Broom Kid said:
Zahn wrote a Star Wars trilogy that is really more like a 6 or 9 film series in terms of how much story is packed in there, and the tone of it is definitely more like a crime procedural and a military fantasy than the space opera Star Wars is.

It was Zahn writing a great sci-fi military adventure using Star Wars characters. But I don’t know that it would work as an animated Star Wars story. It’s why they’re plucking out the star character and reinterpreting him instead of bringing the whole thing to bear.

I think it just wouldn’t fit with what the sequel trilogy is working with.

It is a different take to be sure…but he handled the OT characters so well. They spoke with the right “voice”. And more Wedge content!

I liked the idea of Leia redeeming her father in her own way too. The notion too, of a strategic and tactical military savant as a counter to force users is interesting as well. Thrawn is almost too perfect…but he isn’t. For all his genius his commitment to lies and deception and his ignorance of the force undoes him in the end.