The following contains spoilers from the season 3 finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s The Mandalorian, episode Chapter 24, “The Return” written by Jon Favreau and directed by Rick Famuyiwa. Season 3 of The Mandalorian wrapped up with a nice bow versus any grave cliffhanger, or guest appearance from a Star Wars canon character ala season 2 when a digitized version of Mark Hamill’s Luke Skywalker swooped in to scoop up Grogu for Jedi training.
Heading into today’s episode, you could say we were all expecting a cameo by General Admiral Thrawn before his big splash in Mandalorian spinoff Ahsoka (due out this August); he being one of the big bad Star Wars villains, having debuted in the 1991 Timothy Zahn novel, Heir to the Empire, which took place post-Return to the Jedi.
Thrawn, the most evil dead in a universe sans Darth Vader and the Emperor, led the remnants of the Imperial Forces against a fledgling New Republic, and was known for his tactical genius and keen sensibility to assess enemies tactics.
He’s never been portrayed in a live-action Star Wars movie or TV show, but was a big part of Dave Filoni’s Rebels animated series.
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