Anyone else see the rumor that they’re planning to bring Thrawn into the mix next season? I didn’t actually read any of the articles when the story broke a few weeks back so I have no idea how legit the source was, but I’ve always thought that if they were going to re-canonize a Legends character wholesale, he’d probably be the easiest to insert into the new timeline. I figured that him being the mysterious fleet admiral at the end of Aftermath was probably wishful thinking, but if there’s any truth to this I think that’s almost definite. The Aftermath sequel comes out well before this is supposedly slated to happen on Rebels, so it wouldn’t be a huge reveal, but I’m pretty excited about the prospect of him turning up in a couple of different places in the timeline so quickly. He’s really the only Legends character that I regretted being stricken from the canon (well, maybe Kyle Katarn and everything that happened in Jedi Knight, but that was so tangential to the main storyline that its canonicity isn’t so relevant).

And speaking of Aftermath, I’m actually pretty surprised that Rae Sloane hasn’t turned up on Rebels yet. It’s only a matter of time.