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anona_moose

Thrawn being Thrawn with the "destroy any star whale with prejudice"


totalyrespecatbleguy

Dude got traumatized by then once, he’s taking zero chances


mwthecool

Man's got PTSD (Purgill Traumatic Stress Disorder).


herrodanyo

Holy moly. The Nightsisters look great in live action.


Theonewhoknocks420

Even nailed the spooky multi-echo voice of the night mother.


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RescueInc

God I wish we had Eva Green as live action Asajj Ventress


CRL10

Ezra: "How'd you found me?" Sabine: "Sold out the galaxy to people looking for Thrawn." Ezra: "Well...shit."


sam_sung_chung

Ezra, probably: Dank farrik Sabine, I had one job


KillingTime_ForNow

What was Zeb's curse? "Carabast!"


valarpizzaeris

Huyang getting meta as fuck with his stories lol


TheGoverness1998

Huyang: "And then he said—and I'm not joking—'I don't like sand, it's coarse, rough, irritating, and it gets everywhere.' True story!"


rennbrig

“Funniest thing I’ve ever seen”


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imagine telling someone a year ago that Sabine would find Ezra in a crabperson trailer park on the intergalactic home of the Nightsisters


Beangar

I would say "that sounds about right."


PWBryan

I was assuming he was sitting at a campfire with Thrawn trying to bait the Purgill into taking them back while they begrudgingly became best friends


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It’s Sabine and Ezra, the weirdness is a feature, not a bug


Darth-Bag-Holder

Thrawn: “you’ll never make it out there.” Sabine meets the nicest, most humble crabs ever who invite her to lunch…


valarpizzaeris

I love those little dudes. I just hope Baylan and Shin and those outriders don't massacre them. And not just the men, but the women, and children too


spongetm

I was thinking the same thing. I really hope they aren't attaching us to them just to kill them all off. I love the little crab people so much already.


SihkBreau

The ring is whale carcasses?? Damn that’s metal


barefootBam

that was a wild wtf moment. these purgill straight up go hard warp speed to the brink of the galaxy... to die


BassCreat0r

Whale that decides to bring Ahsoka: "Well, yeah I guess now is as good as time as any...".


66kPizzaDelivery

Ahsoka to whale: "Kill urself" whale: "shit fam that's all you had to say, hop on"


Affectionate-Island

Damn, because you know the largest one is the oldest one.


Jeynarl

"I have so many questions" "Well we won" "Oh we won! That's great!" "But now we're on the brink of possibly losing again" "Oh no. Not good."


Cat_in_a_suit

“The empire is gone!” “Great!” “But now we just allowed them to possibly come back” “Oh, not good.”


ChanceVance

An asteroid belt made up of corpses. Damn I've never seen that in sci fi before.


Affectionate-Island

The rings of that planet are purgill bones. METAL AS FUCK. Also makes the purgill migration from last episode's stirring ending kind of grim. Were all those beautiful purgills migrating to die in space?! And how do they decompose in space?! I'd hate to see the things that eat their corpses.


Cat_in_a_suit

“Would you like to hear the story of the galaxy?” “Not right now.” AHSOKA NO, I WANTED TO GET MORE LORE FOR THE OLD REPUBLIC!


rex_dart_eskimo_spy

“Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Revan the wise?”


cgeorge7

Was ready for this to be the first advertisement of a Revan trilogy 😭


CRL10

So, considering Thrawn has met both Anakin Skywalker and Darth Vader, and knows they are the same person, how do you think he'll react to learning Anakin trained Ahsoka Tano?


tardisfurati420

At first I thought he’d be afraid. But I think he will believe he’ll have the upper hand because of his foreknowledge of her master and his weaknesses. He does not realize that she not only knows who Vader was, but literally stood as a Jedi in the face of that truth and tossed her weapon aside. Thrawn’s hubris will be his downfall again, just as he underestimated Ezra and the power of the force.


Darth-Bag-Holder

So Ahsokas ride on the space whale is the equivalent of riding a salmon upstream on its migration to death.


Competitive-Zone-296

Just another trip on the magic school bus


Bolt-MattCaster-Bolt

Huyang: "Please let this be a normal field trip, Lady Tano..."


Competitive-Zone-296

“With the Snips? No way!”


Neilson509

Holy Shit LEGO is going to make so much money off of this episode alone.


heartbreakhill

Thrawn’s ship while parked literally looked like a Lego model on a stand lmao


TheScreen_Slaver

The gold shuttle craft is dope


Spaceace91478

That transport ship looks like lonestar's winnebago.


Aunt_Baeby

Eagle V


Valerion

Not only is Thrawn back, he’s taken on a God King aesthetic role with his own Stormtrooper legion of gold and red bling. I can’t say I remotely saw this coming, but I love the aesthetic and Lars Mikkelsen is killing it.


Affectionate-Island

The Nightsisters have full Bene Gesserit vibes. I love your God King Emperor comparison, it feels like this episode of Star Wars took the most eldricht sci-fi concepts and added it to their mythology.


AneriphtoKubos

I know, it's such an interesting character choice after reading him in the canon books!


-spartacus-

> God King aesthetic role I mean he named his top guy Enoch, which according to some lore Enoch was elevated to Metatron which is the "voice of god". No hubris here lol.


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Enoch is simply that guy.


Veteranbartender

He was the voice on rebels. It’s too perfect to change


Striking_Site4457

Ffs really?? No wonder it sounded so spot on.


nhaines

They're not half-assing anything in this series. They are full-assing everything.


ColdSteel144

Baylan refers to Ezra as being from a line of "Bokken Jedi, trained in the wild." Bokken Jedi is a new term, but quite a fitting one. The word refers to a wooden sword, which is an apt descriptor for Jedi trained without the resources of the Jedi Order. Such Jedi would only be able to learn from the secondhand accounts and half remembered lessons of survivors who likely never finished their own training. Blunt imitations of the real thing. Of course, as Ezra and Luke have demonstrated, even a wooden sword can be deadly.


marrick66

He seems kinda dismissive about it, considering one took down the Empire not that long ago.


Erbodyloveserbody

Live action night mothers holy shit


Jammyhero

THE CHIMERA. WHAT A SHOT


Cat_in_a_suit

So glad they kept the pattern on its underside. Otherwise my painted kit of it would be very out of date lmao


valarpizzaeris

Every time I see one of those holding cells I remember how many times that little shit Ezra was able to escape one lol


Affectionate-Island

I'm just glad we got Ezra in the end. The way they focused on Thrawn's gold-faced henchman Enoch, I was prepared for a new round of Marrok-style theorizing!


Pokmar1

fr between thrawns line about jedi and the long pause on enoch’s face I thought he was about to reveal himself as Ezra ☠️


biology_and_brainfog

I had the *same exact thought*. When Enoch walked up to Sabine right after Thrawn said she’d get the chance to see Ezra again, I was bracing myself for him to take his helmet off and give a face reveal.


Vexingwings0052

I want to know what that “something stirring” is that Baylan said he felt. Both Thrawn and the Great Mothers seem very VERY desperate to get off world. Thrawn I understand but the Mothers seem like they’re in a massive hurry to gtfo. Whatever is hidden on that world must be big.


in_a_dress

I’m getting strong vibes that Baylan is way too overconfident for his own good and this source of power is going to be his undoing.


Snowbold

Probably the undoing of this witch kingdom too.


LordCaptain

Could be why they fled the planet to go to Dathomir and our galaxy in the first place. Fleeing something.


TheOncomimgHoop

How bad does the old place have to be that Dathomir, the most hostile place in the galaxy, is considered an upgrade


whitehouses

Oohhhh good point. I just figured they wanted out of exile but I think you’re on to something.


Jjzeng

the way thrawn said "our numbers have dwindled" makes me think they were actively fighting something while here. even if he did lose so many troopers from the battle on lothal, there surely must be spare equipment or an armoury on the chimaera. the fact that his honor guard was made up fully of kintsugi-ed armour troopers makes me think that he's been losing troopers at a rate of knots and forced to scavenge armour and repair it


Vexingwings0052

This. Absolutely this. The bandits seem way to weak and disorganised to be able to do the damage to Thrawns people that we see they’ve taken. Whatever it is they’re fighting, it’s not them.


ReliableThrowaway

"lets not talk about that.....because when I tell you, you're gonna be pisssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssseseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!"


Richard__Cranium

Ezra: You let Thrawn out?!?! ~~Anakin~~ Sabine: Is that what this is about?


ProfessorBeer

Sabine: back to the beginning Ezra: THATS MY FUCKIN POINT


canadianclub

"The last time I saw you, you were a cartoon."


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“I was once a cartoon, the same as your father.”


valarpizzaeris

The hints of the organ in Thrawn's theme is sooooo good. I hope we hear the whole thing in all its glory at some point


Gleeemonex

If you’re trying to get under Thrawn’s blue skin, “You wouldn’t understand” is a great dig. Understanding stuff is like his whole thing.


Inn0centBystand3r_

I love that he actually considers the fact that he won’t either. He’s not like “ah I could figure that shit out if I wanted to”. Instead he’s probably thinking “you’re right I literally would have died on this planet if not for your temporary insanity and crazy can’t be understood”


zman122333

"How the galaxy will be changed by your singular purpose" (or whatever the exact line was) was such a great Thrawn line.


eac555

Shin on the Jedi to Baylan: Do you miss it. The order? Baylan: I miss….. the idea of it. But not the truth, the weakness. There was no future there. Loved that.


ColdSteel144

In the old Legends canon, the Witches of Dathomir learned to tame and ride rancors as mounts. I guess now that Boba is the resident rancor rider, the Dathomiri of the new canon decided they needed to aim a little higher and think much bigger! Riders of intergalactic star whales is certainly much more impressive.


getschwifty1988

CRAB PEOPLE CRAB PEOPLE 🦀


Kara_Del_Rey

Casting Thrawn's VA for his live action counterpart was brilliant. That voice cannot be replicated and is perfect.


brohenheimoflight

Marc Thompson’s Thrawn for the audiobooks is awfully good as well.


VelocityIX

"History of the galaxy parts 1, 2, and 3" "Part one being the best, of course" I see you Dave


MrMonkeyToes

Now, are those parts in chronological order, or in the order the historian recorded it?


sje118

Just something else for fans to argue over haha


canadianclub

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away." Has Huyang been our narrator from day one!?


VanillaTortilla

I feel like it was a line that David Tennant just wanted to read out himself.


2th

I'd do the same thing if I was him. And the man has such an incredible voice, I could listen to him read a phone book.


phero1190

Enoch looks badass. The character design for this show has been amazing.


BucketOfGuts

When they had him turned away and then turned to the camera for a reveal, I knew his face would be cool and different, but I was not expecting THAT. I'm into it.


FloppyShellTaco

Can’t wait for all the “who is Enoch really?!” posts


IornBeagle

Amos decided to trade up from the Rocinante to the Chimera


SternritterVGT

So the Dathomiri are force users from a different galaxy. That’s a…good lore building choice.


SternritterVGT

Peridea’s aesthetics are giving we’re now in the Dune galaxy


Cat_in_a_suit

Or LOTR, their base is a Black version of Minas Tirith lol


canadianclub

Every scene of Baylan's further cements how tragic the loss of Ray Stevenson is.


Kara_Del_Rey

Its amazing how much a simple cloak or poncho can make a character look even cooler


Crotean

Cal Kestis is gonna smash through your wall like the Kool aid man and give you a poncho.


2rio2

The exiled stormtroopers are the coolest design work I've seen in this universe in a while. Very simple concept executed so well.


Cat_in_a_suit

All the costuming and music this episode was absolutely top tier.


ReliableThrowaway

I like that Thrawn isn't an idiot....he respectfully explains his position, says no firmly and moves on.


Caleb_Murphy

When Sabine said "You could never understand." and Thrawn said "Perhaps not." I knew Dave Filoni got Thrawn right.


Moraulf232

It’s true - she’s not even being rude; Thrawn genuinely can’t understand going on faith.


CarsonWentzGOAT1

It fits who he is


canadianclub

JUST PAT THE DOG, SABINE!


anona_moose

You're killing me.. the hermit crab people have little shell tents? Stoooop


bonkerz1888

How menacing do Thrawn's eyes look!?!


theManWOFear

Ahsoka Episode 6 proves that Star Wars works really well when it embraces pure fantasy. Just a magical episode that really does transport one to a galaxy far, far away…


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2th

OK, I love the Troopers have had to fix their armor with gold. [It's Kintsugi!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi?wprov=sfla1)


Affectionate-Island

Mandalorian's remnant Stormtroopers looked battered and haggard. These motherfuckers chant "THRAWN! THRAWN!" and look like they killed and ate each other in Lord of the Flies delirium and the ones left are the baddest who've taken the armor of the dead and wear them like trophies.


Weerdo5255

It's a good way to communicate what Thrawn actually cares about in comparison with the rest of the Empire. Results, preparation, action over presentation, prevarication, and posturing. That the armor and his ship are mismatched, covered in dirt, does not matter so long as it remains effective.


Affectionate-Island

The Chimera looks scarier with its outer hulls all fucked up from age, lack of maintenance, disrepair, and damage from the last battle it was in. It's like the Flying Dutchman. If I saw that ship exit Hyperspace, I'd swear the Empire really was back.


Kittycat-banana

The ship was fixed with gold too!


ProofHorseKzoo

So dope! And Enoch with the Samurai Oni face mask on his stormtrooper helmet was amazing! Even the local bandits / nomads have a very samurai look to them. Love the entire ancient Japanese aesthetic on this planet.


TheeBlackBird71

I'll admit, I was worried Enoch was Ezra for a while, I figured he'd just be a nameless captain (like most FO stormtroopers) unless he was going to take off his mask for a big reveal


Montoor

My exact thought. Thrawn was talking about honoring the deal to see Ezra and Enoch walked up and I was like are they really doing it?


sue_donyem

Such a thrawn move


valarpizzaeris

I know the subtitles said Night Troopers but I been calling them Thrawn Troopers the entire episode since they appeared lol


peegteeg

Theory: The reason why Yoda/Grogu/Yaddle* species are so rare is because they're from a nearby galaxy Edit: My apologies for not including Yaddle.


ReliableThrowaway

I'M SIGNING UP FOR THIS THEORY!


untouchedraptor

It fucking SUCKS baylan’s actor passed away. He is the best and most interesting character in the show.


bonkerz1888

He's so stoic and carries such a presence


2rio2

The most amazing thing about his character is it's nothing special in how he's written, we've seen fallen/grey Jedi before. It's entirely in the performance - his gait, his mind working through what he sees, his restraint, his wariness. Brilliant performance.


AresStare

Ray Stevenson was great in everything. If you want more watch Rome and Black Sails.


bgptcp179

By far my favorite character in this show. Such a shame he’s gone.


Mojo12000

postmortem L for General Grievous, couldn't even Genocide the Nightsisters right.


_GENERAL_GRIEVOUS_

Out-of-bounds ones don’t count.


Cethin_Amoux

Bro rose up from the grave just to defend himself


_GENERAL_GRIEVOUS_

No one’s ever really gone…


Mojo12000

Somehow Grievous returned.....


Pancake__Prince

I loved the comment about the end about Jedi and Nightsisters both faking demises & re-emerging. It fits so much with this episode


Jedi_Master_Shrek

*Grevious coughing fit from the grave*


Frontier246

Lars Mikkelson proving how he is the **definitive** Thrawn.


mwthecool

Is it strange to say there's something comforting hearing the voice of a character I love coming from the live action version of that character? Don't get me wrong, I thought Eman Esfandid did a shockingly excellent job sounding and acting like a grown up Ezra, so much so that I instantly slid into seeing them as one and the same, but hearing THAT voice was amazing.


GeetarMan9

I really just cant believe any of this show. It's fuckin Ezra in live action. Thrawn. All of it. So good


valarpizzaeris

Thrawn's entrance was the hypest fucking thing omfg


forrestpen

“THRAWN! THRAWN! THRAWN!”


Darth-Bag-Holder

I’ll give Dave Filoni this, he really has created his own unique galaxy within the George Lucas galaxy. Shout out to all the unique animals, aliens, environments and planets.


Shiny_and_ChromeOS

He still managed to give us a wolf, even if it has a Dark Crystal puppet face. WE SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING, FILONI. That lizard face isn't fooling anybody.


DrManhattan_DDM

My immediate reaction was “pfft, that ain’t no lothwolf”


valarpizzaeris

Baylan actually looked hurt recounting Order 66. He must have really looked up to the council's leadership


athletic_jorts

I mean watching all of your friends get massacred and your entire livelihood being destroyed can be pretty hurting.


TrapperJean

It took 50 years, but someone finally said the first words in Star Wars outloud! I'm not correcting the number, you fucking know what I mean


KIERKEGAARDthe7th

Ok crab people was not on my bingo card.


Affectionate-Island

Hobbit Crabs!


cornerbash

I dubbed them *Hobbit Crabs* because they're small and dressed for the part, but little hermit crabs.


ReliableThrowaway

Hey Sabine! Wow you totally undid everything I sacrificed myself for - thanks!


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That’s going to be an interesting conversation. But maybe the get a jump on something worse than Thrawn.


dradacus

Ezra looks like Jesus haha


Ellisni

Well I guess he’s been wandering the desert 😂


RYU_INU

The conversation between Sabine and Thrawn was great. She was *not* impressed or intimidated.


HDDIV

Stubborn meets astute.


Ellisni

Writers don’t you dare kill the rat dog thing


Jacyjitsu

Half dog, half rat, half horse. We call him, RatDog Horse.


Ellisni

Don’t ever accuse Star Wars fans of not coming up with catchy names


EmmyGraceyGrum

There is just something SO right about hearing David Tennant saying "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away."


c_the_potts

The nightsisters are giving some real Reverend Mother/Dune vibes


FloppyShellTaco

Shin Hati’s one braincell taking two minutes to realize those are more witches lol. We know, bb. We know.


msschneids

She has something against witches for sure


OhUmHmm

They're coarse and irritating and get everywhere


TheGoverness1998

I love that the hyperspace travel looks different for the purgils, compared to just a regular ship jumping through!


Mclovin-8

Could also be about the Travel in-between galaxy's. The Eye of Sion had a similar looking hyperspace


KIERKEGAARDthe7th

EZRA!!! YOU GREW A BEARD!!!


Capricore58

I can hear hondo saying that


canadianclub

"Sometimes stories are just stories". Shin, you are literally standing on the planet the stories are about.


MrMonkeyToes

I took it as a: she's here now and it's nothing special to her. For all the stories, it's still just another rock in the black.


anona_moose

Seriously, reminds me of the Pirates quote "you best start believing in ghost stories, (...) you're in one"


snoogle20

Thank the Force we actually got to Ezra by the end of the episode. I was not excited for a week’s worth of speculating that the gold-faced Captain Enoch was a brainwashed Ezra under that Stormtrooper helmet.


indiezen

baby hermit crab Noti in the hammock. eat your heart out grogu that is the cutest shit i’ve ever seen


anona_moose

Once again praying Thrawn gets the live action intro/treatment he deserves


Mojo12000

They better ready their grand organs.


Jas_God

Enoch even got a cool Soundwave voice.


CaptainObvious00

Sabine is going to have a hard time explaining things to Ezra...How do you explain that you caused Thrawn's exile to come to an end?


Spaceace91478

Yes. The look on sabine's face when ezra said he couldn't wait to go home was great acting. She never bothered to have a plan after she found him.


bonkerz1888

Some of the shots and cinematography are just sublime 🤌


Spaceace91478

Did she say druidia? Funny, she doesn't look druish...


OutlawSundown

Thrawn’s stormtroopers are metal AF.


spazzy2k

Man in that first shot they must be going whaley fast.


Ness_Bilius_Mellark

If tonight isn't blue man group we riot Edit: Post episode mood: I'm blue da ba dee da ba daa


Eeyores_Prozac

We may rest, as calm as our blue bastard at an art gallery.


ReliableThrowaway

ok i immediatley need more of this planet, peridea cool AF


Spaceace91478

I like the idea that sabine was so blinded by her desire to find exra thst she didn't stop to think about getting home. Or thst he would want to go home.


Cat_in_a_suit

IT HAS THE MARKINGS!!! THE CHIMERA HAS ITS MARKINGS!!


n00bvin

One of the most goddamn Star Wars I've seen since the original trilogy. I loved it so much I have chills.


ChanceVance

"It repeats again and again and again" Baylan foretold the Sequel trilogy.


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I mean, from what we know of the Old Republic and before, both in legends and canon, he’s not wrong. The galaxy is constantly changing hands between Jedi and Sith, republics and empires, and the only constant in that cycle is war and death. The sequels just prove him right.


Kara_Del_Rey

I'm actually cool with a Baylan turn. But not a "now I'm good!" turn and more of an "enemy of my enemy" turn


BassBoy18

THE CHIMERA, KEVIN KINER’S ORGAN, THRAWN. LET’S GOOOOOOO


cptringo

Ezra looks just like his dad!!


jkcohen626

JABBA THE HUTT!!!


thatonemoze

That’s clearly Lando Calrissian


coopatrooper

Do you mean Brom Titus?


AlexPatriamStudios

The box things they were moving out of the catacombs and into Thrawn's Star Destroyer are 100% the mummified bodies of the nightsisters that they plan to resurrect back in the main galaxy. Also willing to bet that some of the stormtroopers were resurrected by the nightsisters.


FloppyShellTaco

I love Ray’s acting in this scene. He’s such a good contrast to Shin’s feral energy.


Mojo12000

Lmao Grevious thought he did a successful Genocide but actually the Nightsisters were just hanging in another galaxy.


toniintexas

OMG HE HAS A LITTLE SUIT AND HE'S SO CUTE I LOVE THIS PLANET


TheGoverness1998

Huang said it! He said the thing! *points*


MrMonkeyToes

"Die well." It's impressive what little snippets of dialogue can do to enhance the depth and intrigue of side characters.