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Ohh, don’t let his gentle voice and calm demeanor fool you; the man will think strategic circles around you if you’re not on your toes! 😲

If Donald Trump had Grand Admiral Thrawn’s character, intelligence and charisma, we might ALL be MAGA supporters!

Too bad Disney will make him generic evil villain that will lose due to his stupidity

Its a damn shame that this Thrawn was not in Ahsoka. Instead we got a Thrawn who willingly sacrifices men who served him in isolation for a decade for no reason at all.

this very video convinced me to buy the thrawn novel within 5 minutes.

Dave Filoni should be forced to watch this at least five times.

Hot take this Thrawn is better than legends Thrawn.

If there were only ten of Mitth'raw'nuruodos sort here, this world would be so much more interesting.

Thrawn has never been defeated because of a mistake, because he doesn't make one, he was defeated because of unpredictable parameters (the Force, an overly proud and presumptuous officer, unexpected enemy reinforcements, ....)

He's about the only Star Wars character that I have any respect for. I actually wish I could have had a mentor like him in my life. He saw the potential in his subordinates, even if they were unique, and nurtured and supported them. It's a very rare trait these days

Thrawn was done so dirty, not by writers but just the nature of the Star Wars universe. Imagine being arguably the best military strategist alive, working your ass off to master the art of war and serve your cause, consistently outsmarting every enemy in your path until you are just inches away from total victory, only to be completely destroyed at the last second by some 17 year old with space magic bullshit not once, but TWICE. Shit Thrawn’s experience is a cakewalk compared to the non-force wielders in the old republic days, where genius strategy and skill were just made obsolete at random points by some fucker in a reaper mask eating you and the entire planet you’re on. The force is fucking wild man, never wanna live in the SW universe.

I love how Vanto's "wild space accent" just means he has a Southern accent 😂

"You served too long under Lord Vader, Captain. I Have no qualms about accepting a useful idea merely because it wasn't my own. My position and ego are not at stake here" . - Thrawn.

i think there will be some backlash if thrawn does not fight the grysk/abeloth, bc many thrawn fans want the grysk war and not an adaption of his og trilogy...

My personal favourite outcome of the Ahsoka series would be that Thrawn invades the New republic, besieges its capital, forces a peace treaty, and then takes some of the galaxy near the Chiss Ascendancy and sets about creating the empire of the hand from legends, canon remains intact with the republic holding most of the known galaxy and thus the first order war goes ahead, we know that Thrawn will not vanquish the new republic because it is the dominant galactic government at the start of movie 7, but that doesn't mean that he can't create a small, well controlled and efficient nation near the Ascendancy to function as a shield for it, He is going to be angry when he hears that the death star, supposedly purely a weapon of terror, was used on a civilian world, he will be even more enraged when he hears about starkiller base, on the whole I can easily imagine him not taking sides in the first order war and simply waiting it out, this leaves the canon timeline intact and allows for Thrawn to be victorious, achieve his true goal, remaining true to the character and creates a new faction that will allow for more TV series and movies in the future, while also satisfying the numerous Thrawn fans, I see no reason for Disney not to do this.

"all life is valuable and I resist the thought of standing by and watching 200 possibly needless deaths" I am surprised this isn't here.

This is why Thrawn is my favourite character.

Thrawn might be the Empire's best; but he's still backing Palpatine's Empire. It's like trying to whitewash Rommel; sure he wasn't as bad as someone like Goibles, but he still fought for Hitler. Heck, he even opposed Hitler on many cruelties and war crimes; which is more than we can say Thrawn did with old Palps. Thrawn is evil by association.

I love Thrawn so much, he's an amazing and brilliantly intelligent villain.

But I dont want to watch Ahsoka Tampon.

Thrawn's plan was to wait for Palpatine to die, to eventually replace him and make the empire great.

I would to see Thrawn defeat the Republic and then see and epic conflict between him and a returning Sidious.

Thrawn is not evil. He is better than the Emperor and the Republic. And only he can deal with the Yuuzhan Vong.

Read the books! He isn't empire man)))) He is a double agent of Chiss Assendency to seek ally to fight Greesks. He offer Night Swan to go to his homeland coz see his potential and skiils, and worth for his kind. Not to die from empereal fools. He transfer some technologies by his Grand-admiral status and secret chanells to Chiss. And peoples who can be usefull to his nation. And for that Wulf Yularen once even try to arrest him))) But Thrawn's authority in Yularen's eyaes was to hight to execute this. And Thrawn not hiding it if he was cauth on hot. Even when Vader tell him about it))))

I bought and read the Thrawn Trilogy. It's excellent. A Thrawn empire would certainly be better then the new republic. The man isn't evil, he's a genius who only wishes good and security for everyone. In the books, he wished well to even his cunning none evil enemies.

Marc Thompson is such a legend.

to kill the great devil he become a devil himself to deceive all side and kill the great devil

the only hope for thrawn fighting the grysk is this, he had said gamble the fate of the galaxy and security of the galaxy.... i dont think dave would have done that without purpose.....

Thrawn is inherently good but is corrupted thanks to Palpatine like anikin

Thrown is possibly my favorite character in all of fiction

Thank you for this post. The Star Wars Rebels portrayal is the Lucas 2-dimensional character template. The novels give Thrawn (and even Tarkin) a more 3-dimensional point of view, not the cartoonish 2-D Lucas stuff. Everyone is the hero of the story in their own mind, usually acting on what they think is the right thing to do. The tragedy is when someone who is trying to do what's right actually does something horribly wrong or is forced to compromised.

As if any of this matters to the people making Ahsoka. This video was uploaded before its last episode, but after watching it I'd say Ahsoka's Thrawn is one of the stupidest people in the SW galaxy, I wouldn't be surprised if General Hux was his pupil.

Thrawn is evil in the same way a military general in the german army is evil He was not the one who pushed the politics or ideology of the nazi regime, he was the one who carved a war path to allow that ideology to spread. Thrawn is evil.

"What do you think about Governor Pryce's theory about the Rebel operatives known as the Spectre's?" Tarkin asked "These Rebels fought the gang leader known as Cottonmouth in Harlem alongside the vigilante known as Luke Cage. These actions speak to a larger goal and plan that will catch Imperial forces off guard. The Rebels are purposely using criminal operations to mask their plans and considering how powerful the criminal network surrounding the nightclub known as Harlem's Paradise has become...the Rebels have no choice but to move on to their next target. A target which the pirate Hondo Onaka knows quite a lot about. I believe their next target is at Rand Enterprises in the Chinatown section of Hell's Kitchen/Lothal. The technology being developed at Rand will strengthen the Rebel weapons arsenal much more than the Mandalorian weapons they attempted to steal from Cornell Stokes. We shall start our pursuit of them at Rand Enterprises so that way their next offensive will not interfere with the Emperor's plans. I will pull apart this Rebel operation piece by piece so that the Rebels will be the architects of their own destruction." Grand Admiral Thrawn answered with a slight grin

so this is why there was no character development or any explanation or setup for any of the characters in Ashoka - it was (as he said in an interview) Season 5 of Rebels

I always saw Thrawn as a Sherlock Holmes like character.

13:26 Oh damn, this whole excerpt was very relevant to me. As a man plagued by regrets and what-ifs, I'm glad to have heard it.

That's good stuff. I was surprised how little Thrawn (the real one from the books) was discussed, and how misrepresented he was in Ashoka

Thrawn is not evil, and if he were he’d be the lesser evil.

Lessons of leadership

Man I really wished for the Thrawn theme to be part of the audiobooks, it would make such a nice ambiance.

They kinda ruined him in Ashoka 😂

It seems that all characters depicted as not entirely evil have the same weakness : believing that the end justifies the means. But believing this twists yourself, and at the end, you'll become yourself an opponent to that end. I see no example (in my real life experience) of someone justifying the means by the end and who has not been twisted by that. I being no exception.

In a sense, he is the perfect Machiavellian Prince.

The use of Thrawn’s theme makes this too good.

I love the thrawn theme music

My parents were asking me about Thrawn. I told them that the thing that makes him stand out is that he’s a reasonable man.

The lee Kuan yew of the empire

Vanto having the thickest country accent ive ever heard had me rolling. Fucking Brilliant lol

Still thinking about when he had to wear a disguise and his choice was the most ridiculous funky sunglasses he could find. I want him to wear his shades in live action SO BAD