Star Wars: The Acolyte‘s Qimir, played by Manny Jacinto, has electrified fans of the series. While there are a lot of mysteries surrounding Qimir, one question fans have had since before we even knew he was the masked “Stranger” is whether The Acolyte‘s villain is truly a Sith Lord. In The Acolyte‘s fifth episode, Qimir himself seems to broach the topic of whether he is or isn’t a Sith. He shares, “I have no name. But a Jedi like you might call me… Sith.” But, of course, there’s slight trickery of the tongue happening in that phrase, as Qimir does not fully say he is a Sith. Only that, from a Jedi perspective, he might be seen as one. To get more concrete answers on the topic, Nerdist brought up the Qimir-Sith debate to The Acolyte‘s showrunner, Lesyle Headland. Here’s what she had to say.
When asked, “Will we learn whether Qimir is truly a Sith or not in the season finale?” Headland shared that although we may not get specific answers to the Sith question, we will see hints that lead us in one direction or another. She offers:
What I will say is you don’t hear it from his mouth, but there are a couple small things that happen that intimate the answer to that question.
Very interesting. It’s too early to say whether these small happenings intimate the answer is “Yes, Qimir is a Sith” or the contrary respose. But we know for sure that Qimir fans will be watching his every move with eagle eyes. When these small hints do happen on The Acolyte, we bet they won’t go unnoticed for very long. Right now, we lean toward Qimir not really being a Sith. To us, he doesn’t seem very much like a joiner. It feels like he’d rather not be involved with the Jedi, the Sith, or anyone else. What Qimir wants is freedom. But we’ll have to wait to for The Acolyte‘s season finale to get closer to the truth of the character.