Evilchumlee wrote: ↑2023-10-05 08:59am
My greatest question of the show, and the Mandoverse in general, Thrawn is a big threat. But. Why? Nothing has established why Thrawn is an existential threat to the New Republic and the Imperial Jesus. They just keep saying Thrawn like it's a big deal but seriously, WHY? what has Thrawn actually done to garner such respect, and what resources does he have that will spell doom for the New Republic? He has one old, kinda broken down ship. Yeah he has whatever the cargo is... but... nobody in the Imperial Remnants knows about that. As far we know, Thrawn was a pretty good admiral who got ganked by a Jedi kid and has been gone for well over a decade. I just don't understand why Thrawn is such a big deal, in-universe. It's like the people in-universe read Heir to the Empire and are like, "Oh we need him!"
I think this was actually a mistake in Rebels. Instead of having a new character who could be the main Imperial governor a la Tarkin who is defeated, they instead had to use Thrawn, and in the process made him less of a threat. Thrawn worked as a bad guy in Heir to the Empire because the OT heroes had never faced him before, as he was relegated to the Outer Rim, and so his strategic brilliance had room to shine against a superior enemy in the form of the New Republic.
By contrast, in Rebels Thrawn faced a tiny Rebel Alliance that doesn't give him much room for brilliant strategy. He did show some cleverness in finding the Rebel base, but it wasn't enough to make him as much of a threat in this era.
Crazedwraith wrote: ↑2023-10-05 10:49am
My read on this was that Sabine always was force sensitive. She just had very low aptitude, much weaker than usually would be allowed in the order, which is what Huyang said at the start of the series.
If she had literally no force sensitivity there'd be no point in her training at all.
Now her practical use of the force massively leapt between episodes for no reason. She was deflecting blaster bolts and the leap from really slow lightsaber pull to confident enough to boost Ezra across the gap was.. weird.
But it's the force sometimes a leap of faith/the will of the force works wonders, lol.
Just based on Rebels, I don't see why she had to be Force sensitive in the true sense. She did train with Kanan to use the Darksaber(with just as much proficiency using Ezra's lightsaber), and there seemed to be a slight emotional element to that as she connected to the Darksaber, but there was no indication that she would ever use the Force outright like a Jedi. Kanan even said so directly when he was training her.
It also hurts her character, because her whole thing was that she was a brilliant warrior and technician who could do just about anything other than using the Force. Giving her Force powers as well took away from her existing accomplishments.
Evilchumlee wrote: ↑2023-10-05 01:45pm
One other thing that mildly annoys me, which is all due to having to make Post-ROTJ stories WITHOUT using the OT people, or much anyway is that you have Luke out there, scrounging through ruins to dig up scraps of ancient Jedi texts to hopefully learn some stuff about the Jedi Order... meanwhile you have Ahsoka flying around in a literal Jedi starship with a 10,000 year old Jedi Training Droid who seems to pretty much the knowledge of the entire damn archive in his head, who maintains a workshop for building lightsabers, and also Ahsoka herself is a Bonafide Jedi who is ALSO training new Jedi... you would think maybe Ahsoka would help out with that?
This is why I say that Ashoka should have just died fighting Vader on Malachor in Rebels, leaving behind a holocron that Sabine can give to Luke and pass on her knowledge indirectly. Her survival means she isn't doing anything to help Luke or the New Jedi Order, and means that she is at least partially responsible for its ultimate failure.
I think Sabine should have worked with Luke to find Ezra and in the process deal with her guilt at having missed most of the war by choice. It would have meant that they would need to recast Luke, but frankly they should do that anyway if they are serious about telling stories in this era. Or just do this as a novel and let the TV series move on to other stories like The Acolyte. I'm not sure I see the point in this doomed era in the first place.
Jub wrote: ↑2023-10-05 03:58pm
I haven't even been following those lately. I guess I burnt out on SW in high school and my early 20s and the new stuff just isn't drawing me in. I'd be sad but such is life.
This series marks my official burnout on Star Wars, as I didn't even bother finishing it. I'm just tired of the story at this point, especially in that era.
I might bother to show back up for the Acolyte, as the idea of a mystery series about the Sith did seem interesting, but now I sort of doubt it. SW has followed Marvel over the glass cliff, adding diversity only to kill the story in the process.
Another problem is that I haven't read any of the novels in around five years, as it feels pointless because they will easily overwrite them if they want to. They have already done so entirely with the rather good Ahsoka novel and a few other smaller examples.