Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show, I'm your host Paul and the Obi-Wan series has Qui-Gon
by so quickly that I can't believe we're at the finale now.
Episode 6 is immenent and before it releases I thought we'd go through our theories on
the finale before we learn the answers. This is one big theory time, theory time theory
time and Obviously I'd love to hear yours as well so make sure you drop a comment below.
Now Episode 5 ended with Reva finding the holoprojector after Haja dropped it behind
when he had to Bail...Organa had left a message on there discussing Luke Skywalker and we
closed out with us watching the Boy sleep like we were Obi-Wan.
Bloody creepy that mate sitting on a hill watching him with binoculars...but moving
on I think this teases that Reva will of course be heading out there in order to get him.
He has been abandoned not only by Obi-Wan but also Darth Vader and Assistant to the
Regional Sith Lord aka The Grand Inquisitor.
This is something that she experienced before in her childhood when she was left at the
Jedi Temple to fall into the clutches of Darth Vader. Though we discovered in Episode 5 that
she very much wanted Obi-Wan as a way to enact her Endgame on Vader, I think she also feels
a lot of anger towards the Jedi in general.
Obi-Wan of course returned to Coruscant but he ended up leaving instead of staying behind
to help the survivors such as her.
Though she was stabbed by Vader we discovered that she ended up going to the Inquisitors.
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I think she'll likely try and win favour with them once more and that she'll see Luke as
being a way to get back in the good books. However she could also end up using him as
bait as she knows that Obi-Wan will probably be returning there and thus she can just wait
it out until he goes back.
Now though that seemed like the most pressing thing I think the early part of the episode
will focus on Obi-Wan and the rest of the group fighting Vader and his forces.
This is because we got this line from Roken that explained the situation they found themselves
in.
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If you cast your mind back to the sizzle reel for the series then you'll remember there
was lots of concept art shown in it.
Absolutely all of these except one have been shown in the series so far. This includes
Obi-Wan on an Eoipe, Fortress Inquisitorius, the Inquisitors landing on Tattooine, the
village in episode 3, Daiyu, Vader talking to Reva through a hologram and the t-47 airspeeders.
The one we haven't had yet involves Obi-Wan and Vader fighting amongst the flames onboard
what looks like his devastator Star Destroyer.
Though this was initially thought to be Mustafar, judging by the metal grate panelling I think
that this is probably his star destroyer.
This needs to be a major battle as it's the one fight the entire show is kinda built around
and going into it this is what people are hyped the most for.
I really wanna see Vader with the helmet off and I'm hoping that at some point in the battle
it ends up getting damaged which leads into it having to be removed. We had something
similar in the final battle during the force unleashed and it would be asuch a cool way
to amp things up. Hayden Christensen also hasn't really been in the series all that
much and even most of the moments in the suit were played out by Stuntmen.
Hayden has been used so heavily in the marketing I think it's a real missed opportunity if
they don't bring him out and this would be the perfect place to do it.
I think this fight will happen in the sixth episode and that Vader and his forces will
capture the Rebels as they either drop Leia off or after.
They've been hunting the Jedi for a long time and capturing those that control the path
will give them a lot of extra info so I think that they'll go after them.
There is potential that Leia will end up coming face to face with Vader at some point and
judging by the lines of dialogue in a New Hope, she had met him before. So they could
be using this series to add some more context to that before we get into the latter parts
of the finale.
Leia will obviously need to be dropped off at Alderaan because we know she spends a long
time there so I think that that will likely happen and then Bail will talk to Obi-Wan
about the message again which will make him realise he has to get back home sooner rather
than later.
I'd love to see the Reva and Luke scenes placed alongside the Vader and Obi-Wan ones and I
think it would be great to have the tense, more dialogue driven moments getting juxtaposed
by the lightsaber battle on board the devastor.
Huge shoutouts to the Kinda Funny podcast who talked about the upcoming show recently
and they brought up the idea that Uncle Owen could end up being the one who tries to talk
Reva down. Joel Edgerton hasn't really featured in the show all that much and it could cement
how protective he is of Luke.
This would mirror their first encounter in Tattooine in which he talked about protecting
his family and having to do it here would sort of be a bit like...bit like poetry they
rhyme.
Reva waiting there for Ben and using Luke as bait would allow for some really human
moments with Owen that would show things from his point of view for once.
I really like this theory and it would bounce nicely between the action of the Vader fight
along with the tense scenes of Reva potentially killing Luke and Owen.
I know we already know the outcome of this but I read a hilarious theory saying that
Reva could kill Luke and then he could end up being cloned and the one that we follow
in the main trilogy would have been a copy this entire time.
I think that would be funny as f**k and such a big F you to the entire franchise that I
hope they do it because I'm a f**king nutter.
Anyway we obviously know how the Vader and Obi-Wan fight is gonna go due to the aforementioned
storylines. I do think it's a shame that this series has had to fit to the confines of basically
making it so that they can't change anything that could disrupt a New Hope and because
of this the series has felt rather limited in what it can do. Because it can't really
take Luke offworld and have him go on adventures, they've shifted the focus to Leia and if the
Reva stuff is true it's unlikely that she'll even get her lightsaber out.
Obi-Wan explained what one was to Luke in a New Hope so I think they're not even gonna
be able to have her bring it out. They could do something where the potentially mirror
him being a kid and her being a sith lord which would play upon her childhood in which
she came face to face with Anakin. Whereas he ended up stabbing her, Reva could wrestle
back and forth over what to do and potentially she may decide against using it because of
the ties it has to her early life.
Now this could lead into the way that I think the final showdown between the pair will go.
Reva obviously feels like she was abandoned as a child and this has been shown at numerous
points in the season. Even when she discovered the underground railroad in episode 3 she
seemed angry that she had to go to become an inquisitor whilst other Jedi clearly survived.
I think that Obi-Wan will explain the situation to her and that in doing so it'll show he
isn't the monster she thought he was. In protecting Luke it's very much making up for the fact
that he left the other Younglings to their fate and she'll realise he's not the kind
of person who'd say f**k them kids.
Now another thing that also needs to be kept inline with canon is that all the inquisitors
are dead by the time we get to a New Hope. This leaves Reva with one of two options,
either she goes back to Vader and the Fortress and tries to win favour or she flees into
the galaxy.
There are rumours of ending reshoots and a second season potentially in the works so
they could possibly go with the latter. I do think that she will discover that Luke
is Anakins offspring and that Obi-Wan might explain that he's the best chance they've
got in actually taking Vader down. This will make her realise that she can still have her
revenge but in order to do so she has to let him live.
Knowing this information would be pretty valuable and I think that she'll either end up hiding
it by going off into the Galaxy or that she herself will be killed. This would mean that
Vader never finds out where Obi-Wan is and that he also doesn't discover Luke is his
child.
It also in some ways allows Reva to get her revenge because Luke going onto stop Vader
completes her mission.
Now there's also the matter of Qui-Gon Jinn.
I was expecting Obi-Wan to be at his lowest point come episode 5 and then he'd finally
get a message from him which would inspire him to do more. However I think they're probably
saving that until the end of the season. This whole series has been about a lost Obi-Wan
finding his way again and I think Qui-Gon appearing at the end would be the cherry on
top for him.
He would've finally learned what happened to Anakin and though this was a failing he
could realise that he'll write the wrongs of the past in protecting Luke. It would bring
everything full circle and sort of be a bit like poetry they rhyme.
Anyway that's the end of theory time, theory time, theory time and I'd of course love to
hear your thoughts so make sure you comment below and let me know.
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