Obi-Wan Kenobi finally clears up its big canon debate

Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi
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If you’re a fan of wider Star Wars media, then 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:a certain canon controversy has likely been at the back of your mind for weeks now. Thankfully, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 5 has cleared up any lingering doubts – and confirmed the🍌 fate of a certain character.

Spoilers for Obi-Wan Kenobi and Star Wars: Rebels follow.

The Grand Inquisitor wasn’t meant to die. Not like this. Yet, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s second episode saw Rupert Friend’s Jedi hunter fall at the hands of Reva. It was a moment that caused some commotion at the time – especially as he’s meant to live until the events of Star Wars: Rebels, which takes place some years after the events of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Disney Plus series.

Writer Joby Harold very much 🧸澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史⛦查询:went for a ‘wait and see’ approach – and so it proved: the dead speak! The latest episode revealed the Grand Inquisitor was very much alive and well at Vader’s side. He even found time to rub salt in the wounds of his replacement, Reva, plucking the Grand Inquisitor pin 𒐪from her fallen body.

How did he survive? In his words, "Revenge does wonder𒁃s for the will to live." Probably a Bacta tank, too, but the main thing𓆏 is he’s still breathing.

Star Wars fans, inevitably, are overjoyed at the news. One , "GRAND INQUISITOR IS BACK. REBELS FANS WE WON TODAY💦. WE WON" and another preached the need for patience with these sorts of twisting and turning reveals as the narrative unfolds, , "This is once again why you people have to have patience aဣnd wait for the show to be over before complaining."

For more on the latest Obi-Wan episode, discover why some fans are calling a certain scene 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:one of Darth Vader's best ever.

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