Spoilers The Acolyte
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Yeah, for all the problems with The Acolyte the lightsaber duels are top-notch and Qimir is a very, very good villain.
Top 5.
There's a planet named Chad in the Star Wars galaxy?
There's Frog people in Star Wars. It's absurd.
It's the homeworld of the Chadra-Fan race. Those little bat faced guys, there's one in the cantina in ANH
Kabe, and a supporting character in Resistance is a Chadra-Fan.
That's not really anything unusual, I think the majority of Sith started out as Jedi who turned to the Dark Side. So most of them probably have some combination of Jedi & Sith training and powers.
There's also pig people, fish people, and wolf people, so neither of them are that surprising.
Oh, I didn't realize they actually referred to her that way.
From @devon_island on Threads:
Tolkien naming characters: "his name isn't literally "sam" but it's the hobbit equivalent of "sam" so we're going to call him "sam" because i want to invoke a sense of "samness" in the english reader's mind"
Lucas naming characters: "his name is Poopoo Doodoo Caca and if you think that sounds crude it's because you don't speak Drippy-Shittese"
Lucas(if he was based): "Doodoo Poopoo Caca IS the english equivalent of his actual name"
Oh, the names can be goofy but in real life some people use silly nicknames and euphemisms for friends, loved ones and entire groups of people just to have a shorthand. Doesn't really bother me. Much like Star Trek I'm just looking for relatively consistent entertainment, not a science paper published by MIT.
I'll own the fact that I do not particularly care for insects or frogs and that impacts my opinion.
And I simply skip those episodes and enjoy what I like.
There's a country named Chad right here on Earth, too!
And it's the most Kevin of Chads a country could get.
She was probably just being amicably racist. Like when Han calls Chewie "furball", or when Hondo says literally anything to Ugnaughts.
As for Dr. Mandible; who's to say that's not just a translation of his name from his native language, in which it has a long and distinguished pedegree? Or maybe someone just thought it sounded good. Maybe when you give birth to a hive full of 5 million larvae, coming up with new and interesting names for each one gets a little much, and a single working queen pulling down three jobs just has to resort to randomly picking words out of the dictionary, since odds are she's not going to be able to remember them all anyway!
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