What makes Grand Admiral Thrawn such an engaging Star Wars villain is his intellect. Thrawn doesn’t wield the Force. He’s tough but not an absolute brawler. He doesn’t seem to care much about pursuing vengeance, a line of thinking that often plagued Darth Vader’s career. Thrawn always plans five moves ahead of everyone in order to “control all variables,” as he so elegantly informs Morgan Elsbeth in Ahsoka’s penultimate episode, “Part Seven: Dreams and Madness.” He enjoys studying opponents and outflanking them to achieve his own ends, abilities that served him quite well in Star Wars Rebels and translate as successfully to live-action as Lars Mikkelsen’s performance.Fans have yet to see Thrawn pull anything quite as stunning as his maneuvers in Timothy Zahn’s original book trilogy. But if his strategy here is any indicator, Ahsoka Tano and Hera Syndulla are right to fear his return.The bulk of this episode is divided evenly among the main and supporting cast while delivering some much-hyped bonding sessions between long-lost friends. After catching a glimpse of his Last Jedi-esque exiled self, Eman Esfandi shines as an adult Ezra opposite Sabine. Their chemistry is spot-on, offering a slightly mature version of the duo’s Rebels siblings dynamic as they veer between complementing and taking potshots at each other with ease. On the flip side is a brief but touching, scene of Ahsoka training opposite a holo-recording of Clone Wars Anakin en route to Peridea with Huyang, listening to him namedrop Separatist villains she’ll one day fight (including the first live-action mention of Asajj Ventress) — as much a sign of sentimentality as it is Ahsoka holding onto the man she remembered Anakin as, rather than the Sith he eventually became.RELATED: Ahsoka Episode 6 Review: The Heir to the Empire Finally Returns
What makes Grand Admiral Thrawn such an engaging Star Wars villain is his intellect. Thrawn doesn’t wield the Force. He’s tough but not an absolute brawler. He doesn’t seem to care much about pursuing vengeance, a line of thinking that often plagued Darth Vader’s career. Thrawn always plans five moves ahead of everyone in order to “control all variables,” as he so elegantly informs Morgan Elsbeth in Ahsoka‘s penultimate episode, “Part Seven: Dreams and Madness.” He enjoys studying opponents and outflanking them to achieve his own ends, abilities that served him quite well in Star Wars Rebels and translate as successfully to live-action as Lars Mikkelsen’s performance.
Fans have yet to see Thrawn pull anything quite as stunning as his maneuvers in Timothy Zahn’s original book trilogy. But if his strategy here is any indicator, Ahsoka Tano and Hera Syndulla are right to fear his return.
The bulk of this episode is divided evenly among the main and supporting cast while delivering some much-hyped bonding sessions between long-lost friends. After catching a glimpse of his Last Jedi-esque exiled self, Eman Esfandi shines as an adult Ezra opposite Sabine. Their chemistry is spot-on, offering a slightly mature version of the duo’s Rebels siblings dynamic as they veer between complementing and taking potshots at each other with ease. On the flip side is a brief but touching, scene of Ahsoka training opposite a holo-recording of Clone Wars Anakin en route to Peridea with Huyang, listening to him namedrop Separatist villains she’ll one day fight (including the first live-action mention of Asajj Ventress) — as much a sign of sentimentality as it is Ahsoka holding onto the man she remembered Anakin as, rather than the Sith he eventually became.
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