Now that the Star Wars series, Obi-Wan Kenobibroadcast by Disney +, has concluded, its main writer has revealed a part of the discarded scenes within the series
“You’re not serving it. You’re hunting it”, Obi-Wan (Ewan McGregor) becomes aware of Reva, the Third Sister (Moses Ingram), the Jedi-chasing Inquisitor for Darth Vader (Hayden Christensen) in Obi-Wan. Kenobi the series starwars reveals that Reva was a young Jedi who survived Order 66 after Anakin Skywalker, the newly ascended Sith Lord Darth Vader, attacked the Jedi Temple and massacred his friends ten years earlier in Revenge of the Sith.
Seeking revenge, Reva served under Vader for a time as his Grand Inquisitor, and was twice left for dead before attacking young Luke Skywalker (Grant Feely) holed up at Lars’ farm on Tatooine: “Justice”Reva replied when asked why she wanted to kill Anakin Skywalker’s son, but Reva did not dare to avenge her friends and told Obi-Wan:
“I failed them. He killed them all and I couldn’t do it,” instead of becoming the thing he hated the most, Obi-Wan told him, Reva chose not to become Vader, Reva’s redemption played out differently in the original scripts by Stuart Beattie, who developed Obi-Wan Kenobi as a trilogy film set between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.
In an interview with The Direct, Beattie revealed that Reva was destined to die by Vader’s sword after she was saved by Obi-Wan, who would have revealed Vader’s secret identity as Anakin Skywalker (As written in the “Part II”Obi-Wan learns from Reva that his former Padawan survived their fateful lightsaber duel a decade earlier on Mustafar.)
“We were always faced with the fact that Obi-Wan could never kill Darth Vader. So he needed to defeat someone.”Beattie explained: “So Reva was my attempt to hit [Obi-Wan] someone to defeat or someone to save, because he’s not going to save Darth. Darth Vader’s story is going to end in disappointment, so he wanted to save someone, and that’s why I created Reva.”
In Beattie’s version, Reva was unaware that Anakin Skywalker was christened Darth Vader by his Sith master Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid). It was Anakin Skywalker, Jedi Knight, who “He killed her friends, put the scar on her, almost killed her, [y] left her for dead”, prompting Reva’s hatred of Obi-Wan and the Jedi”.
“I thought, ‘How was she supposed to know that this thing in a mech suit everyone calls Darth Vader is the guy who killed her or tried to kill her?’ So, it was Obi-Wan who told her that secret and that revelation of hers that makes her go, ‘Oh my God, I’ve been wrong all this time.'”Beattie said. “And so he went and basically saved Kenobi by sacrificing himself and telling Vader, ‘I killed Kenobi.’ And then Vader killed her, [con ella] knowing Vader would kill her.”
Beattie continued: “That sort of completed her arc. Just a little different than she was, yes, absolutely, the Inquisitor who was after Kenobi the whole time and was driven by her own personal demons.”