People are actively encouraging hate towards Moses Ingram under the guise of “fair criticism.”
People are insulting how she chose to wear her hair natural, they’re calling her “a diversity hire.” They’re all ranting about how she’s “stealing the show from Obi Wan,” when Obi Wan is still the focus of the show. People are hating on her for her natural hair. I’ve seen them insulting her for her “nappy hair.”
Let’s be real, if Reva was a white man, she’d be universally loved. People hating her for “being angry,” would call Reva badass if she was a white man. Her ambition would be praised, and so would her attitude. But no, Reva is a black woman, and these so-called “fans” hate her for it.
Moses Ingram opened up about how she was apprehensive because she knew Star Wars fans might harass her because of her race and gender (and, if you look at the fan response to her character, she was literally right), and y'know how these fans reacted?
My sympathies to Moses Ingram, she really risked it all for this role, only to be met with such disgusting behavior. I really hope she’s okay, and I hope that you’ll all show her support, because she doesn’t deserve this.
WHAT AN EPISODE! The tension, the oomf of every moment was just so pleasing! Deborah you are an absolute Queen and cannot wait to see more of your vision!
Another absolutely wild episode! The chemistry between the characters is amazing, the quiet moments where we get a little more insight into their minds is always my favourite, love the tension that built throughout leading to that final incredible moment. Just *chefs kiss!* Check out my reaction!
What a long wait it’s been for this show and it’s finally arrived! So many incredible moments from episode 1 alone and incredibly nostalgic! However it didn’t feel forced, and the slow pace is really helping this story so much! Absolutely in love! Check out my reaction!
Consider who the three main characters of Obi-Wan Kenobiare.
Obi-Wan, Vader & Reva. What ties them all together?
They’re all trying really hard to NOT be Jedi… even though, deep down, that’s who they are.
Because as the Grand Inquisitor puts it: the Jedi Code is like an itch; they cannot help it.
Take Obi-Wan, for instance:
He’s saying: “I’m not a Jedi anymore. That guy died the same day Anakin did. I’m just Ben.”
But it kills him that he can’t help Nari, he can’t help that dude who can’t feed his family, he can’t help those settlers on Mapuzo who were getting bullied by stormtroopers.
His character arc is the most obvious one: he is coming to terms with the idea that, yes, he still is a Jedi.
Becausethat’s who Leia needs him to be right now.
And it’s who Luke will need in the future.
Also Vader:
We know Vader’s arc won’t conclude in this series.
For years, Vader is always THIS close to going back to the Light, then always stomps his foot on the ground and doubles down, going “nu-uh, I’m evil deep down inside, I swear! Dark Side all the way! Look how I’m killing this guy! See what a monster I’ve become Obi-Wan?!”
He keeps rejecting the Light and rationalizes his actions by saying the Jedi betrayed him, but deep down, he’s rejecting the Light because he thinks he deserves the pain that the Dark gives him. He’s a monster and he is where he belongs: in Hell.
But we know that, eventually, he lets go of the guilt, the anger, the fear, and does become that Jedi again, which George Lucas once described as “ultimate father figures”.
Because that’s what Luke needed when the Emperor was killing him: his father, the Jedi.
Now take Reva:
She’s saying: “I’m not a Jedi. The Jedi abandoned me. I hate them and I’m gonna have my revenge!”
That whole speech she gives in Part I?
She’s not saying that to the Tatooine randos (who the Jedi never protected in the first place because they had no jurisdiction in the Outer Rim). She’s repeating that to herself.
Clearly, she was a youngling when Order 66 happened, she got taken in and made into a monster. But not really, right? ’Cause the other Inquisitors? Now those guys are full-on psychopaths. She’s cute compared to them. They tell her as much.
She’s not as broken inside as they are.
And deep down, she knows it too. Which is why she screams, she pouts, she’s overly arrogant, reckless, mean and insistent, she’s overdoing it, she’s overcompensating.
“Look at my flips! Look at how I parkour! Would a Jedi be so badass?!”
She’s doing exactly what Vader is doing.
Only she’s doing it louder, because the good in her isn’t buried as deeply as it is with him. She’s stomping her foot and doubling down and insisting that “no, I’m bad, I swear”.
Because the alternative is accepting that - unlike Vader who made his own choices - deep within Reva lies the truth that what happened to her wasn’t her fault. She’s a victim of a galaxy-wide genocide. And it’s not her her fault. Sometimes, bad things happen to good people, and it’s unfair.
Which is why Haja takes her by surprise.
Why would this guy WILLINGLY say he’s a Jedi? Is he crazy? Doesn’t he realize what that comes with? The target it puts on your back?
Seeing him do that clearly hits her where it hurts.
Now, I don’t know if she eventually arcs and manages to become that Jedi once again… or if she’ll die trying… or if she does like Vader and rejects it for good.
There’s a reason Reva and Moses Ingram are positioned in the middle in all promotional pictures featuring the trio:
My guess is that it’s because while Kenobi is coming around to following the Way of the Jedi, and Vader is just blazing trails in the opposite direction… Reva’s fate is unclear.
No, like, when a woman in fiction is ruthless, serious, impulsive and careless, she is automatically annoying, forced and hated. Reva is just doing her fcking job, this is how I expect the bad guys to act: cutting peoples hands, attacking them on sight, threatening their families, being obsessed with their target. Also Reva knowing Anakin is Vader is not a good reason to hate her character and call her annoying. That doesn’t even make sense.
idk some star wars fans just like being miserable.
