Its not that the sequel trilogy depicted as instant per se, its that the sequel trilogy decided that time and space (distance/where things are...not literally space itself) were worthless concepts and got rid of them entirely. Everything in those movies happens now.

Couple of things to note and to take into consideration. (Note: not saying you’re wrong, but perhaps not quite as bad as you might think)

Largely I imagine this has to deal with satellites and components (particularly com satellites) don’t really fall under ITAR anymore since a lot of that is no longer classified as munitions (yes satellites were classified as munitions). Launch vehicles still are under ITAR. So working on Superheavy/Falcon would still…

There’s no time here for a detailed backstory. It’s full speed ahead from the very first second. But was that a mistake?

The only thing I’ll disagree slightly on is that Children being about the next generation. Admittedly I say this knowing the next book, God Emperor, jumps thousands of years into the future so we never really see the next generation do anything but...Children feels less like its exploring the next generation, and more…

Messiah is very much the end of Paul as protagonist. Though while Children is not as good as Messiah, I do think it serves well as the epilogue to Paul’s story.

They couldn’t make “Cowboy Bebop” work. No way is “One Piece” gonna be the miracle.

Hi, I have a bridge to sell you.

You fail to realize that the map was opened by Sabine and not by the witch.

1st. Hundreds of years old is not that long in star wars so asking who made the map and it’s purpose is a valid question especially when the map was elaborately hidden and was encrypted and the reader was on a different planet.

It is specifically referred to as a map to Thrawn in the episodes.

That’s a super good point about the force bringing this together and I’m willing to buy that, I just wish there had been some mention of that in some subtle way in this particular context.

Are you not a little thrown off that of all the galaxies in the universe, the purgills just so happened to take Thrawn to one so far and unknown but it just so happened to have a map that only his right hand person could just so happen to decipher?

It is a map specifically about the location of Thrawn, not about how to get to another galaxy.

So lets take a moment look at what we know.

Someone would have had to place it there purposefully in the past which makes no damn sense when the thing the map is about is something new

Who makes these maps? What is the purpose? The implication in this episode is that Thrawn has been banished or exiled—but if that’s the case, why go through all the trouble of making a map, hiding it in this elaborate puzzle, telling an old friend where it is, etc.? Reader, I hate the map thing and hopefully it gets…

I feel sorry for all of you. Elon Musk is showing you what hopeless addicts you are, and all you can do is kiss his ass for another fix.

Hard to say until the update comes out, but I’m surprised your friends said it was “really good”.

Infuriatingly, there’s a much better system that could have been used: use the dice rolls to determine whether you see the interesting choices.