I feel like Space Whales worked for me as well as they did because their intro seemed like such a useless episode, that no one would ever let you forget about as an example of the show’s low points. I would have forgotten about the episode had it not been the poster boy for the “too much filler” criticism. To see them play a pivotal part of the story’s conclusion was a lot of fun.
My thoughts on the matter exactly.
As for the Ezra and Ahsoka being around during the OT; I’m fine with it because Ezra and Thrawn are pretty much M.I.A in a part of the universe literally called the Unknown Regions. They might as well not exist because they’ve essentially been taken out of the known galaxy, uncharted space, and presumably without a way to get back.
I think the idea that they’re in the Unknown Regions is just speculation at this point, no?
We aren’t even positive Ahsoka got spit out of that weird Force tesseract thing on Malachor; we just saw some similar architecture through the window. If that is where she ended up, she’d be on a dead planet with no immediate way off. If not, she could be just as far-flung as Ezra and Thrawn.
I suppose we also don’t know when she was spit out.