No Smashing Pumpkins “Landslide”? No Muppets “Dancing in the Moonlight”?  ....ok that last one was good.

We will endlessly find excuses to avoid change right up until the last possible second has passed and consequences have arrived, and then throw a shitty temper tantrum on who is to blame followed by desperate whining for someone to fix it after the fact so we can get back to sportsball and rating hotties.

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It all comes down to demographics.

I thought there was a decent chance at the beginning of the series that they would travel to the other galaxy and find that Thrawn and Ezra have teamed up out of necessity and survival to fight a third, greater evil. It does make more narrative sense to me than “Ezra, Thrawn and an entire Star Destroyer of Imperials…

Really, it depends on how fast the super-hyperdrive Eye of Sion ship is compared to the travel of Purrgils making the same trip.

Some observations:

On a more serious note, the biggest threat that Thrawn poses to the New Republic is idealogical. The New Republic in Ahsoka’s timeframe is having a lot of teething pains, in which it is being portrayed as often incompetent, always stretched too thin, and filled with out of touch, short-sighted, and self-centered…

It’s interesting that Baylan Skoll seems to be a version of the “Grey Jedi” concept that quite a few fans have pushed for Stars Wars to explore.

Thrawn is the Sherlock Holmes of Imperial admirals. He’s excellent at reading his opponents and deducing from their history, culture, hobbies and major events what they’ll be likely to do and crush it before they even act. Sun Tzu’s most famous rules about warfare were Know Yourself and Know Your Enemy, and Thrawn is…

> The whole planet has a kind of From Software vibe going on.

I own a 2003 Honda Element with 205,000 miles on it. Drives a little rough, but with a little maintenance, will run forever with basically all the utility of a lockable 2000s Ford Ranger.

This Is The Empire - Childish Lando

It’s because the point of it all isn’t to blow shit up just for funsies. That’s the side benefit for the ten year-old inside of Elon. The point is to siphon off tens of billions of dollars in US government contracts.  And you can’t do that from Bum Fuck Equator island.

Some different possibilities:

That’s the beauty of Stand Your Ground. As long as there are no witnesses, and you’re the one left standing, you have every possible hope of skipping conviction based on a story you make up about what happened.

Probably due to the limits of having a kid actor.  Full prosthetics isn’t likely something that he could work with.

It’s almost like you could win a war against an all-powerful British Empire and still get stuck with a bunch of squabbling idiots afterwards with some Articles of Confederation.