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Punished_Blinx posted...

The point was that nobody did follow Maul just because he was still alive. He re-earned his place on his own after he lost by actually having a motivation, being a character and by manipulating the events and people around him.

Thrawn has been chilling on a planet after his defeat for several years while a growing faction of people have been sitting around apparently thinking that they'll wage war when this one dude who disappeared several years ago comes back.

Why? What can he accomplish or change now that he wasn't able to when the Empire was in power? What's inspiring about his leadership? Why would people who followed a literal Sith Lord politician who made himself an Emperor want Thrawn to be their new Emperor? Why isn't there a single person within the galaxy already available to do what apparently Thrawn will do when he comes back? He wouldn't even know the situation and circumstances of what he is returning to.

Yes Thrawn is basically a Saturday morning cartoon villain with no substance. That has been my point yes.

May as well make his following a bunch of faceless Ninjas called the Thrawn Clan so we never have to think about it.

This is the first exposure to this character for the majority of people. They could have used this opportunity to make it a big deal. To make people go "Oh shit this guy means business"

Can you honestly say they have done this?

They didnt have to do it here. They did it in a whole series of books and television. This is a sequel to those things. It is important for people to have internalized those earlier pieces of media. I am not sure what part about that continues to not be evident.

My point about the Saturday morning cartoon thing, as I think you know, is that the villains never win in these kind of adventure serials. You are treating Star Wars like this universe where it is important that people would hold everyone super accountable for failure when it is a universe where tacticians are defeated by flying space whales and our heroes are fighting zombie storm troopers. It is an adventure serial, and one where the legend of Thrawn has been a thing for literally decades.