Yes, this plan has several possible upsides, with only a few downsides.
The fight between Sabine and Ezra on one side, and Baylen&Apprentice on the other, will end with both on one side dead, and maybe one on the other side as well. Hell, they might all die. And whoever wins is stuck with the problem of how to get back to the SW galaxy after the fight. Will Ahsoka give Baylen et al. a lift? I think not, that just ends up in another fight. So only Ezra and Sabine might make it back, and maybe only one of them, and only if Ahsoka can actually find them without the guidance of Thrawn et al. That seems like good odds to me.
Besides, if Thrawn doesn’t send them all on this merry goose chase, what are Baylen, Sabine, et al. doing during the three days it takes to load all those mysterious boxes on Thrawn’s ship? Having bored pseudo Jedi laying about feels like a recipe for complications. Best to let them tire themselves out fighting each other someplace else.
Yeah, “these people” means our ragtag group of Rebels. Not people who choose not to watch … what, almost 15 seasons of animation? That’s a totally sensible thing for people to do. If you didn’t do that, I can’t imagine these characters are as compelling emotionally to them.
I don’t think Thrawn cared enough to find him. Killing him wouldn’t get him home, and it would probably cost him a significant amount of his remaining troops. Even when they found him he only cared enough to send a small number of troops, and the whole thing seemed mainly as a way to get rid of the Jedi that came with his rescue party than anything else. Sabine found him because Thrawn told her where to go.
Hmm, Klothow (refence to the Greek Fate Clotho) – one of the Great Mothers – was played by Claudia Black – so another Sci Fi series is connected to Stargate: SG1
I loved the aesthetics of the latest episode – the damaged but decorative Star Destroyer, the dirty, modified Stormtroopers (and especially their samurai-masked commander), the little turtle-aliens, the Great Mothers and their Dune-esque architecture. And I’m very interested in seeing what Baylan Skoll is actually trying to accomplish (and I’m still mourning the loss of Ray Stevenson!). Thrawn was fine, but I thought it was the world-building of this strange planet and how Thrawn’s forces have changed in the intervening years that were the stars of this episode.
I am guessing his plan is to try to somehow eradicate the Force. He wants to stop the cycle of the Jedi and Sith defeating each other and that would do it.
When they blasted off to the galaxy far, far away at the end of episode 5, I vaguely wondered if a whole other galaxy would be wildly alien for the characters - gravity reversed, Jedi can’t use the force but muggles can, time runs backwards, that kind of thing. It seemed like an opportunity to make something we’ve truly never seen before.
Then I had an even wilder thought - what if the galaxy far, far away was ours? And what if “a long time ago” was, say… about 2000 years ago? And they landed on a familiar blue-green planet. In the middle-east? And maybe people saw these mysterious characters with god-like powers, and you know, word got around…
That idea has been all over the random Facebook Star Wars pages that pop up in my feed. People trying to analyze the star maps, see if there are any familiar constellations, etc. I think Filini specifically said it’s not.
