Yeah, Qimir is turning out to be a great villain. He’s the most interesting character on the show.

Lee Jung-jae as Sol is also great. There’s a brief scene in this episode where he almost cries, and the acting is just top notch.

The main problem with this show is that the main character(s), Osha/Mae, are really the least interesting characters. The problem with Mae in particular is her motivation seems very incoherent. It changes all the time, forcing the audience to come up with explanations on the fly. At one point she wants to turn herself in to the Jedi all of a sudden, but then in the next episode she just starts fighting the Jedi, and then in this episode she deceives Sol by pretending to be Osha and contemplates murdering Sol when his back is turned. I mean, it’s fine for a character to have mixed or inconsistent motivations, or to be hesitant or unsure of what they want. But Mae’s actions came off to me as confusing, as if different writers were not communicating with each other when they wrote for Mae.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Qimir somehow connects with the Knights of Ren. The Kylo music in the previous episode is one hint. But also the imagery of training on a small, remote island, is obviously meant to invoke the Sequel Trilogy. If Qimir turns out to be “Ren” or whatever, it would also sidestep the issue with the Sith being discovered prematurely in the timeline. Qimir did say the word “Sith”, but he was kind of vague about. He said something like “you’d probably call me a Sith” or whatever, as if he didn’t have the words to explain exactly what he was. Although, Qimir quoting the Sith mantra, “peace is a lie”, is an obvious counter-point.

I have no idea what sort of lore exists around the Knights of Ren in comics/novels, but maybe they’re some offshoot order of Dark Side users that began with a former Sith or whatever.