Obi-Wan Kenobi premiered on Disney+ on Could 27, and the miniseries concluded on June 22. All through the collection, Reva (Moses Ingram) proved to be a posh character. Within the finale of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Reva survives and what she decides to do subsequent is left unknown. Nevertheless, Obi-Wan Kenobi author Stuart Beattie just lately advised The Direct that Reva died in an early model of the Star Wars present.
[Spoiler Alert: This article contains spoilers for the first season of Obi-Wan Kenobi.]
How Reva was initially conceptualized in ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’
In Obi-Wan Kenobi, Reva is an Inquisitor for the Galactic Empire who is aware of Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) is definitely Anakin Skywalker.
Whereas this plot level was essential to Reva’s arc on the present, Reva initially didn’t know Darth Vader’s former id. In keeping with Beattie, Reva initially noticed the Jedi because the enemy.
Talking with The Direct, Beattie shared:
“Yeah, except the only little difference in mine 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.”
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Darth Vader killed Reva in an early model of the ‘Star Wars’ collection
In Obi-Wan Kenobi, Reva’s true aim is to enact revenge in opposition to Darth Vader for killing Jedi younglings throughout Order 66, as Reva witnessed her associates being killed by him.
After being unable to kill Darth Vader, she units her sights on killing his son Luke Skywalker (Grant Feely). When she can not undergo with killing Luke, she turns away from the Darkish Aspect.
In an early model of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Reva is killed by Darth Vader as a option to defend Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) after studying that Darth Vader is definitely Anakin.
Beattie advised The Direct:
“Because I figured, ‘How would she know that this thing in a mechanical suit that everyone calls Darth Vader is the guy who killed her, or tried to kill her?’ So, it was Obi-Wan kind of letting her in on that secret and that revelation that makes her kind of go, ‘Oh my god, I’ve been wrong this whole time.’ 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. So just a little bit different that she was, yeah, absolutely, the Inquisitor hunting Kenobi all the way through and driven by her own personal demons.”
The ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ author ‘felt’ Reva ‘had to die’
In Star Wars, a standard trope is a personality redeeming themselves and dying shortly after. It seems this was initially the plan for Reva.
“I wanted her story to end,” Beattie advised The Direct. “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.”
By Reva not dying in the Obi-Wan Kenobi finale, the character went in opposition to expectations for the franchise.