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It was fine. I’ve seen all the shows so I get the backstory and references.
That being said, there are just too many Star Wars and movie cliches to be bearable:
Oh wow she cut her hair dramatically, she’s such a rebel and such a badass. (Cheap and overused character moment)
Staring pathetically at a spaceship flying away after a lightsaber duel (has happened four thousand times in Star Wars)
“Get ready!”
Lightsabers are harmless
Fixing a bomb under a ticking time clock (false peril)
Ancient artifact leads to the location of a place or character in the present (another cliche and cheap writing)
Another star map mcguffin (overused cliche)
Did we ever get an explanation for why what's-his-name had a map to Luke Skywalker in TFA? Why did Luke leave a map? Didn't he specifically not want to be found?
Back to Ashoka, why did the ancient nightsister temple have a map that lead to Thrawn, when he disappeared not even a decade before? Also, if someone knew Thrawn's location precisely enough to map it, why didn't that someone also try to find him themselves?
Did you watch Rebels?
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There are space whales with organic hyperdrives. They grabbed Thrawn at the end of Rebels and took him to parts unknown (what we now know is another galaxy). The map appears to be an ancient record of their migration paths, so the presumption is they dragged him along their normal route.This makes sense, but... I imagine the New Republic has easy access to the same information, and perhaps even more accurate or updated information.