When the Kenobi series was released a couple of years ago, I put together a short list of my predictions and what I wanted to see and then asked if all of you had any yourselves. I am not excited for the Acolyte and am fully expecting it to be "not great", but I had a thought: If we all knew for a fact that this show would be good, lore-accurate, well-acted, written, and edited, then what would you want to see in it? This is in part me trying to think positively about the show for once, but it also me trying to gauge what everyone here would come up with if we were in charge, so think of this as more of us writing our own version of the show if that helps. 

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1) According to the information that I have been seeing ever since this show was announced, this is going to take place at the end of the High Republic era, a point in canon lore that I have utterly no interest in. That being the case, I would advise that it be written as ambiguously as possible in terms of connecting itself to that era, in the event that anyone heard a reference to the High Republic, lost interest because they don't care/know anything about it, and never touch the show. 

2) I saw a post a long time ago (here is the post itself) that suggested maybe the show's description of "Part of a Woman-Centric Star Wars Show" indicated a connection to the Nightsisters, and I thought that might be interesting. Perhaps the plot could follow the Nightsisters and Nightbrothers as they try to survive in a shifting universe or something like that. Considering that Nighsister magick is another use of the dark side, perhaps that could draw the returning Sith to Dathomir to either find an apprentice or ancient knowledge. 

3) This show is supposed to include the return of the Sith, leading up to Tenebrous, Plagueis, and Sidious. It's always been my headcanon that when Darth Bane established the Rule of Two, there would have been several Sith in the galaxy who thought his ideology would lead to the destruction of their once great empire. If there were only two Sith, then some may fear they could be easily eliminated by the Jedi. This would tie into my previous idea of the Sith venturing to Dathomir, since one of these Sith might sense their dark side power and then try to use them to their own ends. There is also another idea I have about this: if Sith lords believed in Bane's teachings, then it makes sense that all of them would stop at nothing to ensure they were the ones who survived to carry on that cycle. 

4) How can we have a Sith-focused Star Wars series and not have it--at least partially--take place on Korriban/Moraband? Assuming the plot would show a Sith lord taking a child as their apprentice, I could see the master taking the child to Korriban so that they could train there. Perhaps this would also be an interesting way to canonize the native Sith if they aren't already, just that they are not as free to train as Sith warriors now as required by the Rule of Two. 

5) One or more of the Jedi would inevitably become aware that the dark side was gaining strength. These Jedi would probably need to be killed at some point in the story, since the Jedi Order at large would need to be "kept in the dark," so to speak, and as a result if any Jedi got wind of Sith activity then it would need to be a very small number, since many Jedi suddenly vanishing only to wind up dead would be a big hint that something was up. 

6) The Sith would likely not act directly at this time, since there are only supposed to be two (and any who opposed Bane's teachings and escaped) whereas there are thousands of Jedi. They would probably be hiring bounty hunters or skilled warriors, or even luring Jedi into traps that didn't overtly point to Sith involvement. 

7) This is a mistake I see made with lots of modern Star Wars projects (not all of them, but a lot of them). In what is supposed to be linear content, they have characters visiting multiple locations in a very short space of time. For instance, TROS featured at least four different planets between which the protagonists traveled within 16 hours. The number of planets should be kept to a minimum, unless the story skips between characters or there is a sensible way to explain large amounts of travel time. Not doing this just makes the galaxy feel small when the people in it can go back and forth in no time at all. Anyway that's just how I feel about it. 

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That's all I can come up with off the top of my head. Referring back to the "prompt" at the beginning of this post, or even to one of the ideas I listed, do you have any thoughts or predictions which would make for a great show that follows the same general plot line as we have been given thus far? Is there anything I mentioned that you would change or remove? I look forward to hearing your ideas. May the Force be with you.