Obi-Wan Kenobi Continues 1 Major Star Wars Inquisitors Problem
Warning! SPOILERS for Obi-Wan Kenobi episode 4.
Obi-Wan Kenobi has seen the Inquisitors’ live-action debut, but the show is perpetuating an old Star Wars problem regarding the Jedi hunters. Introduced in Star Wars Rebels as an elite squad of Force users who responded directly to Darth Vader, the Inquisitors were the main villains of seasons 1 and 2 of the animated show. From then on, old and new Inquisitors would show up in different Star Wars media, namely in the comics and the Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order video game.
In Obi-Wan Kenobi, audiences got to see live-action versions of The Grand Inquisitor, the Fifth Brother, and the Fourth Sister – the former who had only appeared in the comics – as well as a brand new Jedi hunter: the Third Sister Reva. While Obi-Wan Kenobi would naturally be on the top of the list of every Inquisitor and bounty hunter in the galaxy, the Third Sister seems to have much more interest in capturing Obi-Wan and impressing Darth Vader. However, neither the Reva nor any other Inquisitor has been capable of cornering Obi-Wan for too long.
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These successive failures in getting to Kenobi are making a major Star Wars Inquisitor problem more evident. Between Star Wars Rebels and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Inquisitors are proven to be more and more ineffective – which betrays the whole concept of Jedi hunters. In theory, the Inquisitors are a major threat to the Jedi who survived Order 66 and are only behind Darth Vader and the Emperor in terms of power. In practice, however, the Inquisitors are always playing cat-and-mouse with the Jedi and never really succeed in killing off a major character. The Grand Inquisitor, the Fifth
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