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Star Wars Rebels Season Three (spoilers)

The Wormhole said:
Meh, I thought the Thrawn trilogy overdid it anyway with him being able to formulate victory strategies by studying artwork. But whatever, that's the character fandom fell in love with, and that scene seems perfectly in line with what was in the trilogy to me.
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Precisely so. What made Thrawn who Thrawn was was perfectly on display, for good or ill.
 
The Wormhole said:
Meh, I thought the Thrawn trilogy overdid it anyway with him being able to formulate victory strategies by studying artwork. But whatever, that's the character fandom fell in love with, and that scene seems perfectly in line with what was in the trilogy to me.
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He didn't analyze things about individual people based on a painting though, and this painting (presumably) wasn't created by Hera, so it doesn't say anything about her personally anyway. Its the kind of over the top exaggeration of a character trait that saturday morning style cartoons count as "characterization".
 
Or, more generously, it is a short hand way of showing his specific skills that cannot be expounded upon page after page like in a book. More of a concession to the limits of the medium, I would be inclined to say.
 
It seems more like he was studying Ryloth and the local resistance leaser, when he found this painting and because Thrawn is Thrawn was able to recognized Hera from it easily, while the local Imperial officer probably thinks they all look alike.
 
Yeah, I thought it was just that he was able to recognize Hera and her father, not that he did some deep analysis.
 
Thrawn is classy and shows it.

He lets them get away because he is specifically testing their reactions to things so he can better deal with them when he has the larger Rebellion in front of his fleet. As he said, they earned their victory. He loses a few troopers, some equipment from the local commander, Hera and her family lose their estate and some heritage items. Thrawn gains insight into how Hera fights and thinks. Know thy enemy.

He also got the drop on Ezra, which was nice to see.
 
Mikkelsen was more effectively menacing as Thrawn this time than I thought he was the last time. And it's always nice to get a Hera focus.

Why can't they make up their minds how "Twi'lek" is pronounced? The Twi'lek woman said it like "Twee-lek," but Thrawn said it like "twilight." He also mispronounced Hera's name. You'd think someone so dedicated to knowing his enemies' culture and psychology would have a better handle on their languages.

By the way, I've just noticed something about Imperial uniforms, both here and in the Rogue One trailer. They have what look like pens in little pockets just under the shoulders on both sides, which I initially thought was an interesting design touch in Thrawn's uniform, but now I realize that all the officers have them, and the ones of higher rank have more. Like, the captain here had just one "pen" on the left shoulder, most admirals have one on each side, and Grand Admiral Thrawn has two on each side. So are those actually some kind of rank sigils, like the equivalent of epaulets? They do look a lot like the tops of pens. And now that I've finally noticed them for the first time, I'm constantly noticing them.
 
They answered the pronunciation thing by saying different dialects, people just pronounce things differently, even within the same language.

the pens are code cylinders

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Code_cylinder

Fun fact here, the Kalikori shares its name with a Village (and Twi'lek word) from the SWTOR MMO, the word means 'beginning' according to the game. Google just gives me SWTOR, but I bet it probably originated from an old source book.
 
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Tuskin38 said:
Fun fact here, the Kalikori shares its name with a Village (and Twi'lek word) from the SWTOR MMO, the word means 'beginning' according to the game. Google just gives me SWTOR, but I bet it probably originated from an old source book.
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It's likely a double reference, as the word also means "good daughter" in Greek, which is applicable given the relationship between Hera and her father...and, if memory serves, the village in SWTOR is run by a mother & daughter, so whoever created it may have known the Greek word.
 
They seemed to be getting captured a lot recently. Three episodes in a row and apparently, again, next week, according to the episode description.
 
Tuskin38 said:
They answered the pronunciation thing by saying different dialects, people just pronounce things differently, even within the same language.

the pens are code cylinders

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Code_cylinder

Fun fact here, the Kalikori shares its name with a Village (and Twi'lek word) from the SWTOR MMO, the word means 'beginning' according to the game. Google just gives me SWTOR, but I bet it probably originated from an old source book.
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You'd think so, but going by this there doesn't seem to be a very extensive Twi'leki vocabulary, just a list of given names and clan names from a sourcebook from '03, none of which include "Kalikori". So SWToR is probably where they got it from.

That book does however include the words "Numa" and "Nerra", so it's clearly still being used as a resource.
 
Stephen! said:
They seemed to be getting captured a lot recently. Three episodes in a row and apparently, again, next week, according to the episode description.
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Next episode appears to be the one seen in the pre-release trailers where

They're fighting left over battle droids from the Clone Wars. Rex gets to fight his Nemesis again, heh. The last battle of the grand army of the republic
 
Thirty seconds from next week's episode, "The Last Battle", with Ezra wearing a candy corn colored short just in tiem for October:

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^This actually brings up an interesting question: did they ever explicitly say what happened to the Separatist Alliance? I mean obviously their droid armies were shut down, the cabal of corporate leaders who was really running the show were wiped out and they lost both Dooku and Grevious in fairly short order. They lost the war, clearly. But what happened to the actual worlds?

Did the Parliament surrender or did the Alliance utterly collapse? Were they all occupied by the Empire or were some willingly absorbed? How much of the Alliance was even left at this point in the war? The impression I got from RotS was that they'd been pushed back to just a few strongholds that were currently being besieged and that the attack on Coruscant was a last ditch effort that cost them most of what remained of their fleet.

ETA: just twigged that that's not just any tactical droid, but the same one from the Onderon arc. Rogue One/Saw connection perhaps?
 
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Considering that both the Separatists and the Republic were being manipulated by Palpatine as part of his master plan to become Emperor, I'm sure he would've conquered both sets of worlds.
 
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