The Mandalorian Ahsoka Grand Admiral Thrawn

If Filoni’d go to the effort of acknowledging Cobb Vanth and the books of Chuck Wendig, an author who seems to be on the outs with LFL and Disney, then I doubt he’d ignore the material of Tim Zahn, an author he really likes and who he gets on with. Plus he’s read at least the first canon Thrawn novel, so there’s that.

Now I don’t think that means he’d reroute the story he’s probably had in mind since Rebels, but I’m reasonably confident he’ll make some kind of acknowledgment to the new books.

 

I hope Timothy Zahn was invited on set for Thrawn's first scene being filmed.

 

I think Zhan will be somewhat involved with Thrawn again as first live action appearance, they won't touch his backstory, maybe give some hints.

 

They probably would invite him to set, provided no Covid stuff gets in the way.

 

Palpatine has access to everything in the Jedi Temple's archives.

He has the padawan braid that was ripped off Ahsoka's head in The Wrong Jedi. That thing had been bouncing around on her montrals for years. Inevitably, at the microscopic level, her DNA was all over it.

Enter Ahsooka.

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Oh no!

 

Palpatine also has access to sevral of Anakin's limbs and since Ahsoka being the main character, i could see her fighing an evil version of her former master.

 

I mean Hayden could be in this so not out of impossibility, and it could be great, in original script for the heir of the empire it would be Kenobiin instead of Luke i think. Like go crazy with now that you might do an adaptation of the trilogy and the whole Palpatine stuff.

 

it's gonna be Baarriss clones, Starkiller style

 

What if it's just sam witwer as starkiller, cloned from some random jedi.

 

Zhan is definitely the most overrated of the Star Wars authors.

 

Filoni and Favreau are self-proclaimed EU fans, especially the early EU stuff, so I'm not surprised they're reusing elements from it. If it is truly a reimagining of the Thrawn trilogy, it won't be a 100% adaption of course, plus it's a story that has already been told so there's no point in just adapting the books. We could see familiar locations, characters and similar story beats but also with new characters created in previous animated/live action series to keep it fresh and make us guessing what's going to happen. Will Thrawn die in this version? What will be the scope of the story? Will he attack the New Republic? etc.

 

I have a feeling Thrawn will live out his legends counterpart.

 

I think it fits if she meets her master as this evil force again before she sees him as force ghost.

 

Tom Hiddleston would make a good young-bodied clone Palps before the effects of Dark Side methface / accelerated ageing or whatever kick in.

 

Please. It's evil cloone.

But yeah...definitely "noo" not just "no".

 

And she's already confronted him.

 

Better yet, nuuuuuoooooo.

 

I think we see hints throughout Rebels that Ezra has a penchant for the dark side/moral ambiguity.

I can see a situation where Sabine and Ashoka rush to Ezra’s rescue only for him to reject them.

 

I don’t think Thrawn poses more of ideological challenge to Ezra’s belief system than Palpatine, and he flatly rejected Palpatine even when he was offering Ezra his heart’s desire. Hell, we even saw Ezra tell Thrawn where to go in that same episode.

So this notion that Thrawn, someone who admits to being ignorant of the Force and possessing a moral viewpoint that disgusts Ezra, would somehow be able to sway Ezra into joining military junta with plans for galactic conquest....yeah, it doesn’t feel truthful to either character.

 

It's Luke Skywalker conundrum all over again.
Well, he rejected Palpatine in RotJ, how come he is a delusional, depressed hobo in TLJ? He rejected the ultimate temptation! He didn't kill his dad, who was literally space hitler!
But then again, if you beat the Dark Side on Monday, it doesn't mean you are infallible and incorruptible for the rest of your life. As Lucas said, it's a constant struggle.
Ezra could go a little dark for the greater good. When you think about it, he rejected personal temptations - "rescuing" Kanan and his parents. But he could consider some options for what he sees/was convinced to see as the greater good for the Galaxy, without exactly knowing it would corrupt him, or without knowing he is being subtly manipulated. Big threat in the Unknown Regions? Nu-Vong? Grysk, is it? Reluctant alliance to save the Galaxy, for the greater good? Warfare can change him. He will have seen things. Ezra is pretty green at the moment. He never experienced war. He doesn't know how it can change one's nature. Sure, Yoda told him, but he decided to go to Malachor anyway, and it led to a disaster. Did he understand the lesson? Maybe not. He rejected personal temptation, with Ahsoka's help the first time, as she went through the same process herself, and on his own the second time. But rejecting personal temptation is not the same as rejecting the temptation to save trillions. Eh, who knows.
Ezra was gone for like a decade, wasn't he? Surely, something must have happened there. Surely, it affected him. He can't be space Aladdin from that cartoon show anymore. Like there aren't that many options for the story to go:
1. Ezra is dead - not happening;
2. Ezra is imprisoned, and he is an infallible Jedi, and 10 years of who knows what didn't affect him at all - not interesting;
3. Ezra joined Thrawn for reasons - potentially interesting.
I would definitely prefer option 3.

 

There's plenty of options for Ezra. He and Thrawn might have parted ways almost immediately. Maybe he's just travelling the Unknown Regions, helping various isolated communities against the fledgling First Order.

 

Even at his most disillusioned, Luke wasn’t actively helping his ideological enemy. He just ran away from the conflict and gave up fighting them.

With Ezra we’d go from seeing him denouncing the Empire and then actively helping them in the next story. That’s a logical and narrative leap that doesn’t make sense to me. And I think there are plenty of more interesting avenues to explore with the character rather than regression.

 

That all depends on if we get the Filoni Thrawn or the Zahn Thrawn. Zahn's Thrawn has attempted to recruit adversaries for his "other life" before. Filoni's Thrawn is apparently cold blooded evil. But Filoni's Thrawn in Rebels is entirely contextualized as the Emperor's Grand Admiral. There's no Chiss backstory.