Obi-Wan Kenobi: TV Series Was Going to Kill Reva Off

If there’s one factor the villains of the Star Wars galaxy are good at, it’s dishonest demise. That’s each true within the fiction of the franchise in addition to real-life, apparently, as a result of Obi-Wan Kenobi sequence author Stuart Beattie has revealed that the present’s antagonist, Reva (Moses Ingram), was presupposed to die.

In an interview with the Direct, Beattie revealed the Third Sister of the Sith Inquisitors’ destiny was to die by the hands of Darth Vader after saving Obi-Wan in a second of redemption. She was additionally not going to know who was in Darth Vader’s go well with, which makes extra sense to me than Reva placing two and two collectively and determining Anakin Skywalker, the jerk who rolled as much as the Jedi Temple on Coruscant and murdered her fellow Younglings, would even be the jerk within the huge shiny go well with of robotic armor, one thing even Obi-Wan didn’t do. From the interview:

“Yeah, except the only little difference in mine [from the TV show version] was she didn’t know Darth Vader was Anakin. Cause I was like, ‘How’d she know that?’ All she saw was Anakin as Anakin because he hadn’t changed in the suit yet, right? So Anakin killed her friends, put the scar on her, almost killed her, left her for dead, basically. So, in her mind, the Jedi Council were the biggest villains in the galaxy. She believed the lies that they were plotting a coup to overtake and get power and all that, but they were stopped by the Clones. So she believed that’s why she’s hunting Jedi, because she believed the Jedi are the worst, basically.”

It’s value noting that the Jedi are the worst, being incompetent sufficient to note a Sith Lord of their midst, merciless sufficient to go away the mom of their most promising pupil in slavery, and silly sufficient to consider that loving folks was a nasty thought for its members to interact in. Anyway, in response to Beattie, Obi-Wan was going inform Reva about Darth Vader’s true id and she or he was going to comprehend she’d been working for a similar man who’d murdered all her associates these a few years in the past, turning her into a superb man:

“And so she goes and basically saved Kenobi by sacrificing herself, telling Vader, ‘I killed Kenobi.’ And then Vader killed her, [with her] knowing that Vader would kill her. So, that kind of completed her arc…

“…I wanted her story to end. I wanted Reva to play her part in the Kenobi-Vader story, which was, essentially, at the end, she was the one that allowed Vader, basically told Vader to stop hunting Kenobi. You know, she ended the obsession Vader had with Kenobi. She claimed it was over, it’s done. So that was, that was her role to play. And she’d done so many terrible things, I felt she had to die [laughs]. You can only redeem so much.”

I’m undecided I’m a fan of Darth Vader believing Obi-Wan was useless, as a result of that wouldn’t jibe significantly effectively with A New Hope and Vader not mentioning something about his former grasp immediately being alive. Regardless, the explanation for the change, apparently, was in order that Ingram and her character might seem in a second season of the present, ought to that come to fruition.

The entire interview is value a learn, particularly because it covers the preliminary plans for the opposite Inquisitors within the present, how Reva’s story weirdly mirrored one within the sport Jedi: Fallen Order, and rather more. Check it out!

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