lighting and film magic, it simply finally ends up wanting black on display. (We’ve really reached out to Lucasfilm to try to make clear this and can replace the publish if or once we discover out.)
Now, why is that this fascinating in any respect? Nicely as a result of, as most Star Wars followers know, it’s happened before. In The Empire Strikes Again, Han Solo’s jacket on Hoth looks blue on display. In truth, it seems so blue on display that when Kenner made toys of Han from these scenes, the toys wore blue. So, for a era, everybody assumed the jacket was blue. Nonetheless, it was later revealed the precise on-set jacket was brown. Debates rage to at the present time of which jacket is the true one, the one which was on set or the one we expect we see?
Notion is an enormous challenge when it comes to the Stranger too. For the primary 4 episodes, we didn’t see a lot of him and even once we did, he was at all times within the background so he regarded like he was sporting all black. Extra Kylo Ren than Snoke. Within the new episode although, we lastly get to see the character in close-up and you’ll positively see a mixture of bronze and black. This new Acolyte poster is the clearest model of this.
![Bronze? Black? Bit of both? Bit of both!](https://i.kinja-img.com/image/upload/c_fit,q_60,w_645/832c341d8a536c55f250d1d14261226c.jpg)
So yeah. It’s bronze. And Han’s jacket is brown. However I don’t care. I choose what I feel I see on display. Which, understandably, is probably not a preferred opinion. Producers are likely to go along with the on-set reference offered by the studio and if it’s bronze, that’s advantageous. However come on! The jacket seems blue. The helmet seems blackened. And I’d by no means have identified both was really a distinct coloration if not for merchandising.
The place do you stand on this debate? Is the Stranger’s cortosis helmet black or bronze to you? What about Han’s Hoth jacket? Tell us beneath.
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