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“He’d taken great pains to conceal his true relationship with Padmé.” hahahaHAHAHAHA

I like Thrawn asking if Anakin can communicate through the Force. Asking if it’s telepathic as well as telekinetic. Because, I mean, that’s not too unreasonable of a question. Thrawn said in Rebels that he didn’t know much about the Force, but it was obvious he at least knew enough to know he didn’t know much. I like that this is the background experience he’s had with it.

Okay. Like I said, I really like the description of the Force being like double vision. It’s a good explanation. But the constant repetition of “double vision” is killing me. Just tell us what he did. We know he’s using the Force to do it. The explanation at the beginning was excellent, but now we just need the results, imo.

I really like Anakin’s characterization here.

The description of the double-vision from seeing a few moments into the future via the Force is so fascinating. That’s why the Force gives them such quick reflexes, they’re literally seeing snapshots into the future. And they’re able to change it, manipulate it. I wish we got explanations like this in the movies and shows.

It’s interesting how one of Thrawn’s abilities is accurately reading people’s facial expressions almost to the point of being able to read their minds, and yet he cannot do that with Vader since Vader’s face is just a mask. He doesn’t even have body language. Hardly has tonal differences in his voice. It makes for an interesting dynamic between the two of them.

I mean, it would be so easy for these books to make it *silly* that Thrawn was taken out of the equation by Ezra. But no. Because space!whales. Nobody is ever going to predict and account for space!whales. It makes Thrawn more incredible while making his defeat still impressive.

I want to go ahead and say I think my favorite thing about these books is how much more impressive it makes the fact that Ezra was able to use the purgill to defeat Thrawn. I mean, this guy is incredible, almost invincible. And he was taken out by an 18 year old orphaned punk with animal magic. It just makes it more awesome because, like, yeah, not even Thrawn could anticipate space!whales.

PADMÉ!!!!!!! Everyone shut up!!! Padmé is here!!!!! Very glad I decided to read this book as well since PADMÉ IS HERE!!!!! And the s6 clone wars stuff is interesting. Even got an Ahsoka namedrop. Also PADMÉ’S HANDMAIDENS LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO