Imperial: “Admiral Thrawn, you’ve returned! Welcome back! We’ve waited years for you. You must conquer the galaxy back for the Empire!” Thrawn: “Very well. I barely have a Star Destroyer in disrepair. What resources have you prepared for the task?” Imperial: “Um… I mean, we were just thinking you would…” Thrawn: “Ugh, Jesus. Alright, who and what am I facing then?” Imperial: “The entire New Republic with all their forces.” Thrawn: “Oh, okay. Never mind. Should be easy. The war will be over by Life Day.”

It’s kind of interesting how Luke hasn’t even been mentioned at all considering “Heir to the Empire” was Luke’s story in the first place

I miss the days when the dumbest plot point in Star Wars was Padme dying of sadness.

Cringe Witch Lady: "My people were among the first to harness and ride the creatures, in the days before time was counted." So her people created a method of surviving and traveling across the galaxy on intergalactic hyperspace whales BEFORE they invented the *calendar*?

I have to say, this was action packed. Jumps, flips, a desperate race where one misstep meant certain death. Thank you for putting up Subway Surfers. Truly the highlight of the episode.

the funny thing is, republic cant spare a force to go with hera because they have better things to do, but when she leaves and takes the minimal amount of troops with her, suddenly they can spare 3 whole cruisers just to court martial a rogue general

As far as I'm concerned, Hayden just came back to hammer home the actions scenes suck by showing that he actually knows what he's doing...unlike everyone else.

They’d already completely f*cked thrawns design by giving him pupils, now they’ve given him a receding hairline. Awesome…

Ah yes the world between worlds, a time dimension invented in a kids cartoon to save Ahsoka from dying. The lengths Dave Filoni will go to protect his pet characters is absurd.

"In the game of chess, you cannot let your opponent see your pieces" - Admiral Thrawn Brannigan, current year.

I love how Sabine whines about the deal as if she hasn't lost any and all leverage the moment she gave Baylan the map.

I think Sabine's treatment of the dog mount is what upset me the most. Ignoring that it was stupid as it would allow her to travel faster and it carried her gear, it was just needlessly cruel. It got spooked, it didnt betray you, bitch.

The kid hearing the lightsabers is actually just hearing Asohka crumpled in a heap with a rock lodged in her skull smacking her lightsabers together like a child hitting wooden blocks together, because she requires medical attention due to significant brain damage. She's physically at the bottom of the cliff dying and hallucinating

Why would Thrawn even try to kill Ezra at this point? He can just leave. What's Ezra gonna do, juryrig a spaceship together and somehow cross galaxies?

There was a Darth Sion who basically mastered pain through the dark side of the force and became immortal basically through it. To hear that Filoni named the Hyperdrive the "Eye of Sion" but then admitted it was because of his love of Lord of the Rings.... just makes all of this sooo much worse for me

Between Hera and Paz Vizsla, people in this universe are rather nonchalant about their children, aren't they? They sort of have actual parenting investment kick in irregularly.

It’s funny how Ahsoka went from a character that I didn’t mind, to one I actually grew fond of gradually over time, while still under the assumption that she probably dies either during Order 66 or the Jedi Purge to follow. Only for her to keep going on and on to the point of absurdity, because Dave just can’t let his golden child go to the wayside for less then five seconds.

Thrawn is such an incredible threat that he wasn't mentioned ONCE in Disney's own movie canon...

Absolutely amazing how Luke hasn't even been mentioned in this series despite him being essential to the story Filoni based the series off of

What baffles me about Thrawn in ep 6 is that he spent no time during his exile establishing a base it seems. No mining asteroids for materials to use for repairs. No R&D to improve current weapons. No recruitment. No training facilities. Not even a droid factory to make up for low manpower. Most of the repairs they did are ramshackle but hey the "look cool" and completely unprofessional. This in no way seems like an established military operation that is prepared for invasion in any way shape or form.

A two for one reaction special, what a good day to be Efapping

Imagine if they got in the whales, thinking they’ll take them to Ezra, but then they arrive … on Tatooine

Hope someone makes a Chad Legends Thrawn and a Virgin Disney Thrawn.

I just realized, they hardcore assassinated Sabine. She used to be passable, but now she is villainous with how reckless she is

Sabine meeting Ezra after all the things she did and sacrificed should be an incredibly emotional scene for both characters - but especially Sabine (since she was willing to basically burn the world to find him). But you wouldn't be blamed to think these two are just acquaintances and not very good friends finding each other after years apart - not only apart, but there was a good chance one of them was dead and she would only find his remains. There's not elation, disbelieve, or even a couple of tears of joy. What a wasted of a scene!

My favorite part is when Anakin whipped out his *red* lightsaber and said *"It's time to get Vadered"* , then Vadered all over Ahsoka.

I just want a scene in which someone pauses mid-lightsaber swing, says “I want to stop fighting,” and then gets stabbed because that’s not how combat works.

Two episodes at once? That's the fanservice we need.

*Writer 1* : Oh man, it's gonna be hard for Sabine to find Ezra on this unfamiliar planet in this unfamiliar galaxy, despite Thrawn and his forces being unable to find him for a decade. *Writer 2* : Actually it's gonna be super easy, barely an inconvenience

30:00 the force tracking was originally something only Quinlan Voss could do. I guess Dave just wants his OC to have all the force powers. Looking forward to when she starts healing people and prematurely electricating force lightning.

“He Vadered” is now peak coonsomer phrase, move over “Wow dude! Pride Rock!” 😂

Andor is the only show that actually GAINED viewership over time and keeps being talked about. EVERY OTHER SHOW lost viewership over time….but guys he Vadered! My wife’s boyfriend clapped with me!

It's like Filoni heard people liked Andor and all he took from that was "Go slow, got it!"

Ever since Rebels, it's always felt like Filoni either only knew about or only cared about the 'blue Imperial who likes art' aspect of Thrawn's character and completely forgot to ever SHOW the fact that he is such a good tactician/strategist that he's basically a God amongst men when it comes to conventional space combat. Also the part of his introduction where the Stormtroopers were chanting his name was so cringe that my ears forcibly merged it into the music so I wouldn't notice on my first watch... I can't think of any Star Wars villain in a leadership role where that wouldn't come across as being full cringe.

Do you think soldiers in WWII ever turned to their friends and said "This is WWII"?

26:26 "Go Hayden, kill her!" "I wish" To quote a much better piece of media than what you're forced to sit through here "Too late,15 years too late"

I love it when the non-American members of EFAP do American accents. It brings me so much joy.

When Mauler said “Star Wars was such a big cow to milk” I couldn’t help but think “and someone confused the udders with the arse’ole”.

I only just now realized that the names Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati are a reference to Skoll and Hati, the giant wolves in Norse mythology who chase the sun and moon. It would've been interesting to see what allusions to the myth are carried over in these characters and how it influences them, but odds are it's just another instance of Filoni trying to flex his nerd cred by offhandedly referencing stuff he likes.

Something that does annoy me as a fan of Thrawn, he comes off as a character you’re told is smart instead of being shown how different he is. In the newer book series’s you get POV passages by him and he’s CONSTANTLY analyzing peoples expressions, actions, words, breaking them down just in his head. You also hear him analyze art pieces or tactics and it’s just cool to hear, but no in Ahsoka all we’ve really gotten is “Yeah no he’s very very very very smart so therefore he’s very dangerous and can possibly destroy the Republic just on his own” Also yeah, not a fan of Thrawn being overweight, though I guess it’s hard to bash the actor for his physical appearance.

The thing that really annoys me about episode 5 is that it's such a huge missed opportunity. All of it is just memberberries, hallow fan service, and pointless fighting. But what if it was better. Imagine this: Ahsoka awakes and meets Anakin's ghost or whatever, the scene plays out the same way up until the "live or die part". Anakin says the sane thing, but instead of fighting Ahsoka-for some reason-he instead takes her on a little journey of character study, self growth, and reminiscence mixed with, yes, fan service, but not Dave's shriveled up memberberries. The journey starts at the beginning, when Anakin first met Ahsoka during the battle of Christophsis. They can reminisce about how Ahsoka was so young and arrogant like Anakin, and how Anakin was unqualified to be Ahsoka's master, but still put in the effort. From there, their journey takes them to various other places and moments in the Clone Wars that are important to the Ahsoka and her relationship with Anakin; along the way, he makes several points about how much she grew and learned, becoming an incredible Jedi and something like a sister to him. Eventually, though they arrive at the point when Ahsoka left Anakin. Long story short, Ahsoka was framed for committing terrorism that was actually done by her fellow Jedi, Barriss Offee. Anakin did everything he could to defend Ahsoka and even brought Barriss before the council before Ahsoka was sentenced, securing her freedom, but Ahsoka reached her limit. The entire time during the fiasco, the Jedi did nothing to help her and were blinded to politics; Windu even tried to say the whole was her "great trial." Realizing how full of shit the Jedi were, Ahsoka left the order and never came back, leaving Anakin. With this history in mind, adult Ahsoka and Anakin can talk about how the failure of Jedi; they were supposed to be peacekeepers and paragons of wisdom, but were willing to let one of their own be sacrificed because of politics. Their journey finally ends when Ahsoka finally addresses the big, black, armored elephant in the room. It doesn't just come out of nowhere, for there are several instances of Anakin's dark side throughout the Clone Wars, and perhaps the one thing her character hasn't moved past is Vader; encountering him and discovering his identity left a mark on her, and she never got the closure that Luke did. You could even add in the whole thing about her being afraid of becoming like him-somehow. Anakin realizes her fear and decides she must face Vader, and so takes her to a vision of the Jedi temple during order 66, where she confronts Vader; not the armored version, or Anakin with yellow eyes, but a shadowy, demonic abomination that represents his evil and Ahsoka's fear. The confrontation is not just a fight but also a battle of wits and ideals, like Luke against Vader and Palpatine. Obviously, Ahsoka wins and conquers her fears. The rest of the episode has Ahsoka and Anakin in a restored Jedi temple, where they just...talk, talk like the best of friends that haven't seen each in ages; Ahsoka can even mention she met Luke. And so, with Ahsoka's training complete and her fears conquered, the episode ends with her waking up in the water and being rescued.

Gotta admit, "Chekhov's Space Whales" wasn't on my bingo card today...

Remember in Kotor II when you enter into a tomb that haunts you with visions of your past? And in those visions, your character can actively speak from their experiences, because they already know the future of these events, and the visions speak back, regarding your comments with the future context, but in a way that the visions would have in the past *without* your future context? I remember. Too bad the writers don't or are too inept to do the same.

I don’t like how they used Anakin’s signature move in this show. In its other instances in the prequels, it did fit the fights to block his back and it feels more natural in the movement of the whole choreographies. Here, you can just see the key jangling. He is so far from Ahsoka and he clearly doesn’t need to do his move. It was just a show off moment and it ruins it imo

"General, we've been on this planet for twenty plus years. Shouldn't we go find Ezra?" "No. We must wait." "Wha? Wait for what sir?" "There are people coming who can do it for us." "But, we have troops. And a star destroyer. And the Nightsisters' magic." *[Thrawn tosses that guy out a window]*

Always so nice to see someone like Ahsoka pull out the Force Echo power that Cal Kestis had and we were told was so absolutely rare you had to be born with it and can't be taught it from nothing. But I suppose it's just a matter of respeccing and putting points in the Force Skilltree. Gods know she didn't put them into lightsaber combat.

This is a nitpick but the star destroyer in this show is a imperial 2 but the Chimaera in rebels was an imperial 1 class. You can tell by the bridge. You'd think that the king of jey jangling would get that right.

I VADERED all over the place and it came out RED …i’m a bit worried actually

Luke is too busy teaching his class of 0 students to come help the galaxy from another reign of the empire

I'm always like... weirded out over the level of worship Thrawn gets in this series. Like, *GENUINE* worship. It's one thing for the fandom at large to really like him, and insist he could work tactical miracles, because the fandom has the knowledge of the full scope of his work, uncolored by in-universe bias and lack of information. We, the audience, can say "Well Thrawn totally woulda kicked the yuzang vong's asses if he were around! He has the biggest ol blue brain of them all and is totally coolio big smarticus and would like... drift thirty star destroyers around the sun to turbo megacharge their laser and esplode them all!" because it's all speculative. We have meta knowledge, we know that, if Thrawn were alive for the vong invasion, the part he'd play in that would have demanded tactical excellence from him beyond what we got in Heir to the Empire. He'd quite literally need to be a mythically potent military strategist, and we'd probably have gotten that, even if factually, Thrawn was just a really good tactician who excelled at predicting (and exploiting) his opponents. The people *IN* the universe don't know what we know though. Especially in Disney's universe. In Disney's universe, Thrawn was an alien imperial commander who saw a meteoric rise in the ranks despite being an alien, but who got his ass kicked by a bunch of kids on Lothal and then got beat by Space Whales before going missing in, apparently, a DIFFERENT. GALAXY. Let me be clear. Thrawn has like... 4 minor victories under his belt, 2 major victories, and literally NONE of them were against the rebellion (Luke, Leia, none of that, his wins predate them, he doesnt even fight anyone with force bullshit he has to account for in Disney's canon). Then he eats this MAJOR loss at Lothal, to children, which literally banishes him to a completely different galaxy. THAT is the profile of Thrawn in-universe. And the imperial remnant not ONLY is willing to expend every resource they can muster to go get him, but, they also treat him like the second coming of Palpatine. People stand around, beating sticks together, chanting his name like he's the great Khan of space and conquered half the galaxy and the only thing that stopped him from snuffing the rebellion out was him getting spirited away by space whales. It's INSANE. They didn't even LIKE Thrawn by the way, the Imperial Navy fucking hated him, because they ARE racist, quite literally, 'you're an alien so fuck you'. It's like... it'd be ONE thing right? If Thrawn conquered this other galaxy. If he set himself up as a demagogue, exploited a tribal belief in some celestial savior and then used his superior tactics and technology to conquer an entire galaxy in the interim between Rebels (which is canon to THIS show, much as it doesnt seem like it is) which would demonstrate him abilities to the desperate Imperial Remanent. He has resources they NEED, he'd have ships, loyal and passionate soldiers, equal-to or GREATER than the galatic republic. He would be an ENORMOUS asset, even if in-universe his track record against fighting force users has been less than stellar. But he's not that. He hasn't done any of that. He's just a blue dude who got his ass kicked by a Hera and her weird friends and space whales.

That giant Hyperdrive Ring is equivalent to Spaceballs' ludicrous speed, well ludicrous speed makes more sense at least.

I’m half convinced that the reason your detractors cling so thoroughly to this episode is because they’ve genuinely don’t recall anything better. If their entire media literacy can be shown on Disney Plus, then they’ll hold sacred any scrap of character “development” Disney offers them. I’m glad, then, that you showed good examples. People should realize that they have to search to find treasure, that it’s not just outside their doorstep.

I love how when DIsney started their new canon the Battle of Jakku was apparenlty this massive event that finally ended the Empire but now apparently the Empire is still around and a big threat after it happened

The vision should have been about Ahsoka fighting alongside Bo Katan during the siege of Mandalore, and she should have been feeling more guilty than Bo Katan because she was the one who fought with the faction that later becomes the Empire, the Faction that responsible for Mandalore's downfall, instead of feeling bad because people die in war. She should be having this vision considering the fact that her apprentice is a Mandalorian.

Imagine a hyperspace whale doing a "Holdo maneuver"

Remember how the Sand People brought Banthas to serve as cover when they're shot by sudden Gun Trains? Thats what Sabine wants from her dog horse. Be like the noble, self-sacrifing bantha, dog horse.

*Spoilers* In Star Wars Rebels Ahsoka actually meets Darth Vader and the two have an epic battle that was surprisingly emotional (if you grew up watching the Clone Wars like me) and had a really dark but mature ending. Ahsoka dies by the hand of Vader her former master. I think this was the perfect ending to her character, and I gave Dave praise for allowing this to happen... then the World between Worlds was introduced and had Ezra bring Ahsoka back through that time travel... honestly her dying by Vader was the best ending I think. I felt it was really ruined.

Ashoka: I am Jedi so technically i out rank you (Rex, Anakin's Captains) Rex: In my book experience outranks everything

I find it funny that of the 3 lessons we have on screen (Luke on Degobah, Rey on....Aktu(?), and now Ahsoka in the world between worlds) only one of them can get the point across while being a hair subtle, and the other two are trying to be too subtle and mysterious.

I love hearing Rags vent about guns and war tactics.

You know how the meme behind Darth Maul is “Local Man Too Angry to Die?” I’d like to introduce “Local Woman Too Female to Die.” It can be applied at several points in this show…

DO YOU GUYS REMEMBER ANAKIN? I SURE AS HELL DO!

This series is really difficult to watch in the Kenobi way, the crew outlined how it could’ve been done as “Ben lives as a bounty hunter and has a come to Jesus moment hiding Luke”. In the same way, I find it hard to consume Ahsoka because SO MUCH is workable but broken because this company has no one willing to shave/buff/edit ideas beyond “isn’t it cool” or “the stans people will love this”: -Space whales. Star Trek and Stellaris both handle this fine. You can have big creatures that fold spacetime/have adapted to migrate long distances. Maybe they feed off solar winds or are based on minerals they gather in nebula. Maybe they adapted in a gas giant planet so they’re super big. But here they literally are just sea whales made bigger and inexplicably fly, their anatomy, their mouths, their hyperspace engine tentacles(???), their whole existence is confusing and messy. It’s laughable only because it’s so ill conceived and hamfistedly presented. -Incompetent Republic. I’ve waxed on this before, but there’s a logical in universe reason the Republic could be broken here. Unifying existential enemy (Empire) is gone so now conflicts between the Rebels’ internal factions could grow over the spoils. Systems terrorized by the last central government could refuse a powerful military and after paying for a rebellion they insist on a looser, more “you’re on your own” attitude of self-defense, maybe there’s 5 different groups of planets that band together national guards while they decommission the Imperial Navy. The traumatized galaxy is relearning self government and that rarely goes well in real life (see: former Soviet Union) and Leia is doing her best but is one woman. Great opportunity to show that winning the peace is often harder than the war itself. -Dark Jedi: They’ve bungled this since TLJ. Is Baylon searching for power? Is he disillusioned because the Jedi didn’t live up to their name, or does he feel abandoned? Is he searching for a more aggressive sense of justice as his Order was built for, or bringing order, or vengeance, or what? Kylo Ren rejecting Jedi and Sith alike was the one decent idea in TLJ but it went nowhere in TROS and since then has gotten even messier. Does Luke advise the Republic? Has Luke tried to reconcile the new order’s rules with the old order’s failures and vapid arrogance? Is he concerned at all about these threats? Nowhere to be found. -Ahsoka and Sabine: Why did we get scenes that Sabine is learning first-week lessons in the Force if they already had a preexisting master-student relationship? Why write an offscreen backstory and falling out and then still write scenes that feel like the start of that relationship? Why not have Sabine get looped into the hunt for Ezra and while working with Ashoka start the training process, so it’s not out of left field that she has Force abilities and perhaps the falling out occurs precisely over the Ezra issue? From the get go, Disney has seen this as an easy cash grab and had no commitment to providing a real story, it’s just “whatever will put asses in seats and move merch”. Lucas was a craven merchandiser too but at least he wanted to hook you on his world and sell you toys that brought it to life. No one at Disney has even the passing thought to second draft any idea, no one pushes back or says “well what’s the logic here, how does this work”. No one loves it enough to put in that effort, not even the fans’ dear Filoni, the “best” (relatively) hacks only love how KEWL their own fan fiction is irrespective of whether it fits and couldn’t care less about making something lasting. It will stay this way until there’s a clean house. Worldbuilding, character, and themes all lose to KEWL. I gave up on Star Wars a long time ago, but to those who ask “then why do you care so much”, I say, one, because I cared deeply for it at one time, and two, because it’s like watching a dear loved one’s corpse get exhumed and then defiled by people who claim to love them. Screw everyone at Lucasfilm.

Watching shills praise this utter garbage made my blood boil, not because i hate this franchise, but because i loved it so much, long time ago. Mauler, your answer on the stream about the potential of you playing KOTORs gave me hope, they are all i have left from my star wars passion (especially KOTOR II). Sorry for my bad english).

This is probably Rag's most accurate pfp

One has to wonder about Sabine's psychological health. She spent 10 years pining after Ezra. Jesus. Most normal people move on. She's obsessed and that's a mental health disorder.

"It could go anywhere... " "but it's better than going nowhere." Okay so what if after seeing what happens at the end of this season it turns out if Ahsoka stayed behind and prepped the Republic for Thrawn's arrival it would save more lives than trying to chase after Thrawn and achieving very little before returning to the main galaxy

Mooler: I do not fear the long. But that thing.... it scares me. *Dave Filoni pause of nothing happening*

This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them!

Hera’s goggles are just insane to me. First, they’re pointless. A spaceship is geeeenerally airtight. Second, they’re so wide they wouldn’t even fit her face. Why do they do these things to me? All I’ve done is hate everything they do, think, and are. Is that so bad?

So to recap: Sabine made a deal with the enemy, put the entire galaxy at risk, left Ashoka for dead all so she could see one specific guy again?

Wait...Thrawn has been trying to find Ezra for years...and it turns out that he’s been living in an open-air village less than a day’s travel away? That’s like finding out that bin Laden was ‘hiding’ in a tent on the lawn of the White House.

Some of the hardest laughs from an EFAP mini, and unlike how it often is with Batwoman, the show does no favours, the cast and editing alone were painfully funny 😂

I've been waiting for them to tear into these episodes in particular. Everything Rags had said about Luke showing up in Mando S2 has come to pass.

You guys spoil us. Not only Saw 1 and 2 to start the month, but also the best Star War since the last Star War! Much love

My first introduction into Star Wars book as a child was Heir to the Empire. When I heard Thrawn was in Rebels I knew it was the end of my childhood love of Star Wars, but just is just the nail in the coffin. I hope everyone who begged for Thrawn to be added to canon and hate him now LIKE WHAT THEY GOT

"I haven't taught you everything yet" *Cuts light-bridge* She literally did this too Darth Maul on Mandalore

It's wild to me to think that just a few years ago I was one of those people going around spouting the "Dave Filoni is saving star wars" rhetoric. Now I see the glaring flaws in all of these shows

The dead body ring is from the invincible comics books. The Viltrimites used the bodies of their dead as a ring around their planet. lol.

You guys missed Hera saying "What good is a high rank if you can't use it every now and then?" I'm supposed to like this character and think that's cool and endearing, right? This absolute piece of shit character abuses her position, again, and shows no maturity. She's supposed to be a general? Amazing character 10/10.

The funny thing is what Filoni wrote about Nightsisters basically breaks every lore written before that show even the games are redconned. Nightsisters originate from Dathomir and their spieces is called Dathomir Zabraks as Zabraks only exist in our universe as the Rakaten Empire bio enigneered them thousand of years ago same as Twilek Humans etc. (thats why they can breed with eachother with varying outcomes) Nightsisters were formed by a fallen Jedi 400BBY as she landed on Dathomir as it was a darkside force nexus there she discovered she could conjur magical Ichor wich is basically another form of the Force. Then she got more and more human followers and they captured and breed with pirats etc. they deemed worthy at some point male Iridonian Zabraks were introduced and the Nightsisters saw them as superior as Zabraks possed 2 hearts and some other physical attributes so they basically only breed with them. After years of breeding they basically formed the Dathomir Zabraks and Nightsisters only resided on Dathomir as that was their homeworld and if we belive they come from another galaxy why should they help imperial remenants wich were led by the guy who wanted them dead. Also what bothers me is that the Nightsisters can use star whales so why are the star whales helping the Jedi when the star whales help the Nightsisters ? What filoni is doing is straight up retarded bullshit to incooperate Nightsisters even though they were killed both in Legends and Canon because Palpatine feared the power of the Nightsisters.

Theo: So how does it feel to know that they'll always lap this shit up? Me: *Looks at the Pokemon community*... ... ... I'm used to it.

I have to put this in here somewhere just for the sake of my fucking sanity. In Heir to the Empire (and the two following novels) Grand Admiral Thrawn was the preeminent antagonist. He was a Chiss commander who replaced Palpatine after he died and the Empire was broken. With barely any resources left and no political power worth speaking of Thrawn attempted to upset the Republic and reinstate the Empire before it died completely. One of the amazing choices that Timothy Zahn, the writer of this and several other amazing Star Wars novels, made was reversing the roles in the classic Star Wars conflict: making the good guys the overwhelming force and the bad guys the underdogs. What made Thrawn such an amazing character was his incredible ability to anticipate his opponents decisions by studying their cultural heritage. There was multiple scenes in the Heir to the Empire trilogy where Thrawn made a point of talking about the culture and particularly the art of a particular society that he was either invading or subjugating. One particular scene he even referenced a particular new trend in his opponent's artistic development in recent years that allowed him to anticipate what kind of military response they would make to his attack. Even more than this was his unusual strategies. One notable example is he wanted to isolate Coruscant to allow him to freely maneuver in Republic space for a little bit and so what he did was he cloaked a bunch of asteroids and used a tractor beam to release them into decaying orbits in Coruscant's atmosphere to force Coruscant to put up their planetary shield for a lengthy period of time, thereby limiting their communications and preventing anyone from leaving the planet. A brilliant strategy that accomplished exactly what he desired. Ultimately he was undone by the rebellion of his personal guards. His personal guards were entirely comprised of a specific race of aliens that were highly agile and viciously loyal . Thrawn managed to achieve their loyalty by tricking them into thinking that he saved their planet from ecological devastation when in reality Thrawn himself was causing the problems on their planet in order to keep their race constantly in need of his "assistance". They turned on his when the trick was revealed and they killed him as he watched the remnants of the Empire die around him, signaling the complete end of the Empire and the beginnings of the era known as "The New Jedi Order", which grew out of the new Jedi temple that Luke built on Yavin IV during these events (a far better path for him than the shit Disney did to him). This stupid and ridiculous interpretation of Thrawn is just a vapid and hollow as the rest of this series and the entirety of Disney Star Wars as a whole. All we ever needed was accurate movie adaptations of the Thrawn trilogy to jumpstart a new era of Star Wars content, but instead Disney and their retarded executives decided to dump all of that into the trash, state "we didn't have any source material", and then shit out this garbage over and over again. Star Wars' legacy is dead as long as this shitty company controls its output. EDIT: Oh, for anyone that reads this rant, I should add that this bullshit with Thrawn being obsessed with honor to the point of his self destruction is complete bullshit, the original character would never have done stupid moves like this.

Chris Gore was right. They really have just gutted any concept of romance from Star Wars. All we're allowed is platonic friends now. Imagine how much more dramatic and emotional it might've been if Sabine actually had some romantic interest in Ezra and vice versa. Give it some humanity. But no. Dave Bologna saved Star Wars, gang!

"This is Star Wars" and "Star Wars is saved" makes me think of the line "Any man who must say I am the king is no true king". If those things were true, it would go without saying 🤦

No Rags, in actual star wars, the galaxy is isolated and they never leave it. In the EU, there is an invading alien race that came from another galaxy and that was the first ever. They were even completely cut off from the force and unaffected by it.

As nice as it was to have 2 Ahsoka reactions in one video. We were robbed of a "What'cha bring me?" edit. For shame Longman, or Frongold. Lmao

I remember many years ago when Disney first acquired Lucas Film and I was excited that Star Wars would have massive resources to work with and that we'd get some incredible quality films. How naïve I was at the time.

God I love October, schedule goes out the door and we just start gettin content like crazy 😂

Watching Anakin sword fight a child in live action is really something else.

Funny how Rags mentioned comment showcase in episode one but they haven’t done it yet lol Regardless. Another great video lads

So this is how good writing dies. With thunderous applause.

Ah yes, my favourite part of disney star wars, where Anakin Jaeger used the coordinate to appear in Ahsoka's mind and said "Tatakae! Tatakae!". Gives me goosebumps.

There is an actual explanation for why certain species can interbreed in legends Also in the clone wars show, a clone has two kids with a twi'lek and both kids had the head tails, so dave just forgot about that

Thrawn is the living embodiment of cope in this show. The heroes win and he's left there being all "ohhh- uhh, I meant to do that, actually. This is a good thing for us, actually." That's not how you write a smart character...

Man I like Thrawn’s voice :( it’s one of the small solaces of this dumpster fire

I recently watched _The Forbidden Planet_ which came out before Star Wars and Star Trek, and honestly it was so refreshing to see a sci fi film that was crafted with some actual passion and skill. The writing wasn't the tightest but everything continued to make sense within the logic the film presented. And don't get me started on the vfx because I might just talk your ear off; the vfx is way beyond its time and outside of a few times where the soldiers hold their phasers in the most lacklustre of ways, _everything_ holds up. I'd recommend it easily; though it's certainly weird seeing Leslie Neilson in a serious role.

You guys forgot to add to the evidence montage....SITH KILLED A WHOLE CRUISERS WORTH OF PEOPLE. That's how this started lol

Mauler got me to watch Buffy for the first time ever because of Ashoka and I couldn’t be more happy. What a great series, and I can’t believe I never watched it growing up. It’s truly amazing how brilliant Joss Wheadon was. The difference in writing and character building between something like Buffy (Joss Wheadon) and something like Ashoka (Feloni) is so immense. It’s night and day. What happened to great writers? Oh I know, diversity, equity and inclusivity initiatives. Woops.

Metal becoming viscerally more angry towards the end of Episode 6 is something I didn't know I needed. It's giving me new life.