Osha Aniseya

Petite brunette. At the end of the High Republic era, a former Padawan reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes - but the forces they confront turn out to be far more sinister and personal than anticipated. I didn't pay any attention to the marketing for The Acolyte. I remember seeing the logo when they announced it, but that was all. So I didn't know anything at all about the setting, premise, or characters (other than the obvious twist the logo promised), but when Shocka told me it was getting lots of negative reviews after the first episode, I asked him whether it starred a woman or a black person. ...do you think these "outrage tourists" ever get tired of being so dumbly predictable? Osha was played by Amandla Stenberg, an actress who is sadly used to dum-dums being mad that she's in their nerdy property. (Unless we're supposed to be pretending that they didn't get pissed that Hunger Games "made" Rue black, the way [earlier today as of this writing] they're trying to pretend that no one decades ago got mad about Captain Sisko? Never let the racists revise history, kids; they were stupid garbage losers then and they're stupid garbage losers now.) Osha dresses like a space mechanic, which makes sense since that's what she was working as when the story started. It's a grey-green jumpsuit with a light colored vest and fingerless gloves. She has her sleeves pushed up, because hard work, and she has her pantlegs tucked into her steel-toed boots, because safety. Speaking of which, was there really no better name to give this character than "Osha"? OSHA is already a thing. A famous thing. Why would you name your character something that is only ever going to make people hearing her name think of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration? At the very least you could show her installing railings around some of those bottomless pits. Naming a character "Osha" is like naming one "Unicef" or "Fomo." Which, to be fair, do sound like Star Wars names. "You must get this device to Yolo Saarc before the Empire attacks, or Planet Bohica will be lost!" We'd love to hear an interview about why this was chosen/allowed. The clothes may not be exotic, but they are sculpted well, not just the wrinkles on them but the various seams and pockets that make them look like more than just off-the-rack Carhartt coveralls. She wears a belt with a functioning pouch to carry her PIP droid, and has a sling over one shoulder for her chunky blaster. Really delivering a boon to anyone looking to cosplay this at a convention, she canonically wears a backpack with this - it even has a water bottle strapped to the side! The figure is very little, just over 5¼" tall, because that's how tall she's meant to be. She's got all the Black Series articulation, though in her case that means a swivel in the knee joint instead of in the thigh. Other than that, she moves at the ankles, boots, knees, hips, waist, wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck, and head. The costume add-ons are made from soft PVC, which is necessary: her backpack actually slips over her arms rather than plugging in anywhere, her holster needs to be flexed to fit over the blaster's hand grip, and the pouch on her belt opens and closes. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite open or close the way it should: namely, you can't close it if PIP is in there. PIP is a handheld droid, inspired by an old Walkman or Gameboy. It's a super cute little thing, with a 1980s teal-and-orange colorscheme, with a balljointed neck to allow the head to move all around. Or even be removed, which is the only way you can even come close to closing the pouch he sits in. Pip, in the show, is a semi-autonymous multi-tool of a droid, capable of performing lots of small engineering functions. For instance, the first time we see him in use, Osha is using him like a welder to repair some circuitry. A toy of this size can't unfold the way the real prop could, but Hasbro was nice enough to include a second version, opened up and ready to be held in the figure's hand. I liked The Acolyte, because I took the apparently unprecedented step of actually watching it instead of just absorbing videos by the 4chan chuds who have to pretend to be mad about something in pop culture because that's what their YouTube revenue is entirely based around. It's an interesting story about interesting characters in an interesting setting, shot and acted well, and explores parts of the lore that have been untouched; what, exactly, are we not supposed to like about it? Other than the obvious, of course. And I'm clearly not alone in appreciating Osha, because it's hard to find this figure. It's hard to find all the Acolyte figures, so clearly somebody's buying them. Unless you want to argue that fans are just mad for PIP. -- 02/08/25 What are some legitimate complaints about The Acolyte? Tell us on our message board, the Loafing Lounge.