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Acolyte Backlash Gets Its Own Backlash

Fans Rally Behind Wookieepedia Amid Controversy   After the third episode of the new “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte” received massive backlash online, it was hoped the fourth episode might see calmer heads prevail. That didn’t happen. In fact, in the wake of the fourth episode, a lot of the discourse centered around one unexpected thing – a little-known character’s age. The character in question is Ki-Adi-Mundi, the Conehead-esque elderly Jedi master in the background of the prequels who is best remembered for a handful of lines and getting killed off in the prequels. Controversy Over Ki-Adi-Mundi’s Age A younger version of the character surprisingly appeared in the show’s fourth episode which led to calls that he shouldn’t be there. The reasoning? It came down to an age mentioned in the no longer canon Expanded Universe material, and his in-canon remarks that the Sith had been extinct for a millennium. The Jedi have no reason to believe the show’s main masked antagonist is a Sith at