What we want from Thrawn - A Comparison of his Appearances in Canon Star Wars

What we want from Thrawn - A Comparison of his Appearances in Canon Star Wars

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Intro 0:00
Opening Scenes 0:40
Is Thrawn Evil? 05:36
Things to Avoid in Live Action 8:22
Thrawn’s Main Goal 12:16

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With Thrawn coming to live action I wanted to compare his character from his trilogy of book vs his appearances in Star Wars Rebels. I want to look at what makes Thrawn beloved and some of the things they need to avoid for his live action appearance to be Thrawn’s best one yet.
Hello and welcome to Star Wars Grand Moff, I am the Grand Moff and Today I want to talk about Mifthrawn urado. And his two main Appearances in Canon. I Think the best way to compare these two is to look at the opening scene for both the both and his first appearance in Star Wars Rebels.
Opening Scenes
Chapter 1
The book opens with an unknown castaway running rings around an imperial detachment for the ISD Strike Fast. Thrawn wishes to meet the emperor and for this he has to play three cards as he puts it. First is entry to the Strike Fast and to do that he goes through an elaborate plan.
First he crashes one of the V wing ship with monofilament line. Then steals the pilot’s power packs, blasters, and concussion grenades and comm. He then removed the pilot’s body from the flight suit and replaced it with straw and berries.
He then attaches small bombs, that are the power packs with the dowsing rods pulled out, to small animals. But the clever thing is he knew the imperials would take the straw flight suit into camp and within are the crushed berries that are a lore for small animals.
After this stormtroopers come to assist the navy troops on the scene, but this is what Thrawn wanted, soldiers with fuller armour so he can sneak into camp.
In this time he crashes a second ship and swaps the first comm with a second, knowing that they would find out he stole the first comm and cut it from the circuit.
Then using the comm to create feedback on the system to create a noise to mask the noise of him using an explosive on two Stormtroopers. He then sneaks into camp as a Stromtrooper making them think only one Stormtrooper is missing.
By this time the imperials are packing up they have had enough. Although, they are bound by protocols to study Thrwans settlement they decide to take the whole settlement with them up to the Ship. Allowing Thrawn to hide within his settlement.
Before does he does set up the second Storm troopers armour near the transport ship propped up with small sticks and sets it to explode. Making sure the imperials leave for the ship as soon as possible.
Did you find that complex? Well it was. And I am sure I missed some bits out. This tone set out from the first chapter continues. Half the book is Thrawn out smarting people in clever elaborate strategies. It is like reading Sherlock Holmes. Thrawn is always one step ahead of as he says or one step to the side.
Let’s compare that to his introduction in Star Wars Rebels.
This starts with Thrawn joining the group of imperials trying to stop the rebels. We have seen them previously in the earlier seasons. We have Grand Moff Tarkin, Admiral Constantine and Agent Kallus. We are informed that Thrawn is a Grand Admiral. Which tells the audience he is a higher ranked than everyone else. His white inform also makes him visually different to the rest of the cast of imperials.
They talk of Thrawn’s promotion and that there were a lot of civilian casualties. Implying to the audience that Thrawn is an evil person who kills innocents. However, if you read the book you would know on the battle of Banton it was actually Governor Price who causes all the civilian casualties. Not Thrawn. This works we for two reasons. One if you haven’t read the books you think Thrawn is a villain which works for his role in Rebels. And two if you have read the books it’s a nice nod back to them.
Thrawn then tells the others the rebels entire plan to get fighters and threatens to defeat them. For me this is like Thrawn light or diet Thrawn. I understand they made it simpler for the audience they had. As you could tell by my complex narrative from the book lots went on. This Thrawn light as I call it continues throughout his stay on Rebels. However I personally feel they didn’t have to dilute him so much. Think of the Sherlock Holmes series and how popular that is. Complex plans and stories made

[DLT-poto]

I know thrawn mainly from the thrawn trilogy by Timothy Zahn, who created the character in the first place. You know, the story with Mara Jade, Luke and all the other OT characters. In case you don't already know it, i highly recommend you to check it out. This should have been the sequal trilogy if you ask me. But sadly it is not canon, although it is the thrawn we know and love.

He always tries to get the best outcome with the smallest investment. So i absolutely agree with you. Killing the worker on lothal is not necessarily evil - it is logical. At least for an imperial. Make an example out of one of the workers who sabotaged the production and the others will fall in line. And he is absolutely loyal to the emperor. To the point of fanatism. So he stopps at nothing to achiecve the emperors goals.

In live action thrawn should be portrayed as cold and calculating. But not outright evil. He only chooses violence if he deems it necessary. He should be the same controlling and manipulative tactical genius we know him as. Every word he says must be precisely chosen and he should have his typical cold but somewhat polite demeanor. And of course his love for art.
After what i saw last week i think we could actually get to see the thrawn we want to see.

The way i know thrawn - he should already have made plans to return to the galaxy. Maybe he even managed to prepare a small fleet or something. I guess the Eye of Zion is supposed to transport the Chimaera back to the galaxy. Who knows what's going on over there. But one thing is for sure: He wouldn't have wasted his time in exile.

[jaytalks]

Fully agreed with you! However, I think there is virtually zero chance Thrawn is going to be portrayed correctly in the live-action shows. If it's not blindingly obvious by now, the live-action Disney Star Wars shows are for, uh, shall we say, less intellectually demanding fans (𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘳 possibly notwithstanding). They're not shows made for sophisticated adults. So far 𝘈𝘩𝘴𝘰𝘬𝘢 is proving to be no exception. That prospect that a character like Thrawn is going to be handled with all the sophisticated depth that the character is known for is a tall one. This is part of the reason I can't get too excited about them.

[arrowtooth]

A man of necessity in a cruel empire is bound to speak their metaphorical language to get things done, this is what I believe thrawn in the show was doing with his crew.

This could mean that live action Thrawn will be truer to the legends variant since the empire is technically gone.

[starwarsgrandmoff]

What do you want to see from live action Thrawn?

[sahilhossain]

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