'Obi-Wan Kenobi' Ending Was Originally Way More Tragic

Now that the first season of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+ has wrapped up and the dust has settled, the general consensus seems to be that, yeah, it was pretty good. A few dips in form here and there, but overall, a fitting outing for the popular Jedi Master.

The ending of the series tied a bow in the Jedi’s adventure but, as is tradition in modern times, left it wide open for a follow up season. However, it now seems that things might not have been left so happily for Kenobi and chums in an original draft of the script.

GAMINGbible were fortunate enough to speak to Hayden Christensen, who plays Darth Vader/ Anakin Skywalker in the series, about what it was like to reunite some two decades after he last appeared on screen with Ewan McGregor.

Writer Stuart Beattie originally penned the story of the Jedi Master when the series was still planned to be a movie trilogy - an idea that was scrapped after Solo didn’t perform as hoped, though his scripts were kept and expanded upon for the series, and he’s still credited as a contributor on Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Beattie recently revealed in an interview with The Direct, that the original ending for the season was much more tragic for one character in particular. In the season of the show we got, Sith Inquisitor Reva is secretly planning to kill Darth Vader after he tried to kill her when she was but a youngling in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. She and Obi-Wan discuss this in the closing episodes of the show and Reva attempts to kill Vader, which obviously doesn’t go as planned, but she does walk away with her life despite being left for dead.

In the movie version, Reva realises the error of her ways when the two chat, and she attempts to redeem herself. "She goes and basically saved Kenobi by sacrificing herself,” says Beattie. 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."

While season 2 of Obi-Wan Kenobi hasn’t officially been announced by Disney, anybody who’s in any way familiar with how the company operates would put a safe bet on it happening. For me, I’d love to see more of his escapades trying to protect Luke and Leia from the galaxy’s most evil mouth-breather.