Gosh darn it, it’s not that hard - just move the universe forward a couple decades (or more), do some worldbuilding to create a new status quo with new characters, and just do a new trilogy! Stop trying to fill gaps in what already exists, stop trying to milk nostalgia, just do something new and slot in familiar…

It’s like my mom always used to tell me: “The biggest appeal of Star Wars is the tertiary characters who have less than ten minutes of screen time”

He’s a genius but it was a bad idea. So was the Boba Fett films , a Solo film (got made and I actually liked it), a Lando film, Rogue Squadron, etc. Stuck to a plan, stop with the haphazard film.

Honestly, as a Rebels fan, I didn’t even get a huge payoff. Because in the Rebels finale, we knew that Ezra was taking Thrawn away somewhere and that they’d eventually be back. I didn’t expect the full season to be about Ahsoka training Sabine, tracking down rogue not-Sith, and then going to another galaxy or…

Having to watch 5 episodes of two different shows for context just increases the number of people who have no clue what they're watching 

I don’t need my hand held like that necessarily — asking people to watch ancillary content to understand the show they’re watching is a step too far in my opinion anyway — but a 10s name drop or 30s of “have you ever heard of the Mortis whatever, Hati? they blah blah“ would have gone a long way here

I have a friend who has been watching Ahsoka and has seen all of the movies and the live action shows, but none of the animated shows. I’ve seen everything, but I haven’t seen The Clone Wars or Rebels in a while and there are a lot of details about both I’ve forgotten.

Would have been great if any of this had been revealed or even hinted at for the whopping great majority of us who didn’t happen to catch 3 episodes of a 15 year old kids’ show

It would have been nice if they were introducing this Triad, ie the Mortis stuff, for them to, you know, MENTION it.

As an introduction to “the Triad” this was terrible though. Most viewers will have no idea what those statues were, and the show didnt bother to tell you.

I’m sorry but this was mostly....pretty bad. The high points have to be the actors playing baylon and shin (what little they have to work with) and also hayden christensen out here somehow out-acting everyone for what is essentially context or cameo work. In no particular order:

The greatest shame of that finale is that we KNOW that Ray Stevenson was supposed to have an amazing arc in the storyline, and now we’ll never get to see the best actor of the series run the course.

Maybe Filoni has been spending too much time with JJ and has been influenced by his love of the “mystery box” with an unsatisfying resolution years later.

this is my biggest issue with especially the last two episodes. They feel like 80% theatrics and 20% substance. “Saying screw logic, I want to do cool stuff”

The whole season pretty much was very disappointed. Makes me wish the lead character was Baylon and not the Dawson.

Great visuals, very cool lighsaber-magick sword fight scenes, but almost intelligence-insulting story-telling:

Ezra stole a ship and flew to meet up with the New Republic forces (kinda sad that Hera didn’t give him a hug?)

So where was Baylon Skoll, and what was he looking at, another Jedi temple off in the distance?

“we’ve destroyed their only means to fly, so they are sitting ducks, it’s time to finish them.... With a ground assault.”

Fuck this, Prestige Streaming series that take 2 years to produce shouldn’t have an end of the season cliffhanger.... This make all of the time watching the show feel like a waste. I don’t mind Thrawn not being wrapped up but they could’ve gotten all the main characters in one fucking place. I wouldn’t mind the Thrawn…