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I was screaming at him through the TV. It's people like Xiono that are the reason The New Republic fell so quickly.

My favorite is they didn’t have the resources to help Hera but sent three Capital ships to get her once they found she was AWOL. 😂

The one good thing that came out of him was Kazuda Xiono. However, the problem with Hamato Xiono is we barely know the guy or his motivations. For all we know, Hamato Xiono could have been one of many senators who was inspired by Senator Padme Amidala's speech during the Clone Wars regarding how the Republic should be spending its resources on helping its citizens, not military operations. He is more of a politician who dislikes war and sees it as senseless violence that endangers innocent people like his family. Also, from Resistance, his uniform looks a bit more militaristic as if some event changed him to be more active off-world to help the New Republic and its defense organizations. Overall, the New Republic should use every opportunity it could get to help people across the Galaxy rather than prep for another war even if the latter option is the most logical and pragmatic approach due to the Known Galaxy being part of a story that is literally called STAR WARS. I agree that the New Republic's beginnings reminded me of the United States of America in its infancy following the end of the American Revolution and how they sought to be neutral to help build America into a strong, independent nation.

My Xiono hottake: "Huh, turns out Borsk Fey'lya was actually a Vietnamese dude this whole time. I guess the "fuzzy space mouse" thing was just a cosplay."

This is a writing problem as much as anything. For example, Hera had access to Huyang's very detailed scans of the Eye of Sion to present as proof of stolen hardware being used. She also proved that the military hardware was being stolen from Republic shipyards. Her mistake was even letting Xiono bring up Thrawn or Ezra. Hera should have thrown back at him that unknown parties were stealing military assets from the New Republic. A simple reminder of history: the Clone Wars did *not* begin on Geonosis. They began a decade earlier when a *shipping company* decided that they could refit their cargo freighters into battleships and conquer Naboo. Indeed, making the threat more nebulous like that would help scare more Senators with the possibility that it wouldn't take an Imperial Remnant to destabilize the Republic. A rogue corporation could do it, and *had* done it within many Senators' lifetimes.

As dickish as Xiono was acting, and as foolhardy as his dismissal of the Imperial Remnant is, most of what he was concerned about was valid. He said it -- a General abusing her authority to pursue a personal vendetta. Hera did *not* bring solid, hard evidence to the Senate even *when* she had it, or should have had it. She never mentioned the data from the tracking device, never brought up that those loyal to the Empire had taken a Super Star Destroyer hyperdrive, never gave flight recordings from her cockpit showing the Eye of Scion. Nothing! She continuously relied on her own experiences, belittled those who had different experiences, and it was a favour from a friend that got her out of hot water. She got at least two X-wing pilots *killed* for nothing. I don't blame Xiono one bit for being suspicious of her.

The problem with Mon Mothma is she always thought everything could be solved through politics. Even after the Empire rose she still thought she could reason with Palpatine. It’s only after she is shown how foolish that line of thinking is does she focus on fighting…but still beyond reluctant to do so.

Tbh, i feel he is the canon version of Borsk Fey'lah. He went head to head with Leia in the Legends and you get a glimpse of this when 3PO showed up in this episode.

When i first saw that character, i said to myself “what, has that generation tech guy gotten a role in star wars” but now that i see them side by side, it’s clear tha Xiono is a bit older.

I mean, in resistance, he's implied to be a First Order sympathizer, so, he's probably imp friendly

If Shia LaBeouf portrayed Aladdin, yeah, we'd basically have Ezra in Ahsoka.

The divide between outer and inner rim made me think of a concept in Latin American history called “The Mask of Ferdinand”. This was where rebels fought the French authorities in Latin America in the name of the deposed Spanish king. When the king returned they then rebelled against him having no real love for a distant ruler. The outer rim had little reason to love or restore the republic but plenty of reason to rebel. So perhaps for someone like Hera we have a “mask of the republic” rebelling for a cause that you don’t really believe in and does you no good but it is better then the alternative.

I think Xiono is just an opportunist. He's a member of the defense council but keeps cutting Leia (the actual head of the defense council) out of the loop so he can build his support and take over. His reason for attacking Hera? She's connected to Mon Mothma. Embarass Hera and you embarass Mon Mothma in front of the council members he wants on his side. Maybe he is an Imperial sympathizer or has grief with Hera for some reason, but simple political ambition explains both scenes he's been in so far. Plus he's a huge jerk.

Funny thing is, the only reason we're siding with Hera in this is because we have seen that she is right. Anyone who doesn't have access to the information Hera or we have would and saw what we saw would likely cheer on Xiono for keeping Hera in check. Let's look at history, almost every revolution in history has either ended in anarachy due to no one keeping the new system functioning or dictatorship from an ambitious politician or general taking advantage of personal and public favor as well as the undeveloped systems in place. I've got to respect the man

Man's showcasing such a high level of incompetence that it could be mistaken for betrayal.

Nelson Lee is doing an amazing job. I'm hating Senator Xiono, but I'm loving Lee's portrayal of him.

While I appreciate the defense of the differences of opinion necessary for the functioning of a democracy, I don't think that's what Filoni's shooting for with Xiono. He may not be an outright Imperial sympathizer, but he's definitely representative of the problems that made the New Republic fall so quickly to the First Order. Filoni's painting the society of the core worlds as corrupt and not a little bit dumb, a weakness that's easily capitalized on by the fascists lurking in the shadows.

As the late bail organa once said "some minds cannot be altered no matter what they hear." Xiono embodies this quote. During the court martial, xiono refused to change his mind about hera or the possibility of thrawn's return or the threat of the remaining imperials despite the various incidents involving the imperial remnants and morgan elsbeth, and her mercenaries. Although he did have a point about the lack of evidence regarding said imperial remnants working together.

I’m convinced he’s an Imperial Loyalist

Knowing that he survived the destruction of Hosnian Prime in 34 ABY (seen on Star Wars: Resistance) makes me pissed off even more

The thing that is lost among most people is the degree that most officers in countries like the United States are educated. Higher ranking ones like a General would have at least a Masters degree or equivalent. They have also spent time in the "political" side of rising thru the ranks that has to do with networking and gaining favor of others. Even General's like Han Solo who had field commissions would have found it hard to make it after the fall of the Empire. And who knows maybe that was what split him and Leia. She on the other hand had all of the skills to play that game. Even at the level of middle management you get to see how strange things can get from being the person doing to being the person saying what to do.

Either the senator is imperial remnant, has ties to the banking sector or is willfully ignorant to the threats that are coming. All are scary possibilities.

He's the new Borsk Fey'lya. If Thrawn approaches the NR with a false promise of peace, Xiono would bite down on the hook and say that he'd rather work with Thrawn than with Hera.

Ahsoka summed it up; it's not loyalty, it's greed. Senator Xiono doesn't look like he has missed too many meals as of late, and all one really has to do is follow the money.

It was just setting up the tension for the eventual return. It was clumsy and formulaic but it was effective.

Its kind of crazy that Hera just didnt go to Leia in the beginning to get approval. Hera knows that Leia is in the position to grant approval and no questions would have been asked and they know each other from the Rebels days so i guess she just didnt for mysterious reasons.

I started cracking up when I pressed your video and it switched from the thumbnail to Alan they could be brothers!

He's playing the role of the Bothan, Borsk Fey'lya, from Heir to the Empire. There is no doubt an agenda behind his actions. It would have been great if Filoni used a bothan for the role.

But there is a huge issue. Xionno bypassed the defence council and called vote behind leia's back because Hera did something she was not supposed to while doing something he wasn't supposed to do. He himself didn't follow proper procedure. This seems to indicate he has something personal against Hera. How does a committee vote on an issue while the head of it's department is not only missing but informed of it meeting

I'm honestly shocked that nobody brought up "clearly our enemies think they can bring back Thrawn, so we should definitely try stopping them, even if we don't know if he actually can come back"

I actually thought that YOU played Xiono!❤

I think Xiono is meant to be the embodiement of the arrogant complacency that eventually allowed for the anihilation of the Hosnian system to happen.

It is true we do need to remember that we are seeing these events from the perspective of Hera and the people fighting against thrawn, we have direct knowledge of thrawns return, as a viewer from the fourth wall, so we can not expect the senators and characters to act how we would, we have knowledge they do not.

5:45 9:15 I vehemently disagree. There's more than enough politicians and core world governments that would've taken Hera at her word and would've devoted resources for a proactive operation to prevent a theoretical danger. Certainly Palpatine would've listened if Thrawn told him about a threat from afar that might materialize; he even made Thrawn a Grand Admiral for that very same reason. And I'm sure the Jedi Council under Yoda might've at least allocated some resources to help Hera if she was asking the Old Republic for help instead. I can understand if Xiono has something to lose, if Hera wants something more than just a task force. For example, if Hera wants to assume control of the entire navy to rally a manhunt for Thrawn and Ezra, then yes, Xiono's bitching at Hera would make sense, but that isn't the case here. Hera is just asking for a task force, and they lose nothing if she comes home empty-handed. Xiono is just being an ass, for the sake of being an ass, just like Borsk Fey'lya before him. He literally loses nothing if Hera takes some ships on a wild goose chase, which makes his resistance to her all the more baffling and vindictive. It's like he just gets up in the morning thinking of new ways to screw Hera over. It'd make more sense if Xiono is being blackmailed by the Empire; like say, Thrawn's men have holos of him sleeping with other senators' wives, and they threaten to release said holos unless he hampers Hera Syndulla's operation; or maybe he just preferred life under the Empire and secretly wants Thrawn to win, since he's probably old enough to remember that the Old Republic was a dysfunctional pile of crap and the Empire was more effective and efficient than it. At least those explanations would make far more sense as to why Xiono has such a raging hate-boner for Hera on the Senate floor.

I actually thought you had a cameo on the show as the Senator Xiono. I'm not kidding. Thumbs UP

Seriously, if any one had half a brain they'd immediately open a deep investigation on this guy after his bizarre and almost comically suspicious behavior.

His kneejerk reaction on defining the Imperial Remnant is a sign of his corruption

It's not that the senator is a contrarian to Hera, it's that he seems to be so against the idea of the possibility of a resurgent empire he is unwilling to even allow the name remnant for the forces which is colouring his decision making. He clearly lives in a bubble of pacifism, he wants everyone else to have his opinion because that would be great and so he can't understand how fanatics will do irrational things without any reason to destroy what he loves. Simple naivety for a politician really, maybe losing his homeworld helped enlighten him to the madness.

Allen still hasn't acknowledged the fact that he looks EXACTLY like Xiono

He might be very scared what the Empire returning is. He probably survived it and doesn't wanna think the war didn't end

Even from a purely internal perspective, his positions aren't all that out of whack. The conversation implies that Hera has put a great deal of effort to use New Republid resources to search for Thrawn and Ezra. After years of this post Endor and no actual evidence, there's likely a great deal of political resistance. However, the New Republic reaction to events is horribly managed. They have a Dark Jedi that slaughters the crew of a capital ship, which is then tied to the theft/appropriation of a Star Dreadnaught sized engine that's tkaen to an Outer Rim world. Then you have one of the few Jedi within the Republic going in pursuit. That alone is sufficient cause to send a recon force out to the area supported by a cruiser and for a massive investigation as to how a Core shipyard is taken over by the Imperial Remnant and assassin droids come and go on one of the key systems of the Republic. Instead there's a hero of the Rebellion taking a few fighters with her to backup a Jedi against a Dark Jedi and unknown threat that has clearly shown massive infiltration of the New Republic's naval support structure. The fact that a cruiser task force is sent out after Hera rather than to investigate is a sign of far, far too much undue influence of the Defense Council on military operations than is healthy. Also the fact that upon threat of Court Martial Hera's story is called ridiculous when.. You have three cruisers seeing hyperspacing whales jumping along and are told it's Jedi business defies the narrative. Again, there is likely immediate cause for conference of the Defense Council - but their reactions are wholly out of line. The necessity of a chain of command and adherence to civilian leadership is a virtually sacred duty. The review there is a failure of the Republic Admiralty to review the situation and in turn brief the council. Whether or not Thrawn is alive this is clearly a priority Jedi affair (which the Republic is almost automatically bound to support) involving immense military scale corruption within the planetary infrastructure. That's something that New Republic Intelligence should have put it's boot (or flipper) down on.

Xiono here is basically my country (Brazil's) stance towards the Ukrainian x Russian conflict: evading meaningful answers, minimizing the prospect of a war, both-sides-ism and lowkey simping for Russia (in Xiono's case, the Empire). Ironically enough in-universe Xiono's homeworld of Hosnian Prime is going to be obliterated further down the line but the very evil he helped pay no mind to.

When asked if he would had served in the war, he should’ve responded no the clones fought that and then the empire took over

I was simply baffled by him saying her report read like a fairy tale. Sheltered in the core worlds or not, he lives in STAR WARS. The galaxy is so absurd, things like space whales and false Jedi should be Tuesday to him.

A general shouldn’t need permission to go investigate the whereabouts of a known criminal who escaped by destroying everyone on a prison transport. Why would a defense counsel not approve that?

Look, if this were real I would agree that Xiono is playing politics and has nothing to do with any Imperial remnant. But this is Disney Star Wars. They don't really do "deep characters" and complicated motivations. It's nearly always skin deep, which means Xiono is likely a closet Imperial and probably worse.

I think Xiono is just a good situation of someone who takes their job very seriously if not too seriously. He wants to make sure corruption isn't getting into the New Republic (Even though it already has). I think he's gonna be a good guy that we have to win over to our side type of situation. Like after Thrawn appears on the New Republic radar, he will be more than willing to provide to keep the people safe. As well as eat his words, I think we just gotta give him time to understand the situation he's in (Thrawns Return).

Great Video!

Immediately called that he's an imperial simp or plant the moment he opened his mouth. While his concerns are valid, his immediate and absolute dismissal of new information and the way he treats Threepio, who's well implied by the entire council's reaction to Xiono calling him a "mere droid" to be a well known figure in the rebel alliance and essentially a war hero shows to me an almost irrational rush to bury the entire affair of Thrawn's possible return as quickly as possible, because unless the guy's been living under a rock I don't buy that he doesn't know who C-3PO is if he wanted to be any sort of intelligent politician. Also Hera's request wasn't exactly unreasonable. If the idea is to hunt down and stomp out Imperialist remnants, and they *know* some existed because Xiono himself even acknowledged Moff Gideon and the battle of Mandalor, even if he dismissed it as an "isolated incident", it proves the possibility that Imperial Remnants exist in the universe hidden from sight. Even if Hera lacked immediate evidence, why would she...herself a known Alliance hero and general for almost the entirety of its existence, not even be given the benefit of a doubt or at least some resources to make sure? He vehemently challenged even that since the beginning. His fast and absolute dedication to not even hearing out the hypothetical threat, and attempting to brush it under the rug as quickly as possible just screams to me of intentional political collusion to protect something. I wouldn't be surprised if he was instrumental in later ruining Leia Organa's reputation by bringing to light that Darth Vader was her father, and helping to politically keep the New Republic fractured and weak so the First Order could come in and do their thing. He's either totally an imperial sympathizer, a horrible politician, or a badly written character. We'll see which in time.

Empathy is one of the most powerful tools can have when encountering any type of situation. Learn as much as you can about the other individual and try to put yourself in their shoes, because once you figure out what their mindset is, you'll be able to better deal with them. Well said Alan, lesson of the month for me❤

Properly nuanced analysis man. Enjoying the content, keep it up!

Hera: 'Waited to see who came out on top?' SICK BURN!

i thought that was u in a wig at first on the thumbnail🤣🤣

The scene with hera speaking of Thrawns return in front of the senate and noone believing her was literally stolen from the original Thrawn trilogy. There, it is Han that tries to convince them and Borrsk Fey'lya plays the role (throughout the first two books) that Xiono does in Ahsoka.

Honestly the thing that bugs me the most about several of these videos is you treat it like he didn't start the personal attacks

gratz to the role, you killed it

Hes gotta be an imperial sympathizer. Theres no way he would be so adamant about stopping hera otherwise. Kudos to the actor.

He's either your typical unqualified politician who has a massive chip on his shoulder or he's an Imperial remnant agent. There's a good case for either or, loads of coincidence surrounding his family all being off world when Starkiller base blrw up a bunch of planets.

You do realize that Hera is the selfless one here, the same with Leia. They are not trying to start a war but do their jobs. If a war with Thrawn does happen, it will be the Senate's fault

Loved the nuance in this video. Great analysis.

He’s the Disney equivalent of Sen. Borsk Fey’lya from the books. Maneuvering to make his world dominant in the new galactic order by undermining Leia and Adm. Ackbar’s faction. They probably changed him to human to avoid the SFX budget for another hairy alien. His role on the books was to be the “with friends like these” antagonist.

Leia: Send this message to your father Kaz: Ma’am it just says go f yourself (Saw this meme on discord)

What bothered me the most about this exchange is she never told the council about the SSD hyperdrive that was illegally allocated to Morgan Elsbeth🤦🏽‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️ there's the prof right there... L😮‍💨

I cant understand why so many people are claiming Hera had no evidence? She literally caught an entire scrapyard full of imperial loyalists sending hyper drives off somewhere and put a tracker on an escaping ship leading to that system. It's like finding 5 mice in your kitchen you catch 4, the fifth runs off with paint on its feet leaving a trail to their nest and you just ignore it shrug your shoulders and pretend you didn't even catch the 4 mice currently in your hands.

Wasn't it heavily implied in Resistance that Sen. Xiono was a First Order simp, or at the very least part of that faction in the NR? I recall that scene with uh DJ in TLJ talking about the MIC being pretty applicable to him. This show further reinforces that by a ton. I think it was a great move to use that obscure unlikeable character here, making them even more so. He's totally undermining the NR on purpose.

He is a politician so all here care about is his election

💯 I love your super based takes so much. Everything gets divided into extremes these days, whereas most of us fall somewhere in the middle. Balance is key in everything. 💖

Well hello there my friend Allen❤

It's actually history kinda repeating itself believe it or not I think even Palpatine admitted himself that the majority of senators were too greedy or fearful of threats or certain situations that he didn't really need to influence the many senators in the Senate room, really at all Edit: Obviously it's a little different because Palpatine was leader of The Republic and later the Empire but Mon Mothma is currently the leader of The New Republic, though mistakes are being made and it's caused from multiple reasons not necessarily one person

I see Senator Xiono as somewhat in the the same vein as Poe and Admiral Holdo. I love Poe's Character, but his actions lead to the destruction of a very important battlegroup that can specifically destroy a Dreadnought. Due to his lack of planning the Resistance could not engage the Main Fleet with the Supremacy Star Destroyer. Hera sends a small task fleet to investigate Thrawn and got 2 pilots killed with little to show for it besides a minor report.

If you have ever seen a general in a senate hearing. They always speak with respect. Its part of military protocol..

My dude Allen is always gonna keep it real, even down to the title of the video, respect 🤣

People like Xiono are essential in a democratic government, even if he's wrong in this moment. Civilian control of the military and a reluctance to solve issues with military action are positives.

1:06 Actually, most government systems wouldn't be as bad as the New Republic. The NR is sinking under red tape mere years into their founding. Most regimes start out strong and proactive, and only rot with time. Like the Holy Roman Empire, which was a powerful empire during the early Middle Ages, but a dying husk by the time of Napoleon; they existed for about a thousand years. If the NR was any bit realistic, they'd help Hera Syndulla with her search, and only after several years of failure, turning up nothing, would they call off the search and tell her to get over Ezra's death. They would also start investigating those two Dark Jedi and those stolen SSD hyperdrives rather thoroughly, and would've approved of Hera taking a fleet to Seatos. Heck, the real-world USA would've probably thrown Hera all the support she needs. The Yanks have approved of riskier stuff than a glorified scout patrol looking for a lost war hero. This is why Xiono's resistance to Hera makes no bloody sense. There is literally nothing to lose for Xiono if he approved of Hera's mission from the start. If anything, with his world being a manufacturing world, even the false alarm of a war would get him money since his world could produce and sell military starships to sectors who might be scared of Thrawn's return. Instead, Xiono is just being an ass for the sake of being an ass, just like Borsk Fey'lya before him, making the New Republic worthless in the eyes of the viewers, just like it was in the NJO novels. All it does is show us that Thrawn taking over is probably for the best. If Thrawn wasn't going to cap off his victory by slaughtering the rebel heroes, his victory would've been seen as the best ending, and it probably could have saved the galaxy a lot of grief. Thrawn might've even turned against Palpatine when the old man comes back, given the fact that Palpatine went full-in on Stardust with his Xyston-class Star Destroyer Fleet, which Thrawn opposed back when the same concept was being put forth as the Death Star.

Senator Xiono is the doppelgänger of Generation Tech

Now I realised just that I am always so absorbed by your videos, that I forgot to give you likes!

If you don't want to allocate even a small but of recources to prevent/seek out threats that will literally destroy everything you've built im sorry but i would rather have Jar Jar over that type of person it really felt like he didn't like Hera tbh

Xiono I'm assuming is aligned with the Imperials, either that or is completely incompetent and/or in denial (makes me sad to hear he survived, one of the bright parts of this show for me was thinking "yup, he dies, bet he wishes he believed in the Imperial Remnant"). Mon Mothma (ever since the updated universe started happening, basically everything other than her appearance in RotJ) is a weak leader and in my opinion a bad one, she's more concerned about trying to placate people, you're never going to be able to make everyone happy. She doesn't have a backbone to do anything (or even have anything done) in Andor. Let us not forget that if she had been allowed to "lead" in Rogue 1 (Without the Rogue 1 crew and the general ignoring her and doing their own thing), the original death star either wouldn't have been destroyed or if it was would have happened much later because the plans wouldn't have been retrieved. Really most of what this show has revealed so far is that there is already corruption throughout the entire republic and the corrupt ones seem like the most competent, the others are mostly idiots who don't see (either deliberately or through their own stupidity) what is going on and absolutely don't want anyone to prove them wrong. Allen keeps talking about Hera having no facts but she should have some (ie the scans of the giant hyperspace ring, the fact that it was connected to the Imperial loyalists on corellia) but the show (and some of the politicians) just don't want to accept it, or Hera just isn't mentioning it. So either the people in the world are all evil or incompetent, or the writing of the show is poor, or a mix of both.

The video title is everything.

When they saved Coruscant, I do wish they had saved the New Republic too! Was the thing I had been the most excited to see, going into that film.

I think he’s the canon version of borosk falia, the bothon chancellor from legends

Xiono's reasoning was actually very good, and Hera really constantly tried to abuse her power and position being rebellion hero. In this small case New Republic is working as actual normal government, that can't blindly trust single general with no evidence and waste resources for mission that takes origin from rumors and intuition.

At first I thought it was a devils advocate situation. But then he took it personally😂😂

Because Borsk Fey'lya would have blown their SFX budget so they had to change him into a human.

Can someone explain why they didn’t have the coffins loaded up in the chimera already to go the instant Thrawns help showed up? He knew they were coming. The night mothers have force powers or magic so they should be able to open their own tombs and load up their 💩, why they have to have it sprawled all over the hanger instead of in an empty room(s) is beyond belief

Disney is lucky creators like you flesh out what to me felt like forced written conflict. Especially as it seemingly ended inconclusively thanks to a fan service moment, but again you helped make it barely believable. 😂

While we don't know much about Xiono's allegiance, I do think he was right in denying Hera's request. He is part of the Defense Council and has to decide where to assign the New Republic's ever diminishing fleet to (we've already seen in The Mandalorian that a single starfighter squadron is patrolling the Arkanis Sector, and that's around the same time as the Ahsoka series [we don't know if other squadrons or larger ships are actually out there patrolling that sector, but considering the context clues in The Mandalorian series, I'd say it's a good bet that there is no one else {how often did Din Djarin bump into Captain Carson despite the different planets they were on?}]). He has to allocate where the fleet needs to go, and sending these very important and dwindling number of ships on a wild goose chase wouldn't be very sensible for one in his position. Think about it, if you were told a person that disappeared to parts unknown years ago thanks to a magic space wizard and some giant space whales that could jump into hyperspace was returning, would you believe it? I know I'm sounding like I'm discrediting Thrawn's threat level, but how many (loyal) people in the New Republic are actually aware of him? Mon Mothma, Leia, Hera & her Ghost crew, and those who served in the early rebellion are the only ones I can think of that know he's a very real threat. Like Alan said, Thrawn disappeared pretty early on in the rebellion, and his accomplishments before that were not many for those in the Imperial Navy to log in (I'd say that was on purpose due to him being an alien from the Unknown Regions, Imperial sympathizers within the New Republic likely destroying any intel on the man probably helped too). Everyone being dismissive of Thrawn shouldn't be mocked in doing so. We the audience know what he's truly capable of because we've seen Rebels & read the books, but admittedly very precious few in the whole of the Star Wars galaxy do (and thanks to the efforts of those sympathizers, only those people would ever truly know). So yes, Xiono's decision in denying Hera's request was completely justifiable. Was it the wrong choice? Absolutely, but as they say: hindsight in 20-20.

What a lovely presentation of psychology within politics! Love it! And also affirms why I hate politics! lol

Alan did always give off pro imperial energy.

Even if hes an imperial agent hes kinda right. Hera didnt brought Them any proof of thrawn, acted without authorization anf clearly against her orders…

Xiono is the Star Wars Dolores Umbridge.

I don't respect a lot of KZfaqrs there's only one other but you're fast becoming the second I didn't think this was possible...

Do People dislike him because I don't dislike him. When You have characters like this it makes the show real.

I'm an old school Mando' fan, but Coruscant is by far my favourite planet in SW

Well, considering how Dave Filoni has kept people guessing, would it really be that obvious? I would say wait and see.

I was talking about this with a coworker the other day, about how stupid it is to have a senate committee with that much direct control over the military. I mean, in the US Government and US Military, you have the civilians that run everything; but, they can't really exert direct control over the miltary. Look back at WWII and each time Patton would do something stupid that caused a political mess. Congress never hauled him in to confront him. No, they griped to Roosevelt, then Roosevelt griped to Marshal, then Marshal went to Eisenhower and said "you should probably fire the guy." And then Eisenhower went to Patton and pretty much said "everyone wants me to fire you; but, it's my decision, don't f' up again." And as we were talking, it seems to be kind of a deliberate decisiion, to show that the New Republic is completely incompetent and has no way of managing anything.

I’m not sure if senator Xiono is just an ambitious politician using power for his own personal gain or a Empire Simp but Nelson Lee and Many Elizabeth Winstead are nailing the rolls of these two characters.

I think he is trying to play by the protocols. He's not letting his feelings for his friends circumvent what the rules are.

I like him he asks good questions and think in the future he will be very capable all ways questioning is a good trait for a democracy