The empire may have fallen,
but my ambitions never wavered.
I am grand Admiral Thrawn,
and my return is inevitable.
I could use the help
In this war, you'll face more than just droids
as your master is my responsibility to prepare you.
I won't always be there to look out for you.
Welcome back everyone
This is the way
we've got a little Ahsoka Episode 8 finale footage to break down.
I know there's a bunch of theories and hanging plot threads
that they have to pay off a lot of questions about that.
we know the throne is supposed to catch the New Republic with their pants
around their ankles, so we'll break it all down.
for better, for worse.
A lot of this is all meant to set up the Thrawn movie,
so do expect a lot of hanging plot threads and cliffhangers in the finale.
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But careful for spoilers for everything that's happened so far on the show.
just starting with the elephant in the room.
The throne in the room. The footage we can now see from the trailer.
This has all been in the previous trailers.
Is Thrawn onboard the hyperspace ring?
in it seems like what they've done with the Ahsoka trailers
that they did a house of the Dragon Game of Thrones
kind of thing where in all the house of the Dragon trailers they put footage
from like the very last shot of the series in the early trailers.
so this scene is Thrawn.
The hyperspace ring might not be the exact final shot of the finale,
but they'll probably end the finale on a cliffhanger
similar to a moment like this where the hyperspace
ring enters the main galaxy with this chimera star destroyer.
He looks out over the planet like a boss.
It's the making of the Lord of the Rings joke.
It's the return of the King.
Then they slam to the credits and just pick up the next part of the story.
During the Mandalorian Season four or the Skeleton Crew series,
or even saving a lot of it for the Thrawn movie.
the next actual Star Wars show is Skeleton Crew with Jude Law and those kids.
we got a little trailer footage for that back at Star Wars celebration.
I did a video for us all.
Link it down in the description below, supposedly he's meant to be a former Jedi
and for some reason they get stranded on their ship
in what might be this other pretty galaxy We know that it's meant to cross over
with the Sokka The Mandalorian Season four.
Everything is happening.
This part of the timeline in those characters
will appear in the Thrawn movie in some way.
so tying this all together. A lot.
Have you been theorizing that they'll end the Ahsoka
finale with Thrawn returning to the main galaxy in a Soga?
Sabine Everyone else getting stranded in the other galaxy on the prettier planet.
just isn't.
It seems like they take a huge l
The New Republic in general taking a lot of L's right now
acting so stupid they kind of deserve what they're getting.
It seems like I think they really want you to hate the New Republic.
there only a couple of ways for Ahsoka
and the others to make it back to the main galaxy.
Now that the prequels are gone in most, the Thrones minefield is still active
around the planet.
So even if they were able to have a way to call the prequels back,
they probably wouldn't come close to the planet
So early theories right now, were they?
Either Ahsoka finds a way to attach her ship
to the whole the hyperspace ring without Thrawn sensors detecting it
and just hitching a ride back to the main galaxy, or much simpler.
They just get stranded in the other galaxy and have to find another way home. no.
If Jude Law and the people from Skeleton Crew are going to that other galaxy,
they might be their ticket home before the Thrawn movie starts.
a lot of people also want to see Grogu The Mandalorians also help Ahsoka get back.
but it's no good.
Getting stranded in the other galaxy
would be a way to explain why she isn't around.
During the events of the Mandalorian season four
to show everyone the evidence of Thrones plans
so that the New Republic can prepare.
Like that's the whole idea is that Dave Filoni really wants Thrawn
to catch the New Republic with their pants around their ankles
so they get their asses handed to them, at least at first.
part of the problem though with this whole Thrawn storyline is
that we kind of know what happens later in the timeline,
like The New Republic still exists later in the timeline.
So we know that ultimately he doesn't succeed,
that's one of the only weaknesses of doing stuff earlier in the timeline
is that like, you know, some of the bigger plot points,
but there's still like a lot of big questions about how that all plays out,
like, we don't really know what happens with the so-called later in the timeline.
We don't know what really happens with Grogu when he gets a little bit older.
But think about the timeline this way.
Thrawn would need a little time after he makes it back to the main galaxy
to marshal the forces of the Shadow Council.
Because you have all these different factions of Imperials all over the galaxy
and it's going to take them a while to bring their giant fleet together.
in if a giant imperial
fleet just posted up somewhere near
the outer rim, the New Republic would know about it.
As dumb as they seem right now.
So they just have to have a way to explain
why they don't learn about Thrawn returning for a little while longer.
just be way easier for that to happen if Ahsoka gets stuck in the other galaxy
and it's like the mandalorians
that learn about Thrawn first before the New Republic sees the evidence,
they can just make the Mandalorian sort of like the first line of defense
because the whole thing at the end of season
three was showing that they were reactivating
the great force, retaking the mantle of a planet,
making preparations for the larger Star Wars to come.
So if anybody learns about Thrawn first, it should be the Mandalorians Grogu you,
Mando, all those characters They can just have Mando and Grogu
you learn about them on one of their random bounty missions
early in the season is like, Wait a minute,
there's a giant fleet out here at this time Here, Star
Destroyer looks a little bit different from the other star destroyers.
why is there a star destroyer to begin with? grow.
You can also start sussing out what's going on
with the nice sisters, too, in the force.
Like, wait a minute, I get some weird vibes from these nice sisters.
this thing about the Nightsisters.
Two is their whole nine sister zombie army that they plan to resurrect.
That's the special cargo that Thrawn has been loading.
It's going to take them some time to all raise those from the dead.
They can't just do it on the drop of a hat.
normally, in order to raise them from the dead, they need that special green
magic energy which can only be found on Dathomir in the main galaxy.
there maybe couple retcons with that.
But I think that's why the Dathomir planet
is meant to be so important in the main galaxy.
Why the Nightsisters
originally settled there when they got stuck in the main galaxy.
the other really big question is what's going on with Baylan Skoll
in this mystery power that he feels calling to him on Meridia
because Rey Stephenson died in real life before the season came out.
Maggie rest in peace really sucks because he's amazing during this season
is the day when he probably intended on having a cliffhanger with him
where he finds out what he's looking for.
But they don't really explain it until the Sokka Season two
or like the Thrawn movie.
no. I don't know if they plan to recast his character before that Thrawn movie or
Mando Season four, wherever the character would have originally appeared next.
Or they just write him out of season two in the Thrawn movie.
But right now it seems like they'll be forced
to have some kind of cliffhanger for his storyline.
then they use the next couple of years before the Thrawn movie
comes out to just figure out what happens with his character.
like in the finale.
He'll find what he's looking for and then just seemingly disappear
and they don't fully explain what happens till way, way later.
it's kind of like what happened to the Korra doing character.
These kind of had to explain what happened to her offscreen.
They made it seem like she died offscreen.
I know there've been a lot of apple off theories
about this power that he's seeking, but I don't think they're doing Apple off
from Legends.
She was a Legends version of the mother in the mortise Gods
family like the father, the son, the daughter.
The mother was a character they introduced in the Legends
books after the Clone Wars Mortis episodes.
So she's not meant to be Canon.
The book that introduced the character came out right before Disney
bought Star Wars. That's why she's a Legends character.
the whole idea is that she was meant to be a human woman to serve the mortis gods.
And they just came to think of her as the mother Until one day she sought
to gain immortality like the mortis gods had so she could live with them forever.
She drank from this wellspring of the force on mortis,
and it turned her into this giant cosmic entity.
now, it just seems it's more likely that Baylan power he's seeking is something
totally different.
Like that might have something to do
with the Zeffo mentioned on the Nightsisters Temple.
Well, I've done a couple of videos about him.
His name was Kujet.
He was a big part of the Jedi Fallen Order Jedi Survivor games
because they included that Easter egg.
It means that the events of those games are canon to the main Star Wars story.
So it's more likely that Dave Fleming is pulling in like some classic canon stuff.
but it could also be something totally different.
Like I said, I think they're going to spend
the next couple of years figuring out exactly what that is.
There'll be just some giant cliffhanger with this storyline.
Shin Hati seems like she's going to return to
the main galaxy with Thrawn, which Baylan told her to do.
there's supposed to be at least one more Anakin Skywalker cameo scene.
I think it'll be Force Ghost and again, giving a soldier a pep talk.
But they might use his cameo to set up the Thrawn movie a little bit,
where he explains to her that even though they take a huge l all hope is not lost,
I could just see Ahsoka now, like, okay, there's
this little creature called Grogu who could you please take?
Your force goes back to the main galaxy and just warn him
what happened and tell him to find a way to bring us back.
The other thing
too, is the world between worlds they featured as so prominently midway
through the season.
They could also use that as one of the keys.
The way to resolve some of this storyline.
But post all your predictions for the finale in the comments in Ahsoka
season two because they did start working on season two before the strike started.
So it seems pretty likely
that they will continue doing that now that they've resolved that.
The other big thing is how do you think the Skeleton Crew series
is going to cross over with what's happening right now?
Because we know that it's going to cross over in some way
just be way easier if they come to the other galaxy in a show
because the other characters are still there.
I believe that that show was supposed to premiere early 2024.
Originally it was going to be in December, but then they delayed everything
this year by a few months.
So we'll probably get the trailer for that after the Loki series comes out.
big Reminder to Loki.
Season two Episode one starts next week.
My episode video for that will post every Friday just like normal.
The Mandalorian Season four might not make it out by the end of 2024.
They haven't started shooting that yet,
but they did finish writing it before the strike started
so they can start shooting that as soon as the actors
part of the strike gets resolved, which might be the next couple of weeks.
when we start learning
more about what's going on during Mando season
four, also doing some more bonus videos for that.
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