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This show is great so far. Heading in I had a few reservations and a couple have already been resolved. Spoilers:
First, the premise is outstanding. I knew from the trailers that we’d be leaving Tatooine early. Great for the show (I’m tired of Tatooine) but I knew we’d be hearing some SW fans complaining about “Kenobi shouldn’t leave Tatooine, he should be a hermit there watching Luke the entire time between Episode 3 and 4). They addressed this in a GREAT and unexpected way with the show being about him leaving to rescue Leia instead, freeing them up completely with the story locations and also showing his reluctance to leave or to return to any Jedi ways (the scene with him having to use the Force to save her from falling was so well done.)
Second, I wasn’t sure how they would make Reva compelling as the main villain (separate from Vader). It’s tough to do that with a new character interacting with LONG established characters. But my goodness they did this GREAT. Opening with Order 66 and the younglings (especially jarring this week with another elementary school shooting.) They didn’t outright say it yet, but I’m pretty sure that Reva is one of those younglings. There was a Black girl in that scene, one of the older kids in the group. If so - you can DEFINITELY see why she’d have a personal vendetta against Kenobi. I’d guess we’ll see more flashbacks. But likely that she sees all her friends get killed, and somehow hides there at the Jedi temple, waiting for someone to save her.
If you remember in Episode III, Kenobi and Yoda returned to the temple after Anakin and the troops killed everyone, watched the security footage there, and Kenobi recorded a message going out to all the Jedi to NOT return to the Temple because it had fallen. From Reva’s perspective she may have been hiding there waiting for someone to find her. She may have seen that message after he left - and realized that Kenobi was THERE, didn’t sense her to save her, AND told all the rest of the Jedi not to come back so she had no hope of being saved. From that point after that she must have gotten caught by Anakin/Vader, who was impressed enough by her to not kill her immediately, but to bring her into the ranks of the Inquisitors. Maybe she survived on her own hiding in Couruscant for some time before being found. But in becoming an Inquisitor she would have been tortured and indoctrinated by Vader (who obviously also hates Kenobi.) So definitely makes sense that she’d be risking everything to get revenge.
Speaking of risking everything - she killed the Grand Inquisitor at the end of episode 2 - but in Rebels he’s alive through season 2 when he dies after a fight with Kanan. So either she didn’t actually kill him here, or that is a different Grand Inquisitor.
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