He does some good things, sure, and his backstory is sad, but it never feels like an excuse nor a way to wipe away his evil deeds ... she played a Jedi -- the first Arab female Jedi, in fact.

Jedi Master Yaddle is a member of the Jedi Council, which immediately singled her out as one of the wisest of the Jedi. Although Yaddle did originally have a line of dialogue in the scene where ...