“Kill Darth Vader” is not precisely the kind of purpose you instantly affiliate with a “Star Wars” villain. The issue was Reva was prepared to throw the renegade Jedi who survived Order 66 (together with anybody who protected them) below the bus to perform her goal. There’s, in fact, a sure utilitarian logic to her actions. As horrible because it sounds while you say it out loud, one might make the philosophical argument that sacrificing a handful of lives can be morally justifiable if it meant probably defeating somebody as highly effective and lethal as Vader. On the identical time, no one might fairly argue it is a clear-cut good factor to do, and it is actually not the Jedi method.
Larlarb mentioned how she and her collaborators went about designing Reva’s armor to higher mirror her duality, telling Selection:
“There is a element on her leather-based cuirass which is delicate. [Assistant costume designer] Stacia Lang took a collection of sketch strains that I stored drawing again and again down the middle entrance of the armor and developed it right into a low and lengthy and sharp ‘fin’ that appeared like a front-facing exterior backbone. Moses latched on to that element as a reference to her divided however sharpened coronary heart. We additionally had the imperial image bonded onto the reverse of her cut up cape, tone on tone, which I additionally noticed as one other strategy to specific her conflicted allegiance.”
“Conflicted” is the important thing time period there. “Obi-Wan Kenobi” ends with Reva (clearly) failing to kill Vader however returning to the sunshine facet. There’s an opportunity that she would possibly but do some good from right here, as Obi-Wan factors out by telling her, “Who you grow to be now, that’s as much as you.” It is an appropriately nuanced ending for a personality who’s removed from a black-and-white evil-doer.