# Star Wars Rebels season 3: Thrawn is now canon **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087 "2016-07-16T23:56:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2016, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/1 "2016-07-16T23:56:29Z")
A trailer for the third season of Star Wars Rebels just hit YouTube and everyone’s favourite expanded universe villain appears to be the main bad guy. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xmXp802sFgQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Star Wars Rebels Season Three Trailer (Official)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmXp802sFgQ) Seems to be like his book counterpart; cold and calculating. Makes me wonder if Disney is pulling a “Marvel” with the Star Wars canon and taking some of the best characters from the EU and implementing them in new ways. Maybe we’ll see Mara Jade on the big screen someday. Maybe she’s Rey’s mom? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/2 "2016-07-17T00:40:24Z")
I would like to see Mara Jade, gotta admit. I’d be cautious thinking that Thrawn connects the old books to the Disney-SW-verse. Take it as someone we know but hasn’t done anything yet. Still, great news and great villain. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/3 "2016-07-17T00:46:13Z")
There’s really nothing new about this. The old EU was branded “legends” in order to suggest that it can be heavily mined and included in the canon (which is how it’s always been, TBH). ---
**Author:** ![magnusblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@magnusblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magnusblitz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/4 "2016-07-17T06:16:57Z")
Awesome to see Thrawn back, he was always a great character. Always pictured him with a deeper voice, though. Mara Jade would be another good one to bring back, though part of what made her interesting was her relationship with Luke. Of course they could put that all back in (lots of time between ROTJ and TFA) but it’d be a lot of backstory that’s easier when it’s just “Luke stayed a bachelor and was a new Yoda.” Or they could just do it as a “lost love” type romance. I’ll continue to hold out for the return of Kyle Katarn. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/5 "2016-12-10T17:15:27Z")
Bump time. I’ve been really enjoying this season. Thrawn is an interesting adversary, allowing them to escape with things they need just to gain more information on them. And today’s episode, S03E11 had me geeking the fuck out. I’ve enjoyed the Maul episodes and I really liked the Night Sisters and Mother Talzin in SW:CW\*. This one just had so many cool little elements and I especially enjoyed that Sabine got an item at the end. 😃 - I always loved the ‘repeat everything she says, or maybe not quite what she said, in a super deep voice a fraction of a second later’ bit with Mother Talzin. In fact, I’ve created Mother Dreadful, a Dread Hag, ruler of the Hag Lands and one of Lamashtu’s 7 for a Pathfinder setting I’m creating, based partly on this character (and a couple of others). ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2016, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/6 "2016-12-11T00:05:01Z")
> [@Jonathan\_Chance](#): > > I’d be cautious thinking that Thrawn connects the old books to the Disney-SW-verse. Based on the kid Han and Leia had in Ep7 vs the kids they had in the old books, they’re clearly not connected, at least not directly. but it’s still nice that one of the best villains of the old EU has survived into the new one. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/7 "2017-03-29T14:58:33Z")
Bump time. I’ve watched bits and pieces over the season - I’ll have to wait for the BD to actually watch the series - but I was particularly disappointed with the clips I’ve seen of the finale. It just wasn’t even a shadow on the Season 2 finale. I mean, they get captured and they escape? That’s it? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2017, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/8 "2017-03-29T15:27:36Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Bump time. I’ve watched bits and pieces over the season - I’ll have to wait for the BD to actually watch the series - but I was particularly disappointed with the clips I’ve seen of the finale. It just wasn’t even a shadow on the Season 2 finale. I mean, they get captured and they escape? That’s it? Yes, I thought that the battle aspects of the final two episodes were really, really badly done. To quote The Ugly, “When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk!” ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/9 "2017-03-30T03:40:19Z")
I just finished watching the 2-part finale for the 5th time. I really like it. Only 3 ships escape (Ghost, Blockade Runner, Hammerhead) out of close to a dozen. There were at least 5 blockade runners, only one got away. They lost the carrier, all 3 of General Dodanna’s frigates, one of two hammer heads, all of the cargo ships, almost all of their fighters. I wouldn’t say ‘escaping after 90% losses’ was an easy victory. Or a victory. I also thought at the beginning they were starting four years before A New Hope. Which would put that movie at the end of next season. 🆒🆒:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2017, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-rebels-season-3-thrawn-is-now-canon/760087/10 "2017-03-30T06:13:08Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > I also thought at the beginning they were starting four years before A New Hope. Which would put that movie at the end of next season. 🆒🆒:D:D:D And, of course, there are several Rebels references in “Rogue One.” 😃