Yeah Thrawn though...
It's almost not
exactly how I would have imagined him, but actually much better. Like going back to when I read Heir to the Empire, it's pretty much what I was reading coming off the page. The way he looked, sounded, the way he acted and all the things he did was EXACTLY what I thought it would be before I knew what it could be.
Additionally:
As much as I would love to have it my way and have the new series take place in the Classic Era, if they went with a Sabine/Ahsoka team up series in a Post-ROTJ/Pre-TFA era, I'd definitely watch and thoroughly enjoy, mostly because those two characters are probably two of the better characters from BOTH series. I could easily see them carrying a series. Alas, who knows. I gotta imagine they would come with a new cast of characters in some form or fashion like they did for Rebels from Clone Wars and have some characters from the previous series bleed in and guest star from time to time.
Also, now it could possibly seem an entire Heir to the Empire-lite series can actually still happen now. Thrawn's absence in the GCW now makes sense. He could return in a post-Shattered Empire/Aftermath era like he did in the Zahn trilogy. And maybe other Legends characters could follow #crossesfingers
Something else a lot of folks I don't think caught on to, even from Star Wars Explained and other reviews, is about the Purrgils. You SS might not have minded them so much, but there was a lot of blowback online from them being used more or less as a lazy plot device and stretching credibility. And I see what they mean. After they jumped while holding on to Thrawn, I have to imagine that going into a vacuum, detectors on board the Star Destroyer would sense this and the windows would automatically be covered with durasteel, which I suppose would amputate the tentacles, freeing Thrawn... But more than that, something else they didn't pick up was that the Purrgils don't HAVE hyperdrive in their internal organs, but they actually are the source of the technology itself! After they were discovered, sentient beings reverse-engineered their ability to enter in a pocket-dimension and created the technology on their biology. But I do like how like almost no episode was just "filler" episodes from the series. Even the stuff we thought was just throwaway stuff played back into it. Like with the Mortis Gods.
Hopefully, by the next series we can see MORE Legends characters brought over to Canon. STILL patiently waiting for Revan, Exar Kun, Ulic Qel-Droma, Dash Rendar, Xizor, Kyle Katarn, C'Boath, Mara Jade(though those latter few might be a little problematic for continunity).
Looking forward to what Filoni comes up with next!
