The question often arises to what level of resentment have reached the followers of a franchise like the one that star Wars. It’s just a story guys; told with better or worse manners or with more or less poignancy and understanding of its essential elements, but in the end it is just a story. Perhaps his anger illustrates the meaning that fiction can have for people and, ultimately, the bile it has caused. Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022).
Perhaps if we feel good about art and catharsis, which can provide us with a correct narrative, then bad sentences, or those that seem to us due to intractable subjectivity, make us uncomfortable. But you must know how to overcome it. Issue related to mini-series featuring Jedi Ewan McGregor, you can relate to emotional arc from grief over Anakin Skywalker to consolation.
But this is not the only evolution we see here. Another very relevant one is Inquisitor Reva, played by Moses Ingram. Not surprisingly, the original sequence Obi-Wan Kenobi dedicated to her. But at first, they lead us to believe that her ambitions are focused on replacing the guy at the head of her sinister order, achieving a big success that will elevate her to her undeniable merits in the eyes of the Imperial executor, the iconic Darth Vader. But they are deceiving us.
Riva’s emotional arc in Obi-Wan Kenobi
This character was actually a little student when Anakin Skywalker betrayed Jedi in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith (2005) and, on the orders of Sheev Palpatine, set about massacring them, including the youngest Force-sensitives who were preparing to become such knights. But Reva survived and was taken to the dark side, and all these years of adulthood she devoted herself to prepare your revenge against the killer of his comrades.
So it is in line with what Vito Corleone recommends in Godfather (1972), an approach repeated by his son Michael in the sequel and Deep Throat in Secret materials (since 1993) and which comes from Art of Warthe famous military essay by Sun Tzu (s. V.): “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”. In this way it will be possible to correctly recognize their weak points and, thanks to this and their proximity, destroy them with excellent ease.
Under the rule of the Empire, Obi-Wan Kenobi is on an important mission.
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But Darth Vader was always ahead of Reva in Obi-Wan Kenobi and when he is finally about to finish him off, he is not a worthy opponent. Knowing her origins and her intentions, she used the powers of the Inquisitor to reach her former master, Jedi Ewan McGregor on the road to revenge. On the other hand, neither one nor the other is achieved. D disappointment it leads her to attempt to kill the innocent offspring of her enemy, Luke Skywalker.
Escaping the fate of Darth Vader and Kylo Ren
However, the anti-heroine of Moses Ingram remembers the massacre of students who were about to take the life of a poor child, and does not want to continue the murder. “Did I become him?” he later asks Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Kenobi replies, “No, you chose not to.” This accomplishes two things: triumph Jedi helping her, because with her it was impossible padawan and break with the tradition of the dark side forces in star Wars.
The first focuses on relieving hardships experienced by Ewan McGregor’s character, such as discovering that it was Darth Vader himself who actually “killed” Anakin Skywalker, according to the last words they exchanged; and second, that Reva doesn’t turn out to be the same as the most mythical villain in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (1983) and that Kylo Ren at the end rise of skywalker (2019): since death immediately after his redemption. New, no doubt.
