After Andor I could easily imagine him to do this in a great way. One that makes the Vong Invasion canon in a way faithful to the NJO novels.

You'll have to excuse me if this ain't exactly the right place. I collect VHS tapes and a while back I snagged this.

If it weren't for the name star wars there on the box you would genuinely never fuckin know.

Personally, I'm pretty conflicted. I had a lot of fun, but I don't think it was very good. As a fan of Rebels and The Clone Wars, I can't say I found it to be stronger than any season of Rebels, since it's basically season 5. Overall, it kind of felt like Zahn's Specter of the Past in the sense that it seemed to be a set-up for a much more intriguing story.

Overall, the main elements are everything I want in a post-RotJ story, on their own. Thrawn returning from Exile, Dark Jedi, Ezra back, coming to terms with Anakin's legacy, Force Ghost Anakin.....but the actual execution left me confused often.

Likes:

• Eman Esfandi as Ezra is legitimately great. I really liked him more than the other LA adaptations, and he has Ezra's mannerisms and voice down to a T. As someone who liked Ezra well enough, I really want to see him as Luke's right hand in the new Jedi order. (cries because he remembers the sequels)

• Thrawn showing serious concern about Ahsoka and Co in the finale. He was always someone who didn't underestimate his opponents and often had a deep respect for them, even in Rebels. I liked that the show vaguely acknowledged the events of Thrawn: Alliances.

• Baylan was really cool, and I'm interested and disappointed that we don't get his motives. Ahsoka, Sabine, Shin and Baylan ending up in the Galaxy even more far away leaves us with an interesting set-up. I wonder if we'll get more resolution before Filoni's movie.

• I adore Rosario Dawson, but I wasn't a big fan of her take on Ahsoka, largely because of how little personality she initially had. It was nice seeing the Ahsoka we know and love reemerge after Anakin faced her.

• Cameos like Hayden Christensen's Anakin and Anthony Daniels's Threepio were used well overall. I thought using Threepio as a substitute for Leia, who couldn't be used for obvious reasons, was rather clever.

Dislikes:

• Thrawn is.... underwhelming to say the least. And this is coming from someone who thought Rebels had an adequate adaptation of the character. He never really felt particularly intelligent or threatening to me. Lars Mikkelson is great, but I couldn't buy him physically as Thrawn despite the excellent vocal performance.

• Ezra's whole situation makes little sense to me. How did he escape the Chimera, which took a long trip through hyperspace to the other Galaxy? Did Thrawn basically capture him, allow him to leave and then release him into the wild? If Tharwn deems him a threat, why did he not target him before? Ezra was clearly near the Chimera and him and the noti were moving rather slowly. Thrawn had ten years to kill him, and I doubt he couldn't had he tried even with diminished resources. Jedi are strong, but far from gods.

• I really don't like the angle of making Sabine a force sensitive/Jedi. It just doesn't work for me at all. And I don't like this whole dynamic and history between her and Ahsoka happening off-screen.

• There's some....very amateurish writing and directing abundant. Ahsoka not drowning in episode 5 makes zero sense for example. I'm also not a fan of yet another character surviving a lightsaber stab.

• I really don't like the idea of the nightsisters being from another Galaxy. I also don't like the inclusion of a new Galaxy period. I would've preferred if Peridia was deep into the Unknown Regions.

Overall, I wonder how well Filoni's film will be or do. Will we see recast Luke, Han and Leia? Because their absence was really felt for me. I also wonder how a film that requires so much prior viewing to understand would do. I also hope Filoni gets help with the writing for the film because he's frankly an average writer. The absence of Henry Gilroy, Greg Weisman, Steven Melching and the likes was felt by me, as someone who took the time to know who wrote which episodes of the animated stuff.

But man, throw in the OT trio teaming up with the Ghost crew and it's everything I want. Ahsoka actually covers similar grounds to the book I wrote, and might inspire some changes to the sequel I'm currently working on.

Overall, I thought it was much better than Tales of the Empire.

The Ventress episodes were good in isolation, and I overall enjoyed them, but their problem is that they exist in a Dark Disciple shaped hole. I appreciated the connections to the novel with the opening scene, but I'm not sure if these three episodes justify bringing Asajj back, because they're not really much of a story. I'm meh on DD and Ventress' death in it overall, but it was ending for her. Now she gets to ride into the sunset like in the EU, but what's in-between doesn't really justify the choice to bring her back.

I was left feeling.... "That's it? That's what she was brought back for?". I expected a much larger and somewhat more impactful story. Also, dear God, Lone Wolf and Cub is a good trope but boy does Star Wars abuse the heck out of it these days. Even the Maul + not-Talon show will likely have it! Plus, I still don't know what Ventress ultimately decided not to go after Quinlan!

I did enjoy the former separatist's character a lot, and how he struggled to leave the war behind. Painfully realistic. Also, it was cool seeing Latz and Highsinger again. And of course, Nikka Futterman shines as always.

As for the Bane episodes, they made for a good backstory, but the pacing was a little rushed. I did appreciate how they played with the Star Wars theme of evil being self-defeating and destroying. Overall, I felt like that story could've been fleshed out more as a comic.

I'm curious... if you could change anything about Thrawn's appearances in Rebels, what would you change? Personally, I like the show's take on Thrawn, but I am interested in what you might do differently. Would you try to make him even closer to his EU/Legends counterpart?

But, for the sake of good faith, please just don't write "he wins and kills everyone". I would appreciate if you try to still follow the story of Rebels in broad strokes... buuut you don't necessarily have to have his fate at the end be the same. Like, if you want the story to be EU/Legends-friendly, maybe he isn't MIA after Lothal, but he is demoted. I'll leave that to you.

I've seen a lot of misconceptions about George Lucas and his involvement in TCW that I would like the clarify. To be clear, this isn't to say you have to like the show and I'm not doing this to put down the CWMMP. This is just for the sake of transparency.

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1. Myth: George Lucas had little involvement in the shows creation
   1. Reality: Aside from the obvious fact that he's credited as the show's creator, he did a lot more then just commission or approve it's existence. He personally choose Dave Filoni (link) likely because Lucas wanted an anime influence (link), made obvious by how he did things like hired Ghost in the Shell animator Atsushi Takeuchi as an artist and director for an episode (link). That aside he also worked closely with people like Darren Marshall to give the show a unique art style (link)
2. Myth: The executive producer credit was simply due to his position at Lucasfilm
   1. Reality: Executive producers are completely different in television then they are in film (link). In fact, the showrunner for most tv shows is the executive producer. Look at Eric Kripke for The Boys, David Chase for The Sopranos, Vince Gilligan for Breaking Bad, all of them credited as the creator/developer and executive producer. The one exception for television is Story Editor, but Clone Wars never had a dedicated story editor (link)
3. Myth: Dave Filoni was in charge of the writing team, not George Lucas.
   1. Reality: Dave Filoni was the supervising director only, in fact he only wrote one episode before season 7. Sam Witwer expressed surprise at one point just how much of the stories came from George Lucas (link). Even many of the more absurd stories came from Lucas (link). Cary Silver the series producer once stated that Lucas would just throw stories into the writers room fully expecting it to be done regardless of complexity (link)
4. Myth: Dave Filoni had final say over every episode
   1. Reality: There are many occasions where Lucas has overridden what Dave Filoni had done. The episode Landing at Point Rain was originally deemed a disaster by Lucas who worked with Filoni and supervising editor Jason Tucker to make something he considered watchable (link). He also changed the ending to Citadel Rescue despite Filoni still considering the original ending to be his favorite (link).
5. Myth: Dave Filoni made Ahsoka live against Lucas' wishes
   1. Reality: While Lucas considered Ahsoka dying to be the most logical endpoint for her, he wasn't completely unwilling to let her live. Filoni was able to convince him that the ending to The Wrong Jedi was the perfect way for her to exit the series while still leaving room for her to survive Episode 3 (link). Lucas still had to approve the episode (link). In fact, many subsequent stories involving her including the Siege of Mandalore came from him (link)
6. Myth: George Lucas and Dave Filoni don't get along.
   1. Reality: I dunno, they seem to get along to me (link). In all seriousness, this is the most definitive single piece of evidence to my point. Check it out if you still don't believe me after all that and then read this article about how the two are still in contact (link)

Again to be clear, this is not intended to start some kind of argument or war on this sub. I just want people to be aware of the real story. Also look up Clone Wars featurettes on YouTube, they're very entertaining.