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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?
R2 is a navigation droid, so presumably keeps a record of everywhere he’s been for audit trail purposes. He’s also (up until that point) never been memory wiped unlike C3P0, so having part of that route erased is a big change from previous canon.
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The map in Ahsoka isn’t necessarily a map to Thrawn specifically, someone else mentioned it being a map of migration patterns but equally it was mentioned in the episode that some beings travelled from another galaxy to the main Star Wars galaxy in the past. Morgan may just be assuming that’s where Thrawn was taken by the purrgil as they roam all over, so the map may be a bit of both migration patterns and a record of where the travellers came from.