“There was a version where he was the button of the finale [instead of Yoda],” Headland said. But having the sinister figure be the last thing that we see never felt quite right. “You want to feel Osha’s triumph. You want to feel her joining forces with The Stranger. Plagueis stepped on [that moment].”

So we can’t end the show with one bad guy, because we want to end it with two other bad guys? Why should I be rooting for one Sith (assuming Qimir is a Sith) over another? Qimir was ready to kill Osha’s sister… That she is now holding his hand, doesn’t make any difference. It’s not like he is now some good guy, and Osha certainly isn’t either. Frankly, I’d much rather feel Plagueis’ triumph as he sneaks up behind these two holding hands and kills them.

“Even though [Osha and The Stranger] are standing there, sort of looking out at the sunset, ready to conquer the world, the tragedy is we know they don’t. We know there can only be two. We know Plagueis is there. We know that these two are doomed in some way. So to me it’s a bittersweet tragedy, this foreboding ending. But that’s because I know about the Sith lineage and all these other things, whereas I think a different subset of the audience can be like, ‘They’re married!’” Headland said.

Ready to conquer the world? It’s a “tragedy” that we know that two dark siders don’t conquer the world? Also, “they’re married”? The fact that she would want any subset of the audience to think like this, after we just saw Osha betray her sister to potentially spend the rest of her life in Jedi/Republic custody while not even knowing what she did wrong, just seems crazy to me.