Star Wars has officially retconned one of the most important blind spots in the prequel trilogy, revealing that the Jedi may have had an earlier opportunity to uncover Chancellor Palpatine’s rise to power. In Jar Jar #1, written by actor Ahmed Best and Arrowverse co-creator Marc Guggenheim, a new piece of canon recontextualizes how Palpatine’s political maneuvering wasn’t as airtight as previously believed.The comic introduces a critical twist: Palpatine’s (Ian McDiarmid) plan to gain emergency powers didn’t go unnoticed. Instead, Jedi Knight Kelleran Beq (played by Best in The Mandalorian) uncovered the Chancellor’s true intentions and passed that knowledge along—indirectly—to Jar Jar Binks (also played by Best in the prequel trilogy). This revelation reframes the long-held belief that the Jedi were completely in the dark until Revenge of the Sith, adding a new tragic layer to the fall of the Republic. Read full article on The Direct.