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Star Wars Episode 9 (SPOILERS!!!!)


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Actually I don’t think seeing Clone Wars and Rebels as as necessary as people might think for this show. Rebels ends before A New Hope so even though this show has a lot of familiar Rebels characters there’s still a huge amount of time that has passed that even Rebels fans know nothing about. We never saw Sabine training with Ahsoka in anything, that is completely new information in this series. Jacen was briefly mentioned one time at the very end of Rebels in an epilogue scene but we never actually knew anything about him until this series. So while it probably is a bit more fun for someone like me who at least recognizes who some characters are, I think this show actually does a pretty good job of being accessible to anyone.

I will say for people who are worried about Thrawn, he was done really well in Rebels imo, and felt like he was pulled straight out of The Heir to the Empire books. I thought they did an amazing job with him, even Timothy Zahn (author who created Thrawn) thought he was great in the show. Considering Filoni was in charge of both Rebels and Ahsoka, and they got the same person who played Thrawn in Rebels to play him in live-action, I think Thrawn will probably be great.

what I don’t know is how much we’ll actually see him in this series. There are three episodes left. I’m guessing they’re gonna use this series to set Thrawn up as the big bad of the Mandoverse as a whole, culminating in a Thrawn movie.

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I’m a few chapters away from finishing my latest (in over a decade at least) reread of Heir to the Empire so I’m ultra sensitive about Thrawn right now. That book holds up so well. It’s really a shame that they didn’t do a version of that movie in 1999 while they had the actors at the proper ages and waited on the prequels.

Zahn’s story just feels right for some reason and has since the first time I read it. It’s now wild speculation of course, but I’ve never been able to get over it…and this latest reread is reinforcing it.

Is there any way we can get Mara Jade in the fold through all of this?

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1 hour ago, Ghent Lvl 5.5 said:

I’m a few chapters away from finishing my latest (in over a decade at least) reread of Heir to the Empire so I’m ultra sensitive about Thrawn right now. That book holds up so well. It’s really a shame that they didn’t do a version of that movie in 1999 while they had the actors at the proper ages and waited on the prequels.

Zahn’s story just feels right for some reason and has since the first time I read it. It’s now wild speculation of course, but I’ve never been able to get over it…and this latest reread is reinforcing it.

Is there any way we can get Mara Jade in the fold through all of this?

I’m not sure about Mara. She’s one of my favorite Star Wars characters too but in this new continuity I don’t know if she fits. I guess if you just change the fact that she eventually ends up with Luke you could keep everything else essentially the same. Though that was a pretty core part of who her character eventually became. But as for her role in Zahn’s trilogy I feel like that version of her could mostly still work. They brought Weyland and Mount Tantiss into canon a couple years ago, so Heir to the Empire is definitely on their minds.

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8 hours ago, Cheerios4u98 said:

Thrawn's intro scene was so good. The music and everything. I'm so hyped.

Where was Captain Pellaeon? Didn't he show up on hologram in the Mandalorian or something? Gotta get the Captain in there

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8 hours ago, Ghent Lvl 9.5 said:

Where was Captain Pellaeon? Didn't he show up on hologram in the Mandalorian or something? Gotta get the Captain in there

Yeah he was in Mando telling everyone that Thrawn was coming back. So he must have known about what was going on here.

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