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Rey Kenobi?

Wow, it's an interesting time to be a Star Wars fan. The trailer for the second season of The Mandalorian just dropped, and everyone is trying to figure out WHO IS THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN IN THE HOOD? Is that Rosario Dawson, is it Sabine, Ahsoka in disguise, or someone else? Good times. But wait! There is a great disturbance in the Force. Apparently, Daisy Ridley told Josh Gad that, at some point, they were considering making Rey a Kenobi somehow, instead of a Palpatine. This caused a lot of what I'm sure are otherwise sensible people to start screaming at the top of their lungs for no reason. As I've said before, Rey being a Palpatine wasn't set in stone, but it was clearly one of the possibilities they had in mind, since they made her fighting style and musical theme similar to those of Palpatine. It was "whiteboarded," as they say. In the end, they made the right choice. I think it would have been a mistake to make Rey a descendant of Obi-wan. It would have damaged his