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Indira Varma reveals Tala was originally a love interest for Obi-Wan Kenobi
Indira Varma reveals her Imperial double agent Tala was originally conceived as a love interest on 'Obi-Wan Kenobi.'
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Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi actress reveals a character was originally conceived as a love interest for the main character
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Even JJ thought Obi-Wan may have had a new love, as Rey being a Kenobi was one of the ideas thrown around for the sequel trilogy.
He straight up said, "Had you said the word, I would have left the Jedi order." I think that's actually a stronger statement than a regular confession of love.
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Sure, but I doubt JJ saw that as Kenobi moving on from someone or having a "new" love. Probably just wanted Rey related to someone and thought "Why not Obi-Wan? 🤷♂️"
If they had made her his love interest, I imagine that we would've gotten an oopsie baby out of it and we would've seen Obi-Wan's child/grandchild in one of these shows.
That's how Star Wars rolls.
That's how Star Wars rolls.
They already made it that he had a brother probably specifically to have "House Kenobi" in a future series. Said it before, Palpatine being a family name for a dude named Sheev was all about laying the groundwork for SW to eventually become GoT, back when higher ups at LF thought this would be a great idea and why they went on to hire D&D.
"Star Wars is about family."
House Kenobi
House Solo
House Skywalker
House Palpatine
Clan Fett
House Yoda
Stupid shit like this is why Star Wars rarely has interesting stories.
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It's when Leia stops in the tunnel and tells her to go back to go help Obi-Wan. If Tala didn't care she would just have said no and continued running with Leia lol
This is kind of a dumb take. A woman can have a boyfriend and still have agency. I get what she's getting at, that (female) love interests are often uninspired characters who exist solely for the male character, but it's entirely possible to have love interests who are compelling characters with tons of agency (see: Kim in Better Call Saul). Of course, you need competent writers who see women as people rather than plot devices to succeed at this, I guess... 🙄
You know, I was actually thinking that Obi-Wan meeting a new person, like a close friend or even love interest, and having to be torn apart between his new friendship/love and his duty to protecting Luke, would have made for a far more interesting story than what we got. While it's a theme that's been done in fiction before, it's a good one, and it's mostly all about the execution, how charming that new character is and how much the audience is invested in them, and it would be more than fine for Star Wars. Alas....
That was probably the original intention: have him meeting someone who is starting the rebellion, she falls in love with him, but at the end he refuses to join her and help the rebellion, she wouldn't understand why and insist he joins and he'd have to pretend he doesn't care or doesn't want to help them, and he'd feel down because ultimately it's not true that he doesn't care, he just can't tell her the truth as to why he could not join them. It would have ended with her ditching him in anger/disappointment, so a sort of bittersweet ending.
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